The labyrinth is overall a tiered greek-style ampitheatre made from tan brick. Each row of seats--all stone benches--has its own tier. About a third of the benches are occupied by insensate humans who have been chained to their seats. These humans are visibly suffering from heat. Bright light comes from above, though there is no sun nor clouds in the sky; there's just a bright blue expanse above. The air is extremely hot and dry, like the labyrinth is within a desert, but the
painfully hot light from before has disappeared; it was a specific event which has faded.
Staircases which lead from the top rim of the ampitheatre all the way down to the field in the center are the only clear path. The map only shows four staircases--the blue lines--but there's a bunch spaced around the labyrinth. Each staircase has cool water running down it, like little streams cutting between the dehydrating humans. There's no walls or anything to contain the streams, but the water defies physics and doesn't leave the stairs. It's juuust out of reach of those humans seated nearest; some visibly try to reach for the water, but can't quite touch it.
The bottommost tier of brickwork lacks seating entirely; instead, it's just an empty path encircling the field, and is raised about two meters above it (this is the gray circle around the green in the center). A deep notch is cut into the center of this path, which catches the water from the staircases and stops it from flowing directly onto the field (The blue line within the gray circle). Much smaller and thinner notches visibly lead from this notch onto the field, leaking small amounts of water from the walls. The field itself is covered with grass, and from above looks like a fairly normal lawn, but it's actually a deep pit of sticky mud covered with a thin layer of grass. The mud is unnaturally thick and difficult to move through, clinging to you and almost pulling against you when you try to move through it.
There's
four entrances onto the field, and only four; these are the only visible exits
anywhere. Each leads directly onto the field, and is set into the stone path encircling it. They lead down into unknown darkness, and are shown by the black rectangles with down arrows.
The familiars in the labyrinth are tall knights in full plate armor made from a dull white material--bone, as Alida discovered (White diamonds with black centers). There's two main groups. The first group, about twenty or so strong, entered the labyrinth before the witch, from the northern tunnel. They formed into two ranks, leading from the tunnel to the center of the field, and formed a corridor framing the path the witch took onto the field. These knights are all armed with medieval melee weapons made from the same material as their armor, and seem to be arranged into pairs, every knight having a twin with the same weaponry. They have clearly struggled with the mud making up the field.
Tooru is not currently able to perceive these knights due to her attention being entirely focused on the witch. She does not know whether they have moved.The second group of knights is arranged around the top rim of the field, again in pairs, most guarding the tops of staircases. The map shows 32 diamonds, but there's more like twenty of them. Unlike their brethren in the field,
these knights are all armed with massive bows. There's no spot in the entire arena that's in cover from
all of the archers; at best, you might be able to hide from six or eight of them.
Finally, there is the witch, in the center of the field, atop a circular golden platform that she pulled out of the mud. The platform is about nine to ten meters across, and the witch is a bit over three and a half meters tall. Much like her familiars, she is a heavily armored knight, but her armor is made from extremely shiny gray metal, and has a more lithe build. Her helmet is far more ornate as well, a tall spiked crown-like structure rising from the top of it. She wields no weapons, seemingly unarmed. Unlike her familiars, when she walked from the northern tunnel to the center of the arena, she walked on top of the mud, completely unhindered.
She is currently inviting Tooru closer.Tooru herself is on the eastern edge of the field, just in front of the tunnel that leads down into darkness. Her father and brother are lying insensate on top of the path encircling the field, just above her. They're laying against the base of the eastern staircase where some water flows over them, sparing them from the worst effects of the labyrinth.
...Phew. I think that's everything of note. Hopefully it's a bit clearer all stated at once with a picture providing some visual reference.
Please don't die. I need players, else there's no characters to write about.
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