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15strangers2023-07-20 09:54 am
strangerpeople) wrote in 15strangers2023-07-20 09:54 am
FINAL INVESTIGATION
[Fifteen X-Passes. Six weeks. Freedom at last.
But it's not the end. Of course it's not. There are questions to answer, and souls to save. And now that the group is outside, they can see where they are.
They are inside a massive cavern, illuminated in an eerie green light, standing on a stone path. On one side is the ship-or rather, a massive, ship-shaped tangle of bloody branches, the trunk-like roots snaking out and into the river its buoyed on, as well as into the ceiling of stalactites. Said river is wine dark, but it's clearly not water. No-it is blood.
And on the other side of their little pathway? A root-encrusted palace. It sits over a labyrinthine city, bathed in emerald, and all is eerily silent save for some sounds coming from within the castle. It's clear the infestation somehow started here. And it is here that answers are likely to be found.
The doors are right in front of the group-and they are already open, covered in branches. From the outside, it seems little more than a ruin. Once everyone goes in, though?
It's even worse. The tree has taken over. Whatever lives here is no longer in charge. There's no easy way to disentangle the Qilphoth from this place. But there is life here, somehow. You can see figures entangled within the roots as you explore. And-they are still, somehow, alive. More than alive. They are beings that bleed ichor instead of blood-beings of incredible divinity and power. They are gods. And they are hostage to the tree, forever and ever, trapped in induced ennui, unless something is done.
[Once you enter, the investigation shall begin.
Good luck.]
((OoC: And here are team assignments!))
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[ANYWAY, Language lesson over - at Roland's excitement, he perks up.]
Good news, I take it?
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[ Roland nods, bright and happy as ever. To most people they might not necessarily find it 'good' news but because Moriarty is a friend?
He feels it's imperative to share it all the same. ]
Me and Alastor are dating! I didn't think I'd find someone I could actually get attached to but I really do truly love him!
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[Well, they'd seems a bit chummy during his trial, so it's not such a large surprise, and he smiles - not that it can be seen, but it's the feeling of it all.]
Congratulations, then. Though it is a bit ironic that someone from the church and a literal Devil from hell have found their way into each other's arms, wouldn't you say?
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He doesn't even look too phased by those words, still practically beaming. ]
Thank you~
[ He brought a hand up, absently brushing against a spot on his chest almost idly. ]
I suppose when you put it that way, yes. It is. [ Roland chuckled softly afterwards. ] No more surprising than me having befriended vampires back home, though. Oh! I also adopted Ritsu!
[ Just gonna drop that one casually, too. ]
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Good, Good. She'll need someone to be a guiding figure to her, at the very least - and a source of love, which you have an overarching abundance of! In fact, Are you certain your heart doesn't have a leak in it somewhere, Roland?
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Hahaha! As far as I know I don't think it does?
[ He figured that Moriarty had meant something non-literal by that but he couldn't help it. ]
I'd be quite worried if there was one and I just hadn't noticed it yet!
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No, no - trust me, I'm well aware of what that does to one! You're fine, I assure you!
[LMAO, THE FIRST MINIGAME.]
Hmhmhm...but all jesting aside, you truly have a capacity for compassion and kindness I've rarely ever been allowed to be witness to before. That, at least, is why I am so certain Miss Ritsu will be quite loved in your capable hands.