W3 🛸 MOD CYOA : PORTRAIT OF SNOW 🚀 NODD, ROSAMUND, YURI

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something will be here eventually

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PROLOGUE

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[ Hello everyone, as a debrief. This icly happens W3 WEDNESDAY NIGHT to W3 THURSDAY RETURN. The week effect is not available and everyone is provided one blaster (like star wars). They are on a small little ship, heading towards what they can see as a dark fog nearby Hyros. ]

Hello, everyone. I am Amalthea and I will be the senior officer foreseeing this mission. As some of you may already know, we normally disperse galactic storms caused by cosmoelectromagnetic waves so that the Eudora can safely travel to the next destination... If we leave them be, what happens in those storms can swallow the ship. I know that things have been rough, but Hyros does not have teleportation technology and we must press on. ... While this storm's grade is 2 out of 5, I cannot guarantee it to be harmless, so I have supplied you weapons to protect yourselves.

[ And as their ship is engulfed by the fog, they will find themselves in a very dark manor, already inside. If they look around where they think would be corners or passageways out of this living room, it is an eerie darkness. Their only source of light... Is a fireplace. The embers crackle softly, taking in the timber.

It's quiet in here, dead silent.

Everyone can ask Amalthea more questions for today, etc. ]

CHAT WITH AMALTHEA

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[ you ask her questions, you talk to her. ]

CHAT AMONGST YOURSELVES

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[ you guys talk to each other. ]

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[ A gun! That's pretty much what this blaster is, so Yuri is not having much trouble wielding it and checking over the equipment.

But she stares at Amalthea... and then whispers over to Rosamund and Nodd. (no tag order. go wild) ]

Are all the senior members so good looking...?

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[ a gun! nodd has no idea how to properly wield one of these, he will take it, however. waste not, want not, and so on.

looking at yuri, looking at amalthea. ]

Her and Io, anyway. Ganymede gives hot guy energy but I could be misreading.

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[ Yuri nods in agreement. ]

I haven't seen Ganymede, but I've seen Europa... they're very... beautiful.

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Did they take the helmet off on purpose? I caught Io off-guard, but they didn't seem peeved.

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[ Yuri nods. ]

We sparred in the combat room, so they took their helmet off.

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Who won? Out of curiosity.

[ as if, in exchange: ]

Io showed me a microscope.

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Hello, Amalthea...

[ pretty person. Yuri cannot look at them in the eyes. Help. ]

Do we have any flashlights in case the one from our I.R.I.S. doesn't work?

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Europa definitely won. I was no match for them... but it won't deter me in asking them to spar again. They're very helpful in advising. I could tell that they wanted me to genuinely improve.

What did the microscope show?

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I do have a couple of light sources we can use. [ TAKES OUT CANDLE LIKE THIS IS THE MIDDLE AGES. You all get candles now. ]

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[Rosamund, who has been here this whole time, has also been enraptured by the gun. Imagine how short her story would have been if she had one of these.]

This is actually the second time I've seen Miss Almathea, we were in the tea shop together. I don't know if they're all so beautiful but I'd believe it!

[she waits to hear about this mythical microscope]

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[ Candles... Alright then. Yuri takes one. Do these have a little stand, or are they legitimately just candle sticks by themselves. ]

... Thank you. As for the mission, are we supposed to find something in this place?

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Miss Amalthea!

[immediately runs up and takes her hands.]

It's so lovely to see you again! I was worried after we woke and didn't see you...

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[ They do get small candelabras. ] ... That I do not know. Sometimes, storms have cores, then some only need to be... Experienced, I suppose is a way to say it.

[murdergate]

I can't follow any of what you said about storm waves--not your fault. But is it normal that they turn into a house?

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My apologies, Miss du Prix. I should have at least left a message since I very could be a victim some day. We just had a lot of work to do, as you already know. [ She may take her hands. They're deathly cold. ]

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If the CEM waves are strong enough, they can change our surroundings into anything. In this case, it is a manor.

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Maybe the helmets are related. They want us to focus. But then explain--

[ gestures at his two companions ]

Where are your head-bags? Oh, under the microscope we looked at some plants. It was neat.

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Is that similar in a way how Charles and the others returned from something that was like the place I came from?

[ She really hopes not... ]

[rosebleed]

No no, it's all right. [The chill reminds her — there's questions she'd like to ask. Just not the sort she can in front of other people. For now her smile only becomes a touch muted, her eyes flicking between the other woman's.

But she presses on.]

I'm just happy to see you again. Um, though I'm not sure what's expected of us. Is there another tear in reality in that storm?

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Head...bags?

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Are you saying that they're too good-looking that they had to hide themselves with their helmets?

[rosebleed]

[Glancing at The Maid.

Glancing back.]

I'd be distracted.

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... That, I do not know since they were not escorted by senior crew. We have some speculation it may be caused by strong waves creating dimensional tears and rifts, but it's something we need to research. The mission I was aware of was the one fielded by Thebe, Ganymede, Europa, and Callisto. They debriefed that they went to... Barbie Land?