Week Six

[letsplayamod]

You've survived, for lack of better wording, the latest week of trials and tribulations. This one had been more costly than most: Typhon's machinations have brought your group to nearly half the size it was when Athena first brought you to this island. Whether it ends with him or with you is still too soon to make out. One thing's for certain. Things cannot be allowed to continue as they are.

Speaking of continuing, the next floor has been revealed to you. Just how far down this island goes is a bit of a mystery, but you get the feeling that you're close to something important. Maybe that thing Athena wanted you to find before Typhon does. You can ruminate on that as you watch the waters below. Waves still lap at the cliffs, but it all seems lower than it did weeks ago. Like the ocean itself is shrinking...

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[stringup]

Oh. Right.

[ She would be having a more emotional reaction to seeing Misane again, but that just took her right out of it. ]

So...well, how's it been going since I last saw you?

[ You know, besides the murder and all. ]

[cannotunravel]

We're doing...alright over here. This place is bizarre, and lacking in entertainment, but we exist. Perhaps that's something we should feel lucky about, so I won't complain.

[.........]

But I'm glad to hear from you all again. It helps with coping.

[stringup]

Honestly, I'm just...relieved my hunch is right.

[ That there is some kind of afterlife here. ]

Bizarre how?

[cannotunravel]

I find it hard to describe. Imagine floating platforms being the only thing around you. As far as locations go, this is a downgrade from the island.

But Sayo has helped make it more hospitable.

[stringup]

So worse than the Underworld, in that sense...

[ She seems to be saying this more to herself, though. ]

But since your souls still exist, it should still be possible to bust all of you out of that "jail".

[cannotunravel]

Do you think we'd become undead if we did so?

[Misane doesn't seem very eager to be a zombie]

[stringup]

I mean, if you want to get technical, being a ghost is a state of undeath in of itself, just one without a physical body unlike a zombie. So one can make the argument you're all already undead.

[ Were you expecting anything else from one of the actual necromancers? ]

...To be frank, I'm not sure if freeing all of you from that place will necessarily bring you back to life—people have been trying to pull that stunt for centuries, and it's never gone as intended—but at the very least I'd rather not leave you trapped in the vast emptiness of Limbo.

[cannotunravel]

If being alive again isn't a feasible option, I'd settle with being in an actual location, instead of...wherever this is. This is pretty dreary.

[stringup]

I imagine it is, yes.

...Well, first we've got to not starve to death, but I think we're getting closer to the centre of this place.