warpweft | [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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[You enter Chocolat's Cottage.

Chocolat’s cottage looks the same as it normally does. The wine fountain is there. The Chocolat Bar is there. Javabot, Hex’s coffee-producing affront to God is there. Unlike outside, which was definitely the sparknotes version of the theme park, everything in here is pretty faithfully recreated, although when you go to see the bedrooms, it’s suddenly a little…off.

You can go to Scorpio’s bedroom, Raijuu’s bedroom, Vermillion’s bedroom, Hex’s bedroom or… …Hex’s…bedroom…?

Hex’s bedroom is there twice. The second one has a weird smelling purple smoke coming from underneath the door.]

[Hmmmm]

[Second bedroom it is]

[Your hand touches the doorknob and...]

[It instantly bursts open, white bandages shooting out, grabbing you by the waist and dragging you in. The door slams shut behind you.]

[Hex is in her bedroom, sitting on her bed. Her....skin is purple. She has a pair of nubby horns on her head. She's sitting there in a nightgown and there's long white bandages hovering all over the place that appear to have come from her.]

Well, hello there.

[There's a startled moment, as he's taken hold of by the bandages - but he really is quite good at that poker face. It's almost back in place again by the time he's inside, and he settles even more when he sees that it's her]

Ah... hello.

I'm very happy to see you.

Why don't you join me up here? [She pats the bad. The bandages tug at him a bit, trying to pull him closer.]

[He hesitates, and then approaches the bed]

...I'm here to find something.

Ohhh? And what's that?

If you've come for my heart, then you'll have to be in a bit of effort.

[She smirks.]

If you've come for my body, you're in the right place.

I have been told to find your heart, and things that are important to you.

...oh.

You mean my heart in the metaphysical way. Not the romantic way.

In this instance, yes.

What about other instances?

I do not know what romance entails.

Really.

[She lays on her side, propping her head up on her hand.]

You've never been in love? Had a crush on someone? Gotten horny for someone, for pity's sake?

[A suspicious silence,]

[The bandages pull him closer until they're next to each other. She places a hand on his cheek.]

Wwweeeelllllll?

...perhaps.

Perhaps you have!

Which one? Or is it all three?

[His cheeks are very faintly pink]

Does it matter?

Yes.

Alternatively, we could do it.

Do... "it"?

Sex. Have sex.

I am meant to be finding something that is important to you.

What a coincidence! I have something that is important to me! If only you have a way to acquire it from me, then we'd really be in business.

I see.

Then, let us do it.

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