descent

[cancrymods]

growing heavy for the vintage

Like flakes of snow, the days spent in the Sloth Layer slowly but surely begin piling up. Life here is quiet and easy, even with the anxiety that comes with needing to move onto the next layer. But as the days drag out, so do the mysteries at play here – with the gradual uncovering of the odd doppelgangers and the seeming lack of any way to proceed to the next layer, it leaves the Executors at a loss for what to do. Until one day, everything changes. It comes entirely without warning – the ground lurches under everyone's feet in a sickeningly familiar way as a brief but violent earthquake rattles through the town. Then all of you feel it; a snapping sensation deep from the very foundations of Purgatory followed by the most cataclysmic impact any of you have experienced in your lives – or unlives. Snow explodes up from the ground, houses creak and lurch and the whole layer seems as though it might shatter apart under your feet. It seems like it's going to last forever. Then, finally, it stops. The silence that follows is even more pronounced in comparison to the hell-rattling noise from before, but as some semblance of calm starts to return, you realize several things. First is how eerily quiet the town is. Surely after all that, you'd hear a Specter or two... but there's nothing. Secondly – a splash of something wet strikes your cheek. Then again. Until it becomes clear that the weather has taken a sudden drastic turn and in place of the gentle snowfall from before, the heavens have opened with a torrential rainfall. Why? Possibly because of the steadily growing heat you suddenly feel burning up through the foundation of the layer and radiating out through the town. Will you investigate?

Comments

[emberserker]

Medic!

[Wolfsbane manifests her halberd and grips it in both hands. She's not doing anything right now, but the second anything goes wrong...]

[mementomoritz]

[Possibly unnecessarily, given that they've probably all noticed the ground shaking:] So, good news! I don't think we need to worry about finding a way to get down to the sleeping thing!

[emberserker]

Another earthquake?!

[She's ready to attack should something come up, but keeps looking over to Medic.]

[mementomoritz]

[Medic looks back over at her, strained from the draw on her powers but not visibly harmed, at least.] I don't know exactly what it is yet, but it's very big and it's waking up!

I think we might be about to find out, though...