peckenpaugh | THE UPPER LEVELS

up into the balconies

you climb The breathing boughs of that nightmare tree crowd into the upper balconies of the ruined auditorium. You have to duck and bend to get by them in places, sometimes through spaces that seem to grow smaller as you press through. These branches are warm to the touch, some of them uncomfortably so, pulsing with something that isn't quite life.

You've climbed these stairs more than once in your time here; to take your place after your sorting, to watch new students find their House, or perhaps just for an assembly. This building always seemed so sturdy, so safe. It was a place to go for shows, for celebrations, and hell, to just get out of class. Now, the floorboards creek precariously, split and splintering where vines have crept through. Benches are broken, overturned and tossed aside to make room for the auditorium's new king: the malignant maple. Up here, the glowing blue seeds hanging from branches are close enough to pluck. Those that have ripened litter the floor and railings, filling the balconies with an eerie blue twinkle.

The air is muggy, clogged by falling ash. It stinks of coal and sulfer. But you keep moving, anyway. Keep opening portals and pushing on. Just a little bit higher, and then maybe you'll be able to plunge into the depths.

and you fight By now there's a plan, and with it, a slowly growing brigade of people, of beings, of bugs, who are gathering to push back against inevitability.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Armani literally just drops through the fuckin' ground.

Edited (clips thru map) 2020-06-09 18:55 (UTC)

Eddy's the least inclined to choreography here, but he does offer a fist bump, fist bump, double fist bump. The memory thankfully starts up again before he has to remember the rest.

"Guess we're going."

“And you’ve survived your first memory!” Chanel makes sure to praise Adrian too, fist bump fist bump hip checking all the way to the portal, which she jumps through as well.

"Mazel tov?" Adrian asks as he hops into the void.

Adrian, Armani, Chanel and Eddy completed a memory!

Upon emerging from the memory out into the auditorium, the portal snapped shut behind them.

Alva Berzelius was not freed. He is still trapped somewhere within the nightmare tree. However, elsewhere in the auditorium, bees, a magimagicicada was freed!

Adrian, Armani, Chanel and Eddy each earned 5 Tokens for completing a memory!

They earned 2 Tokens for finding the linchpin before the memory cap!

All of them but Adrian received an additional 1 Token a piece for not leaving their beef boy to die here confused.

You can check your token totals in Pouch's shop here, and maybe see if there's anything worth grabbing while you're there!

Edited 2020-06-09 20:17 (UTC)

THE UPPER LEVELS

MEMORY: Wedding Bells

MEMORY: Wedding Bells

MEMORY: Wedding Bells

MEMORY: Wedding Bells

MEMORY: Wedding Bells - TOKENS!