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𝐻𝒜𝒫𝒫𝒴 𝐻𝐸𝒜𝑅𝒯𝒮 𝒮𝒯𝒜𝐹𝐹 ([personal profile] happyheartsstaff) wrote in [community profile] angryhearts2020-05-11 03:11 pm

to lose all my senses —

THAT IS JUST SO TYPICALLY ME

It's not clear how many days it's been since you arrived in Wonderland. With it stuck in perpetual twilight, it could have been days, perhaps longer — everything starts to blur together, in this artificially joyful place. Maybe you've started to feel like you you're getting used to it, maybe not...

But eventually, something happens to break the monotony. Your ears begin to ring, and ring, and ring and then — stop. The lights become blinding, forcing you to squeeze your eyes shut and try to rub the afterimage of all that light from them — but when you open your eyes, you still can't see.

The staff don't understand when you ask them what's happened to you. "You've always been like this", they insist. They sign at you, or try to hand you papers written in braille — if you insist you've never signed in your life, or that you can't read braille, they laugh at your funny joke. You begin to wonder — have you always been this way? You were so sure... But everyone around you is equally sure of their truth, and their voices are so much louder.

As if that weren't enough, nothing in the hotel can be found in the same place twice. All the shops keep switching places, once you enter one area it's as though everything shifts in the minutes before you leave again. Getting back to your room is a struggle — where are the elevators? Finding food is nearly impossible — the Pig & Pepper was there, but now it's not. The staff are equally useless here — they have no idea what you mean about moving shops. Where would you want to move to when all your needs are accounted for right here?

What is going on?

SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL — 5/11



The day starts like any other has in the Hotel — unsure if a new day has started at all. Perpetual twilight and lack of clocks makes it difficult to tell time here in the Hotel, but on this particular day, something breaks up the monotony. It begins slowly — or else it happens all at once. Over the course of the day, all Oysters find themselves losing a sense. Staff don't understand their complaints — you've always been like this, they say, gentle, as though to a person in the middle of a break with reality.

Losing your temper won't help, either. Oysters who shout and yell will find staff remaining frustrating calm and compassionate, insisting that they cannot fix what has always been and murmuring about Mad March before taking their leave. Physical aggression may result in a spike of fear, but staff will quickly make their exit and may avoid that Oyster for a while.

If that wasn't enough, nothing in the Hotel is staying put.



IT'S LIKE A MAZE IN HERE — 5/11



The interior of the Hotel has ceased to remain stationary. Beginning at the same time as the loss of senses, the establishments of the Hotel begin to jump around, never staying in the same place twice. An Oyster may have entered the Pool of Tears from the lobby, but exit it into the middle of the casino. The Pig & Pepper Buffet is never in the same place twice, and always seems to move right when Oysters desperately need a meal.

Even as the old shops move, new establishments seem to be being added, but they aren't easy to find — Oysters will see a new sign across the building from where they are, only to see it's moved again by the time they get there. If you take your eyes off an establishment as you head toward it, it disappears and reappears elsewhere. Making it to the new establishments will take some time and dedication (or perhaps plain stubbornness), but there are rewards in it for any Oyster that can manage the feat!



Back To Rights — 5/15



A few days after the effects of the event begin, they just as suddenly end. Sight, hearing, speech — they all return in a rush, possibly overwhelmingly so, and when one tries to make their way to a shop, it stays exactly where it was when they first saw it, and they exit the exact same place they entered. Staff will react much the same way as they did when they were questioned after the loss of senses — you've always been like this.

You made it through, Oysters. You've completed your first event in the Hotel.





We hope you enjoy this first event, Oysters! If you have any questions, please leave them on the first comment to this page. Happy playing!




