ROLO'S HEART

[dramatispersonae]

Tick, tick, tick, tick.

You fall through space breathlessly, airlessly, your heart skipping a beat. When you land, everything is black for a moment before you rise and see who is with you and where you are...



((Important OOC Note: HOW TEMPERATURE WORKS
Each area of the heart has a temperature applied to it. This "temperature" is essentially a status effect that acts on the emotions. I'll give the details of each emotional status effect in the writeup for that area. Generally I'll give the percentage amount that it's changed, ie, "10-30% (effect)". The reason I'll give a range here is to give you leeway to play with what's comfortable for you while still maintaining the effect. However, a general guide is below:

Warm to hot - Players feel an increased sense of agitation, uncertainty, and general lack of security. All other feelings are normal.
Moderate (normal/default) - No effect. Players feel their emotion as normal.
Cool to cold - Players feel an overall decrease in emotional reaction. Severe lack of affect is in the area.

Players are of course permitted, if you think your character would, to realize their current emotions are under some kind of influence.))



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Comments

Re: TALK TO THE AUTOMATON

[machiavellianiue]

[approaching . . .]

[dramatispersonae]

He clicks the gear under his chin to give himself a warm smile. "Hello."

[machiavellianiue]

. . . hello.

[dramatispersonae]

"Welcome to the clock shop, Brother."

[machiavellianiue]

Ah . . . thank you.

What is it the clock shop is for—?

[dramatispersonae]

"It's the shop, of course."

[machiavellianiue]

. . . that isn't really what I had asked.

[dramatispersonae]

"But if you look around you, you can clearly see it is a shop, and therefore it is for selling things."

[machiavellianiue]

To whom?

[dramatispersonae]

"Everyone."

[machiavellianiue]

[tilts his head slightly, then nods slowly]

Is there anything I might do for you, here?

[dramatispersonae]

"What do you want to do?"

[machiavellianiue]

. . . happiness, stability, comfort. I want those things for Rolo.

[dramatispersonae]

"There isn't much of that here. The right wing has to do with pleasant and convenient things... Pleasure and Love are upstairs. As for stability, that'd be the realm of the True Heart, but it was lost to the ice outside a long time ago."

[machiavellianiue]

How do we get there? The true heart? . . . safely.

[dramatispersonae]

"Well, I'll give you the key if you get permission from Love and Death.

First, you'll need to get keycards from the left and right wing. Then, you'll have to go upstairs to Want and downstairs to Fear. The private lift to Love is in Want's room, and requires the keycard from the right, and the private lift to Death is in Fear's new room and requires the keycard from the left."

[machiavellianiue]

. . . understood.

Is there anything else that would be useful to know?

[dramatispersonae]

"Make use of things you find as necessary. Keep your wits about you. Talk to people. Every automaton can be reasoned with to some degree."

[machiavellianiue]

[nods]

Thank you.

[. . . hesitates, then reaches out to touch the hat, though he won't if he starts to pull away]

Do you really need that?

[dramatispersonae]

"Yes. I'm Illusion."

[machiavellianiue]

Illusion . . .

[dramatispersonae]

"Illusion. The magician. Once I was Deception, but I've evolved."

[machiavellianiue]

. . .

[dramatispersonae]

"Ta-dah!"

[machiavellianiue]

[makes a face]

. . . you don't need to—