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TEST DRIVE MEME 001 (#2)
HAPPY HEARTS HOTEL
You wake up in a padded box. It rocks, gently, as though suspended in mid-air. You begin to stir, confusion or distress pushing you to try to sit up — and then the air begins to smell sweet, and you fall back asleep.You wake up in a padded box. For a moment, you are beatifically calm. You don't know how you got here, or why, but that isn't really all that important. You don't need to know where you are. You're just... here. And here is a wonderful place to be.
But there is a niggling suspicion growing in the back of your mind. A suspicion that here is not somewhere you wanted to be. That it is not where you're supposed to be. You remember... chasing a white rabbit (or was it a person)? A mirror? Bright light, and green ivy crawling over your skin... Before you can worry too much, the box jolts, and then settles, and after a long moment the walls fall from around you to reveal —
A hotel lobby?
"Welcome to the Happy Hearts Hotel and Casino," says an attendant behind a desk. "We're so pleased you could join us for our grand opening gala. We have your room keys and Empathies here, please make an orderly line and we'll hand them out once we've confirmed identities. After that, feel free to explore the hotel! We highly recommend starting with the casino. Everyone's a winner here in Happy Hearts!"
Is this normal? It doesn't feel normal. And hey — you could swear you had shoes before!
I. THE CASINO FLOOR
As you pass through the entrance to the casino floor, an attendant passes you a small bag of chips. The casino is loud and bright and filled with games of every kind — you want to play poker? They've got a table for that. Sabacc? There's a table for that, too. Slots, pachinko, and bingo are just a few of the other games on offer. The attendant in the lobby wasn't lying, either — everyone who plays wins. Everyone, every time.
Servers wander the floor with trays of shotglasses full of multi-coloured liquids, offering them to every Oyster "Compliments of Her Royal Highness." If you're expecting alcohol, though, you'll be surprised — these drinks are teas made of the distilled emotions of every Oyster in the hotel. Each colour of tea corresponds to a different emotion, and as soon as you take a sip, you feel overcome with that emotion.
Servers wander the floor with trays of shotglasses full of multi-coloured liquids, offering them to every Oyster "Compliments of Her Royal Highness." If you're expecting alcohol, though, you'll be surprised — these drinks are teas made of the distilled emotions of every Oyster in the hotel. Each colour of tea corresponds to a different emotion, and as soon as you take a sip, you feel overcome with that emotion.
JOY — the distilled essence of happiness, this tea makes even the most rough and tumble of Oysters giddy with happiness — for a moment. The effect fades into a general sense of contentment and affability after a few seconds, and that itself fades away slowly over the course of twenty minutes.
ANGER — this tea, anger in liquid form, can make the most even-tempered of Oysters ready to absolutely blow a gasket. For twenty minutes, anyone who drinks this tea will find themselves much more easily annoyed, frustrated, and all around irritable and snappy.
SADNESS — distilled sadness is a potent tea, capable of turning a stoic, stalwart Oyster into a blubbering mess in moments. Events that may have previously only been a minor disappointment become the end of the world, every repressed unhappiness comes to the fore, and for twenty minutes, any Oyster who drinks a sadness tea can hardly keep themselves together.
II. MAKING WAVES
If gambling isn't to your interest, there are many other areas of the hotel to explore! For the moment, only The Pool Of Tears and the Pig & Pepper Buffet are available for Oysters to peruse, but the staff assure anyone who asks that the other facilities will be open by the next day. Unfortunately, that means no one can buy any swimsuits from This Elegant Thimble, but the staff aren't going to kick anyone out of the pool for jumping in in their clothes!
There are four main attractions to The Pool of Tears: the pool, the jacuzzi, the wave pool, and the lazy river. The water is always just the right temperature, clean and clear and refreshing. It feels as if the sun shines down from above you, warm and comforting. Scattered through the pool area are clusters of modern lounge chairs, just waiting for someone to come relax in them. The Pool is, in a word, serene.
