Pavo Heart Game: Wednesday Session

[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.]

Comments

Re: ICE MAZE

[feralshepherd]

They can certainly try. My job back home is to make sure my pack is taken care of. Healing, fighting, sneaking, scare a dragon into submission.

And you're hurting. As long as you need help, nothing is going to scare me off.

Re: ICE MAZE

[cryovision]

[He doesn't look like he trusts this idea. For various reasons, it's not wise, but... He doesn't have it in him to keep arguing it when he can hear the chaos outside the bubble.]

...Okay.

Re: ICE MAZE

[feralshepherd]

[Listen, sometimes you develop coping mechanisms that aren't wise because you're a fucked up cookie, but they work so far.]

[So far.]

You'd like to be warmer, don't you?

Re: ICE MAZE

[cryovision]

[...he hesitantly nods]

Re: ICE MAZE

[feralshepherd]

[She smiles and pats his head.]

Then I'll help.

And...you don't have to wear a mask with me. You're my pack.

And you saved me. There's not a lot I'd reject after that.

So whatever you're really like, we can be weird things together.

[She puts her other hand on the ground. Can she feel any earth farther down under the ice?]

[....does earth have a claim on magma....]

Re: ICE MAZE

[cryovision]

[She can feel nothing but ice. Endless forever ice!

Tiny Pavo seems mildly reassured, but still quite uncomfortable.]

Re: ICE MAZE

[feralshepherd]

[She is doing her best. Mildly reassured is winning as far as she's concerned.]

[Okay, endless ice. First idea it is. She released a bunch of dirt, that's gonna make some kind of path in the maze.]

[So time to shift to her hands and knees, an arm still around tiny Pavo, and is going to crawl with Quite A Lot Of Practice, opening up a path through the dirt to move through.]

Re: ICE MAZE

[cryovision]

[You take the baby and crawl! Everything outside is clamoring to destroy you and reclaim that child, but you can get back safely if you keep it up. You'll just be quite tired afterwards.]

Re: ICE MAZE

[feralshepherd]

[I can short rest after, it's fine! This is just how adventuring works, you push and push and then you recover after you're away from the monsters.]

[And this keeps the child safe.]

Re: ICE MAZE

[cryovision]

[You make it back to the exit, and back to start.]