[ Oh. Oh no, this is a fight. Koha ahem, sorry, Hollowcry glances between everyone, clones and all, frantically backpedaling to find a corner to obscure herself in. ]
Aaah, what should I...?!
[ Maybe there's something in her pouch?! She'll start rummaging in a panic, eyes darting between peeking what's inside and keeping an eye on everyone else. ]
ok well, he’s been very powerfully prone for the past few tags, which is totally fair and valid, karlach did it so many times on my bg3 run because i have terminal “doesn’t look before i make my team power run through grease traps and then wonders why they ate it”itis, and karlach is absolutely perfect and has never done anything wrong in her whole life so i feel proud.
he does in fact try to get up, so give me the axe. he’s got a hand on his own, so he’s gonna try and deflect it but i would love a little axe wound somewhere please and thank you. ]
well, the good news at least is that the closest thing to them at this exact moment is the person trying to kill them. sorrowglare will try to dodge, but not like trying to move entirely out of the way. they're going to allow themselves to get hit just so they can get closer to saber and drive their own sword through their neck. hi. ]
[all of you failed your rolls but since becks is awake now, i'll tell you the rules anyway. it's pretty straightforward - you have to kill these guys. but specifically, you should be trying to kill your own double. a half remembered poem or saying, the most hallowed mercy is death. grant yourself death. you can attack the others too, even kill them, but if someone else kills your double for you, you may get a small punishment for that. also, the doubles are exact copies of you guys, meaning they have exactly the same things in their inventory at the start of this fight as you do.
griefblade is drowning her double, but wis'adel isn't going to give up so quickly. she's struggling back, trying to move so she drives both her horns and the knife into griefblade's side.
hollowcry is panicking and rummaging through her pouch. could she possibly have anything useful? meanwhile, koharu draws a gun. she will attempt two shots. one will be at hollowcry and it is up to you, anais, whether it hits or misses and where it hits. the other one can hit the first one of you who wants a little gunshot wound.
the ax will crunch into gloomfang's side, leaving a deep, nasty wound. but he's at least standing now, so he can fight back.
sorrowglare can drive the sword into saber's neck, yeah. they dodge to the side, but it definitely looks like a pretty fatal wound. they aren't going to give up, though. while still standing, they're going to try to cut sorrowglare to ribbons, bring them down together.]
[fine by her! she'd be so disappointed if her double went down too easily, after all-- it's a copy of her, so it'd be a pretty shitty one if it just gave up and died, right?
while wiš'adel struggles, griefblade pulls the knife from her side. it's hard to get much strength behind things in water, so what she opts for instead of a stab is trying to just slice through her double's throat to hurry this up.]
If anything, the gunshot gets her attention, probably because a second later Hollowcry feels a searing pain starting from her shoulder. She yelps again, finally pulling her own handgun out, stumbling back against a pillar. ]
...
[ Well, she isn't liking where this is going! At all!! But these things couldn't be real if they're just imitating them...
So she lifts her own hangun, and with trembling hands, fires off her first shot at her double. ]
sorrowglare will get hit, because like. idk how you would dodge that when you are connected to someone via your sword in their neck. but they will just grunt in respond, before moving to just try to decapitate saber. goodbye.....
however they will not wait to see if they go fully down or not before then running to just go attack whoever is the next closest person to them due to the frenzy FREE STAB WOUNDS??? FREE STAB WOUNDS ANYONE????
they are not paying attention to what injuries saber gave them because they are so frenzied via potion and also because i have not decided that yet ]
honestly i think it would be funny if, as basilio is trying to swing his axe at gloomfang again, he gets hit with a frenzied blade from saber? sorrowglare? who are we anymore, causing him to hunch over in surprise.
it makes it a lot, lot easier for the-artist-formerly-known-as-basilio-now-known-as-gloomfang to get back up on his feet and, heedless of the pain from the fresh gash in his side, swing his axe up and straight at basilio's neck. eat axe, arsehole. ]
[okay well i gave you guys a free bullet and none of you wanted it! see why i bother doing anything for you guys...
