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( OPEN ) PAST AND FUTURE FLOOR đźŚ
WHO: Everyone!
WHERE: Floor [REDACTED], the Timey Wimey floor
WHEN: Early April
WHAT: Floor that takes you to the past and future... literally!!
WARNINGS: None, will update if necessary!
While there have been floors that have caused changes to characters… there’s never been one quite like this. Upon visiting Floor [REDACTED], characters will find themselves amongst hundreds and hundreds of doors. But that’s not all — look hard enough, and you might find a door that looks extra familiar to you!
It could be the door to your house, the door to your room, the door to your favorite coffee shop, the gate to a garden you used to love. But what matters is that once you walk through it, you’ll be transported somewhere else entirely…
WHERE: Floor [REDACTED], the Timey Wimey floor
WHEN: Early April
WHAT: Floor that takes you to the past and future... literally!!
WARNINGS: None, will update if necessary!
TIMEY WIMEY FLOOR
While there have been floors that have caused changes to characters… there’s never been one quite like this. Upon visiting Floor [REDACTED], characters will find themselves amongst hundreds and hundreds of doors. But that’s not all — look hard enough, and you might find a door that looks extra familiar to you!
It could be the door to your house, the door to your room, the door to your favorite coffee shop, the gate to a garden you used to love. But what matters is that once you walk through it, you’ll be transported somewhere else entirely…
INTO THE PAST
Walking through a door with a partner will take you to an exact copy of a place from your home. It’s not the real thing, but it’s damn close. Won’t it be nice to have a look around and reminisce?
The one thing that's different about these spaces is that they're interlinked with other spaces; where one character's copied space ends, the other half of the pair's begins, allowing characters to visit both theirs and a companion's homes in one fell swoop.
There will be no other living creatures in each “copy,” other than those that walk through with you. The space can be as large or as small as you like — and it can even be outdoors! It’s a nonsensical pocket dimension, don’t worry about it.
Characters will also find that walking through these doors may cause them to appear younger than they really are, as if they traveled back through time. It’s up to each player how this manifests — how young characters become, if they retain their memories and/or personality or revert to how they were at that age, etc — and of course, some characters may not be affected at all.
Finally, you'll notice that the door locks behind you as you enter. Engraved on the door, there's a riddle to how you can leave:
a piece of the past, you'll bring to me,
you'll find that only that can be the key
Bring the door an item from each of your pasts, and the door will unlock once more. Sadly, no souvenirs, so the items will disappear once you walk through!
The one thing that's different about these spaces is that they're interlinked with other spaces; where one character's copied space ends, the other half of the pair's begins, allowing characters to visit both theirs and a companion's homes in one fell swoop.
There will be no other living creatures in each “copy,” other than those that walk through with you. The space can be as large or as small as you like — and it can even be outdoors! It’s a nonsensical pocket dimension, don’t worry about it.
Characters will also find that walking through these doors may cause them to appear younger than they really are, as if they traveled back through time. It’s up to each player how this manifests — how young characters become, if they retain their memories and/or personality or revert to how they were at that age, etc — and of course, some characters may not be affected at all.
Finally, you'll notice that the door locks behind you as you enter. Engraved on the door, there's a riddle to how you can leave:
you'll find that only that can be the key
Bring the door an item from each of your pasts, and the door will unlock once more. Sadly, no souvenirs, so the items will disappear once you walk through!
INTO THE FUTURE
But that’s not all! Because each door doesn’t consistently send you to a place from your past nor transform you to your younger self. Some of them do the exact opposite.
Stepping through may cause you to appear older than you really are, which, similarly, is up to each player.
But, where do these doors lead to, if not a place from the past?
The future — specifically, what the future will look like for you if your deepest wish is granted. Characters need not have a specific wish in mind for this to manifest — it could appear as if one of their more impulsive, fleeting, nonsensical wishes were granted, too (ex: wishing the whole world was made of ice cream). On the other hand, characters who have a wish in their heart to see someone again, or to accomplish a specific goal… will see just what the future could look like.
These spaces are more dreamlike, and less structured than the replicas. Think of it as being like watercolor — shifting and impermanent. Again, both characters' wishes will be blended into one space, which players are free to interpret as they like.
Another riddle will be on the door, for your escape:
speak each other's wishes aloud to me,
and only then will you be set free
Characters will need to investigate the dreamlike space and figure out what their partner's wish is in order to be freed! You'll each have to literally say each other's wish out loud to get out. Have fun!
