snowblindrpg | [network; audio; day 346] Snow Return @betterhalf; [open]

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[network; audio; day 346] Snow Return @betterhalf; [open]

[ He woke up to the funeral home in the morning. After his initial freak out about being in a bag and giving himself bruises as he falls off the table, he finally sits there to figure what is even going on. This wasn’t the Keyblade Graveyard, and these aren’t the clothes he should have on.

The helmet is ditched, along with the bag of stuff, while he ventures outside for a bit.

It’s snow! He’s never seen snow before!

Once that excitement dies down, he starts freaking out again over this isn’t his clothes and decides to head back in. Pulling off his gloves only gives him more reasons to freak out. There’s a blood stained bandage on his hand, and a drawing of an eye???

He tries to remove it. Even goes outside to use the snow to try to scrub it off, ,but nothing he does helps. It takes time for him to calm down again, and he’s back inside where he woke up to find clues. That’s when he actually looks at the helmet to see that the face isn’t his own. Sure, it looks similar to him, and there’s an inkling of familiarity, but this is not his body.

Eventually, he finds the tablet. He’s weak with technology, but he manages to enable ~~mr. clippy~~ the helper to figure most of it out. ]

[ Still hasn’t figure out how to check his messages or to get to video, but audio is easy enough. He does venture It’s close to noon when he decides to try , a message will pop up on the network ]

Hey, I have something I would like to-

[ And then there is an intake of his breath. The tablet clatters to the floor as he finds something in the funeral home.

The call ends. Just going to freak out because he finds what looks like HIS BODY behind one of the glass doors. ]

[ A hour later, a second message will pop up. ]

Look, whoever you guys are on here, I think there’s been some kind of mistake.

[ The voice doesn’t sound like the usual Mickey Ominous Mouse. He sounds more like a normal teenager. ]

This isn’t my body. I don’t know what happened, but it looks like my body is trapped behind one of these doors here. Has anything like this happened before? Is there a way to fix this? Please let me know, I have to get back to my friends as soon as possible.

[ And with that, he’ll end the message. Help him, Norfin-Wan Kenobi. You’re his only hope. ]

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Well that's not normal.

[ Except it kinda is. Norfunbury is weird. ]

Who are you, then?

I'm Steph, by the way. People wake up here unexpectedly all the time, so you should be back where you were in like, a week? Give or take.

[ Seeing someone who looks nice on the screen is helping take the edge off. He takes a moment, asking Clippy how to turn on video so she can see him, too.

There's Vanitas' face, covered in the red jagged lines that make an expression similar to his Flood on his face. His eyes are red, there's some of his hair is missing, but like his voice he's actually moving his face like a normal teenager too. ]

I was afraid of that. [ Shoulders slumping a bit. Rubbing the back of his head, similar to how Sora would have if she ever seen him around. Then remembering her question and looking sheepish for a moment. ]

Oh, sorry. I should have started with that. I'm Ventus, but you can call me Ven.

[ Oh yeah also Steph definitely has red marks on her face too but don't worry about it man! She smiles very sweetly. ]

Nice to meet you, Ven. Sorry about the accomodations. It's cold as butts, and it gets colder overnight. All the doors in town lock at night, so don't get locked out. Your tablet will let you know when that's happening.

Oh, and if you see anything kinda monster-y out in the snow, run the other way. They'll knock you out on contact.

[ The smile is contagious, but smiling feels stiff to him. This body isn't used to doing it as often. ]

It is cold! I didn't realize snow could be this cold.

[ Baby's first snow trip. The monster thing gets him looking serious. He's not a kid, Steph. ]

Do you mean the unversed? I know how to handle them.

No, I-

Well, there's one unversed, but he's cool. He's on babysitter duty.

The anomalies are different. They look like people, sometimes. People you know, but who shouldn't be here. Or like horrible grotesque mockeries of people, or sometimes like monsters you've seen before. So they might look like unversed, but they don't have to, and you definitely can't beat them like they're unversed. Because you'll be unconscious once you touch them.

you do not have any friends

Of course I do! Terra and Aqua. They are my best friends.

[ Wow hdu ]

[ ???? ]

Whoa, hang on. There's one on babysitter duty? You can't let one of those things any where near kids.

[ They are bad. ]

Why would you be unconscious when you touch one?

