Early heart run.

[restorefromsave]

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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The Winter Garden

[restorefromsave]

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. ]

Re: The Winter Garden

[restorefromsave]

You brush the dust off a cold shape. It’s a human body, mangled and long dead. Perfectly preserved in the cold.

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[autorejoin]

[ He mutters to himself. ]

Sion, you're a little fucked up.

[ He takes a moment to rub his hands together (for warmth, because like a fool he is wearing fingerless gloves). Then he moves on to the badly rendered sunflowers, and reaches out to touch one, seeing if it is actually there. ]

Re: The Winter Garden

[restorefromsave]

You mean not everyone keeps the corpses in the garden?

Your hand goes through them. They flicker, like a badly connected video feed. After a moment they’re solid enough to touch after all. You get a strong feel--no? The feeling itself seems to static a bit.

Re: The Winter Garden

[autorejoin]

[ Maybe it's a di[e]ce thing. ]

[ He's going to try and grab a hold of a staticy flower, if it will let him hold onto it long enough. ]

Re: The Winter Garden

[restorefromsave]

You can, sort of? You can hold it for a minute or two before it flickers.

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[autorejoin]

[ He growls in frustration, but takes a step back from the sunflower. He looks around to see if this cold, lifeless garden has anything useful in it— gardening tools, etc. ]

Re: The Winter Garden

[restorefromsave]

There might be a gardening shed under the snow to your left? Or maybe it's a tree. Or fountain. It's hard to tell.

Re: The Winter Garden

[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]

Re: The Winter Garden

[restorefromsave]

Your hand goes through them. They flicker, like a badly connected video feed. After a moment they’re solid enough to touch after all. You get a strong feel--no? The feeling itself seems to static a bit.

Re: The Winter Garden

[familyjewels]

[?????? what. what feeling.]

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[restorefromsave]

What feeling indeed, at best you feel unsettled but there's no way to define what the feeling is. Good? Bad? It's like trying to make out a picture on a screen covered in static only instead of a picture it's an emotion. It sure feels weird.

Re: The Winter Garden

[familyjewels]

[lets... go... and decides to check out one of these shapeless lumps and dust some snow off of it]

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[restorefromsave]

You brush the snow off a cold shape. It’s a human body, mangled and long dead. Perfectly preserved in the cold.

Re: The Winter Garden

[familyjewels]

Shit...

[anyone recognizable?]

Re: The Winter Garden

[restorefromsave]

It doesn't seem to be anyone you know. He looks about your age, if not a little younger.

Re: The Winter Garden

[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]

Re: The Winter Garden

[restorefromsave]

You brush the snow off a cold shape. It’s a human body, mangled and long dead. Perfectly preserved in the cold.

Still headed to sunflowers?

Re: The Winter Garden

[fallinflames]

[sighs... yeah, let's see these flowers...]

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[restorefromsave]

They sure look like video game graphics, out of place and obviously badly programmed by they way they keep glitching.

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[fallinflames]

[reaching out to touch one]

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[restorefromsave]

Your hand goes through them. They flicker, like a badly connected video feed. After a moment they’re solid enough to touch after all. You get a strong feel--no? The feeling itself seems to static a bit.

Re: The Winter Garden

[fallinflames]

[down to brush the snow away from their base to check there]

Re: The Winter Garden

[restorefromsave]

They do seem to be growing from the ground kind of.