[ Welcome to Scarlet Week! As you find yourself finishing whatever you were doing in Part 1 - namely, blowing it off, making plans to deface things, talking about a home you will never return to - you’ll feel as much as hear a crash of lightning from around you, flashing overhead across the Prism. Apparently Steel has reached her limit with it. It ripples with pink, and then, red, shifting like light through a. Well. Prism. Steel’s voice following is thunderous, no matter where you are, you can hear it as it shakes the ground around you. ]
Enough of this– I am tired of it! With some time to reflect, you will come to see that I am correct– I am trying to spare you further disappointment!
[ Everyone’s phones go off at once - a notification that you’ve been blocked from the network. You’ll feel yourself start to be pulled out of place and suddenly, you’re in a dungeon. Stone walls and iron bars, the typical fare. But after a moment, the scene flickers and falters, cracking like a sheet of glass and a pink quartz archway opens nearby - whether you intend to or not, you’ll find yourself going through. It’s a similar feeling to the one you have on execution days, except this time, you’ll find yourself in the vast, open arena. It’s pitch black, dust hanging in the air like snow, but every hair on the back of your neck is standing up - the whole room is filled with the thrum of electricity. She seems surprised at first - to be in this place too. It hadn’t been the intention, but between the past few days, the pressure, the burning scarlet anger - the only thing she wants is to protect this place, you, and be met with nothing but refusal to give up - the sky crashes with thunder again. As you all arrive she changes stances. Holding her sword in her hands at the ready for all of you. You only have a moment to gather your wits before it begins. ]
Very well. If this is how it must be, I will enforce order by force.
[ You’ll feel the ground under your feet turn to … sand? Drawn in it are endless patterns, stretching off into the distance. The sky is colorless and gray, swirling, while a dark sun sears at the edges of your vision, blotted out with the stark outlines of landscapes and buildings - maybe familiar, maybe not. Torii gates, mountains, an endlessly tall palace, locations from around the Prism. You won’t have much time to admire though, because Steel is incredibly fast, and at times there even seems to be more than one of her. Lightning crashes across the arena, and her sword. It’s sharp. I’d try and avoid it.
▶︎ Strategize! You can’t win a fight without a sound strategy. Get together in groups of three or four and start brainstorming what you can do to help out. Are you a combatant? A healer? An excellent negotiator? Your skills are your power.
▶︎ But speaking of power, you will also find that while your color was harder to summon before, now it seems to be freely flowing from you. In this space, you’re able to create more than you ever thought you could, utilize your color in new ways and combine it with the color of others to help change things.
▶︎ And the biggest change is Steel’s disposition…she is very, very unhappy. Good luck fighting her. She won’t be easy to subdue, but if you work together perhaps you’ll be able to come up with a way to take her down. ]
PART 2
Enough of this– I am tired of it! With some time to reflect, you will come to see that I am correct– I am trying to spare you further disappointment!
[ Everyone’s phones go off at once - a notification that you’ve been blocked from the network. You’ll feel yourself start to be pulled out of place and suddenly, you’re in a dungeon. Stone walls and iron bars, the typical fare. But after a moment, the scene flickers and falters, cracking like a sheet of glass and a pink quartz archway opens nearby - whether you intend to or not, you’ll find yourself going through. It’s a similar feeling to the one you have on execution days, except this time, you’ll find yourself in the vast, open arena. It’s pitch black, dust hanging in the air like snow, but every hair on the back of your neck is standing up - the whole room is filled with the thrum of electricity. She seems surprised at first - to be in this place too. It hadn’t been the intention, but between the past few days, the pressure, the burning scarlet anger - the only thing she wants is to protect this place, you, and be met with nothing but refusal to give up - the sky crashes with thunder again. As you all arrive she changes stances. Holding her sword in her hands at the ready for all of you. You only have a moment to gather your wits before it begins. ]
Very well. If this is how it must be, I will enforce order by force.
[ You’ll feel the ground under your feet turn to … sand? Drawn in it are endless patterns, stretching off into the distance. The sky is colorless and gray, swirling, while a dark sun sears at the edges of your vision, blotted out with the stark outlines of landscapes and buildings - maybe familiar, maybe not. Torii gates, mountains, an endlessly tall palace, locations from around the Prism. You won’t have much time to admire though, because Steel is incredibly fast, and at times there even seems to be more than one of her. Lightning crashes across the arena, and her sword. It’s sharp. I’d try and avoid it.
▶︎ Strategize! You can’t win a fight without a sound strategy. Get together in groups of three or four and start brainstorming what you can do to help out. Are you a combatant? A healer? An excellent negotiator? Your skills are your power.
▶︎ But speaking of power, you will also find that while your color was harder to summon before, now it seems to be freely flowing from you. In this space, you’re able to create more than you ever thought you could, utilize your color in new ways and combine it with the color of others to help change things.
▶︎ And the biggest change is Steel’s disposition…she is very, very unhappy. Good luck fighting her. She won’t be easy to subdue, but if you work together perhaps you’ll be able to come up with a way to take her down. ]