Yayoi's Heart

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Start

[learntofly]

[You find yourself in a plain white room. There are four different exits here:

The first is a well weathered door of heavy wood. If you pass by it, you'll notice the scent of something savory and wonderful on the other side, and the bustle of bright and cheery noise within.

The second is a plain classroom door. It sounds like there's a good-natured fight going on on the other side . . .

The third is another wooden door, this one raked deeply with the claw marks of some great beast. There are a few spatters of blood just outside.

Finally, there is a portrait: Saffron's, in fact.]

[Yayoi is also here, dressed in a dark purple set of clothes. She smiles softly, watching the group with a curious look.]

Re: Start

[acemagician]

[well this is new. smiles back at Yayoi]

Hello! This is really different, isn't it?

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[learntofly]

Is it? Well, this part is new . . . We had to reorganize things recently.

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[aceassistant]

Oh, hi there!

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[learntofly]

Hello . . . I don't think we've met you yet.

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[grandstanding]

What is this.

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[learntofly]

This is the beginning.

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[sparklyrichbastard]

Good evening. I don't believe we've met.

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[learntofly]

I don't think we have either. I'm The Greeter.

The Clawed Door

[learntofly]

[You find yourselves in a rustic looking home. There's a fire going in the wood-burning stove, and a slab of . . . some kind of meat lying wrapped in cloth on the table. There are little spatters of blood leading from the table to the hall, and a much more concerning blood trail leading from the hall to the stove. A few large black feathers are scattered around haphazardly.]

[You can hear the sound of muffled talking from somewhere deeper in the house.]

Re: The Clawed Door

[acemagician]

[gasps a little when she sees the mess]

O-oh no. . . it really is a mess.

[:( searching the area for cloths or something to wipe the blood up with]

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[learntofly]

[There's a discarded coral pink scarf on the floor. It looks like it fell during . . . whatever went on here.]

The Classroom Base

[learntofly]

[You find yourselves in an ordinary school classroom. Desks are aligned in neat rows and columns, and a blackboard covers three walls with a row of windows taking up the fourth. Hanging from the roof—o-oh. There isn’t a roof . . . exactly. The edge of one can be seen. It looks like it’s actually been rolled back, exposing the clear night sky above. There’s no moon to be seen from here, but the stars are all clear and vivid, sparkling brightly in the sky.]

[A pair of boys are taking up the front of the room with a fight that doesn’t seem to be over anything in particular. The rest of the group has settled in the back to avoid them. There's a dark-haired girl draped over the shoulder a startlingly large dark-skinned boy while the both of them watch some sort of event on his cell phone. Another boy with blue hair has shoved a few desks together to lay across for a nap, and Yayoi herself . . . She's standing at the doorway, just outside the room, watching the scene with a somber look on her face.]

Re: The Classroom Base

[grandstanding]

[and yet it's as alien to him as Mars.

takes a few steps closer to the centre of the room, to get a better look at the sky.]

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[learntofly]

[The sky is pristine—though it doesn't look like any sky that could be seen from Earth. Some of the constellations are there: Cepheus, Lacerta, Pyxis, but their locations are all wrong. As if someone just threw them up there haphazardly.]

The Wooden Door

[learntofly]

[You find yourself in a strange looking kitchen that seems to be a fusion of something resembling a hobbit's hole and a more traditional, eastern style kitchen. It's also filled with people, all of them in either a forest green or royal purple uniform. A young blond boy and a taller dark haired man, both very noodly in appearance, are bustling around the kitchen and occasionally passing a white-haired boy with a scar over one eye and a bizzare red arm a sample of something to eat. Whatever they're cooking smells delicious. A few papery owls flit around overhead.

Another young man, this one blond, is watching from the table—or rather, he was until a one-eyed red head appeared from behind to grab him for a fond noogie which sparks a playful wrestling match. Yet another man shoves them both away from the table to he can continue to read in peace. Tucked in a corner on a bed (yes, there is a bed in the dining area) are a younger boy and girl who are brightly chatting away with the eldest gentleman of the group. A few more young men are napping on yet another bed, and Yayoi herself is seated at the table with the reading fellow, chopping a few vegetables into . . . very rough, uneven pieces. She looks pretty frustrated with her work.]

[There are several exits in this room: through a shared front door, a rope ladder leading up to a trap door in the ceiling, or through an aged looking door that's been mostly hidden away behind a shelving unit. There's also the way you came in, of course.]

Re: The Wooden Door

[grandstanding]

[these colours aren't any teams he knows... skirts around the edge of the room to the bed where the kids and older man are talking.]

Excuse me.

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[sparklyrichbastard]

Hello, everyone. Apologies for barging in on you like this!

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[grandstanding]

[now that I'm done tormenting Desire... glances at the aged door again.

Saffron

[learntofly]

[Through Saffron's portrait is a replica of their dorm, though it seems . . . uneasy. There's just an uncertain feeling that seems to pervade the air. You might find yourself beginning to wonder if you belong there, if you really should be here . . .

The only person here is Leo, nose stuck in a book as usual.]

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[aceassistant]

[!!!!!!]

It's the demon!!!

The Roof

[learntofly]

[Yayoi is the only person to be found up here. She’s seated at a large telescope—quite large, in fact. It easily dwarfs her. She doesn’t notice the arrival of visitors on the roof, completely wrapped up in the section of sky she’s trained the scope on. It's . . . quite an odd sky too. Though it's clearly night, there's no moon or even stars, save for the single bright orange speck Yayoi is watching. Even so, there's enough ambient light to see by.]

[From here you can see a small building at the edge of the school grounds and the faint shimmer of a lake in the distance. There is also a classroom below where the roof appears to have been rolled back, and what the trapdoor leading down to the room filled with cooking and cheerful people.]

Re: The Roof

[grandstanding]

[pauses, looking between the sky and the classroom below.]

This isn't right.

The Ancient Library

[learntofly]

[The aged door opens into a massive library lit by torches embedded into the walls, pillars, hanging from the ceiling in chandelier, each tucked safely away into sconces to catch any embers that may have fallen from them. There are thousands, maybe millions of books lining the walls, though the contents are all vague and muddled should anyone try to read them.

There’s a small shrine against one wall, hand-written pages piled in neat stacks on it. A woman is approaching it to add another fairly thick stack to the pile. She looks familiar . . .]

Re: The Ancient Library

[grandstanding]

[has to stare at all the books for a while, silently. this isn't anything like what he was expecting. he starts to make his way towards the shrine.]