[this does not make him feel even remotely better, even if rationally he is kind of aware that his judgment was influenced by a bizarre obsession with treasure/his destination and also the cyoa runner never intended for us to go with these npcs. we really broke this cyoa by sylus being het.]
It is not unusual, but that does not make it right. In any case, as said, they were essentially as real to us as we were to each other.
... Tokinaga became, or was already, infected and died. [he doesn't know if obikawa is the vengeful sort so he won't mention who killed him.] Likewise, Rafayel's health improved, but only in the sense that the infection properly awakened in him, and he killed his remaining companion.
He came to his senses afterwards, but the townspeople got a hold of him and likely killed him as well.
[there's the look of guilt again of someone wondering if he could've done something to prevent rafayel's death...]
[Fortunately he is not so insane in that particular flavor of insanity that he'd kill someone out of revenge for killing a fake Tokinaga but it is not an unwise idea to just leave it like this.]
So all three of them died in the end. Kind of sounds like what these places are like in general? Making choices that aren't really choices and everything leading to whatever's the worst outcome.
[Taps the heel of his palm opposite the thumb so there's not a lot of risk of the skin stretching with all the fingie movements people typically do. If he's given the greenlight, his fingie just becomes sharp and stabby and he can use the tip of that to leave a lil cut.]
While I was hearing voices, I'm still not clear on what end goal they were driving me towards. Hien, however, seemed to have an obsession with the water, although I don't know if it was the same infection or something else.
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It is not unusual, but that does not make it right. In any case, as said, they were essentially as real to us as we were to each other.
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What happened to them in the end, anyway? Since Tokinaga was away getting his ass kicked in a totally different place.
[And he already forgot who the other two people were...]
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He came to his senses afterwards, but the townspeople got a hold of him and likely killed him as well.
[there's the look of guilt again of someone wondering if he could've done something to prevent rafayel's death...]
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So all three of them died in the end. Kind of sounds like what these places are like in general? Making choices that aren't really choices and everything leading to whatever's the worst outcome.
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You aren't infected anymore, right?
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I don't have any sort of blade on me. Are you able to make a small cut on my person?
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Yeah, I can. Where?
[JUST DOESN'T ASK QUESTIONS.]
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My hand is fine. Somewhere that'll bleed, but not inconvenience me.
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[Taps the heel of his palm opposite the thumb so there's not a lot of risk of the skin stretching with all the fingie movements people typically do. If he's given the greenlight, his fingie just becomes sharp and stabby and he can use the tip of that to leave a lil cut.]
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[but wahoo cut. it bleeds normal blood, which lucien looks at.]
... I should be fine. When I was infected, there was a black substance mixed in with my blood.
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Oh. Was that the infection? The black stuff?
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...? So people were in your veins?
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[A hivemind... Sounds fuckin wild.]
You were part of it, then? What'd it want?
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Huh. Well, no voices and no weird blood now, at least. Just the stuff missing from the river? Nothing else?
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I've heard different things from different people. It's not as bad when you go in without dying, right?
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[Also good because he can now be a little less concerned something like that may have happened to Tokinaga.]
So you're just dizzy, mostly?
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That and feeling oddly weak, I suppose. Perhaps I have a fever coming on...
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Fever? Maybe you just got sick from being in the cold.
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