[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: M͡ÍD̵̨͠Ò̶R̸̷͝I

[scalesfromeyes]

A~h, what an irritating person.

Re: >> LOGIN: M͡ÍD̵̨͠Ò̶R̸̷͝I

[aberdevine]

You're not wrong.

Anyway, to sum up things before that rude little interruption: you have a comatose Midori, a screen on the wall, and a door.

Re: >> LOGIN: M͡ÍD̵̨͠Ò̶R̸̷͝I

[scalesfromeyes]

[perfectly content to just stay there stroking Viridian's hair, tbh.]

Re: >> LOGIN: M͡ÍD̵̨͠Ò̶R̸̷͝I

[aberdevine]

Well.

That is a thing you could do, I guess.

Re: >> LOGIN: M͡ÍD̵̨͠Ò̶R̸̷͝I

[scalesfromeyes]

Is there anything else you wanted me to see, then?

Re: >> LOGIN: M͡ÍD̵̨͠Ò̶R̸̷͝I

[aberdevine]

The screen turns on again, and text appears:

You haven't found the True Heart.

Re: >> LOGIN: M͡ÍD̵̨͠Ò̶R̸̷͝I

[scalesfromeyes]

Haha, well, there is that, I suppose. Well! I'll head back, then~.

Re: >> LOGIN: M͡ÍD̵̨͠Ò̶R̸̷͝I

[aberdevine]

The door swings open.

Outside, there's a huge room, filled with, well, this. Countless people sleeping in VR pods.

But right outside the doorway is a computer terminal like the ones you've been using to teleport so far.

Re: >> LOGIN: M͡ÍD̵̨͠Ò̶R̸̷͝I

[scalesfromeyes]

[glances at them, mouth tightening, then touches the terminal.]

Re: >> LOGIN: M͡ÍD̵̨͠Ò̶R̸̷͝I

[aberdevine]

And you're back.

At this point, three out of the four outer circles on the central terminal have lit up: the west, south, and east.

Re: >> LOGIN: M͡ÍD̵̨͠Ò̶R̸̷͝I

[scalesfromeyes]

Well… I see.

[heads to the north terminal, then.]

Re: >> LOGIN: M͡ÍD̵̨͠Ò̶R̸̷͝I

[aberdevine]

USERNAME: BONTEN
PASSWORD: *********
LOGIN? Y/N

When you confirm, the world dissolves around you, and then reforms...