Laios's Heart Game

[myhungryass]

It's dark, and you are not quite conscious. You have the sense that you are climbing; that you have been climbing for a long time. You can feel the burn in your thighs, the ache in your calves. You're a little too hot, and what you're wearing is a little too heavy. You have the sense of taking a last weary, heaving step onto a plateau.



You find yourself in a dark, blank place, dominated by a huge, dead monster, building sized, as big as a tower. Each of its enormous heads that you can see laid out before you is easily the size of a ballroom. There is blood on its lips and nostrils, blood crusted around its empty eye-sockets, but there is a feeling of hollowness about it. On second thought, you're not quite sure if it's a corpse or a moult.

There is no sign of the stairs you vaguely remember climbing. You are standing on the surface of some opaque black liquid. It feels almost completely solid under your feet, springy, but your footsteps leave ripples spreading out in rings... all around you is a velvety, impenetrable darkness. The only thing you can see is the vast, lifeless beast in front of you, illuminated as if by spotlights, though no actual light-source can be found.

Its orifices are mostly clogged with blood, but somehow, as you stare at it, one vaulted nostril on the wolf's head begins to seem like an archway... the lolling tongue hanging out of the rhinoceros's head like an entry ramp... the exposed, hollow eye-socket on the eagle's head like a portal...

Of course, if you're not quite ready to step inside a monster, you could keep walking around its body and see what you find.

Comments

[myhungryass]

His twin spooks backwards and points at him. And then at himself. And then back to Star. Like... just checking??

[adhorsive]

I KNOW, RIGHT?!

[myhungryass]

"Ohhhh, you're the outside me."

[adhorsive]

Yeah, what's the inside me like? Catch me up, brother.

[myhungryass]

"Just like you, brother. Fast, sexy, kind, reliable, absolutely fascinating..."

[adhorsive]

Whoa! I'm thought so highly of. Now do my flaws.

[myhungryass]

"I don't think much of my own wants, and I can sometimes panic easily. I'm a horse, though, so that last part is probably expected."

[adhorsive]

Actually sounds like he's not that far off from me. How am I able to help in here, bro?

[myhungryass]

"Help...? I'm not sure, but Falin probably knows."

[adhorsive]

Sounds good, I'll go check in with her.

[blows twinsie a kiss and heads Falin-ward]

[myhungryass]

She gives him a friendly wave as he approaches.

[adhorsive]

Hi inside-Dragon! How's it going? Nice shopping?

[myhungryass]

She nods. "The atmosphere here is pretty relaxed. It didn't used to be so lively."

[adhorsive]

No?

[myhungryass]

A quiet headshake. "It was pretty empty before... for awhile it was just me. It looked different then, though."

[adhorsive]

What did it look like?

[myhungryass]

"Hmmm..." She puts her finger to her lips, thoughtful. "It was more like... fwooooo..." She spreads her arms illustratively wide. "And grrrrr..." She does a fierce grimace. "And a bit colder. You know?"

[adhorsive]

Ooooh. So like... big, full of monsters, and colder...?

Do you know where I should be going?

[myhungryass]

"'Should' is tough... what do you want to see? Or do?"

[adhorsive]

Mmm. I want to help... it's Phoenix's domain, right? I'd like to help him.

[myhungryass]

"Hmmm... well, you could go to where he's loneliest... or see what he wants... or bring him his memories..."

[adhorsive]

Hmm... I'll go where he's loneliest.

[myhungryass]

"That's out back."

[adhorsive]

Is that up the stairs?

[hugs her]

[myhungryass]

She hugs him back. It's a really good hug. "Mm! That's right."