Charonquest

[wooliefrand]

WHO: Lily
WHERE: Lily Barn
WHEN: Early Day 36, post ritual!

[alright nerds lets go get your emotional support shepherd]

Comments

Re: backrooms

[ohlord]

Buddy, you sure did try to hide from all the bullshit, huh.

[anyway, following the bloody prints...]

Re: backrooms

[endsjustified]

[you do better in that situation, Styx

(please don't get kidnapped by a demon and dragged into the mist for days)

it's a goddamn maze in here. you have a sense at least of consistent downward movement, like you're heading deep underground. your light crosses small office doors set at regular intervals as you turn and walk and turn again, but all of them are unlabelled. some have suspicious marks on them now and again though: dark stains, bullet holes, great splintering gouges from blades or claws.]

Re: backrooms

[ohlord]

[oh he would not do better and he knows it.

rip to him when inevitably something like that does happen, though.

he'll pause at the one with bullet holes, actually.

does the door actually open or...?]

Re: backrooms

[endsjustified]

[yeah

does he feel like walking into his own dream? of the desert, the orphanage, the grave?]

Re: backrooms

[ohlord]

[ha.

haha.

nope.

SLAMMING THAT DOOR SHUT and continuing on, cursing.]

Re: backrooms

[endsjustified]

[eventually the footprints fade out. they haven't led you to a definitive door, just the middle of a random hallway, so you might feel stymied for a moment.

...

...

a black cat pads into the field of light and looks up at you, tilting its head. one of its silver eyes flashes red where your light hits it.]

Re: backrooms

[ohlord]

... another illusion?

[can he tell that with the rune or nah?]

Re: backrooms

[endsjustified]

[he can't tell shit with the rune this time sorry

but between one blink and the next, the cat is no longer a cat.]

Who are you?

Re: backrooms

[ohlord]

[oh.

this guy.]

Yo.

Here to get Charon back. We got him back from the demon, so it's safer.

Re: backrooms

[endsjustified]

As far as I'm aware, that contract is permanent, isn't it?

Re: backrooms

[ohlord]

... wrong demon.

Look. Where is he? I don't got time to play twenty questions.

Re: backrooms

[endsjustified]

How do I know I can trust you with that information?

Re: backrooms

[ohlord]

[long.

pause.]






Right. Just 'cause I'm fuckin' the guy doesn't mean he's gotta trust me that much.

Anyway, get outta my way or I will make you. And I'd rather play nicely with the guy he had a lotta feelin's about than not, y'know?

Re: backrooms

[endsjustified]

[Luc looks blank at all of this, like, sorry, what the fuck.

he stands aside. there are no more footprints to follow though. good luck.]

1/2

[ohlord]

[...

well.







fuck.]

... ya seriously don't trust me that much, huh.

Good to know.

2/2

[ohlord]

[ANYWAY, I GUESS IT'S TIME TO INSPECT THE WALLS BECAUSE ONLY OTHER THING HE CAN THINK OF IS LUC BEING CHARON UNDER AN ILLUSION, SO.

ELIMATE THIS OPTION FIRST, THEN HARASS THE DEAD BOYFRIEND MORE.

frankly just looks cranky and tired.]

Re: 2/2

[endsjustified]

[there's no illusions here buddy. the rune and his flower aren't reacting.]

I don't know why I should trust you, when I don't know who you are.

[ohlord]

Can't remember my name so I go by Styx.

[CHECKING. THE FLOORS?]

Damn it... he's not hidin' in some trauma room or somethin', right?

[endsjustified]

He's hiding from a threat.

I'm here to assess anything that follows. You're not putting up a great showing, so far.

[ohlord]

If you're wantin' me to be an innocent lamb, then sorry, not gonna happen.

And he knows that.

But I guess if he still figures me for a threat, then I'll just have to be more stubborn than him about it and drag his ass out from wherever he's hidin'. Yer help or no.

[endsjustified]

I don't have particular expectations of you. I'm just a guard.

[he holds a hand out.]

Show me that he's safe, and I'll show you where he is.

[ohlord]

[... taking his hand.]

What, just think about it or somethin'?

[guess we're giving that whole mental exercise a go. how does share memory of Blossom and Lily+Minuet's Adventure? he trying?]

[endsjustified]

[yeah he can just memshare like he might in one of the rituals, no big.

Luc makes a little 'huh' noise.]

...right. Follow me.

[ohlord]

[muttering about how the rescue was actually the EASIER part...

but following after him...]

I get why, but still...

[this is Worry, ftr]

[endsjustified]

Safeguards aren't meant to be comforting. Who has time for niceties, at times like this...?

[you've made it.]