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2nd Event: Choices We Make
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Not all characters (known as Wickie, singular or Wickies, plural) arrive at the same time, surprisingly enough! That’s life for you. Some Wickies find their way to the island at a pivotal (or very mundane) point in their life, or even after or during their death.
Wickies who were standing or walking often find themselves entering the town South Sister, located on Lighthouse Isle, through an open doorway. Those that were laying down, or sleeping, tend to be found lying prone in beds, bathtubs, showers, couches, and similar places within the cottages on Cottage Row. There’s no rhyme or reason to it all! To Wickies familiar with the era, they will realize that everything looks as if it’s come from the ‘90s.
The house which a Wickie finds themselves within could already be occupied. This includes walking into a fellow Wicke, waking up in the same location, or accidentally scaring a room full of people with their sudden appearance.
Oops.
C-C-Changes
Thankfully the fog has gone down to what it was before, a slow creeping crawl over the ground. And too, the monsters of before are gone, leaving the town much like it was before. Well...close to what it was before.
For now the season's have changed, from a lingering summer to a cooler fall.
There’s new foods to try, even if some things like lattes cause people to slip into warm boots and tie up their hair, and soups make people curl up under blankets on the couch. And it also means decorations of all sorts, made of the leaves from the forest, orange, yellow and red things and...we can not forget...
Pumpkin overflow
Pumpkins! They're everywhere. Wickies will find pumpkins infused into all sorts of things, like coffee, ice cream, even spaghetti options! It's wild.
There’s also many jack o'lanterns. They have been placed everywhere in town, outside homes, and even small ones have been made into table decorations. The Jack o lanterns have very cheerful faces, and seem to watch Wickies every single move.
That is, until a Wickie bashes or otherwise abuses a pumpkin. That's when it changes- there seem to be more of them. Their expressions change to that of anger, sadness and disgust. None of them attack- yet. But their faces become more and more horrifying, as they follow the Wickie more and more- outside of the bathroom perhaps, or found on top of them as the Wickie wakes up in the middle of the night.
It shouldn't matter right? They're only pumpkins.
What a ride
Funny enough, with the pumpkin invasion, there also comes a dull colored horse wandering about the island. Its head is drooped, and it looks depressed and lonely. The horse is tame on approach and will accept pats and treats, even from those who are obviously not human.
But it also wants something, for all that it seems to be begging for attention. It wants someone to ride them, seems to even be begging for it with its big eyes. The horse will help Wickies to figure out how to mount; it will even stand beside the Town Center benches, rocks, or even go down in order to make it possible for the Wickie to get onto the horse’s back.
That’s when it changes. The Wickie is immediately wrapped in chains from their barrel to the Wickie’s waist. The horse turns a coal black and the Wickie’s clothing changes into that of a soldier's uniform, with a hand either holding a whip modeled after a human spine, or a jack o'lantern.
The Wickie cannot get off the horse on their own, no matter how much they struggle. As the horse moves throughout the town, they will go anywhere from a walk to a full canter, seemingly impervious to any magic or physical attacks. The same cannot be said for their unfortunate rider.
If the rider is hit, or simply in pain, the Wickie will feel an impulse that grows and grows until they scream a name of someone in town, someone they know.
And the named will drop, paralyzed. Paralyzed wickie are likely to die within minutes, more so if they are too close to horse and rider. The horse will happily trample anyone on the ground to death.
Even without the impulse, should the Wickie rider use anyone’s name, that person will drop, paralyzed, and unable to breathe.
There is only one way to possibly save the rider: scatter golden objects in their path. The horse will shriek, and promptly buck the rider off, before running away. Just make sure to catch the rider, or at least cushion their fall: they have no way of saving themselves until they hit the ground.
Heart game: confession
Current residents of the island may remember this particular beeping alert, and how it doesn’t go away, no matter what they do! That is, unless they open up the Heart Game, and answer the question.
