✿ CARNELIAN

[dramatispersonae]

You find yourself in a medium-sized traditional Japanese-style room: tatami on the floor, shoji screens for the walls, etc. It smells slightly musty from disuse. There is a wooden door in one corner. Candles on stands like the ones in the ring provide plenty of light — definitely enough to see that the room is oddly empty save for a central display:

A life-size doll in a kimono lies on the floor, a low lacquered table on either side of her shoulders. On the right table is a brush and supplies for mixing ink. There are two sticks of ink: black and red. On the left table is a scalpel, a pair of rusty garment shears, a pair of forceps, a needle, and a spool of crimson thread.

The doll is, of course, completely featureless. Her kimono has been pulled open in front just enough for a gaping hole in the center of her chest to be visible.

The Masked Lady's voice rings out: "But she continued to weep, hiding her face from him with one of her long sleeves. "Young miss," he said again, as gently as he could, "please, please listen to me! This is no place for a young lady at night! Do not cry, I implore you!— only tell me how I may be of some help to you!" Slowly she rose up, but turned her back to him, and continued to moan and sob behind her sleeve. He laid his hand lightly upon her shoulder, and pleaded with her… then that young miss turned round, and dropped her sleeve, and stroked her face with her hand; and the man saw that she had no eyes or nose or mouth, and he screamed and ran away.

… or something like that, anyway. What a cruel man, leaving that young woman to her distress! This poor doll seems to have lost her face as well. Will you help her find it again~? Or will you give her a new one? Let's see… she'll need two eyes, a nose, and a mouth. If you could find her lost heart as well, I suppose that would be a bonus…!

You may use the tools I have given you in this room, or you may explore further in the hope of finding others… But I can't guarantee what will happen in either case, ufufufu…"

((OOC RULES:
- Give the doll a face. How you do this is up to you.
- The exploration portion is optional -- it's possible to stay in this room for the entire game, if that's what your team wants. Overall, the game is as complicated/simple and long/short as you want it to be. Choosing not to explore does not mean you lose the possibility of winning.
- Exploration will be capped at THREE HOURS MAX.
- Be creative ♥ ))

Comments

✿ MAIN ROOM

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ✿ MAIN ROOM

[doubleminded]

This isn't much of a game, either.

Re: ✿ MAIN ROOM

[brotagonist]

Pretty straightforward, though!

Re: ✿ MAIN ROOM

[doubleminded]

Heh. Maybe.

THE DECORATING!

[doubleminded]

[back in the main room after exploration.]

So.

[…has a fingernail and a tray of glass eyeballs.]

Re: THE DECORATING!

[brotagonist]

[I have an eyeball candy.]

...maybe she needs more than two eyes.

Re: THE DECORATING!

[doubleminded]

None of them match, but they don't need to.

[slipping the fingernail into her chest cavity.]

Re: THE DECORATING!

[ganbareist]

[I have... a book... that i can't read]

You could line them up like teeth? Kind of gross though.

Re: THE DECORATING!

[doubleminded]

Not that many will fit, but it might be worth trying. Maybe we could use the book for her heart.

✿ EXPLORATION

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ✿ EXPLORATION

[doubleminded]

[…well. heading for the wooden door.]

Re: ✿ EXPLORATION

[dramatispersonae]

Not everything can be card games, Teir!!

The door creeeaaaaks open. Beyond it is a fairly unremarkable, albeit gloomy, genkan. You find yourself on the raised, wooden portion, with the low, earthen floor to your right. A variety of different shoes have been neatly lined up at the divide. Past the earthen floor is a set of sliding doors. Judging by the chains and heavy locks crisscrossing them, you won't be able to get past them. Other items of note include an umbrella rack with an umbrella in it, a door across from you, and a door to your left.

Re: ✿ EXPLORATION

[brotagonist]

[I am following Teir because she said something about not knowing what would happen with exploration 8|;;]

I wonder whose shoes those are.

Re: ✿ EXPLORATION

[doubleminded]

Does it matter?

Re: ✿ EXPLORATION

[dramatispersonae]

They all seem to be women's shoes. Heels, lacquered geta, a truly ridiculously high pair of platform geta with delicate designs painted onto them…

Re: ✿ EXPLORATION

[doubleminded]

[eyes the shoes and the umbrella before heading to the door to his left.]

WESTERN DOOR

[dramatispersonae]

You open the door, and… okay, well, that's different. You appear to be in some sort of medical office. There's a large desk with several drawers against one wall. Yellowed papers spill off it in disarray. Various faded anatomical charts are pasted to the walls, though most have at least one corner that's slowly peeling off. An articulated skeleton stands next to the desk. On either side of a boarded-up window are two bookcases, crammed full of books. To your left is a pale blue curtain hanging on rings from a rail on the ceiling. It looks as though it could be pushed aside.

Re: WESTERN DOOR

[brotagonist]

[papers bleh 8|a going to look behind that curtain first]

Re: WESTERN DOOR

[dramatispersonae]

The curtain's rings rattle along the rail as you tug it aside. Beyond it is what can only be an operating room. A raised tray full of rusty medical implements stands next to a rickety hospital gurney. Various cabinets line the wall, and, in the case of one cabinet, seem to be blocking a small hallway that continues further back. More papers and tools spill across the floor.

There's a vaguely person-shaped lump under the stained blanket on the gurney.

Re: WESTERN DOOR

[ganbareist]

[huuuuh]

[i shall look at the bookcases. Any weird titles, disturbed dust...]

Re: WESTERN DOOR

[dramatispersonae]

I hope you're at university level on your kanji knowledge, or the titles of none of these books are going to make sense. Well, they're all mildewy, so maybe they wouldn't make sense anyway. They're pretty evenly coated with dust.

Re: WESTERN DOOR

[doubleminded]

[flips through the papers.]

Re: WESTERN DOOR

[dramatispersonae]

The papers all seem to be medical charts. Name, age, blood type, medical history — things like that. On a number of them, various identifying details have been blacked out with a thick marker. A few charts have black-and-white photos stapled to them. Each of the photos is of a young woman in a kimono. Their faces have all been scribbled out, though.

✿ TURN-IN

[dramatispersonae]

Re: ✿ TURN-IN

[brotagonist]

[we have... CREATIVELY USED THE RESOURCES AT OUR DISPOSAL! by making this doll's face entirely out of prosthetic eyeballs. she has two in the normal spots, two... making up a nose, and several lined up in ) to give her a mouth!

:-)

the "eye" eyes are bolded there because she has ink eyeliner; if she's going to have a face made of eyes, her correctly placed eyes should be prettier.

there's another eyeball, a fingernail, and the spine of a book in her body cavity. the book's pages have been stuck together and folded to make a mask — this comes close, without the newspaper hat — and red lips painted on, with further inky eye makeup around the eye holes. two faces for the price of one!]