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))

Comments

Re: ???

[telepathetically]

[HESITATES... then stands up from the couch, taking off his coat and tucking it around tinySion like a blanket]

Re: ???

[restorefromsave]

Well if you don't need the murder NPC he'll be departing again???

The tiny just kind of cuddles until he disappears under the blanket. Like a kitten.

Re: ???

[telepathetically]

GET BACK HERE

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[restorefromsave]

Re-materializes. What do you want :| so demanding.

"What?"

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[telepathetically]

[BRANDISHES THE HANDKERCHIEF AT]

Bend down!

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[restorefromsave]

Bends down? :|?

Re: ???

[telepathetically]

[wipes the blood off Bishop's face]

Re: ???

[restorefromsave]

Linefaces through this. What are you doing Yuki. Jeez. It's just blood.




It wipes off but stains the handkerchief black, beginning to rot through the fabric.

Re: ???

[telepathetically]

[gets out his OWN handkerchief when the other one gets too rotten, wiping off his hands too 8|]

You're a MESS

Re: ???

[restorefromsave]

It turns to ash when in contact with Yuki's skin, but it rots the fabric of the kerchief.

"I function." Does he need more than that honestly.

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[telepathetically]

You can do better than FUNCTIONING.

[WELL THEN taking advantage of that to run his hands through sion's hair :|a ash > blood]

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[restorefromsave]

You leave his hair all ashy...

"It's all that is required."

Re: ???

[telepathetically]

SO?

[fingercombs!!]

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[restorefromsave]

You're weird Yuki. The Bishop just kind of stays bent over until you're done with his hair?

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[telepathetically]

[lets go of him once he is acceptably clean and pretty]

And put your hair up if you're going to get bloody again!

Re: ???

[restorefromsave]

"Understood."

A menu pops up in the air in front of you.

Debug successful, NPC returned to default, please select any changes you wish to make to NPC settings:


Murder:
(-) ------------------------[x]---------- (+)
Loyalty:
(-) ----------------------------------[x] (+)
Coping:
(-) ------------[x]---------------------- (+)

[Apply] [Save] [Restore Defaults]

Re: ???

[telepathetically]

SHIT. FACTORY SETTINGS!?

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[restorefromsave]

There's a default button but it's greyed out.

Re: ???

[telepathetically]

[AHHHHH]

L-loyalty? Is that loyalty to the King SPECIFICALLY or to whoever Sion likes...??

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[restorefromsave]

"It's both."

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[telepathetically]

I don't know what your Loyalty stat is supposed to be... Kazuki doesn't LIKE di[e]ce stuff, but I KNOW you have loyalty to Naoto because he's your boyfriend, I don't want to affect THAT...

[DIALS UP COPING!?]

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[restorefromsave]

"Loyalty is simply loyalty, Yuki."

A new menu appears:

Insufficient resources to make that change. Please attempt manual reconfiguration.

Request materials? ______

There’s a blinking text box and nearly transparent keyboard where you may type in a request.

Re: ???

[telepathetically]

Then I'm not touching that.

["coping"????]

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[restorefromsave]

Unknown value. Retype command.

Re: ???

[telepathetically]

["20"????]