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You're plunged into a deep, deep darkness. A horrible smell of burning fills your nostrils and you hear the crackling of fire from somewhere closeby. Smoke starts pouring into your lungs, making it impossible to breathe...

Just as it feels like you're about to pass out from lack of air, it's all gone. The darkness, the smell, the sound, the smoke. You find yourself standing in a small room, though something about you feels very different from normal.

[OOC: While your character is inside this heart, they will be in the form of a Hatoful-style uplifted bird! What species they are is up to you; they'll be about three times the size of normal birds that species, perfectly capable of talking, and able to use their wings both for (somewhat limited) flying and as (slightly clumsier than human) hands. You're still wearing your normal clothes, though they are now cut in a style suited for birds.

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[Chimera frowns at the black on his wingtips. Well, whatever, he's got little bits of black all over him anyway. He replies without looking up.]

Nageki. The most adorable of Gryphon's brothers.

[After a moment, he tugs Mr. Bird over to check out the Vanara pictures. He's absolutely nosy enough to touch them. ALL OF THEM. Okay, well, all of the GM game era ones, at least.]

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He shows no signs of recognising Nageki's name.

You get your greasy little ~~fingers~~ feathers all over the photos!

Arachne's picture gives you feelings of warm affection and respect and protectiveness with just a hint of worry.

Cerberus' picture gives you feelings of intense protectiveness and fondness, but also sadness and guilt.

Redcap's picture gives you faint feelings of protectiveness and concern mixed in with sadness.

Sphinx's picture gives you feelings of friendship and trust with a hint of sadness.

Your own picture gives you strong feelings of protectiveness and affection, but also confusion and worry.

Behind your own picture, you find a small silver key.

[Yeah, okay, maybe this guy isn't Gryphon if that's how he reacts.

Good to know bird dad loves him. Clearly, those pictures are the ones that really matter, so he doesn't bother with the others and just grabs the key. Does it seem like there are any doors or other things that it could be used on in here?]

There are two doors here besides the one you came in through: one that's a silvery colour and another that's made of dark brown wood.

[...

Pocketing the key to go with the pistol, before he turns back to mystery bird.]

Let's keep moving along. Which door do you think we ought to try next?

"...The brown one? I'm not sure."

[Off we go through the silver one, then!

...assuming it isn't locked.]

It's locked! With three locks, even.

[Does it seem like the key he got will fit any of the locks? Also, is the door actually metal or does it just look silvery?]

It does indeed look like your key will fit one of the locks!

It's hard to tell what material the door's made of. It definitely looks silvery, but it doesn't quite feel like actual metal.

[He'll go ahead and unlock that and just leave it sitting unlocked, in case someone else from Vanara drops by with the other keys later when he's gone.

Can he check how many bullets are in the pistol, if any?]

When you take the pistol out to inspect it, the feelings of vengeful hatred you felt earlier come back in full force. Strangely, though, the accompanying feeling of guilt and disgust is gone.

It's loaded with a single bullet.

[He gives this stupid gun and its stupid single bullet a good, scathing glare before pocketing it again. How dare it only have one bullet, when he might need it for both violently gutting doors AND getting rid of annoying NPCs?

Well, anyway, time to move on to the brown door.]

The annoying NPC in question looks more than a little nervous now that he's seen the gun, but he follows you anyway.

The brown door doesn't have a lock on it, but as you approach it you notice that it's giving off a strange heat. Almost as if something's burning behind it.

[Fortunately, he doesn't think this particular mystery bird NPC is annoying. Yet.

Can he open it and peek inside without actually going in? After testing the knob with the back of his hand to make sure it isn't too hot to touch, of course.]

The knob's warm, but not too hot to touch.

You open the door to a wall of flames: the entire room beyond is on fire.

[Shuts it.

Looks at mystery bird.]

I don't suppose you want to go in there?

[let's. uh. examine the couch instead.]

He looks worried. "Definitely not! It's... not supposed to be like that."

The couch is incredibly soft and cozy. It feels like a good place to sit and spend time with loved ones... or just to nap.

Napping would be a great idea.

[Yes. Of course. Napping is great, this sofa is great, he naps in it all the... time...

Chimera shakes his head and tears his eyes off of the couch.]

Well, then let's go elsewhere and see if we can figure out what's making it be something it shouldn't.

[Can they go all the way back to the other door in the infirmary without any issues...]

You make it through several rooms with no incident! In the infirmary, you notice that someone seems to have cleaned it up.

You pass through the other door.

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