Heart Game!

[twilight_boy]

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)

Comments

Re: The Grey Room

[twilight_boy]

"Indeed. Well, that was hardly my decision."

Re: The Grey Room

[antreegonist]

Who're you? I mean, you look like Isa, but.

Re: The Grey Room

[twilight_boy]

[deadpan] "I am a figment inside the heart of someone I don't much like. Does that answer your question?"

Re: The Grey Room

[antreegonist]

Not really.

Re: The Grey Room

[twilight_boy]

"I keep him functioning."

Re: The Grey Room

[antreegonist]

*...nods; spreads his hands*

So, what d'you need us to do to help you out?

Re: The Grey Room

[twilight_boy]

"There are areas I need you to look into. Contain damage you find if necessary, but report back to me above all."

Re: The Grey Room

[antreegonist]

Do we come back here, or is there a way to communicate with you more immediately?

Re: The Grey Room

[twilight_boy]

[pulling a black key out of his coat, and handing it to Mithos] "When you are finished, this will register your desire to return and bring you back here."

Re: The Grey Room

[antreegonist]

*...turns it over in his fingers, before pocketing it*

Thank you. Through those pictures--?

Re: The Grey Room

[twilight_boy]

"They will not send you directly, but they provide indicators of what's to come. See me, when you're ready to leave, and I will open the way."

Re: The Grey Room

[antreegonist]

All right. Thanks a ton.

*going to...go look at the words/tally marks before the pictures, then, actually*

Re: The Grey Room

[twilight_boy]

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.

Re: The Grey Room

[antreegonist]

*what are the tallies under each? also, brushes his fingers gently over 'self'...*

Re: The Grey Room

[twilight_boy]

Seven each, under Xemnas and Saix. DiZ and Riku have a couple. Self has too many tallies to count. There's only one tally under the scratched out name.

...When you touch 'self', you are hit with a near-crippling feeling of guilt and grief.

Re: The Grey Room

[antreegonist]

*g-gasps and puts a hand to his chest*

Roxas--

*checks the others*

Re: The Grey Room

[twilight_boy]

[as you take your hand away from self, the grief is tamped down with a grim certainty.

Touching 'Xemnas' gets an echo of a voice in your mind. "I'm going to kill him!" And, quieter, "But what's the connection?"

Re: The Grey Room

[antreegonist]

You're asking me...

*nothing for the others?*

Re: The Grey Room

[twilight_boy]

[Whoops, my bad]

Saix: "Someone who treated her like that... Even if he was Axel's friend, I can't forgive that."

DiZ: irrational rage at whoever this is, but again, "how is he connected?"

Riku: "I know he was involved, but he's trying." The feelings here are mostly tired and resigned.

Touching the scratched-out name gets you static, as though something here is shying away from it. "No! Not her - this is never okay!"

Re: The Grey Room

[antreegonist]

Oh... hang in there, Roxas.

*going to look at the pictures now*

Re: The Grey Room

[twilight_boy]

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.

Re: The Grey Room

[antreegonist]

Huh?

*gently touches the shattered pane*

Re: The Grey Room

[twilight_boy]

[brief flash of someone shattering into glass and disappearing. Too brief to see who]

Re: The Grey Room

[antreegonist]

*christtt

touches the other pictures too*

Re: The Grey Room

[twilight_boy]

Lea: grief, filtered through what feels like a sleep-fog
The Green Knight: feelings of uselessness and having failed people you care about
Beatrice: Callousness to cover shock, and disgust with self at same
Red paint: fresh grief and guilt.
Field of keys: hesitance and regret

This is a fun gallery of feelings.