Heart Game: Hurricane - Run 3

[idolpro]

[At first, all is still; all is silent.]

[The only light is the light from your phone, where a checklist has taken over the screen. It reads:]

___ Make a change
___ Repair something
___ Protect something
___ Find the True Heart
___ Survive

[Then the light comes up, bright, and then brighter, and you are in…]

Comments

[dragonheartedgirl]

Cobalt!

[ it's been a WHILE. ]

Do we know whose heart this is yet?

[offontherightfoot]

The harbingers.

[You feel fingers in the hair at the base of your skull, and then soft pressure and a click like cutlery on a metal pan.]

[In an instant, there's everything.]

[There's the city center and the routes through it and the danger level for expected incoming games. There's the vid feed over San Francisco, half standing, and the Tokyo-F dorms, and the rooftops, and everything beyond. There's current status and stability - damaged, but functional - and abilities (insufficient), and weapon specs.]

[There's the angle of the sun in winter, and the wind interference, and the systems diagnostics for the repairs on the room down the hall. There's audio being processed through the comms, and the programming for the interior temp controls (below recommended average), and a systems update running on twenty-three different systems simultaneously. There's 45 floating-point operations per second.]

[There's everything.]

[It's thrumming in the air and filling up your skin and clawing out the soft parts in your head to make room.]

[There's everything, and it just won't stop.]

[Right up until it does.]

[All at once, it flicks out like a light when the switch is flipped, and in its place there's just you, sitting in a metal chair again.]

[Gain +1 to all Wis rolls, permanently.]

[wonderlandgirl]

For my teeth.

[She bares them.]

You don't have them?

[offontherightfoot]

You've been synced with the heart.

[dragonheartedgirl]

It is the strange heart thing, for sure. That might not be a bad idea. Intensity says there's going to be some sort of attack soon.

Re: HQ

[we_meet_again]

You ass.

Is the attack a surprise, too, or are you going to fill me in?

Re: HQ

[wonderlandgirl]

Then I'm glad about that, too.

[She smiles.]

[we_meet_again]

[AGES]

Hurricane's, apparently.

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ Oh. She recognizes that skyline.... ]


... This... is Hurricane's heart, isn't it?

Re: HQ

[backstory]

[ S-Staring down at the monitors and buttons and gadgets and things.]

Should I do anything with these then...?

[ He doesn't know anything about technology this is a problem... ]

Re: HQ

[offontherightfoot]

When the countdown reaches zero, a number of creatures will spill from the sky. Their intent is to destroy everything they touch, yourself included.

Re: HQ

[we_meet_again]

Mmm, we could poke around? Or ask Intensity for advice, probably...

[dragonheartedgirl]

[ oh boy. ]

I feel like I'm peeking at things I'm not supposed to be allowed to see.....

[ HOW MAD IS HURRICANE GOING TO BE ABOUT THIS...... she's not looking forward to having to explain her actions later. please let this go okay... ]

[offontherightfoot]

It is.

[wonderlandgirl]

So... um, what do you need us to do? Just what it says on the phone?

Re: HQ

[offontherightfoot]

No. You should get moving, as soon a possible, and prepare yourself as best you're able.

[backstory]

I won't let anything hurt you.

[ DETERMINED ]

But he said those things are going to come, and this reminds me unpleasantly of that space game we were all in before. I think we should see if there are things we can repair here.

. . . I don't know much about technology, but hopefully--

[ STARING AT COBALT ]

He may know a little more than us... if it has to do with mechanics.

Re: HQ

[we_meet_again]

Ah. How do I fight them?

[offontherightfoot]

Yes. Prepare yourself, and stay safe.

And do it quickly. The countdown ends in -

[He glances at the timer.]

- three hours and twenty-three minutes.]

[backstory]

There are people who know how to tend to the sick and injured, but I'm not sure if we have a specific name for such a thing back home. I think a doctor might just pull a tooth out if it looks like it needs pulled.

Re: HQ

[offontherightfoot]

The things that damage us also damage them. Guns, blades, explosions - all of those will serve.

Re: HQ

[we_meet_again]

Oh... Intensity says it's Hurricane's heart...?

[is his heart the dentist]

[wonderlandgirl]

[She stands. Brushes off her skirts.]

Then I'll do my best.

[offontherightfoot]

He's counting on it.

[wonderlandgirl]

Pull them out...?

[Wednesday winces.]

Oh, that sounds awful--!