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

[mementomoritz]

Oh, that is a good point- [Turning back to the girl in question.] Do you remember where you learned about how your abilities work, Miss Gerda? Did anyone tell you, or did you find out on your own?

[Anyone like maybe a little birdie with a big sword...]

[cancrymods]

Oh, it was the scary girl with the blindfold and the spooky sword who told me! She passed through once a looooooong time ago and told me all about it. She said something about things being broken all the way down at the bottom and how you guys would probably come through eventually.

She also said I should try and stop you if you wanted to do anything, but I didn't like her! So I won't listen to her.

[swordofajerk]

...spooky sword? What did she look like?

[cancrymods]

Spooky.

[ So helpful... ]

She was super pale and small and... Oh!

[ She points at Rei, who looks very unsettled. ]

She looked just like that girl!

[swordofajerk]

[Staring at Rei.]

Exactly like her?

[cancrymods]

Couldn't tell! She had the spooky bandages on her face. But they look a lot like each other!

[swordofajerk]

...so you couldn't tell what she looked like, but you're certain she looked like Rei?

[cancrymods]

Well, they're the same height and they're kind of the same shape, you know? All tiny and frail! Maybe she looks totally different under the bandages, though?

[swordofajerk]

Then she doesn't look exactly like Rei.

[Goddess.]

With that description, the girl you mentioned could look like Veil.

[cancrymods]

I didn't say they were twins or anything, did I? Grouchy guy, you need to listen better!

[swordofajerk]

You said she looked like Rei. Except you couldn't tell.

[Grouchy guy?!]

I listened just fine. You need to be more clear about what you mean.

[cancrymods]

I said I couldn't tell if they were exactly the same, 'cause I couldn't see her face! So that's your fault for not paying attention!

[emberserker]

That's ridiculous, that could describe anyone! Perhaps not anyone, but all manner of people down here.

[cancrymods]

Well hey, you guys were the ones who asked! Don't get mad at me for telling you what I saw!

[emberserker]

We asked for useful information. Regardless, at least we have something. Let me guess, she also had a sword or two, didn't she?

[mementomoritz]

[Plot twist, Gerda is faceblind.]

Hmmm... Well, what about her hair? Was that the same?

[cancrymods]

I guess? It was all long and whispy in the same sort of way, but hers was purple!

[discutio]

[WHY DID NO ONE TELL HIM SHE LOOKED LIKE REI]

[phantasmagorial]

[ Suffice to say, Rei looks no happier about this series of events than anybody else here!!! ]

[daughterofthemark]

[oh no dame rei...]

[daughterofthemark]

Oyo?!

[mementomoritz]

Oh! That's good, we really don't like her either- we've actually been trying to track her down, lately! It's important.

She took some things we want back. [Faint aura of menace, it's fine, it's fine.]

[cancrymods]

If I see her again, I'll bop her for you!

[mementomoritz]

That's nice of you, I think! [Friend... ship???]

[etincelledefierte]

...that's the girl that tried to hurt us. That's her, no doubt about it.