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

[glaciates]

[...]

I guess it doesn't matter now. Yeah, he is.

[lasuaspada]

[....................

hands

in the air tbh

i mean admittedly this is hilarious in hindsight but still]

Everyone I know. Everyone I know.

[glaciates]

[...whoops???]

Uh, sorry about that?

[what does he even say]

[lasuaspada]

I have had the worst luck imaginable for the last week. But don't worry, I can think of at least four people who owe me a greater apology than you.

[glaciates]

Yeah, I can imagine...

[He'll feel bad for them if they show up here, um.]

[lasuaspada]

[He'll see if they die when you kill them!]

You're not so bad, McDougal-san. Shame about your travesty of a soulmate.

[glaciates]

[WINCE]

Don't. We're not soulmates.

[lasuaspada]

...Now I'm just curious. What did he do to you?

[glaciates]

I trusted him with something and he refused to help.

[...Okay, so there's more to it than that and yeah, it was Isaac's fault for assuming anything about Kimblee in the first place, but he's still mad so none of that matters.]

[lasuaspada]

[...okay, this week has been kind of full of things that are really sort of funny in the "oh sweet jesus" sort of way

this is one of them

he's going to try not to laugh but his face is going a little...strange, sorry]

You know, monsieur, if the worst you got was "He was very unhelpful," you're doing better than the rest of us.

[glaciates]

Well, yeah, but it's-- it's complicated, alright?

["VERY UNHELPFUL" IS PUTTING IT LIGHTLY, OKAY]

[lasuaspada]

One of those circumstances where you trusted him to take the knife out of your back and he did so, only to drive it through your other lung?

[glaciates]

...Not exactly. He didn't betray me or anything, but I was counting on his help and things went pretty badly without him.

[Kimblee... didn't betray him, right? There's no way Kimblee could have gotten word to anyone with his guards dead.]

[lasuaspada]

Are you really so surprised, amore? He's been utterly self-serving and gambling with your life this entire time.

[...]

...Was he like that there as well, or was it not nearly this bad?

[glaciates]

Well, I hadn't seen him in seven years and the last time we spent time together we were fighting a war, so things were different.

I didn't think he'd be this careless with someone else's life - or even his own - but I guess I didn't know him as well as I thought I did.

[lasuaspada]

And I've spent the last three days being the most sickening person imaginable because I apparently loved a person I can't stand that much all of a sudden.

We've all spent quite some time brainwashed and insane, haven't we?

[glaciates]

Yeah. At least we don't have to believe that anymore.

[Sorry, those of you that are still alive...]

[lasuaspada]

Here's hoping the rest of them snap out of it eventually.

[...SOME...HOW...]

[glaciates]

Yeah. I'm not sure how that'll happen though.

[GOOD LUCK GUYS...]