HEART GAME: COURT EDITION

[concretejungles]

[At first, there’s only the distant sound of a clock.

tick

tick

tick

tick

It goes on, and on, until you notice the sound of a heartbeat, mixed in.

The blackness slowly warms to red light.

You wake up--]

[ooc: I'm going to casual-tag this over the week at least, so don't worry too much about speed!

Also I'll be in #baddecisionsmachine on IRC for the duration if you want to hang there for easy communication /o/]

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THE HUB

[concretejungles]

[When you regain focus, you’re in an old underground train station. The lights are off, but emergency lights seem to have come on in their wake, dim and red and eerie. The walls, the ceiling, the floor -- almost all surfaces in the big wide room are covered in posters showing the face of a teenage boy with a youthful, innocent smile and black scribbles over his eyes. What little bits of wall that can be seen are cracked, as if the posters are all that’s holding the place together.

There’s scattered luggage here and there on the floor, almost all emptied and looted already, along with bits of junk food wrappers and other garbage -- whatever this place could be, it’s a wartime ruin by now.

But, here and there, there’s signs someone’s been cleaning up. A small area cleared of trash. A bit of wall with new paint. It’s just a little, but some effort has been made.

There is one exit -- a stairway upwards towards street level. There’s caution tape strung across to block the way, but it’s loose and could be torn down with minimal effort.

There is a kiosk in the middle of the room, completely covered in posters.

There are four train platforms, with signs above them:

- Platform A: The Blue Line has a plain urban train, slightly worn down, giving off a strange chemical smell.

- Platform B: The Red Line has a fancy upscale train with faded cursive lettering on the side, now unreadable, that smells faintly of chocolate.

- Platform C: The Yellow Line has a rickety old train, dirty and visibly patched up.

- Platform D has no train. It seems to be abandoned.

Where will you go?]

Re: THE HUB

[rootless]

[Aah, a heart. And since he'd seen Kida...

heading to the koisk.]

[ballpoint]

[ #1 i wasnt asleep how am i in a dream and is masaomi okay

#2 these posters tho ]

Re: THE HUB

[restorefromsave]

....

[Well this is creepy. ]

[Checking out the empty platform. ]

Re: THE HUB

[best_ended]

[Gonna poke at the kiosk]

[ballpoint]

[ wanders towards platform A this time!! ]

Re: THE HUB

[best_ended]

[bee-lining to the kiosk and entering it]

Re: THE HUB

[best_ended]

[red line, I choose you]

[ballpoint]

[ the kiosk tho ]

THE GRAVEYARD

[concretejungles]

[When the world lightens up again, you’re being let off at a simple concrete platform at the edge of a graveyard. Some of the graves are fresher than others, but they seem to stretch far off into the distance... Most of them are, however, inaccessible due to overgrowth. There’s a lot of thorny, gnarled bushes and trees here, although there are also some new plantings -- prettier things, with flowers, clearly new work. There are more posters wherever there’s a bit of wall or stone to be seen, but they seem faded here.

There are eight accessible graves, and a tiny cottage off to the side, grown over with ivy. Someone seems to be home?]

[ballpoint]

[ are the stones readable ]

[ballpoint]

[ we are back for a third time. ]

...H- Hi.

[ballpoint]

[ HEADING STRAIGHT TO THE GRAVE WITH THE FLOWERS OR WHATEVER IS LEFT OF IT HE REALLY HOPES THAT GRAVEKEEPER AND JUSTICE HAVE DUG IT UP BY NOW ]

THE CITY STREETS

[concretejungles]

[You come onto a street. It’s a modern city at late evening, with all sorts of flashing lights, but no people. There are more posters here, all over the buildings. Down the road you see on one side a big, fancy apartment building and on the other a tiny, not-so-nice one. In the other direction the road seems to just... go. Forever.]

Re: THE CITY STREETS

[rootless]

[are the posters themselves of note?]

[ballpoint]

[ lets go to my house ]

Re: THE CITY STREETS

[best_ended]

[... well that's just annoying.

But heading to his apartment]

Re: THE CITY STREETS

[best_ended]

[BIGGEST FUCK YOU TO KIDAZAYA.

going to Mikado's flat]

SAITAMA

[concretejungles]

[You fall for quite awhile. When you land, you’re in a beautiful countryside. There are fields that seem to go on forever, off into the bright and sunny distance.

In one direction, a pathway leads towards a forest.

In another, there’s a warm and cheery-seeming house, with a smell of curry cooking coming from the window.

In the last, there’s a cold, empty-seeming house with an unwelcoming aura.

In lieu of those destinations, you could always go off into the fields or take the road to who knows where...]

[ballpoint]

[










why.

ok he knows why but those fields and the sky that go on endlessly make him want to vomit.

but i don't want to go into my house

and masaomi's mom scares me

so lets go into the woods ]

Re: SAITAMA

[concretejungles]

[You've been deposited in the upstairs hallway of a house.

There are two doors, one to the left, and one to the right. There's a warm, comfortable feeling here. Like you don't want to leave. Why would you ever want to leave?]

THE SHRINE

[concretejungles]

[When the world lightens, you’re at a platform outside a shrine. The outside is a simple little garden, just flowering bushes and a floor covered entirely in posters. The posters aren’t scribbled on here -- the boy in them is smiling happily, and his blue-grey eyes are bright.

The train remains waiting, if you wish to go back.]

Re: THE SHRINE

[restorefromsave]

You have problems.

[Stepping out to investigate the garden]

THE GALLERY

[concretejungles]

[When the world lightens up again, you’re on a tiny platform with a single swinging door, seemingly sitting in a void of black space. The train waits, in case you wish to return the way you came.]

[ballpoint]

[ ...?

peeks out? ]

WHAT ONCE WAS WHOLE

[concretejungles]

[You wake up in a giant room. There are no posters here, except a few piled along the edges of the walls as if they’ve fallen off. The walls are made of mixed flesh and wires, a grotesque mix of human and machine. It’s like you’re inside a cyborg, or something. There’s bits of brass chain and wiring hanging from the ceiling, some connecting to the floor, and pieces of walls sticking up here and there like ruins. All in all it’s rather maze-like...

You hear the heavy sound of a clock ticking, in time with a heartbeat. It’s louder towards the center of the room.]

[ballpoint]

[ ....does this one match my heartbeat too. lets head to the centre of the room. ]

A SAFE PLACE

[concretejungles]

[You enter an apartment. It’s not fancy, but it’s a decent place, with real rooms and real furniture. The main room contains the kitchen, an island, and the living room. It seems lived in, comfortable, relaxed... But a little dim, even though the lights are on. You can faintly hear the clock and heartbeat in the distance.]

[ballpoint]

[ ...ah. it's pretty nice in here... ]