Superbia Intro Log ... ?

[cancrymods]

SUPERBIA

With the dragon of greed thoroughly slain, the Executors are at last free to escape the sensory hell of the Avaritia Underside and descend to the next Layer. There's still sound and chatter, of course, but compared to where you've been spending all your time until now. Welcome to Superbia. And make yourself comfortable... because now that you've arrived, the stairs that guided you down here have disappeared and you won't be leaving any time soon. Feel free to use this arrival log to chronicle your initial misadventures in the Pride Layer of Purgatory. As noted in the location page, several locations will require further investigation if you'd like to get some information on them, so get investigating! Drop a comment down to the Investigation Request subheader if you'd like to explore. Get out there and have fun! ... is anybody else feeling some deja vu?

Comments

[emberserker]

The Revenant theory holds water. Stagnation in an unaware Spectre would cause them to corrupt and degrade eventually, would it not? But then, we haven't seen any... unless that's what's in the locked rooms. Keeping them in rather than keeping us out, as it were.

[phantasmagorial]

Which locked rooms are these?

[ Catch her up on the deets please gang, she spent most of last loop being a Totally Ordinary High School Student. ]

[schardynfreude]

I've noticed the gym is locked up for some reason. Perhaps I'll check there. It would be big enough to keep an unsavory lot...

[phantasmagorial]

It was locked up last time, too. I asked around a little bit, but nobody seemed to know why.

[emberserker]

And a gymnasium would be the perfect place to hide something large you didn't want getting out. Only a theory, of course.

[phantasmagorial]

The question is, who would have put it in there? Presumably it would have been whoever has the Authority on this layer but even then, I think that just on a physical level, that'd be difficult for just one person to do.

[emberserker]

You don't suppose they're sharing the Authority?

[phantasmagorial]

[ Rei thinks over it for a second... then shakes her head. ]

No. Not in a place like Superbia. Pride is the sin of elevating yourself above all others... so how could you share a spot like that with anyone?

[emberserker]

You've got a point. I do wonder why Pride would be a place like this, though. Invidia was all about inspiring others' envy of Esme. Avaritia was about Greta hoarding and everyone else there chasing their own greed. Why a school? Do they expect the Authority here to be the most accomplished, the one the school is proud of?

[phantasmagorial]

Mm... I think you're coming at it backwards.

The layer doesn't change to match the Authority – someone is granted Authority because they match the layer, they have a stronger affinity for it than anyone else. But that doesn't necessarily mean they have to meet the same qualifications every time.

Remember Greta and the Authority that came before her?

[emberserker]

Well, yes, of course. But wouldn't that mean that the Authority must be the one who fits the best into the layer, its sin, what it wants?

[phantasmagorial]

The layer doesn't really 'want' anything, is the thing. Nothing down here is really living, of course, but...

[ She trails off, going quiet and thoughtful for a moment. Her understanding of Purgatory and its functions is, on some level, purely instinctual and it can be difficult to articulate to the others if she doesn't take her time with it. ]

I think... over time, the layer must have become this, because of the sins of the people who were trapped here. Something about the sin of "pride" in people's hearts must have influenced it to take this shape.