But not for long. The waves generated by the wave pool begin to get choppier, and larger, until it becomes clear that the generator itself is malfunctioning — too late, however, to avoid the tsunami that crashes through the whole Pool and leaves it flooded. Thankfully, no water escapes into the rest of the hotel, and the hotel staff work quickly to rescue those trapped in the Pool and drain the flooding — but you better hope you can tread water until they get to you!
There are four main attractions to The Pool of Tears: the pool, the jacuzzi, the wave pool, and the lazy river. The water is always just the right temperature, clean and clear and refreshing. It feels as if the sun shines down from above you, warm and comforting. Scattered through the pool area are clusters of modern lounge chairs, just waiting for someone to come relax in them. The Pool is, in a word, serene.
But not for long. The waves generated by the wave pool begin to get choppier, and larger, until it becomes clear that the generator itself is malfunctioning — too late, however, to avoid the tsunami that crashes through the whole Pool and leaves it flooded. Thankfully, no water escapes into the rest of the hotel, and the hotel staff work quickly to rescue those trapped in the Pool and drain the flooding — but you better hope you can tread water until they get to you!
III. EAT ME, DRINK ME
The Pig & Pepper buffet serves lunch foods from across all different cultures, offering something for everyone, and some things you've never even heard of.
On offer with these lunchtime dishes are cookies and biscuits and scones of all kinds, held on tiered trays with signs that proclaim Eat Me! in delightfully whimsical calligraphy. Nearby, hotel staff man a small booth for doling out cups of fruit waters from large pitchers, which have Drink Me! painted playfully on their sides.
It takes a while to feel the effects — perhaps you've even left the Pig & Pepper by the time it happens — but those who eat the cookies and scones inevitably end up growing in size, whether a few inches or feet, and those who drank the fruity water similarly shrink. Eat enough and you might strain the ceiling; drink enough and you'll be the size of a thimble! It's not permanent — if no one else can help you figure out how to get back to normal, the staff certainly will — but it's definitely inconvenient!
On offer with these lunchtime dishes are cookies and biscuits and scones of all kinds, held on tiered trays with signs that proclaim Eat Me! in delightfully whimsical calligraphy. Nearby, hotel staff man a small booth for doling out cups of fruit waters from large pitchers, which have Drink Me! painted playfully on their sides.
It takes a while to feel the effects — perhaps you've even left the Pig & Pepper by the time it happens — but those who eat the cookies and scones inevitably end up growing in size, whether a few inches or feet, and those who drank the fruity water similarly shrink. Eat enough and you might strain the ceiling; drink enough and you'll be the size of a thimble! It's not permanent — if no one else can help you figure out how to get back to normal, the staff certainly will — but it's definitely inconvenient!
IV. WELCOME HOME
Maybe you just want to be alone — well, that's what you have your room key for! Oysters room on the second and third floors of the hotel, one to a room. You were assured your room would be exactly what you'd always wished for — and for some, that's right! It's exactly as you would have decorated it yourself. But for others, their rooms are totally wrong. A grizzled cowboy can't have a pink room! Hotel staff are firm, though: every room is exactly as its owner wants it to be. Search your feelings, Oyster. You know it to be true.
On each bed are the Oysters' personal effects, minus weapons, as well as a towel folded in the shape of a heart, and a single foil-wrapped chocolate. If eaten, the chocolate is delicious, and incites a feeling of tender warmth in Oysters — not lust, but a desire for closeness. Why spend time in your room, when you could go find a new friend in the casino?
On each bed are the Oysters' personal effects, minus weapons, as well as a towel folded in the shape of a heart, and a single foil-wrapped chocolate. If eaten, the chocolate is delicious, and incites a feeling of tender warmth in Oysters — not lust, but a desire for closeness. Why spend time in your room, when you could go find a new friend in the casino?
Welcome to the (second!) first TDM of Happy Hearts, a new panfandom roleplaying game here on DW! If you have any questions, please direct them to the first comment on this page. Happy playing, Oysters!
© tessisamess
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"I am called Mu." He observes she's growing smaller and smaller until she's shrunk to the size of a hand?
"Did you drank something from the table? The fruit water, perhaps?"
