[Heart Game - Ed, Maya, Roxy]

[carptricks]

[It's dark. You're trying to move forward, but it feels like your limbs are weighed down by chains and shackles. Still, you push. You push and you pull and those chains are pulled taut and strained until suddenly--]

[Something snaps]

[You tumble forward, wind blowing past your face, until you lose awareness of anything around you. . .]

((another run ran concurrent to this one here))

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[feytality]

[stares into your soul]

Sure! What is it?

[carptricks]

[Kaito lifts a hand a hand and snaps his fingers, the noise echoing across the empty theater. A creaking noise responds from above, and should you look up, you’ll find something descending from the ceiling]

[It seems to be. . . a pair of clocktower hands, secured by rope, and they’re being lowered to the stage by some unseen force. thankfully, the hands don’t seem to be any bigger than two. . . two-and-a-half feet long. Kaito’s impressively grouchy expression softens]

I'm still building in some areas of the heart, y'know? People are always changing, after all.

Can you return these to the clocktower outside for me?

[feytality]

[Those are really big hands.]

Sure!

...Where's that, though?

1/2

[carptricks]

[SURE ARE. but hey, they belong on a clocktower]

Just outside. You'll see it as soon as you--

[soulping]

[Before you can lift the clock hands from the ropes, the lights in the theater are suddenly extinguished. there’s a yell, the sound of something crashing against the ground, triumphant laughter, and then--]

[the lights flicker back on. at the back of the theater, a dark figure with ABSOLUTELY NO discernible features stands right next to a brightly lit open door that definitely wasn’t there before. and. . . oh dear]

[the figure has the clocktower hands]

[that's about all you have time to process before it escapes through the doorway and Kaito yells]

H-- hey! Get back here!

[feytality]

---What the heck?!

HEY!

[CHASES]

[carptricks]

[calling after her]

Find the thief and get those back for me! I need them!

[you give chase]