AMALTHEA

[soulping]

This is a story of friendship and love and life and rebirth. A story about an unending cycle of despair and the poor souls who keep themselves trapped in it, in the hopes that everything will turn out okay in the end.

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[soulping]

Henwen's dorm has a rustic, vaguely dwarven aesthetic. The main room evokes the design of a tavern fashioned with dark wood and stone. Very large passageways branch off into the kitchen and the pantry, both expansive but as old-fashioned as the rest of the dorm. There are no electronic appliances to be found! Instead there's several fireplaces available, some already set up with pots, cauldrons and meat spits, and three wood-fired stone ovens are built into the walls. There's a door in the pantry that leads to a "cold" room for the storage of appropriate food and drink.

Farther down the torch-lit hallways of stone are the bedrooms styled after the main room in terms of color scheme. Also of note are the mirror room and bathrooms.

There is a large, white dragon sleeping in the middle of the main room. It is covered in blood.

The door shuts behind you, and vanishes.

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[unguilded]

[ IS THE DRAGON LIKE PALETTE-SWAPPED WALDEMAR? ]

[soulping]

[ NO ITS FUCKING SUNSTONE YOU NERD ]

[soulping]

Wait, that should've been in text adventure format.

No, it's fucking Sunstone, you nerd.

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[unguilded]

[ OH I REMEMBER SUNSTONE so this should be ... okay...

In that case, he approaches slowly. ] Hey ... are you okay? What happened?

[forthemackerel]

[ doesn't really know Sunstone, but probably saw the dragon around... ]

[soulping]

The dragon cracks open an eye, letting out a mighty, almost defeaning roar. It stands up, plumes of smoke erupting from its mouth. How does it even fit in here?

You feel like you're about to die --

[soulping]

Before it opens its mouth and you hear a child.



W-woah! Is that...Amalthea?!

[unguilded]

[ There's a quick moment where Rook is probably like Oh shit oh shit oh shit bad choice of course Nafuna's going to make shit weird--

But when Sunstone speaks, he lets out a small sigh of relief, and smiles. ]

Yeah, it's us! Long time no see ... in a manner of speaking.

[forthemackerel]

[ yep, nodding that we're Amalthea ]

We came to see what was happening to Henwen.

[soulping]

Y-you guys aren't supposed to exist anymore! And if you did, you'd know what's happening!

[unguilded]

Exist...? What do you mean?

And, what's happening?

[forthemackerel]

[ that really is a curious thing to say... ]

[soulping]

Nyssa took over and ruined everything!

[unguilded]

... we're still here. And we're all trying to fix that.

[forthemackerel]

Everyone's working hard at it. We'll get things changed.

[soulping]

...I don't know...can I really trust you...?

[unguilded]

We want to help-- not just that situation, but whatever happened to you.

Is there anything you need?

[forthemackerel]

Trust is a hard thing in this place. You have to decide if you want to or not.

[ But yes, do you need anything from us? ]

[soulping]

...No. They'll be back soon...

[unguilded]

You mean your team?

[ Sending a glance over down the passageway to the kitchen. Hmm. ]

[forthemackerel]

Or... something else...?

[soulping]

My team!

[unguilded]

Okay.

Mind if we stay for a while and look around a little while we wait for them?

[soulping]

S-sure, just be careful...