HEARTFORGE - AlcheME! (Session 4)

[idolpro]

You are in the heart of a massive forge. In front of you are tools, and your objective is clear - to use them to channel the strength of your heart and create.

What are you creating? Who can say. Only you - and only you'll know if - and when, it's good enough. The stories before you are not yours right now, but you'll make them yours soon enough.

And you will survive.

Comments

Re: DISCUSSION

[morelikefakespeareamirite]

See? So let's just do our best. No matter what, it can't be so bad!

Re: DISCUSSION

[darkroastbean]

Right! Okay! Soooo. . .we should go in order? What should the girl be like?

Re: DISCUSSION

[morelikefakespeareamirite]

Perhaps an every-man type like yourself? Isn't that sort of story the most uplifting?

Re: DISCUSSION

[darkroastbean]

The word you're looking for is underdog. An every-man kind of story is boring. It's more accurate, but underdogs are who readers like to root for.

Re: DISCUSSION

[morelikefakespeareamirite]

So you admit you're an underdog then! Excellent. Give us your feelings, underdog P!

Re: DISCUSSION

[darkroastbean]

Gkk--[EMBARRASSMENT but he's just!! gonna wave that off]

I--I guess so! Alright, an emotion for an underdog. . .well, everyone needs hope, right? Just an ordinary, hopeful girl? A confident one. Or hell, just happy! [lowkey buzzy HAPPY HOPEFULNESS OF NORMALCY]

Re: DISCUSSION

[morelikefakespeareamirite]

[...The sense of endless falling slows as he focuses in on the feelings coming across the bond, expression blank as though someone flipped an off switch. This is fine.]

Re: DISCUSSION

[darkroastbean]

[oh! is that. good? That's probably good. Is starting to get into this though, and nudges him with a shoulder]

C'mon, W says we should aim for a sword. So let's start forging!

Re: DISCUSSION

[morelikefakespeareamirite]

Mm, a sword it is then.

Re: DISCUSSION

[darkroastbean]

[WE'RE MAKING A SWORD WE'RE MAKING A SWORD. Eager happiness!!]

I'm gonna buy a memory next. We'll make sure she has a good job.

Re: DISCUSSION

[morelikefakespeareamirite]

A good job... So one where she's happy or one where she makes a difference or perhaps both then? What makes a job good?

Re: DISCUSSION

[darkroastbean]

Anything where you enjoy what you do. Love what you do and you'll never work a day in your life. It's like. . .when I make coffee. That doesn't feel like work to me. And seeing how much it warms everyone up. . .well, I think that counts as happiness, right?

[take these WARM FUZZY HAPPY COMFY FEELINGS bug man. TAKE THEM.]

Re: DISCUSSION

[morelikefakespeareamirite]

...

[It may just be a drop in a very, very, very large bucket....but it manages to tamp down the constant background feelings of pure hatred that constantly thrum just under the surface.]

And yet you chose another path, Mr.Con. Is happiness not enough?

Re: DISCUSSION

[darkroastbean]

Hmm...who knows? I only have one memory, after all. [getting the tools and starting on this. emotion sword?? weird.]

For all I know, I'm a barista that does conning on the side as a means of survival. Even if it's just a little happiness, I'll savor it. It's just one spice in a blend of many, after all.

Re: DISCUSSION

[morelikefakespeareamirite]

At the end of the day, the goal of all things is to survive.

Re: DISCUSSION

[darkroastbean]

Heh, not wrong. But what's the point of surviving if life is boring?

Re: DISCUSSION

[morelikefakespeareamirite]

Are you saying you would rather die?

Re: DISCUSSION

[darkroastbean]

Nah. I was hoping you'd have another reason. [shakes his phone and grins]

So, wanna see a memory?

Re: DISCUSSION

[morelikefakespeareamirite]

[T o r n. On one hand voicing a preference, on the other hand, getting to see a memory...]

If you played one, I would watch it.

Re: DISCUSSION

[darkroastbean]

[A little amusement there]

I doubt it'll be anything interesting, it just has to be an event after all--

[CONFUSION. BETRAYAL. HORROR. GUILT. RAGE. WAY TOO MANY EMOTIONS as tldr, P seems to be 'posing' as a pharmaceutical doctor in order to expose big time drug lord in LA, ratting out his comrades (the blond man is apparently a con artist too, the same one I saw in P's first memory) but also accidentally getting them seemingly killed in the process. oops. Also he takes an fbi agent hostage. ]

[one moment as he stops forging the sword to just. sink to the floor.]

Re: DISCUSSION

[morelikefakespeareamirite]

My, that certainly escalated...

Re: DISCUSSION

[darkroastbean]

[lot of confusion and concern and general WHAT WHAT here, cry. also a lot of simmering rage]

That's--that's a word for it! What the hell. What is the context for that! Where'd my normal life go?!

Re: DISCUSSION

[morelikefakespeareamirite]

It's still rather normal by my standards, worry not!

Re: DISCUSSION

[darkroastbean]

Oh yeah? Then you take a memory!

Re: DISCUSSION

[morelikefakespeareamirite]

...very well. Be careful what you wish for though.

[Sharing a memory as instructed]