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~ :>))

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[shimmershimmer]

[The slap connects, and the dreamer wobbles out of the formation. But tell me, who did you hit?]

[tellurianterror]

[At Kyouya:

What are you doing.

[Does the idea not cross your mind that maybe, just maybe, striking someone's unprotected soul while it's being severed from the heart and body is a bad idea?]

[...That's not to say he approves of these happenings, though. The Lovecraftian entity they've been calling the Lady is clearly responsible, and he'd have to be a fool to trust her.]

[nuvolo]

Be quiet.

[Not like Lexaeus is physically stopping him anyway. So he stares at... well. The form staggering out of the formation. The one he recognizes as the older one of the engineer brothers. The ones with the giant... balloon thing. What else is going to happen now?]

[shimmershimmer]

[The rest of the dreamers move on, swept away (and out of range) by the beast. He, however, stops, opens his eyes, and looks directly at Kyouya — then disappears.]

[tellurianterror]

[Oh god, is he going to turn into a Heartless. Please don't turn into a Heartless.]

[Instead of saying that, however, he just turns to look at Kyouya-- glare at Kyouya.]

You realize he could be truly dead now.

[nuvolo]

What, the way we are?

Because we are not dead. Don't be such a herbivore.

[tellurianterror]

No, not the way we are.

I mean truly dead.

[nuvolo]

[A snort.]

Then we'll see come day time. If he's truly dead, I will find him and bring him back myself.

[tellurianterror]

[Oh, child...]

Good luck with that.

[He clearly doesn't believe you.]