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Pavo Heart Game: Noctua's Grand Adventure

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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Pavo...

I need to forge onward. I can't stay too long.

[another kiss, chaste.]

It's fine. You have plenty of time. And I have the thing you want.

Even so... I can't let myself entirely relax.

[so no sex ty.]

Can I have it?

[p o u t s]

When you won't even play with me?

Please? I want to do right by you.

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[Just. Kinda laughs. He knows very well that entertaining him is not "doing right by" the heart but HE DOES NOT CARE.]

So then don't withhold your affection. I'm a piece of "me", too. Is there really nothing you want? I'll be anything you ask for.

[another kiss and nuzzle.]

Help me help you?

...

[This NPC doesn't really like that answer... Why won't Noctua just tell him what to be???

...But... He knows that that wouldn't "help" him at all. So he's a liiiittle conflicted.

But he's a bad boy so he's not going to tell the truth.]

Fine, fine.

[He produces the lock from his pocket and hands it over.]

Thank you.

[activating it, then catching the NPC in a fiercer kiss. he is at least being rewarded for cooperating.]

[Yessss he's gonna kiss Noctua so hard maybe he will be seduced into staying? He's definitely getting handsy.]

[kissssss, then starting to pull away. no dice, sorry.]

[noooooo]

...You really want what's best for "me", huh?

I do.

...Alright, then. Be on your way.

[He will not stop you! But he also won't give you any hints.]

All right.

[and

elemental sight]

[with Elemental Sight, the room changes-- wind blows all the harder and all the colder, chilling you to your bones. Instead of a cozy hollow and a warm Pavo, you're before a tall, jagged, crystalline spire of ice, tinged a bit blue. It's a bit hard to see, but deep in the middle of it, there's a small figure frozen in stasis.

Except, are you hearing whispers? They're unintelligible and quiet, tickling at the back of your mind, making you feel watched and judged.

Something flickers at the edge of your vision, but if you turn to look you see nothing but your own reflection.

Right next to you, where Pavo was, a shadow flows, liquid-like, over the surface of the spire -- a malevolent mass that reaches out for you with lightning swiftness and massive, dark claws.

Please rate the scariness of this situation on a scale of 1 to 10. How seriously in trouble do you feel?]

[he's startled, reaches up to catch the claws, but-- this pavo didn't seem to mean him harm. it's one thing, klee turning into a representation of their shared trauma, but this was just pavo.

so like.

3.]

[...The claws do snag your arm, and leave cuts where they do. But the shadow kinda... pauses...]

[winces, but looks into the shadow's face, searching.]

Let me help you.

[The shadow does not seem to have a face. It's more of a blob.

It is a blob that's oozing slowly (but painlessly) around you, as if trying to draw you in.]

Pavo...

[it isn't hurting him. it could hurt him, it has the claws, it just DID, but instead...

embraces blob?]

[The blob seems to shudder a little. It's cold, but as it wraps around you it becomes a little warmer.

You get pulled in. Inside the shadow there's no light, but there is an odd comforting feeling.

You hear, like an echo, Pavo's voice telling you: "anything you want".]

[he shivers, but doesn't try to escape.]

Just... let me help, okay? Please. Let me carry on doing my best by you.

[The shadow ripples against your skin, brushes against your lips, affectionate and cloying and feeling just like when Pavo's trying to keep you at arm's length.

"Don't take that piece from here. ...Please."]

[...softly.]

Why?

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