Epilogue

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EPILOGUE

Your stopped time has restarted. Whether you were in the grassy field or fighting for your life on the castle grounds, you'll suddenly find yourself in an untouched area of the gardens. Ish is back, and so are the items, and the dead.

You return to Chateau Ambregris with the certain knowledge that come Monday, you will greet a new week, in a home of your own choosing. No longer will the chime of the clocks hunt you down, no longer will the oppressive scent of roses haunt your senses, no longer will you be forced to watch the death of those you've come to love and hate.

Parting is such a bittersweet sorrow, isn't it?

Make merry one last time, in this castle of illusions. Ironically, your memories of this stolen time that never existed are the one thing that will truly remain to you.

END NOTES

🔮 All dead are revived as tsukumogami! Congrats on your immortality(?)
🔮 Any other contracts made with Ish will be honored
🔮 Characters may choose to leave for any world they desire.
🔮 Time has not passed while you were stuck in this loop!
🔮 There will be no cross-dimensional world travel, except for on Samhain (Witches New Year October 31st/November 1st). On these dates, Ish will enable everyone to visit each other's world freely.
🔮 Universal Communication will be possible, courtesy of Manba and Ish. Everyone who wants one will be given a small fox that can communicate with other foxes through voice and video; the foxes can talk and are fairly simple creatures, enjoy them and give them fried tofu once in a while.
🔮 Powers are on for the finale, but Ish will step in and yeet anyone who gets too out of hand back to their homeworld, so play nice! (or relatively nice. )

[OOC: Welcome to your epilogue! The timeloop is ended, the evil has been defeated, and you have some time to catch your breath in the castle before the rest of your life begins! ]

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[calamitish]

Seventeen hundred years or so? Usually I'd be there with her when she met with the King so things like that wouldn't happen, but one of the other attendants needed me for something...

[ in the complete tone of: this was all my fault and not that his mother is a complete idiot. ]

[simulacres]

That sounds more like guilt talking.

[ is she parroting his words back at him? of course. but most importantly-- ]

You had one thousand and seven hundred years to think about what to do and you never imagined that your mom was going to react like that?

[ like, dude. ]

[calamitish]

I was a little preoccupied figuring out how all of this would work!

[ no hes love blind... ]

[simulacres]

For nearly two thousand years. You should have let me hit you with that ball back then to see if it would have reset your brain.

[ SIGHS. ]

So? What’s your plan now?

[calamitish]

[ sighing dramatically!

though he recovers quickly. ]

Spending the rest of my life with Hwylryn and providing for Junior. I'm probably going to need to buy a house...

[simulacres]

Somehow, you choosing the domestic lifestyle is more unsettling than the four weeks of weekly murders we went through.

[ and she picked up a head! ]

[calamitish]

[ he's laughing, amused. ]

Why's that?

[simulacres]

[ she shrugs. ]

Then again, between you, Hwylryn, and Junior, you make for an odd enough family. [ so maybe it’s a little less unsettling? she’s not sure— and it’s not like she has a frame of reference either. ]

Protect Junior. Emotionally, I mean.

[ maybe don’t have hwylryn eat a person. ]

[calamitish]

I know, I know. I used to be pretty good at that stuff, you know.

[ just give him some time to shake off the dust. ]

[simulacres]

Before all of this?

[ ISH WAS A WIFE GUY? ]

[calamitish]

Mmhmm! I was a good boy once!

[ now he's just terrible amused. ]

I loved humans and wished for their happiness, literally as I came into my powers. I got along better with them than my fellow attendants, actually.

[simulacres]

Well, alright, I guess.

[ that's not her problem!!!!!!! ]

Good luck with your domestic life.

[calamitish]

Thanks! I'll make sure to invite you and Richard to the wedding.

[ he is not joking. ]

[simulacres]

You're not joking...

[ wow. ]

Uh... I think it's probably going to be only me going to it but I'll let him know.

[ did she just... get invited to her first wedding, ]

[calamitish]

Hmm??

[ give him a second to remember this specific circumstance because he has a lot of junk floating in his brain and a lot of sleep deprivation. ]

Oh, right. Well—I'll see what I can do. Once I get some sleep, I might be able to work something out. I'm a lot stronger than I've ever been now, you know!

[simulacres]

Eh, wha—

[ ayaka’s eyes widen as he says that, and she shakes her head. ]

I mean— you don’t have to! I don’t have anything that I can offer you as payment either— [ she has a genuinely insane amount of magical energy. ] —and I think Richard and I kind of figured that this would happen! I’m happy I even got a month with him!

[calamitish]

I might do it just to see him thank me for it!

[ he laughs, but she'll be able to tell he's actually serious. shiv is going to give him some juice and so is siffrin so... heh. ]

We'll see. I wouldn't ask for anything for this and Hwylryn wants everyone to come, so.

[ payment enough! ]

[simulacres]

… I… I’ll talk to him about it. Give me the terms and I’ll talk to him about it.

[ ayaka looks shocked, trying to figure out if there’s any deception in ish’s eyes. somehow, finding none only scares her more. ]

Doesn’t it scare you, Ish? You don’t know what this sort of thing could cause. I could be… I don’t know, I could be using you, or just baiting you into doing something that I want and…

[ her voice dies down as she realizes that she’s only projecting her own fears and traumas onto ish. ]

I’m sorry. I shouldn’t be pushing my issues onto you.

[calamitish]

The terms are you come to our wedding and give us a nice gift. Oh, and compliment Hwylryn on how beautiful they'll look.

[ sorry he's a wifeguy and Obsessed... ]

Well, I'm the one setting the terms. If I get used here, it's my fault. But I trust you and more than that, I trust myself!