Stepping through may cause you to appear older than you really are, which, similarly, is up to each player.
But, where do these doors lead to, if not a place from the past?
The future — specifically, what the future will look like for you if your deepest wish is granted. Characters need not have a specific wish in mind for this to manifest — it could appear as if one of their more impulsive, fleeting, nonsensical wishes were granted, too (ex: wishing the whole world was made of ice cream). On the other hand, characters who have a wish in their heart to see someone again, or to accomplish a specific goal… will see just what the future could look like.
These spaces are more dreamlike, and less structured than the replicas. Think of it as being like watercolor — shifting and impermanent. Again, both characters' wishes will be blended into one space, which players are free to interpret as they like.
Another riddle will be on the door, for your escape:
and only then will you be set free
Characters will need to investigate the dreamlike space and figure out what their partner's wish is in order to be freed! You'll each have to literally say each other's wish out loud to get out. Have fun!
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There is more to it, now, isn't there? Her wish... isn't a simple hope to improve the Elderflower in some fashion, anymore.
Sumina looses her grasp from his, but only for the sake of framing his face between her hands. ]
I think... mine has something to do with you, too.
[ Here, under the light cast over them by the stars and the colorful glass that surrounds them, she'd like to say it. Like this, it almost feels like her family is watching over her, as she realizes at last what they've wanted all along - for Sumina to choose something for herself. ]
Satoru... I want there to be a future for us outside of this hotel. When I leave this place and return to my home, I... I want you to be able to stay by my side.
[ A beat. ]
If that's what you would wish for, too.
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Shouldn't he return back home, to give his all once more? Yet just as he told Sumina before, he doesn't have regrets about how his fight with Sukuna went. In the end, he wasn't strong enough, and so returning...wouldn't change anything. Not like that. Wouldn't it be better to...make a wish for himself, for once? One that's not for the greater good of jujutsu sorcery, but...
Just for himself. For Satoru.
As her hands frame his face, the curtain of his snow-white lashes falls shut, allowing himself to indulge in that potential future, what it might be like to...stay with her. At the Elderflower, or anywhere else they might be able to go. Her Inn is a doorway to so many other worlds, after all...if he can go there, then he can go anywhere.
All that really matters...is that it's with her. ]
Hah...what do you know? That's my wish, too. As long as I'm with you...I'll go anywhere you go.
[ As he says so, in the otherworldly space around them, cherry blossom trees start to sprout and bloom in rapid succession, their petals adrift on the air, heralding spring. Rebirth, new life. ]
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And so it's with relief spelled plainly on her features that she hears him speak of his wish, too, and hears that... it is one and the same as her own. But it's more than that, too, isn't it? His wish... it's her.
And oh, how full her heart feels to realize this, to have her vision then filled with the sight of beautiful pink blooms, delicate petals floating about in the air around them. With the stars surrounding them, and her home, and now this new life... it is an unforgettable moment, just one of many that she has had with him. ]
Satoru... These flowers...
[ They're his doing, aren't they? A manifestation of the wish he'd only just spoken into the space around them. She knows not what they mean, but she does know... that they fill her with such hope. ]
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He knows he wants to be by her side. That's the simple truth, seeded deep within his blossoming heart, where it's finally spring again at last. ]
Back home...the sakura blossoms are symbols of rebirth. A little on the nose, honestly... [ A somewhat breathless chuckle. ] Of new life, and love, too...
You're my new life, now. No pressure.
[ And so long as he remembers that, everything else will fall into place. ]
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The laugh that bubbles up out of her throat is warm and affectionate in equal measure, carrying with it such a freeing feeling of choosing something for herself, choosing something together, unfettered by expectations placed upon them by others, or by the nature of their lives. Rebirth. New life. New love. Gods, she feels as if she could fly as free as these blossoms in the inexplicable breeze.
When Satoru returned, she'd told him that he'd received an unimaginable chance to be reborn. At the time, it had been too soon to give full credence to that very notion; his wounds were too fresh, too open to truly feel the magnitude of this truth. But here he is, now, accepting it, accepting himself, and what he wants out of his new life.
And he wants her to be part of it. What else is she to do in light of such a declaration, than express the depth of her own feelings with a lingering kiss? It is no less meaningful and sincere for how brief and chaste it is, before she murmurs with her lips yet brushing against his: ]
This life is both of ours, Satoru. To do what we will with it, together.