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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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When you wake, you find yourself standing in an official-looking hall. Any weapons or items you had on you are gone, and any powers are turned off. Everything here is neat and tidy, perfectly spaced, plants healthy and green and all the same size, paintings perfectly level with one another.

Here and there on the walls there are mirrors.

There are five possible exits:

- A sturdy wooden door bearing an insignia.
- A red door that occasionally rattles.
- A stone-framed door with reinforced hinges, which lets off a pleasant warmth.
- A blue door with a metal knob that's ice cold to the touch.
- A set of stairs leading upwards.

There is a double-wide door behind you that seems like it should go outside, but it appears to be sealed shut.

A knight with an unremarkable face approaches you, carrying a few ornate metal boxes.

"Welcome, strange yet respectable guests. I understand you might want to get to exploring, but there's a process we have to follow, so could you give me a moment of your time?"

You enter a well-decorated office. The atmosphere is pleasant, cozy, with walls lined in bookshelves and a scent in the air like spiced vanilla. Around the room are vases full of various coloured roses.

On one side of the room is a desk, with a small number of papers spread across it and a quill pen and inkwell. On the other is a conference table, currently hosting a western-style tea set and some plates of small cakes and cookies.

On one bookshelf, there is a statuette of a small winged figure draped in robes and holding an orb out as if in offering to the sky.

There is an open window, through which comes a brisk breeze -- it smells a bit stale, and seems to have blown the flowers and books right off of a nearby table.

Browsing the books, there is a tall blonde woman. When you enter, she turns to look at you and gently smiles.

"Good afternoon. Can I help you?"

You enter a small room. It appears, on first glance, to have been some kind of light security holding cell, judging by the size and the one small, barred window. However, it's nothing like a prison now. The walls are covered in shelves full of toys and storybooks, there's a plush rug over the floor and a very nice cot piled in fluffy blankets.

Across the floor are scattered crayon drawings and open books. On one wall, there is a rack of weapons -- mostly swords. A few miscellaneous items are piled in corners, and there are paper flowers strewn about.

A small girl is lying on the floor, drawing. When you come in, she looks up with a big sunny smile!

"Oh, hi! Are you here to help with Klee's new treasures?"

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.

You walk through the door and find yourselves in a bustling tavern. Patrons fill most of the available seats, and the air is filled with the smell of alcohol and sizzling chicken mushroom skewers. The atmosphere is jovial, party-like, welcoming, and the walls are covered in various framed pictures. Here, a painting of a crackling flame. There, a drawing of a lioness dozing in lush grass.

Tending bar is a stoic-faced man with fluffy red hair that you may recognize as a fellow fairyhell resident. Sitting and drinking with him is Pavo himself.

You find yourself in a frozen wasteland. The exit you just came through stands as an ornate stone arch, but there are no walls or other manmade structures in this area. There's only a storm-dark sky and the endless, jagged maze of ice. The slight breeze is painfully cold and dry and the ice creaks ominously.

There is nothing immediately apparent to interact with, except your reflections in the ice immediately near you, which distort like in a funhouse mirror. You have a deep sense of foreboding, and yet the maze beckons.]

You find yourself standing on a well-worn path that leads through lush grapevines to a fine timberframe manor. The sun plays through the leaves of trees and glowing teal "butterflies" float amongst the ripening grapes.

It smells of earth, and growing things, and comfort. A warm and gentle breeze teases your hair, inviting you up the path, where you'll find Pavo standing under a terrace in elegant dress that's much less flamboyant than usual, picking grapes and dropping them by the bunch into a wooden basket.

"Ah, you made it. Good job."

[....what a regal looking place.]

Process is important for exploring. [Its how you don't damage things needlessly.]

[The knight looks a little nervous, but he stays friendly! He laughs awkwardly, and offers you one of the boxes.]

Guests are to be given these gift packages. They're things you may have lost, somewhere... hopefully they're useful.

....are you okay?

[But she will take one of the boxes.] Like my things? [I have a bag where I take NOTES, and I couldn't. ):]

I think so. Things are just... a little unstable right now.

