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Picture Perfect [Dungeon]
The announcement is gradual instead of immediate, but the signs of another disappearance are evident should they know where to look. Above the bustling main street of Shibuya, the sign displaying high above the crossroads displays a timer and emblem. It's simple - a thin circle around the silhouette of a butterfly; easily just like any other design. Though, it might have a few people talking, speculating, and generating rumors like anything advertised there.
After all, it was the symbol of the fashion design, Gabriel Agreste.
... But he's still present.
Adrien Agreste has disappeared on location.
Option A: Musée d'art moderne Papillion - Exploration
The dungeon, from the outside, appears compact. It's clean cut, rectangular, and seems like a building that would be open to the public, but perhaps hosting more formal events than general ones.
It's... clean.
White, pristine, and empty, empty, empty upon entry.
There are only five floors - five floors, but plenty of rooms that might as well be designed by MC Escher. Clean black, white, and gray nonsense loops, turns, and endless stairs that seem to make rooms and floors repeat. On walls, on ceilings, and from the floor, Shadows take the from of perfect-imperfect statues and surreal paintings that come to life and attack when approached - or when the group finds themselves coming out of yet another wrong turn far too close to them.
Sometimes though, there's one other visitor present in the gallery: a boy with blonde hair dressed in a flawless suit facing away and observing some paintings in the gallery.
"What am I missing? What do these have that I don't?"
His voice is contemplative and the tone is flat. He doesn't bother looking at the group before going on his own way, mumbling something about getting it right soon.
---
Option B: Fifth Floor - Mid-Boss Battle
Through the double black doors, the room bears immaculate black-and-white tiling alongside smooth white walls. Like floors before, it's far too vast for a single painting on the far wall: the first colored painting in the gallery really. Reminiscent of The Lady in Gold, the woman featured has blonde hair and green eyes alight with life, but clearly frowning. In her hands, there appears to be a key clutched tightly.
Like many of the other Shadow paintings, she probably moves too...
... but despite her and the many eyes adorning her golden robes watching, the hostile energy radiating in the room isn't coming from her, but nearby.
---
Option C: Ground Floor - Shadow Adrien
Conquering the mid-boss and navigating the maze of the Gallery Dungeon, the explorers will find themselves approaching another room on the Ground Floor. It's the Storage Room and Studio, but its initial discovery would reveal it was locked. Fortunately, the Mother in Gold has bestowed the key upon defeating the Mid-Boss Statue Shadow on the fifth floor.
With it, those who are prepared may enter.
It's the first and only room that's been messy; though, perhaps 'messy' was an understatement. 'Trashed' might be more accurate. Shattered stone fragments are scattered across the ground, mingled with black and white paint splatters and ripped canvas mats, their frames scattered and broken into splinters. All of this is around a single granite pedestal supporting a translucent box barely big enough for a person; and yet, there's Adrien Agreste sitting inside it, his knees up to his chest and hands covering his ears.
On the outside, one hand beating the box, is another Adrien with amber eyes - the same one who had been wandering throughout the gallery.
"Wrong... That's wrong. Stop being incompetent... Get up so we can get it right."
Hitting it a few more times, the Shadow looks down, but then slowly turns his head. His stoic face with narrowed eyes lock on the group.
"You again? First, you enter my Gallery and show without an invitation; then, you attack my security; and now, you're entering restricted areas? I'd have you arrested if the police weren't so useless."
---
(OOC: Explore to your content. Painting Shadows primarily use magic, all elements abound, but status abilities focus on causing confusion, daze, and exhaustion. Standard opposing elements as weakness apply. Statues use more physical attacks again with status effects centered around the same ones as the paintings. Mid-Boss and Shadow Adrien attacks/spells to follow as the battle does.)
After all, it was the symbol of the fashion design, Gabriel Agreste.
... But he's still present.
Adrien Agreste has disappeared on location.
Option A: Musée d'art moderne Papillion - Exploration
The dungeon, from the outside, appears compact. It's clean cut, rectangular, and seems like a building that would be open to the public, but perhaps hosting more formal events than general ones.
It's... clean.
White, pristine, and empty, empty, empty upon entry.
There are only five floors - five floors, but plenty of rooms that might as well be designed by MC Escher. Clean black, white, and gray nonsense loops, turns, and endless stairs that seem to make rooms and floors repeat. On walls, on ceilings, and from the floor, Shadows take the from of perfect-imperfect statues and surreal paintings that come to life and attack when approached - or when the group finds themselves coming out of yet another wrong turn far too close to them.
