Tsukihiko's Heart

[dramatispersonae]

You enter the heart and immediately find yourself drowning. The salt of the water stings your eyes and your throat. You're about 20 feet underwater, legs tangled in seaweed, and of course, you can't breathe like that. Even if you can hold your breath, here come the snakes -- winding around you, tangling, sliding up your body and pressing their faces against your mouth, your nose... eventually they force their way in and slide down your throat. You can feel them wiggling all the way down, coiling in your belly...

Abruptly, you can breathe underwater.

The seaweed draws you down, down, to a new area...


((Join #underwater on IRC))

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[dramatispersonae]

You find yourself in a rather unusual bedroom. It's wide, open, and round -- and all of the walls are made of solid glass. Which is understandable, because the room itself appears to be underwater. Outside, sharks and fish and eels and octopi swim and drift around it, occasionally absently brushing the side with a soft bump.

A bed is in the middle of the room, the sheets slightly rumpled. A calendar hangs on one wall; Xs have been marked off onto it in red for most of the month, stopping a few days before the full moon. A red crayon hangs from it by a string. Several of the Aather "shouta shorts" uniforms in Jasper colours hang from some coathangers on the wall, making a pile that is pushed out from the wall. There is an overhead light, but it's not on. A noose hangs from it about 8 feet from the ground -- so, just out of reach for even the tallest person. A dresser is pushed against one wall. On top of it is a doll (half-sewn, needle and thread hanging from it) of a cat, a pair of water pistols, and a glass of water.

A small metal drawer, closed, is in one wall. There is also a door to the left, a door to the right, and a trap door in the floor.

[performing]

[Jasper, huh ...]

[but first drifting to the walls, peering out at the aquatic wildlife]

[mysong]

[DROWNING A SECOND TIME ISN'T FUN]

[...taking a look at that cat doll though]

[shipwithwings]

[f-flutters his wings, THAT WAS UNPLEASANT]

[...heads for the bed]

[rebells]

[:/ frowning at that noose

can the drawer be opened?]

[debossy]

Ah! [gasping, still recovering from that ordeal] What--

[HUFF!]

[once he's got his bearings a bit, though . . . ]

Azure--?

[what's with this light and this noose. can I fly up to it]

[alldesires]

[WOW that was a much less pleasant entrance than swift's heart

annnd frowning up at that noose before looking for a way to turn on that light]

[ademoelord]

[traumaed in the first minute of heart as his second experience with drowning compounds the first and just a;sldkfj

it... might take a bit before he will look around wherever this place is]

[sightunseen]

[getting in after everyone else; HUH. wheels over to look inside the dresser...?]

THE LEFT DOOR - the Rooftop Swimming Pool

[dramatispersonae]

The door leads you into -- well, the underwater portion of a tiled swimming pool. It slopes slightly up at one end, toward the shallows. It's perfectly possible to breathe underwater, though a little bit gross, like breathing on a very humid day. A foot dangles into the water from above; I AM JUST GOING TO PUT THE ABOVE WATER DESCRIPTION HERE TOO BECAUSE I ASSUME PEOPLE WILL SURFACE AND WILL THUS SAVE US THE DOUBLE COMMENT.

Underwater: A vent is on the back of the deep end, clogged with some kind of cloth. Some pool toys have sank to the bottom -- the sand-filled kind that people dive for. Some blood is stained on the bottom of the pool, as if someone cracked their head here mid-dive or something. The door back the way you came is here, in the wall of the pool at the deep end.

Above water - The pool takes up most of the area, which is a rooftop, very, very high up. A small wall surrounds the edge, but from the rushing wind and the sheer height, you know there's no getting down that way. Unless you can fly, of course. The low wall has a small metal drawer in it. Rose petals are scattered around up here.

A girl sits perched on the edge of the pool, one foot dangling in. She is slim and flat-chested, and wearing a cute (skimpy) bikini with a cute (skimpy) skirt. Her thighs have a thick scar around them near the top, as if her legs were cut off and put back on, and she's got a matching scar down the center of her stomach. Her hair, piled artfully on one side of her head, is a pure, brilliantly bright gold, and her eyes -- wide, with her pupils enormous as if she is, perhaps, drunk or drugged -- are also gold, almost the color of champagne. Her lips are small and pouty and currently wrapped around a long slim popsicle she's working over. She pops it out of her mouth and looks at you all curiously.

