[world 5] i will climb mount zinit, into the forbidden zone.

[zinit]

Who: the Alices and their neat new hats
What: Qilby's heart is open for exploration!
Where: world 5, Hell Lab on Mount Spaceship
Warnings: it's time for planetcide, naughty children...


Qilby steps through the door first, and when the first blast of fresh air hits him, it's nostalgic. He closes his eyes against the wind, opens them again, and...

Part of him feels warmth welling in his chest; it's familiar, the spitting image of the second place the Eliatropes called home. Vili is there, bright and warm as it is in the summer, and he wants to sink into it: to feel small things like grass against his cheek, like the way wakfu pulses just under the surface. The other half of him knows it's not real, and dread sinks from his throat into the pit of his stomach.

He'd been trying pointedly to ignore that his heart, too, would be laid bare. It's easy to spectate when your own dignity isn't at stake; it's easy to sniff at others' insignificant problems when your own are not being amplified. He keeps looking over his shoulder for his family, but they aren't there, and he knows that. The only thing here for him is a key and five (once six) barely familiar faces.

Now, let's hope he's not going to get stabbed in the neck.

It is probably obvious whose heart it is when he forges ahead, straight for the rusting door (how has the Zinit become this poorly maintained?), and settles his hand in the groove to unlock it. (Then, it is probably obvious by the hats whose heart it is, also.)

Comments

[dolosa]

These hats are so big.

[ Rei can't help but pout a little bit as she tugs at the edges of her hat, which almost looks like long animal ears; it makes her feel shorter than she already is, as she's only 4'9".

But she plans on following suit to the door, playing the role as the observer. She won't actively be doing anything unless prompted, really. ]

[frozentear]

I hope mine doesn't look as stupid as I suspect it does.

[He almost takes it off to check, but. He really doesn't want to know.]

[dolosa]

Then I won't tell you if it does.

[frozentear]

...Uh, thanks? [No, not really. Rei's isn't better... probably, so at least he's not the only ridiculous-looking one.]

[dolosa]

You're welcome, I suppose. But let's just get this over with, shall we? The faster, the better. I'm already impatient to see my own Heart.

[ Because she's somewhat of a masochist that she wants to see what kind of torture her own world would give her. ]

[frozentear]

Yeah... the sooner this is completed the sooner we can go home. Whatever awaits us there.

[Even if it's nothing. Everything comes to nothing in the end anyway.]

[dolosa]

I just want what was stolen from me.

[ That way, she can go back to Hajime, back on Jabberwock Island. He's the only person that matters to her. The only person that she has. ]

[heartgatherer]

[Rei isn't the only one tugging at their hat-- though Alice's look of annoyance is a little more pronounced. Probably has something to do with the 'almost looks like long animal ears' part.]

Do we really need to wear these things? Don't they seem a bit unnecessary?

[Well she'd like to think they are but... who knows.]

[zinit]

They do seem a bit redundant. [For you, at least, he thinks. After all, humans don't have the requisite, ah... Anatomy to fill the hats out.]

[Lightly:] They don't look bad, though.

[heartgatherer]

Is there a purpose to them?

[To her they just look silly but--]

...well, I guess some people might find them cute.

[dolosa]

Don't know. But I suppose it would help to "blend in".

[ Not that she...cares, really, about that. ]

[heartgatherer]

I don't know... I still think we probably look like an odd group.

[Not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but...]

[dolosa]

It's true that we would.

[ That they'll make an odd group, that is. ] But I guess that isn't that important.

[frozentear]

[So this is the evil wizard's heart, probably. He'd always wanted to know what an evil wizard's heart looked like... well, it sounded like the sort of thing he would have always wanted to know if he'd really thought about it before. He finds himself taking more interest in this world than he'd been able to muster since exiting his own heart. Fascinating how it looked like a laboratory. Was it possible to be a mad scientist and evil wizard at the same time? Most systems wouldn't allow that... no, backing up before too many memories of his own heart returned. Even though he managed to make himself sadder than he'd been upon entering, this world is still pretty interesting. Hey, what does that thing over there do?... He reaches out to touch something on a table.]

[heartgatherer]

[Of all the settings, she has to say a laboratory seems the most unsettling. Probably because she doesn't have half a clue what most of the things here did. Basic science and things of this level were... well they were totally different.

But she can't help but curiously hover a bit as Sebastian starts curiously reaching for things.]

What are you looking for?

[frozentear]

[He pulls his hand back and looks at Alice.]

I was wondering what it was... since I've never been in a lab before.

[bakegarasu]

Otoha's hat flops its 'ears' behind him as he moves. This place seems too green, too perfect. There's something wrong, and it doesn't take him too long to find it. The door is opened, and he strides inside... and stops.

The test tubes make him stare, and he's not sure what to do with it. It reminds him of Eko's tower, and he doesn't like it. Nue's massive form over his brother... this place is wrong like that place was wrong.

He clenches his fist, but doesn't move. He just stands there, staring at one of the test tubes for a long while.

[dolosa]

Do you hate test tubes?

[ The fact that he seems to be looking at them intensely along with the whole fist clenching thing, she can't help but assume. ]

Or do you not like scientific labs like this?

[bakegarasu]

[He looks up and nods. There's... no good words for it, but...]

It reminds me of something I've seen in my world.

[dolosa]

... I see. Well, I'd ask, but I might find out later.

[bakegarasu]

Maybe. It's a long story.

[He turns away from it to look her in the eye. It's not like she cares, probably. So whatever.]

Never did pay much attention in science class, anyway.

[dolosa]

[ Rei sags her shoulders, nonchalant. ]

I guess. Well, we should probably find the key...

[bakegarasu]

Probably. Any idea where one might be hiding in a place like this?

[dolosa]

Drawers or cabinets would be my first guess. Of course, I could be wrong.

[ Not that she cares. ]

[bakegarasu]

Too logical. Since when have the keys ever been easy to find?

[dolosa]

Just because it's logical doesn't mean that you can't find clues there.

[bakegarasu]

I guess. Let's start, then.

[He goes to attempt to look through some of them.]