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: EXPLORE

[dramatispersonae]

"If someone gives me a boost to the gears, I can take the nails out!"

Re: EXPLORE

[euphanasia]

What about using the table in the corner...?

Re: EXPLORE

[sightunseen]

W-wait!

Re: EXPLORE

[dramatispersonae]

Hope waits obligingly.

Re: EXPLORE

[sightunseen]

. . . he should stay bound. . . maybe down here instead, but. . .

Re: EXPLORE

[machiavellianiue]

[coming up behind them]

Is that what you think, Nunnally?

Re: EXPLORE

[sightunseen]

[actually surprised by someone coming up behind her for once, that's how distracted she was; jerks her head around in startlement to stare at him]

Re: EXPLORE

[machiavellianiue]

[staring back]

Re: EXPLORE

[sightunseen]

I—

Re: EXPLORE

[machiavellianiue]

You brought Hope here, after all . . .

Re: EXPLORE

[sightunseen]

[intensely]

I didn't realize — this would happen. But isn't it better this way? He believes. . . he doesn't have to rely on having something in his hands every moment to feel that he has it. . . he can have faith in us, in his team—!

Re: EXPLORE

[machiavellianiue]

[slowly . . .]

Yes, but—. . . isn't that better if it's something we earned from him?

Re: EXPLORE

[sightunseen]

Hope would be dead without the last game. . . it's not something. . . he doesn't have all the pieces to change things in here on his own. . .

Re: EXPLORE

[machiavellianiue]

[. . . draws in a breath—it's shaky on the exhale, as if he's using all his energy to keep himself composed]

So, what should we do?

Re: EXPLORE

[sightunseen]

[oh my god what am I doing; obviously upset, shaking. turns blindly to Hope]

Would it be easier. . . to give him the things he wants, if he was down here. . .

Re: EXPLORE

[euphanasia]

Nunnally...?

Re: EXPLORE

[sightunseen]

It's — it's what Rolo's heart has done so that he's able to believe in promises—

Re: EXPLORE

[euphanasia]

... Is that true, Hope?

Re: EXPLORE

[dramatispersonae]

"I do believe in her promises! In all of yours. But Want does try to shut me up."

Re: EXPLORE

[euphanasia]

Can he not be persuaded?

Want and Hope... they should work together, after all...

Re: EXPLORE

[dramatispersonae]

Hope looks dubious. "Well, if you want to repair him, there's spare parts down in Fear..."

Re: EXPLORE

[euphanasia]

[she shakes her head]

Can Hope and Want not work together here?

Re: EXPLORE

[dramatispersonae]

"I don't mind trying again! I'll always keep trying!"

Re: EXPLORE

[euphanasia]

And Want?

[she looks up to him]

Re: EXPLORE

[dramatispersonae]

"We just...disag...ree..."