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]

"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."

Re: The Grey Room

[brotagonist]

Then what?

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

Re: The Grey Room

[twilight_boy]

"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?"

Re: The Grey Room

[brotagonist]

...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...?

Re: The Grey Room

[twilight_boy]

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

Re: The Grey Room

[brotagonist]

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

[sighs]

What're the missions?

Re: The Grey Room

[twilight_boy]

"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."

Re: The Grey Room

[brotagonist]

Mm...

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

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.

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

Re: The Grey Room

[brotagonist]

[runs his hand along each of them.]

Re: The Grey Room

[twilight_boy]

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.

Re: The Grey Room

[brotagonist]

...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]

Re: The Grey Room

[twilight_boy]

"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.

Re: The Grey Room

[brotagonist]

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

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

Re: The Grey Room

[twilight_boy]

[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?

Re: The Grey Room

[brotagonist]

[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?

Re: The Grey Room

[twilight_boy]

"If something looks out of place or harmful, eradicate it."

Re: The Grey Room

[brotagonist]

[...]

One more question, then I'm ready — who's "she"?

Re: The Grey Room

[twilight_boy]

"She?"

Re: The Grey Room

[brotagonist]

[waves his hand at the scratched-out name...]

Re: The Grey Room

[twilight_boy]

"A puppet who was far more trouble than she was worth-"

As Saix says this, a light burst hits him. Not enough to do him serious damage, but enough to make him stagger backward.

"Oh, is that how it is?"

Re: The Grey Room

[brotagonist]

...looks like someone disagrees with you...

Re: The Grey Room

[twilight_boy]

"Doesn't like me badmouthing his so-called friend. Her name was Xion. You'll see soon enough what she did. Once you can enter the main scene, anyway. [jerking his head at the shatter-glass drawing.]

"No matter." He takes a black key out of his pocket and hands it to Lloyd. This'll bring you back when you're done. [He gestures, and a dark portal opens in front of you.]

Re: The Grey Room

[brotagonist]

["was"...

...takes the key and closes his fingers over it, then nods to Saïx before walking through the portal.]

Re: The Grey Room

[twilight_boy]

[You go here.]