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SHOWMASTER HEART GAME (SATURDAY)

A familiar voice can be heard above you, you're not sure if they're talking to you or not but it does feel like you're part of this conversation:

"What a Wonderful Story that you have. I've read it many times when I was feeling sad. You know, I wanted to keep it in my personal collection, but it doesn't seem that's going to be possible. To grant my wish, I'd have to sacrifice what it means to be a reader ... to become the story. That's The End that I'm looking for.

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[Again, they also smell like brand new equipment. This is a time before big experiments were being done most likely.]

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Funny…

[she’ll circle back to the bookshelf and see if there are any books that are bloodstained, since it’s the only thing in here so far with a notable smell]

[There isn't any specific blood bits here, instead it seems to be more like they were put here AFTER the blood event.

Probably.

Maybe.]

[can she move the cabinet out to check if there’s anything behind it? alternatively she could turn into a fox and squirm behind it pretty effectively]

[If you move behind the cabinet, you'll see a cute smiling photo of your self.

:)]

Uhhhhhhhh.

[gets her teeth around the edge and pulls it off the cabinet]

[wait thats a cute icon]

[it's just a simple photo but on the back, there are words labeled, "SOME THINGS ARE BEST LEFT HIDDEN."]

Don’t play hard to get! I want to know!

[scrabbles at the back of the cabinet in frustration]

[There's nothing here.

There's never been anything here. Has there?

Surely there were good memories and bad. But in this time, in this place, there's nothing here.

Even this picture, it doesn't seem real, just another ideal in a family filled with ideals.]

[puffs up in alarm and jumps out from behind the cabinet]

All right, all right already!

[she’ll change back, grab up the two books she took off the shelf again, and check the flowers last]

[These are flowers you may or may not recognize, based on the specific purple, they seem to be from a family you might have heard of back then.

One that would assist with the Awoken for a while before there was a massacre involved that wiped out the entire family.

Well, maybe the entire family.]

[scoops one pot to take with her too, and opens the door]

[Someone get this girl a shopping bag-]

[As you step through the door, a memory probably hits you to some degree. Inside is what looks to be a socializing event, a part of various families just interacting with one another and mingling, talking about whatever it is that higher ups talk about.

But what's interesting is the one family you might recognize.

They wear clean and proper suits, pinstripes in particular, lines, lines, lines, almost like incision marks for many of them. Most all of them have gloves on as well. Glasses, also. No one has their hair loose either. Very uptight, very professional, very clinical.

And perhaps familiar to Miss Dixie.]

"But whatever happened to the DAMNED?"

"We don't need them. We have a DREAM for a better future."

[that IS familiar. her ears flatten, with the burst of deja vu. she wore these clothes, once. she walked the walk and talked the talk, once

she’ll sidle up to the talkers]

I happen to notice that’s not really an answer, though?

"You sound like one of those snooty Cirrus's or Holy Order's, haha!"

Just because I’m out of uniform doesn’t mean you should be rude to a colleague, loves.

The gentleman pushes up his glasses. "And you happen to be...?"

Head Researcher Tamlin Dicentra of the [xxxxx] Consortium’s First Laboratory; and you are?

[insofar as AV and I worked out backstory she and Rika were both in this lab; Rika was an ongoing human experiment and Tamlin was a top researcher who transplanted from Acidia and supervised said experiments. obviously these were not the experiments centered around the Showmaster and her bro, but still pretty important to the Family and highly unethical by real life science standards; stuff to do with cloning and subject stress testing and related drug developments, among other things]

[They let out a small grin, one that seems to be contemplating a lot and they straighten up their form at the name.]

It's nice to meet you proper, I've heard a lot about you. My name is Bear, I've heard about your research. It did help to propel a lot of useful connections with Acidia Conservatory. You might not know me, but I am a part of the DREAM division, it is a fairly new team but I believe it will be an innovation like no other.

[smiles back at him, her body language matching the other Awoken in the room now, even if she most definitely is not in pinstripe and glasses]

Pleasure’s all mine, Bear. I take it this DREAM has to do with what the Family values most in this day and age, yes? Or am I presuming too much from the presentation?

Of course! We exist specifically to see if there is a way to give blessings to those who can withstand such powers. That's the "dream" after all.

Isn’t that the truth?

It’s an awfully bold claim about the DAMNED, though, still…unless you can confidently say you’ve got the results to back it up? I can always respect a good solid dataset.

Well, it’s not much of a secret these days that LEGENDS were once human. Humans aren’t indestructible and so surely, neither are they.

Of course, of course. But have all the, mm, side effects, been accounted for? Not that there isn’t always a little risk in science, but Legends are such messy business by their very natures, yeah? Including when they disappear.

Well, we have various test studies, if you would like to witness them, you are welcome to see what we've done so far.

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