>Enter name.
Your name is LEOTHALIS HERIZAN.
You stand within an OVERLY ORNATE ROOM, waiting on an equally OVERLY IMPORTANT EVENT. Couldn't it wait at least once?
But of course you will go along with it, even if you DISLIKE IT. It is for the good of everyone they say. It is always for the good of everyone.
You share a number of interests with close friends who have in time GROWN DISTANT FROM YOU. Or maybe it's you who has grown distant from them. You never talk to them so it's hard to discern which is the cause.
You are the HEIR to the throne, a position ORIGINALLY MEANT FOR YOUR TWIN SISTER, but due to changing times, thrust to you. You are ok with it, you have no real option otherwise.
It was in this time as well that you were once FREE TO ENGAGE WITH YOUR FRIENDS IN THEIR VARIOUS ACTIVITIES, but with the system's sudden change, you have been kept LOCKED UP WITH NO ACCESS TO THE KEY. They tell you it is for your health, but it has instead left you with an UNHEALTHY PALE COMPLEXION.
They have however allowed you your own TERMINAL DEVICE, in which you can contact others through a CONSTANTLY CHANGING CHAT PROGRAM that BOTHERS YOU almost nonstop. Oh well, at least you have some way to contact the outside world, and you make use of it well.
You go by the handle twinAquarium and you are eas:ly coerced :nto do:ng th:ngs for the good of others. :t :s always for the good of others they say. Eventually one day you w:ll stand up for yourself and stop be:ng the puppet of others, but today :s not that day.
What will you do?
>Be pestered by sister.
She's always prying and poking and pestering. Sometimes you find it DOWNRIGHT ANNOYING, but she's doing it for your wellbeing.
At least she says she is, but you have no reason to think her actions otherwise.
That's what she tells you anyways.
You might as well humor her, lest she deliver her anger tenfold the next time you see her.
Or better yet, maybe you should BE her.
>Be the annoying sister.
You are now the annoying sister.
>Enter name.
Your name is LEZIATHIA HERIZAN.
Today stands before you as an OVERLY IMPORTANT DAY. Not so much to you anymore, and the mere thought boils your blood.
It was your BIRTH RIGHT to rule, but times changed. Changed for the worse in your opinion, and now your EASILY COERCED TWIN BROTHER holds right to the throne. Even though you BOTH KNOW you're better suited for the position, and he'd be all the more happy to give it to you, if the COUNCIL didn't play on his easily coercable nature and convince him it was for the best. WHAT A LIE.
Your friends stay at your side, mostly out of fear, some out of admiration and some out of DEEPER. Through one of them have you gained the means to play a SPECIAL GAME, and for once you will play on your brother's easily swayed nature to bring him in.
Maybe through this game will you convince him to take charge and abdicate the throne to you. But for now you must convince him to agree to playing FIRST.
Your handle is pocketArmageddons and your.speech.is.peppered.with.periods.like.every.word.is.its.own.sentence.
Time to pester him.
>Pester Leo.
-- pocketArmageddons [PA] began bother twinAquariums [TA] at 09:58 --
PA: brother.
PA: i.have.something.i.want.you.to.join.in.
PA: im.sure.youd.come.to.enjoy.it.
TA: Oh?
TA: What :s :t?
PA: a.game.of.sorts.
PA: an.old.friend.of.yours.and.a.continuing.friend.of.mine.had.a.friend.of.theirs.patch.some.code.their.friend.had.found.
PA: if.you.will.a.code.tango.line.in.which.we.will.reap.the.final.result.
PA: the.reward.that.would.be.reaped.would.be.pleasure.
TA: : don't really know, s:s.
TA: : mean :n the past : would of jumped w:thout hes:tat surprised n but you know...
PA: royal.duties.
PA: do.not.assume.me.unawares.of.what.you.inherited.so.to.speak.from.me.
PA: we.may.be.twins.but.for.longer.than.youve.been.alive.ive.been.groomed.from.the.role.
TA: but you're only seven m:nutes older than me, but anyways, don't let me interupt you, do cont:nue.
PA: but.do.not.assume.me.as.well.bitter.that.you.usurped.my.position.due.to.changing.times.
PA: you.are.still.my.brother.to.whom.i.love.fully.and.unconditionally.more.than.the.empire.i.was.groomed.to.serve.
PA: which.is.why.i.am.inviting.you.to.play.this.game.with.me.
PA: like.old.times.when.you.extended.the.same.act.of.friendship.and.brotherly.love.to.me.whilst.they.tried.to.keep.me.busy.
TA: the offer really :s tempt:ng.
TA: but :'d have to run :t past the h:gher ups.
TA: not to ment surprised n mother and father.
TA: : don't th:nk they'd approve very much desp:te :t be:ng w:th you.
TA: but :f you can conv:nce them to let me have some sort of repr:eve and play with you.
TA: l:ke old t:mes.
TA: then...uh sure. :'d play w:th you. Not for long, but :'d play.
PA: i.am.talking.with.them.now.as.we.converse.digitally.
PA: they.do.not.mind.
PA: they.know.i.know.better.than.to.keep.you.from.what.is.to.come.tonight.
PA: the.reprieve.will.be.brief.
TA: really?!
TA: :'d love to then!
TA: anyth:ng : have to do before we start?
PA: i.will.take.care.of.everything.
PA: you.will.be.contacted.either.by.me.or.one.of.our.old.friends.when.it.is.time.to.start.
PA: otherwise.do.not.worry.your.turn.to.do.something.will.come.
PA: until.then.see.you.then.
-- pocketArmageddons [PA] ceased bothering twinAquariums [TA] --
>Leziathia: Remark on prior conversation.
It seemed too easy to convince him to go along with it. That lie seemed a little too blatant and yet he fell for it.
You opt to feel a twinge of pity, but now is not the time. There will be time for pity later, among other things.
You must contact your "friends" and tell them the plan is a go. You must make sure everything is in order to begin.
You could always stage a coup should this fail, but you're not willing to go the length that would take, and brave the bloodshed it would spill. Not yet anyways.
You fondly think for a moment what the future will bring.
>Days into the future....
But not many.
The QUEEN OF COURAGE takes her rightful place in the Land of Oasis and Frost.
>Survey Land, Contemplate Title
Brief amusement aside that even the workings of the game believe you deserve the title of queen, the cold gets to you quickly. The landscape is beautiful but desolate almost, spots of water scattered amongst the white. You will be brief here.
You have other matters to attend to. You must see if he made it in.
>Elsewhere, in the future,
But at the same time as well...
The PROPHET OF LAW takes his place in the Land of Waves and Noise.
>Be the Prophet.
You are the Prophet.
>Survery new Landscape.
You gaze upon the never ending Sea from upon a high sandy perch, the sound of the wind, the splash of the Waves, the churning of the sand, everything reaches your ears. The rays bathe you, catching your abnormally pale skin and giving it an equally abnormally glow.
You'd muse to yourself why it isn't the Land of Waves and Rays as opposed to Noise, but you're too drawn in to the sight, and equally to your new found freedom.
You doubt you will leave in the near future.
