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week six
week six.
Once again, the fog moves, filling every nook and cranny of the blanket fort, letting it all slowly fade from view. As always, Heart locations remain, joined by a few new additions. You know the name of this game now. You know that choosing to stay behind is not the key to moving forward, and therefore, you must cross the border and plunge into the fog once again.
This time the fog has a bite of frost, the temperature dropping drastically as the cloud of fog peels back, revealing the shiny, glittering expanse of snow beyond. Shivers run through your no doubt unsuitable clothing, but luckily for you the luxurious resort beyond is just close enough to avoid the worst of the chill. (Your shoes will absolutely get wet though, sorry...) Once inside, the lobby is warm and toasty, filled with squat, comfortable couches and a minibar on the opposite corner. There is an elevator to take you to another floor, as well as signs for the ski slopes outlined on the walls opposite.
Welcome to your Wintry Wonderland! You may change into appropriate attire in one of the many changing rooms, but please be careful -- you will feel an urge to seek warmth as you explore this particular maze, whether by an embrace or through hand-holding. It will feel like second nature to you, and perhaps a godsend in this freezing landscape.
0. heart tasks
The notice board is still here this week, now with a new set of tasks written on it! Along the Akheron river, there's a fresh slew of boxes and containers along its bank. They're all locked up tight, but they have your names on them. They're also nicely decorated.
Whether you intend to or not, if you complete one of the above tasks, you'll know that your box has been unlocked. Inside can be an item from home, it doesn't matter how big or small. It doesn't need to belong to your character or your character's Eurydice, as long as it's something they might want. The box will have your character's name on it though and written in small script Good luck! Almost there. The item may also be a pet. You do not need to report this to the mods; we'll go by honor system.Mementos Mori Homesickness is a terrible thing. Complete one of these tasks and you may just find yourself with something to ease it.
✦ Bite someone with feeling and explain the feeling.
✦ Exchange thoughtful gifts with one other.
✦ Tell someone a secret, something you think that person should know about you.
i. central ice rink
Once properly attired, you are free to venture outside. Here, the fields of snow seem endless, bright beneath the winter sunshine. All that clean snow, just begging for someone to make footprints, construct castles, or initiate snow fights! What fun! What joy!
A little further ahead is a large lake, completely frozen over. There is a stand nearby offering skates of all sizes, for those who would like to skate along on top of the ice. There are also convenient guard rails along one edge of the lake for our timid novices. Take a few turns and get comfortable. Or maybe not too comfortable...
As you make your loops, you may notice movement, and as you coast to a stop, you will realize that the movement is in fact an image, a memory being played in full view on the ice beneath you. No matter where you skate off to, the memory will follow, seemingly endless in every direction. Of course, you could still try to stop the memory, perhaps by smashing your skate through the ice if you're desperate enough, but that will only send you and whoever is with you beneath the ice and into the freezing lake, where you will be both submerged.
Whatever happens, the memory will have a specific theme of either greed or charity, such as:
✦ A memory where you experienced some form of desire, possession, greed, or experienced the consequences of such greed from another.
✦ A memory where you experienced some form of charity, whether positive or negative -- when you received something from another that you desperately needed at the time. Perhaps it was a hopeful plea, perhaps it was demeaning humiliation. Or perhaps you were the one who sought to give, your intentions kind or conceited.
✦ A fantasy of all that you ever wished to possess, or one of all the things you've given to see others thrive.
ii. santa's workshop
If you venture down to the resort's basement, you will what looks like a charming, rustic... workroom? Or perhaps a storage room? There are piles upon piles of objects, some wrapped neatly in boxes, others still needing some work done, because apparently, all of these objects are broken in some way. There are instruments that still need to be stringed, shoes missing their pairs, flashlights that don't turn on, paddles with only the letters "Y A O" carved into them. Whatever you can think to find, you will -- except in a state of repair.
Just on the table beyond are a few very basic tools: screwdrivers, hammers, wrenches, etc, but the supplies themselves seem to be missing...? Turns out that if you want to fix an object, you'll have to take apart something else to get what you need. Unfortunately, you'll have to apply a little bit of elbow grease to get what you want -- as the objects themselves don't feel like giving them up? Stuffed animals will take a swat at you, toasters will hit you with their cords, and sexy lingerie may even attempt to strangle you...
But they're just objects, and you can obviously fight back. Or if not, then feel free to try other more peaceful approaches: such as mentioning a time, object, concept, etc that you wish you could have or return to or telling someone what you wish you could give them. Once shared, the objects will go back to normal.
iii. the charity auction
Ascend the stairs from the lobby into the resort's magnificent ballroom, where apparently some kind of banquet is underway? There are crowds of shadowy figures seated at tables and milling about, holding sparkling glasses of champagne and eating little appetizers from large trays, but most of the activity is directed towards the stage, where a shadowy auctioneer thumps their mallet and calls out the name of the newest object.
