OMETOTCHTLI + ALECTRYON

[soulping]

You have been instructed to leave the front foyer and enter one of the rooms down the left hallway. Room 108's door has an anatomical illustration of a white rabbit biting the neck of a rooster. A cat watches on, most likely waiting to feast on both.

Comments

Re: PART 2 MINGLE

[glorious]

-- Do you need anything?

Re: PART 2 MINGLE

[lucciola]

[blinks up the question and breathes irregularly as he talks, but he sounds confused]

No. No, it does not... matter. I am already dead.

Re: PART 2 MINGLE

[glorious]

-- We can work to keep you alive during the game. The illness should leave afterwards.

Re: PART 2 MINGLE

[lucciola]

[shakes his head, also looking increasingly tired and in pain, having a hard time standing up]

You do not understand! It should not be possible for— [now he looks frantic and edges away a little bit along the wall] for you to speak to me. I am not even alive—

Re: PART 2 MINGLE

[glorious]

[...oh.]

-- No-one in this game is alive right now. We're all working to try and bring ourselves back to the world of the living, but we have to take care of those who have been more...severely afflicted first.

Re: PART 2 MINGLE

[lucciola]

People cannot be sick if they are already dead...

[can they?]

Re: PART 2 MINGLE

[glorious]

...When we were alive, we were ultimately simply shards of souls. Souls are not immune to illness, and it's manifesting like this for a few. If we can stave off their illness, we should be able to help repair our souls and return.

Re: PART 2 MINGLE

[lucciola]

[tries to take a few more steps back, but his legs ends up buckling under him and he falls to his knees, letting out a gasp of pain]

I... do not— I did not know being dead hurt this much.

[but perhaps that is the punishment for dying and betraying everyone and...]

Re: PART 2 MINGLE

[glorious]

-- Let me help you. Just a moment.

[going to grab painkillers and a glass of water for him]

Re: PART 2 MINGLE

[lucciola]

[what are you talking about there's nothing helping me I am dead. what's the point?]

Re: PART 2 MINGLE

[glorious]

[the point is...is...well...]

[...handing him the glass of water and painkillers.]

Try and take these.

Re: PART 2 MINGLE

[lucciola]

[eyes them warily]

What is it?

Re: PART 2 MINGLE

[glorious]

Something to help with the pain.

Re: PART 2 MINGLE

[lucciola]

[shakes his head]

I do not believe you.

[welp]