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LIMBO DUNGEON LOG
It's easy to lose track of time in Purgatory, but believe it or not, just over a month has passed since the initial wave of awakenings took place. There's been more since then, of course, with new Executors popping up left and right but other than that, things are mostly quiet. Until one day, you all wake up to find the fountain looks kind of... busted. Not broken precisely but something has impacted the bottom of the fountain from below, hard enough to jar it slightly out of place... and those of you who joined in the first jaunt down into Limbo's Underside can probably guess what was responsible. This seems to spook Rei. She spends most of the morning afterwards mulling this over before eventually speaking up to the group; "We can't put this off any longer... tomorrow, I think we need to go down there and fight." You have a day to prepare and ready yourselves... And then you descend into Limbo's Underside.
THE UNDERSIDE
Just as before, when Rei returns the sword to its place atop the fountain, the mechanism chugs to life and groans its way to the side, revealing the staircase underneath. Despite the battering it took, things seem to be working just fine. The steep staircase vanishes down into the darkness and as you follow it, it feels for a moment as though you're wandering blindly into the unknown... and then quite suddenly, before you're more than a few steps down the staircase, Limbo's Underside pops into view. While Limbo itself is mostly functional if a bit odd, the Underside is... a lot. The geography of the place is twisted and doubles back on itself in places and seems to warp in your vision as you observe it. From your bird's eye view as you descend the stairs, you can see that the general shape of the place mirrors that of the town above, with many of the same general landmarks. For example; The movie theater is offering a "late night fright fest" on all of its screens. If you're ~~dumb~~ brave enough to go and watch such a thing, you'll find that the description is accurate at least – all of the screens just show the attending Executors subjected to situations that play into their worst fears and anxieties. The coffee bar serves the same drink, no matter your order – a pitch black sludge that makes you feel violently ill when consumed. The pastries are fine, though. The hotel is even more maze-like than it was previously. Your hotel key won't work here. The windows won't break. The doors won't open. Wasn't the exit around this corner? What about the next? How many floors have you climbed again? How long have you been in here, anyway? The conbini is now a perfectly normal and functional convenience store. Somehow this is even more upsetting than having it become more weird. ... Among other oddities. You thought Limbo was already weird? That was baby shit. At least that horrible feeling of dizzy disorientation from last time doesn't seem to take hold again, but the ground is very much still moving around a bit. Mind your step! It goes without saying, of course, that the place is swimming with Revenants, too. No sight of the big punchy lad who had at you the first time around, but he's sure to be around. All you can do now is explore, investigate and do your duty as Executors. Good luck.

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Limbo was bad enough. How can it make less sense?

[Wolfsbane's exploring the coffee bar, scowling at the drink in front of her before knocking it off the table and checking out the decor.]

Disgusting. Have you found anything?

Only that the coffee, if we can call it that, smells terrible.

[UNFORGIVABLE.]

...The food may be alright, for what it's worth, but I'd not trust it regardless.

I should hope we aren't down here long enough to have to try. Ugh, I'm not finding anything useful. There are a few Revenants about, though -- have you found your training's paid off?

I can hold my own. Though it may become troublesome if it should become a matter of numbers.

We've got numbers ourselves, at least. The number of Executors just keeps rising, doesn't it?

I suppose that it does, yes. I find that...strange, truthfully.

You don't believe it was just because we're needed?

I'm not sure what I believe, as things stand right now. I would be willing to accept such an intention, but I hesitate to assume it the lone reasoning.

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Anything useful, you mean? No, of course not.

[ That'd make things much too easy, after all. ]

I didn't really get a chance to explore down here last time, but... things really are strange here, aren't they?

Are all the levels like this? You get used to one, and then the next one down is the same thing but wrong?

I wish I could tell you but... I don't actually know myself. As far as I remember, this is as far down as I've ever been.

[ And, well. Y'all remember how well that went for her last time. ]

It'd get old, anyway. Lose its effect. For all we know, maybe this isn't what it's supposed to look like.

We'll get a better idea the further down we go, I think. If I'm right, we should be heading to the first real layer of Sin once we pass through this place, but I have no idea what could be happening down there. It's been left unsupervised all this time, as far as I know.

So expect complete anarchy, then. Charming. Don't worry, I'll do more than live up to your expectations. I'm not sure about the rest, but they ought to pull their weight as well.

[ Rei shakes her head. ]

Don't say that. You're already doing more than enough just by being down here in the first place – all of you are. If you're all willing to fight, I can't ask for anything more than that.

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The store no longer has so many aisles. It's a bit disappointing.

Disappointing how? I know ordinary corner stores aren't the most high-class of places, but at least this one makes sense.

I'd hoped that perhaps it would extend forever in a different direction, or with different items. Such an ordinary store seems like something I might have seen many times in life.

[It isn't, though.]

It's better than the rest of this place. Don't go into the hotel, you'll be lost in there for hours if not days.

...Is that even coffee? Looks more like toxic waste, doesn't it?

[Ariel kind of backs up from where Wolfsbane's "drink" landed, holding her nose. Ew...]