[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

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Re: Level S - South Door

[noodleboi]

MK blinked then he chuckled.

"Alright. Let's let the coins decide. Heads, the one coin. Tails, the sack?"

Re: Level S - South Door

[forgingfires]

Red Son nodded. "Agreed," he said and will flip that coin and....

Tails.

"All right. So we'll throw in the sack?"

Re: Level S - South Door

[noodleboi]

"That's what the coins decided," MK said and moved to the door. He pushed the sack into the void at the door.

"You didn't run away then and you won't run away now. And we won't leave you either. We promise."

Re: Level S - South Door

[castaside]

The sack of coins is pushed into the void, and it closes up.

But you can see blue cracks all over the door now that there's no void blocking your view.

Re: Level S - South Door

[forgingfires]

"We're staying," Red Son promised, standing beside MK.

And.

Oh boy.

"Ah, that's a problem," he said.

Re: Level S - South Door

[noodleboi]

That was not what Mk wanted to see. The cracks were everywhere. They couldn't get in. His eyes looked hard, were the cracks on the door handle?

"That's a big problem."

Re: Level S - South Door

[castaside]

There are cracks on the handle. Through the door. All over the house.

Do you risk it?

Re: Level S - South Door

[forgingfires]

Red Son is immediately grabbing MK's hands.

He knows his boyfriend.

"We should speak to Wash and Pigeon Girl."

Re: Level S - South Door

[noodleboi]

"I wasn't gonna touch it!" MK said defensively. He really wasn't.

"...You might be right but I wanna try something first." Well several somethings but first...

"Epsilon? We...need to get inside. Would you mind moving? Pretty please?"

Re: Level S - South Door

[castaside]

Epsilon might hear you, might not. The cracks are memories only, so it's impossible to tell.

Regardless, nothing happens.

Re: Level S - South Door

[forgingfires]

Red Son raises an eyebrow, but slowly let's go of his hands. "Just checking. We don't need a fourth person with blue cracks and you definitely don't need identity issues," he said flatly.

He waits for a response. "...shall we contact them now?"

Re: Level S - South Door

[noodleboi]

Stupid AI not listening. Or just not moving. Rude ass Epsilon.

"I guess yeah. Call them?" He asked as he stepped off the porch and tried to look under the door. Do the cracks go along under the door?

Re: Level S - South Door

[forgingfires]

He pulls out his phone and considers. "I think Wash. He has more experience," he said.

Re: Level S - South Door

[castaside]

You can see blue under the door, but it's hard to tell where the cracks are exactly.

The porch starts creaking ominously.

Re: Level S - South Door

[noodleboi]

Mk was sure Red Son would yell at him later. He just wanted to see something. And he needed to see closer. With a poof, while Red Son was on the phone, he turned little. He moved close to the door and looked under. Could he squeeze through without touching anything blue?

Re: Level S - South Door

[forgingfires]

That is an ominous creaking and Red Son steps off the crouch. "MK. MK, get off the porch!" Red Son said, trying to look for the sign of the strain.

Re: Level S - South Door

[castaside]

From this vantage point you can see that the entire floor is covered in blue cracks. Even as a tiny person there's no way to avoid touching them. Not only that, the entire place is structurally unsound. Anyone going in there might not only touch the blue cracks, they might fall down into a sinkhole of them.

Re: Level S - South Door

[noodleboi]

That was horrifying to see. There was nothing in the house waiting for them except that. Mk quickly backed away and poof! He was big again as he stumbled off the porch.

"That... that was fucking scary! Ask Wash what it means if there's a huge hole FULL of cracks? What do we do about THAT?!"

Re: Level S - South Door

[forgingfires]

"He said not to touch them! He says he'll take a look, but its his brain explosion," Red Son said, waving at the house. "If anyone can do something, its him, and if he can't, we just keep giving it space."

Re: Level S - South Door

[noodleboi]

"I didn't touch them!" Mk snapped back a little. "I promised I wouldn't but Epsilon went and made a giant hole in Monkey King's house! But not as BIG A HOLE AS I MADE!" He shouted at the house. He huffed and crossed his arms.

"If he can't do anything, there's nothing in there anymore."

Re: Level S - South Door

[castaside]

While you stand there talking about it, the creaking sounds increase, and then the house collapses into a glowing blue sinkhole.

Re: Level S - South Door

[forgingfires]

Fuck-

"Its attention," Red Son said, grabbing MK's arm and yanking him away. "There was an effect when I looked at the cracks too long in Pigeon Girl's heart, we need to just...give it space."

He hopes.

HE HOPES.

Re: Level S - South Door

[noodleboi]

"OH FUCK!" MK yelped and jumped back. They were both safe but the whole house just FELL INTO A GIANT GLOWING BLUE SINKHOLE.

"...WHAT WAS THAT?! WHY?!" MK yelled. He heard Red Son and looked at his boyfriend.

"We can't even LOOK at them?! I...that..." Mk sputtered and growled in frustration. There was nothing they could do and the AI had just drilled a huge hole in Macaque's brain. Great. Wonderful. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Re: Level S - South Door

[castaside]

The wind blows up through the sinkhole, seeming to be chuckling.

Re: Level S - South Door

[castaside]

A curl of girlish laughter curls up from the sinkhole.

Epsilon isn't what did that.