VALERIAN HEART GAME

[pchaaair]

[Your vision goes black and there's a cold rushing wind, along with the sound of rustling tree limbs. . . and then you’re falling, until you land with a loud CRUNCH.]

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THE CLEARING

[pchaaair]

[When your vision returns, you're standing in the middle of a forest clearing. There are trees everywhere, and dried leaves litter the ground - so much so, that whenever you take a step, you hear a loud CRUNCH. It's nighttime, judging from how dark the forest is. Very little light makes it through the leaves.

In the distance, there's a makeshift village.

You know, instinctively, that you need at least three keys. For what, you may not know, but you know that you need at least three keys.]

Re: THE CLEARING

[b100intheface]

[heading toward the village, slow and careful -- he can see well in the dark, but it's always best to take things slowly in unfamiliar territory when one's STRENGTH is a hazard to one's surroundings.]

Re: THE CLEARING

[pchaaair]

[I'm going to laugh if you break his heart because you were too strong]

Re: THE CLEARING

[appleofhiseye]

...Huh...

[heading for the village, that seems like the right thing to do for some mysterious reason]

Re: THE CLEARING

[pchaaair]

[At least it's not as much of a mess as last time, right]

THE VILLAGE

[pchaaair]

[The makeshift village is, for the most part, fairly quiet and empty. Aside from a large, singular building that's in fairly good condition in the middle, everything is in various stages of disrepair. It resembles the village of the lost boys.

The path branches out to five different places.

Which do you choose?

> the building with a … store window?
> the building with some Sage green on it.
> the decent looking building
> the building with some books scattered outside of it.
> the darkest building.

If you don’t want to go anywhere, though, you can chill out in the creepy village or something.]

Re: THE VILLAGE

[b100intheface]

[This is unnerving and not at all a comfortable environment tyvm

But when in doubt take refuge in order: he heads for the decent-looking building in the middle]

Re: THE VILLAGE

[pchaaair]

[UNFORTUANTELY, the decent one is padlocked when you actually get close enough to investigate it. 8|a

Taking refuge here isn't something you can do. Yet.]

Re: THE VILLAGE

[b100intheface]

[well drat. it w001d be uncivilized to try to force the padlock, so he steps back to survey the other options. and goes to pick up one of the books lying outside the next building's door.]

Re: THE VILLAGE

[pchaaair]

[Off you go dude]

Re: THE VILLAGE

[appleofhiseye]

[...well!! eying the sage green building for a minute, looking between that and the dark building...eventually heading for sage green]

Re: THE VILLAGE

[pchaaair]

[welcome to sage, apple!]

THE LIBRARY

[pchaaair]

[When you step into the library, it looks... well, a lot like the library in Court. The only difference is that there are only a few shelves that actually have books in them. The rest are bare and dusty, with only the outlines of what used to look like hundreds of books.]

Re: THE LIBRARY

[b100intheface]

[peers at the books that still are shelved -- are they in any kind of order?]

Re: THE LIBRARY

[pchaaair]

[They are!

There shelves with these labels: THE LIBRARY, THE MURDERCAVE, AATHER, LIFE.]

Re: THE LIBRARY

[b100intheface]

[looking at the book he picked up on the way in, trying to see if he can figure out where it belongs]

Re: THE LIBRARY

[pchaaair]

[It matches the books hanging out in the LIFE shelf, if that helps. Maybe it goes there?]

Re: THE LIBRARY

[appleofhiseye]

[this looks familiar. Heading over to see what books are there]

Re: THE LIBRARY

[pchaaair]

[which shelves? there's one for aather, one for life, one for the library, and one for a murdercave.]

Re: THE LIBRARY

[appleofhiseye]

[the one for life]

Re: THE LIBRARY

[pchaaair]

[the covers depict: a white dog with no eyes, a troll girl in a white dress, rufio, and a bullfairy.]

SAGE

[pchaaair]

[Frills and ruffles are everywhere on their chairs, while table legs are carved with fire-breathing dragons. The dining table is set for six, but the skulls that decorate the plats are overflowing with flowers... and the chairs seemt o be cut from bone, while covered in sage green velvet. The kitchen itself is fairly velvet-y.

Beyond the dining area is a hall with seven doors. Six of the doors are normal, but there is one at the end, that has iron bars and a peephole.]

Re: SAGE

[appleofhiseye]

It's really here...

[going to peek in the closest door first]

Re: SAGE

[pchaaair]

[It's your room!!

Exactly how you would remember it, too.]

Re: SAGE

[appleofhiseye]

[closing that door quickly and moving to the next one]