Heart Game (Continued)

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[There's nothing]

[Nothing]

[Nothingnothingnothingnothingnothing]

[Isn't that wonderful though?]

Heart Prep | Sign in for SCORED runs | Chumroll | MEMO, oh god | Passive Skills (PLEASE FILL OUT, true godtiers can wait, but need Faketiers when you enter) | Mechanics

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Original Heart Post

ENTER | CHUMROLL CONTINUED | BEDROOM | BREATH | TIME | SPACE | LIFE 1 LIFE 2 | BLOOD 1 BLOOD 2 | MIND | DOOM 1 DOOM 2 | RAGE 1 RAGE 2 | HOPE

Comments

Re: DOOM

[secretofthefox]

[...well with a name like Doom he supposes he should have expected something like this. At least it's not fresh, at least not enough to make him sick again.

Still.]

...Um. You okay in here, Roxy?

Re: DOOM

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[You really should have.]

[She shrugs.] As okay as to be expected.

Re: DOOM

[secretofthefox]

[starting to float over towards her, not exactly wanting to touch any of the stuff on the ground]

What happened in here?

Re: DOOM

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

Oh, lots of things.

Re: DOOM

[secretofthefox]

No kidding.

[okay, trying that same Light-y thing again to see what it'll tell him about this room, what happened here or how to understand it or anything]

Re: DOOM

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[Death. There's a whole lot of death.]

[But before he can dig further, there's like a sudden wall slamming down in place.]

Ah, ah. Don't just jump to the end, hon. Part of the fun is trying to work through it some.

Re: DOOM

[secretofthefox]

[that gets a grimace out of him, seriously he's just trying to use the tools he's been given since his usual method isn't going to work here

but he can work with the death hint]

...This is about that memory of everybody dying, isn't it. ...No, more than that.

[picking up some of that Rats-colored fabric]

Re: DOOM

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[She is, admittedly, kind of harsh.] It's a room. A room wouldn't be about a single memory.

[Suddenly you feel constricted, thorns digging into your body. Red vines that are painfully ripping your life out of you, bleeding you out, tearing your flesh, until finally….you die.]

[Tick.]

[Heroic]

[Tock.]

[Just]

[BONG]

[You feel your body break down again, as it did for godtier, pulling, pulling everything back, until you snap back, whole, in the air. Completely fine.]

Re: DOOM

[secretofthefox]

Tan!!!

[Fiere floats quickly over, to fuss over his human because dying all of a sudden is Not Good.

Sol, meanwhile, will need a moment. Not because of the death, exactly, but because of how sudden it was and where exactly do red thorny vines come into it]

Re: DOOM

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[Cry Wolf, man.]

That would be Cry Wolf.

TPK. Total Party Kill. The whole game died.

Re: DOOM

[secretofthefox]

...H-How?

[Even in the worst games, Echoes don't just kill everybody. Maybe half, but not everybody.]

Re: DOOM

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

You really want to know?

Re: DOOM

[secretofthefox]

[a nod - well, really, whether he wants to or not, he can't just stay ignorant]

Re: DOOM

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

I did it.

[She's playing with the crown idly.]

The Game was about rooting out the wolves. Every day would be a lynching, and every night would be a wolf feeding as long as they were alive.

If you broke the rules, didn't vote, revealed yourselves as wolves, etc, your team and the team closest to you would die.

Ratatoskr were wolves.

I confessed. And it started a domino effect of everyone breaking under pressure, until finally, everyone was dead.

Re: DOOM

[secretofthefox]

[WHAT]

No way...

...

[...Okay yeah Sol's gonna need another moment to process this

Mostly because his knee-jerk reaction would be to immediately deny that it's her fault, and while that remains his opinion he's trying to think before he shounens, really he is...

Thinking is hard though.]

Re: DOOM

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

Oh, very way.

She caved under the pressure first. Then everyone followed along even when it became obvs it wasn't working.

[A spark. Denial isn't your friend in this room.]

Re: DOOM

[secretofthefox]

[It wouldn't be, would it. Doom is understanding, understanding isn't denial.

Roxy has no reason to lie about it having happened. And it also helps explain why she was so freaked out about the vines after that one game.

But still. Roxy is a good person. She wouldn't have killed everyone on purpose, not unless...]

...You didn't think it would happen that way, did you. You confessed because you thought it would mean less death, not more.

Re: DOOM

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

Yes.

One less wolf, more chance to end it in another round, if Epona didn't cave under pressure, which had been a possibility I thought was likely to happen. Both wolves gone, game's over, all done.

I didn't read the rules closely enough.

Re: DOOM

[secretofthefox]

So it was a mistake. But it's okay to make mistakes. You just have to try and learn from them for if there's a next time, but that doesn't make you a bad person.

Re: DOOM

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

I'm not interested in the shounen speeches, hon.

Re: DOOM

[secretofthefox]

I'm just telling the truth as I see it.

[He's not good at this but he's trying :/]

...But if Doom is supposed to be understanding...

[Maybe over here it's not so much guilt that it happened so much as...]

...A record, then? Not forgetting that it happened?

Re: DOOM

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

Hmmm, not wrong, not quite right.

Re: DOOM

[secretofthefox]

So closer to the right track.

[...all right so what about the purple scarf. It'll probably kill him too but now that he's expecting it he may be more wondering what happened there and less nervous about it.]

Re: DOOM

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[You feel it in your chest. The middle prong of the trident buried near your lungs and heart. Enough to have done fatal damage, but not enough damage to make the death quick.]

[A mother will always do what is best for her child.]

[You're slow to bleed out, but you do.]

[Tick.]

[Heroic]

[Tock.]

[Just]

[BONG]

[You feel your body break down again, as it did for godtier, pulling, pulling everything back, until you snap back, whole, in the air. Completely fine.]

Re: DOOM

[secretofthefox]

Don't do that! [fussy fox is fussy]

Sorry, Fiere.

[He's just trying to get it and not succeeding. If it's not a record, then...]

...That was your mom, right?