i will say the bullet manages to hit wis'adel (as in the clone), but since she's currently drowning her, if you would like griefblade to get hit a little bit too that's also okay. but wis'adel is hit, and that stops her from managing to fight back as her throat is slit.
hollowcry's bullet pierces her double through the heart, and she goes down. between being on fire and being shot, she isn't doing so good.
sorrowglare manages to decapitate their double, but is still in the frenzy so yeah you guys might wanna do something about that.
gloomfang also manages to ax his double directly through the face, but is being stabbed by sorrowglare.
you guys all successfully managed to kill your doubles! you may continue on down the stairs! oh aside from sorrowglare still trying to kill you, which you may want to deal with first.
the potion's effects will start to wear off of sorrowglare now, but there is enough time for everyone to get some last minute pvp in this round if they want.]
[idk man sorrowglare seems a lot like y'all's problem! she's waiting here for you to get down the water stairs, and also stealing her double's shit unless siz tells me to stop her sinful devil hands because it all disappears or something like that. but if it doesn't she's going to dual wield knives now.
oh yeah the bullet cracks one of her horns for sexy horn damage i'm taking that thanks]
[ stopping the pvp is all up to gloomfang now because YOU THINK SHE KNOWS WHAT TO DO ABOUT A CRAZY PERSON WITH A KATANA? i mean pvp her if you want too i think that would be cool and sexy but she does NOT know how to fight back against that ]
sorrowglare is pretty fast and very good with a sword, unsurprisingly as it is listed in their profile, so! running to hollowcry and striking her will not be too much of an issue, especially since she doesn't know how to deal with a crazy person with a katana. choose your injury....
they don't actually wait to see if she goes down or not, before immediately rushing to gloomfang next to also strike. you are free to also attack back so that sorrowglare can stop attacking everyone violently before it wears off but also pick whatever injury you want
[ well gloomfang DOES know how to deal with people with swords, so that's nice. sorrowglare can get a nice slice in on his leg because his legs are waaay too uninjured right now, before gloomfang swings the butt of his axe down on his arm to try and get him to drop the sword in reflex.
the non-sharp part, i emphasise. i'm not giving you limb loss for free. ]
[does everyone even know saber is cursed or do they just think they're like that.
well, anyway, feel free to react however you like to getting stabs, but for ease i'm also assuming you're going to descend the staircase into the pool so i can get us to the last thing.
when you step through the pool, you are warped to another dimension. it's a strange, dark, black and gray dimension with swirling clouds and the occasional lightning bolt lighting up the sky(?) with a flash of bright purple. this is a dead place. it's almost an empty void, but the ruins of a crumbled, ancient temple also exist in this place, so there are floating rocks, pillars, broken statues, that sort of thing. it's dark, but you can see just fine, it's just hazy.
it's a little like being on the surface of the moon, in that this is an alien place where no life exists, but also in that gravity doesn't work quite the same way. you won't float away, but you're fairly light, so if you jump you can go a pretty far distance, and you can sort of leap and float between the various rock formations to move about.
it's immediately obvious where you need to go, though. at the bottom of this void there is a large platform. it looks like a prison almost; the platform seems to be hung from ruins of the temple by spiked chains. in the center of the disc there is an arcane circle, glowing with light, and in the center of that circle is a person, collapsed to the ground, with their hands and feet manacled to the prison with magic chains. you can't make out who this is, you just see that they are being held prisoner here.
the nightsong is a person, it turns out.
but your orders are unchanged. find it and destroy it. only the one of you who is worthy will be capable of doing so.
you may all jump and float down to the platform now.]
[sorrowglare is valid? i have to be so real she assumes they're just trying to take out their competition for getting to destroy the nightsong... it's a valid move... the fact that they stop is more confusing than the pvp but whatever, it's their life!
she jumps and floats right along, then, barely stopping to survey this strange space; she's injured, sure, and she's absolutely still bleeding from her wounds, but this has never stopped her. there's a lot that she can take before she reaches that point, after all. these are things she can worry about once the mission is over with, once she can rest, and so she ignores the lingering pain and exhaustion and weakness in her body to push forward. almost there. almost done.
once she reaches the platform, she pauses there, peering at the imprisoned figure, and twirls the knife in her hand.]
