The Rise of Hinata

Adventure Log - December 18, 2022

Inside of the Meridian Walmart, something has changed. Seems to be a lot happier inside of there despite the rarity of visitors to it. Violet flies down near the Walmart for any sign of a party, looking around. As Violet looks around, she sees the ruins of a huge block party. Many booths are still up but are mostly trashed and scavenged for resources. It's a mess. That being said, some signs of the advertising for the Solaire promoted Winter Solstice Rave still exist and are intact. Violet grabs one of the advertisements and reads it.

It reads:

☀️ 𝘊𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘚𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘳𝘦'𝘴 𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘺 𝘓𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘏𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘵𝘢! 𝘈 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘮𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘳𝘶𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥! 𝘈 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘥𝘢𝘸𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨!! ☀️

There are also some various yellow dogs printed on the paper.

Violet takes note as she looks around for anything else, if not she heads to the Walmart. As Violet turns to the Walmart, she sees more of the same advertisements leading to the front door, almost like a breadcrumb trail. Perhaps Violet should follow it inside?

Violet walks inside, following the metaphorical breadcrumbs.

The inside of the Walmart looks like it usually does. Clothes in one section, groceries at the far wing, with various housewares and whatnot. Doesn't seem to be too interesting. That is, until she notices a bunch of arrows on the ground leading somewhere.

Violet eyebrows the arrows, following the next path of breadcrumbs, "What in the world...?"

As Violet follows the arrows to another side of the massive Walmart, something changes alongside the atmosphere. The usually dull and drab store becomes a lot brighter. Happier. The vibes be good. More and more Solaire merch can be found on the shelves. Shirts featuring various logos, drinkware. Hell, even some of their food products are all found here. But damn this road is long. Eventually, Violet reaches a point where the arrows stop. A bright and happy yellow room somehow still inside the Walmart that looks like a toy store!

Violet looks around the seemingly toy room, looking at the toys of what they sell, "Why toys of all things..."

There's only one kind of toy here. Yellow dog plushies. All of them have a white dog collar and a tag.

Violet reads the tag to see if anything is on it. Each tag is similar yet different. All of them say Hinata 4 U with a different number. For example, one says Hinata4U#1234, another one Hinata4U#2096 and so on. Violet has a feeling like she's being watched.

Violet looks around, trying to find the source of the watchful eyes, "Hello?"

There's no one there. Violet is the only person in this room. The feeling persists however. There is a door on the far side of this room.

Violet walks over to the door, opening it. As she walks over, she feels hundreds of eyes watching her every step. It's unnerving. One of the plushies fall over as Violet reaches the door. It is locked.

Violet looks quickly over to the plush, examining around it and the shelf. The paranoia growing. The plushie is soft, definitely high quality. On the paw, there's a little red heart on it that says press me to hear me talk

Violet presses the heart. A very soft and gentle voice squeaks out of it saying "please take me home with you." Something about the voice, despite the sweetness, feels unnerving.

"Why?" Violet giggles in nervousness of the situation thinking they will respond as she picks up the plush walking back to the door, as she tries to bust it down with vines.

On launching vines at the door, three more plushies fall from their perch. Without her pressing the paw again, the plushie she holds simply says "save us Violet" in the same sweet voice.

The room she busted open appears to be empty aside from a note on the floor.

Violet walks in the room as she picks up to the note, shaking a bit in fear. She reads the note.

The note appears to be hastily written on scrap paper. But from what Violet can read, it says: They were right. Playing the Many Gods Above was a mistake. If I survive, I will rectify my mistakes. For my People. For all those I have wronged. For--

And it cuts off. Seems it was torn off.

Violet looks back to the plushies outside the room, stepping back into the toy room, taking the note with her, "Save you... what do you mean?" Violet looks to see if she can find any unique plushies or if they are all the same, looking for #0001.

The plushie is completely silent. What isn't silent and actually rather loud is the room. Something's changed, or rather, the lonely nature of it has. Remember how only one plushie fell at first, then three? Now the room has hundreds of them all on the floor. All of them say the same thing in a loud united voice, "please bring me home with you." Light whispers can also be heard, but they don't seem to be coming from the plushies.

Violet closes her ears with her hands to try and block out the noise, but enough to hear the whispers. As she tries to find where the whispers are coming from.

The whispers are all around her, surrounding Violet like a warm blanket. As for looking for a unique plushie, that may be extremely difficult because all of the plushies on the shelves are on the floor all saying the same thing in loud booming yet sweet voices. Perhaps Violet should look for the exit?

Violet searches for an exit, looking for a way to stop the endless noise. The exit's right in front of her. Doesn't seem like the sound is going to stop any time soon, perhaps a design flaw. Turns out this toy store is KayBee toys sized. Very very small.

Violet quickly walks out of the toy section until she is out of noise range, curious but scared if the whispers will follow, "What in the gods was that...?"

The whispers do not follow. As Violet walks out of the room and back towards the main Walmart, all of the Solaire merch and paraphernalia aren't found either. In fact, the toy store is no longer in sight. Gone. Disappeared. It's Walmart once more, just as clean and fully stocked as it usually is. Boring. Drab.

Violet looks curiously back at where it was as she DMs Toby, walking around the Walmart while doing so

It's normal. Even the arrows on the floor are gone.
Violet heads outside the Walmart, sitting down on the side of the building as she collects herself as she looks back at the collect note, trying to figure it out, "Many Gods Above... who are you I wonder..."