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]

[Lexaeus' eyebrow just rises higher and higher as the Fulbright discussion carries on.]

This man seems remarkably calm and well-versed for someone so 'unsubtle'.

And, for that matter... Skye seems quite eager to move the group away from achieving anything at all, with no apparent reason to do so. [There's wanting to hold off for the purposes of collecting more evidence... and then there's this.]

[ill_hearted_gentleman]

Situations like these tend to bring out hidden sides in people. He is fighting for his life, after all. A demon would not argue so adamantly against Kimblee, so he must be one of the faithful.

...Ema Skye, I cannot say. She may simply be trying to be cautious, but now is not really the time for caution. The path is clear for anyone who cares to see it.

[tellurianterror]

That would be true, if one assumes that Kimblee is an actual demon, and not merely a man who likes to see the world burn. [Hey, it's a possibility.]

As for Skye... she has refused multiple times now to give a straight answer to questions, instead choosing to nitpick at an irrelevant part of the question or move onto another topic entirely. It sounds to me as if she isn't a very skilled liar, or doesn't feel comfortable doing it.

[ill_hearted_gentleman]

I am assuming nothing. Lynne was the true Seer and her visions did not lie. Kimblee and his partner are soulbonded demons, there is no doubt of that.

[ They could be Sinners and Kimblee's just the supremest jackass of them all, but Oswin will eat the hat he doesn't own if it's really a coincidence that Lynne told Kimblee her role and then died the same night. ]

It is probably prudent to keep an eye on her, then.