-You get put in a maid or butler outfit! Feel free to choose your own outfit. No rules, just right! You get to keep it when you leave~
-If you are running with other characters, you can assume they’re all there together. Otherwise, please let me know if you would prefer your character to run solo by putting that in your subject line or messaging me!
-Anything other than finding the flowers and the True Heart are 100% optional! Touch what you like but do not feel like you are obligated to!
-Death is possible! If you die in the Heart you don’t die for real, though. Combat is also possible, under certain circumstances...
-Characters still have their powers! At least for now!(It is possible to get them taken away if they act a fool)
-IC Goals(which will be on the characters’ phone, as well as told to them verbally) are:
Clean up the Theater and Living Room(Remove The Corrupting Influence)
Meet with The Emperor(Find The True Heart)
WARNINGS: possible suicidal ideation, possible assisted suicide, very light references to violence, references to isolation real or imagined, possible physical violence with swords idk what to tell you
As you come to, you see that you stand on the doorstep to a large palace. You’re also dressed up! The outfit is a little different for everyone, but it’s obvious- this is a maid outfit(or a butler outfit, if you want!), and you are standing in front of your next job.
Looking around, you can see the palace is floating in the air; with the ground below lit up by flickering lights that bounce off of the crystals that have overtaken what resembles the Tokyo-F you are familiar with at night. They seem to sway and jump about more like fireflies than lightbulbs, and they are too far below to really examine closely, but your goal lies ahead of you anyway. The Palace is also encased in gemstone- blues and purples and whites that seem to have some kind of ambient lighting from inside, just bright enough against the darkened sky to show where the seams are so that you may enter the wide, towering double doors looming before you.
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The double doors open easily for you. Too easy, they’re far too large for your strength alone to move, but they move anyway, and you enter the entrance hall. It’s grandiose of course, all white marble interlaced with gold, with many various crystals jutting up from the ground, and one large crystal stalactite hanging from the ceiling, serving as a sort of chandelier. There is a staircase before you, right through the middle of the room, splitting into two ways at the landing. Most of the room is not navigable, due to the crystals jabbing into the air, but there is something that should draw your attention first:
On the landing stand two figures. They both are wearing jester costumes and masks but may be familiar to you; The one in the smiling mask has long hair, braided and tied in a ponytail, the color of moonlight, and the one in the frowning mask has his silvery-pink hair cut shorter, with it longer on his right.
“Welcome to our Illustrious Emperor’s Palace~☆” The smiling simulacrum says from behind his mask, though the sound isn’t muffled in the least.
“Don’t mess anything up, heathens”, The frowning one speaks up, also without muffling, though his tone is quite a bit more terse than Wataru’s was.
“Fufufu, what our friend here means is that we’re having a spot of trouble cleaning up, and that is why we’ve brought you here! We’ve managed to get this lovely foyer all cleaned up, but if His Majesty sees his theater or the common area…”
The pink-haired masked stranger finishes the thought. “Just do your job. You were hired for a reason. Go see the Emperor in his throne room once you are done.” There are three accessible doors in this room, two beneath the staircase and one on either side of the split stairs after the landing. A fourth door exists but the crystals cover it completely, and there seems to be no weak point in that mass. “You may get supplies in the broom closet under the stairs, to your left”, the blue-haired one speaks up, motioning with a hand in the… general direction of the door beneath the stairs. “It might help!”
Oh my gawd, it's one thing to be expected to play medic, but maids now? Irritating!
[ He's also pretty sure he knows the guy with the silver hair because how does one not recognize Wataru but he's not going to just acknowledge people he knows while he's dressed like this. no way.
TIME TO JUST TRY TO LEAVE TO THE BROOM CLOSET DOOR INDICATED. ]
[Tenn's double laughs a little, but won't follow it up with anything. He is doing what he was told, anyway!
