Nemesis Heart - R1

[idolpro]

[The first time you try to open your eyes, there is nothing but red.]




[Questions bubble up, voiceless:

What will you keep?

What will you change?

What will you do?]





[And then your eyes open.]

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Re: AVANTE EN DORM

[purrrnicious]

[She barks a sharp, bitter laugh.]

Don't pretend to know me. You don't know anything about me -- and I've realized nothing I do matters to you enough to change that.



[Actually you know what. Dragging her to the wine cellar dungeon instead. She can go hang out with Hordak and Shadow Weaver.]

Re: AVANTE EN DORM

[idolpro]

[Her expression twists to something closer to hurt; she shoves you off with a surprisingly solid kick to the gut.

"Why are you always like this?"

But rather than wait for an answer, when Kohime looks up again, she is gone--in fact, everyone is gone, the dormitory silent.]

Re: AVANTE EN DORM

[purrrnicious]

[Whoops she was not expecting to disappear everyone. After catching herself on the wall, she looks around — is everything else otherwise the same?]

Re: AVANTE EN DORM

[idolpro]

[Pretty much!

The door to the wine cellar is still cracked open, and there are still a few things spread on the far table, out of the way. And of course there's nothing stopping you from just going to your room, or leaving the dorm altogether, if you wanted.]

Re: AVANTE EN DORM

[purrrnicious]

[Well.

Going to the table, then, to check out what’s up there. ]

Re: AVANTE EN DORM

[idolpro]

[The table has a scattering of items. Someone (Amaranth? Ace? Who even knows that stuff?) has left an impressive ikebana arrangement on the table, bright zinnia and hollyhock matched with muted purple columbine and viburnum blossoms.

The rest of the things seem more random--dynamite and hands and battered swords and pasta noodles and Taisho's clothes and fancy cakes.

At one end is a box, marked 'suggestions' in neat handwriting. There are a stack of pens and leftover copies of Shrike's survey, though paper is paper, and you could write whatever you wanted.]

Re: AVANTE EN DORM

[purrrnicious]

[She picks up the suggestion box to see if she can pry it open and see what’s in there. ]

Re: AVANTE EN DORM

[idolpro]

[Roll both spirit AND vigor; it doesn't sound like there's that much shaking around in there, but the box feels oddly sturdy for its size--as if it's meant to be securing something worthy of much more security than team priorities.]

Re: AVANTE EN DORM

[purrrnicious]

[4 + 3 so one succeeds, one ties with her number...]

Re: AVANTE EN DORM

[idolpro]

[Okay. Tell me how it goes down]

Re: AVANTE EN DORM

[purrrnicious]

[Nothing too fancy. She's got Living Forge (or like 20 knives on her at any given time) so she uses a blade to jam between the lid and main box as a lever to attempt to wrench it open.]

Re: AVANTE EN DORM

[idolpro]

[The lid strains but can't hold, popping open and spilling paper over the table. Inside is a modest stack of folded papers of varying ages.]

Re: AVANTE EN DORM

[purrrnicious]

[Plucking up one of the top ones to unfold and read and see what all of this is about, exactly.]

Re: AVANTE EN DORM

[idolpro]

[On one: 'start thinking and grow up'

A different writer: 'You know what you are! Worthless! Pathetic!'

A third: 'Do what you want. I don't care.'

...Seems to be as it says on the tin]

Re: AVANTE EN DORM

[purrrnicious]

[Sounds uncomfortably like her own inner voice. She sets it aside with a soft huff, leaving the box emptied and papers scattered right where they are.

Maybe she'll check out her room...]

Re: AVANTE EN DORM

[idolpro]

[There are more doors down the hallway than you might expect--Harpy's and Kestrel's and a bunch more that currently are just smooth stone hallway.

The door to your room, if you try it, is locked. Though as always, the door to Nemesis's room is unlocked.]