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[popdrop] H3: Touko and Raijuu
[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.]
[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.]
INTRO
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[CH-THUNK]
[You feel a jolt run through your entire body, jarring you awake and making you take in a sudden, deep breath and sit up straight. Immediately followed by falling back down. You feel a sensation similar to floating in water. Looking up at the sky above you, it’s dark. There’s almost no stars that you can see and no sun or moon or anything up there, but, you still don’t have any trouble seeing anything. Beneath you is a vast ocean of…space. You can see stars, mostly purple and violet, but some in other colors, even a few bright white drifting through the ocean around you. Most of the light illuminating the area comes from a lightly swirling vortex at the center. You can move, bobbing lightly in the space around you, if you wish, it seems similar to water, without the part where it makes you wet. The pain in your chest may be gradually dulling away but it’s definitely still there, though, so you may wanna wait a few minutes to move too much.]
’Please try not to move too much. I’m almost done.
[Someone else is there with you. It’s. ]
Re: INTRO
’I imagine you have questions.’
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...Wait a minute.]
P-Pervert! You were opening my shirt to... do things to me!
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'The specific thing I was doing was resuscitating you.'
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'I do not know what will happen if you were to die in here, but I would prefer not to find out.'
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...Any why are you such a humanitarian? Are you keeping me alive to... feast on me later?
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'I am not planning to feast on you. I resuscitated you because I dislike untimely death.'
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I guess I just want to leave, unstabbed, again.
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'This place is... ... ...'
'I know her by her true name. You know her as 'Hex'. This is her Heart, and I am its guardian.'
’I’m not terribly excited by the prospect of you freely exploring this place. The things you do here will have consequences. It could be dangerous for her. And it has already proven to be dangerous for you.’
[If there could be hesitance on the face of a black blob of Void, there’s currently some on Cornelius’ face. It kind of. Bubbles a bit.]
’I have not been able to speak to her for some time now. This place suffocates her magic and that has…frayed her. In a way that I have not been able to help with. That you were attacked immediately upon your arrival speaks to how bad it has gotten.’
[He lets out a noise that could be a sigh, a few bubbles of Void floating off of his head and shoulders in what could be exasperation. The bubbles pop a few seconds after leaving his body.]
'Perhaps the best way to avoid you being attacked again and a way to help her where I am unable are accomplished by following the same course.'
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'It is difficult to say. If I had to give you a piece of advice, avoid doing anything that will anger the other denizens of this place besides Lillith.'
'And try your hardest to avoid her altogether.'
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...Fine. I'll try to tone it down. --Dunno if she will, though.
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[she was loathe to try to give her instructions, but this was seeming to be an exception.]
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[...the notepad bubbles a little bit in your hands, but it seems stable.]
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[She starts to right and then finds her hand unable to continue because damn it, naming rules, but she grits her teeth and then finds another way:
To Jane the Ripper:
We're in Hex's heart or soul or state of being.
There's a bitch named Lilith who tried to kill us, but otherwise it's in everyone's interest to play nice. And I wouldn't want a round-two with Bitch Queen Lilith either.
If Hex means anything to you, and maybe she doesn't, just tread carefully.
Thanks,
The Lamer, Other You.
She'll rip that note off and then hand the pad and pen back to him.]
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'In the meantime... ...explore the Heart, find Hex’s treasures, the things most important to her. It should reveal the path to the True Heart. If we can discover that, we may be able to ease the anxiety and turmoil here and make Lillith less of a threat to everybody.'
’You can use this to get around.’
[Cornelius reaches a hand out and lightly taps it to the Voidheart in Touko's chest. A small one-person craft rises out of the...space? Water? Whatever. Its design is one that would be familiar or significant to them. And it floats, that’s the important part.]
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All right. I'll... uh... okay, an attempt will be made. I won't promise miracles.
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