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Who: The Alices
What: The next World's door isn't opening, but the Cat's left something open behind him instead
Where: ▒▒▒▒▒
Warnings: Potential for (non-permanent) death, there's a few body parts around, an eye in a jar, and also mentions of a sewing needle; will update with further info

The Cat hadn't shown up the entire time everyone was in the Hub. It probably was a tiny bit disconcerting. But still, they are ushered on to the next World. But as they go, they'll be greeted with the Cat... Walking away with his back turned to them. He steps through a literal hole in the wall, perfectly round, on the far side of the room where the doors are. And then, it stays open. Should they try the doors, only the ones they've been to previously will open. That hole must be awfully tempting, if the Cat left it.

When they enter, they awaken to a very odd place indeed. An alleyway with one end fenced off and a large grave in the middle of it. The only other way to go is an old factory. Upon entering, they will find the space is off in itself. The machinery is all rusted, but there's the sense that touching the controls could turn it on. And in one corner, in an area that's far more warehouse because this place seems to be patched together from a factory, warehouse and basement, is an old mattress with bloodstains on it and the floor around it. Various body parts, some fresh, some far more decayed and only bone, all seem to be scattered around. There's thick thread--almost like wire--and a large sewing needle that's definitely seen use. On a stand next to the old beat-up mattress is a jar with a single eye in it, red in iris coloring. All of the text everywhere is garbled and unreadable, and the entire world is inverted in coloring. It's probably disorienting.

The Cat doesn't seem to be anywhere they can find, although scraps of cloth in a few places look similar enough to what he wears. There's definitely more to this place beyond the fence outside, but there's no discernible way to get past it. No powers that could help them get over it are accessible, and trying to use any extrasensory powers will earn a splitting headache and nausea similar to that caused by the mysterious voice from before. In fact, the entire area gives the sense that they're not normally supposed to be here.

Where did they get to now...?

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[ Nothing off the fence itself, but there is obviously more to the World beyond the fence. There is no discernible way to get over or around it, though. ]

[... Well then. He'll draw his sword and try to cut through it.]

[ His sword will clang against the metal and then be repelled, sending Otoha backwards as if something pushed against him with extreme force. ]

[He lands hard, and sheathes his blade. Some kind of barrier... hm. Time to go look at the machinery, though he doubts he'll know what he's looking at.]

[ The machines themselves are old and rusted, but they seem to be used to make something. The entire place is too old and dusty to make out what it is, or perhaps the memory is too muddled. Among the rust and dust, he might notice a few bloodstains on gears. ]

[Gonna poke the bloody gears... with the end of his sword. He does not trust this thing to not take his hand off, and since he can feel pain right now...]

[ He'll suddenly hear a child's screams echoing in his head--and someone else yelling to turn off the machines. ]

[... Okay, that actually spooks him slightly. He backs away...]

Someone died in this.

[Going to look at the rest of the machine... hm... wait. Can he look under it, or does it go all the way to the floor?]

[ This particular machine does go to the floor. But as feared, there is blood on the floor. ]

[As he suspected. Is it just a pool of blood, or does it lead somewhere?]

[ Given the way the blood pooled and the stains on the machinery, it appears to simply be from the accident he heard moments ago. ]

[Hm. Fine. He wanders off to see if there are any other machines. Probably not wise to lose his hand here.]

[ The moment he turns around, there's the shade of a child standing there. No features to speak of, almost like a silhouette. It's clear, though, that its entire arm is missing. After a moment, the shadow will turn and run away. It leaks a dark kind of substance from its stump of an arm and disappears off toward the warehouse section. ]

[The child. He darts off after her, hoping that his speed is enough to keep up. Where could she be leading him?]

[ the child has vanished, but led him in among the boxes to another patch of factory. There, he can hear whispering. ]

Did you see what happened today?

That girl died because she lost her arm in the machine, right?

Yeah. One day, I'm gonna just run away. Don't want that happening to me.

Where would you even go?

Somewhere! At least I won't have to die here and get tossed out.

--Shhhh. The foreman's coming!

[The voices aren't recognizable, are they? Hm. He attempts to look into the boxes to see what's in them.]

[ Dusty and old spools of thread in most of them. Some contain bolts of cloth. Otherwise, nothing remarkable at first. ]

[Gonna go digging in the cloth. It'd be a perfect place to hide something.]

[ He'll eventually find a set of sewing instructions. They detail, at first, simple things, like how to do a certain kind of back or forward hand stitch, but... there's also a few handwritten pages detailing how to sew skin and muscle together. How to sew animal to human parts.

It's a little bit disturbing. ]

[... Well. He's not surprised.]

[Moving on to other boxes?]

[ The other boxes nearby contain what appears to be writing samples. Nothing overly legible, not at first. Just practiced scribbles of letters, as they slowly become more and more legible to becoming words. It's obvious the writer wasn't so good at first and had to teach themselves how to write. ]

... Huh.

[What sort of words are written here? Anything coherent? Or just more garbled things?]

[ It largely looks like it was someone teaching themselves the alphabet. However, the last page is angry scrawling over and over: I HATE HIM I HATE HIM I HATE HIM ]

... The Rabbit?

[Time to look through the other boxes now.]

[ There is nothing further of interest in the boxes. He seems to have exhausted what can be found in them, for the moment. ]

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