Early heart run.

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As you step through the door a siren goes off, the sound echoing in your ears for several minutes as the world goes completely black and empty.

You’re not falling but you’re not really standing on anything either, and all that you can percieve is the sirens still blaring, loud loud loud in your ears--

There’s an explosion so huge you don’t see or hear it so much as feel it through to your very bones. You feel an impact, strange and unsettling, and you think you might be dead? Because you can’t feel your body anymore.

Slowly the sound begins to fade and light and feeling returns, allowing you to see where you are. You’re also alive, good for you.

You end up here at the end. Unless you're Yuki, who ends up here.

((Join #checkmate))

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Chessboard

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You’re on a chessboard. Flat, black and white tiles stretch endlessly in all directions. In one direction, plants seem to grow from the tiles, giant blades of grass that tower like trees, and a garden of enormous flowers the size of a jungle. Everything feels a little unreal here, a bit topsy turvy and downside-up.

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[autorejoin]

[ Clue makes a face as he takes in his surroundings, sighing to himself. ]

Wonderland. Why does it have to be fucking Wonderland?

[ He raises an eyebrow as he notices the direction with plants. ]

That's different, though...

[ He starts walking in the same direction the plants are going. ]

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A small checkered chess path winds through the flowers, ending in a smooth stone wall. The stone is so perfectly polished it shines like glass.

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[fallinflames]

[takes a moment to reorient...]

Did... I just end up in Wonderland again...

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Sure looks like Wonderland! Though it's missing the boulder hill, the tracks and the mushroom forest.

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[familyjewels]

Shit... what the hell was that?

[shakes his head to try and clear it, looking around]

A chess board...? Looks like Wonderland. Huh.

[heading to check out the flowers]

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They are giant flowers. Quite pretty though sort of artificial looking.

A small checkered chess path winds through the flowers, ending in a smooth stone wall. The stone is so perfectly polished it shines like glass.

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[bishopped]

[wait, what, what the fuck is all of this 8|]

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Freaky is what.

The Winter Garden

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You step into a world covered in snow and ice. What might have been a beautiful garden is frozen in winter. The air is still and sound here is muffled. The cold is biting and harsh. There are lumps in the snow, shapeless things that could be anything, the snow conceals all in this lifeless garden.

There is one spot of color here though. A beautiful(?) patch of sunflowers... They really don’t mesh with the landscape though. They keep clipping through the terrain like the badly rendered graphics they are.

Re: The Winter Garden

[autorejoin]

[ We'll examine the freaky sunflowers in a moment. First, let's go to one of those snow lumps and try and dust off some snow. He's trying to see if he can identify it. ]

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[familyjewels]

[shivers and tugs his coat around himself]

Now it's Camelot, heh. What the heck is this thing, though...

[kneels down in front of the sunflower patch, reaching out to touch one]

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[fallinflames]

[pulls off his A-T since they don't mix well with snow, and heads towards the sunflowers, stopping to check on the lumps of snow on the way]

The Mansion - Entrance

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The ground floor of this lavish home is beautiful, decorated in exquisite taste. The marble tiles are a black and white checkered pattern. The walls marble and wood. By the entrance there’s a shoe stand with guest slippers once you remove your shoes. A cane holder with some lovely canes of all types, and an umbrella or two in case it rains.

Directly ahead is a winding ornate staircase to the second floor. Tucked under the stairs is a sunny yellow door, perhaps a parlor. To the left is an ornate wooden door, and to the right is a more simple but no less expensive white door. The door to the left is barred and the door to the right has no handle. There is of course the door out to the garden as well.

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[familyjewels]

[RUNNING IN AND SLAMMING AND LOCKING THE DOOR BEHIND HIM SCREW ETIQUETTE THERE ARE ZOMBIES]

Sunshine Parlour

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You step into Heliodor just as it is in Camelot. Mostly. There are a few differences. There is a feeling, it’s a little distant, remote and muted, but still, the feeling of the room is almost... Like a home. The warmth is just vaguely deeper than physical. On the other hand it’s not exactly welcoming either. As much as there is that feeling present it’s removed and a bit disconnected.

There is the smell of cabbage being cooked from the kitchen, and a small ruffian glares at you from the back of one of the chairs.

