[Heart Game] From the ashes we can build

[castaside]

WHO: Macaque, Red Son, Wukong, Korone, Donnie, Cole, Wash
WHAT: Soul fixin'
WHEN: March 9
WHERE: Red Son's house, Blossomcrown
WARNINGS: will be marked

Comments

Re: Lobby

[castaside]

Your shadow's shoulders shake as if it's laughing.

You are Macaque, and you are alive again. Barely.

You come back to life screaming, bleeding, disoriented. You can't see the Lady Bone Demon, your "savior", but you can hear her, feel her. She laughs at your pain as the hole in your head is healed over, slowly enough to give you plenty of time to think about it. To remember who put it there, and who is healing it.

"I'll make you a deal," she whispers from everywhere. It's this or the underworld, so you grit your teeth and listen.

"You will serve me. Serve destiny. And in exchange, you get your life."

Don't sound like your life will be very much yours. But, once again, you're not holding any of the cards here, except one.

You nod, fighting the urge to scream as she takes her sweet time healing your fatal wound.

"Good." She finishes the healing up quickly, as if she's showing you mercy just to prove that she could retract it at any time. You lay on the ground, gasping, thinking only of one person.

The wind curls ice-cold around you as the Lady Bone Demon whispers, "go now, my champion."

Re: Lobby

[retirementsnotsopeachy]

"..."

That couldn't be how that happened. Not really. That was what Wukong could tell himself easily. Macaque never got immortality, so there was no way that he could have caused an injury that serious and walked away sure that he'd be fine. But calling that into question also meant calling everything else he'd just seen into question too. So he just dropped the ice into the bag wordlessly and reached for the candies.

Re: Lobby

[castaside]

Mercifully, the candies don't hold a memory. They hold comfort. They smell and taste like fresh, perfectly ripe peaches. There are ten in the bag, and no matter how many you eat there will always be ten.

They smell like curling up in the nest with Macaque and drowsing off to sleep, warm and happy. These are clearly meant to be soothing after the trauma of experiencing memories in the first person.

The stuffed monkey, likewise, holds no memories. It's just cute, because Macaque knows that cute things make you happy.

Re: Lobby

[retirementsnotsopeachy]

"Alright, if we go through all this and I don't get to keep these, you owe me," Wukong said, helping himself to a handful of candy and squeezing the plushie before putting both in the bad as well. "But that's everything, so I guess it's time to get started."

Re: Lobby

[castaside]

Almost everything! There is a void near the elevator, labeled with your golden monkey symbol, just like the one on your desk.

Others have determined that the way to fill these is to input a memory. One of your items needs to go in there, and then the elevator will open.

Re: Lobby

[retirementsnotsopeachy]

In Wukong's mind, that was the start of the game, and he knew what he wanted to place already. Stepping up to the void, he produced the rock and slipped it into the void.

Re: Lobby

[castaside]

With the rock placed into the void, it closes up. There is a powering up sound, then the ding of the elevator doors as they open.