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

[steel_over_blood]

Unless cruelty is the benefit. I've met enough human monsters to know a game when I see one, and this monster likes to play.

[ill_hearted_gentleman]

A game.... Does she seek to mock us for our desires?

[steel_over_blood]

Desires, huh? I'll take that as a compliment.

[ Bulat how do you even change gears that quickly... Practice, that's how. They're going to have to talk about this... fake marriage thing eventually and yeah, he's really ticked off about having his head reorganized, but he really doesn't want to take it out on the poor guy who got dragged into it with him. ]

[ill_hearted_gentleman]

Ah--

[ A faint blush colors Oswin's cheeks. He hadn't meant Bulat specifically when he said that, but he can't exactly say he finds the guy undesirable either, even with the brainwashing gone. ]

Yes, well, I suppose you should.

[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. ]

[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...