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Locked Rooms ([personal profile] guillotineroom) wrote2022-04-30 08:58 am
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[PHOENIX]

[once you pass through the clocktower door, you find yourself in a closed room complete with a central table, notebooks and pens, and a white board for strategizing]

[a digital clock on the wall counts down to the end of the game. time to get to work, right?]
chew_toy: (20)

[personal profile] chew_toy 2022-04-30 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[ sighs ]

Me, too... Well, no, I'm not unused to staying locked in one room for long periods of time, but I do usually have quite a bit to do with myself at times like that.
chew_toy: (50)

[personal profile] chew_toy 2022-05-01 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, like work. Though I'm retired, so less so in the past year or so.

[ taps the pen again once and then notices what he's doing and deliberately sets it aside ]
laughitoff: (fires for heaven's sake.)

[personal profile] laughitoff 2022-05-01 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
Ha, I was never retired, but I did tinker around a lot in my workshop.

[the bird's finished; he blows on it, and with a gentle puff of magic and resentful energy, it goes flying to land on top of Reim's head]
chew_toy: (34)

[personal profile] chew_toy 2022-05-01 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
Oh--!

[ reaching up gingerly to touch it without trying to displace it ]

It's real...
laughitoff: (the impossible dream.)

[personal profile] laughitoff 2022-05-01 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
[laughs]

It's just paper. A little trick.
chew_toy: (63)

[personal profile] chew_toy 2022-05-01 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Yes- I watched you make it, after all.

[ taking it off his head to look at it ]

My late master used to play tricks on me, but his were illusions, so I couldn't touch them.
laughitoff: (zelda chickens.)

[personal profile] laughitoff 2022-05-01 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
[it's a little paper crane, wings outspread]

Well, if ti makes you feel more at home, I'll do it anytime.
chew_toy: (20)

[personal profile] chew_toy 2022-05-01 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
That's... a very kind offer, but I don't know how I feel about encouraging someone to play tricks on me more often...