Tea's Heart - Session 2

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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.

The top levels that require a roll will have a note.

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

DRESSING ROOM

[featherbeaned]

You've found the dressing room! It's very pink and very casual-chic. The glass doors on all of the wardrobes reveal clothes of all sorts, though you can't see a single pair of shoes anywhere in there. A couple of the walls have posters up; one has a big ol' white board, covered in writing.

Over by the window — which looks out across the garden — is what looks to be a filming studio. There's a desk, microphone, ring-light, and … a person with long, pale blond hair, typing away at a laptop with their back to you.

Roll 1d20

Re: DRESSING ROOM

[1istheloneliest]

Oh, uh hey, sorry to intrude.

[trying to check out the posters and writing on the board as he enters anyways

d20 is a 15

d10 is a 6]

STATUS EFFECT

[featherbeaned]

♪
Have you ever wondered what it might be like, to feel the music of the universe? Time, space, matter, the elements, life and death — they all have their own songs. They flow against you, around you, through you like an aurora, subtle on the surface but oh, so easy to get lost in if you dive too deep.

All previous effects linger.

Re: DRESSING ROOM

[featherbeaned]

"Huh?" She turns, and - gosh, she's Pretty Familiar! Dressed in casual, non!Imeeji clothes, with long blond hair that's of regular (rather than ridiculous) thickness and eyes that are just Blue rather than Bright Jewel Blue.

"Oh. Uh ... it's okay, I guess ..."

One poster is of Miya Truelove. The one next to it is … also Miya Truelove! Male-presenting addition. Tucked into the frame of the latter is a small photograph of a short-haired version.

Another poster is of The Prisma Knight and his partner, the dragon Unisonya, flying into battle against some unseen foe! You think you can hear something ...?

Re: DRESSING ROOM

[1istheloneliest]

Thanks--

[stops

that's his gf but it's not at the same time?]

Tea?

[and then stopping speech because he's 1. confused 2. overwhelmed by effects and 3. trying to hone in on the mystery sound]

Re: DRESSING ROOM

[featherbeaned]

Oh, also normal ears, etc etc. A NORMAL REGULAR HUMAN.


"My name's Miya, actually ..."

He can hear snippets of a debate, the audio fuzzy like a poorly tuned radio — "it should be humanely captured and detained, for everyone's safety!" "She's a sentient being who's done nothing but try to keep us safe." "We don't know what it is! It's dangerous, and vigilante justice is n —"

Re: DRESSING ROOM

[1istheloneliest]

Right, Miya. Sorry.

[this version of her doesn't know him it seems]

You just remind me of someone, I guess. My name's Hardy.

[squinting as he tunes into the audio]

Sorry, is something playing in here?? I hear people talking...

Re: DRESSING ROOM

[featherbeaned]

"Hi, Hardy. Uhmm. I can't hear anything, sorry."

There's static. Through it, vaguely, you hear, "- rights don't count, it's an animal-"

Re: DRESSING ROOM

[1istheloneliest]

That's OK.

[tries to smile reassuringly]

So you perform here?

[also trying to track if the messages he's hearing between the static are coming from any source in the room]

Re: DRESSING ROOM

[darkroastbean]

[rolled a 10 and 12 respectively!!]

--woah, hey, someone else is here?

STATUS EFFECT

[featherbeaned]

A status effect can fade! But otherwise no change.

Re: DRESSING ROOM

[featherbeaned]

"Oh, hi! Another visitor?"

This person sure looks like Tea. Kinda? Mostly? Her hair is blond instead of blue/multicoloured, and of a regular thickness rather than CRAZY FLOOF. Her only ears are normal human ones, and her eyes a nice shade of Regular Blue with round pupils rather than Tea's bright jewel blue catslit pair. She's wearing casual, non-Imeeji-style clothes.

Re: DRESSING ROOM

[darkroastbean]

. . .

[can absolutely see the similarities but that is definitely not Tea, wow. coughs sheepishly]

Uh, yeah, sorry for barging in. I'm kinda lost? And looking for a friend?

Re: DRESSING ROOM

[featherbeaned]

She stands, pushing her hair over her shoulder. There's subtle differences to the way she holds herself - something softer, less Ready and Alert.

"You're lost? Oh, geez... Uhm, there was a big man called Hardy in here earlier, is he the one you're looking for? I'm really sorry, I'm not sure where he went."

Re: DRESSING ROOM

[darkroastbean]

[70% less feral--]

Oh uh, I ran into that guy! No, I'm looking for a friend of mine named Tea, and someone named Miya. And a key to get into the stupid beehive, but that's a me problem, I'm pretty sure.

--oh, sorry, are you an actor or something?

Re: DRESSING ROOM

[featherbeaned]

"Someone named Miya?" Points at herself...! "That might be me! I'm Miya - Miya Truelove. I'm a model and a YouTuber, so I wouldn't exactly call myself an actor."

Re: DRESSING ROOM

[darkroastbean]

..........huh?? Seriously?

I mean, that shouldn't be that surprising, because look at you--[wait]--I didn't mean that in a creepy way!!

But if you're here, why did that Kit person say you were missing. . .

Re: DRESSING ROOM

[doublefried]

[ waves a little hello from out of camera range just!! in case she's recording ]

[ also rolls a 19 and an 8 ]

STATUS EFFECT

[featherbeaned]

One effect fades. The rest are unchange!

Re: STATUS EFFECT

[doublefried]

[ goodBYE chains ]

[featherbeaned]

"Another guest!" Gosh this person sounds a whole lot like Tea. She turns away from the laptop, and -

Gosh, she sure looks a whole lot like Tea, too. Kinda? Mostly? Her hair is blond instead of blue/multicoloured, and of a regular thickness rather than CRAZY FLOOF. Her only ears are normal human ones, and her eyes a nice shade of Regular Blue with round pupils rather than Tea's bright jewel blue catslit pair. She's wearing casual, non-Imeeji-style clothes.

"Hi there. Can I help you with something?"

[doublefried]

[ :o human tea? ]

Hiya. I'm, uh -- looking for some things and people?

[featherbeaned]

"Which things, and which people?"

[doublefried]

This is going to sound weird, but, a ball pit or a big key that can open a giant refrigerator, long story. Magic nonsense.

Also my sister, who looks kinda like you actually, only her hair is way different... I call her Tea, but she also goes by Miya?

[featherbeaned]

UuuuuUUUHHHHHHH

Blinks ... at him ...

"There's someone who looks like me who goes by Miya?" Wowee,,, "That's my name, too." Wait no that's not important!! "A few people have stopped by, but I haven't seen anybody like that. I'm really sorry."