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

[lasuaspada]

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

[thefinaltarget]

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

[lasuaspada]

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

[...TSUKIYAMA.]

[thefinaltarget]

That's an odd way to put it, but I won't press.

I can't help but wonder how we actually got here in the first place, though...

[lasuaspada]

Banjou-san and I wouldn't have come willingly, of that I'm absolutely sure.

[thefinaltarget]

Well, I was trapped in a submarine. How would someone get a person out of a submarine without drowning them or letting them know, and why would they leave everyone else on board behind?

[lasuaspada]

...That's a good question, mademoiselle.

It's not quite as physically impossible for us, but Banjou-san and I are obligated to someone that we wouldn't leave for the world. We also wouldn't...imagine coming and living here willingly for personal reasons.

So essentially our will had to be completely overwritten, and your case was completely impossible. Either way, it's interesting.

...As is the Lovecraftian horror that is our current hostess for these proceedings. That is going to take some getting used to.