[Heart Game]

[aberdevine]

(♫)

For a moment, there is nothingness. The black void is all-pervasive. Perhaps more worrying, though, is the fact that you seem to be unable to move. It's less a sensation of restraint than it is the horrifying sensation that your own body has gone numb and refuses to obey you.

But then there's a voice, speaking to you. "Remember," it says with a sort of vicious glee, "a bird can only fly within its cage."

And the world explodes into light and color, and you can move.

((NOTE: your scissors remain scissors, but your tape has become an emerald-green ribbon.))

Comments

Re: >> LOGIN: HIWA

[aberdevine]

You have no idea, man.

Re: >> LOGIN: HIWA

[forthefonofit]

[leans in close and gives the glass a testing tap on the winter side]

Re: >> LOGIN: HIWA

[aberdevine]

It's cold... but not solid. Your finger passes through.

Re: >> LOGIN: HIWA

[forthefonofit]

[gonna move a shogi piece to advance the game]

Re: >> LOGIN: HIWA

[aberdevine]

You can't seem to reach, oddly enough...?

Re: >> LOGIN: HIWA

[forthefonofit]

Hmm...

[pokes to see how far he can reach in]

Re: >> LOGIN: HIWA

[aberdevine]

Well, you could probably step inside.

Re: >> LOGIN: HIWA

[forthefonofit]

[oh it's that big]

[sure why not, let's go inspect up close]

Re: >> LOGIN: HIWA

[aberdevine]

Once inside, the snowy forest stretches out around you. You can still make out the the outline of the snowglobe, but it's overlaid on a "real" scene.

Two kids are sitting and talking on the borderline.

Re: >> LOGIN: HIWA

[forthefonofit]

[eyebrows raise and takes cover to listen in]

Re: >> LOGIN: HIWA

[aberdevine]

It's hard to make out their exact words, since they're leaning close and talking quietly, but it's obvious that they're having fun.

Re: >> LOGIN: HIWA

[forthefonofit]

[good for them??? i guess?? idk childhoods and frands]

[checks out the shogi game he tried to mess with earlier]

Re: >> LOGIN: HIWA

[aberdevine]

It looks like one side's already won.

Re: >> LOGIN: HIWA

[forthefonofit]

[bets it wasn't Viridian]

[pokes a piece out of place]

Re: >> LOGIN: HIWA

[aberdevine]

Luckily for you, that doesn't seem to affect anything.

Re: >> LOGIN: HIWA

[forthefonofit]

[well, nothing else to really do here, time to step out of this side and head into summer]

Re: >> LOGIN: HIWA

[aberdevine]

You're immediately, almost physically overwhelmed by a memory.

Re: >> LOGIN: HIWA

[forthefonofit]

[do we all just have terrible childhoods in Emerald, is that our secret team theme]

[gets a good look around at the bloody scene once the memory ends]

Re: >> LOGIN: HIWA

[aberdevine]

It's... not pleasant. The dead bodies have been cleaned up, but for some reason, the blood remains. The whole area smells coppery.

There are a few objects on the ground: a shed snakeskin, a red thread (or is it only dyed that way thanks to the blood?), and something that glints under a pile of bloodstained leaves.

Re: >> LOGIN: HIWA

[forthefonofit]

[eyebrows raise, crouches down to examine what's glinting without touching if he can see it clearly that way]

[if not, then brushing the leaves away to see]

Re: >> LOGIN: HIWA

[aberdevine]

It looks like a pair of glasses. As you brush away the leaves, your hand barely grazes it, and a... pop up window appears?

Jump to hospital Y/N

Re: >> LOGIN: HIWA

[forthefonofit]

Oh? Something a tad anachronistic perhaps.

[taps Y]

Re: >> LOGIN: HIWA

[aberdevine]

The world dissolves and reforms around you...