[popdrop] H3: Touko and Raijuu

[warpweft]

[The first thing you notice is how dark it is. It’s really, really stinkin’ dark. You can’t see anything. Even if you naturally have the ability to see in the dark, well, not anymore. Which may be the second thing you notice - any powers you have, any magic is gone. Silenced. You can’t feel it, similarly to when you’re in the theme park, with an additional sense of anxiety and loss surrounding the inability to tap into it. Even a heightened sense of emotion won’t bring them back, like it might in the theme park. If you have other powers of some kind, enhanced physical capabilities or the like, they’re either gone or significantly reduced as well. You feel extremely normal and it doesn’t feel good.]

[Whether you stay still or stumble along in the dark, at least it’s not too long. You eventually catch notice of something illuminating the darkness. You find yourself drawn to it. It's a small spherical glass object. Near the edges, it's black, but bits of purple and violet appear, gradually brightening and swirling together in a spiral shape at the center. The spiral at the center is bright enough to bathe you and the surroundings in a soft violet light. As you get closer, you can feel voices coming from the sphere. You can’t tell what they’re saying, but maybe if you were closer. You feel a deep desire in your stomach to just…reach out….]

What are you doing?

[The voice, a woman’s voice, comes from behind you. You didn’t hear anybody approaching, but you’re immediately filled with an intense sense of foreboding. You turn and look, but you can’t see anything. The darkness is once again overpowering, the violet glow from the object next to you being the only thing that isn’t swallowed up by it. All you can make out in the darkness is what may be someone’s face and…two eyes. With nothing in them. Pitch-black.]

You touched the Heart…

You touched MY Heart!?

[There’s a lot of anger and it’s not making that sense of foreboding go away. The darkness and the person(?) inside it advance towards you, slowly engulfing the violet glow around you. Just when you’re thinking you’re gonna have to decide between fight or flight, here — something moves.

Towards you.

You feel something punch into your chest and before you know it, you’re on the ground, searing pain running through your upper body. A few things briefly pass through your senses. You hear a loud scream. If you tilt your head up, you can see a long black spike…embedded in your own chest. And you can taste… …yup. That’s your own blood.

That’s about as far as you get before consciousness leaves you.]

Comments

[voidhearts]

N-no! Nope! Not at all! I think they're neat!

A-and, she does too.

[ugly_split_ends]

I knew it... suddenly the tumblers are all falling into place.

[She rubs the side of her head]

The other guy I'm sharing a psychic link with says he got the doll, though... maybe there's a spare?

[voidhearts]

Huh...maybe...

Do you know where he found it?

[ugly_split_ends]

He mentioned an angry, deadly grandma.

[voidhearts]

A....

A what?

[ugly_split_ends]

Uh... gonna guess that's Lilith?

[voidhearts]

D-don't go there!

[She's suddenly freaking out.]

Don't go to the Vault! Please! It's not worth it!

[ugly_split_ends]

So, I need to go to the Vault.

[voidhearts]

No! No, no, no, no, no, no!

[She grabs Touko by the shoulders again.]

Please, you can't go there! It's too dangerous!

[ugly_split_ends]

Aaah!

[screams at being grabbed]

[voidhearts]

Aaahhh!

[She yells because she's just kind of on edge in general, right now.]

[ugly_split_ends]

Don't scream in my face!

[voidhearts]

I'm sorry!

[ugly_split_ends]

[she's hyperventilating... is this how she faints???]

[voidhearts]

[Nell quickly walks away and comes back with a cup of tea.]

[It's mint. Very calming.]

[ugly_split_ends]

... How'd you know I was a tea person?

[She's going to drink.]

[voidhearts]

Isn't everybody?

[ugly_split_ends]

...Nah. Some people have terrible taste.

[Holds back from talking about Hex's cappuccino.]

[voidhearts]

I know Hex is more of a coffee drinker...but she says anybody that can't appreciate tea doesn't deserve taste buds. I think that's a little far, though.

...a-anyway, though! S-seriously! You should stay out of the Vault! It's really dangerous...y-yes, because of Grandmother Lillith. She'll attack anybody that goes there.

I-if you absolutely have to look for something in there....p-please make sure you have a light of some kind. If you go in there while it's dark...you won't stand a chance against her. But if you have a light, you could, at least...see her coming, I guess...

...I-I still don't recommend going, even then, though.

[ugly_split_ends]

She's right. Though mint tea is a bit... well, whatever.

Anyway, I understand. The vault is scary.

[chuckles, a low 'hehehe']

Plenty of other places to look first, I guess.

Like... anywhere? I'll try to find my way out.

[voidhearts]

I think pretty much anywhere else is fine. There should be someone there who'll help you.

Um. They may take a little more convincing than me!

[ugly_split_ends]

I'll be the judge of that.

[She hands over the cup of tea.]

Thanks... uh... you.

[she'll try to go West after the goodbyes.]

[voidhearts]

[Your craft dips into the light and a few seconds later, you're taken away to somewhere new...]