Huh. Not what I was expecting!
[the smart thing to do would be to just go for it. try to be the first to strike and find out if she's worthy enough for the kill.
[ the group really just accepted that sorrowglare suddenly wanted them all dead out of nowhere
when it wears off they are just... very confused and squinting around... but if no one asks about it then they are not going to explain anything bye.
they will stop behind the girl, looking between them and the nightsong. the adrenaline from the fight wearing off is making them notice their wounds i still haven't picked yet more, but. it's fine. they will wait to see what the others do. ]
[well fortunately, the gravity will prevent their wounds from bleeding much. i'm a scientist and this is how gravity works. these injuries will go crazy once you're out of here, but until then, they're fairly stable.
they make their way to the center of the platform. be very careful. the abyss is all around you, on all sides. if you drop an apple off the side of the platform to test it, you'll see that it drops and falls forever, you don't even see a place where it stops. don't fall off, guys.
the person in the center of the circle picks themselves to their feet. you can tell it's difficult for them. they're weak, wounded badly. you don't know how long they've been here, but it has probably been a long time, long enough for muscles to atrophy. for their body to start to fail. in fact, it's very obvious that the only reason this person is still alive is because they can't die by ordinary means. otherwise, someone chained up here and left alone would be long dead.
they are dirty, wearing rags, in bad shape.
but the most notable thing about this person is that you... are struggling to get a sense of their face, any discernible features about them. instead, when you look at them, you feel things. flashes of memory, a sense of familiarity. wis'adel, you see theresa on the table for a moment, regal despite her obvious pain and degradation. and yet, you also see anders, in no condition to judge anyone but casting judgment on you as he watches you all the same.]
Did you think a knife was going to do the trick? You're smarter than that, aren't you?
[no, a knife isn't going to do the job, given whatever magic is keeping this person alive. you could stab them, torture them, cut into the flesh of their broken body as much as you want, as much satiates you. they might scream and suffer, but they would never die.
that's why you were given a special spear.
meanwhile, koharu, as you try to make out this person's features, you see a flash of the defiance and concern in kanna's gaze, and a flash of yves' kind smile, reminding you you're brave, but aware of what the price of bravery is.]
Look at all of you. The first new faces in so many years, and it's like this. Do you even know what you want from me?
[saber, you see a flash of iori, trying to make you understand something you can't understand. you see uruha, a little sorry for you, as you try to work through fears that presently have no answers.]
You don't remember anything. She's keeping so many secrets from you, isn't she?
[basilio, you see a flash of fidelio, hurt and weak, not able to bear any more of it, but still giving you permission to spare you. you see a flash of jioaqiu, seeing something in a refusal that you didn't even understand that was worth admiring.]
Did you even ask why?
[but this person isn't truly any of those people, probably, and you don't know who any of those people are. you don't recall those memories, just flashes, impressions, emotions. but the prevailing feeling is that whoever this person is, there's something about all of the parts of you that are missing that they may hold keys to.
even so, you are surrounded by strangers, and if there is a prize to be won here, only one of you can get it. there's no prize for being nice, for taking turns. those impressions flash before you, too. the times when you hesitated, asked too many questions, and ran out of time before there were sudden and immediate consequences, and the answers you got were not worth the pain that ensued.
you were brought here with vague memories. your name and your mission. your mission is to destroy the Nightsong, but you do not know why is that is your mission. you only have a vague sense that that mission is important to you, and also, especially here, now, a vague sense that you were promised rewards if you succeeded and there may be consequences if you fail. but you do not know what those rewards or consequences are or why you believe this to be the case.
on the other hand, this person appears familiar to you in ways you cannot place, and appears to be alluding to information that may be of interest to you. if they are dead, you cannot ask them any questions and you may lose your chance to learn more.
here's how this will work:
• The only thing that can destroy the Nightsong is the spear. no other weapons will work. and although Saber was the one who picked it up, any of you will receive the spear if you ask for it.
