Dreamland (round 3)

[foundationmods]

[A strange house of some sort sits in the pitch black nothingness that exists around it. For those just now wandering in, they will be drawn to the building, finding it lit up in a way that it should not be. It's as if the whole area- house, yard, fence, and giant sakura tree- all give off their own light, and the newly-arrived are drawn to it like a moth to the flame.

Inside the boundary of the yard, the familiar faces of those who have passed on already will greet them. Depending on who is asked, they might give an accurate explanation. But even if they don't, one thing is clear: you don't want to leave this place. The area outside feels Dangerous, and it is probably best to stay put.

Fortunately, the house is built in an old style, and there are many rooms to explore. One room on the second floor seems locked, but the rest are open to explore as desired. The standard rooms are easy to find: kitchen, a W.C. and a bathroom, a sitting room of some sort, and a couple bedrooms (with plenty of futons for the dead to use). There are also several tatami mat rooms with nothing in them currently, but it seems like there might be some use for those rooms.

Around the house, perches for birds can be found. No birds are on them currently, though.

Sometimes Watanuki can be found in the house, but most of the time the dead will be left to their own devices. The question is, what will they do here?]

Comments

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[foundfate]

[Before now, the only people ever seen in this area have been Erika, Karen, Makoto, Shadow, and Watanuki. However, starting on Monday, a fuzzy snake-like creature can be seen crawling around the house.

Should anyone try to talk to it, it will get excited. Then it will slide off into the house, stopping every so often to look behind and make sure someone is following it.

it seems the fuzzy fox-snake wants to show everyone something.]

Re: ???

[oceanicbutterfly]

[Oh, this is... something. Something that is fortunately cute and fuzzy and therefore doesn't make Karen suddenly freak out and flee for her non-life.]

What are...?

[Oh.

Very well, longfuzz, we shall play your game.]

[foundfate]

[The fuzziest snake around!

Who is also headed down the hall, and stops in front of a large mirror in the hallway. It's a big oval, and it hangs at the right height for Karen to see herself from wait-up.

Except the mirror doesn't show a clear image. There is a strange distortion over the mirror, one that fractures the image much like if the mirror itself was broken.

Then the fuzzy fox-snake makes an insistent noise, nudging at Karen. It's like he wants her to fix it, though she will have to figure out how to.]

[oceanicbutterfly]

I'm sorry, I don't really know...

[...hm, actually, this is weird magic-and-souls stuff, she has no basis for assuming that knowing what the hell is going on even makes a difference.

Maybe something will happen if she puts her hand up against the mirror? Maybe it'll lead her to a field where she has to swordfight Dark Aqua?]

[foundfate]

[BOSS MUSIC INTENSIFIES- I mean.

As soon as Karen touches the mirror, the reflection goes black. Several sentences written in white words appear on the surface, but due to the cracks several parts are difficult to read.]

It w__ _nly an __cid__t.

I ____'t me__ __.

___ I still ____ the pri__.

___ wasn't it ___ug_?

And ___ did __ey h___ me?

Are they...__ _______?

[She also gets the feeling that solving this will help somehow...]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[...hmm. Karen is now very glad she magically knows English, and even then she would Kind Of like a hand with this. But Watanuki and Shadow seem to be busy existing, Makoto might not even be able to perceive the words, and she's not sure she trusts Erika not to do something stupid and break it worse.

Well... maybe she can just go line-by-line.]

Only...

It was only an accident?

[foundfate]

[Shhhhh, the puzzle is in Japanese, but someone here doesn't know Japanese so it's now in English. Translation fun~

As soon as she speaks that, the first line lights up, with all the blanks filling in. Any cracks covering those words smooth out, and that portion of the mirror appears to be fixed.]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[All right. So that's definitely working.]

If it was an accident... I didn't mean to..

[foundfate]

[The second line clears up, much like how the first one did.]

[oceanicbutterfly]

And... but...

[Hm. Vinea's listening to an interesting conversation.]

But I still paid the price!

[foundfate]

[And there goes the third line.]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[This next one seems tricky. Looking at the next few lines, she can guess, but she's back to being less sure this time.]

And wasn't it enough?

[foundfate]

[Disregard that, the mod can't read. Yes, she got the fourth line.]

[oceanicbutterfly]

And... hmm.

[Yeah, these last couple are definitely harder.]

And why did they hate me?

[Guessing now. The only word in there she's (read: I'm) sure of is "they."]

[foundfate]

['hate' is wrong and does not clear up, but the rest do.]

[oceanicbutterfly]

Hold? Have? Hang?

[foundfate]

[Wrong, wrong, and wrong again.]

[oceanicbutterfly]

Hurt, perhaps?

[why is everything hard]

[foundfate]

[Wrong again, and this time, the mirror cracks a bit more around that specific word.

Hm.]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[FDAJASLFK;JASDKL;ASDF PUT IT BACK]

Heal? Help!

[foundfate]

[There we go! 'help' fills in that last spot, and the cracks smooth out.

One more line to go!]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[...huh. She wasn't really expecting that to work.

...

Well, that means this is a little nicer than she was thinking, but unfortunately that also means most of her thoughts on the last line probably don't apply.]

Are they so...

[What fits here? The shorter words were easier to figure out...]

Lenient?

[foundfate]

[Neither word is correct.]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[Damn. She was really sure about "so." Apparently she's on the wrong track altogether.]

In?

[foundfate]

[Noooope]