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Her own Empathy starts up and starts translating his words to her and she goes to smile up at him. On one hand, she is glad for someone to actually understand her words but on the other hand, it means that she can't troll him.
"I am known as Leanne, my lord Mu."
She tilts her head, pondering a moment before nodding. "Yes, I did. It smelled good."
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Mu looks around the lobby of the casino. It's a strange place where everyone seems happy and having a good time, playing their games of gambling.
When she shrunk and become a size smaller, he becomes a giant to her. "Ah, the fruit drink is the culprit." He bends on his knee and offers his hand.
"You should climb on. I won't let anyone step on you. I'll help you figure out a way to return to your size."
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Leanne was enjoying the energy and the Order everyone was giving off with their games but it was still too many Beorcs in one area and too many sights and smells.
Oh goddess, why is she still shrinking?! She couldn't help but to let out a few distressed chirps and cheeps.
She blinks as he bends to a knee and offers her his hand. A wave of instinct goes through her and she retreats a few steps. Scared, even though she was acting friendly, she was still scared of him. Terrorfied even as her last memories of humans were them destroying her home and killing her people.
She didn't sense any wrong doing coming from him but.. But can she really do it? Put her trust in him like this? She goes to look up at him, studying him for a moment, pondering what to do, to trust him and climb into his hand and maybe be healed? Or to stay away from him and never stop shrinking...
With a deep breath, she closes her eyes and goes to slowly walk back towards him, slowly climbing into the palm of his hand.
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He noticed she looks scared and is terrified of him. But if he lets her go now, she could be stepped on.
"I only wanted to help. What if you get stepped on by accident? Back home, I'm a knight to a goddess, so I took an oath to protect."
Once she gathered the courage to trust him and she climbed onto his hand, he is actually relieved that she trusted him. Now he could help her released from the spell. Once he stood up to his full height, it's a long way down, so he's not going to let her go.
"I'm going to see which food will help you bring you back to your original-size. I think it's those cookies. Can you eat cookies?"
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Leanne couldn't help but to wince as he mentions her being accidentally stepped on. No, that would be the second worst type of death.
"Protect who? We are enemies though." He was a Beorc and she, a Laguz.
It felt so different, having him lift her up and feeling the small amount of wind pressure from the simple movement.
She blinks at the question and fights all urges to give him a look before going to nod her head. "As long as another life wasn't taken when they were made I can have one."
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Carrying a small size birb in hand, he goes around the lobby, going at a slow pace, navigating his way with a cheerful upbeat. Servers offered different colored teas on trays. He found a cookie at the serving table where cookies and scones served in towers that said "Eat me" in fancy script.
"A cookie is a type of sweet." At that, he broke off the cookie, just a small piece, and offered a crumb of it for her to eat.
"Eat a bit of this cookie and you should return to your original size."
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She holds on as he moves, trying to remain on his hand, not able to dig in her claws due to hot pink nail coverings. She was blushing quite a bit due to being surrounded by his scent.
When he goes to offer her the cookie crumb, she goes to accept it and snff at it. "Are you sure?"
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"I'm pretty sure. Eat this cookie and you should slowly grow back." It's only a small piece, a crumb, so she won't revert back to her full size. Probably grow back an inch if eaten in small pieces, considering the stomach grows smaller as well.
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She holds the crumb in her hands and just sighs as she notices that she needs to use both of her hands to hold the crumb. She goes to take a small bite and eat it slowly.
"...Thank you... For your kindness, my lord Mu."
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With careful thought, "I have chosen. I think it's something I was born to do. Not everyone wanted to be fated. I know of warriors who have chosen to walk away, but I have stayed." He is a Gold Knight of Aries, so he could not.
"How are you feeling? Growing bigger?" While it's a crumb, he broke off another to feed her with.
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She listens to him, taking in his words slowly and carefully. "So for you it was both choice and fate."
She blinks and looks around. "No... Nothing yet. Perhaps it will take a but to take effect, my lord." She goes to accept the crumb. "You... you don't have to stay with me if you don't want to."
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Mu won't be able to pick up her feelings of sorrow of what she has loss, her world, and her forests. In this world, his spiritual abilities are nullified and sealed.