[Inside the box is... a round stone held in a setting of golden wings. It looks like the ones Pavo & Noctua carry around, only it's the deep golden colour of amber, carrying a symbol resembling a crystalline stone. When you touch it, you feel a rush of elemental energy into your body -- you know, instinctively, that you can now control the element of earth. Rocks and soil are at your beck and call, and you can create them from nothing, or simply generate elemental energy at will.

There's also an oddly shaped tile bearing a map of the constellation Horologium. On the back a message is written in a slightly blocky, runic handwriting:

The elements know the truth of this world.]

I have to say, you vision bearers sure are lucky. Fighting aside, Elemental Sight makes life a lot easier.

Speaking of which... There's something I think you could help me with, if you don't mind.

[I mean, I could always control earth, though generating it from nothing is certainly newer. Not a lot of spells just make rock from nothing.]

[But she's seen Pavo with something like this...] Is this Pavo's...dream?

[She is going to pocket these though. Elements know the truth, huh? Sounds legit.]

Vision bearer?

What is it?

You don't know?

[He seems kind of surprised! But then, as if something suddenly occurs to him, he nods to himself.]

Right, right, you're not from Teyvat. A vision is that stone you have there. It's a blessing from the gods that allows you to channel an elemental power and use Elemental Sight to see energy traces and the elemental natures of things. If you have one, it means a god has taken a shine to you for some reason. Everybody wants one, but only the best and brightest are granted visions, so it's a pretty big deal!

[He doesn't address the question about where you are.]

[......]

[=/]

Usually nature magic is out of most gods purview....other worlds are so confusing. The god thing tracks though. [THANKS BAHAMUT]

Edited 2021-05-19 23:33 (UTC)

Teyvat is an interesting place, don't you think?

[For that line, the knight sounds less like a nervous but enthusiastic type and more like the smooth, shady type. Like Pavo. But then he goes back to his set personality.]

But, uh... This switch over here won't turn on. Without it, we can't open the front door, so...

[He walks away a few steps, gesturing at a small, round plate on the wall. Around it are seven elemental symbols, and in the center is a light that's currently dark.]

If you could activate it?

.... [She tilts her head.]

[She goes over to look at this switch. Considers and moves to the one with her rock's symbol. She'll hold it out, see what's up.]

[It doesn't seem to do anything to hold the vision to the switch.]

Oh, right. I think, touching it with elemental energy will work.

All right.

[She can literally move dirt with her mind at will, given her powers aren't taken, so its not hard to pull at that elemental energy.]

[Let's go with a stoneskin type spell, don't want to just pull up a hole through the floor.]

[When you cast, you notice a golden tinge to your powers now, that matches the vision. But it works! When that energy touches the switch the corresponding symbol glows, and the light comes on. Near the sealed exit, you hear a click.]

Wow, thank you so much! I think there are more locks, though... If you're going to wander, can you keep an eye out?

[Oh good, the mental translation works. Which, it SHOULD, nature is a lot more adaptive then most magic she sees, it shouldn't be too precise.]

...I don't suppose you can try to attack me a bunch so I can see if the rest of my magic will work.

I have plants, fire, life, wind....lacking water though. Almost never use water...

Uhm? Well, since your vision is geo, that's the only element you can use, probably. You'd have to have more than one vision for the rest, and that never happens! ...At least, not naturally.

So my normal powers won't work here....?

I'm afraid not... But I'm sure geo will be enough to protect you, and to activate all the locks. If you play it safe, you won't be in too much danger anyway. This place can be pleasant if you let it... mostly.

[She growls.] These things need to stop messing with it.

And of course it will. Earth is my favorite element for a reason. It can do a lot. This will just make it harder to end fights quickly.

[Since she usually uses Overwhelming Force.]

I guess that's true. So... hopefully, you won't get into fights. But, uhm. If you want to get in that big door, you should probably go lock-hunting, right?

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Pavo Heart Game: Wednesday Session

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