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eswareinmal2018-10-19 09:43 pm
thequestgiver) wrote in eswareinmal2018-10-19 09:43 pm
Meanwhile, in the Two Faced Forest....
Characters: Any hero brave enough to walk into the utterly normal looking woods.
Open? Yep
Where: The Two Faced Forest(tm)
When: Whenever you'd like, I've got all day here.
What: Time to get hero-ing, oh heros.
The Two Faced Forest isn't far at all from the walls of the Kingdom's capital, something that vexes many of the locals. You see, there's a witch in those woods, a horrible creature who lures children to her gingerbread home and eats them!
...not that anyone's ever lost a child that way. They've all taught their children to be cunning and crafty, you see, so their children won't be caught and eaten so easily! It's just all the other children that they worry about! Especially now that the Cruel and Terrible Witch has a horrible Dark Mastermind at her disposal; a dark cloaked figure who commands terrible minions of unspeakable horrors! And what's worse, they gossip so loudly whenever a Hero is near so they're sure to overhear, this horrible figure was once a Hero whom the Witch ensnared and corrupted! Surely someone can do something about this terrible situation! A line delivered over and over with such a complete lack of subtlety that many a hero will find themselves being outright stared at with expressions varying from moon stuck smiles (the younger lads and lasses of the town) to expectant annoyance (the older grannies and gumps who want to see some proper hero action before they die already, so get on with it, would ya?)
The Forest (the capital letter is very important, you see) itself... is honestly very unremarkable. There's trees, there's rocks, there's birds, there's squirrels (you can even bless them, if you're of a hero class that's so inclined), and deep in the heart of the woods, there's a cottage that's made entirely of gingerbread, complete with piped icing shutters and decorations. Around this cottage is a gingerbread fence with the piped icing reading: "Private Property. No Solicitors."
... so maybe it's not entirely unremarkable.
Open? Yep
Where: The Two Faced Forest
When: Whenever you'd like, I've got all day here.
What: Time to get hero-ing, oh heros.
The Two Faced Forest isn't far at all from the walls of the Kingdom's capital, something that vexes many of the locals. You see, there's a witch in those woods, a horrible creature who lures children to her gingerbread home and eats them!
...not that anyone's ever lost a child that way. They've all taught their children to be cunning and crafty, you see, so their children won't be caught and eaten so easily! It's just all the other children that they worry about! Especially now that the Cruel and Terrible Witch has a horrible Dark Mastermind at her disposal; a dark cloaked figure who commands terrible minions of unspeakable horrors! And what's worse, they gossip so loudly whenever a Hero is near so they're sure to overhear, this horrible figure was once a Hero whom the Witch ensnared and corrupted! Surely someone can do something about this terrible situation! A line delivered over and over with such a complete lack of subtlety that many a hero will find themselves being outright stared at with expressions varying from moon stuck smiles (the younger lads and lasses of the town) to expectant annoyance (the older grannies and gumps who want to see some proper hero action before they die already, so get on with it, would ya?)
The Forest (the capital letter is very important, you see) itself... is honestly very unremarkable. There's trees, there's rocks, there's birds, there's squirrels (you can even bless them, if you're of a hero class that's so inclined), and deep in the heart of the woods, there's a cottage that's made entirely of gingerbread, complete with piped icing shutters and decorations. Around this cottage is a gingerbread fence with the piped icing reading: "Private Property. No Solicitors."
... so maybe it's not entirely unremarkable.
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He broke off, looking away with a curse. "You don't even know, do you?" he realized, shoving his deck back into his pocket. "You were barely there, when he pulled all that shit, you don't--" He ran a hand through his hair, cursing again. "Bad enough just remembering the shit I did in that bastard's power, but to remember being that bastard...!"
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"Oh." Hajime looked away, because, well. That.
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There was an awkward pause before he continued. "...that life... it's stronger for you, isn't it? Because it was more recent."
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"...The past should stay in the past," he continued after a moment's pause. "But it never does."
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"...and if he keeps wearing those stupid sunglasses I'm going to wind up punching them off his face on reflex," he admitted with a faint, rueful huff. "How the hell did he wind up wearing that kind of crap anyway?" He paused, glancing back over at Hajime. "...and why haven't you changed out of that armor?"
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He scowled at that question about his clothes. "Because I haven't been able to find a good place to change or normal clothes." It's a normal sort of irritation (relatively speaking) that he was glad for the potential change of topic.
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Dammit. He swiped the Two of Hearts down the belt buckle--which looked much the same in all that--and behold, he was no longer wearing armor. Just knightly clothing in black with a few overdone gold and red accents in a heart motif.
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