Luxuria Intro Log

[cancrymods]

PROCEEDING...

With the real super power of teamwork, the Executors have successfully managed to make their way through the Gula Underside and defeat the previous Authority there. With Gerda now freed from her past regrets and given the power of an Executor, Gula and its inhabitants seem to be in safe hands... for now at least. More interesting – or concerning, perhaps – is the tentative ally you've gained in the form of Birdie, the mysterious girl who attacked some of your number in the Superbia Underside. While she seemed to be nothing but an enemy back then, a surprising connection has been formed with who you now understand to be the Authority of Purgatory itself. While she doesn't necessarily believe the Executors will be able to repair Purgatory, she is at least willing to admit that she shares their goals of wanting to see Purgatory restored... either to its former state, or to something new. But what does that mean for the Executors? And what does that mean for Rei supposedly born from the Authority's discarded heart? There are still many questions the Executors need to answer and as a blast of dry, hot air blows up from the next layer, you can only hope that Luxuria holds the key to at least some of them...

LUXURIA

♪♫ Wet & Dry – Sakuzyo After the humidity and noise of the Gula Underside, passing down to the Lust Layer of Purgatory initially seems like a relief. The air here is dry and sharp and though you hear noise drifting up to meet you and see a whole rainbow of lights clustered together in the dark, it doesn't seem as though it'll be quite as overwhelming as some of the bustling Layers you've had the pleasure of exploring before. But as you set foot down into Luxuria and feel the heat of the ground under your feet, you begin to wonder if you might just have hopped out of the frying pan and into the fire...

Comments

[emberserker]

...Perhaps because it's a nuisance to others and eventually yourself. You saw what a ruin Gula was.

[That hesitation, though, infers she might not completely be sold. At least given her own issues.]

[schardynfreude]

That's only because everyone was trapped there, quite literally incapable of moving on. In a fully and normally functional Purgatory, perhaps everything would refresh eventually, and surely not everyone in that layer would want to stay there eternally. But...it does inspire questions.

These people. [He motions around them.] The ones in Gula, the ones in the school, all of them. They don't know that they are dead, that they have a sin to divest themselves of. Is it meant to be that way, or merely a side effect of not being able to move forward? How could one move forward without having an understanding of the situation? How could I choose to remain a glutton if I don't even understand that that's an option to even choose to begin with?

Mm...I may need to have another chat with our elusive Birdie friend...

[emberserker]

What, she's giving you answers? What changed, then?

[schardynfreude]

We came to an understanding. Ah, I got separated from the group in the underside, and we happened upon one another. She is...not exactly the enemy we thought her to be.

[emberserker]

I'm surprised you even gave her a chance, after everything she's done and threatened.

[schardynfreude]

She didn't attack on sight, and knowing that I could not take her alone, I chose to speak instead. It worked out.

I've also had worse than a stab wound.

[emberserker]

...I see. Very well, it might as well happen. She is the most likely to have the answers you're out for.