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Eddie Kaspbrak • ota

[personal profile] riskanalyst 2020-05-12 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
see no evil, hear no evil
Quite frankly, Eddie Kaspbrak is only marginally convinced that this isn't yet another extension of It's fabricated realities meant, from what he can tell, to frighten and throw Its victims off their guard; moreover, to separate the Losers to keep them from being able to defeat It. Pennywise is a monster, but It's not a stupid monster. It knows too much and they hurt It once. It knows they can hurt It again if given half a chance to try.

The part that does have him convinced is the fact that it feels like it's been days since he and Richie stepped through the door labeled in drippy, red letters, Not Scary at All. Well, to its credit, this is, in fact, not scary at all. It is, however taking an incredibly long time for Pennywise to try to hurt him or kill him. He actually hasn't seen a single red balloon or any trace of a clown or leper, yet. If this is one of Its tricks...then why isn't It seizing on the opportunity to take him out of the game when he's alone and disoriented by the complete lack of daylight — by the way, Vitamin D deficiency is not a joke and he's going to give someone a piece of his mind about it if this isn't a hallucination, just wait — and new surroundings?

He wakes up in the morning like he has the past several mornings and the only thing that feels strange is the lack of shoes. Why in God's name won't they give him shoes? There are a million reasons why walking around with no shoes on is dangerous and Eddie could go on for days — and likely will, if ever the opportunity presents itself — about why it's a terrible idea to keep doing it. And yet...if he stays in the room, he'll go stir crazy. He needs to find his way back to the Losers. He needs to get back there, kill that fucking clown, and get back to his wife and his life. That's what he needs to do.

It seems like a normal enough — although normal is relative now — day until he opens the door to leave the room and two unexpected things happen:

First, he opens the door and finds himself smack in the middle of the casino floor instead of having to wind down a hall to get there.

More concerning and second, the silence is deafening. He can see that lights are flashing on slot machines and people are laughing and drinking; everything looks the way the casino typically looks. ...but he can't hear the sound of a voice, not one bark of laughter, not a single motherfucking chime of a slot machine; nothing.

Immediately, worry sets in when he sees that no one else seems concerned for the lack of noise at all, which presumably means it's only affecting Eddie. He doesn't go into full-blown panic mode until he tries to ask a staff member what the fuck is going on and he can't even hear his voice in his own head. There is nothing. Instinctively, Eddie makes desperate grabs at his pockets for his inhaler and then remembers that he pitched it into the fire for Mike's fucking bullshit ritual that was never going to work to begin with. Suddenly, he realizes that this is the first time he's genuinely worried that he's still in the depths of the Well House since a couple of days into his arrival.

It's coming, I know it. I know It's coming for me now, he thinks wildly — or maybe he's saying it right out loud and he just doesn't realize it — gawking at the change of scenery when he turns abruptly to go back to his room only to see that the door is gone and replaced with a row of soundless coin slots. Fuck you, you fucking clown! he's thinking — or saying? — as he lumbers through the casino in search of the missing door from whence he came.

it's like a maze in here
Considering Eddie has a pretty great sense of direction, if he does say so himself, it's disconcerting — not to mention completely fucking frustrating — that he keeps getting lost as he moves through the hotel. Nothing is where he could've sworn he'd seen it before. Worse, he can't even ask for directions if it really is just that he's disoriented himself and not that, as he suspects, things are quite literally moving locations once they're out of his sight. That's crazy, though. Right? That's insane; that can't be real...

It'd be nice if he could solve literally either of his current issues, but he can't hear what anyone is saying to him. Directions, therefore, are a no go, and all he seems to glean from the staff is that they think he's nuts for some reason or another.