Sometimes though, there's one other visitor present in the gallery: a boy with blonde hair dressed in a flawless suit facing away and observing some paintings in the gallery.
"What am I missing? What do these have that I don't?"
His voice is contemplative and the tone is flat. He doesn't bother looking at the group before going on his own way, mumbling something about getting it right soon.
---
Option B: Fifth Floor - Mid-Boss Battle
Through the double black doors, the room bears immaculate black-and-white tiling alongside smooth white walls. Like floors before, it's far too vast for a single painting on the far wall: the first colored painting in the gallery really. Reminiscent of The Lady in Gold, the woman featured has blonde hair and green eyes alight with life, but clearly frowning. In her hands, there appears to be a key clutched tightly.
Like many of the other Shadow paintings, she probably moves too...
... but despite her and the many eyes adorning her golden robes watching, the hostile energy radiating in the room isn't coming from her, but nearby.
---
Option C: Ground Floor - Shadow Adrien
Conquering the mid-boss and navigating the maze of the Gallery Dungeon, the explorers will find themselves approaching another room on the Ground Floor. It's the Storage Room and Studio, but its initial discovery would reveal it was locked. Fortunately, the Mother in Gold has bestowed the key upon defeating the Mid-Boss Statue Shadow on the fifth floor.
With it, those who are prepared may enter.
It's the first and only room that's been messy; though, perhaps 'messy' was an understatement. 'Trashed' might be more accurate. Shattered stone fragments are scattered across the ground, mingled with black and white paint splatters and ripped canvas mats, their frames scattered and broken into splinters. All of this is around a single granite pedestal supporting a translucent box barely big enough for a person; and yet, there's Adrien Agreste sitting inside it, his knees up to his chest and hands covering his ears.
On the outside, one hand beating the box, is another Adrien with amber eyes - the same one who had been wandering throughout the gallery.
"Wrong... That's wrong. Stop being incompetent... Get up so we can get it right."
Hitting it a few more times, the Shadow looks down, but then slowly turns his head. His stoic face with narrowed eyes lock on the group.
"You again? First, you enter my Gallery and show without an invitation; then, you attack my security; and now, you're entering restricted areas? I'd have you arrested if the police weren't so useless."
---
(OOC: Explore to your content. Painting Shadows primarily use magic, all elements abound, but status abilities focus on causing confusion, daze, and exhaustion. Standard opposing elements as weakness apply. Statues use more physical attacks again with status effects centered around the same ones as the paintings. Mid-Boss and Shadow Adrien attacks/spells to follow as the battle does.)
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It took some time traversing through this dungeon before Gwendolyn could piece things together. She adored Gabriel Agreste's work and hadn't realized he had a son until he disappeared. Now that she has, the valkyrie's getting an eerie sense of familiarity from all of this. She learned first hand how dungeons can drop personal info like no one's business, but this? The poor boy working so hard to try and please a negligent father...
This rang too many bells in her mind.
It also pushed her to keep on going, the gymnast determined to bring him back safely. She carved her way through the paintings with her spear in hand, her wings carrying her through battles and the dungeon itself. Truly, she embodied a mix of grace and ferocity. All it took was the wings of freedom.
The same king of gift she hoped to inspire in Adrien after stepping through those large doors, instead finding a beautiful painting of a woman. Such bright colors betrayed her gray expression, a point that draws a look of concern over the girl.
"Such sadness...it reminds me of the painting 'Sayuri.' She must've been someone important to him...."
C
Gwen's grip on her spear is firm, eyes looking between Adrien and his shadow. Too readily does her mind think back to her own shadow, the Ringleader's taunting leaving her curled up on the ground and trying to will this all away. It's painful, facing yourself like this; she couldn't have done it alone.
Thankfully, she didn't have to. Now, it's Gwendolyn's turn to pay it forward.
The valkyrie points her weapon at the shadow. "Release him at once, shadow."
C
"And who are you to make demands? Again, you're the one trespassing."
Standing straight, it scoffs.
"I suppose there always has to be some purveyor in imperfect pieces."
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He could see it's effect on Gwendolyn. He wasn't sure he had the words available to comfort her, and his eyes remained on the artwork before him.
"If I could hazard a guess, it's probably his mother," A careful and almost hesitant squeeze to her shoulder, before he let go, moving a step or two towards the painting, "She went missing several years ago, according to the file on him."
He eyed the key she was clutching, feeling that hostile intensity coming from somewhere. Was she trying to protect the key?