WEEK ONE CYOA: vax, yams, damien, atsushi

[saturations]

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THE START.

[saturations]

[Welcome to White Space.

You have been living here as long as you can remember.

A LAPTOP, SKETCHBOOK, TISSUE BOX, LIGHTBULB, DOOR, and A CAT are immediately in view, around you. Everything is bright white. There are no walls. A black lightbulb hangs from the ceiling - or at least, you think it does. You can’t see the ceiling. The floor is always cold.

It feels empty. A home without warmth. A place to survive, but not live.

What would you like to do?]

[daggering]

[ hm. well.

a long concerning white space isn't really that different from a long, concerning black space, and in that case, the only thing to do was keep going. glancing briefly around the party, vax reaches to his side for something... and then frowns.

great. well! he's never been one to shy away, so, murmuring: ] Alright?

[ to the other three, he's then going to carefully Stealth (TM) over to the door and put his ear to it to listen... and then check the handle! if it has one. ]

[highrisk]

[ wow a home without warmth? a place to survive but not to live? i would say this is just like his real home, but he's been here for as long as he can remember, so he wouldn't know that.

so, uh, no notes.

he's gonna go look at the laptop, because how else do you waste time in your home? ]

[aitou]

[This is NOT HIS HOUSE!!!!

Except he doesn't know that anymore I guess because they have been here in the void indefinitely, wow... what have they been doing here all this time? Vibing? Maybe yams has been practicing his backflips for a thousand years.

Anyway, he will go take a look at the lightbulb! Has this also been here indefinitely, or is it new?]

[moonlightbeast]

[Honestly 'a home without warmth' is familiar to Atsushi so he doesn't immediately pick up on how wrong it is. This is survival mode, got it.

He is going to go over to the cat though. He loves cats, and cats are to be protected. Please tell me it's a real cat and not a stuffed one or I will feel silly. If it is real he's going to hold out a hand for it to sniff.]

[saturations]

[the door is white, with a shaky black outline. it casts a faint shade, and vax... hears nothing, when he puts his ear against the door. just silence. oppressive silence. the handle turns easily, if he wants to open the door.

when damien looks at the laptop he finds there's nothing on it except for one word document. examine the word document?

the lightbulb, and the light within, are inexplicably black, considering that the space around you is almost blindingly white. it's been here forever. as long as you can remember.

there is a little black cat with huge eyes. as atsushi approaches, it purrs, standing up. its tail flicks back and forth as it leans forward to sniff his hand. would you like to pet the cat?]

THE END.

[saturations]

VAX

[saturations]

[do you persist?]

[daggering]

[ i mean, yeah.

what the fuck else does he have to lose, at this point?

he's armed, knife dagger in hand, and so vax will do his best stealthy creep forward. ]

[saturations]

[you go through the door that calls for you.

in the distance, you see a light. just one. it shakes and trembles, like it's having a hard time staying on. but it is there, and it is present.

you can see a table, under that light. and a body, laying on top of that table. tall. hooded.]

[daggering]

[ by now, he's wary. cautious, after that last room - after what he has to call an illusion, after seeing that happen to his sister practically burned into his eyes - but.

... he approaches slowly.

it's death. it's just death. it's a cut thread. people have reasons and times. (and it was not vex'ahlia's time. it is not her time.)

... he will approach with steady caution, and take another injury in his already wounded heart, checking to see if this body is breathing but otherwise just approaching. ]

[saturations]

[it is breathing. slowly, rhythmically.

it does not stir when he gets closer. but it is tall enough to hang off the side, the fingers twitching. smoke curled around the tips.]

YASUSADA

[saturations]

[do you persist?]

[aitou]

[Ah... his eyes hurt. Human bodies... human hearts... what a burden.

But they have to move forward. He has to. He's done this before--he can't be trapped by grief and longing for hundred of years all over again. Kashuu... Kashuu is still safe. Horikawa and Izuminokami are waiting. Their citadel is home, now. Aruji needs him.

If he could face Okita's death, then he can do this too. He goes in.]

[saturations]

[you go through the door that calls for you.

in the distance, you see a light. just one. it shakes and trembles, like it's having a hard time staying on. but it is there, and it is present.

you can see a table, under that light. and a body, laying on top of that table. tall, hooded.]

[aitou]

[No okay.

Once again, he misses the presence of his blade--he curls his fingers into his scarf as he moves forward, slow, cautious. He gets closer; does he recognize anything about it, or is it entirely covered?]

ATSUSHI

[saturations]

[do you persist?]

[moonlightbeast]

[Atsushi is going to purposefully wait for everyone else to go first, to make sure everyone else is choosing this too. If anyone stays behind, then he will too.

But everyone else goes through their door, so he steadies himself and then goes through his own door too.]

[saturations]

[you go through the door that calls for you.

in the distance, you see a light. just one. it shakes and trembles, like it's having a hard time staying on. but it is there, and it is present.

you can see a table, under that light. and a body, laying on top of that table. small. hooded.]

[moonlightbeast]

[Is he going to have to do a fucking autopsy on Dazai?????

Wait no, Dazai is tall, this has to be Chuuya. Who Atsushi hasn't actually met, so.

Let's go over to that table yeah.]

DAMIEN

[saturations]

[do you persist?]

[highrisk]

[ he hesitates for a very long time first.

but he persists. all you can do is keep going. ]

[saturations]

[you go through the door that calls for you.

in the distance, you see a light. just one. it shakes and trembles, like it's having a hard time staying on. but it is there, and it is present.

you can see a table, under that light. and a body, laying on top of that table. small. hooded.]

[highrisk]

[ UH OKAY, he's rushing over to the table. is the body breathing? is it strapped down? can he take the hood off?

he's in panic mode. ]

THE EPILOGUE

[saturations]

[you are dead.

or, well. mostly. all of you are stabilized, at the moment, right before death's door. you may keep all of your injuries if you'd like, though they won't be immediately fatal. play with this how you'd like - if you want to come out in a body pile, do that, or if you want to stumble out and have the injuries kick in as reality comes back, you can do that as well.

here are your prizes!

▸▸▸ a smooth, marble gumball. this gumball gives you the ability to manipulate one person into doing one action, anywhere from doing a cartwheel to voting for themselves. after you use it, you can't stop crying in front of the next three people you speak to. one time use!
▸▸▸ a textured, furry gumball. this gumballl gives you the ability to become an orange tiger for an hour. however, you have the intelligence of a tiger, which is 3. this means that you're inclined to do what a tiger would do for the length of the transformation. one time use!
▸▸▸ a squishy void gumball. this gumball gives you the ability to fly for ten minutes. however, after those ten minutes, you are exhausted for five minutes, and cannot move from the spot you land. one time use!
▸▸▸ and, the most boring of all: a gold earring.

you also have a a black cat plush with an amber bowtie for the memories. it doesn't do anything.]