[EFFECT ROOM] The Red Thread of Not-Quite-Fate

[hyperhero]

[This room is definitely one that you wouldn't expect to find in a school, considering that it appears to be a gigantic cafe. Plush carpets, cushioned chairs, a whole bunch of fancy drinks and snacks...

Someone put a dating cafe in the school!]

((OOC: Here's how it works! The room is based off the idea of the red string of fate from Japanese/Chinese legend. On stepping into the room, your character will find a thin but completely unbreakable red string tied to their pinkie, with the other end tied to someone else who's come into the room. The red string persists even if you try to leave, and won't disappear until a full day later. The thread itself will lengthen or shorten depending on the proximity of the two characters, but it won't let you get more than a room's length away from each other.

Here's the complication: the Gods are kind of sort of drunk off their asses, which means that the red string could tie you to literally anyone. Your worst enemy, your brother, your father, Old Man Jenkins... it's one of those things where you're lucky if you get your soulmate! Furthermore, the strings can (by player choice) actually swap around repeatedly, so your character could end up tied to one person all day or have to deal with being tied to five different ones through it!

For characters who don't know about the legend, there's a paper pinned to the wall by the door that explains it (at least, the actual legend, not the drunk-gods part). While the paper can be ripped up, it'll just regenerate a minute or two later.

And yes I purposefully picked the most inappropriate journal for this))

Comments

[fluffydeathdealer]

[Huh... had the spirit been playing with string? Oh well! There were desserts. Who needed scissors when there was food and drink to be had? He could surely cut it off later.

...Ryou hasn't even noticed the paper.]

[hyperhero]

[He might notice a dessert shoved over, though.]

Here, Ryou! This stuff is great!

[fluffydeathdealer]

[Such deliciousness and happiness can only come from one source. He looks up with a grin, accepting the dessert.]

Ah-! Thank you, Judai-kun. You should try some of this, too!

[Shoving a cake right back at him.]

[hyperhero]

Ooh, what is it?

["Gone" is probably the only good answer, considering Judai's tearing into the cake like nobody's business.]

[fluffydeathdealer]

Eheh... Well, it was a lemon-flavoured cupcake with meringue frosting.

[hyperhero]

Not bad! Wonder why it took so long to find this place? It's got everything!

[fluffydeathdealer]

Who knows? Maybe it was only set up recently!

[hyperhero]

You think someone came in and built this whole thing? What for?

[He sounds curious, not questioning the actual fact so much as the reason.]

[fluffydeathdealer]

...uhm. I don't mean that they built the room so much as they set it up like this! With all of the food and furniture.

[hyperhero]

Oh! Well, either way, it works for me! There aren't these kind of snacks out in the rest of the school anyway!

[fluffydeathdealer]

I've made things kind of similar, but some of them are really new to me too. I'll need to look up the recipes for some of these later.

[hyperhero]

Maybe there's a book somewhere around here with 'em. Wanna look around?

[fluffydeathdealer]

...maybe if I get to take some of the food with me.

[hyperhero]

Don't see why we can't. I mean, it's not like there's a sign saying NOT to!

[fluffydeathdealer]

Un! I agree! It's probably permitted.

[hyperhero]

So let's look around! We can just grab some stuff and take it back in a bit.

[fluffydeathdealer]

Hehe, okay!

[...? What is that tickling sensation against his arm when he rubbed his head there?]

...is that string?

[hyperhero]

Huh?

[Judai looks down, blinking.]

Hey, you've got some string on your hand.

[He reaches over, tugging on the thread before noticing that it's on his hand too. Huh? Curiously, he reaches over with his other hand and tries to straighten it out.]

...Eh? We're tied together!

[fluffydeathdealer]

...huh? When did that happen? I don't remember noticing this before...

[hyperhero]

Me either.

[He pulls on the string experimentally, scratching his head.]

Wonder why it's so thin? I mean, wouldn't it break really easily? At least they picked a great color for it.

[fluffydeathdealer]

Un. Red is nice. Though it looks weird against my skin.

[Tug tug. Odd. It doesn't seem like it'll easily break.]

Judai-kun, pull hard on your end. I'll pull hard on mine and see if it breaks.

[hyperhero]

Really? I think it looks pretty good!

[BURNING HARTO and all. He grabs ahold of his end, nodding.]

Alright! One, two, three!

[YANK.]

[fluffydeathdealer]

[YANK- OWOWOWOW HIS FINGER.]

Ow, okay, that's enough!

[Owwwww. But oh yeah, Judai had said something about it looking good...]

I don't have the colouring for red, you know?

[hyperhero]

Really? I dunno.

[He holds the string up to Ryou's face, grinning a little.]

I think it still looks great! You just need to get excited more!

[fluffydeathdealer]

...eh? You mean because red is such a warm colour?