everyrosehasits: (so go on)
𝑅𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝐷𝑎𝑤𝑠𝑜𝑛 ([personal profile] everyrosehasits) wrote in [community profile] deercountry2022-03-15 12:31 pm

those demons from which we all hide, OPEN

Who: Rose Dawson and you?
What: Eventing
When: March 8th through the 15th
Where: The Jungle Level or the Catacombs

Content Warnings: potential death, drowning, terror, PTSD after the Titanic/Jack
schoolingfish: (Curious Seamonster)

RUSHING RIVERS

[personal profile] schoolingfish 2022-03-16 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
When he feels the current pull him under, Luca lets out a cry. And then he doesn't come back up.

Of course, this is because he's turned into a sea monster and has gills now, but it's hard to see that through the dark and murky water. It's only when he sees that she's trying to move the door to where he went under that Luca realizes he should alert her to the fact that he's okay.

He comes up, grabbing a rock so he doesn't get swept away before he can explain, "I'm okay! The current's just more than I can handle, but I won't drown!"

Sure, he might get beaten against the rocks, but he won't drown!
imaglyphwitch: (not letting it happe\n)

Re: THE EXIT

[personal profile] imaglyphwitch 2022-03-16 03:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Luz was still in the throes of this place when she heard the scream. They had been singing Karaoke WAY too much for Luz not to recognize Rose, and thanks to an earlier summons she finally DID have Eda's staff in tow. She sped toward the scream and encountered Rose trying her best to get the mushrooms off.

Oh boy.

"Rose, look at me! We have to get you out of here! These things are only going to get worse!"
imaglyphwitch: (the ascent)

Re: (CW: blood)

[personal profile] imaglyphwitch 2022-03-16 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Well now she was seeing that Rose was getting just as injured as she'd been with Minako! That was definitely not going to continue happening on HER watch.

"Just get on! We can worry about that later. Right now, I don't think it's safe if you stay there! Quickly!"
imaglyphwitch: (view askew)

Re: (CW: blood)

[personal profile] imaglyphwitch 2022-03-16 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh boy. She was pretty sure that Rose was new to this place, and honestly? Mushrooms suddenly sprouting out of you would be bound to freak anyone out. But when she'd been here herself, she knew how important it was to get out, because the longer you stayed, the worse it got.

Luz hadn't wanted to test how much worse it would be, not then and not now.

The moment Rose boarded Luz kicked the staff upward and they rose rapidly. Luz made sure they were at least near the ceiling before shooting forward, making sure to clear them of the poisoned air. Luz could already feel some of the mushroom starting to sprout on her arm but knew that they'd be able to get them off soon.

Luz waited until they were a good, long way aways before turning back to Rose.

"How are they looking?"
eudaimonikos: (I got dreams of my own)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2022-03-16 11:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Michael grabs onto the edge of the door as soon as it nears him, steadying himself upright and gasping for air. He wasn't really in much danger, of course - at least, not danger of drowning. But the current's too fierce for him to swim, especially in human shape, and being torn along and flung into various rocks isn't exactly fun.

"Oh - ugh." He grimaces; now that he's stable long enough to really look around, his glasses are useless with all the water beaded on their surface. The demon shakes his head as if to try and fling it away. (This does not work.) "Did you make a raft?"
eudaimonikos: (I got dreams of my own)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2022-03-17 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
"Okay?" He doesn't get it! But whatever!

Michael cringes as they sweep past another rock. It doesn't actually hit him, but it's closer than he'd like. Honestly, he hasn't registered the cold of the water; he can never really tell when it's too cold or hot for humans. But that doesn't mean they're in a great situation! "What's our endgame here, is this gonna end sometime? We don't - we don't have any naturally-occurring rivers in Hell."
imaglyphwitch: (sneaking about)

Re: (CW: blood)

[personal profile] imaglyphwitch 2022-03-17 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, that would have been far too little for Rose to be used to anything around here. The poor woman was going to have to get used to things going from bad to much, much worse in an instant. It was just the way things were here sometimes, and in others you hardly had time to breathe.

Once they were away from that area though, Luz started hacking at her own mushrooms, wincing as they came off her skin. Man, but she HATED this one part of the game, and saw it as wildly unnecessary. What was with Trench and mushrooms anyway? It was enough to give someone an attack and some pretty nasty flashbacks.

"I'll get them for you, I'll try to be as gentle as I can," Luz said, slapping a glyph on Rose's back so the plants could at least attempt to choke out the mushrooms. "You can get scars removed, yes. I know someone who can make that happen."
eudaimonikos: (I'm gonna need a boost)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2022-03-17 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"Fuck!" Michael, on pure instinct, punches the rock. Part of it does break off! But, you know, that doesn't really change anything.

"Okay! Uh - " He attempts, for a second, to pull himself up onto the door as well. But the way it dips in the water is immediately alarming, and he stops once he realizes the danger of just capsizing the whole thing. "Okay! Hey, at least there's no piranhas!"
imaglyphwitch: (O MAN I MESSED UP)

Re: (CW: blood)

[personal profile] imaglyphwitch 2022-03-17 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh no. There was lots of things to be afraid of, things that Rose had yet to experience. Luckily, Luz has already been in this particular situation, and at least knows they can't stay there, lest things take a worse turn.

Luz had had VERY little choice about mushrooms in the past few months, as they'd be plentiful and, in some instances, absolutely necessary for being calm. She was pretty confident she'd have a break from them now though.

"Scars? Yeah. I can see why you wouldn't want those."

Look, she GOT it. Rose was super pretty and probably not wanting to have a souvenir of this terrible experience on her skin. Luz had scars of her own, and chose to keep them for different reasons.

"Do mushrooms growing on you usually happen? No. That's a new scary experience to me. Can't say I'm a fan though. Usually mushrooms tend to dip toward the 'magic mushroom' type, if you get my drift."
imaglyphwitch: (HUH?)

Re: (CW: blood)

[personal profile] imaglyphwitch 2022-03-17 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Luz was understanding of this, in a way. How could she not be? She'd been in Rose's position before, albeit at least prepared for craziness thanks to the Boiling Isles and Luz's only plucky nature.

Oof. That would have to serve as a reminder NEVER to talk about Ellie's world. That honestly won the award for horror situations involving mushrooms.

"I mean. There is at least ONE kind of mushroom you might want to be familiar with. Trust me, you won't regret it. But I hear you. You shouldn't have scars from this."

Luckily the mushrooms didn't seem to be readily growing anymore now that they were out of the immediate area.

"There will usually be something different for us. As far as magic mushrooms, I'm talking more about the hallucinating type. The ones that make you SEE things, that disrupt the communication in the brain. Like, drugs, I guess?"

Luz wouldn't know...by recreational reasons, anyway.
eudaimonikos: (consequent)

[personal profile] eudaimonikos 2022-03-17 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
He's fine; he's got it.

Grumbling, he peers out over the rim of his glasses. "If you can get us towards a - a rock I can grab, I can lift you out of the water. Just not one in the middle of the river, that wouldn't help." Granted, he could probably toss her to shore, but then he'd be stuck.

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