twilight_boy | Heart Game!

Characters: Heart gamers
Location: Heart
Time: Day ??, Time ?? (Will get placed into timeline when done)
Description:

[Okay, so here's what went down. At some point, Roxas took a bad memory that dovetailed badly with some of the other stuff going on in his head. Ven felt something go really wrong and contacted Dream and the rest of you ASAP. Dream allowed an emergency heart game to take place, giving you all an additional task as a quest:

Everyone will get pens and stickers that they will write on. Each person running will have five stickers that they have to use to try to identify something in the heart. It can be used on people, objects, the air, whatever rolls for you, so, for example, "I am going to put this sticker on Roxas, because he is clearly Roxas" or "This stone must be a stone and not a representation of his deep, weighing sense of guilt".

Guesses can be whatever the character thinks the object is. There is no limit to guesses! The catch is that the sticker will shrivel up if their guess is not correct. They cannot use the sticker again if this happens. If it is correct, then it will remain on the object with no effects whatsoever upon Roxas' heart. (Halfway answers which you might run into get shriveled up but don't come off nor do they reveal the whole message of what they were supposed to be.) If they want to use another sticker on the same object . . . No deal. Likewise, people cannot guess on the same object that someone else has.]

(OOC Note: Please join #twilightheart)

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Ven said something was wrong, but...

What was the memory?

[Saix huffs in displeasure] "It's not my place to speak about it."

Then whose is it? ...what do you do in here, and how do we help?

"I keep him running. If you want to help me do so, I've some missions for you."

Of course I want to help. I guess I've got a couple questions too, though. I don't want to mess anything up.

"What are your questions?"

Well... how do you keep him running, normally? And what's that place down there...? Can we get to it?

[stands, waving at the town below them]

And would having furniture up here be bad...?

"You cannot get down there. It is the past, and not the past which is of concern at the moment. Normally, he does not require my help in order to function. As for furniture... what kind of foolish question is that?"

So what do you do when he does? Send people on missions?

...and honestly, it's the first thing that came into my head. It's really bare...

"This... this has not happened before. He's handled other unpleasant memories."

[Saix shrugs] "We are Nobodies. We may pretend at life, but we don't require its luxuries."

Then what?

...that can't be right...

"I kept him on track, when his 'emotions' - or his lack of familiarity with them - got the better of them. I did not always succeed, but neither did I let him founder.

"And what can't be right?"

...Nobodies have feelings. Roxas does, and you did in Aather. But it's a lot harder to remember that in an empty, cold place. So why...?

"Well, perhaps he's special like that." [Do you detect a hint of bitterness?] "But feelings are what got him into this mess."

Pretending that they aren't there probably doesn't help... for you, either.

[sighs]

What're the missions?

"I'm not as lucky as some."

[Saix gestures at the drawings] "Take a look at those to get some idea. The ones with the keys above them are the ones someone else is already taking care of."

Mm...

[goes to check out the drawings! what are they exactly, and which have keys?]

The pictures all appear to be drawn in crayon or colored pencil and are quite good. There are six of them in total. One features a redheaded man wreathed in flame. Another, a green-colored man holding his own severed head. The third is a portrait of a blonde woman in an ornate gown, something which might be a leash stretching from her hand. The fourth seems more abstract than the others, torn carefully in half, both halves covered in red color. The fifth seems to be a landscape covered in tiny keys. Lastly, the sixth... You try to look at it, but your eyes seem unable to focus in. It’s housed under a pane of shattered glass, the glass further obscuring its contents.

The ones of the Green Knight, the red mess and Beatrice have black keys.

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[runs his hand along each of them.]

Lea: Fire, and then darkness. The flash is hazy, like you're looking through fog or fighting to wake up, the grief that follows it knife-stab-sharp in contrast.

Green Knight: feelings of uselessness and disappointing people you care about.

Beatrice: Callousness masking shock, and disgust with your own reaction. And...goats?

Field of keys: Hesitation and guilt, feeling useless again

Mess o' red: A flash of bloody carnage, glass walls and more solid walls closing in on you. Guilt and helplessness cut with grief and shock.

The last picture gives you nothing but static.

"Can't access that one yet," Saix says.

...mmph...

I'll look in the field of keys one. What will open the last?

[going to look at the tallies on the other wall, too]

"Information, I believe. Finding a way to disentangle these matters also would not hurt."

There are a number of words scrawled out side-by-side, with tally marks underneath: Saix, Xemnas, Riku, DiZ, Self. There is one other name, but it’s been scratched out hard enough to obscure the letters. Xemnas and DiZ have question marks underneath as well as tallies. The word ‘self’ has been underlined several times, as though the writer had come to a conclusion.

[...runs his fingers over all of those, too]

If the keys thing is a mission, what is the mission...?

[Xemnas: Rage at whoever that is, mixed with a whisper in the back of your mind. "But how is he connected?"
Saix: "Someone who treated her like that... Even if he's Axel's friend, I can't forgive him."
Riku: "I know he was involved. But... he's trying. Resignation and weariness.
DiZ: Irrational hatred of this individual. "But how is he connected?" again. A sense of wanting to blame anything on him, cause you hate him that much.
Crossed out name: "Not her! That is never okay!"
Self: Self-loathing, mixed with a grim resolution.]

What do you mean?

[winces back from the self-loathing... returning to Saïx]

Will there be something that I have to do once I get there, or do I just figure it out?

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