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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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Like....a masquerade ball sort of thing?

Oh. Yes! Kind of like that. Except instead of staying in one place, children go door-to-door and get candy. Adults tend to just go to parties, though.

That many houses have candy?

Oh yes. They sell bags of it at the shops for just a few pounds.

Oh, uh. Pounds are our money here.

That seems like it'd get heavy fast.

I thought so too! But they're actually paper!

[She takes a 5 pound bill and shows it to Poppy. She points at the woman on the front.]

That's Queen Elizabeth.

[=O]

How is paper so valuable?

Uhh, well, the paper is just paper, but because the government says it's worth that much, that's what it's worth!

Oh.

Like how some pottery is super expensive even though it's not that much better skill level.

Uh, yes, I think so!

Well. One thing Cousin Hex told me once, was, "Anything is worth what someone is willing to pay for it."

True. That's what most magic items are.

Paper WOULD be a lot easier to carry a lot of money. Gold gets heavy....

I think that's the idea. I think the bank has a lot of gold somewhere that's supposed to represent the actual value of the paper...? I'm not sure.

A...aaanyway. I'm sorry only my bedroom opened up. If you'd like to try again, maybe another one will make the other two rooms open up, and you can see if there's anything for you in there?

I'm not sure if a government has ever been that reliable with money.

Hmm, maybe. I was curious about this trip schedule though.

Museums and things.

I can't ask all the questions I want, but I'm going to ask Hex about them later. [DETERMINEd.]

Ohhhh....yes, both she and I are really, really looking forward to that. We picked out a lot of places within the city!

If you'd like to know more about that trip...uh...maybe you'd like to go...in a northern direction, next?

Northern room, or north from the start?

Um.

The latter. I think.

All right.

So you need another memory? Does type of memory have an effect?

I don't....think so?

Sorry. I'm still learning this kind of thing, like I said, I'm just an apprentice.

Never apologize for learning. Learning is important.

...

Heehee.

[She perks up.]

You kind of sound like her.

She has a lot of good thoughts.

Even if she's lacking understanding of nature and it's power.

Oh. Um.

When people say 'nature', she usually thinks of.

Camping.

I mean, that's the weak way to commune with nature.

She says it's barbaric. She, um.

Really likes living with all of the modern and expensive stuff she likes.

Funny, when all this stuff comes from nature.

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