Tea's Heart - Session 1

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INFO
❍ Characters are aware that Tea's heart is being threatened by CORRUPTION.

❍ If you're in the same run, you can interact!

❍ Unit abilities are MIGHT BE ON — if, and only if, Tea has seen them work or your character has explicitly told her about them — unless otherwise specified.
Nothing Up My Sleeve can't access locations outside of the heart.

❍ Canon abilities MIGHT BE ON —if, and only if, Tea explicitly knows that they're a thing — unless otherwise specified.

❍ Characters have whatever was on their person at the time, including their cell phone!

❍ Over the course of the heart, characters are very likely to be afflicted with STATUS EFFECTS. This will be OOCly determined by dice roll. You can have more than one status effect at a time, but multiples of the same don't stack.

Roll 1d20 to receive a status effect the first time your character enters an area, i.e. once per top-level.

Each time you move to a different top level thereafter, you can roll 1d10 to see whether the effect lingers (1-6) or fades (7-10).

❍ Injury and death are possible.

Comments

BREAK ROOM

[featherbeaned]

Welcome to the break room! It looks more like a cosy cottage kitchen diner than anything, though …

There are plenty of comfy places to rest, from the window seat to the cosy couch, and even a big ol' pillow nest. The wall-mounted television is currently turned off; the remote can be found on the cabinet below, along with a handful of books.

The fridge, though. The fridge is weird. Mostly because it's fifty feet tall? It's got its own special alcove with a raised ceiling.

Roll 1D10 for previous effects, and 1D20

Re: BREAK ROOM

[protectshisown]

[Yep. Yyyep, that's a 4 on the 20.]

[Gonna. Go for the books. Unless effect knocks him down.]

STATUS EFFECT

[featherbeaned]

You don't fit quite right in your own body.

Maybe your legs are wrong. Maybe your balance is off. Maybe you feel small, despite being the same size you always have been. Or maybe it's none of those, or all of them!

Re: BREAK ROOM

[featherbeaned]

The books are:

"Imeeji Basics For People Who Hate Reading"
"Bee-keeping"
A comic book without a title.
A large, leather-bound volume with the title "Starsinger, Weaver of Creation" in intricate gold lettering.

Re: BREAK ROOM

[protectshisown]

[...you know, I didn't NEED help with my body issues.]

[Thanks Tea Heart.]

[ALSO NOT GREAT WITH A FAKE LEG.]

[He just]

[Falls flat on his face there]

[Whoops]

[Looking like a fool in front of the cool dude.]

Re: BREAK ROOM

[featherbeaned]

YOU'RE WELCOME.

Re: BREAK ROOM

[at_heart]

[ Well, since he was somehow spared, Lupine is gonna help you up there, Rye. His lips are maybe quirked a tiny bit, but considering he's still at like, 20% energy and could easily have taken a similar spill, he's not going to comment on it. Except to ask: ]

Are you okay?

Re: BREAK ROOM

[protectshisown]

Oh, you know.

Just getting to know the floor.

Re: BREAK ROOM

[at_heart]

[ Lipquirk. ]

Did you get its number?

Re: BREAK ROOM

[protectshisown]

....should I be looking for a number?

[How do phones work when all the contacts aren't automatically there.]

Re: BREAK ROOM

[at_heart]

[ WELP, sure did get a 6 on both the previous status ailments and the chance for a new one.

Well. He'll try to go for the remote, but. You know. ]

STATUS EFFECT

[featherbeaned]

No changes!

Re: BREAK ROOM

[featherbeaned]

If you turn on the TV... It's on a cooking channel! The kind where you can't see the cook themselves, only their hands as they work. It looks like they're making Valentine's chocolates-

Except for the part where it glitches and shows snippets of a talk show. "it should be humanely captured and detained, for everyone's safety-"

Re: BREAK ROOM

[at_heart]

Oh, cool, my favorite show.

[ The Shitting On Tea For Not Being Human show. ] [ It's. An active effort not to turn the TV right back off, or throw the remote at it. This is information, he should — pay attention. ]

Re: BREAK ROOM

[featherbeaned]

CUTE VALENTINE'S DAY CHOCO-MAKIN'

"- the Knight and Unisonya are dangerous vigilantes, it's against the public interest to let them run wild-"

Re: BREAK ROOM

[at_heart]

[ Already impatient with having to listen to this garbage. What if he changes the channel? Anything? ]

Re: BREAK ROOM

[featherbeaned]

You change the channel, and a programme about nail painting techniques comes on.

... Except this one flickers as well.

"Human rights laws don't count. Animal welfare legislation likely shouldn't either; it's an alien or a science experiment, that's different-"

Re: BREAK ROOM

[at_heart]

[ .................. ]

Well. Now that I've thrown up in my mouth a little...

[ He probably shouldn't. Rip the TV down and break it, right? Who knows what that kind of damage would do to Tea. ]

Re: BREAK ROOM

[at_heart]

[ AND HE'S BACK. Approaching the fridge with the nugget key. Nightingale again to reach the keyhole!

Fuck you, fridge. ]

Re: BREAK ROOM

[featherbeaned]

The fridge starts to say something scathing





The fridge shuts up, and the door creaks open. You've made it into the fr— nah, just kidding, this isn't the fridge. It's a tunnel. A small, dark tunnel. You'll definitely have to crawl if you want to find out where it leads.

Re: BREAK ROOM

[at_heart]

[ ................. ]

Sure, why not.

[ This sure is some #tfw you regret being tall. In he goes! ]

Re: BREAK ROOM

[featherbeaned]

The tunnel seems to be getting tighter.

And tighter.

It's pressing in against you. Sometimes it's hard and cold, utterly rigid. Sometimes it's warm, like grasping hands; like an arm wrapping tight around you from behind.

Re: BREAK ROOM

[at_heart]

[ sdjlfksdjf cool, cool, cool, that's really creepy STILL TRYING ]

Can't shrink me, huh? Just a little?

[ Lupine will never stop talking to the person whose dream/heart he's in. ]

Re: BREAK ROOM

[featherbeaned]

You feel yourself being grabbed, picked up

Squished and squeezed at

(Nobody's there, it's just you and the tunnel)

people looming over you, not watching where they step

grabbing your tail and yanking

(you don't have a tail. do you?)

you can't move. you're strapped down.

aren't you?

Re: BREAK ROOM

[at_heart]

[ So, for the record, he doesn't deal so great with unmotivated physical contact in the first place. He's been doing a little better in Imeeji, much better with a few select people, but holy fuck his skin is crawling all over and he is absolutely going to freeze for a long moment, struggling to get his breathing under control.

It's not real it's not real it's not real — it's not actually happening. It... definitely happened to Tea, just like the shitty argument he was having with the fridge was something that happened to her, but it's not happening to him right now.

Breathing. ]