(open) you're looking at me like you don't know who i am

[entreats]

Who: Ange, Ruby, Break, and anyone who knows any of them.
What: Corruption turned Ange into a true Umineko witch who decided the best way to keep the people she loves safe from this town is to drag them into a pocket dimension.
When: For a while in March.
Where: Ange and Ruby's house-turned-small-pocket-dimension.

Content Warnings: Potential violence if anyone acts particularly antagonistic. Potential talk of violence or gore. Other warnings will be added when things pop up.



Perhaps you have seen Ruby's odd network post and decided to check things out. Or maybe you're just wandering around Trench and notice that Ange and Ruby's house suddenly looks.. different.

The house has been completely overgrown by way oversized roses, big thorns growing out of all the stems, completely obscuring the structure that's supposed to be underneath it. If you get close enough to the cluster of roses, you may feel your connection to any of the three people inside suddenly pull you in. (Please note: only people who know either Ange, Ruby or Break will be able to enter the pocket dimension because of this!)

If you give in to the sensation, everything around you might go black, and when the light returns, you seem to find yourself in.. a hedge maze. A rather odd one, though. As you stumble through it, you may suddenly find yourself in random rooms, and then back out of them into the hedge maze once more. The Moss King's wild plants seem to have even invaded corners of this place, so you might want to watch out you avoid having those snap at you. Retracing your steps through the labyrinth feels impossible, like the way is changing up behind you with every step. Some rooms make perfect sense - like a neat and elaborate kitchen, or a library - and others seem to consist of nonsense with stairs leading upside down or to nowhere, or gravity not working in a specific room at all.

Flying throughout the entire maze are golden butterflies. They seem to fly with direction, and if you follow them, you might find them leading you to one of the people you were looking for..

Comments

[onekindsoul]

[If Ruby were in a normal state of mind her stomach might twist at the implication. Not Ange blowing someone up like a piñata. That completely within the realm of possibility here. But the fact that she might do something that could upset her. She was Ange's furniture, everything she did was to please and complete her Witch's will. Just like a Huntress should, she'd protect Ange with all she had in her.]

When that happened. You were her ally. You're anything but that at the moment.

[Spoken with absolute confidence regardless of how wrong it may be. She does consider the words gently.]

I'm not taking it out of respect to the relationship that you and my witch have shared in the past. Out of hope that you might change your mind and stop causing trouble for us.

But I'll crush anything or anyone who tries to cause harm to the world my witch has created.

[And she steps in to grab Anna by the collar of her shirt, not worried if it soaks her hand or sleeve in blood to do so.]

Whether it's the Pthumerians, whether it's you, or anyone else who decides to be a nuisance.

[hauntedsavior]

[anna's not paying attention, or more accurately she's slipping in and out. head trauma has a way of doing that. the teeth on one side of her mouth are starting to turn red from the blood leaking into it, but she supposes everything's a little red in the light of the rose.]

[her head lolls back when ruby grabs her shirt, and she laughs thickly.]

All right, fine, I'll apologize. [her voice is weary, but the expression on her face isn't fading at all.] Sorry that I told Ange she's just making a dream bubble. Sorry that this is the one time I'm fucking right about something and nobody's listening to me. Sorry that I'm the one with the ruined eye and you're still blind to it all.

Cw: just a little but of torture. As a treat.

[onekindsoul]

[That. Was not the answer she was looking for, but perhaps she should have expected it.

She gives a snap of her free hand and the chains pull a little tighter. Not outright stretching limbs out of their socket but it’s certainly not a comfortable experience.]

Maybe you need a little time to think over and figure out what you should really be apologizing for.

[And she let’s go of Anna so that she can take a few steps back and dust herself off. Unfortunately the blood that’s been spilled wont come clean. But she turns to step out of the room regardless.]

I’ll check in on you later.

[hauntedsavior]

[anna groans as the bindings stretch and her arms and legs get even less comfortable to exist in. she knows that ruby is on her way out and that nothing she can say will actually stop her, so she takes the time to get a final jab in.]

Sorry for calling you a pussy! [a beat, like it matters. like ruby will listen to her. like this room isn't going to be her cell for however long it takes, and like she's not already getting too woozy to stand properly even without the restraints.] Pussies are stronger.