The Blackest Box

It is 4:55 AM. The virtual environment of the tablet is dark with only a few distant lights scattered around giving any illumination at all, but there is the distinct feeling of being outside. It is difficult to see, as the earlier mentioned lights are not directing much illumination this way at all, not to mention their seeming distance. There is the constant feeling and sound of wind blowing in one direction across the space, making it hard to near impossible to hear much of anything, supposing there was anything out there to hear. Any visitor to this space would find it difficult to get their bearings in such a place. There was naught to see, and only wind to hear. The ground felt quite solid, at least, so there was that.

It was certainly an eerie feeling, dim setting and a sole wind blowing after being forcibly pulled into the area. Keena was a bit dazed and confused, trying to get a baring on her surroundings but not much to go on save the distant lights. While her initial thought would be to head towards them, she needed to confer with Liz first, seeing as this wasn't a typical occurrence.

"Liz, are you seeing this?" She called out, attempting to open a channel to the her creator. " Any idea whats going on?"

There was no reply.

An interesting note, when Keena began walking, the ground beneath her clanked... metal?

She scratched her head at the lack of response, wondering if the tablet itself was blocking her communication or something else had gone wrong. Standing around in one spot wasn't going to solve anything either, so heading towards the lights was her best bet.

Keena did her best to stay alert and cautious, unknown territory was never the time to just waltz about all happy-go-lucky. She needed to get an idea of what she was dealing with first.

Keena's foot catches on a protrusion she couldn't see in the dark, and she stumbles a bit into what seems like an area of slightly lower elevation than what she was walking on before. It was still flat ground, just lower. No telling what she stumbled over, as she could see jack-all right now.

"Owowowowow, My friggen toe... The hell was that?"

She rubbed her foot for a moment, more surprised then actually hurt by whatever she tripped on. She seemed to be heading lower now, but just what or where that was leading she couldnt say. Still, she aimed to push on towards the light, hoping to be a bit more careful this time around.

Keena shuffles forward intrepidly towards the nearest light, only to have her leading foot fall into a half-foot deep depression, whereupon she falls over and face-plants hard into the solid metal surface just the other side of the depression she couldn't see. She takes 20 damage (to the face) in the process.

"FFFFFFFFFFFFFFF-" She exclaimed, placing her hands to her face muffling the rest of her thought, before she screamed into her palms.

"God damnit, what the hell is up with this place. WHY IS IT SO DARK?!" She needed to get to a more well lit area fast, but at this rate if she tried to move any faster she wouldn't make it to the end. She just tried to slow her pace a bit more, feeling out the area as best she could as she moved on. She tried to make sure with her foot that there was solid ground before taking a full step this time, the last thing she wanted to do was assuming and go tumbling all over the place... again. This area was totally getting on her nerves.

Keena's caution was well advised, it seemed, as she came to a spot where the surface rose straight up abruptly about a foot.Had she been walking normally, she would have really banged her legs up stumbling over that. She still couldn't see worth a hoot, and it was still loud and windy. And of course, nobody answered her protests against the prevailing darkness.

Keena let out a sigh of relief seeing as she had made the right choice about how to move forward, keeping herself from yet another injury with her plan. She decided to keep it up as long as she could at least, attempting to climb over the hump, and continue to her goal. She looked towards the light, trying to figure out just how much ground she had covered so far as she continued on.

"Geez, why'd the light have to be so far away..."

As Keena steps up the sudden change of elevation, she notices a very sudden change in the sound of the wind. It now includes a sound somewhere between a high pitched whine noise and a loud humming sound.

She looks out ahead, and notices she is a bit closer to the light than she was before. Close enough to tell that it is some sort of light inset into the leading edge of something vaguely winglike. The light was still way out there, though. It provided no discernible light to where she was standing.

"frig... Still a ways to go, huh... I wonder what that thing is." She muttered to herself as she trekked onward towards the light. It was clear something was there now, but what the hell it was, that was another matter all together. She continued to feel about with her feet, knowing full well by now that if she actually expected to make it this was the only way at the moment.

With the wind now coupled with a high pitched whine, Keena knew something was going on in this darkness. The problem was she had no way of figuring out what.

Eventually, Keena's foot came into contact with something new, toes first. This something had a lot more give than the solid metal stuff she'd kicked into and stumbled over previously. Whatever it was, she hadn't kicked it hard, at least. Just nudged it. Sadly like always, she couldn't see a damn thing.

The fact this time there was a little move give, made Keena wonder if the thing she had felt was actually moveable. Wondering if it could maybe help her figure the situation out a bit better, she opted to try and pick it up.

Still, as she took all the information of her surroundings in, it was beginning to seem more and more like she was on some sort of plane or airship, something of that kind. Rushing of wind, lights on a winglike structure, and a extremely hard metallic exterior with varying elevation. It made sense, to her at least.

Keena grabbed the thing at her feet, and... Gee it felt like she'd just grabbed something living, seeing as it was soft and warm to the touch... And then it slapped her across the face (for 1 damage), and shoved her away.

"Ow, what the hell was that for?!" She exclaimed, rubbing her face instinctively. She was clearly disgruntled by the sudden aggression

"I was just trying to move whatever was in my way, not like I can see out here..."

She attempted to see just what was in front of her, still unsure what was going on. The chances of that were probably slim though.

The response Keena got from the thing she'd just grabbed and been slapped by was unintelligible. It was language, rather A language, and one she didn't understand by default. The speaker stood up before her. She could tell because this blocked her view of the light she'd been moving towards, and replaced it with a single off-centered white light shaped like an eye. Rather, like someone's left eye, if that person happened to have glowing whites instead of pupils. Dimly glowing, at that, as the light wasn't offensive. Who or whatever it was, it was humanoid, and roughly as tall as (if not slightly taller than) Keena.

It tried speaking... at... Keena again in a female sounding voice. When it didn't get a response, it shoved her back again. It sounded irritated.

"Look, sorry but I can't understand you, let alone see you very clearly. So unless you have a light or speak english..."

Keena was completely confused at the situation. She tried to speak in a more friendly tone hoping it might at least ease the tension a bit, but they seemed pretty irritated and she can probably figure out why. She just couldn't do anything about it.

The lone eye blinked, then closed. When it opened again, the female voice spoke to Keena in very strained English. "Shpeeking Engliz doezna make mah head magikly shtop hurting, you blind twit. It is not ah futboll." She was speaking very slowly, as if English was very difficult for her and did not come naturally even if she understood it. She still sounded irritable, too. "Now wut are you do-ink in my tablit, westernor?"

"well sorry about that... but why were you laying on the ground in this darkness anyways?" Keena scratched her head, seriously wondering what kinda person just sprawls out on the floor like that.

"And your tablet? Hey, this thing just yanked me in here. I've been trying to find my way around ever since. Whats up with this place anyways?"