abardacttofollow: (coverup)
Bard Stefen ([personal profile] abardacttofollow) wrote2017-08-04 09:15 pm

QUIET MOUNDS - STEF HEART


You find yourself in a stone room that looks like some sort of medieval dungeon. There are (thankfully), no torture instruments, but there is a man strung up here. One large manacle is around his neck, chaining him stiffly to the door. His hands are free, but each foot is manacled to the matching bottom corner of the doorframe. There is a visible lock on each of the three manacles.

It's Stefen, and there's a knife in his chest. Despite that, he's alive, apparently alert, and doesn't look to be in pain, perhaps due to the lulling, sense-dulling music that seems to be coming from nowhere at all—in fact, if you were in pain before you entered, it's gone here. His wound is bleeding, but only a little, and he smiles his usual bright smile at you.

Behind him, but in front of the closed door he's bound to, you can see three double sets of strings running vertically. Where they meet the floor, they are fastened, and then each runs across the floor to the three doors on the opposite wall, then under them.

There is nothing else in this room.

((OOC: Here's how this will work! Since we're doing individual runs, rather than me putting up individual top levels for areas, just jump the post itself, and I'll run everything for you within your one thread. If you're wanting to do a run with someone else, just stay in the same thread together.))
ahorseforgood: (running wild)

Re: Gift 1

[personal profile] ahorseforgood 2017-08-08 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
:...I don't think you need to worry. I think you've more than proved your place here, my dear.:
ahorseforgood: (in the dead of night)

Re: Gift 1

[personal profile] ahorseforgood 2017-08-08 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
[her mental 'voice' is kind, but thoughtful]

:We can all only do so much. That tends to make most of us feel less secure-- not more.:
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Re: Gift 1

[personal profile] ahorseforgood 2017-08-08 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
...

[nudges his shoulder]

:You don't need to wish to do more than your share to earn your place, lad. That's a choice you make in kindness. Remember to be kind to yourself, as well.:
ahorseforgood: (broken hearted)

Re: Gift 1

[personal profile] ahorseforgood 2017-08-08 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
:Both of you...:

[nuzzles both Randale and Stefen's hair; ugh this is sad 8(

and familiar, honestly. TWO HERALD-TYPES HERALDING AT EACH OTHER, despite Stef's non-Herald status. details]

:Please, tell me how to help.:

[...make that three.]
ahorseforgood: (this was written for the one to blame)

Re: Gift 1

[personal profile] ahorseforgood 2017-08-08 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
[sighs. both of you.

quietly gets up and takes the lute to the platform, too]
ahorseforgood: (broken hearted)

[personal profile] ahorseforgood 2017-08-08 04:31 am (UTC)(link)
[returns to them both]

:Sire, Stef and I will help you sit again, before he rests...:

[glances at Stef but she's pretty sure he's down]
ahorseforgood: (lost somewhere out there)

[personal profile] ahorseforgood 2017-08-08 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
[they can get each other to the throne, Randale leaning on Yfandes.]

:And where are you going to rest, Stef?:
ahorseforgood: (in the dead of night)

[personal profile] ahorseforgood 2017-08-08 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
[firmly]

:I think that would be a good idea.:
ahorseforgood: (this was written for the one to blame)

[personal profile] ahorseforgood 2017-08-08 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
[nods to them... hesitates, but doesn't think of anything else she can do for them right this moment, so she just nuzzles them and goes on to the next room

the future has some bad situations :\]
ahorseforgood: (in the dead of night)

Re: The Gift 2

[personal profile] ahorseforgood 2017-08-08 06:34 am (UTC)(link)
[...is the man with long white hair someone she recognizes...?]
ahorseforgood: (lost somewhere out there)

Re: The Gift 2

[personal profile] ahorseforgood 2017-08-08 06:37 am (UTC)(link)
[wow, love

i dON'T SUPPOSE THERE'S A WAY TO GET OUT THERE since to be very honest hanging out in what's obviously her husband and his boyfriend's room physically rather than as an invited guest in Van's mind feels kind of intrusive and awkward

weird how that's a distinction. maybe because she's never "been" here]
ahorseforgood: (you may find yourself)

Re: The Gift 2

[personal profile] ahorseforgood 2017-08-08 06:42 am (UTC)(link)
[THAT DOESN'T STOP ME IF I-- no she's not going to bust up walls in Stefen's heart. sigh. sigh!!!]

:So what's the thorn in this rose, my dear?:

[goes looking for it, idly scanning the titles of the books and then reaching out with her Othersenses]
Edited 2017-08-08 06:42 (UTC)
ahorseforgood: (this was written for the one to blame)

Re: The Gift 2

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[sighs and tugs the blankets back with her teeth...]

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