What starts out as simply being lost turns into a quest for a way back out. Somewhere in this fucking place, there is a door that says Not Scary At All on the outside of it and when Eddie finds it and walks back through it, Richie and the other Losers will be waiting on the other side—

if they're not already dead

—for him so that they can kill that motherfucking clown once and for all. He just...has to find it.

wildcard
(( oooor throw something else at him under "back to rights." you can reach out to me on plurk (~mistojen) or Discord (~mistojen8486) for plotting, or PM me, or just toss up a start and we'll see what happens! ))
Edited (when dw just randomly throws in line breaks for shits & giggles... :-/) 2020-05-12 00:50 (UTC)
inlovewithmycar: (Drama queen)

Crowley ⛧ 3 open prompts +1 for Aziraphale

[personal profile] inlovewithmycar 2020-05-12 04:03 am (UTC)(link)

I. SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL, STILL DEFINITELY EVIL [Open]



Crowley should have expected it. Oh, not to lose his hearing exactly, there was no way he could have predicted that; he's not some 17th century madwoman in a cottage with too much time on her hands. But the concept behind it. He was very familiar with power-plays, having had to make a few of his own just to remain relevant enough in the Lower-Downs' eyes and not be as disposable as poor bloody Eric. This was, as far as he could tell, a power play. It sent a message - we can do whatever we like with you, make you as powerless as we need, so play nice.

Crowley scowled when he tried to get any kind of answer out of an employee who just signed at him that he had always been like this.

"We've never met before," he said a little too loudly. "How could you possibly know...?"

The employee looked bewildered for a moment before signing that of course they'd met, Crowley's been here ages.

Crowley nodded, as though to agree, or at least cut the conversation short because really, he just didn't want to deal with hitting his head against a brick wall. He couldn't exactly miracle the hapless human into a tank full of hungry sharks either, much as he'd like to.

Grumbling about wanting a drink, Crowley catches the employees lips moving out the corner of his eyes. Mad Marsh he thought, or more likely, Mad March if the Wonderland theme held. Really, when he got back, he was going to take every copy of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and - well, didn't know precisely what he'd do, it would definitely be something Aziraphale would deeply disapprove of.

For now though, he very nearly gave in to the temptation of getting a drink before remembering what a monumentally foolish thing that would be to do, and instead decided to check in with the other newcomers.

"Oi, mate," he called to someone else walking around without shoes, "Missing one of your senses too?"

II. MAZES AND MONSTERS [Open]



There are some people who would say Crowley has been lost since the day he questioned God's divine plan and took a long plunge into a quick sulfur bath for his trouble. These are also the kinds of people who suddenly discover their shoelaces have quite miraculously fused together once they've managed to pick themselves up off the linoleum.

Not that Crowley could do that here. No miracles for starters. No shoelaces either.

The point, however, is that Crowley isn't the sort to feel lost. Not like this anyway. Not like he's stuck in a strange place where the architecture keeps moving and shifting and changing.

He frowns as he glances over his shoulder at the door he just came from. It's gone, replaced by a long stretch of blank wall.

"Oh that's weird," he says, raising his sunglasses as if that would let him suss out the trick. "That's very, very weird. Don't like that at all."

He paces the length of the wall, patting it down. And then, glancing around surreptitiously (because there are rules in Hell about this and he's not entirely convinced they're not in some corner of it), he flicks his forked tongue, giving it a good lick.

III. BACK TO NOT-QUITE-RIGHTS [Open]



It starts with tinnitus and ends with a migraine, but at least he can hear again. Crowley can be found at the buffet, nursing his headache with a cup of hot water, honey and lemon, while pawing at the snake tattoo on his temple and looking quite wretched. Well, he's a demon, he's rather supposed to look as such, but Crowley isn't one to play into stereotypes.

SPA DAY [FOR AZIRAPHALE]



"Angel!"

After hours of searching he was able to finally find Aziraphale's door. It's been bothering him that he can't just hone in on Aziraphale's location like a rather particularly tuned carrier pigeon, but that's the least of his worries.

"Aziraphale, can you hear me?! For Satan's sake, open the door!"

