fourth staff ♞ i have some serious critiques about this gallery

[beknightedheroine]

Characters: Sayaka and you.
Setting: Floor 22 - the art gallery.
Format: Starts in prose, matchres you!
Summary: Can't go two steps in this art gallery without seeing something HORRIBLE. Backdated to daytime on the 28th.
Warnings: Defacement of fine art.

Well, it's taken her a matter of weeks, but Sayaka's finally chosen to take Gandalf's advice and return to the art gallery. She's looking for the mermaid portrait her mind had been captured by before, but something else comes to her attention first:

It's an old, weathered poster, set upon the wall in a thin black frame. There's no glass between it and the air, and Sayaka can practically feel every year it's been since that concert when she touches it. All the words that used to be on it are gone, replaced with symbols that make her head hurt to look at. They're like the runes in a Witch's labyrinth, and that's the part that sets her off.

She can't get it down from the wall, but she sure can rip out the parts with those stupid runes.

You can stumble upon her when she's either a) tearing out shreds of the poster in a mad rage, or b) collapsed amidst a flurry of torn paper, looking very desolate and depressed.

Comments

[beknightedheroine]

"Yeah, just fine," she deadpans. "I was just getting rid of an eyesore, you know, cleaning up the atmosphere..."

There's nothing left in the picture frame except the top quarter, simply showing a young boy playing violin on a spotlit stage. She was really just getting rid of the runes.

[windykind]

He glanced over at the picture worriedly; unfortunately, he couldn't remember exactly what the rest of the picture had looked like, mostly due to the fact that he almost never came into this floor. But whatever it was, it had clearly worried Sayaka, and that was not cool. "...Eye of the beholder, I guess," he said, putting an arm over her shoulder. "Here. Wanna get up?"

[beknightedheroine]

"..Yeah, this place is too much of a drag to hang out in, anyway." She accepts the help up, and is rather off balance once she's standing - but hey, that's what your handy-dandy John Egberts are here for! He can now add 'Makeshift Cane' to his pile of titles.