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: Chessboard

[restorefromsave]

"No one ever does."

He points the staff at you. "I cannot prevent you from entering, but I can make you regret it if you lie." He doesn't step aside either you'll have to go around him. There's plenty of room at least.

Re: Chessboard

[fallinflames]

[wheeling up to him instead]

I won't lie to you in this, but if I change something unknowingly, I apologize in advance. I do not wish to harm anything.

Re: Chessboard

[restorefromsave]

He shifts, the cold metal pressed to Spitfire's cheek. The blood stings where it touches.

".....Apologies mean nothing to me."

Re: Chessboard

[fallinflames]

[the tiniest of winces without really drawing away]

What does hold meaning for you then?

Re: Chessboard

[restorefromsave]

"My job."

Re: Chessboard

[fallinflames]

Which is?

Re: Chessboard

[restorefromsave]

"Protecting the king."

Re: Chessboard

[fallinflames]

... What king?

Re: Chessboard

[restorefromsave]

He just looks at you.

Re: Chessboard

[fallinflames]

I'll ask later. Anything I should watch out for in here besides you?

Re: Chessboard

[restorefromsave]

"All kinds of things."

Re: Chessboard

[fallinflames]

[really. hffs]

I'll be careful then.

[slight bow of his head and steps to the side to move past him]

Re: Chessboard

[restorefromsave]

Doesn't stop Spitfire, that way leads to a sheer drop down.

Re: Chessboard

[fallinflames]

[as up, so down. over the edge and wall riding down the drop]

Re: Chessboard

[restorefromsave]

[There's no static this time, it's an easy ride to the garden]