Luxuria Intro Log

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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...

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[ That seems to earnestly catch her off guard. She turns to look back at Chiron with an expression of surprise that's just a little too open and a little too raw. It's one of those moments where her resemblance to Rei becomes all too sharp, enough so to be a bit stomach churning.

Then she seems to realize what face she's wearing and quickly looks away again. ]

... I suppose the answer is rather self-evident. Hearing it said so boldly makes it sound rather pathetic though, I must say.

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[That...goodness, but that does really look like Rei, in times when they've expressed their adoration for and loyalty to her. And, like Rei, Chiron reaches out a hand and gives her hair a quick ruffle.]

People haven't stayed long enough, and now that they are staying, they aren't awake and aware enough for it.

I do wish...that I could explain to the others why I seem to care about someone who did very much run a terrible blade through me. [With the same hand, he reaches out and summons up a weapon as he would normally materialize his scythe. Instead, it looks like a very pink replica of the fuckblade. Without the foreboding, difficult to look at brand of darkness.] There is so much I should tell them, from our conversation before. But I can't see it ending in a way where I look sane or reasonable.

Perhaps I'm neither.

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[ She doesn't flinch away from his touch, but the way her shoulders tense make it clear she had a moment where she thought about it. That she actually lets him get away with it is... well, we'll call it progress for now. ]

Is anyone, in this place?

[ She says it with a grim amusement, her eyes on his copy of the fuckblade and I can't believe you made me call it that. ]

I'd be quite impressed to find anyone this deep in Purgatory with a full grasp of their faculties – let alone an Executor.