HEART GAME: REQUIEM (run 1)

[idolpro]

You awaken in the ☆ZRAEL dorm common room. It’s dark. Darker than usual, and the reason why is immediately apparent: the lamps are all extinguished, the stars have disappeared, and the moon has shifted to new. The ocean below the glass panes of the floor is silent and still. Everything feels cold and unmoving, not unlike a painting.

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DOODLES & ASHLEY

[idolpro]

Unfortunately, you don’t have too much time to contemplate the strange stillness-- there’s a jingle coming from your pocket. Your phone is ringing… in a little robotic voice. Taking out the phone reveals that it’s become a little gameboy-like machine, handheld, with a cute digital face on the screen, smiling at you.

“Hello! Incoming call from Princess Bubblegum!! Please pick up Bphone right now okay!”

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[poisong]

What the hell.

[just staring at the phone... gameboy... thing]

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[avestan]

This is new.

[but okay is there like a button that looks like it might be for picking up calls]

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[idolpro]

A girl appears on the screen-- pink face, pinker hair, and sweetly smiling.

“Greetings and salutations, adventurers! We’re not entirely sure how you got in here, but it’s whatevs, right? What could POSSBLY go wrong? Hah, don’t take that as a challenge! Or do, I guess, if you really wanna be THAT GUY.

Well, anyway. I am Princess Bubblegum, and I need you to complete a mission for me! Or, like, try. We’ve been trying to find the True Heart for a while now, but she seems to have disappeared? Kinda rude if you ask me, she’s got stuff to take care of and just runs off like a coward. So yeah, I kinda need you to find her for me. Any questions? No? Good luck, adventurers! Let me know if you REALLY need my help. I’m pretty used to cleaning up everyone’s mess around here anyways.

I have high expectations of you! Don’t disappoint me!”

And then the feed cuts out, leaving a plain phone screen (and a smiling BMO face in the background).

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[poisong]

What.

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[avestan]

That was Req's ex-girlfriend or something, I think.

Her world is really fucking weird.

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[poisong]

What, why is she here?

Where are we, even?

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[avestan]

Beats me. But I'd bet it's not our actual dorm.

[can i go open the door to my room]

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[idolpro]

It's locked.

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[avestan]

Wow, locking a guy out of his own room? Rude.

[taking a look around the room with an int roll of 22!]

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[idolpro]

It's hard to see, with Zrael's general color scheme, but it almost seems like the room is... more monochrome than usual?

But there's nothing around except the exit door.

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[poisong]

[huffs, annoyed, and while Doodles does that she's just going to fiddle with her BMO to try and return that call]

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[idolpro]

Aside from the emoting and talking display, changing the tab gives you a mostly normal phone. There’s a few apps available:

- The vidchat where you spoke to Princess Bubblegum
- A few game apps like tetris or fruit ninja
- A… dating app?
- A picture and video sharing app titled “Idolgram”

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[poisong]

[VIDCHAT!!!]

Oiii, Princess. We actually have a ton of questions.

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[avestan]

[walking up to ash and peering over her shoulder to see how this goes]

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[idolpro]

She blips back onto the screen after a moment.

"Yes? What exactly do you need? I thought I was perfectly clear."

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[poisong]

How are we supposed to find the True Heart or whatever? Especially if we can't even leave this room.

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[avestan]

Also, where is this?

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[idolpro]

"Uh, maybe try the door? And you're in Requiem's heart, duh."

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[poisong]

[glances at the door, but first]

What does the True Heart look like?

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[avestan]

Her heart, huh? Ohhhhh boy.

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[idolpro]

"You'll know her when you see her.

... Probably.

Anyway, I've got like, STUFF to do. Soooo. Laters!"

And she's gone again.

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[poisong]

Aw, come on.

[to Doodle]

Want to try the door again?

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[avestan]

I mean, the one I tried before was mine. The exit's probably fine.

[and he'll go to try the exit door!]

MARCY'S HOUSE

[idolpro]

You exit the ☆ZRAEL dorm. The door clicks behind you as you close it, locking itself. You step onto the porch of a small two-floor house, surrounded by shallow water. The whole area is within a dark, damp cave, only a little chilly. You can see the cave mouth not far away-- beyond it, the night sky shines.

There’s some stuff lying around--- on the porch and across the water, on the cave shores.

Not too far away a girl with shaggy brown hair wanders, wearing some light armor in purple and gold and a sword at her hip, searching for something among the rocks.