the Slaughter and the Hunt Domains (the reason there are two instead of one is because, well - haha, imagine killing an Avatar on accident (couldn't be me)).
the Slaughter Domain was a mansion, with about three to four floors. we never found out the Avatar's name, but she told us to, "Make yourselves at home! You can look around the house while I finish dinner!"
(which, considering this is a Slaughter Domain, most likely meant we were going to gore each other with the cutlery).
as for the "look around the house" part, even with it's considerable number of floors, i couldn't find any balconies, exits, or even windows.
(at some point during the early evening, music started playing throughout the house. there was no source, nor did the volume change as I moved from place to place).
one thing you should know is that i found a shelf filled with decorative items, which wasn't really much as the whole place was extravagant. however, one item was a miniature glass bottle with one of those lids you screw on, meaning it was very fun to fidget with.
another thing you should know is that you should never give me any glass items Ever (in my defense, it was very pretty (stained glass art is amazing) and very shiny).
i dropped it, looked at the broken glass, promptly decided this was not my problem and left the area (it was such a pretty thing too!! unfortunately, life exists).
i somehow made my way to the dining room where we were all supposed to gather (how did i do that? i couldn't even remember which floor i was on. that place was more of a maze than a mansion. this sounds like the Spiral (which we will be seeing more of in a bit), but it is not. i am just terrible at directions).
and inside was not the Slaughter Avatar, nor was there the bland, solid furniture that probably would've been covered in red soon enough.
instead, by the time everyone reached the dining room, the whole domain changed, and it wasn't even a dining room anymore. there were couches and beanbags in place of the hard, wooden chairs.
the whole placed changed to give a more home-y feel. and then we were no longer inside a mansion with no semblance of the outside. we were on the ground floor of a two-story building in the middle of a town.
then we got a monologue on how the Hunt Avatar in front of us became an Avatar after the eyepocalypse started, so she somehow ended up without a Domain of her own.
she tried to take over this Domain, but the Slaughter Avatar trapped her. now that she was out, and the Slaughter Avatar was trapped, she would thoroughly enjoy hunting each of us down, one by one.
(her name was Alecia. but we weren't allowed to call her that. in fact, we werent allowed to call her anything. okay, Alecia.)
(we were even kindly informed that it would be one of us each day, and then we were left to stew in worry about who it would be.)
(well, some people were worried. some had so much self-confidence they believed they just wouldn't die. i didn't think about it too much. if could make through those many Domains, then i could make it through this one.)
there were seven of us, so it would take a week to get through all of us. the first one was [M].
ignoring how i know about their experience, here's what happened :
first thing in the morning, Alecia approached [M] silently. they didn't even notice her till she offered them some tea (the offer did not extend to us. wonderful hospitality, isn't it?)
[M] stayed on high alert after that, turning to look if anything made the slightest sound, or if something appeared to move in the corner of their eye.
then Alecia actually began the game.
[M] was avoiding the Alecia like their life depended on it (and wouldn't you know it, it did). but no matter where they went in the house, as soon as they turned the corner, there was Alecia, approaching from the opposite direction.
so they decided to leave the house. and much like how the Slaughter meddled with us in the Stranger Domain, the Spiral came to play in here.
they travelled through streets and rooftops and alleyways, but they all looped back to that damn. house.
they found a bus that left the town and immediately got on, not noticing how nobody else was present or how there were no tickets being asked for.
only to be extremely captivated by the branching patterns of the trees outside the town, and the shapes the pebbles on the ground made. they forgot to get off till the bus came back to the town.
when they came back, waiting there to greet them was none other than Alecia herself.
as soon as they got off, they set off in a sprint through the same streets they ran through in the morning. they were only slightly ahead of the Avatar, and kept that lead by disappearing through a series of quick turns .
(except, we know that Alecia only let them do so. it was all for the thrill of the chase).
and finally, her prey hit a dead end. against their back was a solid wall (that didn't have the courtesy to provide a means of escape magically). Alexia approached. closer. closer. closer. and then turned around and set off in a dead sprint towards the house.
(they weren't going to question it. their life was spared and they would worry about why later.)
well, while Alecia was chasing after [M], the other six were left with nothing to do. and the six included me. who was incredibly bored because there wasn't even an objective this time. i just had to figure how to exit the Domain on my own.
so i decided to explore the house (you know, the thing that killed an Avatar last time).
there was a room in the house, the door had "Chestnut's room" written on it in tiny print. inside was one, singular (1) doll named Chestnut. it was sitting in the bed of a very well-furnished bedroom. the furnishings in question looked personal, almost as if it was made for someone living in the room.
the doll was soft and had that slight squishiness that all cloth dolls do. so, as any logical person would do, i took the doll on an impromptu tour of the house along with me (taking something along with me ended Very Well last time. certainly didn't lead to an Avatar dying. definitely.)
while i was looking around some room with Chestnut, occassionally squeezing it, Alecia kicked open the door (the door wasn't even closed!! it was open by nearly a third.)
naturally, my grip on the doll grew tighter because i wasn't expecting the door to slam open. this did not please her at all. she asked me what i was doing to her brother.
the who now? oh, Chestnut. well, that explained the room.
so far, as much as i was jumpscared very easily, i was never afraid. this means that i didn't feed the Hunt at all since i got here. and the final nail in the coffin was that i was hurting her brother?
first, hurting??? (i was not). second, her brother??? (that would make for an interesting story, but Alecia didn't seem like she was in the mood to tell me.)
she attempted to kill me right then and there, but my grip on Chestnut just grew tighter (it's a reflex!! and the grip wasn't even that hard!!), and so she just threw me out of the Domain.
she just. threw me out of the Domain.
plus points for getting two Avatars in (technically) the same Domain. cut points for letting me get bored (the only interesting part was getting to Know [M]'s experience.)
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