BETA ROUND 1 WEEK 3: RETURNING TO THE HUB

[apatheticguide]

Who: The White Rabbit, and the Alices.
What: Everyone has returned from Sasuke's Heart. In... a... state. Of some sort.
Where: The World's Hub.
Warnings: None for the moment, although it looks like there might be more potential for violence, given the explosion a supposedly nice easy school break turned into. As before, any powers, strange abilities, items, or effects from Sasuke's World will have worn off or been left behind once back in the main hub, unless a change is otherwise noted to be permanent. All powers will go back to being nullified.

When they all return this time, the White Rabbit is more than unhappy; he's caught between what seems to be hopelessly gloomy, and livid, leaving him in a miserable state to rival the Alices themselves. In particular, when he locks eyes with Harley, Liao, and Lalli, he outright glares, muttering under his breath repeatedly.

"You're finally back. No thanks to SOME of you, it seems you have the next World Key in hand. ... Hand it over already."

He insists this impatiently, tapping his foot, red eyes seemingly boring into whichever one of them ended up with the Key, in the end. For whatever reason, he seems in quite a hurry to get them to hand it over.

"It will take me some time to open the next Door, so the sooner you ignoramuses give it to me, the sooner you can go home and the sooner I can get some peace."

Judging by his current mood, it would probably not be wise to poke at the Rabbit, but you're free to try anyway. He might be a bit unpredictable...

[ OOC: Starting with this log onward, characters will be chilling in the Hub for 3 OOC days, so they may do whatever they please during this time, including revisiting previous places they were just in. Starting from now on, each World will run for 2 weeks. OOC World information and Returning to the Hub Logs will go up 12AM on Friday, giving everyone 3 days to backtag, finish up, get additional CR, plot, and what-have-you. The World will then open up to be posted to with a Mingle log the following Monday, by the character whose Heart they're exploring. ]

Comments

[hopedout]

[ Well, Hinata himself doesn't have the key. However, he's noticed that a lot of people are under a lot of stress and while it's not similar to Murder Island, he decides to offer a suggestion, to lower the tension. He knows he's probably risking a bit by doing this, however... ]

You know, since we haven't had a proper chance to hold a good conversation without focusing on the keys, I was wondering if we could possibly take a quick break. I know it's risky, but-- we could have a small party at the beach to lower tensions and mentally prepare ourselves instead of just jumping head on into the next world. I think it would also be good for Sasuke since... [ With the way he reacted, he's not sure if it's worse or better than himself. But then again, Hinata always bounced back after a while.

He remembered her words, after all. "If you just do it, it'll be okay!" ]

[miseris_socios]

[Ken walks over, holding the key out. He looks pretty unhappy about all of that... everything.]

... Here.

[not_that_sasuke]

[Sasuke will notably be absent from the general hub area.

Should anyone think to look in his room, they will find it is pitch black inside, with no option of turning the light on again. If he is indeed inside, they will have a difficult time locating him.]

[800isenough]

[If he had a shorter temper, Liao would've given what is the ancient Chinese version of two middle fingers and a big FUCK YOU to Rabbit, because SCREW YOU, he, Harley and Lalli found and solved two puzzles before things exploded. That's two more than Rabbit ever solved, and if he wanted them to solve it quicker than he should get involved sooner instead of sitting on his lazy fluffy butt in the Hub.

But because Liao's a more polite, dignified and responsible (key word here) person than that (and because canon is unfortunately silent ancient Chinese rude hand gestures), he merely inclines his head, acknowledging that they had taken too long for the World Key, that they could've done incredible damage to Sasuke's heart because of that fight between Lalli and Harley, that he should've been less indecisive, more out there in terms of getting people to work together.

As a general, he should know these things. But at his heart he's always been a solo warrior; he can't even get along with some of his fellow countrymen.

The mess outside the infirmary was his fault, and his alone.]

Words are meaningless. Instead, I swear on my honor that I will find the next World Keys and bring them to you. No delays.