The door underneath the stairs is just a supply closet, as you were told! Nothing too wild here, but there are plenty of supplies for cleaning. You can find: -A broom -A bucket -Soap and window cleaner -A hose(you can get water to fill the bucket here) -A vacuum -Feather dusters(very important for a good maid) -Rags and sponges -A leaf blower -A roomba -A step ladder -Whatever other cleaning garbage you can think of that I didn’t list here specifically.
You can take whatever you want! Or nothing at all! I’m not your dad, live your best life. Also will you REALLY get paid???]
[ he's going to grab a DUST MASK, (the better to cover his face from people who MIGHT recognize him because that's def wataru and he knows who the Emperor refers to) a BUCKET filled with rags and a soapy sponge, and window cleaner before asking Tenn's double: ]
[The simulacrum of Wataru answers this, holding his hands up in a gesture of apology but like it is clearly a fake apology and he is super okay with that.]
But if you are quick and do a good job, surely His Majesty will reward you with a banquet!
Welcome to the stage! Well, when you walk in here, you are backstage. It is a warm, comfortable place for the most part, despite the thick layer of dust that covers nearly everything. This room is oddly devoid of crystals, instead lit with the yellowing bulbs that surround a small mirror and the blinding overhead lights that flood the stage. The first thing you notice as you look from the side of the stage onto where the ‘performances’ must happen is that there are four mannequins on stage, nude and faceless, with wigs and heights that mark them as members of fine, Eichi’s unit from home.
The one depicting Eichi himself is wearing a crown, and holding a sword, pointed out towards the curtains, and the audience beyond.
The curtains are currently drawn closed. Looking around, you can find a chest and just racks of costumes hidden from the stage, and a number of props. Everything here is clearly made to be safe and also just for show, so none of it is USEFUL in any way other than to set up a set, but it’s all here. There seems to be a set for a sort of comedy play, and a set for a drama.
[This is why you got a mask!!! But also this is why you got a roomba. A+ on preparedness. The roomba whirs to life and if it were a sentient creature it would be having the time of it's life, set loose on this dusty stage.]
Mmm, should have grabbed a broom. Too late now though? The rags will just have to do. It's better than the total lack of attention this place had before me, anyway.
[drops one on the ground and uses it to dust-mop the stage ]
The door opens up to a room that is a mix of a common area and living room resembling the BARiTONES dorm, all in deep reds with low lighting, with plush furniture and a small bar. There are various rooms for many different people with card readers that bar your entrance; a room for each member of BARiTONES, past and present, and nameplates also include the names of their ‘accessories’, but the most striking thing about this room is that every single piece of furniture bears a plastic covering such as one might see in an older home to preserve their cleanliness.
The bar is stocked with alcohol, though it is all just plain alcohol, and on the side of the bar there is a kiosk similar to the sort you might find to play games in any public bar with a hands on the front of it like a trash can’s. Opening it, you could not fit something the size of a person in there, but the bottom looks dark, as if it extends into a void, and the screen tells you that you can add dorm upgrades here, so long as you give up something for payment, without saying what it is that it requires for payment.
As it is a more lived-in space, it does look the part. Despite the plastic coverings, there are cups laying empty here and there, and a number of the chairs have clothing draped over the back or the arms. On the end tables near the chairs, there also are plates with silverware. Behind the bar is a small sink, if you wanted to wash any dishes!
In the back of the room is a door forward, standing no larger than any of the doors to the rooms but lined in gold.
[ Izumi is even more glad for the dust mask, since canon says he gets dizzy just from the vapors from open bottles and glasses around.
Holding his nose with one hand, he's going to go check out the cups, making sure they're all empty one by one. once he's ascertained that, he's going to go to the sink and wash them out ]
[Thankfully for Izumi, they are empty! He is messy, but not messy enough to leave food and drink out, probably. Just dishes and clothes. At least the furniture is covered in plastic? It makes it not very comfortable to rest on, though.
[UNLEASHES THE ROOMBA first and foremost, because that's obligatory. He'll go collect the clothes that have been left laying around since Izumi's got the dishes, I guess??]
