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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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... 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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he'll pick it up and bring it with him, leastwise, as he looks over the room again to see if he missed anything]
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There's nothing else of note in the room.
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"Oh, so you're taking it with you?"
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"I suppose the one that makes the most sense is downstairs, with the mud. He keeps the most upsetting and traumatic things there. I don't know how Conviction would handle it, but Resilience can at least keep it away from everything else.
Otherwise, I doubt Integrity would appreciate having to deal with it. And I leave it up to you to consider whether leaving it in the hands of Hope and Anxiety is a good idea."
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When you head back out, the girl is gone.