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Heart Game: Duality - Round 2

Your sleep is restless, and it's hard to settle as your eyelids refusing to stop twitching, and you can feel an itch at the back of your mind, flashes of uncomfortable thoughts dipping in and out of your dreams, constantly interrupting your tries to relax. ... Are you even asleep?

...

Apparently you were, because you wake up with a start, cheek pressed uncomfortably to steel flooring and flickering lights overhead. Unfortunately, you don't feel very rested at all.

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[He can't hear you across the lake.]

[taking a moment to get a better look at him, wtf]

...

[stepping towards the lake, but not in it, not yet]

Duality!

[He looks like his liar hell self.

He also barely reacts to Silence's voice, slowly looking up.]

...the lake is dangerous. You should turn back.

No. As if I would turn back after—

[hold on fuck eclipse is doing something, JUST, QUICKLY TRYING TO CROSS THE ICY LAKE TO REACH THEM]

[Don't walk on the ice, that's thin.]

[she'll try her best to be careful, and worst case scenario her legs are prosthetic

even though the water will probably go higher than that]

[Roll 1d6! 2 and 6 means the ice breaks and you fall in. 1, 3, 4, 5 means you safely cross the ice.]

[ Once he hears Silence call for him, Eclipse starts making his way around the lake.

It's, uh, not going great because he's freezing and he has regrets. He still tries to call out anyway. ]

Duality? Is that you?

[The rocks are slippery too. Don't fall into the water.]

... go back. This place isn't safe.

Technically, that's true of any big enough body of water!

[ Says the one who has noticed how slippery everything is and man a trip into the lake would suck wouldn't it,,, ]

What about you?

[He's not moving.]

If you fall in, I can't help. I can't do anything.

[ Why does he feel like he has an idea where this might be going. ]

...But you're right there.

[It'd make more sense if you'd walked through the labyrinth.]

I'm not... good enough.

[ Alas.

But considering earlier Eclipse and Silence were talking about Duality's self-confidence, it shouldn't surprise Eclipse that they ran into this eventually. ]

...This place has done a number to you, huh.

[He doesn't reply.]

Well, that's true for a lot of people here.

[ He's still trying to trudge along, though he's slowed down considerably as the cold gets to him more and more. ]

I'm still coming over, by the way.

[He looks troubled, watching Eclipse move. No you shouldn't come over here, it's dangerous.]

Why won't you listen? I can't... I can't save anyone. Please go back.

[There's a part of the rocks where it's precariously slippery and narrow. You have some trouble finding purchase with your feet.

Roll a 1d6. 2 & 6 means you slip and fall into the icy waters. 1, 3, 4 & 5 means you're safe.]

[ He rolled a 4, so for the time being he's safe. He looks out down to the water, and for a while he's quiet.

It turns out it's because he's debating with himself what he ought to say rather than because he doesn't have anything to say at all: ]

'Cause I do whatever the hell I want! That means I don't have to listen to you.

But you'll fall!

And that's the risk I know I'm taking! If I fall, it'll be 'cause I'm just bad at this.

I don't want my friends to get hurt because of me...

Even if it's my choice?

...Don't get me wrong, it's not like I'm gonna just let myself get hurt if I can help it.

...

But eventually everyone gets hurt because of me, because of this place. Because I'm useless!

[As he raises his voice at the end, a shard of ice erupts from the ground close to Eclipse.]

[ Okay now that startles Eclipse, it gets him to stop in his tracks and stare at the ice.

(On some level he's thinking something like "ah yes, time to deal with the blowback and angry lashing out" and he's pretty sure it's kind of weird to be glad that at least that's familiar?)

...Then he resumes walking. Or tries to, he's starting to hate this cold even more. ]

And? Why should I care?

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