"I'll stay with you. You're small. From where you're from, your people have wings like yourself?"
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Leanne hated that it seems like her eyes were blinded. She can't sense things like she used it other than what her body is strong and weak to.
At his question, she blinks as she was snapped out of her train of thought and nods her head. "There are your kind as well as we Laguez. Those of the bird clans have wings like mine. I am from the Heron clan." She goes to smile up at him. "I do not wish to be a burden to you, my lord Mu. Especially since you were enjoying yourself before I bumped into you."
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Mu listens to her tale. "Leanne of the Heron clan." He broke off another crumb of cookie and hands it to her. She needs to eat more to return to her size.
"You're not a burden. I was looking around, searching for answers. Like everyone else, I arrived in a box and this inn is called a hotel. I think they took my sword and my shoes."
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She accepts the cookie crumb and forces herself to eat it with a small pout on her face. There wasn't much joy in eating something sweet.
"But... you are doing so much for one as myself...." She goes to listen and now fully pouts. "I was completely wet when I arrived."
-sweats-
He won't reveal he died and sacrifice himself for Seiya to cross the wall to the other dimension. His death is something he doesn't want to dwell on at the moment.
Sorry Leanne, but it's one of the few foods available that can restore her back to full height. It's a Wonderland food.
"You were completely wet? When I woke up, I did wonder if I cross an ocean, but I was in a box and didn't see it."
???
He was hiding something but what, she couldn't tell. Her eyes have been blinded in that way but she goes to let out a few coos towards him
But! Even the crumbs are big to hold but she still does eat it and will be forever paranoid about eating or drinking things here.
"Yes, I was." She goes to blush as it was completely embarrassing position for her to be in. "An ocean?..." She tilts her head before perking up. "That would make sense for me being wet. What about you? Were you wet, my lord Mu?"
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"I never reached Hades to know. I don't think he's interested in speaking to a common soldier like myself. So, nevermind."
Hopefully, it seems to be working. She seems to grow a few inches taller, but it's only a few crumbs from the cookie.
"I believe they did tow people over oceans the same way they towed you. I was wet, but got myself dried the moment I figured out I was in this place called Wonderland."
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"I see... I am sorry if I am speaking of things beyond my knowledge." She has overstepped the boundaries of old.
She was growing back to her normal size, albeit slowly.
She goes to pout a little when he mentions that they were towed over an ocean. "I would have loved to see it. I never seen the ocean before." Sh goes to blush a little as she remembers how she reacted when she first came out of the box. She goes to stare at the hot pink nail covers adorning her fingers with a small look. Damn things are preventing her from defending herself when she needed it.
"Wonderland? Is that what this strange land is called?"
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A few inches, at best. He broke off another small of the cookie and offers it to her. She needs to eat more as long her shrunk stomach can handle it.
"There's lakes and forests outside, but no exit. And believe me, it's true. They call it Wonderland. Though I can't see how wonderful about it is about it if we're imprisoned in this place."
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She groans a little when he gave her more pieces of the cookie and forces herself to eat it. "I think I will never eat another sweet after this...."
Though at the mentioning of forests, she perks up a little. "Really? I guess then I know where I will be staying." She won't be tied down to a human room if she can help it.
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With a huff, "Then don't eat anymore of it. I don't like cookies either." If she can find the exit and if the door actually opens.
He broke off a few more cookie crumbs for her to eat. "You came from a different world, aren't you? My world is called Earth."
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She blinks at his huffiness and quickly blushes. "That is why I said after this. I... I am sorry. I know that you are only trying to help this one."
She accepts them and goes to force herself to eat the crumbs he was giving her, growing a little more with each crumb.
".... There are other worlds besides Tellius? Is that why you mentioned a god instead of a goddess?"
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Huh, why she's apologizing? "Don't apologize. I simply don't have all the answers to this place."
He took a moment to think. "I like to think so, yes, but I haven't spoken to the other people from other worlds, but they spoke of it on the network. So your worlds have goddesses and mine has gods. This world of Wonderland must be a different dimension."
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