Heart Game: Run #3

[purrrnicious]

[Date: February 21, 7:00pm EST
Participants: D.Va, Ruby, Allen, Intensity, Kaguya(?)
Channel: kohime-heart]

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Crown Royal

[lefthandpath]

... i completely forgot about outfit but uh. look. just stick him in a princess clown suit like this or something. it's fine.

Re: Sign-in (OOC)

[420blazeit]

this, but it's black with pink accents & has no face mask thing.

Intensity

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Outfit: Something like this! It's even mostly Horde colored.

Unscored. I'm just here to touch everything.

Kaguya!

[sunflowering]

Here is Kaguya's dress!

Anyway, PRESENT! Also unscored.

Ruby Sour

[justicebewon]

hihi WEARING THIS minus helmet

Lvl. 1: Hotel Lobby

[purrrnicious]

[You come back to awareness in what looks like the hotel lobby -- only blended with another location that can best be described as ‘industrial’. There’s green metal panelling and exposed piping everywhere, and the decor is largely lacking and impersonal. The only exception seems to be a series of posters, each one dramatically illustrated with a wicked-looking clawed silhouette terrorizing masses of frightened civilians. They warn of the dangers of the evil, vicious princesses and the heroics of the great Lord Hordak who will bring the gift of order and civilization to the masses. If you’re familiar at all with the concept of propaganda, well, this sure looks like it.

Welcome to the Fright Zone.

Some storage crates are scattered around the edges of the room, and the usual furniture can be here, but the exits aren’t the usual. Instead of lobby doors there’s just bay windows looking out over the rest of the place. Smog and pollution make it impossible to see the city beyond the immediate industrial complex. The elevator is likewise gone, and instead there are a number of doors.

Something that might be a map is posted on the wall.

Your tracking pad is blinking, indicating an incoming transmission. Answer it?]

Re: Lvl. 1: Hotel Lobby

[lefthandpath]

[this princess is vaguely alarmed by all of this change!

but then the technology thing is beeping, so uh.

yeah, tapping the screen?]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Oh this place. Lovely.

Just going to go ahead and answer that tracking pad while overlooking the Fright Zone from those giant bay windows.]

Re: Lvl. 1: Hotel Lobby

[420blazeit]

[ she comes to and sits up, rubbing at her face with both hands, and giving the room and once over. getting to her feet she staggers a little, but otherwise she's fine. this place is deeeefinitely strange. ]

[ for now, she's going to ignore the transmission, because she's more interested in rifling ( or attempting to ) around in those storage crates. ]

Re: Lvl. 1: Hotel Lobby

[sunflowering]

[ Er... well this doesn't look good. She frowns at the scene in front of her. It's not like she's a fan of the lobby or anything but it's usefully more...home-y than this.

She peers at the window with a frown. ]

It doesn't look all that nice outside.

[ But also... she'll look own at the incoming transmission. And answer it! ]

Re: Lvl. 1: Hotel Lobby

[justicebewon]

I am so buying this outfit. Thanks, Koko.

[ looks at the pad though, tapping it. ]

Hey heyyy, Luna here. What's up?

Lvl. 1: Hallway (Storage Room)

[purrrnicious]

[The hallways match the look of the place -- metallic and green, with exposed vents and piping, each part of the floor and wall a matching square panel bolted into place. There are very few windows, but when there are, they show the same smog-choked view of the Fright Zone, though the shapes of building and the horizon seem to match Tokyo-F.

There is a Kohime in this hallway -- dressed a little different than usual, she’s not in Horde or BARiTONES colours. Her clothes are more neutral in tone colour-wise, a more casual version of the suits she usually has in Imeeji. She gives a quick, furtive look around and -- failing to notice you -- ducks into the storage room she’s near. It’s too dark inside to say for sure what’s in there other than that it’s quite full. The door whooshes closed behind her.

What would you like to do?]

Re: Lvl. 1: Hallway (Storage Room)

[420blazeit]

[ as soon as she notices kohime she forgets all about her plans to attempt to kick in the war room door assuming it's shut. she's about to open her mouth when she darts into the other room. guess who is going to give chase! ]

Lvl. 1: Training Hall - Locker Room

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[In the standard Fright Zone style, it’s a training room. There’s a row of lockers, all of them looking identical on the outside, and a set of benches in the middle with a small mirror and sink on the opposite wall. It’s fairly nondescript. The lockers have small plaques engraved with images of the following people:

1 - D.Va (This one has a couple handprints on the outside, a child’s, probably because he or she was a little grubby and nothing deliberate.)
2 - Intensity (Similar to D.Va’s there are handprints, though many more of them.)
3 - Amaranth
7 - Sekhmet (This locker has a set of gouges diagonally across it. They look like claw marks.)
14 - Five
17 - Silence
18 - Song
21 - Sabre
27 - Gold
28 - Nemesis (Fewer handprints than Intensity or D.Va’s, but if you’re looking careful, there’s a couple smudges here and there.)
29 - Shrike (There’s a big red ‘X’ on this one.)]

