WORLD -1

[monoguests]

[...huh, didn’t you die? Well, maybe you didn’t. You might wake up feeling like you just woke up from a really vivid nightmare that you can still sort of feel the effects of or something… sure, you’re still in your old cabin, but maybe you can go out and see everyone?

...except when you go out, while it seems like the same old camp, things are a little… strange and pixelated. Also, the walls seem to have come down, but if you try to cross the barriers of where the walls were, you’ll find yourself right back at your cabin door.

Welcome to World -1, kids. You’re probably going to be here a while… and you may not actually be alone, either.]

[OOC: Welcome to the wonderful world of post-death sidequesting! "Sidequesting," you may ask? Well... you'll get an explanation soon enough.]

Comments

[monoguests]

[Well, for starters, there's a couple claw marks on the bookcases. Maybe someone was trying to climb around up here?]

[effectivefacekicking]

[!!

Well that's weird as hell. Time to try and follow the claw marks to try and see where this thing was trying to get to]

[monoguests]

[They're at odd places here and there, but they eventually seem to lead to the tallest bookcase at the back of the room, at which point they go straight up the edge of the bookcase.

[effectivefacekicking]

[Weird... he inspects the edge closer, seeing if there's anything the clawed...thing was trying to get at]

[monoguests]

[There doesn't seem to be anything on the shelves, although... wait.

If he follows the line of claws up the bookcase, it will eventually go to the top, which is very close to the ceiling. The ceiling right above the bookshelf also has a weird indentation in it...]

[effectivefacekicking]

[He was BORN in Pandora's labyrinth: if there's anything he recognizes, it's a secret door. He grabs at the shelf and starts tugging at it]

[monoguests]

[...Sadly, the bookshelf itself seems firmly attached to the wall. But... you know, there's a ladder over to the left. That might count for something, right?]

[effectivefacekicking]

[DAMN YOU LADDER, HE IS A WINGED BEING HE DON'T NEED YOU

Yes, yes he does, so with much grumbling up he goes]

[monoguests]

[That indentation appears to be a handle to a trapdoor, looking at it a lot more closely. ...It might be kind of a tight fit for Pittoo, granted, but...]

[effectivefacekicking]

[How tight fit we talking? Uncomfortable but do-able or does he need to get Callie or Goombriel?]

[monoguests]

[He might want to get one of them to be on the safe side.]

[effectivefacekicking]

[Okay, gonna go find Goombriel. better to risk the mook]

[shslmooks]

[Fortunately, he's not too far from the library itself! He's... really just kind of milling about in World -2 because it's not the same place he's been for however long.]

Oh, uh, hi.

[effectivefacekicking]

Just the Goomba I was looking for. You gotta a minute?

[shslmooks]

...buddy, time is the thing I have way too much of. What do you need?

[effectivefacekicking]

I found a trap door in the library, but it's too small for me. Kinda comes with having two sets of shoulder blades.

[shslmooks]

Oh! Yeah, I should definitely be able to help out there, then. Just show me where it is and I'll take care of it.

[effectivefacekicking]

[He leads him to the door, opening it up and peering inside.]

Think you can fit?

[shslmooks]

...Oh. Definitely. Sure.

[Said with all the confidence of an Olympic Athlete.]

[effectivefacekicking]

...just be careful. I don't want you getting jumped or stuck or something. I'll wait right here, so yell if there's any trouble.

[shslmooks]

...I don't think anybody's going to jump me inside of an attic.

[...and he's inside now. There's a few seconds of scurrying, but eventually, he calls back out.]

Hey! I think I found something!

[effectivefacekicking]

You'd be surprised.

[Oh!]

Yeah? What is it?

[shslmooks]

[After a few moments, a chest drops down from the hole, followed by the goomba.]

I mean...that looks like something to me.

[effectivefacekicking]

...no traps? No tests? It's just... a chest?

[He doesn't trust it]

This thing is SO boobytrapped.

[shslmooks]

I mean...I'm not going to be the one to test it.