• If, after any of my tags, you feel your character is ready to act, you may DM me. If you’re the only one who asked for the spear in that round, you will get it in my next comment. If more than one person asked, you may have to roll for it. However, once you have the spear, you must attempt to take action in your next comment or there will be serious consequences.
• If someone else gets the spear, you may attempt to stop them from using it, or attempt to take it. DM me in advance if you believe you would attempt that and tell me what you would do. Once someone has the spear in their hands, while it’s still magical enough to kill this person, it otherwise becomes an ordinary, tangible weapon, so it can be stolen away with force and can’t be resummoned by anyone.
• There is a time limit here, a point at which, if no one has acted, there will be serious consequences. You will know one tag in advance of the time limit.
Then shut the fuck up and start talking about something that matters!
[anger, first, at the provocation and judgment-- she didn't stab immediately, the fuck else do they want from her, huh? she doesn't know anything besides what she's here to do. what she's supposed to accomplish.
those impressions of faces keep her held back for now. she doesn't remember speaking to anders, before, doesn't recall what he'd said, but it struck enough of a chord with her that there's a lingering feeling of-- she isn't sure what. she'd felt back then that she'd trust what he said more than the ones who were tormenting her, and so she's left with the sense now that maybe this person has something worth saying. theresa's face, too, is unfamiliar, but she had once been so upset that griefblade would threaten herself; she doesn't know why she feels that this person just might care.
she strides up to them, reaching up to blindly grab for their indistinct jaw, so she can try to make them look at her.]
[anders? theresa? someone else? looks back at wis'adel, maybe something like defiance there. the magical manacles holding this person prevent them from struggling against her, but they also don't appear to be afraid.]
What I know is that she wants me dead so that she'll become more powerful. And maybe she really even will share that power with you. But will what you get be worth what you've already given up?
[kanna looks at koharu]
You didn't deserve to fall, but can't you see that you could have started to try flying at any time? [she's speaking about the dream you keep having, as though she already knows about it.] You can't always wait for someone else.
[jiaoqiu looks at bas, apologetic.]
I know some, but likely not enough to be able to answer the questions you have. I can't tell you who you are.
[but "she" makes you think of that feeling when you saw the statue before, the way you pictured the woman in the mask and hood even though they looked nothing alike. approval, disapproval, their opinion is everything, but perhaps more because the difference between approval and disapproval is so stark.
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Kohaahem, sorry, Hollowcry glances between everyone, clones and all, frantically backpedaling to find a corner to obscure herself in. ]Aaah, what should I...?!
[ Maybe there's something in her pouch?! She'll start rummaging in a panic, eyes darting between peeking what's inside and keeping an eye on everyone else. ]
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ok well, he’s been very powerfully prone for the past few tags, which is totally fair and valid, karlach did it so many times on my bg3 run because i have terminal “doesn’t look before i make my team power run through grease traps and then wonders why they ate it”itis, and karlach is absolutely perfect and has never done anything wrong in her whole life so i feel proud.
he does in fact try to get up, so give me the axe. he’s got a hand on his own, so he’s gonna try and deflect it but i would love a little axe wound somewhere please and thank you. ]
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well, the good news at least is that the closest thing to them at this exact moment is the person trying to kill them. sorrowglare will try to dodge, but not like trying to move entirely out of the way. they're going to allow themselves to get hit just so they can get closer to saber and drive their own sword through their neck. hi. ]
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griefblade is drowning her double, but wis'adel isn't going to give up so quickly. she's struggling back, trying to move so she drives both her horns and the knife into griefblade's side.
hollowcry is panicking and rummaging through her pouch. could she possibly have anything useful? meanwhile, koharu draws a gun. she will attempt two shots. one will be at hollowcry and it is up to you, anais, whether it hits or misses and where it hits. the other one can hit the first one of you who wants a little gunshot wound.
the ax will crunch into gloomfang's side, leaving a deep, nasty wound. but he's at least standing now, so he can fight back.
sorrowglare can drive the sword into saber's neck, yeah. they dodge to the side, but it definitely looks like a pretty fatal wound. they aren't going to give up, though. while still standing, they're going to try to cut sorrowglare to ribbons, bring them down together.]