He gives the handle an impatient rattle for good measure. Fuck, he misses just being able to go in and out the bookshop as he pleases; hotels with their autolocking doors are complete rubbish, how is he supposed to be a rather inconvenient nuisance to his best rival in the whole world now?
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Wei Wuxian (novel) | OTA & Closed to River for Option 2

[personal profile] scaredofdogs 2020-05-12 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
1. See No Evil, Hear no Evil

Being blind doesn't bother him. Being blind in a place he has very little knowledge of and apparently likes to keep changing..slightly more aggravating. It happened to him suddenly and he barely had time to realize it was going before it was gone and he found himself on the floor. He's not a clumsy person but when your sight suddenly disappears, sometimes those tables are not where you remember them being.

So now he is very cautiously making his way through the building, one hand running along the wall in an attempt to stay in a straight line. He's trying to make sure he doesn't run into any more things since that bruise on his knee from falling still throbs a little.

"Inconvenient but not that hard to deal with.." Now if only he can feel his way to the bar. Drinking is an activity he can figure out even without his sight.


2. It's like a maze in here - close to River
He suddenly realizes that getting around this place is probably better if you have a second pair of..well normally it would be eyes but even that doesn't seem completely plausible right about now. It took quite a bit of work to find the bar and even after carefully figuring out how many steps it took to get out of it..he still ended up in a different area completely then where he had intended. Something is definitely out of whack with this world right now.

As he turns to head back towards the bar, hoping to maybe start over and get it right this time, he accidentally runs into someone.

"Oh! Sorry about that. I'm having a few issues with seeing at the moment." Then he realized that this person might be one that can't hear and that could make this apology pointless.
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Richie Tozier | ota

[personal profile] beepbeepboy 2020-05-12 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL [OPEN]

The first time Richie opened his eyes in this place he couldn't figure out why It would suddenly turn that stupid wellhouse into some huge, sprawling hotel-casino-thing - much less why It would stick Richie in there alone, despite the fact that he and Eddie had opened the Not Scary At All door together. After he'd wandered around for a while, he figured It just wanted to make him more afraid, so he'd be more delicious or some shit like that.

Well, Richie Tozier was never one to play by the rules. So he put on a show of accepting things as they were, no matter how weird it was to have hotel staff roaming around and every single need being met, with or without him asking. There was food, he had a huge room, and everything seemed strangely... normal. Well, except the whole no shoes thing. It seemed like everyone working in this place had them, but none of the guests did.

Nonetheless, he kept up that outer appearance of nonchalance, doing his best to hide the fact that he was totally freaked out by the apparent passage of time despite the sky not changing. On this particular day, he'd woken up with a plan to explore the furthest reaches of the building, to see if he couldn't find a way back - but when he opened his eyes, the only thing he saw was white.

Initially he figured it was just post-sleep bleariness, or maybe even the beginnings of a migraine (although he'd never had one before and it'd be weird as hell to start now, but hey, serial killer clowns can do whatever, right?), but after grabbing for his glasses and stumbling out of bed, he realized it wasn't going away. Within five minutes he was out in the hall, yelling for help, his arms outstretched in a feeble attempt to find his way around. By the time he heard a voice he was in full-on panic mode, his heart racing and all sense of reason gone from his mind. He was so freaked out that he ended up grabbing the poor staff member and shaking them violently; when another, apparently more senior, staffperson came over, he punched them in what felt like the jaw.

They both left him alone after that, hurrying off with fierce whispers about someone named Mad March. Richie couldn't care less. Going blind had been his biggest fear since childhood, despite what he'd said about clowns, and now the two have come together in the worst way possible.

He continues down the hall, yelling for help, making a lot of noise and no doubt knocking a few paintings off the walls as he tries like hell to find someone.


IT'S LIKE A MAZE IN HERE [OPEN]

As if being completely blind isn't bad enough, the entire building seems to be in on some big joke. As soon as Richie finds an open space with a multitude of voices, he's told he's in the pool area, and also why is he so upset, he's just like he's always been? Frustrated with the unhelpful staff and not wanting to accidentally fall into the pool and drown, Richie makes his way out the door, in the direction he'd come. It should lead him back towards his room, but as soon as he steps through the doorway his ears are assaulted with the sounds of slot machines and people laughing.

