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]

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

[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.

[tellurianterror]

Hm. [He is a pretty untrustworthy son of a bitch.] Now... might be a good time to inform you of what happens at night, if you care to listen. [And if you don't, that's alright too, he'll just judge you quietly.]

[heartofsnarkness]

By all means, go ahead.

[tellurianterror]

At night... the spirits of the 'living' leave their bodies, much like we have, and go to seek out the Lady. Their eyes are always closed, as if they are dreaming.

Last night, we pulled Kimblee and Connor away from the group, and woke them up. We're still unsure of what the exact effect is, but they may act out at some point later today.