humiliatious | Cursed Night Market

Welcome

You’re not sure how you got here, but you don’t seem to mind. You feel a pervasive sense of calm with regard to your environment. You have entered what appears to be a night market. Perhaps the concept is familiar to you, or perhaps it isn’t. Colorful stalls, glowing with lantern light, line the path before you. You know what you need to do to return to where you came from. Investigate the various stalls - buy and sell what you have, until you’re able to purchase a path back. The merchants will take any currency that you have on hand. If you don’t have any, you will find some coins of an ambiguous nature in your pocket.

Rare Items

The first stall that you encounter boasts that you can buy and sell rare items. After trading a coin, the merchant hands you something - insists you take it. You don’t recognize the item, but the person behind you does. It is something extremely dear to them. If they check their person, they will find the item missing. If you attempt to return the item to them, you will find that you are unable to. Helpfully, the merchant offers that the person the item belongs to must tell the buyer a story about the item before it can be returned.

Fortunes

The second stall you encounter claims to buy and sell fortunes. Trading a coin, the merchant will relay to you a fortune, but, as you listen, you realize that it isn’t your fortune at all. With a cackle, the merchant explains that you must deliver the fortune with the person behind you. Neither of you can leave the booth until you have revealed to them their future.

Memories

The third stall you encounter claims to buy and sell memories. You can choose to sell the merchant a memory you would like to forget, or you can ask to buy someone else’s memory. Selling your memory will transfer it to the person behind you. In return, you will gain one of their memories. Buying a random memory will instead cause you to forget one of the people most important to you. In some instances, you might feel a great urgency to find someone, although you don't know who it is.

Dreams

The fourth stall you encounter claims to buy and sell dreams. Trading a coin at this stall will cause you and the person behind you to be transported into a shared dream. The dream may be about the highest point in your life or the lowest. It may also be about a close friend, there or gone. It may reveal your greatest desire or your greatest insecurity. Or any number of other things!

OOC notes

Suggestions on prompts: if you’re going to write one where someone will be seeing/receiving something from your character, it’s helpful to describe it in detail in the brackets in your TL. I know some of these prompts are probably a little confusing, but, I mean…it’s roleplay. Just fuck around. No one’s gonna police how you do things here.

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rare items;

[The merchant hands the person ahead of Oda in line a book. It's the third volume in a series (what good is that?), and upon closer inspection, the final pages seem to have been torn out. Oda recognizes it when he sees it, a subtle but discernible look of shock on his face. It couldn't be another copy, right? Oda had never been able to find one...

[After a few moments, his expression evens back out into calm. He's not quite smiling, but when he speaks, his voice is lighter than one might expect.]

It's a good story - a great one, but...if you want to know the ending, you'll have to write it yourself.

memories; cw: child death (multiple)

[Everyone has memories that they'd like to forget. Oda knows better than to trust the merchants of a black market, though the difference is, when he was alive, he had something to lose.

[He's made of unpleasant memories. He wouldn't sell most of them. There's no point in trying to erase the past - he's never been that sort of person. You learn from it.

[Still, he finds himself trading the coin for one reason - just one memory he'd throw away if he could.

[It's why he is where he is - here, dead, wherever. It's why - part of why, at least - he chose what he chose. Still, he'd like to forget; their faces, their pleas - he'd like to forget.]

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[Everyone says that memories are precious. Noel does not care much about the past. In the end, the past is the past. It makes no sense to lament over it. Instead, she simply looks to the future in the hopes of creating a decent life for herself. All she cares about is her education and the small amount of money she earns as a Piper, or so she tells herself.

There is more to Noel Niihashi than just school and work. Much more than she is willing to share with Ninny, her reckless partner. Nonetheless, Noel finds herself standing in the middle of the night market, unsure which memory she wants to sell. Should she sell all memories she has of Ninny and Balgo? That would fetch a nice sum, but it would also leave her completely empty.

How about selling all of her memories of Reverse London and Wing Bind? She didn’t care much about the job, but it paid well. Noel pretends not to care about anything, but it appears she does.

She lets out a faint sigh as she looks at the man standing next to her. He looks like hell, just like the other lost souls here, but something feels “off” about him. Something she can not quite put her finger on.]

You look desperate.

[She speaks in her usual monotone tone.]

It's as if you lost something.

Edited 2024-08-18 00:03 (UTC)

Cursed Night Market

Oda Sakunosuke | Bungo Stray Dogs | ota (voicetesting)

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