dramatispersonae | ROLO'S HEART

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.))

((Please come to #coldclocking on IRC))

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

"Hope...wanted... to stop... to stop what I was doing..."

[OH GOD

I BROUGHT HIM UP HERE]

What were you doing?

"Fighting... with Fear... always."

. . . does that mean there is no one to fight with Fear now?

"Hope... opposes Fear. I have been... forced to stop... fighting Fear myself.

I'm... glad to see you... I missed you..."

[reaches up towards him D| this isn't very productive]

Isn't there. . . a way for the two of you to work together. . .?

His head drops down as if to put it closer to you.

"I...want. I want. I want. I want more and more. One of us will always... have to be in charge. Have hands to act with and a voice... to call out with."

You should at least. . . be down here, where you can be touched still.

"Can I...?"

If one of you needs to be restrained, so be it, but. . .

"How can we work together... when we have separate functions...?"

. . . what is the difference? For you.

"I just...want... and don't want to lose... Hope wants... and tries to achieve..."

Achieve what? What he wants. . . ?

"More and more... things I wouldn't think are possible. Things that if he takes he'll surely lose..."

Like what?

"Belief..."

I don't understand.

"Surely it can't be maintained... it's not worth having..."

Belief in what?

"Belief at all..."

Euphy is talking Hope into letting Want down, btw.

[I'll get to that in a moment, just—]

If I promise you something. . . do you believe me?

"I want... what you promise."

But you don't trust— ah. . .

"Hope does, but... I... need to hold what you promise me or it'll go away. It'll be taken away."

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