Solstice Heart

[dramatispersonae]

Entering into the heart, you feel a strong sense of resistance pushing you away. It’s easy enough to overcome if you push back, but it soon reverses and you’re pulled into an unfamiliar mansion.

[IRC: #truthless, heart starts at 4pm EST!]

edit: I'm a dumb and forgot to add in the LIBRARY segment: [On the left is another doorway to a staircase leading down.]

Comments

Re: BASEMENT

[dramatispersonae]

[She closes the drawer again.]

Have you seen enough?

Re: BASEMENT

[lettersbound]

I think I have.

... I think I'll go forward. I'm here, right? And a part of me would like to understand.

Re: BASEMENT

[dramatispersonae]

I see. As you wish.

However, there is something else I should warn you about.

[She moves to the back of the room and pulls the grate off of a low vent. It's too small for an adult to fit through.]

Has anyone told you why he looks so young?

Re: BASEMENT

[lettersbound]

... Not yet.

Re: BASEMENT

[dramatispersonae]

[She walks over to the drawers, unlocks one and pulls out a pill bottle labeled APTX 4869. She shakes one into her hand and holds it up for him to see.]

This is a lethal poison. If you want to continue through that vent and into the deeper parts of his heart, you'll have to swallow this.

Re: BASEMENT

[lettersbound]

Lethal generally means ... lethal. So if I'm continuing on, I'm accepting that I die.

Re: BASEMENT

[dramatispersonae]

It is a lethal poison, and it may feel like you're dying. But you won't die.

[still holding the pill out, now waiting for him to take it, or not]

Re: BASEMENT

[lettersbound]

[... considering it and after a moment, he takes it.

from what he's understood about his own life, he's done way worse.]

Re: BASEMENT

[dramatispersonae]

A word of caution. It's dangerous ahead, for you as well as him. Keep that in mind if you try to change anything.

Re: BASEMENT

[lettersbound]

I'm prepared.

[after a moment, he swallows the pill]

Re: BASEMENT

[dramatispersonae]

[The pill goes down easily enough, and you have a moment before it kicks in to contemplate what willingly taking lethal poison says about your life choices. Then the fever kicks in, your body growing unbearably hot in a matter of seconds. It makes you dizzy, and It may be getting hard to stay standing by the time your heart spasms painfully and suddenly everything is pain. It’s a struggle to breathe and it feels like your bones are melting. After a second spasm you black out for a moment, and whether or not the thought was your own it’s the last thing to flit through your mind. I’m going to die-!]

[You come to feeling perfectly fine, if a little winded. And suddenly everything’s really tall…]

[Lucky for you, your clothes shrank with you. But any larger items you had in your pockets may have fallen out.]

Re: BASEMENT

[lettersbound]

[he's clearly unsettled, patting his hands against himself at first. his nose wrinkles and he feels unsettled.

he hasn't even remembered being younger yet.]

I hope this doesn't stick.

Re: BASEMENT

[dramatispersonae]

[The girl only smirks, apparently deciding not to answer that.]

You can continue through that vent.

Re: BASEMENT

[lettersbound]

[grumpy grumpy grumpy

but on he goes]

Re: BASEMENT

[dramatispersonae]

[grump your way on through]