Re: Lvl. 1: Training Hall - Locker Room

[sunflowering]

. . . Huh.

[ Glancing over these lockers. Her fingers brush along a couple of them... ]

. . . Sekhmet's and Shrike-san's lockers. Someone doesn't like them?

Lvl. 1: Training Hall

[purrrnicious]

[Despite the door labelling this as a training hall, when you enter the room it really just looks like the BARiTONES Dorm, only more spacious, with enough room to maneuver around in and various equipment (looking weirdly out of place in the jazz decor) scattered around that could be used for training purposes (i.e. staffs, dummies and bots, a set of what looks like laser tag vests, etc.). The place is cold and impersonal, devoid of any signs that people live here, and quiet to a degree that it’s a little eerie. Leading from the common area there’s a hallway with a number of doors, all bedrooms with every member of BiT, past and present, labelled on the door -- with one notable absence: Kohime doesn’t have a room.

The rooms are for: Yvette, Eichi, Absinthe, Crown, Paloma, Wildfire, Ruby, Emet-Selch, Codex, Doll, Marnier, Rye, Garbage Cannot, Manhattan, and Eiji.]

Re: Lvl. 1: Training Hall

[justicebewon]

[ hey that seems kinda sad

but, headed into their own room first. ]

Lvl. 1: War Room

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[It’s dark in here. Very dark. The far wall is a panel of screens, each showing a different security feed of the Fright Zone, though all seems quiet and unassuming. Before the screens is a chair positioned before a larger one that seems to be open to a menu, all of the different unit names (except BARiTONES) listed there.

Every now and then, though, you could swear the room glitches, a moment brief as a gasp when the screens are cracked and shattered, the keyboard dented, consoles and processors sparking with debris scattered along the floor and the chair now tipped to the side. Though it’s so brief. . . maybe you’re just imagining things?

The list is:

LiliS
sensitIV
Pep!pep!
Taisho Roman Revolution
BAD END=DEAD END
future is now
WILD CITY
☆ZRAEL
Heart Soldier Senshi
AlcheME!
avante en garde
Community Assessment]

Re: Lvl. 1: War Room

[420blazeit]

[ she hates this head bullshit, but she's kind of used to it from when her eyes get all fucked up, and that's happened often enough... ]

[ she approaches the computer and skims the list, glancing to intensity. ]

Lvl. 1: Lift

[purrrnicious]

[It's a small, square room with an elevator in front. A keypad is set in the wall to the left of it. Pushing the button to call the elevator does not trigger a response.]

Re: Lvl. 1: Lift

[420blazeit]

[ 8| ]

[ mumbles a few curses under her breath and spins right back around. to the training room. ]

Lvl. 2: Lift

[purrrnicious]

[It's a small, square room like the last. This time there are three doors: one marked "Forge", another "Game Tower", and the last "To the Barracks and Prison". If you turn around, the elevator is there, a keypad is set in the wall to the left of it.]

Re: Lvl. 2: Lift

[sunflowering]

Er...

None of these places look inviting. But they're also likely good places to visit when we're trying to...do undercover things. What do you recommend?

Lvl. 2: Barracks

[purrrnicious]

[The room is identical to the Horde’s sleeping quarters, a row of bunk beds made with military precision. A trail of coloured glass-like gems leads to the far end of the room where someone is huddled under a blue blanket, sniffling and crying, though you can only tell that it’s a child with their back to you. All along the walls, little doodles are scratched, cartoon faces of Catra and a girl with a ponytail, the expressions a bit silly, and sometimes two names with titles (“Lord Adora and her Second, Catra”, “Admiral Adora and Vice Catra”, “Force Captain Adora and Lieutenant Catra”, etc.).

On a bed in the middle of the room, there’s a little plush of a blond girl in a red jacket, her eyes a clear blue. In its hand is one of the glass pieces, matching the same colour as her eyes, and in the other she holds a little stuffed shield. One side of the room has a red thread that looks like it comes from one of the vents above, looping around bedposts and hanging between bunks until it connects with the plush.

The room is warm, comforting. It may take you a moment to pin down the feeling, but when you do, you realize it feels safe — a sharp contrast to how you felt in the hallway just before.

Just past the little girl is another door, labelled as the entrance to the prison.]

Re: Lvl. 2: Barracks

[lefthandpath]

[oh...

oh no.

oops???]

Lvl. 2: The Forge - Outside

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[The doors swish open, letting you leave the dim hallways behind for a space that opens to the broader world -- though with the pollution and general scenery as bad as it is, that might not be an improvement. Ahead, still in the jumbled, industrial style of the rest of the place, there is a building taller than the rest and venting steam and smoke: the Forge. The entrance is ahead, but there’s also a pair of small figures that seem to be scaling the outside of the building -- something it was never intended for, but the construction does allow for handholds and ledges. One is a blonde girl working with the help of a rope and grappling hook, the other is recognizable as Kohime (or, at least, another cat-person like her). The two are shouting and calling to each other, sounding happy, and the few words you can catch echoing off the buildings are teasing and taunting. They appear to be racing, with Kohime as the likely winner, very near to the top.]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[So...

