Taisuke's heart

[dramatispersonae]

There's something humming inside of you, a strange new power etches itself into your heart, something you can't quite sense what it is but can feel it's importance. An endless sea of stars stretches before you, shining brightly, but despite the beauty of the scene there's a yearning deep in your gut. You need to go, you need more, you need to move. As if in answer, one light shines brightly in the distance and calls you forward, blinding you as you reach towards it--

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START

[heroic_homemaker]

You find yourself at the top of a long spiral staircase, the open ceiling above still shines with the light from the stars but when you look down, you can't see the end of the staircase for the darkness. Down is the only way.

Re: START

[telepathetically]

[CLINGS TO THE BANNISTER]

Re: START

[hakutaku]

W-what just happened--

Where are we?

Huh?

Re: START

[knighttoremember]

... I'm not really sure.

Re: START

[chibisama]

[welp. that's a sensation]

I'm not the only one who feels more keyed up than usual, am I?

Re: START

[mythlology]

Not good...

[ puts a hand over his heart, unsettled by the weird new feeling, but then, to the group-- ]

Please be careful, okay? It's not about winning, it's about -- ugh, I don't know. Not screwing anyone up.

Re: START

[hakutaku]

Screwing someone up . . . ?

Re: START

[telepathetically]

I don't even know WHO I'm in, I'm not going to try screwing them up!

Re: START

[chibisama]

[counting Citrines :|a]

Do they tend to put teammates together?

Re: START

[knighttoremember]

[... this seems really ominous]

Re: START

[telepathetically]

Kanzaki-sannnnnnn

Re: START

[inherited]

[tenses, taking in the surroundings and the darkness]

Re: START

[heroic_homemaker]

[Most of this darkness seems familiar, but there's something - a small something, barely noticable - something that doesn't belong.]

Going under

[heroic_homemaker]

[You're drowning. It doesn't feel like it, you can still breathe easy with the water filling up your lungs and there's no water pressure from the depths, the weight crushing down on you is the guilt. You're falling deeper and deeper as those feelings overtake you, you're awful, you're a monster, you can never be forgiven, it hurts, your heart feels like it will be torn apart with these unbearable emotions.]

Re: Going under

[knighttoremember]

[ godddd I don't like any of these feelings

Tries vaguely to pinpoint the surface, but doesn't make a move towards it]

Re: Going under

[heroic_homemaker]

[There is no surface. Was there ever a way out? It feels like ages, like you'll be trapped here forever, when a hand reaches out to you.]

Re: Going under

[hakutaku]

[BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH THIS]

[everything feels like it's breaking, and even if there's no literal drowning, it's still really hard to breathe from all of the feelings]

Re: Going under

[heroic_homemaker]

It feels like ages, like you'll be trapped here forever, when a hand reaches out to you.

The end

[heroic_homemaker]

[There's a blinding flash of light. Your vision comes back to you in a new corridor, you've come a glass divider, through it you can see Naoto and Toki/Citrine and Yuki, but you can't hear them. The voice of a man you don't recognise echoes, Will you choose to live?

There is a final hand imprint on your respective walls.]

Re: The end

[heroic_homemaker]

Oi, if any of you have those boosts leftover, now's the time to use 'em.

Re: The end

[inherited]

[to Percy and Rubedo]

You guys should go first.

Re: The end

[telepathetically]

I don't have anymore.

Re: The end

[hakutaku]

What--uh.

The other half of the story

[heroic_homemaker]

[You find yourself at the top of a long spiral staircase, creaking and rusting and threatening to fall apart if you don't get off it soon. The open ceiling above still shines with the light from the stars but when you look down, you can't see the end of the staircase for the darkness. Down is the only way.]

Re: The other half of the story

[divinewisdom]

Here we go, I guess.

[ ....then she's going to run down those stairs, she's not afraid of the dark! ]