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while wiš'adel struggles, griefblade pulls the knife from her side. it's hard to get much strength behind things in water, so what she opts for instead of a stab is trying to just slice through her double's throat to hurry this up.]
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If anything, the gunshot gets her attention, probably because a second later Hollowcry feels a searing pain starting from her shoulder. She yelps again, finally pulling her own handgun out, stumbling back against a pillar. ]
...
[ Well, she isn't liking where this is going! At all!! But these things couldn't be real if they're just imitating them...
So she lifts her own hangun, and with trembling hands, fires off her first shot at her double. ]
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sorrowglare will get hit, because like. idk how you would dodge that when you are connected to someone via your sword in their neck. but they will just grunt in respond, before moving to just try to decapitate saber. goodbye.....
however they will not wait to see if they go fully down or not before then running to just go attack whoever is the next closest person to them due to the frenzy FREE STAB WOUNDS??? FREE STAB WOUNDS ANYONE????
they are not paying attention to what injuries saber gave them because they are so frenzied via potion and also because i have not decided that yet ]
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honestly i think it would be funny if, as basilio is trying to swing his axe at gloomfang again, he gets hit with a frenzied blade from saber? sorrowglare? who are we anymore, causing him to hunch over in surprise.
it makes it a lot, lot easier for the-artist-formerly-known-as-basilio-now-known-as-gloomfang to get back up on his feet and, heedless of the pain from the fresh gash in his side, swing his axe up and straight at basilio's neck. eat axe, arsehole. ]
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i will say the bullet manages to hit wis'adel (as in the clone), but since she's currently drowning her, if you would like griefblade to get hit a little bit too that's also okay. but wis'adel is hit, and that stops her from managing to fight back as her throat is slit.
hollowcry's bullet pierces her double through the heart, and she goes down. between being on fire and being shot, she isn't doing so good.
sorrowglare manages to decapitate their double, but is still in the frenzy so yeah you guys might wanna do something about that.
gloomfang also manages to ax his double directly through the face, but is being stabbed by sorrowglare.
you guys all successfully managed to kill your doubles! you may continue on down the stairs! oh aside from sorrowglare still trying to kill you, which you may want to deal with first.
the potion's effects will start to wear off of sorrowglare now, but there is enough time for everyone to get some last minute pvp in this round if they want.]
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[idk man sorrowglare seems a lot like y'all's problem! she's waiting here for you to get down the water stairs, and also stealing her double's shit unless siz tells me to stop her sinful devil hands because it all disappears or something like that. but if it doesn't she's going to dual wield knives now.
oh yeah the bullet cracks one of her horns for sexy horn damage i'm taking that thanks]
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sorrowglare is pretty fast and very good with a sword, unsurprisingly as it is listed in their profile, so! running to hollowcry and striking her will not be too much of an issue, especially since she doesn't know how to deal with a crazy person with a katana. choose your injury....
they don't actually wait to see if she goes down or not, before immediately rushing to gloomfang next to also strike. you are free to also attack back so that sorrowglare can stop attacking everyone violently before it wears off but also pick whatever injury you want
yay free stabs ]
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the non-sharp part, i emphasise. i'm not giving you limb loss for free. ]
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well, anyway, feel free to react however you like to getting stabs, but for ease i'm also assuming you're going to descend the staircase into the pool so i can get us to the last thing.