Regardless of which door you passed through in order to get here, you have arrived in a hallway. This is similar to the BARiTONEs dorm once more, with wine-red walls and yellowed wall sconces lighting your way to what could be called the ‘throne room’, though it does not resemble anything like that. Instead, it is a small lounge, with a number of places for seating all around and a piano up on a small stage. How many stages does one need in their palace?
Eichi is seated at the piano, seeming to be warming up, or otherwise trying to write music himself from the way he stops and goes at random intervals, repeating some notes here, changing it up there before he notices you’ve come in.
“.....This is embarrassing. I wasn’t expecting to have an audience.” He honestly does not seem to have been expecting anyone, and fidgets a little in his seat, uncomfortably. "What are you, ah... doing here????"
'Sup! We're here to clean, 'cuz some clowns told us we'd get fed if we did it and did it good!
[*Nike is the only one being motivated by food here. He's gonna casually unleash the roomba again even if it's not all that necessary, just so that's going on in the background of whatever happens in this scene.]
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Rules/Instructions
-You get put in a maid or butler outfit! Feel free to choose your own outfit. No rules, just right! You get to keep it when you leave~
-If you are running with other characters, you can assume they’re all there together. Otherwise, please let me know if you would prefer your character to run solo by putting that in your subject line or messaging me!
-Anything other than finding the flowers and the True Heart are 100% optional! Touch what you like but do not feel like you are obligated to!
-Death is possible! If you die in the Heart you don’t die for real, though. Combat is also possible, under certain circumstances...
-Characters still have their powers! At least for now!(It is possible to get them taken away if they act a fool)
-IC Goals(which will be on the characters’ phone, as well as told to them verbally) are:
Clean up the Theater and Living Room(Remove The Corrupting Influence)
Meet with The Emperor(Find The True Heart)
WARNINGS: possible suicidal ideation, possible assisted suicide, very light references to violence, references to isolation real or imagined, possible physical violence with swords idk what to tell you
BEGINNING
Looking around, you can see the palace is floating in the air; with the ground below lit up by flickering lights that bounce off of the crystals that have overtaken what resembles the Tokyo-F you are familiar with at night. They seem to sway and jump about more like fireflies than lightbulbs, and they are too far below to really examine closely, but your goal lies ahead of you anyway. The Palace is also encased in gemstone- blues and purples and whites that seem to have some kind of ambient lighting from inside, just bright enough against the darkened sky to show where the seams are so that you may enter the wide, towering double doors looming before you.
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The double doors open easily for you. Too easy, they’re far too large for your strength alone to move, but they move anyway, and you enter the entrance hall. It’s grandiose of course, all white marble interlaced with gold, with many various crystals jutting up from the ground, and one large crystal stalactite hanging from the ceiling, serving as a sort of chandelier. There is a staircase before you, right through the middle of the room, splitting into two ways at the landing. Most of the room is not navigable, due to the crystals jabbing into the air, but there is something that should draw your attention first:
On the landing stand two figures. They both are wearing jester costumes and masks but may be familiar to you; The one in the smiling mask has long hair, braided and tied in a ponytail, the color of moonlight, and the one in the frowning mask has his silvery-pink hair cut shorter, with it longer on his right.
“Welcome to our Illustrious Emperor’s Palace~☆” The smiling simulacrum says from behind his mask, though the sound isn’t muffled in the least.
“Don’t mess anything up, heathens”, The frowning one speaks up, also without muffling, though his tone is quite a bit more terse than Wataru’s was.
“Fufufu, what our friend here means is that we’re having a spot of trouble cleaning up, and that is why we’ve brought you here! We’ve managed to get this lovely foyer all cleaned up, but if His Majesty sees his theater or the common area…”
The pink-haired masked stranger finishes the thought. “Just do your job. You were hired for a reason. Go see the Emperor in his throne room once you are done.”
There are three accessible doors in this room, two beneath the staircase and one on either side of the split stairs after the landing. A fourth door exists but the crystals cover it completely, and there seems to be no weak point in that mass. “You may get supplies in the broom closet under the stairs, to your left”, the blue-haired one speaks up, motioning with a hand in the… general direction of the door beneath the stairs. “It might help!”
