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

[ill_hearted_gentleman]

[ Let the record show that Oswin was totally against listening to Kimblee at all ever even though his mun was at work when the suggestion was made.

But for now he looks an awful lot like he just ate something extremely sour and is desperately trying not to let it show. He was expecting nothing good to come of waking the Major, but he wasn't expecting... whatever the hell this is. ]

[steel_over_blood]

...Yeah, I overestimated him. Both of them.

[ Gosh the ONE TIME Oswin was right just had to be the one time they didn't listen to him. If he's going to say I told you so, this would definitely be the time. ]

[ill_hearted_gentleman]

[ Wow excuse you Oswin is right a lot of times!!! He's not looking to rub Bulat's nose in it, at least, but he's not as good at being flippant, either. ]

...It's... a difficult situation to cope with, even for the most stable of men....

[steel_over_blood]

Sounds like the Lady's work and his false bond with Clover was all that was keeping him leashed.

[ Bulat doesn't feel completely responsible but listening to Kimblee like that, assuming his motivations were the same as theirs instead of just adding oil to the fire (so to speak)... it made sense at the time but he sure feels like an idiot in hindsight. ]

...Difficulty isn't any excuse, in any case. He's a trained officer, he should know that he's got a responsibility to those people who are relying him! If he's going to go off on a self-centered rampage, he doesn't have the right to a fancy title like that!

[ill_hearted_gentleman]

I certainly agree that whoever entrusted him with such grave responsibility showed very poor judgement in doing so.

[ NOT THAT HE'S NAMING ANY NAMES HERE. ]