Somehow, he's ended up in the casino - a place he knows isn't supposed to be here. He's spent enough time in the goddamn place to remember how to get there. Yet again, though, the staff tell him this is how things have always been. They ask him to sit down, suggest that he have a drink or two, but instead he shouts at them and ignores their now-familiar whispering, stomping off.

He keeps one had along the side of the room to make sure he doesn't bump into someone, and each time he reaches a doorway he goes through it. It's a half-baked plan that Eddie would no doubt tear apart in seconds as completely idiotic, but it's the best he can do at the moment.

After a good hour of wandering, he finally stops, feeling completely lost. He can't see, and the fear in his chest is making him nauseous. In a fit of sheer anger, he lets out a loud, angry scream, something that would be audible - and probably alarming - to anyone nearby.


BACK TO RIGHTS
[OPEN]

Richie's grown so used to the white cloud obscuring his vision that he doesn't initially notice when it starts to fade away. He's still scared, but he's exhausted from all the yelling and panicking; in fact, he's so tired he's just sitting on the ground, his back up against a wall, trying not to give in to the torture he's being put through.

He blinks once, twice, and with each flutter of his eyelashes a little more colour appears in his field of view. When he realizes what's happening he lets out a gasp, then rubs at his face, accidentally pressing his sweaty palms all over his glasses because he'd completely forgotten they were still on his nose. Taking them off, he tries again, and when he removes his palms everything is back to normal.

Unlike his yells and screams from earlier, he's actually fairly quiet when he lets out a surprised sound, one that conveys his utter relief. He doesn't realize that he's tearing up; he's simply shocked that he can see again.
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Mikumo Guynemer | OTA

[personal profile] stargazed 2020-05-12 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[a: see no evil, hear no evil]

[It's been maybe half an hour and Mikumo already hates this.

As feelings go, it's not one she's unused to. She's worked in a lot of terrible conditions on battlefields or behind enemy lines, she's been confronted with plenty of things that are wrong or confronting enough for her to hate them. But this? This is a new flavour. Having people lying to her face about things she knows aren't true (because when you've held a specific purpose your whole life that you were engineered for, it takes a little more than weasel words to make you question it) and acting like it's for her own good is truly an unpleasant novelty.

She manages to hold her composure until after maybe the third group of staff members she asks, only to get the exact same response. The identically written "you've always been like this", delivered with the same sappy smile, is enough to finally trump her general stage-suited manner and deliver a remark that might be toned perfectly politely and given with a smile, but isn't remotely nice.]


I appreciate you confirming you're a pack of useless sycophants, but I was looking for information I didn't already know.

[She turns on her heel...and practically walks into another oyster, whether they came to ask questions or blindly followed her voice or something else.]

Ah--my, I really am letting this get to me, aren't I? [She sounds almost amused, but there's a grit to her teeth and a line under her eyes that says she's really not enjoying this experience.]

--

[b: like a maze]

[On one hand, Mikumo can see where she's going, which she considers lucky compared to some. On the other, it doesn't stop doors from ceasing to be where they were a moment ago and things rearranging themselves the moment she turns her back. It's getting incredibly annoying, and she's having trouble even finding other people with things as chaotic as they are.

So she tries something else. Even if she can't hear right now, she still has her voice, and it's not as if it's hard to tell whether she's singing loudly enough for someone else to hear just by how much she's putting into it.

Those who've retained their hearing but lost their sight might hear a guiding "beacon" in the form of the first few lines of a song. It's acapella, but Mikumo is still perfectly on-key - she was literally engineered to sing, and lacking her hearing can only do so much to make it harder for her.]


If you've managed to glimpse that blip in the sky...if you've managed to hear my shaking voice...

