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Pavo Heart Game: Wednesday 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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[The very pretty boy looks up at you for a moment, then goes back to his work.

You can use the ladder to put the ceiling back together. There's even a bucket of plaster!

As you place the pieces, the sounds of the experiments begin 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.]

[Ooooh, long game puzzle.]

[She'll put her piece in!]

[The tile 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.]

[WOW I COULD HAVE DONE WITHOUT THE PAIN.]

[There's a yowl as she hits the ground and]

[.....man, she's already a monster girl-]

[I GUESS]

[She's got rock growing over her skin. Cross between a tiefling and a golem.]

[You have become a little... stoned.

Anyway the alchemist boy is taking notes.]

....was the pain REALLY necessary? I could have done this on my own.

...I don't know what you expect from a curse.

I don't know why stoneskin is being used as a curse, that's stupid.

It's not "stoneskin". It's being turned into a monster.

....

[Hello handsome boy, you are getting The Most Judgemental Stare from this girl.]

Oh gee, is that what this is?

Gosh, not like there are entire races born from someone making a curse who live their lives just fine and without it having to hurt like a bitch.

...Are there, in your world?

Tieflings are made of three ways.

Person banged a devil, person made a deal with a devil, person got cursed by a devil. Some would say all three are a curse. From then on, that bloodline can only produce tieflings.

Then there's the Kenkus who lost their flight and their words.

Various inorganic races that range from magic or cursed.

And who even knows what's going on in the Underdark.

Edited 2021-05-24 05:58 (UTC)

Interesting.

[He takes notes on that too, then sets down his notepad.]

You do realise that "my" world is not yours?

Its not unique to your world that people think some who look just a little scary that it has to be a horrible fate.

Sometimes its just being different from before.

Sometimes, perhaps.

[He doesn't seem particularly convinced, but he also doesn't seem particularly inclined to explain.]

What do you think it means, then? For "me".

....he really got a void eye?

"My" eye is fine.

[He says it very smoothly, as if Pavo says it aaaall the time.]

As for the curse... Think on it.

Is he suffering from it?

That's not my place to say.

[She sighs.]

After growing up with this body, what people who aren't suffering think...honestly, I've never understood it. There's things from anger to pity to murderous intent. Its all so much for things that people just got born into. It makes no sense.

Its at least a little easier to understand someone who is cursed. Even if I don't think the same, its easier to understand where they're coming from.

Noted.

[But he's just... going back to work again... Totally disconnecting from the conversation.]

And so quick to disconnect from interesting things to study. For shame.

[And Elemental Sight On while she's huffing.]

[With Elemental Sight, the room changes entirely. The stars on the ceiling glow with an ugly baleful light, reflecting off the floor -- which is now glass, over a massive ticking clock. On the walls are frescos, showing a strange and hazy place that looks ancient, dark, and underground, populated only by barren, white trees. The curtains strewn around are now heavy chains.

Off to the left, near the wall, the pile of curtains has become a snakelike pile of writhing chains.

The boy is gone, and his alchemy equipment with him. In his place is a monster -- a mass of bodyparts, human and inhuman, churning and seeming to shift and change and connect in ways they have no right to do. It's unnatural, and ugly, and it's immediately bearing down on you with hostile intent.]

Edited 2021-05-24 06:28 (UTC)

[Oh, hello clock.]

[And monster.]

[She's on her feet, shield up, but going to focus on the glass, glass is just sand, and sand is just rock, and let's make Glass Spikes into the monster.]

[--You do that! It makes a lot of very scary garbled screeching noises, in what sounds like a host of different voices. It spews black blood, but continues to shift and shamble towards you, melting from around the spikes and not at all slowed down.]

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