There are creeping vines everywhere in this area, they a black and covered in thorns and growing even in front of your eyes.

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[familyjewels]

[........oh my god]

Gara?!

The Mansion - Upstairs landing

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The hall at the top of the stairs leads in two directions. To the left looks like the personal suites. You can make out doors that don’t seem too ornate that probably lead to bedrooms. One is black, one is white, two are blue--one with gold trim, one decorated with stars. The rest are plain wood. At the end of the left hall is a double set of doors, likely the master bedroom.

The right hall on the other hand has more ornate doors. There’s a door with a relief of a book, and another made entirely of stained glass, brilliant and beautiful. In odd contrast there’s a door that looks to have been burned badly, barely hanging on its hinges. At the end of the hall is a metal door, bolted shut with any number of locks and bars.

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[familyjewels]

Wow, this place is big... okay. Let's get started.

[heads down the left hallway and touches each door to see if that triggers anything]

King's Suite

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The room is lavish, to put it mildly. The first area is a sitting room, with a couch, TV, game consoles and selection of games. There’s room for plenty of people to visit and hang out comfortably. The floor is warmly carpeted and plush. Little jars of light decorate the walls and ceiling. Most of furniture is black with yellow trim. There’s Turquoise throw pillows, and a beautiful Sapphire pot with a small tree in it.

Through a door to the left there is a bedroom, and the bed is an enormous, king sized, four poster affair, with silver silk and satin sheets, and turquoise pillows. How... bright. One entire wall is covered in mirrors... Um...

Oh on closer inspection the mirrors are the sliding door to the closet.

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[familyjewels]

[:O]

Wow, this is pretty luxurious...!

[checking out the TV and games]

Shrine

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The room is covered wall to floor with pictures of Kazuki. Pictures of Kazuki doing everything--Kazuki eating, Kazuki sleeping, Kazuki playing video games, Kazuki as a kid, Kazuki older, Kazuki arguing with friends, Kazuki looking off at something thoughtfully, Kazuki smiling brilliantly. All the pictures seem to be taken by an observer that Kazuki is unaware of.

The center piece of the room is a shrine, an altar to the subject of the room. A huge picture of Kazuki’s smile graces the altar, and incense and candles and items litter the surface. A gameboy, a crown, a length of rope, a silver key, a bloody knife, a fresh cut sunflower. There’s a body pillow propped against the altar too.

The whole room has a strange, breathless feeling of deep love and devotion devotion devotion obsession love... It’s overwhelming.

Even more overwhelming and disturbing is that one of the wall keeps moving. One moment it’s a wall covered in pictures of Kazuki, the next it’s a field of sunflowers with Kazuki as a child passed out on the ground, the next it’s a scene of carnage and war, dead bodies everywhere--Kazuki holding your hand and running--wait are you looking at a wall or is this really happening to you? You’re older and so is Kazuki and you’re kissing but he’s not responding to it and it breaks your heart no you’re confused you don’t know who this person is he’s telling you about Aather and he’s kind and has a brilliant smile no you’re bleeding, tied to a chair, you think you might be dying but you can hear his voice calling you----

The scenes flicker faster and faster and it’s hard to disassociate yourself from them for a moment or two. They settle again, it’s just a wall. No it’s a field of sunflowers....

There’s also a constant annoying background noise.

The room is a mess. You might want to be careful.

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[familyjewels]

[hhhhhhhhhhhhholy shit covering his mouth with one hand and going wide-eyed. g...gah. um. can the altar be moved at all?]

???

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A room decorated mostly in white with a warm fire and an ocean view. It seems like some rich person’s vacation home, comfortable but not stifling. There’s a door out to the beach, if you want, it looks like a nice day, and the ocean is so blue. Or the couches could easily be napped on. There’s a bookcase with books and some interesting puzzles and games. There’s also a massive metal door with many locks on it.

The whole area has a protected feeling of comfort.

Sitting on one of the couches, properly for such a little boy, is a child of about five. He has to lean forward to reach his tea, which is on the coffee table. He looks at you with wide, violet eyes. The boy himself seems a little ethereal, almost unreal. If you blink, it nearly seems like he’s shorted out of existence entirely. But when you look again he’s whole and there.

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[telepathetically]

.................oh my god you're tiny.