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Who: Everyone
When: Day 5, bright and early in the morning
Where: Labyrinth!
What: A daring labyrinth

[you somehow land into this labyrinth with a hard thud, sending clouds of dust flying everywhere. what you're in now is a stone room that has a flickering torch placed on each wall. it smells a bit dingy in here, like what one might picture an actual labyrinth or dungeon to smell like.

there doesn't actually seem to be much worth investigating in this room, aside from a sign and three old, wooden doors before you. the sign reads:

"If you risk it all, you gain it all. If you risk nothing, you gain nothing."

somehow, very inexplicably so, you get the strange sense that the riskier you play, the better the prize.]

(( RULES — PRE-MINGLE — WHICH DOOR DO YOU CHOOSE? — POST-MINGLE — TREASURE ))

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[ let's adventure to the flower room! ]

[it takes some effort to push to door open, but you do manage. oddly enough, it pulls itself shut with ease. you can make out a low creaking sound as soon as you enter.

you're in a long, narrow room that is probably thirty feet long, give or take. its walls are covered with green spikes—and these walls are starting to close in on you, slowly but surely. dangling up above, several feet away, is a tiny-spiked vine—leading up to some bright, unknown area—that is low enough to grab onto.

the ground is slushy with wet moss and mud. if you aren't constantly moving, you'll notice that your feet are sinking. in fact, you can see skeleton arms sticking out from the mud, inanimate but looking as though they're reaching out for help.

however, straight on ahead, on the distant back wall of this room, is a glowing red button. but given the circumstances, would you have the time to press this?]

[ My sassy queen will be joining the party.

+1 Nerdlord.

He, himself, will be semi-pacing the area to make sure he isn't sinking in. ]

This certainly is an interesting situation.

And it certainly wasn't what I was expecting.

[ Not that he knew what he was expecting really all things considered. But let's be careful as to where he's wandering around and what he's touching because spikes and he doesn't trust that slush. ]

Who leaves skeletons behind a door with a flower on it?

[ FLOWERS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE NICE. ]

Likely a sadist. You'd have to be one to run this type of dungeon.

[ As for the skeleton, he's going to be pretending to shake its hand right now. Great ideas, right? ]

Don't go touching things like that!

[ Says the person who is no doubt going to try to rip that skeleton arm out of his hand and out of the slush as well? ]

[the skeleton pulls out of the slush with surprising ease, almost lunging itself at arthur to wrap its arms around him in a tight, but not suffocating, embrace of sorts]

[ That.... This....

Well the reaction from this will be self explanatory meaning that this one queen is definitely going to freeze up for a moment before starting to freak out. DEAD THINGS SHOULDN'T BE HUGGING HIM. ]

[ This most certainly isn't something that should be happening and he's going to try to pull the skeleton off of Arthur. ]

Let go, dumb thing!

[the skeleton is pulled off, and then snaps in half at the waist—the lower-half collapses into the slush, and the upper-half, now detached from arthur... flips the bird to you guys while it can]

[ Had it not flipped him off, he would have felt bad for what happened but—WOW HOW DARE?

There's absolutely no hard feelings as he's dumping that half of the skeleton back into the slush to allow it sink to the bottom for all he cared. Though once that's over and done with, he's going to be turning on his beloved king. ]

This is why you just don't go touching things.

Maybe that's exactly why you should touch things. Interesting adventures.

[ Of getting flipped off by the undead... But either way, he's scoping the room. ]

I figure we should do something about those spikes closing in on us. The vine, a button or maybe a little touch of magic.

You touched it first!

[ He's eyeing the vine and the button—neither one seems to be a good choice. ]

Magic seems to be a bit on the cheating side, don't you think?

Well, there weren't any rules posted for no magic. But I'd be willing to try for either options otherwise.

[ Going to go check out that button, should he push it, dear? ]

[ Feel free to push the button while he's examining the vine and contemplating the magic thing. ]

True, but I wouldn't want to waste my energy doing something like this.

[by the glowing red button there is a little sign, one that was very difficult to see from a distance. its tiny font reads "DO YOU DARE PRESS ME?"

as for the vine, it's covered in small, soft spikes that don't seem too sharp.

and by now, though it hasn't actually been that long, the room's certainly become noticeably narrower than before—thankfully the two of you still have your reasonable walking room even with the giant spikes considered. but it is slowly closing in.]

[ If there was any doubt about pushing the button he's going to be doing the button pushing now. ]

You're asking for it, button.

[ BUTTON SMASH. ]

[ And the queen is waiting to see what happens with the button being pressed, just fyi! ]

[OOPS SORRY BOUT THAT

you hear a "ding"

and then the entire floor gives out beneath the two of you]

[ What do you mean the entire floor? How does an entire floor just "give out"??

Well good thing that this guy was near the vines because he's reaching out to them and grabbing a hold of them. While also being aware that his beloved king isn't exactly nearby.... ]

[ Meanwhile, he is trying to grab onto anything as he starts to plummet with the caving in floor. Good times, this! ]

Alfred!

[ Can he...swing over to the king? No? Yes?

Oh hell forget the whole swinging thing, if his king is going down then he's going to go down with. Cue this guy letting go of the vine to go fall with his stupid husband who decided to push the button. ]

[ Love you, too, dear. ]

Arthur, no...! [ But too late, sigh. ]

[ All of the love and kisses...except. well. ]

WHY DID YOU HAVE TO PUSH THAT BUTTON.

Adventure!

[ That will surely earn him a smack later. ]

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