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Eclipse's Heart Game ☉ Session #2
You drift like you're floating in water. It's almost relaxing, actually. As long as you don't think too hard that what you're floating in may be bottomless, because under you lies only a deep darkness that only the ocean can provide.
Then something grabs you and drags you deeper, down, down, down into the abyssal depths. You can't breathe, but that's not on the forefront of your mind now, is it?
There is a mounting sense of anxiety and dread.
Who do you want to become? Will you even get to see tomorrow? What if all roads lead to ████████? Can you still stay '███'? If people see the ████ you, will they think less of you? Will they feel cheated?
You want to live. Even if it's a ███, even if your hands must be covered in █████, you want to live. You want to be '███'.
Finally, a voice pierces through the darkness. It a woman's voice.
"My, how unfortunate. Your journey ends before it even begins."
"... Just kidding. That would be terribly boring! I suppose I can do the boy a favour just this once."
You feel someone grab your arm and pull you up to the surface.
...
When you come to, you are standing somewhere else.
Then something grabs you and drags you deeper, down, down, down into the abyssal depths. You can't breathe, but that's not on the forefront of your mind now, is it?
There is a mounting sense of anxiety and dread.
Who do you want to become? Will you even get to see tomorrow? What if all roads lead to ████████? Can you still stay '███'? If people see the ████ you, will they think less of you? Will they feel cheated?
You want to live. Even if it's a ███, even if your hands must be covered in █████, you want to live. You want to be '███'.
Finally, a voice pierces through the darkness. It a woman's voice.
"My, how unfortunate. Your journey ends before it even begins."
"... Just kidding. That would be terribly boring! I suppose I can do the boy a favour just this once."
You feel someone grab your arm and pull you up to the surface.
...
When you come to, you are standing somewhere else.
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She pauses, thinking.
"... There is something you could do for him, if you wouldn't mind?"
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"... He really ought to clean it up, but he hasn't had the heart to do it himself. So I think it's fine for me to ask someone else to help him get started."
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[he looks to the stairs. moving things around could be bad... right? then again he didn't feel bad after people moved things around for him, so]
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... Then, she seems to remember something.
"Ah, right. In that room, there's also a box. I leave it up to you to decide what to do with it, whether to leave it there, take it out, destroy it or something else. But..."
There's probably something kind of surreal about how she's smiling so serenely, even as she says this:
"Please don't put it in any of the other rooms upstairs, no matter what you decide to do. He already took everything he cherished from that room and put them in their proper place. All that's left are unhappy things, there."
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"That room represents something he hasn't been able to truly let go of yet. Even though it would be for the best that he does."
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There is a set of stairs that leads up to a hallway with several rooms.
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Of the three closer to you: One room has a thick, purple crystal bead curtain instead of a door ('A place of belonging'), the second room has a latticed folding door ('A place of familiarity'), and the third one has a door that looks similar to the ones in the hotel ('A place of beginnings').
The room at the far end has a metal door that doesn't match the decor of the rest of the building at all, not even a little. A big, bronze deadbolt stretches across it, though it doesn't look like you'll need much effort to lift it up if you want to open the door. The nameplate next to it is scratched out.
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The room seems to be an approximation of the conference room in Heart Soldier's dorm, albeit in ... a pretty terrible state. The spinny chairs have been left on their sides on the floor. None of the buttons light up or function at all, even uselessly. Some display monitors are smashed, glass shards scattered on the floor. There's a pretty thick layer of dust on everything.
Besides the destruction however, the room is pretty bare. There are no decorations, and only a few items that stand out. There's a broom and dustpan, like someone thought of cleaning the place up but then just ... didn't do it.
On the conference table is a notebook and some pens. Next to them is a wall scroll laid out across the table, with cursive calligraphy. On the far end of the table is a locked box.
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he goes to pick up the chairs first, putting them back to the table, before he finds the broom and dustpan so he can clean up the glass and dust. and of course looking around for somewhere to discard of it.
too bad he can't use his powers or he'd take advantage of Repair for the panels.]
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he'll check out the conference table next, to see if it's anything that can be saved of the monitors or buttons. and to look at the notebook too, of course]
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The front pages of the notebook have been ripped out. The first page that comes after is filled with words and sometimes whole sentences that have been completely blacked out with a pen, rendering the text illegible.
There is one bit that isn't scratched out:
Not worth it.
... It seems you can leave a message of your own, if you want to.
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[he picks up the pen, contemplating, puts it back down, and then he picks it up again, and under the other message, he writes his own]
Everyone you met led you to where you are now, right?
[he's not good at words, and this is just something he's seen somewhere else, but it kind of stuck with him. besides, he can understand the feeling of not thinking things are worth it. but it's an awful feeling to have too]
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... At the very least, this room is less just a place where the unhappy things were left behind.
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looking at the wall scroll next]
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Once, there was a maiden...
....who was always looking forward to the way things would be.
She said, "Someday, I'm getting out of this place."
"Someday, I'm going to kill that boy that put me here."
"And while I wait, I don't much mind,
'cause it's better to dream tomorrow than to be there."
....
"I'm holding at bay," she said, "what I know to be true."
"That I'll never get out. I won't let my dreams die!"
"I'll hang on to hope," she said, "until Time itself ends. But--"
"There's always an ending," said Time.
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abandoning the scroll to look at the box last]
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When you pick it up, you can get an impression of its contents. What's inside is -
Disillusionment (you shouldn't have put faith in them); anger (why did you have to pay for their actions?); regret (maybe you should have just said nothing); guilt (you aren't kind or gentle); inadequacy (you are not and never will be noble of heart); loss (you never belonged) -
Probably, there are many reasons this box should stay locked.
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it feels wrong to interfere with someone's emotions like this. even if they're negative, the idea of destroying them doesn't sit right with him. but what if he brings the box with him somewhere else?]
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As long as it doesn't get left in any of the other rooms upstairs, as she said.
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