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]

They're letting him live?!

Compassion's a fine ideal, but there's such a thing as common sense!

[ Okay so the demons might be the right side but the village, cripes, is everyone with any sort of strategic ability already dead, is that what's happening here, he's so disappointed in you guys. ]

[very_bad_end]

Maybe that's the demons' plan? Eliminate the people who wouldn't let themselves be threatened or cajoled.

Rather shrewd.

[steel_over_blood]

If that's their plan, then it's working.

...I'm surprised the Major hasn't been raising a fuss. I had him down as a pragmatic man, and the bloodthirsty kind of pragmatic at that. Also surprised he hasn't been targeted, by that logic. If I were a betting man, I'd bet that he and Clover are our second pair of demons.

[very_bad_end]

Hm... that's a possible, maybe even probable, scenario.

Or perhaps he's the Maddened one.

[steel_over_blood]

I'd believe either one at this point.

[ SOME TIME LATER ]

And now we have our Maddened, although I can't imagine why they'd name themselves as such rather than claiming to be Templar.

[very_bad_end]

That should have been very obvious to us.

Oh well.