34 Go left
10 Go right.
2 Go back.
"Eugh." You mutter to yourself under your breath. "Silence. That's odd."
So you start down the lefthand hallway moving at a comfortable walk, making the best of your cane to ease the pressure on your lower back. The hallways sort of repeats every twenty feet or so, you notice. The patterns in the marble floor are the same ahead of you as behind you, and every chandelier is exactly the same, which is beyond suspicious.
You're beginning to think that you weren't so much transported to a place by a Stand as taken inside a Stand. Do you know of any Stands that do that sort of thing?
There was that kid with Pop Rocks, but. . . he's digging wells in Central America for the Speedwagon Foundation, isn't he? And he doesn't make a castle made of sweets.
You think.
You really hope it isn't your memory going next. It'd be a shame to lose your edge.
"The best thing about silence," You say as you walk past what must be the fiftieth chandelier, "is that no matter how hard you try, you're not!"
Your hand sweeps out to the side and then shoots behind you, extending and turning sharply to create a thicket of glowing purple vines around the person lurking behind you!
You turn to get a look at your captive, and- "OH! MY! GOD!" You scream at the top of your lungs. "YOU'RE MADE OF-"
She looks most like an old-fashioned maid, like your wife used to be before you married her. Plain black dress, white apron, white frills. Face that's actually one of those M&M cookies a foot across, with the candies arranged like a smiley face.
And then she grabs your Hermit Purple with two of her gloved hands, joints moving jerkily- like old motion pictures- and tries to tear it off of her.
You feel the strain for a moment and double up the psychic vine. Hermit Purple is tough enough to tie up any number of New York beat cops- whoever's Stand this cookie-maid is, it's got a hell of a wallop!
The Stand stops struggling after several seconds, and the candies on its cookie-face rearrange into an expression of intense dislike.
"( >:[ )" It says, and you blink.
"What?"
"( >:[ )"
And then you get it. Whatever this Stand is, it communicates at least partially through a psychic medium! Your Hermit Purple's main ability, Psychic Photography, is all about discovering and displaying things visually. You remember that one time, you used it to change the channels on a faraway television so that the words its speakers said spelled out a message for you- so meeting another psychic presence halfway and broadcasting its signals as visuals isn't all that strange!
"Hello?" You greet the Stand, and it's eyes change from brown candies to blue.
"( |: ? )"
For a moment you hear more giggling, back down the way you came, but it recedes into the distance again. The sounds of battle continue unabated.
It looks like . . . you have an opportunity.
[] Question the Stand
- [] Which questions?
[] Let the Stand go as a show of faith.
[] Tell it to lead you to its master.
[] Write in