Hmmm. How good is the Blue Eyes Bot at climbing? If it has any skill, he's going to approach the Forge and also send it up the wall.

Hopefully out of eyesight of the two rivals scaling the building.]

Lvl. 2: The Forge - Inside

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[You enter a wide open space. The floor seems to be built above pools of liquid magma, warming the whole area to the point of being uncomfortable. The magma itself seems to be fed from numerous pipes leading in from various directions elsewhere in the complex, you may recognize them as being the same ones that run through the hallways and some of the other rooms you’ve been in.

In the centre is forge machinery — a conveyor belt that’s currently stalled connecting to the drop hammer, the device that shapes the metal. There are a number of settings, though they’re only numbered, that seem to control what weapon is created, and a monitor currently displaying error code information.

What’s probably more interesting than that, though, is the scorpion-woman who is fretting over the machinery. You might recognize her from one of the guest units.]

Re: Lvl. 2: The Forge - Inside

[420blazeit]

[ she blinks, because, oh, she does recognize her. ]

Scorpia? [ didn't expect to find her here. ] Need a hand? [ because shit looks fucked in here. ]

Lvl. 2: The Prison

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[You enter a dizzyingly tall structure. The prison is circular, each floor a ring around a central tower that supports an open-air lift, allowing you to reach the different wings. The prison cells themselves are barren and narrow, using a shimmering green energy field instead of traditional bars, with a keypad just outside that likely controls it. The first floor you enter on is devoid of any cells, it looks like it’s mainly a station for the guards (of which there are none on this level) and storage, but you can see there are cells on the upper floors, though not all are in use.

You can go to the lift, or go get yourself something to eat or drink at the guard station if you really want.]

Re: Lvl. 2: The Prison

[lefthandpath]

[oh my god, please i need food]

Lvl. 2: The Audience Chamber

[purrrnicious]

[The room is -- well, you know what? You don’t care about the room (it’s largely generic except for a bed placed in the back right corner that looks a little odd and out of place). Because what’s in the room is much more important. It’s Kohime, or something like her. (This is an idea of what you’re dealing with.) The base of the form is a Horde version of herself, only there’s a slight problem: half of her face extending down across her collarbone and including her shoulder and leg are just gone, a black, shapeless void where flesh and bone should be. Where her body connects to the void is a jagged, glowing line, and expanding out from that in the corporeal part of her body are cracks and splinters, looking almost like the reality of her existence shattered. Her mouth is a little too wide, a little too full of teeth that are long and bone-white and deadly sharp, and her eyes narrow on you almost immediately, the pupils slitted and predatory. She’s larger than she should be, standing almost twice your height, though her weight doesn’t seem to have kept pace as she’s unnaturally thin, giving her an inhuman appearance. Her tail is wrong, like the blood flow was cut off and the tissue died, leaving the flesh dry and leather-like until it gives away to bleached bone at the tip, the vertebrae still remaining connected somehow. Anything she touches distorts; she’s damaging the room.

In one hand she carries a large, long jagged piece of metal, wielding it like it’s a sword even as it glitches with her distortion. She’s unpleasant and menacing, though it also seems like her existence is struggling to hold itself together, not to crumble away into the black void eating at her form or rot.]

Safe Version Yaaaaay

[purrrnicious]

[––Unless, of course, you're being led in here by a Kohime. If so, the monster is still there, but she appears to be sleeping, curled in a corner of the room that's overly shadowed and distorts around her.]

Lvl. 3: True Core

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[This is one of those cases where the outside does not match what’s inside. There’s grass and rolling fields of flowers, swaying in a breeze you can’t feel, short miniature trees whose leaves brush the low ceiling and vines that creep through the grass. Small stone pillars are scattered everywhere, each one postered with drawings, dried flowers, and ribbons, the drawings all childish cartoons that seem to depict various people in happy, family-like moments (Adora and Shadow Weaver feature very often, but a fair number include Hordak, Intensity, Eichi, Sekhmet, and D.Va.) Little lights drift idly through the air -- fireflies or fairy lights, it’s not clear -- and in the centre there’s a little encampment, a bundle of pillows with a blue blanket thrown over them (matching the ones in the Barracks, if you happened to go there). Little plushes can be found there, too, of the same people that feature in the drawings.

Maybe most interesting is the wide-eyed little Kohime who’s huddled up there, crouched like a cat with her tail around her legs. She looks like she can’t be more than five or six years old, and is frankly adorably fluffy. Her clothes are white, simple and undecorated — a tank top and shorts. You can see some pretty nasty scarring on her: a jagged, vicious mark across her throat and a number of small marks all over her body that match front and back, like she was impaled. If you’ve known Kohime long enough, you might be able to tell they’re the same scars she had after the Balloon Game and the Betrayal House.]

Re: Lvl. 3: True Core

[lefthandpath]

[yep. he recognizes those scars.

and his expression eases at the sight of the area. kinda wishes he had some kind of treat or something to offer, but mostly just offering a more genuine sort of smile as he crouches down to look less tall and threatening]

This where you've been? I'm glad you're safe.