cancry | Limbo Underside Log

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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[Once he can't see her anymore his breathing, while far from even, calms a little bit]

I... a memory? It must be, I can not be sure...

Oh. [Not the kind of injury she's qualified to fix, then.] So you remembered something... bad?

[It didn't help with Autumn, but maybe...]

Do you want to talk about it?

I... I remembered... people dying. So many people dying. Screaming in agony as they burned. As they cried out for me to save them. To avenge them.

I can hear them even now- but I... I can not see their faces-! How... how can I save someone who I don't even know?!

[Oh hey, asking that actually worked for once, neat. ...also, depressing.]

[She speaks slowly, trying to consider her response. This is important, she needs to get it right. Or at least to try as hard as she can.]

Well... we died, didn't we? And we're still here. We're dead, but we're not gone. We're not... done.

So maybe, even if they're dead, you still have a chance.

We keep remembering more and more, so if we keep going, we might remember more. And being an Executor... that's all about helping the dead and the lost, right? Maybe this is why you got a chance to be one.

A second chance...?

[He remembers what Rei told them when they became Executors- how Purgatory is stalled, how the Cogs of Renewal are still. The dead unable to escape, instead languishing here, looping the mindless actions of their lives forever. Or until they become beasts.

He starts to shake, but not with fear.

But with budding rage.]

Yes. Yes- that must be why I can hear them... they are trapped, unable to move on.

[He stands up, his one visible eye narrowed down to a manic point.]

They are suffering while I sit here, sniveling like a child. While those beasts wander out there, keeping the dead from finding their salvation... I must tear them all apart-!

[Welp. I mean, he's not hiding anymore?]

[Medic looks up, having to tilt her head back even further than usual to look Lion in the face. She's legitimately not sure if this is worse or better, so she's going to just go with it.]

Okay, you are goal-oriented, you for sure have a goal. That's good, I think!

[She's not super sure about how mental health counseling works, but that last monster fight seemed to go pretty well up until the last part, so... stick with what you know, she guesses?]

Do you want to go find some more Revenants and fight them together?

...yes. Yes. We must go out and destroy them...

[And there he goes-!]

Hey, hey, wait for meeee- [Just scrambling after him. So they can go be total disaster unsupervised while handling deadly weapons.]

[I'm sure it's fine.]

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