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Nessa ([personal profile] warpweft) wrote2023-01-19 08:43 pm

[ENTER THE PALACE]

[You find yourself with a sensation like floating in water.]

[Above, the sky is dark. You can occasionally see things shifting, like gusts of wind, or perhaps waves of water. Is it…even a sky above you? Or is it some kind of giant ocean? Whatever it is, you can’t make it out very well. All around you, you appear to be floating in what appears to be water. It looks like a great, wide ocean of…space in every direction around you, with stars and lights twinkling in the distance. It looks like water and feels like water, but it doesn’t make you wet. You can reach your hand into it and pull some out, the purple and violet water and the tiny points of light inside it will even rest in your hands if you cup them to carry it, but once you’re not trying to hold it anymore, it’ll flow off of you, not a single drop remaining behind. You feel something similar if you go underneath the surface. The “water” doesn’t touch your eyes, mouth or nose when give the chance, it merely drifts around you, allowing you to breathe and see unabated. And you can see for a great distance, the twinkling stars illuminating the ocean of space all around you. Though perhaps less dark and empty, it feels every bit as vast as the sky above. You feel like you could swim forever and never reach the edge.]

[It’s quiet, here, with little noise around you but the starry ocean’s waves crashing back into its surface. It’s peaceful. In another situation, it might even be comfortable.]
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[personal profile] cosplayed_out 2023-01-29 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
Sorry! I didn't mean that literally.
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[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-01-29 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
Then yes.

That is close enough.
cosplayed_out: (Plain surprised.)

[personal profile] cosplayed_out 2023-01-29 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
Is that all for the tutorial fight? Do I have backup to tell me the enemy's strengths and weaknesses?
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[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-01-29 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
It's enough for now.

[She reaches into her vest.]

Go explore the Palace. Expand your spellbook, empower your spark and help the others. Return to me when you're ready for the advanced lessons.

[She pulls her hand from her vest and opens it. A blue butterfly flies from her hand and circles around Tsumugi, fluttering its wings a couple times.

You can tell the butterfly holds something within. It asks a question: You are being given the option to assist. Will you take it? But it is not a question for you. And no answer from you will reveal what the butterfly has within it. It's looking for someone else.

Nonetheless, you acquire Blue Butterfly.]
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[personal profile] cosplayed_out 2023-01-30 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
[she holds on to the blue butterfly.]

Okay! I won't let you down.

[she'll be moving on to the library.]

[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-01-30 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
[The library is about the same as ever with one notable difference….the books. You can find all kinds of books, from specific titles, probably ones that Nessa has read - these are mostly books she likes like The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Hobbit, and lots and lots of books about spellcasting and various magic users from across the multiverse, to….the less detailed titles like “this was kind of boring so I gave up after two chapters”, “books on how to clean a hotel that I had to read, boo” “something about car repair I saw while looking for something else”, “bad looking manga”, and so on and so on.]

[The annoying part is, no matter how detailed the title, the inside of the book itself is just nonsense garbled words. Oh well. Probably would’ve been nice to get some extra spellcasting knowledge from one of these, huh?]

[There is one book that’s not sitting on a shelf or a table….it’s in a corner, underneath a table. Nessa seems pretty respectful of books in general, so it’s pretty strange that one would be left in such neglected manner, doesn’t it?]
Edited 2023-01-30 03:40 (UTC)
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[personal profile] cosplayed_out 2023-01-30 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
[she's going to take down Elliot's flag out of spite.] I claim this library in the name of cosplayers everywhere!

[Though she gets in and looks them all over and eventually gets the picture.] So these are all books Nessa experienced but forgot about or gave up on... well, that's okay.

[She does spy the corner book and bends down to take it out from under the table. Her hands sweat with excitement as she brings it up to read, adjusting her glasses.]

[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-01-31 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
[The book opens up to the table of contents, which is...a list of names. Some of the names included are...

"Specter"
Kim, Dokja
Jiang, Yanli











Houghton, Caesar
]
cosplayed_out: (Plain surprised.)

[personal profile] cosplayed_out 2023-01-31 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
[She flips it over, curiously. Do they lead to bios or is it one of those "the book is full of indecipherable writing" books?]

