Gula Intro Log...?

[cancrymods]

GULA

After recovering from the tedium of the time loop and the gruelling fight, the Executors gather their resolve and continue their descent through Purgatory, at last passing through Superbia into the next layer. Feeling peckish? That's an unfortunate side effect of being in Gula, the Gluttony layer of Purgatory. Down here in the third layer of Purgatory, the word on everyone's lips is Gluttony – and that means that nothing here is ever quite enough for you. All during your time in this layer, you'll find that you just can't be sated, no matter how much you eat, drink, sleep – or whatever other itches you need to scratch. However much you take in, you'll find yourself still wanting just that bit... more. Which is going to be pretty hard to do, seeing as how there doesn't actually seem to be anything left in Gula. The shell of a city stands here, all huge blocky buildings and towering skyscrapers but it's clearly been abandoned and worse still, ravaged by time. Plants and trees are growing up through cracks in the pavement, pushing abandoned cars, streetlamps and other fixtures of the city out the way. All the buildings you care to examine are empty, stripped bare of everything not nailed down (or even things that actually were nailed down, going by the condition of some of them) and most notably of all, there are no Specters here at all, no matter how much you look. And if all that weren't ominous enough, your senses as an Executor allow you to pick up something that you might not have noticed otherwise. It's more spiritual than physical and not quite so easy to expalin, but things feel... thin here, as if things were picked clean so thoroughly that part of the world itself was stripped away with it. Something is terribly wrong here. Explore?

Comments

[cancrymods]

[ And, unbelievably, the girl's response to this is... to start hopping up and down on the spot, shaking her fists with excitement. ]

Aaaahh! I always wonder if any Executors would come and visit us! It's gotten really boring down in the Undercity, but having more people will make things even more fun and exciting!

[swordofajerk]

[Yeah, Sword doesn't trust her. So he'll speak up.]

How so?

[cancrymods]

Having more friends always makes things more fun and exciting! Don't you agree?

[daughterofthemark]

I do!

[swordofajerk]

Not really.

[The whiplash.]

Especially not in a place like this.

[cancrymods]

The city is pretty gloomy... I only come up here to see if there's any Revenants to hunt, but I think I just bopped the last one...

[ She suddenly perks up, her eyes all bright and shiny. ]

So, I'll take you guys down to the Undercity! We can talk more there and get some tasty snacks!

[mementomoritz]

Oh, I have some chips if you want some! [Just. Helpfully holding out the sea salt and vinegar flavored ones.]

[cancrymods]

Chips...!

[ She immediately bounds over and clings onto Medic. ]

I've decided! You're my favourite new friend, Executor!

[mementomoritz]

Aww, thanks! [Medic did not expect this, but has approximately zero objections to being hugged by a cute girl.] You can have the whole bag if you want them, I don't mind!

[New plan: we bribe whoever the Authority turns out to be with a buffet.]

[cancrymods]

Don't mind if I do!

[ crunch crunch crunch... ]

[crypddyd]

If this is a trap I will rend your tongue from your head and show it to you.

[Lion plz]

[discutio]

[thwaps lion in the shoulder with his cane, and you should pick a god and thank them that it's a cane and not a sword anymore.]

Calm yourself.

[crypddyd]

[He grunts and while Pheonix can't see it seems to pout]

Treachery is a reasonable expectation at this point. Or did that witch steal the memories of ALL the times we have been crossed from you too?

[swordofajerk]

[Okay, now it's Sword's turn to backhand Lion in the arm.]

Lion. Shut up.

[discutio]

There is a line between caution and aggression, Lion.

[swordofajerk]

[Lion.]

[cancrymods]

Oh, it's not a trap, silly!

[ She seems remarkably unfazed by the threat... ]

Why would I trap you here when I need your help?

[discutio]

...With what, precisely?

[cancrymods]

Lots of things! You can feel how empty the city is up here, can't you? You see, the thing is...

[ She dramatically puts a hand to her forehead... but the effect is ruined when her sleeve flops right into her face ]

We're running out of everything! Food and clothes and fun things and food and anything else you can think of! The city's totally running dry!

[swordofajerk]

...are you asking us to run errands for you?

[discutio]

Is that so?

[he can't argue with facts, but also:]

And why is that, exactly? I haven't noticed such an issue anywhere else so far.

[daughterofthemark]

Gracious, that is a problem.

[Somehow it feels like a familiar one.]

I suppose in the short term we could bring things from other layers, but that hardly seems sustainable...

[daughterofthemark]

I think we'd all enjoy that very much.

[Please ignore all evidence to the contrary. This isn't lying, it's politeness.]

[etincelledefierte]

[THANK YOU, SWORD.

Etoile is giving everyone else a massive, massive side-eye. Have we forgotten the last time we met a new person.]

[swordofajerk]

[You and Phoenix are the only two in this hell that Sword respects.]