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Pavo Heart Game: Monday Session

When you enter the light, you find yourself hovering weightless in a void, as if caught in a moment of falling inertia. In the distance, you hear a voice that seems to shift and twist, familiar and yet unfamiliar.

"You shouldn't be here. But since you already are, let's make a wager. If you can uncover the truth, you'll find me. If you can't, you may be hopelessly lost... What a shame that would be."

You begin falling, and your vision blacks out--

[OOC NOTE: your goals are "reveal the truth" to "find the true heart". All images in toplevels are for general inspo, please make sure you read the flavourtext cause things are not exactly as they are in the images.]

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You enter some sort of planetarium. It's a beautiful room with a domed ceiling covered in stars, with a floor made up of one giant marble compass rose.

However, it seems something has been tearing this beautiful room apart. The ceiling is half pulled down, the pieces scattered across the floor like an ugly jigsaw puzzle. The bare ceiling behind the stars is rough, plaster-caked stone, and there's dust all over everything. The curved walls seem to have once been covered in velvet curtains, but a few of them have been torn down and lie strewn across the floor.

Near one wall, there is a ladder.

Along one half of the room there are seats, plush and comfy. The ones more towards the right are dusty and only look up at the ruined ceiling, but the ones on the left are cleaner. At the very far left, there is a pile of downed curtains.

In the center of the room, there is a jumble of alchemy equipment, tended to by a handsome young man who is completely and utterly ignoring you.

[what, did you think he was going to try to talk to someone, especially someone who is ignoring him? no, that's ideal, and he's going to head for the ladder.]

[It is a regular ladder. It's tall enough to allow you to reach the ceiling, and a bucket of fresh new plaster hangs from a hook at the top.]

[fixing things is absolutely not his forte - his only skills lie in murder and in combat - but there is nothing to fight here.

and obviously a bucket of plaster. so he's going to...be sticking things back on the ceiling, very awkwardly.]

[They stick! As you place them, the sound of Albedo's experiments begins to echo a bit. Have you improved the acoustics, maybe?

Regardless, when you get close to finished, you'll notice there's a missing piece... and it matches the shape of your constellation tile.]

[probably like precariously clinging at this point. fishing the tile out of his sash and compares it, before...going to go attach it to the ceiling, too.]

[It fits in perfectly! When it does, the ceiling is completed. The cracks disappear, and the stars twinkle brightly as if they're real.

And then your body is seized by a wave of agony. Your skin burns, your bones twist -- surely you hit the floor, but by the time you do you've been thoroughly Cursed. Exactly how is player preference, but you've gained some sort of monstrous features. Your form is no longer a pleasing one.]

[the agony part is...well, he's used to it. his form has dissolved at the seams thanks to the burden of resentment, though it has reformed.

...this, however, is different. and definitely some kind of like, half-bird...thing. and trying to get up but it's probably difficult, even for him.]

[It takes awhile, but it does eventually settle. Whatever new shape you've taken, you ache, but you can move. This is just who you are now.

Albedo looks up from his experiment with a slight frown.]

...I'll have to take notes.

[he's been a monster before, lost to the corruption of his overwhelming karmic debt, and honestly, still is, if barely contained. honestly this might be better, because at least it matches the inside.

...just kind of giving him a flat stare.]

[he is, in fact, taking notes.]

[guess he can do that, then. probably taking a second look around the room for..things.]

[If you search enough, you'll find another of those elemental switches somewhere in one of the walls.]

[guess he's just going to activate it, then.]

[You activate the switch! The anemo symbol glows and the light comes on, and you hear another click.]

[that's taken care of. looking around for the exit, then.]

[You may go back the way you came and take any of the other doors!]

[guess he's going into the ice door.]

[you enter the door.]

[hit the switch and run, he says

of course it's a planetarium

.............................

She scans the room for the switch.]

[It might take a bit of looking, but this one's not extremely hard to find. It's on one of the walls!

The boy continues his work, but he does glance up at you as you look, a few times.]

[She bows her head politely and and makes her way toward the switch.]

Please excuse me...

[Hits it quick with hydro... and runs.]

[He... looks a little startled at the running??]

...Okay?

[but nothing bad happens. You have escaped the supposedly very scary planetarium.]

[...oh no he seems like he was such a nice boy... she feels a little bad for running...

But she has a job to finish. And two more rooms to go through.

...she’ll save the red door for last. She has a feeling she knows what to expect there. So she’ll start with the solid door with the emblem on it.]

[You go into the office.]

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