[There's a pattern to when new people arrive. This is too early. So between that username, what he called himself with Steph, and the whole thing about "losses"...]

It's kinda hard to keep track of where people are, but I'm pretty sure some of the usernames you wanna look for are "@wiccandoit" and "@godsend", so you can contact them and meet back up.

[Were they ever traveling together? Junpei sure doesn't know. But he can't just not try to help, right?]

Because the kid loves it, and it seems to like the attention.

[ She shrugs. What can you do? ]

We're not sure why. Probably they shortcircuit our brains or something.

[ He's so confused. :< ]

Huh? What do you mean by meet back up? Do they know where Terra and Aqua are?

[ Neither of those usernames seem like theirs. ]

Uh. Well, I haven't heard those names...

But those other two were worried about you, so they've gotta be your friends, too, right? They might know them.

That doesn't make any sense. They only like hurting people and they are from-

[ There's something there, and it's something important. Trying to recall it gives him a splitting headache. Wincing as he reaches to touch his face. ]

They are just bad news.

I'm sorry, I don't know those two names.

[ It does hit something in the back of his mind... but he's not sure what. ]

They could be friends with this boy. Maybe they can help figure out when we switched?

[ The wince makes her frown. ]

It and the kid have a friend of mine with them, she won't let anything happen.

Are you okay? I mean, I know you're in the wrong body, but besides that.

[ Once the headache is gone, he'll do his best to give a smile to reassure her. ]

Yeah, I'm fine. Sometimes I get these headaches, but they go away pretty quickly.

[ Just when he's remembering traumatic stuff. nbd ]

Is there a way to open these drawers? [ A pause. ] Did they have their hearts stolen?

[ Turning the camera to drawers in the funeral home. He hasn't left yet. ]

Hmm.

[ That seems like a bad thing, honestly. ]

No, they’re... comatose. They’re all people who’ve been hurt really bad, and they haven’t woken up yet. I think the drawers help with the healing, and the locks are to keep it from getting interrupted.

I have never met them
it seems unlikely

Just because you haven't met them, doesn't me they don't exist!

[ Huff. He'll fight you, golem. Don't talk smack about his friends :< ]

Who the heck are you anyways?

Really? How did they get hurt? Why would my body be in there? Last thing I remember, was meeting up with my friends.

[ It doesn't make any sense :< ]

I don't think it's yours. That looks like Roxas. He was, uh... attacked by one of the anomalies I was talking about.

We do get a lot of, um, parallel universes here? So sometimes people look alike but they're not the same person.

Whoa! He looks exactly like me.

[ ~~Hello heart son~~ Including a lot of his fashion? It's weird! ]

Then where's my body? Have you seen another blond kid that looks like that? About this tall? [ He holds his hand close to Vanitas' height. ]

Or how about my friends? Do you know Aqua or Terra?

Let me double check my notes.

[ In the mean time let's not think about what kind of notes she's checking or what implications that carries. ]

I haven't seen anyone else that looks like Roxas. There aren't a lot of people here our age. They tend to either be a lot older or a lot younger.

No... I don't have their names. Sorry. Most likely your body is exactly where you left it. Which, on the plus side, means you'll probably still be with your friends when you get back to it.

[ Look she is running with this theory, it's kinder than the truth. She knows, because Vanitas is terrible. ]

[ Billy waits a while after the message goes up, trying to get a read on what Vanitas is up to in the comments. It's... definitely his network tag, and his voice, and it sounds sincere enough.

So that's... weird. Probably some kind of death price, but who could really tell around here? It does nothing to stop the guilt that's been wrapped around Billy like his cape.

He's looking especially miserable - and scruffy, with a beard and a fading black eye and lip scars - when he appears on video. ]

-Hey. Ventus, huh?

[ Not the most promising of openers. ]

What's the last thing you remember?

[ He holds his breath as she checks the notes. Not even going to question what kind because it can't be anything bad, right?

And then his shoulders sag once he hears that neither his body or his friends are here.

Rubbing the back of his head, and feeling dread at the pit of his stomach. ]

I was really hoping they would be here. I mean, I don't think they have seen snow either.

[ Priorities. ]

Well, I know they are safe if they are still together. [ He'll trust in that \o/ ]

So, what is this place anyways?

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