A name that turns out to be... yours! Before you know it, you are ushered onto stage, squinting against the bright lights to see the crowd beyond. Distantly, you can hear the auctioneer announce your name, a fun fact, and why exactly you deserve to be taken out! Whether on a hot date or wiped from the surface of the earth. Or maybe both?
The only way to leave is if some merciful soul makes a bid for you. For those who find themselves in the crowd, desperate to save whoever's on stage -- you will feel the urge to make your bid (or don't, maybe you think this is funny). Of course, the bid has to be... substantial. Money can only go so far... We're looking for creative bids here, y'know?
Once your bid is accepted, you may escort your prize from the stage. Please know that whatever the bid is -- it must be paid on the spot. Maybe you promised an ear lick or a kiss -- maybe you promised to be their servant for an hour henceforth. Whatever it is, you have to do it in the Grand Charity Gala room in order to be set free.
iv. snowman sculpting
Maybe you decide to go back outside after the warmth of the resort, or maybe you'd like to keep playing in the snow... Nearby are several different snow figures, all in need of decoration. They are just so sad and naked without you...
🥕 Carrot Nose: You feel an intense curiosity to know everything you've yet to learn about the person you're with. What's their blood type? What's their dream wedding venue? If they were wooed by a shark or a pirate, then which would they choose? The questions can be completely nonsensical and unrelated to each other. It doesn't matter, because you need to know!!
⚫ Coal Smile: You feel the burden of your sins weighing upon you. Suddenly, you need for the person you're with to forgive you for what you've done to them, or for what you will do. Maybe you feel the urge to confess to a curse. Maybe you want to tell them that you thought they were really annoying once. Or maybe you want to apologize for thinking they're a great big degenerate.
🧣 Cute Scarf: Congratulations! You Are A Child Now. Feel free to keep your adult minds, or revert back to the mindset you had as a smol baby.
🎩 Snazzy Bowler: You are on the run from your creditors. You must hide now! Now! Take whoever's with you so they don't sell you out to the IRS, or because they clearly have crimes they're on the run from too. Go and hide in a cramped closet together.
❌ Naked: For some reason, you don't want to dress any of these snowmen. Boo, tomato, tomato! You will be haunted by three ghostly versions of yourself: past, present, and future, who will all talk about your faults and how you are not a good person and how you should turn it all around somehow.
mod notes.
✦ Hello again, darling clowns! This week's log features both the aforementioned maze and our central locations! Feel free to write central-specific or maze-specific prompts. Or both!
✦ For the Ice Rink, mods will not be policing what memories (trululus) or fantasies (delulus) you choose to have your character share, but please keep to the themes of greed/charity! Moreso, memories must have a canon basis, even if they’re headcanon. However, fantasies can be from alternate route paths (otome/visual novel/AU style) as long as they’re within the set parameters. There will be more opportunities for this in the future, so don’t worry about not being able to give out your lore. Have fun!
✦ Questions specific to this log can be directed to the #mod-questions channel in the discord!
✦ Maze Runs are available for this week!
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Isabeau, you repair a few cute plushies even as you think about your (redacted). You can't tell for sure since toys can't talk, but you sense that these toys are grateful for your care. Thank you, Isa! Of course, some of these plushies now appear to be following you, but it's obviously because they're so thankful to their savior. Haha!
Siffrin, you are welcome to find a whetstone, a collection of nice carving knives, and various blocks of different types of wood for your woodcarving endeavors. You also find several sculptures of what look like you and your friends, expressions carved in misery. Your very own sad nendos...
Medea, you keep a keen eye for anything that stands out, so you are the first to come across the following: three large stockings hung on a wall, each embroidered with your names. There are two buckets underneath. One is filled with coal, labeled NAUGHTY. And the other is filled with what looks like stars, labeled NICE.
You will all get a sense that you must fill up your stocking with either bucket or perhaps both? The coal, you sense, is for all the sins you think you've committed. The stars are obviously for all good deeds you've done. What better way to end the year with a good ole self-evaluation...?
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if siffrin can, they will carefully make the nendos happy instead - etch smiles on them. because isa is here, sif will put 80% coal/20% stars in their stocking.
isabeau will fill up his stocking with a 30% coal/70% stars. he will also give a little star to each of the plushes that got up to follow him around as they've been very good.
if medea can, she will choose to leave her stocking empty. commentary on how she doesn't care about being nice or naughty...... but if it's a compulsion, she'll just put in 1 star and 1 piece of coal each.
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You all deposit your coal and stars! Thank you for sharing what you truly think(?) about your lives.
Siffrin, since you put more coal than stars in your stocking, a giant snake will pop out of your stocking and bite you, its fangs nice and sharp in order to pierce through all your fluffy clothing. maybe this is obikawa's cousin....
