Yvette's super fun spy simulator: Session II

[idolpro]

Objective: Convince Yvette to leave the Ideal World.
The following is ICly known:

• Unit abilities are off
• Yvette is actively trying to sabotage players
• One tactic is making interaction "pay for play," using memories, specifically those of Yvette. (max 5)
• False memories will not be accepted as Payment.
• Alternate Payment is negotiable, but will also result in forgetting what is paid (roll 1d6 with a score of 4 or higher for an accepted alternate payment)
• Use of force is highly inadvisable, and the condition for success is extremely low. Failure will result in a false memory.
• Your smartphone works, and can be used to document inconsistencies in the Ideal World.

tl;dr The more evidence you collect, the more convincing you are; memories can be used to fast track, but if they run low, you get mindfucked.
All things lost or received during the game will be reversed upon waking or within one IC day, at player’s discretion. The character does not know this ICly.

Comments

Practice Room

[idolpro]

Oddly enough, the Practice Room doesn't seem to house anything to hone any other skills you may have picked up along the way. What you'll find are endless art supplies, some completed Paintings, and a Piano.

Re: Practice Room

[iamverybadass]

[ Plunks out a few notes on the piano, glancing around for anything that looks out of placehere ]

Yvette...?

Re: Practice Room

[tradesecret]

The piano looks like a grand piano, but upon playing a key, it sounds like a cheap electric keyboard. It does play a song—only this song— though the mechanical quality takes the romantic soul out of it.

There is also music on the Music stand and a Piano Bench

[[ Playing the piece yourself results in +2 bonus for rolls involving dexterity i.e. lock picking and pickpocketing ]]

Re: Practice Room

[iamverybadass]

[ Hmmm well. He is classically trained, so he'll play the song to see if it unlocks any hidden passage ways. ]

Re: Practice Room

[tradesecret]

If you can read music, what's resting on the music stand is part of the piece the piano played, but it's only the left hand portion. Even if you've never taken a single music lesson, you'll find that you're able to play it, however awkwardly, and probably not on key, but it's mostly correct.

This does raise the question of where the right hand portion is...

Re: Practice Room

[iamverybadass]

[ The first place to check is this room, so he's looking under the piano bench and inspecting it for any hidden compartments, and checking behind the finished paintings in here ]

Re: Practice Room

[tradesecret]

Inside the Piano Bench is a sheet of music staff paper. Those without musical inclinations will still be able to make a comparison to the crisp, regimented lines of printed music resting on the music stand– a clear indication that this is not how it should be written.

There’s a shaky quality to it, as though the person who had put it on paper was struggling to hold the pencil. Even the small dots of the music notes aren’t filled in consistently.

Those who can read sheet music will notice that this piece is arranged for the right hand only.

Re: Practice Room

[worldlyafflictions]

Yvette-san's knowledgeable, huh.

[Goes to poke at the art supplies]

Re: Practice Room

[tradesecret]

The works in progress are geometric shapes in various textures and colors. The practice pieces of an art student.

There are also blank canvases to add your own art to.

Re: Practice Room

[worldlyafflictions]

[Pink is not an artist! But he'll go ahead and doodle a decent '😘' emoji on one of those...]

Re: Practice Room

[tradesecret]

Let your inner artist run wild!

You can investigate the Paintings or Piano in the room or go elsewhere....

Re: Practice Room

[worldlyafflictions]

[He'll go ahead and check out the paintings]

Re: Practice Room

[tradesecret]

The closer one gets to the paintings, the less real they appear, like something from a low-quality color printer.

The pieces follow a theme

Re: Practice Room

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[More liberal arts.

But why?

Heads over to inspect the paintings]

Re: Practice Room

[tradesecret]

LIBERAL ARTS ENRICH THE SOUL.

The closer one gets to the paintings, the less real they appear, like something from a low-quality color printer.

The pieces follow a theme

Re: Practice Room

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Squints at all of them. . . . They do indeed follow a theme. But not one Intensity is smart enough to get.

So he just flips them all to face the wall instead]

Re: Practice Room

[tradesecret]

Nothing happens, thankfully. There's more pieces by the art supplies and there's also a piano in the room.

Re: Practice Room

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Art supplies, next!

Oh that's giving him bad ideas]

Re: Practice Room

[tradesecret]

The works in progress are geometric shapes in various textures and colors. The practice pieces of an art student.

There are also blank canvases to add your own art to.

Re: Practice Room

[firstworldproblem]

[Sitting at the piano.]

Re: Practice Room

[tradesecret]

The piano looks like a grand piano, but upon playing a key, it sounds like a cheap electric keyboard. It does play a song—only this song— though the mechanical quality takes the romantic soul out of it.

There is also music on the Music stand and a Piano Bench

Re: Practice Room

[firstworldproblem]

[He looks looks at the music on both. First the stand, then the bench.]

Re: Practice Room

[tradesecret]

If you can read music, what's resting on the music stand is part of the piece the piano played, but it's only the left hand portion. Even if you've never taken a single music lesson, you'll find that you're able to play it, however awkwardly, and probably not on key, but it's mostly correct.

This does raise the question of where the right hand portion is...

Inside the Piano Bench is a sheet of music staff paper. Those without musical inclinations will still be able to make a comparison to the crisp, regimented lines of printed music resting on the music stand– a clear indication that this is not how it should be written.

There’s a shaky quality to it, as though the person who had put it on paper was struggling to hold the pencil. Even the small dots of the music notes aren’t filled in consistently.

Those who can read sheet music will notice that this piece is arranged for the right hand only.

Re: Practice Room

[firstworldproblem]

[He can't really read music. That was Elidibus' deal. But he does put the two of them together on the piano stand, side by side.]

Re: Practice Room

[tradesecret]

Upon picking up the sheet music, a memory plays.

It’s been two years since she’s seen Chrysanthemum.

He’s older, his face has lost some of the cute boyish roundness she recalls, though it’s hard to differentiate the passing of time from his deteriorating condition.

And yet, his fragile body has done absolutely nothing to dull his sass.

He pretends he doesn’t remember her, nonchalantly tells her to come back later, even though she literally crossed an ocean early that morning to see him for just a few hours.

There's comfort in that familiar attitude, and she can't help the warmth in her chest as she watches him write out an arrangement as steadily as he can. He tells her his left hand is paralyzed and his vision fades in and out, she knows things will only get worse from there.

The song he plays is beautiful, but the moment is bittersweet.

No amount of hard work can reverse his condition.

Nothing she changes about herself will change his situation.

Not even the love in her heart can stop the inevitable end.

The only thing she can do is pray that his dream he has for others will live on after he has passed, and that his last days on earth may be peaceful ones.