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Alma Heart Game

You fall into mud. It is sticky and sucking and cloying and whether you stay still and try to remain calm or struggle and try to get out, you're sucked downward. You can't breathe, you can't (of course) see, and you can feel the crushing weight of earth on you. When the blackness becomes overwhelming, you find yourself somewhere else...

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The muddy path continues for a while, hardening into a caked mud tunnel as it goes, and slowly the source of light is revealed -- lanterns hanging from the walls, glowing softly in all the team colors of Aather.

The lanterns continue to hang everywhere, haphazard, as the path goes on. It rises and dips and grows steadily bumpier, as if the mud dried unevenly.

After one small drop it widens, and you find Alma, decked out in his hideously yellow Tiger's Eye spandex bodysuit, with an axe and shovel, cutting off bumps and trying to pat the loose dirt down to make even walls, floor. Sometimes, when his axe swings into a bump, blood pours out; he showers loose dirt on this until it's absorbed, and pats it down. Other times, there's nothing but dirt in there in the first place; other times, it seems to have been hiding items, which he hurriedly covers back up.

"Ah! Hi guys," he calls, as you approach. "Sorry about the mess! You can keep on going, I won't get in your way..."

The path does, indeed, carry on past where he is, splitting into two separate paths, one winding upward and one winding downward -- though the way the tunnels are shaped look man-made here, as if he had dug them out himself at some point.

[this is still creepy but oh thank god]

Pumpkinnnn.

Oh! Hey, Snow. What's up? You look upset.

...I don't like heart games very much. What are you doing...?

Doesn't really matter! Just, you know, some work. Yeah, heart games are awful, huh? What can I do to help?

...Are you the part that tries to pretend everything's okay? Because you don't need to, you know, especially with me.

Errrrrrr.

[looks guilty]

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[ WHY WHY WHY WHY ]

Pumpkin! What is this place?

[hopping on one foot, because he just gave the foot away] Oh! No big, it's fine. I'm just clearing some stuff away to make it easier for people. Sorry this place is pretty gross...

What happened to you?

Oh, my foot? I gave that to Snow!

What if we don't need you to clear things up for us? We can manage. Why would you give your foot to Snow?

Because that's the part you need from here? A leg to stand on, get the joke?

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Pumpkin. What do you think you're doing?

Clearing some stuff away!

[Hopping on one foot, just gave his foot away]

[okay. the foot kind of makes sense, but . . . ]

[moves over to him, holding his hand out for the shovel]

What're you clearing? I'll help out.

Things I need to be dealing with! [offers the shovel]

[puts the shovel in the ground, leaning on it]

What kind of things?

Uhh, like, those blisters are bloodlust. I don't want it all to well up so I'm trying to flatten it out a bit at a time! You know.

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Pumpkin, what are you doing?

Just making this path better!

[Hopping on one foot, just gave his foot away]

[...honey...]

Better how, exactly?

Like, manageable little bits.

Do you need help?

I mostly have it, to be honest! I've been keeping the left nice and tidy.

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