Re: THE LEFT DOOR - the Rooftop Swimming Pool

[performing]

[well going to surface, then :|a and sort of doggy-paddle over to where the girl is, holding onto the edge of the pool]

Hullo -- sorry to intrude, I guess.

Re: THE LEFT DOOR - the Rooftop Swimming Pool

[mysong]

[...can I tickle the foot while I'm underwater?]

Re: THE LEFT DOOR - the Rooftop Swimming Pool

[shipwithwings]

[...I don't know what pool toys are, so I'm taking them up with me :U someone must have dropped them]

Re: THE LEFT DOOR - the Rooftop Swimming Pool

[alldesires]

[well it's kind of gross breathing down here and no sign of Pitch so swimming on up

this is... kinda familiar...]

Re: THE LEFT DOOR - the Rooftop Swimming Pool

[debossy]

[a dove approaches you with a water gun and a stuffed cat]

Ah--you there!

TRAP DOOR FROM THE BEDROOM - the lake

[dramatispersonae]

You take the trapdoor down and sink into deeper water.

You find yourself underneath a lake. You can breathe in here without any essential problem, but it feels sickeningly wet, like breathing on the worst sort of humid day. Around you, seaweed twists and winds through the area. What looks like a small plush toy of a cat is bobbing up on the surface, something like thirty feet up. Fish dart around.

There is a small locked box half-buried in the mud down here, and a sketchbook, and a pile of human body parts.

The trapdoor up is visible around fifteen feet up in the water. There is a freestanding algae-covered door to the right, and another to the left.

Re: TRAP DOOR FROM THE BEDROOM - the lake

[rebells]

[oh ewww

hmm, going to check out the cat toy first]

Re: TRAP DOOR FROM THE BEDROOM - the lake

[mysong]

[...swimming up to try and get that toy cat.]

THE RIGHT DOOR FROM THE BEDROOM - Jasper

[dramatispersonae]

After you pass through the door, you find yourself in Jasper's main room... except everything is underwater. The entire room is completely flooded. You can breathe it with no problem, and it doesn't seem to be particularly interfering with any element of the room or your exploration thereof. It doesn't even seem to be getting things wet. It just... is full of water, making 3D navigation possible, but moving anywhere is sluggish and awkward, and breathing feels... well, again, you can do it, but it's a bit like going outside on the most humid day ever.

There are six beds. Each has an item sitting in the middle of it: a diary, a bloody beating heart, a bag of something lumpy, a feather, a pile of rancid meat, and a hairbrush. There is a kitchenette in... well... where one would expect it to be. A piggybank sits on the counter. A pile of bedding is in a big mess in one corner.

Other than that, the layout is different. There's no stairway, no basement, no ceiling trap door, none of the usual layout. There is a small metal drawer on one wall and the door that exits back the way you came.

Re: THE RIGHT DOOR FROM THE BEDROOM - Jasper

[debossy]

[I CHASED PITCH HERE!]

Pitch--! Ah . . . Jasper?

[taking in the scene, but first we need to attend to dumbass teammate]

RIGHT FROM THE LAKE - The Machine Room

[dramatispersonae]

A dry room!

This room is full of, well, machinery. The big one is to the side, a large, but surprisingly cute machine. It's actually sort of pretty, the way the machinery winds and twists, with clear pipes attaching every which way to walls, ceiling, and the floor. It's hard to say what it's all doing, though. Some pipes are sucking things in through the walls, a strange mess of rainbow-like colours, and depositing it into the machine. Others are outputting things from the machine back INTO the walls, ceiling, and floor, a bubbling black disgusting mess. There is also a tube on the side of the machine with a funnel at the top; it looks like something small could be put in here. Six lights are beneath the funnel, none of them lit.

The only exit is back through the door you came in by.

Re: RIGHT FROM THE LAKE - The Machine Room

[sightunseen]

Oh...

[what the balls 8|a goes to check out the lights, tracing over them with her fingers]

TRAPDOOR FROM THE LAKE - The Soft Room

[dramatispersonae]

You exit down into the softest, cutest, most cuddly room ever.

