Heart Game

[digitalemperor]

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.

((Join #sharkbait. Go ahead and start right here. Unless you're Nezumi in which case start here. If you're late check with me on IRC where to start.))

((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.))

Comments

Re: Hall of Mirrors

[digitalemperor]

You hit one that has something solid behind it...

Re: Hall of Mirrors

[blackjacked]

[EXCEPT suddenly screeching to a halt]

Oi, Apple, there's something here!

[checking behind the mirror then?]

Re: Hall of Mirrors

[appleofhiseye]

What--Kit! We have to go.

Re: Hall of Mirrors

[digitalemperor]

There's a wall with what might be a panel...?

Re: Hall of Mirrors

[blackjacked]

[simultaneously shouting at Lloyd and talking to Apple at once]

This might be what we're looking for.

[reaching out to open the panel]

Re: Hall of Mirrors

[appleofhiseye]

[hope you can do that one-handed because I'm not letting go of your hand]

The detonator?

Re: Hall of Mirrors

[digitalemperor]

You'll need to pry at it Kit. And your corrupted reflection is following you two now, and it... It doesn't look friendly.

Re: Hall of Mirrors

[blackjacked]

Yeah, it--

[. . . oh crap he had thought they had left that guy behind. curses and works more quickly, prying the panel open with his crowbar]

Apple, you might need to run.

Re: Hall of Mirrors

[appleofhiseye]

...It's "we" or nothing.

Re: Hall of Mirrors

[digitalemperor]

The mirror Kit reaches out, touching the mirrors it passes and spreading corruption. Darkness races ahead of it towards you both.

Kit, with work, can pry the panel loose to reveal fifty detonators. Can you even carry that many...?

Re: Hall of Mirrors

[blackjacked]

[. . . squeezes Apple's hand tightly, trying not to focus on the darkness racing towards them]

[definitely can't carry 50 of those but APPLE HAS A SOLUTION]

Your bag! C'mon, we've gotta hurry!

Re: Hall of Mirrors

[appleofhiseye]

[--nodding, flipping her bag open and throwing the detonators inside as fast as possible]

Re: Hall of Mirrors

[digitalemperor]

You get them shoved in but the black corruption is right up on you guys now.

Re: Hall of Mirrors

[blackjacked]

[was helping Apple with the detonators but at the very last second, whirls on the corruption with his illuminated glass Firebird feather to chase it away. hopefully it'll also give Apple a chance to close her bag and pick it up without dropping those detonators]

Re: Hall of Mirrors

[appleofhiseye]

[that should give me just enough time, BAG CLOSED, and guess who also has a glass Firebird feather out.]

Kit, we're good.

Re: Hall of Mirrors

[digitalemperor]

Dropping the bag of explosives would be bad, yeah. The feathers do work! At least enough to make the darkness recoil and buy you time.

Re: Hall of Mirrors

[blackjacked]

[backpedaling, keeping his eye on the spreading corruption and the corrupted reflection]

Let's find Blizzard.

Re: Hall of Mirrors

[appleofhiseye]

[then while you watch our back I'll watch our fronts. taking his hand and pulling him forward, towards wherever she heard Blizzard's voice last]

Re: Hall of Mirrors

[digitalemperor]

This direction.