cloud

[undread]

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week 1; thursday

[undread]

[laudna can be found a little after returns back in the village, sitting somewhere and doing a bit of embroidery very absently.]

[residentmerc]

[ what is her embroidery this time...

anyway he hesitates a bit when he sees her but walks closer ]

...You alright? You ran outta there quick.

[ he is thinking maybe she wasnt good with dogs growling at her or something since clearly it couldn't be the violence and he doesn't know cyoas anything ]

[undread]

[just a fairly simple but fancy little pattern, like a border for a dress or skirt.]

...Hello, Cloud. What do you make of all that?

[residentmerc]

[ ...hmmm. ]

Don't know. Maybe they ran into one more way this place is trying to get us to kill each other.

[ they didn't seem cursed to hate each other to murder this time but who knows. ]

[undread]

It seems as though they were taken somewhere and fell under the influence of some sort of malevolent spirit.

[residentmerc]

[ to be fair this does not preclude his premise but: ]

A malevolent spirit...?

[undread]

They kept mentioning her, didn't they?

[residentmerc]

That... Delilah?

[undread]

Yes, that's what they said. Delilah.

[residentmerc]

You seem pretty sure it's a malevolent spirit.

[undread]

[she frowns a little, looks down.]

I think I know what it is.

[residentmerc]

[ he hesitates because this is like one of the rare times he has seen her frown, but: ]

You heard about something like it before?

[undread]

I know what it is.

[repeating, just a little.]

I wonder what she wanted from them.

[residentmerc]

[ he can catch on give him a second ]

You've... met her?

[undread]

Yes. In a manner of speaking. We're quite well acquainted.

So it is a little alarming to hear she tried to torture three completely random people and a dog!

[residentmerc]

... Maybe it's not the real one. Like... a copy. That possible?

[ he could ask how they're acquainted but she does not seem like she wants to say it ]

[undread]

[she frowns.]

It's possible. ...But I wouldn't be surprised if it was the real one. She's quite powerful. And she would want to be brought back. She would find a way to accomplish it.

[no second cyoa so we can just assume this was something that really happened.]

[residentmerc]

[ no this was personal experience sometimes your final boss just kind of, clones? millions clones ]

Brought back?

[undread]

She's dead. But that has never stopped her very much.

[residentmerc]

... Yeah. I know someone like that, too. [ hmmm. ] What does she usually want?

[undread]

[lacing her fingers together, a little uncomfortable.]

To find a way back to life. Ultimately - she's been vague with me. A sort of god she wants to serve. But primarily, she wants vengeance. She sought to protect her husband and failed, and she wants to hurt the ones who caused it.

[residentmerc]

[ frowning... a little ]

... Then why would she target those guys? [ three randos and A DEAD DOG!!!! ] You think it's possible she made a deal with the cult?

[undread]

I don't know.

[it makes no damn sense! a dog???? totty???? what.]

I don't even know how she would make a deal with them. She's never been able to communicate with anyone else.

[residentmerc]

... So how'd those guys see her...?

[ what....... ]

[undread]

[she's silent for a long moment while she decides if she's going to answer.]

My friends encountered her once. They used a ritual to enter my dreams so they could kill her. The place they described sounds... something like that. Which is nonsensical.