[The words start off slowly, but pick up a faster beat quickly, speaking of nostalgia stained by combat and standing for something regardless of the danger. It's honestly kind of cathartic to sing even if she herself isn't hearing it - she can still feel it in her throat, and she'll keep singing for as long as it takes for someone to follow it to her location.]

--

[c: we're all mad here (closed to lan wangji)]

[The feeling of doing nothing in uncertain times has never sat right at all with Mikumo, one of those other things that was a very intentional factor wrapped into her when she was created. So once she gets more used to the fact that she's missing her hearing for the moment, she starts experimenting a little with the doors. Seeing if she can mark locations, seeing if there's any pattern or consistency to where one door will lead or where a particular establishment will end up. It's not bearing much in the way of fruit, but exploring this place feels better than doing nothing at all.

She steps through the door from the casino - and stops an inch short of walking into the back of an unfamiliar man when she's spat out another door in an entirely different part of the hotel.]


Not again. [A somewhat terse sigh as she steps to one side, observing this new face and quickly pulling her Empathy from her pocket to tap out a message, one that she holds up to show him at the same time she speaks the written words out loud to cover her bases.]

Which sense are you missing?

--

[d: wildcard]

[[Also open to alternate spins on these prompts or aftermath/"back to rights" stuff, just hit me up at [plurk.com profile] reviseleviathan or via PM if you want to plot something out beforehand!]]
sizeofyourbaggage: (you sure that's the plan)

Sam Wilson | MCU | ota + closed prompts

[personal profile] sizeofyourbaggage 2020-05-13 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
OPEN | SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL
[ It's not like Sam is completely inexperienced with not being able to hear what's going on around him - there'd been plenty of times on missions when he'd been flying so high and fast that everything was muffled, and the only sound was the rush of wind. But that was in the sky, and he'd had his commlink then, someone else's voice in his ear - first Riley, then Steve and Nat, then the other Avengers.

Being grounded in the silence is a hell of a lot different.

Even without the tattoos that appeared on their skin, or the lack of shoes, he kind of gets the feeling it's easier than usual to figure out who isn't from wherever the hell they are. They're the only ones acting like anything strange is going on.

And it's not like Sam has any idea what's going on better than anyone else right now, but as far as he's concerned, being along is the last thing any of them need right now. Which means when he spots someone on their own, he can't help but head over.

He knows better than to get up in people's personal spaces without warning - especially when they might not see him coming - so even though he can't hear what he's saying, he tries speaking first. ]


You mind if I join you?


CLOSED | FOR MIKUMO GUYNEMER
[ At first Sam thinks maybe it's some of his hypervigilance coming back out. It's the first place his mind goes to, when periods of quiet are interrupted by a perfectly normal noise that sounds far too loud in comparison. It takes him a little bit to realize he isn't hearing those noises louder than he should be - he's hearing other things much less than he should be. Or not at all, which happens in increasingly long stretches.

Even then, he's not sure - is it him, something wrong with his hearing, or has the place gone silent? Either one is unnerving as hell, but - all right, well, he ain't gonna find out what's going on in his room, so he steps out into the halls.

Still quiet.

What the fuck.

He moves closer to the first person he sees, holding a hand up to try to get her attention. ]


Can you hear anything?


CLOSED | FOR RICHIE TOZIER
[ The staff are officially of zero help. Really, Sam shouldn't be surprised - it's not like they were all that helpful to begin with, trying to figure out how they got here, but this new wave of fake compassion is taking it to another level.

He's... mostly managing to keep himself calm. Or at least the pretense of calm, though the set of his jaw and the tension in his shoulders probably gives his frustration away a little bit, to anyone who is in a space to notice.

Tense is a good way to describe this whole damn place right about now, and it doesn't surprise him a bit when he spots someone looking a little bit panicked. ]


Hey, man, can you hear me?


