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

[tellurianterror]

She's placed some sort of curse on you that tampered with your memories and perception of reality. Now that you've died, it's worn off. [If you're seeking sympathy, seek elsewhere.] Of course, you can no longer speak with anyone still 'alive'.

[steel_over_blood]

I'd take poison over... what is that, anyway? Acid? Explosives? I'd rather leave a recognizable corpse.

[tellurianterror]

Right. Several of us have had these false relationships implanted by the... Lady. Incidentally, have you seen her? [Or, well, the Lovecraftian version of her.]

[heartofsnarkness]

Right. Great. God, I need a drink or something. Too bad about being all incorporeal.

[lasuaspada]

...I can't stand the man who was supposedly my brother.

[thefinaltarget]

For a little bit...

[She's been through some pretty terrible things but none of them LOOKED as bad as she does.]

[tellurianterror]

I recommend you get used to it. We won't be leaving any time in the foreseeable future, unless someone is able to overthrow that 'Lady'.

[tellurianterror]

I would certainly not put it past him.

But if they all die... there will be no one who can physically attack that creature. [You know, the one calling itself the Shimmering Lady?]

[thefinaltarget]

...so you did know, you just hated him?

[tellurianterror]

Hm. Better now than later.

[Do you really want to go walking around and find her at night? He didn't think so.]

[lasuaspada]

Ah, hate is a little strong! I'd just say that that thing isn't worthy of my time.

[...TSUKIYAMA.]

[lasuaspada]

[...SPEAKING OF, THIS IS GETTING ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS OVER THERE.]

...At this point I'm willing to put money on this. I'm predicting he lives.

[heartofsnarkness]

So should we be rooting for the demons after all? Or are they just as caught up in all this as we are?

[ill_hearted_gentleman]

[ It's clear from the look on Oswin's face that he doesn't much appreciate the flippancy, but he's not going to push the issue, either. ]

[heartofsnarkness]

Did you really save him from suffering the same fate as the rest of us?

[tellurianterror]

I don't believe they know what they are doing, either.

[ill_hearted_gentleman]

...Such was not my intention, but yes. I woke him in hopes that it would prevent him from communicating with his fellows. I did not anticipate that anything like this would happen.

[steel_over_blood]

...You know, I'm not all that happy about a monster being able to write over my memories like that, but being married to a handsome, reliable guy for a while... that part wasn't bad.

[ Handsome, reliable, and he's cute when he blushes like that. He's not going to mention that last one - it'd feel a little too familiar after an excess of familiarity. ]

[heartofsnarkness]

And this is how he repays you, huh. Not very nice.

[heartofsnarkness]

So I guess the one who comes closest to being outside the system right now is Kimblee. Who is a completely untrustworthy son of a bitch, which, by the way, I totally called. Not that it was hard. I don't know why people kept giving him the benefit of the doubt over and over.

[ill_hearted_gentleman]

He is not a very nice man. That much is certainly apparent.

Re: Morning 03

[very_bad_end]

Guess we have more time for twenty questions.

E-t-e-r-n-i-t-y...

[nuvolo]

[THAT IS SO NOT FAIR. Being awake when the other pair of soulmates are RIGHT OVER HERE.]

Whoever did this is going to be bitten to death. [Literally, if Kyouya is REALLY THAT PISSED OFF.] But I want to start with the cockroach.

[Aka Kimblee.]

[ill_hearted_gentleman]

Mmm.

[ There's that subtly pleased look of Oswin's again. ...But it soon fades into sadness. ]

That is what I find so cruel about what the Lady has done. To give a false happiness only to snatch it away like this...

[heartofsnarkness]

This does imply, though, that we could prevent more people from being taken, if we knew who was likely to be targeted.