Day 1 Night

[12npcs]

[ Over the murmur of conversations, explorations and violent attempts at escape, there comes a sound tick tick tick tick tick.............. CLICK.... The sky above snaps across the dome from blue to black... and everything goes dark.

A glow comes from the front door of each of the inns and one by one, you can see street lanterns begin to light up steadily past each of the gates.

The only flickering, organic light comes from above in the tower, spluttering high, high above everyone, through the slats of the closed shutters. After a moment, it's gone. ]

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[allsneakandnoplay]

[stomping out dramatically.

TIME TO NINJA RUN OVER SOME BUILDINGS TOWARDS THAT TOWER. TO TRY TO JUMP UP THE TOWER.]

[atacarme]

[. . . ohhh, more entertainment]

[12npcs]

[It's an impressive sight. The cyborg makes that first leap, foot making a heavy solid whump against the stone, feet catching just enough traction for that next springing step.

Then another.

And another.

At the next his vision is filled with the sweet promise of answers in the form of delicate wooden slats of a closed blue shutter.





Before he is predictably yanked back viciously, his elbows and shoulders snapping back hard.

He swings in the air a few moments, held up awkwardly at that height.
















...












....






And stays there.]

[nyanotech]

. . . ahh . . .

[soul_sister]

....

[atacarme]

[. . . s-snorts]

[allsneakandnoplay]

Grgh!


[STRUGGLE

STRUGGLESTRUGGLE]


Gh-- grrgh!

For fuck's sake!

I'm not a goddamn puppet!

[allsneakandnoplay]

[TWIRLS MID-AIR, LEG CURLING AROUND HIS BACK, FOOT CURLING AROUND A KNIFE. Which he gracefully arcs upwards and over his head where he guesses the strings would be, in a beautiful olympian overhead legsweep.]

[12npcs]

[You spin wildly, your arms flopping free as you are drug upwards by your ankle instead to hang upside down.]

[allsneakandnoplay]

. . . Shit.

[shouts upside down where he is, at the window.]

Hey! Hey! I know you're in there!

[12npcs]

[Being dropped probably isn't quite as terrible of a feeling as landing is.]

[allsneakandnoplay]

[BITCH!!

flipflipLAND.



SEETHES IN CROUCHING POSITION.]

[atacarme]

[it's like an angry metallic cat]

. . . are you quite alright?

[allsneakandnoplay]

Who the hell would be alright?!

[atacarme]

[can't . . . can't not be amused]

Well, you did land on your feet.

[allsneakandnoplay]

This is bullshit. Is there really nothing that can be done?!

[atacarme]

It looks that way, yes?

[allsneakandnoplay]

[GGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH.]

[atacarme]

[gosh your frustration is amusing]

Perhaps if you were not so obvious.

[allsneakandnoplay]

Stealth hasn't done any good either!

[atacarme]

Have you been stealthy?

[allsneakandnoplay]

Yeah, and nothing happens.

[atacarme]

My . . . then there must be another way.