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]

[Yeah...]

Maybe they'll find a way to escape.

[But he doubts it.]

[ill_hearted_gentleman]

[ Wow excuse you Oswin is right a lot of times!!! He's not looking to rub Bulat's nose in it, at least, but he's not as good at being flippant, either. ]

...It's... a difficult situation to cope with, even for the most stable of men....

Day4 Trial: Major's Confession

[very_bad_end]

[laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and...]

[weeabird]

I hardly see the humor in any of this! Or are you as much of a frothing lunatic as he is?

[very_bad_end]

Oh, shut up. Don't be such a downer.

Can't you just enjoy a good confession?

[steel_over_blood]

[ Oh. Okay, good, there she is, she's not dead just traumatized forever and questioning her life choices. Bulat feels some definite empathy there. ]

[weeabird]

And what, precisely, is so good about it? His raving madness? The innocent young girl that he is dragging down with him?

[steel_over_blood]

[ .... ]

[ oh its you IS KIMBLEE GETTING TIRED OF GETTING PUNCHED YET if so he'd better hope his reflexes are up to snuff. Bulat does not give a lot of warning - just a quick change in his stance before he turns on his heel and takes a swing right at this complete bastard's awful fucking face. ]

[fauxlosophical]

[OH COME THE HELL ON HIS REFLEXES WERE UTTER ASS EVEN WHEN HE WAS ALIVE

I MEAN FORTUNATELY IT DOESN'T HURT DUE TO THE WHOLE INCORPOREAL THING BUT FOR HELL'S SAKE, BULAT]

Do you really think I foresaw any of this.

[lasuaspada]

Or perhaps they'll be so complacent in their dreams that they won't want to. Really, maybe it would be more merciful to let them sleep by now...

[He's quiet once that's out there, though. Just...give him a moment.]

...I know why you did...as you did, you know. Why you lied to me that last night.

[steel_over_blood]

Sounds like the Lady's work and his false bond with Clover was all that was keeping him leashed.

[ Bulat doesn't feel completely responsible but listening to Kimblee like that, assuming his motivations were the same as theirs instead of just adding oil to the fire (so to speak)... it made sense at the time but he sure feels like an idiot in hindsight. ]

...Difficulty isn't any excuse, in any case. He's a trained officer, he should know that he's got a responsibility to those people who are relying him! If he's going to go off on a self-centered rampage, he doesn't have the right to a fancy title like that!

[steel_over_blood]

[ DAMMIT

being a ghost is the worst that didn't help at all]

You were the one who was acting like he knew exactly what he was doing! You were the one who knew him the best out of us, so were you being a pain in the ass or just some kind of moron?!

[fauxlosophical]

Did you anticipate any part of this?

[very_bad_end]

...I think you summed it up rather well.

And why not? I can appreciate a good scheme, in a detached, objective sort of way.

He killed me too, of course.

[weeabird]

I am not indignant for the sake of my own life, but for those who are still struggling to retain theirs. If you cannot show even that much compassion, then you may remain silent.

[ill_hearted_gentleman]

I certainly agree that whoever entrusted him with such grave responsibility showed very poor judgement in doing so.

[ NOT THAT HE'S NAMING ANY NAMES HERE. ]

[ill_hearted_gentleman]

And what, exactly, is so funny about this, if I may ask?

[very_bad_end]

Don't you see? It's brilliant.

He could not hope to stay alive through deception, so he's instead taken a hostage.

[very_bad_end]

...

[ill_hearted_gentleman]

No. Were survival his goal, he would not have asked the Lady for a special vote. He fully intends to be executed, the only question is if he will go up in flames or simply be put to sleep [ and probably murdered quietly later by Eliot and Parker but that's neither here nor there ]. He is... testing them? I cannot understand his madness.

[steel_over_blood]

We're both morons when it comes to the Major, is that what you're saying?

[ That's his sidestepping way of saying fuck no he didn't but he really really should have. ]

[irenicly]

[It's strange talking about it now. That night, he had genuinely thought Tsukiyama to be his brother.

Banjou himself had been brainwashed too, but he had been aware of the truth about the demons.]

I didn't think it would work.

[He's a really bad actor.]

[fauxlosophical]

[WELL THAT'S BOTH OF US THEN, ISN'T IT.]

If that's how you would like to phrase it.

[lasuaspada]

Had I been in my right mind, it wouldn't have. You're a bit bad at all of that, Banjou-san.

[irenicly]

I know I am.

[But Tsukiyama started crying about losing him and Banjou suddenly didn't know what to do.

So bullshitting a possession it was.]