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[rosestolilies]

Characters: Those characters participating in The Crone's little game.
Date: January 15
Summary: Three places. Three riddles. Three pieces of information to unlock.
Warnings: N/A

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LAKE SANGUINE

[rosestolilies]

Lake Sanguine has never been an inviting place, but now it looks eerier than ever. The lake of blood has frozen over, but this is not simply a flat pool of icy red. Instead, statues jut up from the surface, formed of frozen blood, creating an uncanny tableau. Each sculpture depicts a lovingly rendered girl or woman, from all walks and stations of life, engaged in a variety of activities.Here a small girl picks flowers. Here, a trio of old women sit around a table, playing cards. Here, a mother cradles her newborn daughter. Here, a stern businesswoman, dressed in a suit, speaks into a cell phone. Here, a woman removes a cake from an oven. There are dozens of them. And from each one comes a humming sound, from each one soft, but combined together they form a strangely melodious sound, which echoes throughout the cavern.

At the center of the lake rides a pedestal, with the following etched upon its surface:

I rest inside this bleeding chamber

[gun_cata]

"Nothing's broken yet, so I dunno." She nudges one of the statues with her toe. Not even a little more fragile. Maybe she should just start shooting them? Or would that just screw them over?

She needs to get out of here before she starts thinking of solving every problem by shooting it.

[heretolookhot]

Yeah...Santana's not too sure what the point is, but she's pretty sure the answer isn't to shoot everything.

"Try making out with one."

[gun_cata]

"Ha! You first." There's absolutely no way that that could be a good idea. What if she gets some kind of disease from all this blood?

[heretolookhot]

"No way! What if it melts on me?"

[gun_cata]

"And you think I want a blood statue melting all over me?" Just because she's shot people doesn't mean she wants to get covered in blood any more than Santana does.

[heretolookhot]

"It's different because you want to impress me so you can get laid."

[gun_cata]

She crosses her arms and just gives Santana a look. Partly because dammit it's kind of true, though it's more than getting laid. "Bathing in blood isn't my idea of impressing someone!"

[heretolookhot]

"Lighten up, I'm kidding," Santana said with a signature eye roll.

[gun_cata]

...Larry huffs, and turns to walk off to some... other statue. Obviously, she's still way too emotional about this, despite avoiding Santana for like a month. Maybe because of that.

"...sorry about that."

[heretolookhot]

She watches her walk away, and sighs.

"Whatever. If you're gonna lose your shit, we can go. This is pretty dumb, anyway."

[gun_cata]

"No, no... I'm good. At least if you wanna stick around and keep trying."

[heretolookhot]

"I don't know."

Santana jumps onto the pedestal and takes a seat on top of it. She looks around one more time, and shrugs.

"I'm out of ideas."

[gun_cata]

"This whole thing sucks." She looks down at a statue, reaching out to run her fingers over the curves of its face. The proportions are so perfect... which makes it that much creepier, really.

[heretolookhot]

"You'll rub its face, but not make out with it?"