Welcome back everyone! It’s so good to see you again! Now let’s play that game, Confession! And the question isssssss…
How do you celebrate the changing seasons! Don't be shy!
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[ but her question makes flat pause in thought, tilting his head to the side as he considers it. he’s not the best reference when it comes to parent-child relationships. ]
Well... it’s not like she’s born from you, so biologically it would make her not your daughter. [ but that’s just looking at it with extreme logic. like a machine. ] But if you want to be her mom and she wants to be your kid then I guess there’s nothing wrong with that.
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[She shrugs, as if to encompass the entire technically legal process of adopting the one-time world-consuming vanguard of the Umbral Star.]
Exactly. We built our own family. ...now that that's settled, I'll ask one more time, just to be sure: have you seen my daughter here?
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flat?
he laughs. ]
That’s pretty cool! Must be a lot of work, having to think of adoption laws.
[ but ultimately, he shakes his head. ]
No, I haven’t seen her. [ hmm... would this be a good time to help? flat pauses for a moment to wonder what his professor would do and, once he came to his decision, he grinned. ] But I can help!
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[When Nameless isn't nagging, at least.]
...thanks, I'd appreciate that. Honestly, I'm hoping I don't find her, but that's pretty hard to be certain of right out of the gate. If she is here, I want to find her as soon as possible.
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[ yes this absolutely makes sense for him. ]
Well, if it helps, usually the children survive horror movies. Ah, if you've seen the Shining, then you'll know that they both survived. You don't have any husbands that are losing their sanity following you around, right?
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[VERY new.]
She’s a tough one, but I still don’t want her to be alone if she is here. ...and no, I haven’t married anyone just yet.
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[ reines is hardly a princess, but she sure acts like one. ah, well. ]
Ahh, I see. Well, I guess people would've started dying if this were truly a horror movie-esque thing. But hey, if it helps, I'm also looking for someone I know too.
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[Though almost every single Servant calls her something a little different.]
Oh? Well, tell me about them; maybe I’ll find them while I’m checking around.
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[ he grins in her direction. ]
Mhm! Well... it's a little difficult, you know? The first thing about them is that they don't have a set form, after all... [ he laughs sheepishly, rubbing the back of his neck. sorry hakuno, this might be a little more difficult than finding your daughter. ]
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[She contemplates that for a moment, slowly nodding.]
A shapeshifter, then. Any quirks? Verbal tics?
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[She gives it a little more thought.]
Would they be looking for you too?
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[ there’s a silence as flat thinks about the last moment he saw their servant. they were trying to protect him, no?
...
he nods, smiling. ]
Probably. They were in a pretty bad state, last time I remember, but when I came here I was all healed, so I think they’d be fine, too.
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[She gives him a once-over, faintly concerned.]
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[ he says this casually, shrugging his shoulders. even though he remembers that moment, it's not nearly as traumatic to him as it probably should be.
hm. ]
I was shot. They were already injured from a previous fight, kinda. But I'm all good now!
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[She frowns again, thinking hard.]
If there's a trace of the wound, then we're at least probably the same people we think we are.
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[ well hakuno, he doesn't know what he is, which is half of his whole deal, but he won't mention that. you gotta max level the social link with him first. ]
Well, what if our consciousness were all connected and dreaming something that the robot overlords wished for us to see. Kind of like in the Matrix?
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[Is... currently ruling that? Sort of?]
This is... something different.
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[ he wants to ask her if she took the red pill or the blue pill, but maybe that's not the right thing to ask? he'll keep it in the back of his mind for now. ]
Hm, yeah... it does feel strange. But if you have more experience with it, how does it feel to you?
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[She stretches out a hand and flexes it, experimentally.]
There either would be nothing weird, as far as we knew, or we'd have had direct contact with an overlord or overarching master program.
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[ he nods, his gaze unfocused for a moment, before he seems to jolt back into attention. ]
I can't really feel anything of the sort, but it's almost like... kind of like we were pushed into this new place? It must take a lot of power to do something like that... it would take a long time to analyze it.