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Heart Game

You have the sensation of falling--no, drowning. Your lungs burn, you can’t breathe, you try to struggle but the current drags you down down down and just as you’re losing consciousness you know you’re dying...

You jerk, abruptly, the landing a little rough as you stand. Your clothes are dry and there’s no water in your lungs. You can breathe.

You find a bluetooth headset on your head, it crackles with static then goes silent.

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((POWERS: all combat and non-healing powers are ON in this heart. Status removing powers and items are off. Healing powers and items are almost completely ineffective at the start, I'll tell you if it changes. You have all your equipment.))

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Trust isn't something you should give someone like me.

[> chat program]

Oh stop grousing Mouse.

You open it! It's the same contacts list you have on your phone.

I don't want to hear it.

Why not? You know it's true.

[manually inputting Mikado's name]

I don't know it's true, nor do I believe it's true. And I don't want to hear it because that's the sort of thing you use to remind me when I'm being self-pitying.

> Contact is offline.

[. . . leaves it open, just in case]

I'm not being self-pitying.

You're saying you don't deserve something you earned and resenting it a little because it puts you in a position of responsibility. What're you doing?

[> opens up a word file]

[> types:

Talk to me.

- Mouse]

[> saves it as ReadMe]

[sits back and looks at Shion]

I don't understand it, alright? . . . I'm just doing my best.

I know you are.

. . . I just have a really bad feeling about the mirror.

You save the file. Nothing seems to happen there.

Okay. Should we cover it?

I think if anything's going to happen, we're going to need to take a crowbar to it.

[unsure] Maybe... You could be right. I don't want to get hung up on the idea that everything out there needs to be broken and everything in here needs to be fixed...

[peers at the mirror]

[immediately grabs his wrist and drags him back a couple feet, instinctively]

. . .

[then gets distracted talking into his bluetooth]

—dammit. Lloyd—kind of white . . . sciencey stuff? That's not very specific—

[waits, he's not going to take advantage of your distraction to lunge for the mirror...even if it crosses his mind. He will continue to try to examine it, though.]

[holding onto his hand tightly]

...

[waiting patiently]

[talking to Lloyd still]

It's probably an explosive. Nitroglycerine, gelignite . . . if it's in blocks it's . . . you said it was off-white and moldable, so C4.

. . .

Either way, explosive.

Um, what's going on over there?!

I should know how to make a bomb, in theory. Not something you really wanna trial and error with the skill loss here, though.

Look for a detonator. If all else fails, we can see if anybody can shoot it, but that requires being closer than we'd like, maybe.

And Lloyd, see if you can keep a block or two.

........

[s . . . sigh. looking at Shion]

Let's go check out the room with the water again. I want to test something.

Okay.

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