soulping | alectryon / cats / epona

You appear in a near-empty room. But you are not alone—your team is here, and another. Mirrors line the walls on all sides. Reflected in those mirrors are--

Not you.

Flickering in and out of the mirrors are images: flashes of reds, blues, greens; trees and fields and water; faces you know – all of the "reflections" are images of Kyriakos as you know it.

But it seems so far away—covered in a thick layer of grime.

Those of you whose mirrors are in danger of fading away on the outside know instinctively that you can't simply return. At least, not as you are in your current state. Anyone who looks at them will notice that their forms seem somehow insubstantial, almost see-through. More over: you feel emptied of something, something essential. Whatever it is that makes you care, that keeps you tethered to your very existence has weakened—is in fact failing.

Those of you in the room not in danger of losing yourself understand already that you must aid these people in finding both a new source of strength, new, stronger connections – and clearing the way back home.

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[>DRINK.]

[ As you exchange and drink the liquid offered to you by Ishiyama, you experience visions or thoughts and feelings, not your own. They are the things that Ishiyama DESPISES about themselves or that bring them SELF DOUBT, and you can feel all that anger or uncertainty directed at the you-that-isn't you. Perhaps you should say something to them...? ]

[ He attacked his own country! Blowing up valuable weapons- he knows how much that shipment must have been worth, and he'd blown it up and for what? Who is that child, that Bip, that he'd be so concerned for his well being? Why was he in that goddess forsaken country, attacking the men he might have once commanded?

Who is he, if not the officer he remembered being?

And why is he here, if all his presence brings is destruction? Alectryon had been a strong team once, and then he'd arrived, and it had started to fracture, first with his debates with Karasu, and then as people started vanishing, one after another, and only after he'd arrived.

Was this his fault? Was there something he'd done to cause his country to turn against him, that had followed him here? ]

...no, that's stupid.

--erm.

The curiosity if you did something that followed you here. I pissed off everyone back home at least once, so that'd have followed me too.