The walls are quilted. The quilt itself is a soft, pale blue. The fuzzy material and soft wavy patterning on it makes it look more like they're actively made of softness, and less like it's some kind of strange padded asylum room. The quilting is decorated with, instead of buttons, gemstones -- mostly Jasper, but with the occasional large chunk of iolite.

In the left side of the room is a nest of blankets and cushions, all resting on top of a heating pad. In the right side is a small blow-up kiddie pool, filled with water and some floating rubber snake bath toys. They seem like mirror images of each other in their placement.

There is an exit left, an exit right, and an exit down via trap door. There is also a metal drawer stuck in one of the soft, soft walls.

Re: TRAPDOOR FROM THE LAKE - The Soft Room

[performing]

[it's ... cute ...]

[looking around curiously]

LEFT FROM THE SOFT ROOM - the zoo

[dramatispersonae]

When you open this door you are greeted with howls and hoots and hollers because, you find out, the place is full of caged animals.

There are doves in a cage hanging from the ceiling, a large panther in a cage with his head down, a dragon curled in on itself and stuffed too-small in a cage, a rabbit running back and forth inside its cage, a weasel prying at the bars, a black crow pecking at its hanging cage, a golden bird settled comfortably in the middle of its cage, and more. These are the ones which are seen more distinctly but the room is packed.

You can see something metal glittering near the front of the panther's cage, under its nose.

In the space between the panther and dragon's cages is a metal drawer in the wall.

The only exit is back the way you came.

Re: LEFT FROM THE SOFT ROOM - the zoo

[performing]

[welp. approaching the panther cage and crouching down, but not actually reaching out yet, to see if it reacts]

TRAP DOOR DOWN FROM SOFT ROOM - the party

[dramatispersonae]

You go down and find yourself inside a large tent. It's red, light from 'outside' filtering through the fabric and casting a garish overtone on everything inside. And inside is... a party!

One hell of a party, to be exact.

There is a food and drink table on one wall, and it's filled with all manner of delicious foods. An elegant-looking man with long gold hair is sipping a drink, eyes closed and smiling. The same girl from the swimming pool -- now in a cute layered mini dress -- is hanging off him. Their hair colours are identical. A voluptuous auburn-haired woman is making out with an enormous, heavily tattooed, blond-haired man in the corner. A girl with blood red hair and a teardrop tattoo'd on her face, giggling, is seated on the table and watching the couple in the corner.

There is also a bed -- a big, heavy bed, set up against one wall. A man is chained to it, looking pretty alarmed to be here. He is big and buff, with pale pink hair. One of his eyes is gold, and the other is blue. An exact clone of Obsidian is seated on him, pinning him down, as if the chains didn't do enough of that already.

Oh, yeah, and a version (?) of Tsukihiko is chained up against the wall, too. He is taller and has filled out, with wider hips and budding breasts, though he's still wearing a young boy's school uniform. His hair is long and winds around him. His teeth are bared in a snarl and he has bitten his lips, blood dripping down his chin and neck and body, but otherwise he doesn't seem responsive to anything going on around him. A metal drawer is embedded into the wall right next to him.

Re: TRAP DOOR DOWN FROM SOFT ROOM - the party

[rebells]

[what . . . the fuck . . . .

heading over to Tsukihiko, anyway]

10 min left

[dramatispersonae]

[if you didn't get a chance to spend a boost and want to handwave going off to do so, list where you put them here]

Re: 10 min left

[performing]

He would have given his to the little gold bird after freeing the panther '-'b

LEFT FROM THE SOFT ROOM - the snake room

[dramatispersonae]

You open the door and hear hissing.

The reason for this is immediately apparent! That would be because of all the snakes. The room is, in a word, flooded with them. You can probably pick your way across the floor if you tried, but not without brushing up against many, many snakes, or possibly stepping on some. Nunnally, on the one hand, you'd roll over a bunch but on the other, at least a large part of what would be doing the rolling is metal. Either way, if anyone enters there and the snakes decide to bite them, there's no avoiding it completely, not with that many of them.

On the other side of the room, you can see a little alcove with a bottle in it. A metal drawer is set into the wall beside it.

There are no other exits.

Re: LEFT FROM THE SOFT ROOM - the snake room

[sightunseen]

[welp

EVEN THOUGH I MADE THE GAMERUNNER PUT THIS UP i'm turning around now sorry omg]