HEARTFORGE - avante en garde (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

DISCUSSION

[idolpro]

Re: DISCUSSION

[unbr8kable]

...The hell's all this about?

[While Nem's expression is nonplussed, the emotions coming from her are alert and alarmed, mm seems bad,]

Re: DISCUSSION

[snowbirds]

It seems to be a trial where we are to strengthen our bonds with one another.

Re: DISCUSSION

[unbr8kable]

Kinda miss the times when they just did that by putting us all in mortal danger...

[This is not true]

...You okay with some forced bonding, then?

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[worthathousand]

Even without the blanks filled in... you have to admit it's already a good story for us.

[ her own emotional hackles are already up as well—already protective. but there's a thread of curiosity in there too. ]

Re: DISCUSSION

[unbr8kable]

Kinda wish it wasn't, given how our stories tend to end.

[She tries to tamp down her anxious tension, since it's not like it will help anything]

Any ideas for anything other than 'misplaced pride' or 'rocks fall, everyone dies'?

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[snowbirds]

Eh? We are able to share our emotions with one another? Isn't that mysterious . . .

[There is a bit of shyness in here.]

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[daios]

I feel that 'able' may be too generous a term, as it does not seem we are able to turn it off.

[That makes him feel a little apprehensive.]

Re: DISCUSSION

[snowbirds]

Well, if there is something I see that you would not like to share, I promise to keep it to my heart and given to no other.

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[worthathousand]

It's a sort of gift too, in a way, don't you think?

[ there's affection there, and a kind of answering encouragement. you can do it!!!! ]

We've been given an important task, but the means to support one another through it as well.

Re: DISCUSSION

[snowbirds]

It does bring about some peace knowing that we are all here to support one another.

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[worthathousand]

[ Amaranth is already reading the story, brows lightly furrowed, expression solemn. ]

...Is this meant to be a story about us? Or these people... is it as in the Castle game, and they are depending on us as well?

[ how many people here... were even here to remember that one? because when she mentions it, there's a sharp pang of regret paired with a faint sense of anger, like an old scar. ]

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[unbr8kable]

[Well, that's an anxiety-inducing thought, one that is fairly sharply cut off in favor of businesslike focus (more or less)]

...Does it matter? So long's we make their weapon or whatever and we win, we can leave, right?

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[worthathousand]

I won't fail like that again.

[ the anger is more obvious this time, though it's directed at some mix of herself and imeeji, broadly, not at Nem.

she exhales. ]

...What I mean is: This is something I want to treat as seriously as life and death—the real sort. Should we falter, the townsfolk here will not get to revive like we do.

Re: DISCUSSION

[snowbirds]

If it does not specify, perhaps it would be best to choose the one we enjoy best.

Re: DISCUSSION

[worthathousand]

Most enjoy, or most take pride in, do you think?

Or perhaps they might be the same, in this case. There's nothing stopping us giving this a happy ending, after all.

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[daios]

....... Well, I am happy to do whatever we need to do, I suppose.

[He has no idea what he needs to do. His emotions right now are just confused but convicted.]

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[worthathousand]

Mmn. It's a game about protection, in a way.
I am not sure if the tale we are telling is about us alone, or if the story refers to a people who we must prepare to defend, but it does not change the nature of the duty.

[ she's honest there, and certain, but there's a suggestion of an older pain under the rest ]

Hades, did you know, yet, that my own mother was a weaponsmith?

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[daios]

[Surprise! And he's curious.]

Ah, I had not known. Or... Have I not remembered? [He doesn't know if he would have known. She was like a hero to him, he knows that much.]

Re: DISCUSSION

[unbr8kable]

Seems like we just gotta feel at each other...

[Unimpressed,]

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[daios]

It does seem so. What kind of things should we... feel.....

[Confused??? He's just a big dog. He does not understand this.]

AVANTE: CIRCLE UP!!

[worthathousand]

—Everyone!

Let us gather and share our ideas by reading through the tale. I believe Hades has proposed a "dutiful warrior," and I'd like to suggest that, in the end, "All that matters is love."

That would leave us four more "blanks" to fill, plus as many other emotions and memories we can give to bolster our steel and jade.

[ jade is a totally normal weapon material, obviously. ]

Re: AVANTE: CIRCLE UP!!

[daios]

[Jade seems normal to Hades! But you know. Same world.]

We should also try to decide what they are fighting against... Does anyone have any suggestions?

Re: AVANTE: CIRCLE UP!!

[unbr8kable]

Guess the question is, should this threat they're fighting be something hard or soft. Since that'll determine what weapon we gotta make, and how the hero beefs it later.

Like--it's different going up against tentacle monsters and going up against...having too many cats or something.

Re: AVANTE: CIRCLE UP!!

[snowbirds]

[jade is honestly normal idk what you mean]

For the story you wish to tell, I can only perhaps add emotions at best.