CLOSED | FOR WEI WUXIAN (drama)
[ Wei Wuxian is - something of a familiar face. You know, as familiar as someone can be when you've only chatted over some kind of social media and met in person once, but hey, he'll take it.

It's probably clear that he's a little bit on edge - he's definitely scanning his surroundings more often than he did the last time they met, trying to compensate for his lack of hearing, and his breathing is slower and more measured than would really be natural, but otherwise, he sidles up next to Wei Wuxian like he would if they weren't all losing their senses and the hotel wasn't turning into the worst version of a shitty corn maze. ]


You busy?

[ Not that he's sure the guy can hear him, but his response'll probably tell him if this is gonna be a one or two sided game of charades. ]


WILDCARD

[ If you want to play with the maze or aftermath prompts, or throw something else at me, I'm open to just about anything! You can hit me up here or over on plurk at [plurk.com profile] brbsoulnomming if you want to plot/chat. ]
inquiryguqin: brightwings @ dw (137)

Lan Wangji (novel) | OTA

[personal profile] inquiryguqin 2020-05-14 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
I. It's like a maze in here
The layout of the hotel's shops and rooms switch places. The hotel becomes a maze, a labyrinth of doors, rooms, and halls. The staff ignored him and told him that it's normal for him to be a mute, which is untrue, he just lost his voice without sudden cause. Lan Wangji wanders from floor to floor. Searching for answers and exploring, and keep a note of the floors and doors where they should be and should not.

He has seen the other residents are struggling with the same issue, of their senses being blocked, but he found they're either blind, deaf, or mute and without his voice, communication is an obstacle.

For those who are deaf and can read, when asked what sense he lost, he puts on Empathy and types:

I lost my voice.

For those who are blind, and can't see, he will attempt to guide them in the right direction to assist them out of danger.

II. Back to the rights
A few days later by the end of the week, his voice returns back and he is able to speak again. The shops and rooms return back to their original places, back to normal the way he remembers it. After asking the staff questions, their answer is the same. "It's always been like this."

A puzzlement by itself, Lan Wangji is more bewildered. Because he's pretty sure, he has never been like this and the whole experience isn't a figment of his imagination.

With a puzzled expression and heaving a sigh at the entire ordeal and with a shrug of his shoulders. "Well, nevermind." He said.

III. Wildcard
[Make up your own starters basing on the scenarios above. Meet up with him during exploring in the discovered rooms. hmu here for plotting or questions!]
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Katsuki Bakugou | My Hero Academia | OTA

[personal profile] comburst 2020-05-14 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I. SEE NO EVIL, HEAR NO EVIL
A) LOSS
[ Katsuki's already lost enough in coming here - however that happened. He's still not convinced this isn't some elaborate Quirk, although it seems...unlikely. But really, some sort of mental labyrinth Quirk, or something like that - isn't that more likely than whatever else is possible here?

It hardly matters. All he can do is try to find a way out, although that's proven useless so far. It hasn't stopped the teen from prowling the halls like a feral cat, trying to at least learn his way around and eyeing the staff suspiciously but not doing anything to attack them as long as they leave him be.

They're...maybe some variety of guilty, but they might be innocent, too. Either way, it's pointless to do anything without a plan.

So while he's stressed the fuck out when he realizes he can't hear anyone in addition to not having his Quirk - already a sore point - Katsuki is...annoyed, but he doesn't do anything more than yell. Loudly. At staff and anyone who happens by. ]


Like fuck I was always like this! Oi, you! Tell them this is bullshit!

[ Why does it matter, Katsuki, even backup from another Oyster isn't likely to convince the staff to change their minds about all the gaslighting they're doing.

He can't hear but he can...well, if you speak Japanese he can try to read lips, but otherwise they may have to use Empathy. ]


B) EMPATHY
[ Since he can't fucking hear people, Katsuki actually has to start using the Empathy device instead of ignoring it.

