[Dark World Event] || [The Evil Realm] || [Open] || [2/3]

[great_king_of_evil]

Characters: Anyone who signed up for the Dark World Plot! Look at tag list for more details.
Setting: The 4th and 5th of March. Located in the Cursed Floors + Ganon's Tower (Floors 6, 7, 8, 12, 62, 65, 68, 70, 73 and 79 + Floor 75).
Format: Most likely action but left at the players's discretion.
Summary: Your character somehow got trapped in the Forest Floor of the Tower-- And it looks nothing like the Forest Floor the characters remember. It's the beginning of the Dark World. Some floors look pretty different from what they did before, some nearly identical. The only way to get out is to go through the dungeons that make up this Dark World.

All characters start out in the Dark Forest, then as they go throughout the forest, they magically walk into one of the three dungeons (the one they have been assigned to). By exploring the dungeons, they will acquire one of the three Pendants that lead to the Core of the Curse, from where the cursed floors can be ended. However, Richtofen is there and happy to make sure that won't be that easy.

Mingle threads are simply for Mingle, whereas the exploration of the dungeons, puzzles, etc happens in the Exploration threads. OOC information here.

Warning: While your character may survive fine and all, the dark world is a dangerous place with lots of monsters and puzzles to solve. Characters may get harmed or killed, but that is left to the players's discretion. Characters going through the water of temple may lose their patience and sanity.


Arrival in the Dark World
Here are simply listed the three different ways your characters may have gotten dragged into the Dark World. Note this can be a combination of many of these ways, feel free to pick how your characters arrived in!

• The character may simply have been present on the floor when Ganondorf cursed it. That's really… Bad luck? If that is how it happened, the character would have been immediately transported into the Dark Forest Floor. If they arrived before the 4th of March, they would have been unable to leave this floor for three days. Which may be pretty unnerving.

• The character may have been caught by a floormaster or wallmaster somewhere throughout the tower, and cast into the Dark World. Floormasters and Wallmasters are gigantic and creepy black, red or purple hands that come out from either the floor or the ceiling and take characters to another part of the tower, point in case the Dark Forest.

• They character may have found one of the black doors of Mordor leading into the cursed floors. Out of luck, a creepy black hand similar to that of wallmaster could have come out of from the door and have dragged them in.

• The last option is the simplest, Ganondorf hided in the shadows and cast a spell on you that teleported you right into the Dark Forest. This option is mostly directed to those who have past history with Ganondorf or who are known to be close of Princess Zelda, Link and Tetra.


Dark Forest -------------------------------------------- Mingle || Exploration

The Water Temple: Wisdom Dungeon ----------- Mingle || Exploration || Boss Battle
The Death Mountain: Power Dungeon ----------- Mingle || Exploration || Boss Battle
The Palace of Darkness: Courage Dungeon ---- Mingle || Exploration || Dark Self Battle || Boss Battle

Richtofen's Laboratory ------------------------------ Mingle || Exploration || Boss Battle

Illusionary Room
Ganon's Tower

Comments

[dark_world]

[Dark Luffy's arm sailed back as soon as he stabbed the branch into Luffy's stomach. It whipped around like an overused rubber band, and when it finally returned to its normal size, it looked crooked and unnatural. He grit his teeth and glared, but his gaze was unfocused.

Somehow, Dark Luffy managed to summon up the strength to move his arm in front of his face like a shield when Luffy threw the branch right back at him. That appeared to be as much as he could do, however, because his arm didn't balloon up, or stretch, or do anything but absorb the blow. The branch hit his wrist, embedding itself so deeply that the edge nearly poked out of the other side.

Dark Luffy gave an angry growl, but the sound lacked venom. His feet swished limply through the shallow water as his knees went weak. He was still alive, but the only thing keeping him standing was Luffy's hand around his throat.

Luffy's dark self kept his arm, branch sticking out of it, in front of his face, but he made no move to attack.]

[gomu_ningen]

"Now's my chance.."

[Clenching his fists for what he hoped would be the last time in this scuffle, Luffy summoned up a burst of energy and dashed towards his opponent.]

"YOU'RE STRONG, BUT YOU'RE NOT ME! NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU LOOK LIKE ME, YOU CAN'T FIGHT FOR WHAT I'M FIGHTING FOR!"

[Bending his knees, he shot up from a crotch and soon was a great many feet above his shadow. He brought his feet together, clapping them together with a deafing "CRACK".]

"FOR MY FRIENDS, AND FOR FREEDOM! YOU DON'T HAVE THE SAME WILL AS I DO!"

[With the belly of the clone exposed, Luffy did his best to aim his swift, pointed kick towards the belly of the beast. Sharing the same strength and speed of his last attacks, the kick was true and straight. He was confident the shadow could handle it, being that it was in his "image", but there was more behind the attack than brute power.]

"GOMU-GOMU NO~ SPEAR!"

[dark_world]

[Dark Luffy swayed and craned his neck, holding his arms out like he was ready to embrace the blow. He let out a guttural growl and spread his arms and legs, intending to take the brunt of the blow.

He attempted to stretch, but he only managed to warp his body about half as much as he usually would have been able to before things started to give. His body began shrinking back in on itself, and he was able to absorb less and less of the blow, until eventually, he found himself crashing against the ground.

The water underneath of him sprayed outward with the force of his impact, creating a surprisingly large splash. The magnitude of the blow seemed to have done a great deal, because Dark Luffy didn't move or attempt a counter-attack, he just let out a ragged cough as his body was thrown to the ground.]

[gomu_ningen]

"... Uhn?"

[When he landed in the water, he had remained at the ready in case his attack had gone awry. After waiting a few moments, he straightened his stance and tilted his head to the side. Like an overly-curious bird, Luffy bobbed his head back and forth from where he stood, looking towards the fallen shadow with concern.]

"Oi, you still alive?"

[He casually walked towards the seemingly "defeated" clone, a hand held close to his open wound. He was still in pain, but it wasn't enough just yet to register. He still had a mountain of adrenaline pumping through his system. When he finally stood before the faux Luffy, he simply kicked it with his closest foot, trying to stir the creature awake.]

"Can you let me out of here now, please? I kinda' gotta' meet back up with my friend."

[dark_world]

[After being kicked, Dark Luffy's arm stretched up toward Luffy's neck. It seemed as if he was going to grab him by the throat, but at the last second, the arm stilled. It hovered there for a few seconds, trembling slightly, and then shrunk back to its normal size and splashed back into the water.

Dark Luffy's body lay there for another moment, then slowly sunk into the floor and disappeared. The door to the room clicked open.

You may now proceed to the Courage Dungeon Boss Battle!]

[gomu_ningen]

[Waah~! Thank you for the awesome threading!! 8D]