Pavo Heart Game: Noctua's Grand Adventure

[cryovision]

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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Re: SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

[cryovision]

[You have received a child's warm hug! As she pulls back and stands, she giggles in a way that is both very cute and somehow just sliiightly mischievous.]

Thanks, Noctua! Do you wanna stay here, or look for that thing...?

Re: SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

[pyrodelusion]

I'll take a look around.

Re: SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

[cryovision]

Okaaay! You can look anywhere you want!

[The lock is not on the table, and neither is it on the shelves. But there is a faint glint of something under a pile of stuffed toys on the floor.]

Re: SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

[pyrodelusion]

Thank you.

[gonna gently move them toys aside!]

Re: SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

[cryovision]

[There is another lock like the one in the hall, embedded into the floor!]

Re: SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

[pyrodelusion]

[touches it! pyro energy!]

Re: SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

[cryovision]

[It lights up, and you hear a distant click. Success!]

Re: SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

[pyrodelusion]

[good, good...

now, let's see the other side of this room. activates elemental sight.]

Re: SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

[cryovision]

[With Elemental Sight, this entire room changes, as if you've teleported to another place entirely. The warmth evaporates, replaced by a damp chill, and the cot becomes a table with heavy straps. Gone are the toys and games, in their place instruments of pain and injury. The pile of toys in front of you is now... adult toys.

It's not a play room, it's a torture chamber. And in the middle of the room, rather than a cute little girl, is a horrifying mass of tentacles and suckers with a big beak that looks ready to devour you. It looks just like the ones from that one game.]

Re: SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

[pyrodelusion]

[oh fuck

staggers back, suddenly unable to breathe, confronted with that trauma all at once.]

Re: SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

[cryovision]

[The tentacles begin to reach towards you...]

Re: SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

[pyrodelusion]

[he's petrified. hyperventilating, lungs struggling to process the damp, cold air as they reach for him again.]

Re: SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

[cryovision]

[Well. It's all on you, now. The monster's not between you and the door, but your fear, perhaps, is. Do you manage to run, or will you be eaten alive?]

Re: SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

[pyrodelusion]

[he's alone this time. in so many ways, that's better, but it means he can't leverage the strength he only uses on behalf of others.

he's being overtaken.]

Re: SOLITARY CONFINEMENT

[cryovision]

[You freeze, and thus you don't escape. The tentacle monster wraps itself around you, with greedy, searching tentacles, the suckers leaving bruises exactly as they did when you first experienced this.

Fortunately for you, before your trauma can be entirely recreated, that sharp beak tears into your throat.

You lose consciousness, and go elsewhere.