Lost Souls

[shimmershimmer]

[You don't wake up, exactly, but at some point you come to. There's something wrong with you, a numbness and translucency. Should you try to touch something, your hand will pass through it. Why, it's as if you were a ghost. So that's the bad news. Sorry about that. The good news is that mentally, you've woken up entirely. You remember the real truth of who you are, your relationship to your so-called "family," and all the other lies you've been fed by the Shimmering Lady.

You can move freely around what you will soon realize to be the village. The reason why it may take moment of realization is simply because it doesn't look anything like you remember it. The sky is black, the grass is dead, and the cottages are run-down and shoddy concrete buildings. The pond is dirty, and there are no animals whatsoever, anywhere.

And the temple. It's more like a storehouse than a temple. The Shimmering Lady is there, or that mass of flesh and tendrils that calls itself the Shimmering Lady...

She doesn't seem to see or hear you. When the others exit their "homes," neither will they. And there's some strange force keeping you within the walls...]

((Popcorn, mingle, curse the Lady, etc! Also! There will be a special thing for you to do here once Night 01 starts. Watch for it~ :>))

Comments

[irenicly]

[...Dammit.

Connor is someone the Archdemon would want to get rid of. They'd probably assume he has a role and strike.

Even if they're right, the village needs Connor right now.]

I don't know if it's possible to stop the Archdemon. Not unless we can interrupt the meeting.

[fauxlosophical]

I don't doubt it's her doing, but let's say there's a very good reason I didn't want to be set in that godforsaken barn as punishment.

Either way. I assume someone has awakened Connor, am I wrong? Who else is there?

[fauxlosophical]

Somehow I wouldn't be surprised if that's what Oswin thought he was doing last night.

[ill_hearted_gentleman]

Haytham woke him as well last night. I do not know if anyone was woken the night before that.

[irenicly]

[...that's probably exactly what happened.]

Even if we were successful when Oswin-san wasn't, I don't know how reliable the Archdemon would be.

[If they said something and were then outed as the Archdemon it has the potential to ruin everything.]

[fauxlosophical]

Do we have any sort of actual plan yet? I'm personally not interested in doing nothing as long as we have the ability to affect change on the village's outcome.

[fauxlosophical]

Reliable, definitely not. Useful, however, is another matter.

[irenicly]

...if the Archdemon was woken by one of us, that might be enough direction.

[fauxlosophical]

My thoughts exactly.

[irenicly]

[Punching their leader in the face isn't something he ever considered as a possibility, but if it gets results...

He's not going to complain.]

[heartofsnarkness]

Just the one, I'd think. Kimblee and his partner were soulmates, right?

[fauxlosophical]

...I have a suggestion, simply because we need influential people on both sides to be aware of the current threat. Feel free to argue or disregard it at your will, but since the Maddened are otherwise occupied tonight and we believe the Avenger is as well, I would like to request permission to awaken our Archdemon.

It's possible that they'll be able to influence things in ways that will keep either side from overtaking.

[steel_over_blood]

[ If Kimblee's actually cooperating and not playing some other angle, that does sound like a good plan. Even if it's coming from... well, whether it's a demon or Kimblee in there doesn't actually matter, he'd be a slippery bastard of a weasel either way. ]

You realize you can't just leave it at "wake up the Archdemon" and leave it at that. I'd like to know who they are instead of leaving it up to your good faith and judgement.

[fauxlosophical]

[He hesitates for a moment, though it's less through the whole demon thing and more because he generally adheres to a hard and fast rule of not selling out his superiors unless they've done something to warrant it. However.]

...I'm referring to the Major. He's soulbonded to Clover, but he was the one I had in mind.

[steel_over_blood]

Of course he is.

[ He'd be really smug if this was the kind of thing one could be smug over. ]

...Possessed or not, I don't picture him being much good for the town's stability. But waking him up should point that loose cannon at the Lady rather than the Faithful.

[fauxlosophical]

My thoughts exactly.

Day 04

[weeabird]

[Your newest member doesn't have much to say, and will likely be spending the entire day stalking Athena.]

Day 4, Major stalking patrol

[steel_over_blood]

[ Just.... spectrally hanging around the Major's burning cottage, staring in disbelief

jesus fantasy christ

one day he will have an ex-boss who is not a complete and utter lunatic

today is not that day ]

[irenicly]

[Oh my god.

And he agreed with Kimblee about this.

HE CAUSED THIS.]

[steel_over_blood]

[ they'd all seen what happens when one listens to kimblee and yet they went ahead and did it

what have we done what has he done ]

...Ah. Well.

I don't think this was part of the Lady's plan, either.

[ Said in the slightly manic tone of a man who is trying to cling desperately to optimism in the face of literally everything that has happened in the past four days but especially this one ]

[irenicly]

Yeah, that's right.

So we only have the one shot.

[irenicly]

[HOW MANY TIMES WILL THIS HAPPEN BEFORE THEY LEARN]

No, I don't think so.

[If there was a chance of him waking up alive after all of this, it's gone now, but...

It's kind of looking like the entire village is going to burn down and that's not good either.]

[thefinaltarget]

...I think he took it worse than Kimblee.

[yeah no kidding]

[ill_hearted_gentleman]

[ Let the record show that Oswin was totally against listening to Kimblee at all ever even though his mun was at work when the suggestion was made.

But for now he looks an awful lot like he just ate something extremely sour and is desperately trying not to let it show. He was expecting nothing good to come of waking the Major, but he wasn't expecting... whatever the hell this is. ]

[nuvolo]

I doubt it. The other herbivores are reluctant to even kill anyone, much less allow them to come here.

I'm sure they'll live to see another day.