Heart Game (Continued)

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[There's nothing]

[Nothing]

[Nothingnothingnothingnothingnothing]

[Isn't that wonderful though?]

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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

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Re: RAGE

[secretofthefox]

...You do exist.

[He's going to keep insisting that, dammit. It's irrefutable fact to him, Roxy is his important teammate, and much as she deserves so much better he's not about to deny that all that bad stuff happened.

So first he's going to text Knight back.]

VA: Hey Roxy?
VA: Just going to ask
VA: Any more pieces of you I'm likely to run into?
VA: I'm not really good at dealing with just parts of the whole
VA: Especially when emotion can't be involved
VA: But if there are more then I'll try

[He's then going to try another Light-y thing to try and find out what knowledge is available to him from the start, especially:

1. Is this Rage, then?
2. What is Rage?
3. Where is the lab?

Fiere will, meanwhile, check out the new piece of equipment. Because what is it. Also the bed being gone means the fanfic journal is missing too :( And also is there still blood on the floor over there?]

Re: RAGE

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[All it takes is thinking about going to the Lab. When he does, he'll feel it. An odd sort of just KNOWING the direction. He'll be fairly sure even if he gets turned around, he'll know the way he needs to go.]

[But he is gonna need to go outside.]

[Always wondered, was directions because of the void, or was it because she grew up with chess people with perfect senses of direction?]

[He is indeed in Rage.]

[As for what Rage IS, it's negative feelings, emotions, but more than that, it's also being limited by those feelings. Rage is very easy to become stuck, defeatist, getting lost in those feelings.]

[As for the machine. It's a Totem Lathe for all of Fiere's sprite knowledge. The journal is not missing, at least. It's just on the floor against the bedside stand. There is some blood peaking out from the bottom of the machine.]

TG: ...
TG: well its not like im gonna just stop existin in my own heart hon
TG: i mean
TG: it is my heart
TG: n kinda hard to exist as a whole when the entire thing is a whole
TG: hell even im just a fragment
TG: but from here is basically all feels
TG: feels all day everyday
TG: logic can help
TG: but feelings are basically the problem
TG: so shounening isnt as big as handicap as it was with doom
TG: rage is gonna be full of feels
TG: n hope can take all the good vibes she can get
TG: though for rage
TG: the big thing is breaking the cycle
TG: emotional logical hardcore shounen
TG: whatever u can do to break the circle thought processes
TG: thats what ur gonna want 2 do

Re: RAGE

[secretofthefox]

[...That is interesting. So Fiere is just going to quickly take a sniff around the room to see if there are any of those card things for it. I mean, probably not, but you never know.]

VA: Ah okay
VA: Guess I should've guessed
VA: I'll try and keep the pieces thing in mind then
VA: Breaking negative feeling circles though
VA: That I can do

[Before he heads outside, though, he's going to dig through his Sylladex to find his paints - he always carries at least some - and go over to the "DISAPPEAR" wall to paint "Please don't disappear, you're an awesome person" over it.

I mean, it's a little watercolor brush, but it's at least something right?]

Re: RAGE

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[Sadly, no cards. ):]

TG: it does mean some limitations for the fragment itself
TG: but thats why the heart has balance points
TG: n i kno
TG: good luck

[It's indeed something. The oppressive atmosphere lessens momentarily.]

Re: RAGE

[secretofthefox]

VA: I'll do what I can

...All right, come on Fiere. This way.

[We are heading out through the collapsed ceiling then.]

Re: RAGE

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[You're outside and you’re amongst fire and structurally unsound buildings. There are also corpses of the black and white Carapacians, blood red as humans, and all very dead. You can see the red stringy mass in the sky, and in the distance you can hear rockets.]

UU: i do know a thing or two aboUt the red miles.
UU: it is the qUeen's favoUred attack. very long distance and omnidirectional.
UU: bUt once Upon a time, her weapon was stolen by a UsUrper. jacked, yoU coUld say, right off her ring finger. and then given a considerable boost in power.
UU: that gave the miles enoUgh of a kick to rip a Universe to shreds.
UU: and they have been doing so to yoUrs and its many instances for eons.
UU: only now have they caUght Up to yoUr instance. it is qUite fortUnate it has taken so long, really.
UU: some instances are tUcked deeper in the speaker's mighty blow sack, and will hold oUt for mUch longer, on a vast cosmic scale of coUrse.
TG: wait
TG: i dont
TG: what? instances
TG: blowb sack
TG: righ now i can hardly walk w/o steppin on my moms scarf ok
TG: so theyre destorying the universe is that the bootom line
UU: yes.
UU: try to think of it like this.
UU: imagine that the Universe is contained inside a very large creatUre.
UU: say, a great big frog.
TG: frog
TG: why a frog thats so silly
UU: it's jUst a frog! that is the way it is, jUst try to imagine it.
TG: k
TG: picturin
TG: big ol space frog
TG: all ribbiting loud an being huge
TG: hehehe
UU: now imagine that not only does the Universe exist inside it, depending on the creatUre's health and well being to sUrvive...
UU: bUt every potential instance of that Universe exists inside as well.
UU: those that are doomed and those with promise.
UU: even those that were reset from scratch, with slightly different starting conditions.
UU: all of those interrelated Universes mingling together inside yoUr frog, inextricable from its physiology.
UU: if the frog dies, they all go with it. eventUally.
TG: then you are saying some rude a-hole is killin our frog
UU: sadly, yes.
TG: wow
TG: that is
TG: just....
TG: the WORST

