[ that's an improvement. but he finds that to be...weird. ]
Letters take too long, and HER-MES gets censored, but those are options I guess. [ ... ] Are you okay with telling me a little of what happened out there?
Don't know that the details will enlighten anything. [ but, sure. ] I arrived with Shu, and it seem Eunhyuk was there. We were tasked with finding a woman in a town, leading an investigation of sorts. Eventually we stumbled into the other group working an opposing goal - Harley, Shouxue, and Viktor.
Even if it doesn't--[ well. he does not think lucien will necessarily care about the sentiment of "talking about it helps" so he shuts up. ]
That was the first thing? Just finding her? Who was she? [ also what the hell kind of a split is this. this is him icly oocly this makes sense actually. ] I'm surprised you ended up with him instead of Harley, considering the states of...y'know. Being alive. Did they have the same goal?
[ you gotta mix up the deadzos and the livezos for the surprise of it on Tuesday when you merge groups, GOD. ]
Some woman-- [ help, he doesn't know. ] It was scattered memories of Throné and Temenos. People from their past. We were living the events - I doubt the thread of the tale matters as much as that fact. I recognized faces, names.
The others believed they were working for the Blacksnakes, and had their minds altered. They recovered once we reconvened, but still. There was an influence. We were eventually split off into pairs, lost in the woods. Full of illusions, whispers. Twisting minds into believe each other the enemy.
...sounds similar to ours when we were in the City. Memories from Rodya and Gregor specifically, split into two groups of three. We had the same goal but different ways of getting there and different problems to tackle, it's why I asked.
Sounds like enough to make someone paranoid and turn on a person they trust. [ he says this lightly, because he's. really scared this is going to turn into "yes we did cause all of these damages to each other." ] Were you able to fight it off even a little?
The similarities continue. Whenever one of us corrupted, we had to take each other down to revert back. But it messes with your head enough that when you're corrupted, you don't really want to stop attacking until it's out of your system. That place knew the exact things to pull to try and get to us, too.
[ in shoma's case it sort of worked for the better but he's not going to get into that. rather, he's just...gazing at lucien's eye again. ]
But you were able to escape the woods, weren't you? And after that it let up...? [ how long did that even last. ]
Unfortunately. [ a wry smile. he sort of lifts his arm where the same metal casing is still stuck a few weeks later. why hasn't he had it removed? next question. ] A few others have reported similar from their trips as well.
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Were you able to talk to them? They remembered everything from last night?
[ well thats a hilarious question because wednesday kinda took us by surprise so that's a big QUESTION MARK. Probably? ]
Their minds were altered, but they recovered them eventually. They remembered us. I-- was altered as well. I didn't remember Eunhyuk's role in the events of the first week here.
...you mean you forgot what happened with him and Viktor? [ like that makes sense, sure, if they were primed to fight each other but. ] When did you finally remember?
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Quite a good hallucination if it was. I suppose there's no way to confirm that until we communicate with them again.
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Letters take too long, and HER-MES gets censored, but those are options I guess. [ ... ] Are you okay with telling me a little of what happened out there?
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Don't know that the details will enlighten anything. [ but, sure. ] I arrived with Shu, and it seem Eunhyuk was there. We were tasked with finding a woman in a town, leading an investigation of sorts. Eventually we stumbled into the other group working an opposing goal - Harley, Shouxue, and Viktor.
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That was the first thing? Just finding her? Who was she? [ also what the hell kind of a split is this. this is him icly oocly this makes sense actually. ] I'm surprised you ended up with him instead of Harley, considering the states of...y'know. Being alive. Did they have the same goal?
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Some woman-- [ help, he doesn't know. ] It was scattered memories of Throné and Temenos. People from their past. We were living the events - I doubt the thread of the tale matters as much as that fact. I recognized faces, names.
The others believed they were working for the Blacksnakes, and had their minds altered. They recovered once we reconvened, but still. There was an influence. We were eventually split off into pairs, lost in the woods. Full of illusions, whispers. Twisting minds into believe each other the enemy.
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...sounds similar to ours when we were in the City. Memories from Rodya and Gregor specifically, split into two groups of three. We had the same goal but different ways of getting there and different problems to tackle, it's why I asked.
Sounds like enough to make someone paranoid and turn on a person they trust. [ he says this lightly, because he's. really scared this is going to turn into "yes we did cause all of these damages to each other." ] Were you able to fight it off even a little?
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[ down to the two groups of three. love that. anyway. "yes we did cause all of these damages to each other." hm. :) ]
For a time. But it knew how to play on our fears, our doubts. And it seems Viktor can only aim magic when it's trying to hit me.
[ don't criticize him when he's not here!!!!!! ]
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The similarities continue. Whenever one of us corrupted, we had to take each other down to revert back. But it messes with your head enough that when you're corrupted, you don't really want to stop attacking until it's out of your system. That place knew the exact things to pull to try and get to us, too.
[ in shoma's case it sort of worked for the better but he's not going to get into that. rather, he's just...gazing at lucien's eye again. ]
But you were able to escape the woods, weren't you? And after that it let up...? [ how long did that even last. ]
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[ lucien himself is raising a few fingers to touch the side of his neck, where the electricity scar is. ]
There was a battle, and then it was done, yes. [ ... ] They were there, and in the flesh. Not the strange avatars from the other day.
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[ ... ]
Were you able to talk to them? They remembered everything from last night?
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Their minds were altered, but they recovered them eventually. They remembered us. I-- was altered as well. I didn't remember Eunhyuk's role in the events of the first week here.
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...you mean you forgot what happened with him and Viktor? [ like that makes sense, sure, if they were primed to fight each other but. ] When did you finally remember?