Heart Game: Intensity (Turn 5)

[idolpro]

In the beginning, there is nothing but darkness and silence. A sleep that gives no rest but one out of necessity in order to keep functioning. Behind closed eyelids, the numbers of a clock tick down - one painstaking second at a time.

TIME UNTIL REBOOT:


And then you wake up.

As you shift to a standing position, you feel something sharp and pointed press against your side. Digging into the nearest pocket, you will find two small puzzle pieces. And from their odd shape, it looks like they would fit into a 3D spherical puzzle. Odd. You've never seen them before, but you do get a sense that these are a currency of some sort. Spend them wisely!

Game start.

Comments

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

I wouldn't expect anything less of you. [ Pats the spot next to him. ] Want to sit?

[criminaljustice]

[... on the one hand: wow, embarrassing for Intensity Joker's going to walk away remembering this.

on the other hand: a brief hesitation because like. sure did call a kid out on not being a kid, so like. s w e a t s. but also keeping it chill]

Sure.

[time to sit next to a smol Intensity]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[ Pulls out some paper and crayon. ] So. You seem to think that every part of a soul serves a purpose. Am I understanding this correctly?

[criminaljustice]

[... smollest business man]

From my experience, that's generally how it goes. Though my experience back home was more about cognition--perception. Here, probably it has more to do with things like feelings or memories or things like that.

Back home, I'd steal distorted desires from criminals who definitely deserved seeing what trash they actually were instead of the delusions they built up about themselves. But that's not something someone should do with their souls, I don't think. That's more... accepting that you have aspects of yourself you may not like--in that way, you negate the influence by acknowledging it is a part of you.

That's what I had trouble doing before my own heart experience, anyway.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

You saw the vision, though, right? You know he's also been infected by the House's ghost. Since we weren't taking memories at that time.

[criminaljustice]

I'm infected by two of that House's ghosts and I've been doing better since accepting at least some of the first one.

But I can definitely see how it'd, uh. feed into certain obsessions...

I didn't see a way to counter-act the memory while I was down there, but probably there's something there that represents that memory and I just missed it on the first run-through. If you can find what it would manifest as, you can probably figure out how to sort it out from him.

It's not the same as a corruption.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

The other ghost is somewhere else. It didn't really... It wasn't really relatable, in the end. But the one from the first run--- It's not too different from what we did feel. When King died.

[criminaljustice]

[Intensity, you liar mcliarface, you said you didn't get the second ghost]

Yeah, Bad End's second ghost didn't hit me as hard, either.

... even if it ties in so well with that feeling, you can help him get sorted out from that memory. I do think that's possible. It's just a matter of being able to sort it out as Not His.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[ What did you expect really? ] And then what? He's lost everything. His name, his company, even a lot of his core self defense mechanisms that made him the person who he is. ... Was.

[criminaljustice]

He became you.

You are him.

A different aspect, a different cognition maybe, but the same person.

Why are you so set to differentiate?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[ Simply: ] Because he failed.

[criminaljustice]

So?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

What do you mean so? Failure means death. That you weren't strong enough to stand your ground.

[criminaljustice]

Drat. Shoulda just smudged that message.

[oh well]

Anyway, it's lame to judge someone who doesn't have all his memories. How do you know he failed? He got all the way to King, didn't he? And also, his name thing wasn't his fault. That was mine for running a Trial, remember?

[gosh.]

And I already said I would make things right with that last part.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

It wasn't your fault either. And there's no way to make it right. Not with Mokuba in Hell. Not with that doppleganger taking the rest of my name. I'm never going back to it.

[criminaljustice]

[wow. no one off-unit or non-phantom thief has used that first line on him before]

... you know I want to bust everyone out of Hell. So I'll help with getting Mokuba out, too.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

That timeline is too long. He's dying in whatever stupid production they've put him in. I can't wait for the entire takeover.

[criminaljustice]

We're all dying in these stupid productions.

Doesn't make it better, but you're not the only one with people in other productions.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

And I don't care what other people think they can and can't do. I know what I have to do. And that's all that matters.

[criminaljustice]

Are you factoring in all those people out there?

[gesturing toward the door, not necessarily to just to FiN but y'know]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

FiN is Switzerland. I do stupid shit all the time and they carry on as long as I don't bring work home with me.

[criminaljustice]

... wow, that is so not what I see when I go to visit.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

What's that supposed to mean?

[criminaljustice]

I mean, most FiNs I talk to would back you in anything you do? And I only say "most" because I don't know all of them.

Angel would. Duality would. Gadget would.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Don't misunderstand. There's a difference between support and involvement. And FiN undoubtedly supports my actions. And help clean up the mess when things go particularly sideways. But they do not involve themselves in them. And I prefer it that way.