[You know the way to the lab, though it's some distance away.]

[Roll a 12 sider.]

Re: RAGE

[secretofthefox]

[...Roxy the more he learns about your world the less it makes any sense

but the frog thing is less of a concern now than the red stringy things

(the fire is even less of a concern than that, at least to him, and in fact he might fly through some while flying toward the direction the lab is in just to prove that it's not about to hurt him but)

...also idk how but a 12 was rolled so]

Re: RAGE

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[That's because it doesn't.]

[You fly and fly and fly through the fire and get a lighty ping.]

[Fast travel to avoid some bullshit, Y/N?]

Re: RAGE

[secretofthefox]

[Sure why not.]

Re: RAGE

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[Buildings just fly fast as you fly/run forward towards the lab.]

[And suddenly, you see it.]

[There's a building collapsing near you, and an injured Carapacian is trying to get out of the way of it.]

[It seems unlikely you'll be able to save them unscathed simply grabbing and running/flying.]

Re: RAGE

[secretofthefox]

Watch out!!!

[Light is knowledge, certainty, clarity, luck, and relevancy. A Knight exploits that.

...Well, he doesn't have much knowledge about architecture, especially around here. And clarity isn't really helpful here. But luck, certainty, and relevancy... He can try to exploit those.

He flies in in front of the Carapacian (if this doesn't work, he can take the injury better than it can probably) and pulls out his sword in a defensive positioning, pouring all the relevance and luck he can into it. Surely, surely luck would have it that there's this one little flaw in the wall, one that wouldn't really matter most the time, but he can exploit that and turn it relevant as the exact spot his sword hits, and that flaw would cause the wall to break in just the right way that it falls to the sides instead, sparing them.

...You know, especially if some fire is sent ahead of the sword in order to weaken the wall further. Because things are obviously burning around here, it's not like the wall is fireproof...]

Re: RAGE

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[...you and your pyro tendencies.]

[But that is indeed a thing you can do and it ACTUALLY WORKS because gotta love Homestuck bullshit.]

[The walls cracks, buckles, breaks, rubble falling harmlessly to either side.]

[You are now +1 panicking Carapacian.]

Re: RAGE

[secretofthefox]

[You expected anything less from the fire elemental?

But oh good, that worked. ...And he might be falling to his knees for a moment because he may have put a bit more than he meant to into that fire and he doesn't have that much back yet

But he smiles, and looks over his shoulder at the Carapacian.]

Hey. You'll be okay, okay? I'm not gonna let you die.

Re: RAGE

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[I swear, y'all are gonna make my jiiii elements into like elements and it will be WEIRD.]

[And that whole body language thing may make more sense now. The Carapacian never talks, but it's easy to somehow taking that flailing and get words.]

"We're all going to die! Everything is burning don't you see?!"

Re: RAGE

[secretofthefox]

It'll be okay. The fire doesn't hurt me. And I'll protect you and get you to safety.

Are there any others nearby?

Re: RAGE

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[Wait what.]

"Can you really?!"

Re: RAGE

[secretofthefox]

Yup!

[There's probably something on fire close by so he'll just stick his hand right in it for a couple seconds... and then pull it out and it's completely fine, no injury at all :D]

See?

Re: RAGE

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

"I mean the protection, stupid boy!"

[Carapacians are kinda Rude, sorry.]

Re: RAGE

[secretofthefox]

[...

oh]

Of course. I mean, what'd I just do?

Re: RAGE

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

"Then we need to leave! More drones are coming!"

Re: RAGE

[secretofthefox]

[nod nod]

Are there more of you?

Re: RAGE

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

"Of course there are, we're a colony!"

Re: RAGE

[secretofthefox]

Where are they? I'll clear a path to somewhere safe for everybody.

Re: RAGE

[thevoidsdarkhorse]

[The Carapacian looks at him, incredulous.]

"They're everywhere! Everything is on fire!"

Re: RAGE

[secretofthefox]

Okay, okay.

[Well, the best thing to do is pull the Carapacian up onto his back so he's giving the little guy a piggy back ride and then fly up into the air to see if he can spot any others.]