[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-01-31 01:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Not quite....indecipherable, but. Very short writing.]

[The first one, "Specter", has the following under it:

strange, but nice
said stuff to get a rise out of me, but was never mean about it
gave me good advice a couple times
wanted to get to know her better
this sucks
]
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[personal profile] cosplayed_out 2023-01-31 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
Poor Specter...

[she turns to Kim, Dokja, she knows him.]

[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-01-31 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
i guess technically
he was the first person I met here
he's....
really cool
I never let him know I thought that
I made fun of him all the time instead
I really wish I had let him know
fuck
I never asked him what he meant when he said he understood
I really wish I had asked him
I really wish I had told him I liked being on Echidna because he was here
fuck
FUCK!!!!!!
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[personal profile] cosplayed_out 2023-01-31 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Are these people who left? I thought Dokja was still here...

[welp, turning to Yanli, Jiang]

[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-02-01 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
The first time I met Miss Yanli, I found out that Zarya kicked her
that was really awkward. but, she didn't seem to hold it against me.
she's really nice. I'm not surprised she chose to join Echidna.
she was always doing stuff to take care of us, like making tea and food and stuff.
when she said she had a son, I was surprised at first, because she seemed so young, but, I guess she's probably not that much older than agnis?
so sometimes stuff like that just...happens, I guess.





she was teaching me to cook before she
went into solitary confinement
I guess I should keep trying to learn?
but it was fun learning with her.
huhhhh
this sucks
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[personal profile] cosplayed_out 2023-02-03 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
Aw... it's like they're diaries of her thoughts about people who were spirited away.

[she gets the idea, but might as well read Caesar's, for 100% completion bonus.]

[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-02-04 12:05 am (UTC)(link)
why

why
why
why
why why why why WHY ARE YOU HERE
oh my god
I thought everybody here was from different worlds
why are you here
I thought





please wake up
please wake up
please wake up


I'm sorry I made you leave
just
please wake up
cosplayed_out: (Plain embarrassed.)

[personal profile] cosplayed_out 2023-02-04 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
...Wait a minute. Houghton!?

[IT FINALLY CLICKS, that's Nessa's last name!]

I think I'd better keep this one in mind. It sounds important.

[After committing this one to memory, she'll step back from the bookcase now.]

[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-02-04 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
[That's the only legible book in the entire library...unless you wanna read a bunch of covers with garbled nonsense words inside, there's nothing left! What a letdown.]
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[personal profile] cosplayed_out 2023-02-04 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Then it's time to leave! What sections were left?]

[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-02-04 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
[The clocktower and the motel!]
cosplayed_out: (It's all plain anxiety now.)

[personal profile] cosplayed_out 2023-02-04 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Scissorman, or Norman Bates... let's try scissorman! To the Clock Tower!]

[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-02-04 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
[The clocktower looks….off. The clock’s normal blue hue is gone. No chimes come from it no matter how long you wait, the hands seem to be stuck in place (even moreso than usual), it just looks like it’s…not working.]

[As you get close, you spot two doors. One is locked and the other is more of a hatch. Looking in the hatch, you see some of the clock’s inner workings and that pretty quickly elucidates the issue - there’s a big spot missing that probably needs a….gear or a lever or a pulley or something? Whatever, you’re not a clock maker.]

[Maybe the other door will open if you fix the clock?]
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[personal profile] cosplayed_out 2023-02-04 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
Guess I'll search for metal gear...

[Back to the motel!]

[personal profile] voidhearts 2023-02-04 02:53 am (UTC)(link)
[The motel is a bit different. There are no doors to each dorm and no front desk. Instead, there’s murals depicting several monsters on the walls. Each one has a small table in front of it with something on it.

- A gray serpent monster with the lower half of a snake and the upper half of a woman. This has four bells in front of it.
- A dog with three heads standing before a gate. This has one bell in front of it.
- Stone statues made out of people standing before a giant serpent. This has one bell in front of it.
- Eight tentacles reaching up from the ocean to wrap around a ship. This has one bell in front of it.]
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[personal profile] cosplayed_out 2023-02-04 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, now this is definitely a Resident Evil puzzle! ...I just have to make sure to plain run from any zombie crows.

[she'll try the dog bell first]

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