You enter an opulent hallway, filled with shadowy silhouettes flitting about.
The whispers are agonizingly close to audible here, but not quite loud enough to parse. One gets the sense that this is where guests gather to talk gossip. Indeed, in the center of the hallway near the wall is a small table with slips of paper and a gilded box. Instructions attached to the wall read:
To hear, you must tell. Share a piece of yourself, and an equivalent piece shall be revealed. A surface truth for a surface truth, a deep secret for a deep secret.
The table with the box of secrets is right at the fork in the hallway, with one path branching to the left.There is a door with a stained glass window if you continue down the hall and a door with a silver handle if you take the path to the left. You may also return to the main hall from here.
((OOCly, if your character chooses to submit a secret, grade the level of secrecy of your character's submission A-E, with A being one of their deepest secrets they would be reluctant to reveal to anyone and E being something anyone could find out if they asked. Don't think too hard on it.))
You’re at the top of the Tokyo Tower, alone in your despair.
Your vision blurs with tears, partially obscuring the two handguns laying on the floor. Reminders of your sins and the bars that trap you from salvation. There’s no hope for you, and not a single soul who will return to your side, ever.
Your gaze slides to the large windows of the viewing platform, and you scrub away the tears as you pick yourself up.
Maybe, you think, you can still get someone to look at you again.
You begin to walk towards them.
Maybe, you think, you can be freed of the pain tearing apart your heart.
You shatter the window.
Maybe, you think, you’ll still be as alone and in pain anyway - but it’s still worth a shot, isn’t it? Because one who has lost everything has nothing left to lose.
You step out from the window and begin to fall.
...Or at least, that's the scene you believe yourself to be in for a brief moment. Once you return to the present, you find yourself in the hallways still, shadows whispering busily around you. And, should you check, your badge is glowing faintly as one of the fragments goes from clear to black.
You've found another Fragment.
Suddenly, you are acutely aware of the whispers spoken around you. Though disparate, you can put together the following: Did you hear? They say the young master is a clone. It might have an impact on his health... how sad.
Really? Well, I heard that they say the priest of the chapel isn’t very trustworthy. It seems he’s a master manipulator... Creepy!
This tale is now circulating for any other explorers to hear. However, your secret has been revealed, and any who pass through will surely overhear it as well.
also clone? that is definitely familiar, and he looks around as the whispers sound around him. he only knows one person who's talked about being a clone before and it's Izanagi]
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The whispers are agonizingly close to audible here, but not quite loud enough to parse. One gets the sense that this is where guests gather to talk gossip. Indeed, in the center of the hallway near the wall is a small table with slips of paper and a gilded box. Instructions attached to the wall read:
To hear, you must tell.
Share a piece of yourself, and an equivalent piece shall be revealed.
A surface truth for a surface truth, a deep secret for a deep secret.
The table with the box of secrets is right at the fork in the hallway, with one path branching to the left.There is a door with a stained glass window if you continue down the hall and a door with a silver handle if you take the path to the left. You may also return to the main hall from here.
((OOCly, if your character chooses to submit a secret, grade the level of secrecy of your character's submission A-E, with A being one of their deepest secrets they would be reluctant to reveal to anyone and E being something anyone could find out if they asked. Don't think too hard on it.))
Secrets
I'm still scared to talk to my mother.
Did you hear? They say the young master is a clone. It might have an impact on his health... how sad.
Really? Well, I heard that they say the priest of the chapel isn’t very trustworthy. It seems he’s a master manipulator... Creepy!
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after a moment of contemplation, he picks a slip of paper and writes something on it.
I'm still scared to talk to my mother.
and puts it into the box]
[ ooc: I would grade that at least C. ]
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You’re at the top of the Tokyo Tower, alone in your despair.
Your vision blurs with tears, partially obscuring the two handguns laying on the floor. Reminders of your sins and the bars that trap you from salvation. There’s no hope for you, and not a single soul who will return to your side, ever.
Your gaze slides to the large windows of the viewing platform, and you scrub away the tears as you pick yourself up.
Maybe, you think, you can still get someone to look at you again.
You begin to walk towards them.
Maybe, you think, you can be freed of the pain tearing apart your heart.
You shatter the window.
Maybe, you think, you’ll still be as alone and in pain anyway - but it’s still worth a shot, isn’t it? Because one who has lost everything has nothing left to lose.
You step out from the window and begin to fall.
...Or at least, that's the scene you believe yourself to be in for a brief moment. Once you return to the present, you find yourself in the hallways still, shadows whispering busily around you. And, should you check, your badge is glowing faintly as one of the fragments goes from clear to black.
You've found another Fragment.
Suddenly, you are acutely aware of the whispers spoken around you. Though disparate, you can put together the following: Did you hear? They say the young master is a clone. It might have an impact on his health... how sad.
Really? Well, I heard that they say the priest of the chapel isn’t very trustworthy. It seems he’s a master manipulator... Creepy!
This tale is now circulating for any other explorers to hear. However, your secret has been revealed, and any who pass through will surely overhear it as well.
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...
[ow. that hit really hard emotionally.
also clone? that is definitely familiar, and he looks around as the whispers sound around him. he only knows one person who's talked about being a clone before and it's Izanagi]
Oh.
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Would he like to submit more secrets, or move on?]
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