[IC] [Reverie] SEPTEMBER 2022 - PALACE GAME

[pyrighteous]

[ Welcome to the inside of Hunter's heart! Potential CWs include (but are not limited to):

- Torture
- Character death
- Gaslighting/manipulation/bad parenting
- Child abuse (onscreen and implied)
- Experimentation/vivisection
- Body horror
- Drowning
- Full Owl House Spoilers

Generally speaking the onscreen stuff will be kept PG-13 (this is a Disney cartoon after all!) but the implications may be exponentially more horrific (this is a Disney cartoon after all!!)

If at any point you are uncomfortable or need to me take extra care in glossing over ANY topic, please ping me right away in Discord. I am happy to do everything I can to keep this game fun for everyone! ]

Toplevels:

START AREA - GENERAL
- Session 1
- Session 2
- Session 3

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AFTERMATH - GENERAL

Comments

[pyrighteous]

That's where you've got it wrong. He is an experiment. I created him as such. And thus, I am well within my rights to destroy him once I'm done with him.

[ The birdcage is EXCRUCIATINGLY heavy. Rupert can lift it a little? But he's also sinking into the mud now. ]

[heartlands]

Everyone was created, who cares if he was created a little bit differently! What if your parents just decided one day they had the right to kill you because they made you?!

[again, he's going to try to use the staff to try and both himself and the cage. to hunter:]

Is there a way to open this thing? I don't know how long I can hold this.

[pyrighteous]

Do you also refuse to throw out broken toys? Old toold that aren't functioning any more?

[ Rupert can get the staff lodged in such a way that the cage stops sinking, at least; that's something. Hunter struggles a bit, but manages to turn his head. ]

I - there's a lock, but - it's under the mud somewhere.

[heartlands]

[he doesn't respond to what belos says this time, focusing on hunter instead. he's carefully holding onto the birdcage, trying not to dislodge it from the way the staff is propping it up, but trying not to sink further himself either.]

I'll go down and look for it. Do you have any idea where? I don't know how long this is going to hold you up.

[pyrighteous]

It's - it's a couple feet down. But you'll die if you go under the surface.

[heartlands]

I can't say that either of our odds look too hot if I don't do anything, though.

[thinking, thinking...]

I can push myself up with the staff once I'm done, maybe. Do you have anything I can break the lock with?

[pyrighteous]

[ Hunter shakes his head. ]

It's just me in here. And him out there--

[ Speaking of which, Belos is abruptly shifting forward, swinging an elongated limb with a scythe on the end of it down at Rupert. ]

[heartlands]

[glancing up and seeing this happen]

—I'll figure it out, bye!

[he's still holding onto one of the bars of the cage to keep track of where it is, but he ducks down below the mud for a moment to try and dodge (but with a roll of six, so).]

[pyrighteous]

[ YEAH THAT SIX. The scythe bites into his shoulder as he goes down. And worse, the blow pushes him down further than he wanted to go in the first place. Rupert is now suspended in a whole bunch of thick mud, with very little guidance as to which way is up. ]

[heartlands]

[he cries out in pain and just barely thinks to close his mouth before he's getting shoved further under, blindly trying to see if he can feel for the bottom of the cage, the staff, or anything else he can use to orient himself.]

[pyrighteous]

[ For several terrifying seconds, there is nothing. Just the mud, just the pressure, just the utter despair of being trapped deep inside your own head. There's no way out of this, is there? And even if you do get out, Belos is there waiting to push you back down.

And then - finally, Rupert's hand touches the edge of the cage. Somewhere near the bottom, but at least it's something. ]

[heartlands]

[as soon as he feels the edge, he's holding on with one hand and moving his other hand to feel around the bottom for the lock or the staff with a roll of eleven.]

[pyrighteous]

[ Better, but still not great. He finds the lock but it again costs him precious seconds to do so. How's your air supply? ]

[heartlands]

[if he doesn't think about it it doesn't exist clearly

he's still reaching out to see if he can find the staff, but for now he'll try to shift so he can kick at the lock, assuming that'll be more effective than trying to tug it off with his free hand. eight!!]

[pyrighteous]

[ Have you ever tried to kick something underwater? Much less in a pit of mud. This is not going super great.

He can sort of feel something shifting, maybe? But also he is OUT of air by now. The mud presses in close, threatening to flood in. He's got one more chance here. ]

[heartlands]

[he's going to hold tight to the edge and try to pull himself up without pulling it down - he can always come back down in a second, he figures, if he can take a second to breath (with a 13).]

[pyrighteous]

[ The mud resists him, but he manages to get his face up above the surface again with a faint sucking pop. Sweet fresh air.

Next to him, inside the cage, Hunter is freaking out. ]

Rupert! A-are you okay!?

[heartlands]

[wheezes for a second as he tries to wipe the mud out of his eyes]

I'm okay, I'm okay, just let me catch my breath so I can go down before your uncle stabs me in the face—

[pyrighteous]

[ Speaking of which, here's the uncle coming to stab him in the face! ]

[heartlands]

You can't even give me, like, five seconds—?!

[DOWN HE GOES AGAIN with a fourteen to dodge this time!]

[pyrighteous]

[ Much better! With his hands on the cage, Rupert can easily haul himself down and find the lock again.

And oh hey, his feet brush up against the wayward staff. ]

[heartlands]

[he keeps one hand on the lock to keep track of where it is, shifting so he can try to grasp the staff with his other hand.]

[pyrighteous]

[ He's got the staff in one hand and the lock in the other. What now? ]

[heartlands]

[he can't talk when he's under here, so he starts thinking instead, his grip on the staff tightening.]

I don't know how to use you, but this is really important, so please work with me here... Uh, levitation spell? Unlocking spell? Anti-mud spell? Knock out Hunter's evil uncle spell? Just - help us!

[pyrighteous]

[ Is that how you use staffs??

... apparently it is, because the staff hums in Rupert's hands. The lock clicks open neatly, and both Rupert and the cage start to rise slowly out of the mud. ]