when you step through the pool, you are warped to another dimension. it's a strange, dark, black and gray dimension with swirling clouds and the occasional lightning bolt lighting up the sky(?) with a flash of bright purple. this is a dead place. it's almost an empty void, but the ruins of a crumbled, ancient temple also exist in this place, so there are floating rocks, pillars, broken statues, that sort of thing. it's dark, but you can see just fine, it's just hazy.
it's a little like being on the surface of the moon, in that this is an alien place where no life exists, but also in that gravity doesn't work quite the same way. you won't float away, but you're fairly light, so if you jump you can go a pretty far distance, and you can sort of leap and float between the various rock formations to move about.
it's immediately obvious where you need to go, though. at the bottom of this void there is a large platform. it looks like a prison almost; the platform seems to be hung from ruins of the temple by spiked chains. in the center of the disc there is an arcane circle, glowing with light, and in the center of that circle is a person, collapsed to the ground, with their hands and feet manacled to the prison with magic chains. you can't make out who this is, you just see that they are being held prisoner here.
the nightsong is a person, it turns out.
but your orders are unchanged. find it and destroy it. only the one of you who is worthy will be capable of doing so.
you may all jump and float down to the platform now.]
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she jumps and floats right along, then, barely stopping to survey this strange space; she's injured, sure, and she's absolutely still bleeding from her wounds, but this has never stopped her. there's a lot that she can take before she reaches that point, after all. these are things she can worry about once the mission is over with, once she can rest, and so she ignores the lingering pain and exhaustion and weakness in her body to push forward. almost there. almost done.
once she reaches the platform, she pauses there, peering at the imprisoned figure, and twirls the knife in her hand.]
Huh. Not what I was expecting!
[the smart thing to do would be to just go for it. try to be the first to strike and find out if she's worthy enough for the kill.
she's-- not really sure why she hesitates, then.]
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Anyway yeah, Hollowcry is also now fckn injured, but she probably doesn't have a choice right now when it comes to stopping. Forward it is.
And so she also leaps down, using the aid of her wings to help glide as she descends, and makes a landing as well. ]
... Hm? What's wrong?
[ Hesitation seemed unlike her. ]
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when it wears off they are just... very confused and squinting around... but if no one asks about it then they are not going to explain anything bye.
they will stop behind the girl, looking between them and the nightsong. the adrenaline from the fight wearing off is making them notice their wounds i still haven't picked yet more, but. it's fine. they will wait to see what the others do. ]
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The heck happened to you?
[ but ok they can explain as they bounce through the anti gravity to where this person is just trapped in the middle of this … thing.
huh.
that’s a whole ass person. ]
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they make their way to the center of the platform. be very careful. the abyss is all around you, on all sides. if you drop an apple off the side of the platform to test it, you'll see that it drops and falls forever, you don't even see a place where it stops. don't fall off, guys.
the person in the center of the circle picks themselves to their feet. you can tell it's difficult for them. they're weak, wounded badly. you don't know how long they've been here, but it has probably been a long time, long enough for muscles to atrophy. for their body to start to fail. in fact, it's very obvious that the only reason this person is still alive is because they can't die by ordinary means. otherwise, someone chained up here and left alone would be long dead.
they are dirty, wearing rags, in bad shape.
but the most notable thing about this person is that you... are struggling to get a sense of their face, any discernible features about them. instead, when you look at them, you feel things. flashes of memory, a sense of familiarity. wis'adel, you see theresa on the table for a moment, regal despite her obvious pain and degradation. and yet, you also see anders, in no condition to judge anyone but casting judgment on you as he watches you all the same.]
Did you think a knife was going to do the trick? You're smarter than that, aren't you?
[no, a knife isn't going to do the job, given whatever magic is keeping this person alive. you could stab them, torture them, cut into the flesh of their broken body as much as you want, as much satiates you. they might scream and suffer, but they would never die.
that's why you were given a special spear.
meanwhile, koharu, as you try to make out this person's features, you see a flash of the defiance and concern in kanna's gaze, and a flash of yves' kind smile, reminding you you're brave, but aware of what the price of bravery is.]
