Snow Heart Game - Session 3

[bondsofsuffering]

Snowdrops were once a symbol of death
But to grow first of any flower in the winter...

Couldn't their meaning also be...?

Comments

Rules

[bondsofsuffering]

❁ Powers/Blessings are inaccessible.
❁ No time limits we plonk at this as time allows.

Start

[bondsofsuffering]

[Please comment here to begin.]

Re: Start

[demonicdomestic]

Where....?

Gardening Plots

[bondsofsuffering]

[Your character wakes up on dry, barren dirt. Upon examination, they seem to be in a massive indoor garden with reinforced glass windows allowing in sunlight from a clear sky. However, the dirt itself is devoid of any life outside of some shriveled, dead plants, wilted away without receiving any care.

To the north is a well.

To the west is a door with a silver handle.

To the south is a garden shed.

To the east is a door with a tarnished handle.]

LOCATION CHANGES

[bondsofsuffering]

[Please do not reply to this comment; any changes to the environment will be updated here.]

Re: Gardening Plots

[demonicdomestic]

[Takes a moment to reorient himself, looking at the surroundings, the walls, the... dead plants...]

There are so many things here I find concerning.

[Crouches down to take a look at those plants, seeing if there's enough to identify them by.]

The Well

[bondsofsuffering]

[The well is nothing special - a ring of stone with a little roof, a rope and bucket hanging from the little structure.

The well goes quite deep. Characters can note this, because the well is completely dry.]

LOCATION CHANGES

[bondsofsuffering]

[Please do not reply to this comment; any changes to the environment will be updated here.]

The well is now filled with water.

Re: The Well

[demonicdomestic]

[Looks down, slit eyes adjusting easily to the dim depth... and sighs.]

It would have been far more useful if you'd brought Aster here. Diverse as my skills are, none of them involve bringing water to places where it's not.

Garden Shed

[bondsofsuffering]

[The garden shed is a little wooden structure on the southern end of the garden. Stepping in through the doorway will reveal a small, but tidy shed full of gardening supplies. The most notable items to be found are a watering can, shovels in various sizes, cement mix, fertilizer, and a bright green wooden trunk - though if your character is looking for a tool in particular, they can certainly dig around in search of it (which will be informed ICly if it can be found or not). There is also a small desk with a lamp and a thick book of plants with a bright green cover that characters are free to study.]

LOCATION CHANGES

[bondsofsuffering]

[Please do not reply to this comment; any changes to the environment will be updated here.]

Re: Garden Shed

[demonicdomestic]

Cement mix? What is that doing here?

Are you planning to turn your fading paradise into a parking lot?

Re: Garden Shed

[demonicdomestic]

[Now. Let's see if there's a wheelbarrow to be found here. Or a large pail.]

The Tarnished Door

[bondsofsuffering]

[The wooden door is unassuming, with a dirty, tarnished silver handle and a rather prominent keyhole. Interestingly, the door and its handle/lock seem to be impervious to damage.]

LOCATION CHANGES

[bondsofsuffering]

[Please do not reply to this comment; any changes to the environment will be updated here.]

Re: The Tarnished Door

[demonicdomestic]

[His inner househusband can't help but reach for his handkerchief to at least try and clean and polish that sad bit of metal.]

Re: The Tarnished Door

[demonicdomestic]

[The door, the lock, and the handle are impervious to damage. But the doorway is just an opening.

Breathing a little hard (his physique has improved since his first days aboard the Dreamdrift, but concrete is still heavy), he uses the broken chunk of patio to wedge the door open, leaving the path between the two gardens open and clear.]

Re: The Tarnished Door

[demonicdomestic]

[Another doorstop, another half pail of concrete.

The mound of wet concrete he shapes over the broken slab honestly isn't the most sightly of things, but he at least doesn't leave any fingerprints or messages pressed into it.]

The Garden Plots - B Side

[bondsofsuffering]

[Much like the garden on the other side of the door, the dirt here is dry and barren, save for some dead, wilted plants.

To the north is a cement patio.

To the west is a door with a tarnished handle.

To the south is a garden shed.

To the east is a door with a bronze handle.]

LOCATION CHANGES

[bondsofsuffering]

[Please do not reply to this comment; any changes to the environment will be updated here.]

Re: The Garden Plots - B Side

[demonicdomestic]

A mirror...?

Similar, but different. And suffering the same issue.

[He kneels down beside one of the plants, brushing its leaves curiously.]

Patio

[bondsofsuffering]

[The patio is nothing special - a smooth slab of concrete in a large rectangle. The concrete is still brightly and clean, and does not look like it has been weathered by time whatsoever.]

LOCATION CHANGES

[bondsofsuffering]

[Please do not reply to this comment; any changes to the environment will be updated here.]

Garden Shed

[bondsofsuffering]

[The garden shed is a little wooden structure on the southern end of the garden. Stepping in through the doorway will reveal a small, but tidy shed full of gardening supplies. The most notable items to be found are a watering can, shovels in various sizes, sledgehammer, fertilizer, and a bright red wooden trunk - though if your character is looking for a tool in particular, they can certainly dig around in search of it (which will be informed ICly if it can be found or not). There is also a small desk with a lamp and a thick book of plants with a bright red cover that characters are free to study.

Next to the book is a fully loaded revolver. ]

LOCATION CHANGES

[bondsofsuffering]

[Please do not reply to this comment; any changes to the environment will be updated here.]

Bronze Door

[bondsofsuffering]

[The wooden door is unassuming, with a clean bronze handle and a rather prominent keyhole. Interestingly, the door and its handle/lock seem to be impervious to damage.]

LOCATION CHANGES

[bondsofsuffering]

[Please do not reply to this comment; any changes to the environment will be updated here.]

Hizumi’s Room

[bondsofsuffering]

[Stepping through the bronze door reveals what appears to be the rooftop of an apartment in a metropolis. Green bars form fencing to prevent any deadly stumbles or mishaps, though the setting sun causes them to appear dark in the low lighting, the shadows they cast not unlike the bars of a jail cell.

A familiar boy with green hair grips one of the bars, staring out at the crimson sunset - or at least, he was. At the sound of the door, he turns to look over his shoulder curiously.]

Heeeeh- made it in here, huh?

[His dialect is noticeably phony.]

Re: Hizumi’s Room

[demonicdomestic]

[A familiar figure. And a familiar accent, too.]

Matching a pair of keys to their coordinated locks is hardly the part of all this I would call a challenge.