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"Can Cry" Mod Account ([personal profile] cancrymods) wrote in [community profile] cancry2022-04-17 01:41 pm

Luxuria Intro Log

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...

emberserker: Serious dismissal. (x number of bad ideas later)

[personal profile] emberserker 2022-05-31 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, that's highly irresponsible of him. Unless he had a different heir for all of that and thought you were born for something else -- that's common enough. If he wanted you leading the people to knowledge, but didn't want to give it to you yourself... No, that's ridiculous. That would mean you were the knowledge, like some sort of magical construct, and who would have the power to do that?
alcahest: (and the table it ran away a bloody mess.)

[personal profile] alcahest 2022-05-31 01:43 pm (UTC)(link)
... The Horologium.

[ the word will mean nothing to her, but what Wolfsbane said apparently struck some kind of chord; Mona grabs for one of Wolfsbane's hands suddenly. ] Wolfsbane, that's it—! Maybe he was talking about the Horologium! Ah, and the name I had before... He gave his magnum opus to me so that I could live. Father really did leave his legacy with me...

... But... I don't know what I was supposed to do with it.
emberserker: Side profile, arm forward. (go on get out)

[personal profile] emberserker 2022-05-31 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wolfsbane freezes, eyes wide, but doesn't pull away.]

What -- like the constellation? The one that's supposed to resemble a clock?
alcahest: (it's a trap,one i can't quite escape,)

[personal profile] alcahest 2022-05-31 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she shakes her head. her other hand goes to her chest, pressing down on something hidden just beneath the collar of the dress she's wearing today. ]

There's a gem... embedded in my body. It's something like a Philosopher's Stone.

I don't know why, but my heart doesn't beat. According to Dr. Frankenstein, the only thing keeping me alive is the stone in my body. The Horologium that Father created.
emberserker: Holding her magic crystal. (...)

[personal profile] emberserker 2022-05-31 01:54 pm (UTC)(link)
A gem inside you...

[It sounds familiar in a way that calls to the gaps in Wolfsbane's memory. She thinks, shakes her head.]

So you must have some great power, in that case, wouldn't you? That would explain it handily.
alcahest: (i dug my heels in for the winter,)

[personal profile] alcahest 2022-05-31 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Mona takes her hand back from where it gripped Wolfsbane's, and she stares at it. ]

... Mmm... I think my great power is just being alive when I should, by all medical evidence, be dead.
emberserker: Stern look. (this is why you're wrong)

[personal profile] emberserker 2022-05-31 02:36 pm (UTC)(link)
What, nothing else? You mentioned you were a civilian where it "wasn't normal to fight," so perhaps you just haven't seen what else you can do.
alcahest: (because true rings only.)

[personal profile] alcahest 2022-05-31 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose it's possible... Van Helsing did train me in self-defence, but I doubt I would ever have had any reason to fight someone.

[ she never thought she was special, in any of those memories. but... maybe that's why Lupin took her in at all? she doesn't like that idea. it makes all of the time they spent together... different. sours it. ]

I mean, it really wasn't a normal thing, in London. Not unless you were a man enlisted in the military, like Van Helsing. And even then, the only war that happened recently was against the vampires in England.
emberserker: Shock horror. (easter bunny's not real)

[personal profile] emberserker 2022-05-31 02:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Wait, what? Vampire war? You said your world was ordinary.
alcahest: (she's locked up with a spinning wheel,)

[personal profile] alcahest 2022-05-31 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
... Are there... not vampires, where you come from?
emberserker: Stern annoyance. (riiiiiiiight)

[personal profile] emberserker 2022-05-31 02:55 pm (UTC)(link)
No. Even mages are a secret from the general population, we don't have much to do with them.
alcahest: (i am waiting,i have been waiting,)

[personal profile] alcahest 2022-05-31 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh.

... Vampires used to live in England, but they were mostly wiped out in the war against them. They weren't a big part of the history I learnt, so that's all I really know.
emberserker: Arrogant glare. (i'm the greatest)

[personal profile] emberserker 2022-05-31 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Only in England? One would think if they existed, they'd be everywhere. Though perhaps they were driven underground, what with the genocide and all.