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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.]

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That's because of, um. The Fae, right?

[While this conversation happens, you can hear a door opening in the hallway.]

That must be so amazing, to live in a place like that...

...it was really nice of you to do that for him. It looked like it made him really happy.

Yes.

Well, that's a bit of a mixed bag. Though honestly, that can be a lot of interaction with the fey. Sometimes good, sometimes a nightmare. But I did like getting to work on so many rooms!

....he has a hard time making himself happy.

So I'm gonna. Until he learns. And then I'm gonna kill the person who hurt him like that. [:D]

S-so....

Someone hurt him.

And it. Wasn't someone in that place where the Fae all brought you to?

No, it wasn't the fae.

But druids know how to walk planes. I just have to get a little stronger and I'll find him.

'Him'?

Wh-who is it?

Spectre. I'm going to find Spectre.

Oh. Um.

[She waves her hands. Embarrassed.]

I-I mean. Sp-spectre is your friend and Hex's boyfriend, right? I just mean. Wh-who's the person who hurt him?

[Wait, Hex's what.]

Wait, Hex is his girlfriend?

--- you should go check the room that was just opened!

I, um.

I think something is burning in the oven!

[And she scurries off to...her own room. Not the kitchen. Okay.]

Wait a second!

[She will follow Nell to her room!] Does Spectre know?

S-sorry, I can't hear you over the shower!

[...there isn't a shower in that room.]

[I will barge in here.]

Nell, is this a thing she's talked about to Spectre, or is this....romantic feelings?

[...the door opens a tiny crack.]

....I-I know I'm technically just an abstraction that represents Nell inside of her Heart, but...

I don't want Hex to get mad at me for blabbing.

Thus is important information that can end in a lot if hurt if not handled correctly.

Th-that's why I don't wanna say anything! I already said too much! I-I don't want someone to get hurt cause I shared something she wasn't ready to share yet!

[Well, that's. Kind of an answer.]

Okay.

So its romantic feelings. That's good. That means nothing terrible has happened yet.

[Because Spectre is A Mess and she knows just how deep it goes.]

Oh geez, I went and said everything, anyway.

This is for the best.

This could have been really bad otherwise. Now I can talk to her.

I'm gonna check out the other room now. [Which one unlocked.]

[You enter Hex's Study]

[Hex’s study is… … …weird. The exact kind of weird you would expect out of someone who proudly proclaims her witchhood to every person she meets but is also extremely annoyed to go without her coffee or her phone for more than a day. There’s a desk with both a laptop and a desktop computer one it in one side of the room. The other side has a freaking cauldron with something green and bubbling in it and…are those teeth? There’s an ebook reader propped up on a little stand and on the other side of the room there’s a bunch of dusty old books and tomes that unironically talk about recipes involving shit like “eye of newt”. Basically, it’s at the same time very modern and has all the things you would expect a modern slightly luxury-obsessed woman like Hex to have but also has a bunch of borderline comically stereotypical witch stuff in it.]

[There’s a table with a small sign on it reading “Treasures, Vol. 1”. It has a number of things either underneath glass cases or sitting on small pillows. There’s a small booklet next to the sign.]

[...more of these tvs, huh.]

[But books! And-sign.]

[Okay, sign first, then books.]

[Let's go see this booklet.]

[The booklet is apparently a list of all of the "Treasures" she's gathered up, corresponding with the stuff on the table. One is a small piece of metal with wires sticking out of it called 'Jinzo-ningen Processor.' One is a large white fang called 'either a basilisk fang or a dragon fang, requires more research'. One is a ticket called 'Deadly Draw entry'.

All of them are locked under glass except the last one, a small black diamond-shaped piece of glass with black and white points of light slowly floating through it...it kind of has the same feeling as the pseudo-Voidheart in your chest and both of them pulse a little bit as you get closer to it.]

[Huh.]

[....well, first, she will look at the fang, see what she can tell through the case.]

[She does know dragon fangs and has a great nature score.]

[Unfortunately, because the fang is just an abstraction of the actual fang, Hex's lack of confidence in what it is it is reflected in it. It simultaneously has some of the features of a dragon fang and a basilisk fang. And also a saber-toothed tiger, somehow? How did she think that was even a contender.]

....that's annoying.

[OKAY. Picking up orb.]

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