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

[post_colonial]

My apologies, miss. I have merely lost my way.

Re: BASEMENT

[dramatispersonae]

No you haven't, unless you stumbled into his heart by accident. What are you hoping to find?

Re: BASEMENT

[post_colonial]

I have no explicit agenda.

Re: BASEMENT

[dramatispersonae]

Just wandering around, then? Well, let me know if you want to go any further.

Re: BASEMENT

[post_colonial]

Would you aid me? You do not seem enthusiastic at the prospect.

Re: BASEMENT

[dramatispersonae]

I can assist you in going further, yes. But beyond here are the deeper parts of his heart. If you choose to press on, it won't be without pain. There is danger ahead as well, although it seems those who went before you have already set something off.

[it's hard to tell if she's annoyed or concerned by that]

Re: BASEMENT

[post_colonial]

...

Is there any benefit to proceeding?

Re: BASEMENT

[dramatispersonae]

That depends on your definition of benefit.

Re: BASEMENT

[post_colonial]

Improve his situation, however that may be.

Re: BASEMENT

[dramatispersonae]

[She considers that for a moment.]

I would say there could be a small benefit. Although he may not see it that way.

Re: BASEMENT

[post_colonial]

[seems to weigh his options, then executes a small bow]

Then if it is all-right with you, I may return to the library and catch up on some reading.

Re: BASEMENT

[dramatispersonae]

As you wish.

[will you look around here first, or head straight back?]

Re: BASEMENT

[post_colonial]

[will offer a cursory glance, to make sure he's not missing anything evident]

Re: BASEMENT

[dramatispersonae]

[The photos on the more populated board look like there's a lot of blood in them, but you'd have to get closer to be sure. The second board only has a few photos, though even from where you're standing one of them looks sort of familiar.]

[One of the mortuary cabinets is slightly ajar.]

Re: BASEMENT

[post_colonial]

[well okay, going to investigate the bloody pictures (with some confusion but. WHATEVER. HE'LL DEAL]

Re: BASEMENT

[dramatispersonae]

[Every inch of the first board is covered with overlapping photographs. Nearly all of them are of deceased murder victims, so there’s a lot of blood and some are especially gruesome.]

Re: BASEMENT

[post_colonial]

[...clears his throat and steps back, trying to gracefully redirect his attention. At the ajar cabinet, maybe?]

Re: BASEMENT

[dramatispersonae]

[If he opens it, there's a body inside covered with a sheet aside from the feet. An identification strip around the ankle reads BERRY/AOKO (FAKE).]

Re: BASEMENT

[post_colonial]

[H-HMMMMM keeping his hands behind his back after he peeks at it and heads back toward the front, addressing the figure there]

I... suspect greatly that I am meant to investigate further, to know my teammate more intimately, though as indicated, perhaps he would not be very open to the intrusion. However, I feel out of my element, and I would prefer, both for his sake and my own, that I retire to the previous chamber, or perhaps find a method of exit overall.