Alma's unconscious game

[imaginemeandyuu]

((Alma's unconscious game goes here! I have put up a discussion plurk here since I know a bunch of the folks playing it don't use irc, any questions etc can go there. If for some reason you don't have access, let me know.

Since a large part of this unconscious is puzzle-based, if you need to leave and come back later: 1) you can handwave that you went along with the group or 2) if you want to explore everything yourself still, feel free to assume your character wandered off/back to check something (etc) -- but note that when you come back, you'll find whatever puzzles have since been 'solved' will remain 'solved'. It won't reset, so any paths that are opened or anything like that will stay that way.

That said, there are multiple things to do here, and changes still impact things, so if you oocly have to leave and come back, and when you do everything seems 'done', there are at least still things to look at and possibly multiple paths which you might want to do something about, so don't feel discouraged from starting back in after other people have opened doors or w/e)).

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Left Room

[imaginemeandyuu]

To the Exorcists, this style of room is very familiar -- it looks like a bedroom at the (old) Order. Stone floors, stone walls, a narrow, dungeon-like feel. Someone has scrawled a prayer for the dead on the walls in what appears to be lipstick. A bed here has black sheets, tightly made over the thin mattress on a metal frame. A book is sitting closed on top of the bed -- it appears to be a romance novel. A pair of old-fashioned roller-skates lies against one wall. There is a bedside table with a wash basin. A locket is sitting on the bedside table as well, closed. The standing wardrobe is full of dresses -- walking dresses, evening dresses, even a nice gown in there -- as well as several Black Order coats, in an old-fashioned style and cut to fall easily around a gown.

There is a dressing table with a mirror on it; the dressing table itself has a small array of cosmetics laid out on it. However, even a cursory glance at the dressing table will make the mirror of much more interest as the reflection doesn't reflect the room identically. It is almost the same but with two jarring exceptions. First, in the reflection, the bed is a coffin. Second, in the reflection, a woman's corpse is collapsed on the floor. She is beheaded, her head lying some feet away from her body, eyes closed, lips blue, the stump bloody but no longer bleeding. Her body is dressed in the same style of clothes that were found in the wardrobe. To some of you, she most likely quite familiar. She has dark blonde hair coming loose from a ponytail, and a face that is somewhat plain (wide forehead, round cheeks, an unremarkable nose) but might be pretty if she smiled; however, her face is tight with what looks like grief rather than fear or pain. Tears are still visible on her face.

Chains run over the walls in both the real room and the reflection, wrapping around generally, and they eventually terminate in a square of the floor -- but only here, not in the reflection.

Re: Left Room

[besomeothername]

[Oh...]

[Going to reach out to gently touch the mirror]

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[imaginemeandyuu]

Your fingers sink into it.

Re: Left Room

[besomeothername]

[Right, right]

[Well here I go, mirror-diving]

[Gosh I'm glad Red isn't here]

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[hydralize]

[OH MY GOD]

Don't—!

Re: Left Room

[imaginemeandyuu]

You are now in the other side of the mirror, with the corpse.

Re: Left Room

[besomeothername]

[Gives Nova a thumbs up from his side of the mirror. Bro, bro. I got this]

[Can he see Nova in the mirror on his side?]

Re: Left Room

[imaginemeandyuu]

[Yup, it seems to be more like a window than a mirror, in a way]

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[hydralize]

[Nova is going to STARE IN HORROR watch like a hawk (IN HORROR!!!!!) until Lavi comes back out]

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[crowdependency]

[SCREAM Nova let's freak out D:]

LAVI!

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[killedyuu]

[Going to go sit on the bed, putting his face in his hands.]

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[imaginemeandyuu]

Your weight makes the bed dip slightly, and the novel slides to bump against your thigh.

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[killedyuu]

[He jumps slightly, but after staring at for a moment, he picks it up carefully.]

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[imaginemeandyuu]

It's entitled A Secret Romance.

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[killedyuu]

[Well the others are being dumb. I may as well be dumb too.

Flips open the book.]

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[imaginemeandyuu]

The novel has the story of a merchant-class woman and a servant-class young man, both of whom were ripped from their homes to aid an army and found love in each other's arms amidst the chaos and fear.

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[killedyuu]

[Why are books not my friends anymore? 8')

Alma drops the book on his lap, hands shaking.]

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[hydralize]

[NOT . . . TOUCHING ANYTHING and moving as far from the mirror as is humanly possible]

What is this . . .

Re: Left Room

[anklets]

[Still feeling rather ill, she moves over to touch the locket. She can't be in the wedding dress room, and half the people in here are freaking out. May or may not be shutting down, a little.]

...Alma...

Re: Left Room

[crowdependency]

[SUPER FREAKING OUT AAAAAH AAAAAAH bloody massacres I can handle but not mirrors D:

...Gosh maybe I should notice Lenalee and do. Something. Conductive there.]

Re: Left Room

[anklets]

[Or we could both just have a little bit of a breakdown, that's an option, too.]

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[crowdependency]

[I like that plan. Let's do that.]

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[anklets]

[We're very helpful right now.]

Re: Left Room

[imaginemeandyuu]

It shifts with a tiny clink when she touches it.

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[anklets]

[Withdraws her hand as if burned.]