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Oh my gawd, it's one thing to be expected to play medic, but maids now? Irritating!
[ He's also pretty sure he knows the guy with the silver hair because how does one not recognize Wataru but he's not going to just acknowledge people he knows while he's dressed like this. no way.
TIME TO JUST TRY TO LEAVE TO THE BROOM CLOSET DOOR INDICATED. ]
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The door underneath the stairs is just a supply closet, as you were told! Nothing too wild here, but there are plenty of supplies for cleaning. You can find:
-A broom
-A bucket
-Soap and window cleaner
-A hose(you can get water to fill the bucket here)
-A vacuum
-Feather dusters(very important for a good maid)
-Rags and sponges
-A leaf blower
-A roomba
-A step ladder
-Whatever other cleaning garbage you can think of that I didn’t list here specifically.
You can take whatever you want! Or nothing at all! I’m not your dad, live your best life. Also will you REALLY get paid???]
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Does "supplies" include snacks, sir?
[He's very determined to not acknowledge that he knows several faces here. They're all in maid dresses, it's for all their sakes.]
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[ Izumi at least legitimately does not recognize this guy. ]
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[The simulacrum of Wataru answers this, holding his hands up in a gesture of apology but like it is clearly a fake apology and he is super okay with that.]
But if you are quick and do a good job, surely His Majesty will reward you with a banquet!
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oh wait that was the b-word]
Oh okay! I'll do the quickest and goodest job, sir!
[Also heading over to the broom closet]
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THEATER
The one depicting Eichi himself is wearing a crown, and holding a sword, pointed out towards the curtains, and the audience beyond.
The curtains are currently drawn closed. Looking around, you can find a chest and just racks of costumes hidden from the stage, and a number of props. Everything here is clearly made to be safe and also just for show, so none of it is USEFUL in any way other than to set up a set, but it’s all here. There seems to be a set for a sort of comedy play, and a set for a drama.
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Mmm, should have grabbed a broom. Too late now though? The rags will just have to do. It's better than the total lack of attention this place had before me, anyway.
[drops one on the ground and uses it to dust-mop the stage ]
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The bar is stocked with alcohol, though it is all just plain alcohol, and on the side of the bar there is a kiosk similar to the sort you might find to play games in any public bar with a hands on the front of it like a trash can’s. Opening it, you could not fit something the size of a person in there, but the bottom looks dark, as if it extends into a void, and the screen tells you that you can add dorm upgrades here, so long as you give up something for payment, without saying what it is that it requires for payment.
As it is a more lived-in space, it does look the part. Despite the plastic coverings, there are cups laying empty here and there, and a number of the chairs have clothing draped over the back or the arms. On the end tables near the chairs, there also are plates with silverware. Behind the bar is a small sink, if you wanted to wash any dishes!
In the back of the room is a door forward, standing no larger than any of the doors to the rooms but lined in gold.
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Holding his nose with one hand, he's going to go check out the cups, making sure they're all empty one by one. once he's ascertained that, he's going to go to the sink and wash them out ]
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Not that you are here to rest, right?]
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Eichi is seated at the piano, seeming to be warming up, or otherwise trying to write music himself from the way he stops and goes at random intervals, repeating some notes here, changing it up there before he notices you’ve come in.
“.....This is embarrassing. I wasn’t expecting to have an audience.” He honestly does not seem to have been expecting anyone, and fidgets a little in his seat, uncomfortably. "What are you, ah... doing here????"
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[ puts the bucket down, vaguely hoping Eichi doesn't recognize him what with the dress, the mask, the corruptions
but honestly his voice probably gave it away ]
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Fufufu~★
Sena-kun, it's amazing to think that you would clean for me! It's a pretty big help, I have to admit...
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[*Nike is the only one being motivated by food here. He's gonna casually unleash the roomba again even if it's not all that necessary, just so that's going on in the background of whatever happens in this scene.]
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... Fed, hm?
[He pauses, thinking on that. He doesn't have any food right now...]
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