Isabeau, you put more stars than coal, and therefore will emit beautiful, glittery sparks whenever you touch someone, like maybe Siffrin after they get Bit. Unfortunately, while the sparks feel harmless to you, they will feel like nasty little shocks to others.
Medea, you put in one coal and one star, achieving the perfect balance, though deep in your heart you think this is silly because you don't care for such labels... A little ranking meter will pop up over your head, showing your affection meter in terms of coal (for dislike) or stars (for like!) And because balance must be needed, this meter will also pop up over whoever speaks to you, so that you too can see your (yelp) rating.
The small plushies and now happy nendos even start to do a little jig, dancing in a circle around all of you, though you may realize that the circle gets smaller and smaller, effectively pinning you all into place.
But let's not forget about the stockings! In fact, once they deposit their chosen objects, each stocking will produce a letter on fine parchment, addressed to each of you. Do you open your letter and see what's inside? Or maybe you want to hold that thought off until later, and deal with the circle of happy figurines and plushies dancing around all of you like you're disney princesses... and also Siffrin, who just get bit! is that wound poisoned.... it could be if zetsu wishes to roll for it...
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anyway, quetz said awwww about no mpreg but i am grateful for your modly benevolence. if you somehow want to give quetz random mpreg in the final stretch i'll look the other way
Siffrin will try to stab this snake, cousin or not how dare you. He isn't sure what to make of the dancing figurines and plushies so he'll mostly ignore them... but hella yeah poison him with a 9 roll. Dice maiden loves treating Zetsu. Unfortunately, he's going to 100% open his letter to peekie.
Siffrin got injured which unfortunately means Isabeau is going to completely drop his brain and only care about grabbing Siffrin and trying to unlatch that snake. Quetz rolled a 15 so he is probably fairly successful in that endeavor? Woa... Also sorry Siffrin to your level 15 electric shock. Isabeau would not think of it but Quetz wishes for him to open his letter in some way... maybe it can get mad and force itself open at him for ignoring it.
Medea thinks they both can deal with the snake and the injuries just fine without her input or help. Instead, she doesn't really want to be corralled by plushies and nendos, so she will try to avoid them/weave around them/ get out of the circle they are trying to make. if they don't let her go around, she'll get violent. She'll look at her letter later and figure out she's getting doxxed after the dolls aren't a problem.
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THE WAY Y'ALL ARE OPENING YOUR LETTERS that's fair i too would open a mysterious letter addressed to me written on fine thick cut paper and written in ink
Siffrin, Isabeau -- you both somehow get your letters open by choice or by accident, even though one of you is poisoned and the other is very worried about the one who is poisoned. Siffrin, as you are occupied by the letter, the snake gives you another bite, yum! Isabeau, the snake will also bite you on the bicep! Yummy! It will also grow super large and become 6'3'' tall. But it's okay, these are minor sacrifices in favor of the Letters.
Siffrin, your letter is written by a hand you may recognize as the person from your shard. They talk about how you've hurt them in the past, but they also apologize for their own faults as well. They say that no matter how you blame yourself, they will never regret having met you.
There is a second page to the letter. You can either keep reading or deal with the snake.
Isabeau, your letter is also written and signed with the name of the person from your shard. This letter is an angry diatribe, asking you why you came to save them when you're not even the right person for the job. They ask if you really think you have what it takes to help, and if you aren't sure, then you shouldn't bother at all.
There is a second page to this nasty hatemail. You can either keep reading or help deal with the snake.
Medea -- you are saving your mysterious letter for later, because you are busy trying to get out of this circle. All these little guys start flinging themselves at you. They can't pin you down because they're just plushies and small nendos, but there are so many of them, and they keep crawling out of the piles of objects in the workshop to join their brethren. I am guessing that Medea is probably ARMED, so she may start stabbing/breaking the toys or help deal with the 6'3 snake that is now looking at Medea with a great deal of interest, as it has not bitten her yet.
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dont judge us then grabs you like a grape, anyway
Siffrin will just turn their attention to deal with the snake because he doesn't have the time to unpack the emotions from the letter, especially when it turns its eyes on medea. ssssneaky snake no changing targets like that. siffrin will be so annoying so it can't ignore them. will leap onto it and dig their knife into it. while poisoned yeah that's fine. you've made your final hiss-take... >:( pun is included and important.
Isabeau.. Considering who is in his shard... Isa grabs his letter and stuffs it in a pocket to read later. He also gets bitten! Kyaa! He rolled a six to protect himself from the poison so he unfortunately gets hella poisoned. He also hoped to use his new sparky touch powers to hurt the 6'3" snake but he rolled a 3 there, so he doesn't do shit to this giant snake. Vore time? (jk) (unless?)
For Medea - plushies and nendos can only hurt so much, so the snake is the more immediate concern. she'll break any dolls that get in the way to the snake but the focus is to deal with the snake by stabbing it with her sword.