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Nessa ([personal profile] warpweft) wrote2021-05-18 06:51 pm
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[popdrop] H1: Spectre & Poppy

[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.]
feralshepherd: (?)

Re: INTRO

[personal profile] feralshepherd 2021-05-19 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm.

Lilith?

Re: THE SPIRALING SEA

[personal profile] voidhearts 2021-05-19 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
[Your craft dips into the light and a few seconds later, you're taken away to somewhere new...]
Edited 2021-05-19 02:43 (UTC)
taking_pains: (Next)

Re: THE WITCH'S CASTLE

[personal profile] taking_pains 2021-05-19 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
[Glances away down the hallway, trying to see where it leads, before turning to knock on the door]
voidhearts: (Co01)

Re: INTRO

[personal profile] voidhearts 2021-05-19 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
'She is more or less always that violent. But she rarely has this much power. Whatever you do wind up doing, I would advise you to avoid her. I don't know that I'll be able to stop her from attacking you again.'
voidhearts: (N01)

Re: THE WITCH'S CASTLE

[personal profile] voidhearts 2021-05-19 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Someone opens the door.]

Hello! I’ve been — ooh, I guess the storm got you pretty bad. Uh, come in! I’ve got some towels!

[It’s the same voice as the one that let you. It’s a young woman, she immediately moves out of the way to let you into the apartment. It’s…a pretty nice apartment! There’s an open door leading out into the balcony (which will by the way confirm that you went from ground level to several stories up if you look out over it), a big TV hanging on the wall and an exceptionally soft looking couch, equally comfortable easy chairs positioned around it. The couch must be as comfortable as it looks, because there’s a black cat napping on it, currently catching a sunbeam from the open balcony. It regards you for a second, then goes back to lounging immediately.]

[Up on the wall, there’s a kitschy little carved wooden sign - it reads “WELCOME TO THE WITCH’S CASTLE” and it has a little painting of a witch on a broomstick on it. Three guesses who lives here.]

[You’re currently in the Living Room. You can also explore the Kitchen or the Hallway.]
feralshepherd: (????!)

Re: INTRO

[personal profile] feralshepherd 2021-05-19 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Hmmm]

Borrow Hex power? Buff spells?
voidhearts: (Co01)

Re: INTRO

[personal profile] voidhearts 2021-05-19 02:51 am (UTC)(link)
'There is limits to what I can do to it here. But if you explore, the other denizens of this Heart may share pieces of their power with you. It will strengthen the Voidheart that you have.'

'I will try to find a way to return your own power to you in the meantime.'
taking_pains: (Insight)

Re: THE WITCH'S CASTLE

[personal profile] taking_pains 2021-05-19 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
My thanks. For letting me in.

Is the weather usually so intense, this time of year?
voidhearts: (N03)

Re: THE WITCH'S CASTLE

[personal profile] voidhearts 2021-05-19 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
No, normally, it's just fog and some thunder. You know, just to add a little atmosphere. [She grabs a towel from the linen closet and hands it to him.] It's really been bad, lately.
taking_pains: (Next)

Re: THE WITCH'S CASTLE

[personal profile] taking_pains 2021-05-19 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
[He accepts the towel and begins to pat himself dry]

Do you know what's caused it?
feralshepherd: (....)

Re: INTRO

[personal profile] feralshepherd 2021-05-19 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
...

Okay.

Going with Spectre.
voidhearts: (Co01)

Re: INTRO

[personal profile] voidhearts 2021-05-19 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
’You can use this to follow him.'

[Cornelius reaches a hand out and lightly taps it to the Voidheart in Poppy'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 her. And it floats, that’s the important part.]

'I will remain here if you need anything. Good luck.'

[You can proceed to exploring The Spiraling Sea. Or just follow Spectre to where he went.]
Edited 2021-05-19 03:10 (UTC)
voidhearts: (N11)

Re: THE WITCH'S CASTLE

[personal profile] voidhearts 2021-05-19 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
...usually, when bad stuff happens around here...

...it goes back to Grandmother Lillith.
taking_pains: (Insight)

Re: THE WITCH'S CASTLE

[personal profile] taking_pains 2021-05-19 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
Who is she?
voidhearts: (N03)

Re: THE WITCH'S CASTLE

[personal profile] voidhearts 2021-05-19 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
She's the one who attacked you.

Oh. Um.

[She holds up a phone.]

Cornelius texted me. He said you might be coming.
taking_pains: (Stars)

Re: THE WITCH'S CASTLE

[personal profile] taking_pains 2021-05-19 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
Is Cornelius the one that I met before?
voidhearts: (N02)

Re: THE WITCH'S CASTLE

[personal profile] voidhearts 2021-05-19 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
The really tall kind of. [She makes a couple gestures with her hands that don't really describe much.]

Blob.

Person?

Re: INTRO

[personal profile] feralshepherd 2021-05-19 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Honestly, it's probably a long boat, made to cross icy seas-]

[She nods and goes.]
taking_pains: (Apologize)

Re: THE WITCH'S CASTLE

[personal profile] taking_pains 2021-05-19 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
Yes. That seems accurate.

Re: THE WITCH'S CASTLE

[personal profile] feralshepherd 2021-05-19 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Hello, I will knock on this door, looking for a Spectre. He'd probably be polite.]
voidhearts: (N01)

Re: THE WITCH'S CASTLE

[personal profile] voidhearts 2021-05-19 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Yes! Then he's the one you met!
voidhearts: (N01)

Re: THE WITCH'S CASTLE

[personal profile] voidhearts 2021-05-19 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
[Someone opens the door.]

Hello! I’ve been — ooh, I guess the storm got you pretty bad. Uh, come in! I’ve got some towels!

[It’s the same voice as the one that let you. It’s a young woman, she immediately moves out of the way to let you into the apartment. It’s…a pretty nice apartment! There’s an open door leading out into the balcony (which will by the way confirm that you went from ground level to several stories up if you look out over it), a big TV hanging on the wall and an exceptionally soft looking couch, equally comfortable easy chairs positioned around it. The couch must be as comfortable as it looks, because there’s a black cat napping on it, currently catching a sunbeam from the open balcony. It regards you for a second, then goes back to lounging immediately.]

[Up on the wall, there’s a kitschy little carved wooden sign - it reads “WELCOME TO THE WITCH’S CASTLE” and it has a little painting of a witch on a broomstick on it. Three guesses who lives here. Spectre is already here and has already gotten a towel.]

[You’re currently in the Living Room. You can also explore the Kitchen or the Hallway.]
taking_pains: (Stars)

Re: THE WITCH'S CASTLE

[personal profile] taking_pains 2021-05-19 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
I see.

...he told me to come looking for items. Is there anything in this apartment that you could consider precious?
feralshepherd: (?)

Re: THE WITCH'S CASTLE

[personal profile] feralshepherd 2021-05-19 03:36 am (UTC)(link)
....I guess. [What is being worried about rain.]

[She will come inside and]

[Oh]

[She's never seen Anything like that.]

This place...
voidhearts: (N02)

Re: THE WITCH'S CASTLE

[personal profile] voidhearts 2021-05-19 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
I, um....

[She hesitates, looking around. Her eyes fall on the hallway for a few seconds.]

... ...maybe.

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