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]

SO?

[fingercombs!!]

Re: ???

[restorefromsave]

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

Re: ???

[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!?

Re: ???

[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...??

Re: ???

[restorefromsave]

"It's both."

Re: ???

[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!?]

Re: ???

[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"????]

Re: ???

[restorefromsave]

Unknown value. Retype command.

Re: ???

[telepathetically]

["20"????]

Re: ???

[restorefromsave]

There's a little buffering wheel and then you get... a 2 and 0 fridge magnets materializing in front of you?

Re: ???

[telepathetically]

[...sticks them on the menu?]

Re: ???

[restorefromsave]

It's not magnetic, it's holographic, but after a moment the numbers sink in:

Murder:
(-) ------------------------[x]---------- (+)
Loyalty:
(-) ----------------------------------[x] (+)
Coping:
(-) ------------[x]---------------------- (+) (+20)

Re: ???

[telepathetically]

...what's that on a scale of?

Re: ???

[restorefromsave]

"Is there an upper limit to any of these values? I suppose the lower limit is non existent."

Re: ???

[telepathetically]

Will 20 put it even with your murder stat...?

Re: ???

[restorefromsave]

"No. But it will raise it."

Re: ???

[telepathetically]

You should be able to cope at least ALMOST as well as you murder.

Re: ???

[restorefromsave]

"I used to do both more efficiently."

Seems a little grumpy.

Re: ???

[telepathetically]

[...pats his hand, there there]

Re: ???

[restorefromsave]

???

...Gently shoves back onto the couch.

Re: ???

[telepathetically]

[SITS??]

What?