Look at all of you. The first new faces in so many years, and it's like this. Do you even know what you want from me?
[saber, you see a flash of iori, trying to make you understand something you can't understand. you see uruha, a little sorry for you, as you try to work through fears that presently have no answers.]
You don't remember anything. She's keeping so many secrets from you, isn't she?
[basilio, you see a flash of fidelio, hurt and weak, not able to bear any more of it, but still giving you permission to spare you. you see a flash of jioaqiu, seeing something in a refusal that you didn't even understand that was worth admiring.]
Did you even ask why?
[but this person isn't truly any of those people, probably, and you don't know who any of those people are. you don't recall those memories, just flashes, impressions, emotions. but the prevailing feeling is that whoever this person is, there's something about all of the parts of you that are missing that they may hold keys to.
even so, you are surrounded by strangers, and if there is a prize to be won here, only one of you can get it. there's no prize for being nice, for taking turns. those impressions flash before you, too. the times when you hesitated, asked too many questions, and ran out of time before there were sudden and immediate consequences, and the answers you got were not worth the pain that ensued.
you were brought here with vague memories. your name and your mission. your mission is to destroy the Nightsong, but you do not know why is that is your mission. you only have a vague sense that that mission is important to you, and also, especially here, now, a vague sense that you were promised rewards if you succeeded and there may be consequences if you fail. but you do not know what those rewards or consequences are or why you believe this to be the case.
on the other hand, this person appears familiar to you in ways you cannot place, and appears to be alluding to information that may be of interest to you. if they are dead, you cannot ask them any questions and you may lose your chance to learn more.
here's how this will work:
so, what will you do next?]
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[anger, first, at the provocation and judgment-- she didn't stab immediately, the fuck else do they want from her, huh? she doesn't know anything besides what she's here to do. what she's supposed to accomplish.
those impressions of faces keep her held back for now. she doesn't remember speaking to anders, before, doesn't recall what he'd said, but it struck enough of a chord with her that there's a lingering feeling of-- she isn't sure what. she'd felt back then that she'd trust what he said more than the ones who were tormenting her, and so she's left with the sense now that maybe this person has something worth saying. theresa's face, too, is unfamiliar, but she had once been so upset that griefblade would threaten herself; she doesn't know why she feels that this person just might care.
she strides up to them, reaching up to blindly grab for their indistinct jaw, so she can try to make them look at her.]
If you know something, then-- out with it. Now.
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[ She only takes one step forward, reaching out, but doesn't move any further. ]
We—we can ask without...
[ without like, maybe possibly making them mad first ]
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[ that is in reply to bas... since he asked.
but then wis is acting out, and saber also just watches this until koharu speaks. they step forward a bit. ]
The girl [ KOHARU WHAT IS YOUR NAME ] is right. There's no point in being too rough with a prisoner.
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Oi, careful.
[ sorrowglare's plight is so valid but gloomfang has to be distracted because things keep happening all the time in this dark and mysterious void. ]
She looks bloody roughed up enough as it is. [ and what if she passes out? she can't answer any questions then, can she? ]
Do you know somethin'? 'Bout all this? And who 'she' is?
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What I know is that she wants me dead so that she'll become more powerful. And maybe she really even will share that power with you. But will what you get be worth what you've already given up?
[kanna looks at koharu]
You didn't deserve to fall, but can't you see that you could have started to try flying at any time? [she's speaking about the dream you keep having, as though she already knows about it.] You can't always wait for someone else.
[jiaoqiu looks at bas, apologetic.]
I know some, but likely not enough to be able to answer the questions you have. I can't tell you who you are.
[but "she" makes you think of that feeling when you saw the statue before, the way you pictured the woman in the mask and hood even though they looked nothing alike. approval, disapproval, their opinion is everything, but perhaps more because the difference between approval and disapproval is so stark.
iori looks at saber.]
Why are you here? What do you want?
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Oh, calm down, they'll obviously live.
[that's to everyone else. to the person, though:]
So-- what, you want us to just turn around and walk right back out of here?
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