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]

[...are you shitting him - ]

...That's my logic. You were using my logic to try to kill me.

[....................]

Well-played, all of you.

[glaciates]

Yeah. Uh, sorry about that too.

[It's more awkward than well-played, honestly...]

[lasuaspada]

I told Banjou-san that maybe the reason the dove put his name down is because he couldn't see anyone else - but I was coming at it with the thought that he was a demon, not...

[He laughs, actually; this entire thing is hilarious in hindsight, if only in that oh-you're-terrible sort of way.]

Ahh, giocoso - that's fantastic.

[glaciates]

[...Gio-what now?]

Uh, if you say so.

[You seem pretty okay with this, all things considered.]

[lasuaspada]

Oh, I do, monsieur! And I appreciate your telling me, simply so now I don't have to be concerned about that "brother" of mine burning.

[glaciates]

So you guys aren't really related? Why would the Lady fake relationships like that?

[At least the comrades thing wasn't too much of a stretch.]

[lasuaspada]

[That will just get you the most derisive little noise.]

Please. You think that I could possibly be related to something that weak? He's a coworker of mine; we dislike each other very much.

[glaciates]

[...yikes.]

But somehow you both believed that you were related... Huh.

[lasuaspada]

Oh, yes. I believed everything the Lady told me - replusivo, it's disgusting, isn't it?

What about you, amore - what were you told about your...friend over there?

[glaciates]

It wasn't that bad for me. I believed we were comrades, which wasn't exactly a lie. We fought together seven years ago, but recently we... aren't exactly seeing eye to eye on some issues.

[Because Kimblee's an asshole.]

[lasuaspada]

Ahh, trouble in paradise, then! But I'm sure once you arrived here, none of that mattered anymore, correct?

[glaciates]

No, of course it didn't. Everything was kind of blurry, honestly.

[lasuaspada]

Blurry? How so...?

[glaciates]

Like... I couldn't really remember the reasons why we got in a fight in the first place, or why I was so mad at him after the fight. Things weren't very clear, but they didn't matter so I didn't think about it too much. I guess if I had remembered everything perfectly it would have been harder for me to buy into her illusion.

[lasuaspada]

Well, it could have been worse.

She could have decided you two were married.

[glaciates]

[wow don't even joke about that, that's disgusting]

I feel really bad for all the people who do think they're married.

[lasuaspada]

I'm sure some of them at least have to like each other.

Who knows, perhaps some really hideous matchmaking will come of all this.

[glaciates]

...I'm really not sure how I feel about that.

[Other than kind of disturbed, tbh.]

[lasuaspada]

Well, it hasn't done anything to increase my fondness for Banjou-san, that much is certain.

He had better hope that we're all dead, because if we aren't I'm going to kill him so hard it'll ensure that he is.

[glaciates]

...For what it's worth he was trying to keep you alive and uh, not thrown under any buses.

[Sorry, Banjou, he's not very good at this.]

[lasuaspada]

And the result was I nearly burned, and then the avenger was enough of an idiot to believe Kimblee-san.

But the important thing is that he tried, right?

[glaciates]

Well, it is better than him purposefully screwing you over.

[HE TRIED SO HARD]

[lasuaspada]

If he joins us tonight and you're so interested in defending him, I suggest that you get to him before I do.

[glaciates]

[AND DO WHAT, GIVE HIM A MORE MERCIFUL DEATH??]

Uh, yeah. I guess we'll see what happens.

[lasuaspada]

[WELL SHIT, MCDOUGAL-SAN, IF YOU REALLY WANT TO KILL HIM THEN YOU GO RIGHT AHEAD???

I MEAN IF THAT'S YOUR IDEA OF DEFENDING SOMEONE REMIND HIM TO NEVER ASK YOU TO DEFEND ANYBODY IMPORTANT BECAUSE APPARENTLY YOU'LL JUST WHIP AROUND AND PUNCH THEM IN THE THROAT]

With regards to Kimblee-san and Banjou-san both.

I'll be looking forward to it.