Predictably he does so in a very...him way. ]


how many of us even are there. people from other places?

i'm not referring to us as seafood fuck that
II. IT'S LIKE A MAZE IN HERE
A. FOOD
[ Well. Not being able to find any of the food-spawning locations is a pain in the ASS, especially since Katsuki spends a solid day not happening on any of them and by day two is...frustrated. He stomps over to the first person he sees who isn't staff, because they're less than helpful for anything. ]

Have you seen any of the food places.

[ Or, like, do you have something on your person he can have. This is bullshit. ]

B. SWIMMING???
[ He's not swimming, but he is moodily sitting near the pool, staring at the scenery.

He's been trying to find the gym and can't find it and why isn't there a library, he's so BORED. ]
III. BACK TO RIGHTS
[ Following the...everything, Katsuki at least can find his way around again - so he can be found at the gym, near the rock wall. Even if his Quirk still isn't in working order - clearly just a matter of time, he's not thinking about it - he can keep up on training. He'll go crazy if he doesn't, so he may be easily found in the gym for the rest of forever...

In fact, if anyone comes in: ]


Oi. You know how to fight?

[ Like, sparring. ]
WILDCARD
[ If you have other ideas, feel free to throw anything at me or hit me up for plotting via PM or at [plurk.com profile] roseburst or Maggie#0451. ]
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Sessyoin Kiara | open

[personal profile] thotsandprayers 2020-05-15 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[A – Hear No Evil]

[When the world goes silent, there's a confused look on Kiara's face. She doesn't freak out, she doesn't yell, she mostly keeps her composure, aside from raising a brief eyebrow at the sudden quiet. It's not the worst she's been through, not by a long shot, but it's still incredibly strange.

What does strike her as strange, and gets a frown to appear on her face is the staff insisting that she's always been like this. She knows that's not right, wondering why they would try such a thing. It's not particularly enjoyable and seems a bit strange to happen after that introduction from the Queen.

Still, she figures she can make the most of this. Just because she can't hear and doesn't have any better idea what's going on than anyone else doesn't mean she can't try and make the most of this confusion. After all, despite being at a disadvantage, it's still her duty to help people, so she'll try and assist, asking people either aloud if they need help or via the text on the Empathy. She'll try and make it clear that she can't hear them, but there's bound to be some sort of misunderstandings here and there.]


[B – It's Like a Maze In Here]

[In the middle of that mess, she'll spy something peculiar. A strange sign, not for one of the places in the hotel she's been to. Maybe it has something to do with their current predicament? Or maybe it's just a wild goose chase, she's really not sure since the thing seems to move every time she gets to it. Then again, nothing is really staying still around here anymore, so she supposes she shouldn't be too annoyed at this one.]

Still, it's rather frustrating.

[She'll just take a moment to collect herself and smooth out her robe a little while she tries to see where the sign went. She might not be able to hear her attempts at keeping her cool, but it's force of habit (one more strike against the staff for saying she's always been like this).]

Please tell me you've noticed it too.

[She'll turn to ask whoever's around. If they've lost their vision, she'll speak. If they've lost their hearing, she'll try to text. Hopefully one of those works.]

I'm sure what this Rabbit Hole is, but I haven't seen anything besides the sign yet. Have you?

{OOC: She'll be finding the place with Miguel, but other characters are welcome to help her search for a while.}


[C – Back to Rights]

[After all that, Kiara can be found in the lobby, adjusting to having her hearing back. She's still got the same serene expression as always, but her fingers are clenched against the armrests of the chair she's sitting on. She'll be fine soon enough, but it's still all a bit much. Still, she figures this is a better middle ground than the silence of her room or the din of the casino.]

I suppose I was wrong and the teas weren't the worst to worry about.

[Her expression shifts into a more melancholy one. She can admit she thought wrong there. She's only human after all, so mistakes are to be expected. Still, she hopes this isn't going to be a common occurrence around here. Or at least that it's done in a way she finds more enjoyable next time.]