[Open Dreamdive] Do You Want to Continue?

[amodelidol]

WHO: Makoto and You
WHERE: Makoto's subconscious
WHEN: August 18
WHAT: Dreamdives!
WARNINGS: There's going to be some guilt involved along with some other negative feelings associate with not feeling good enough. Anything else extreme I'll add it!



[You may be out on a run, finishing up some errands, or going home when you enter into a place that you're not familiar with. Everything looks normal on the outside. There's a nice looking, large house with a perfectly kept lawn, and flowers lining the walkway. Everything looks perfect with a hair out of place, however when you walk inside you see a flash of imperfection, but it disappears just as quickly. When you enter the foyer to the house you see a note on the table in front of you that reads:

It's a beautiful place isn't it?
However, it's not as beautiful as one may think.
If you want to find out the reason why locate the clues to solve the puzzles
Each puzzle will reveal a secret
Good luck on solving the puzzles
But remember the clock is ticking

Surely nothing bad will happen if you don't solve the puzzles, right?

[[ooc: Everything is set up pretty easy, but if you have a question let me know!]]

Comments

[belowaverage]

[Puzzles... Shinji's done a lot of stupid puzzles in video games over the years, this can't be any more obtuse than point and click games are.

Shinji first goes to the mannequin, since it seems like the least likely puzzle to cut his fingers on glass from broken picture frames.

Can he adjust the mannequin?]

[amodelidol]

[He can adjust the mannequin any way he wants the only poses he can't use are confident ones.]

[belowaverage]

[Please love yourself, Makoto.

Okay, a confident pose is too out of character, that makes sense. How about a wave? He's a friendly kind of guy.]

[amodelidol]

[Loving himself is a work in progress.

A wave works! Now with that mannequin posed, there are the others around the room that could use the same treatment.]

[belowaverage]

[Shinji will pose the others in similar happy/friendly poses.

Can he make one be blowing a kiss or is that too confident...]

[amodelidol]

[That would be a little out of character for him. He never liked being in front of a camera so doing a pose like that would be the same as the poses he had to do, but he didn't want to.]

[belowaverage]

[Okay, that's fair. Can he make two mannequins hug? Love yourself??]

[amodelidol]

[Shinji that's very sweet, unfortunately it doesn't fit the theme of the room. You can have the two mannequins wave at each other in a friendly way. That's perfectly fine.]

[belowaverage]

[Well maybe they can change the theme of the room!! Don't limit yourself, Makoto!

...yeah he'll make them wave at each other, that's okay.]

[amodelidol]

[Shinji is being so helpful, but it will take a little more for him to change the theme of the room.

That works! As long as the mannequins are friendly it will help! Makoto had a small stint as a model with his mom, but he managed to stay friendly throughout the whole ordeal.]

[belowaverage]

[Friendly mannequins reconstructed, check. Next is the picture frames.

...unless there's broken glass everywhere, then he's getting gloves before doing anything with that. Sorry Makoto, he's got priorities.]

[amodelidol]

[Makoto appreciates your priorities. Don't worry there's no broken glass! The first picture is one of a model with their face scratched out. Many of the pictures have their faces scratched out, until Shinji finds one that has the word 'doll' written on the bottom of it. ]

[belowaverage]

[Shinji usually keeps a pen in his pocket. What if he scratches out 'doll' and writes 'person' instead?]

[amodelidol]

[Shinji that's such a sweet gesture! However, that sweet gesture will cover up an important clue in the room. If he does write person over it, it will start to stress Makoto. When he modeled he didn't consider himself a person, only a doll that people could dress and pose as they pleased.

Sorry Shinji this room holds Makoto's feelings during the time he modeled. It wasn't a happy time.]

[belowaverage]

[Sena's probably solving the room and the dreamdive, it's fine if Shinji screws things up!!

The feeling of sudden stress gets Shinji to stop after he writes 'person', but he doesn't cross it out or rewrite the original word.]

Okay, so modeling sucked, I get it, but you're not a doll. You've never been a doll. You don't have to keep these feelings around, you know?