Epilogue

[lesmodsalouette]

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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[the_obedient_servant]

Part of me is expecting to be yanked back into the loop. Either this one, or my own.

[Their dagger hums with a power that is altogether alien. Their golden necklace beats like a human heart, and only they can feel it. Only they can see it. Only they can understand the depths of their own despair.]

I've never experienced choices like this. No matter the choices that I made, either me or my partner, things always ended the same way.

Now there is an infinity upon an infinity stretching before me.

It's... [It should be good, right? Being free of your burden? Free of the crimes that you committed (how willingly did you even commit them?)] I don't think I've felt terrified like this for a long, long time. I didn't realize I was still capable of feeling that emotion.

[baebladie]

[ Blade supposes in a sense one of the possibilities floating around in his head was on the mark - the expectation of them being drawn back into a "loop" of any kind seems to imply they hadn't thought of any end but a consistent struggle.

An ending state of horrid flux.

But, Blade thinks freedom is in the palm of their hands now. Choices, of how they will all proceed towards the future. Though, for]

Paths with interminable destinations.

No telling where you will end up.

[ ... ]

...Do you find it freeing? Being able to make these choices? Not knowing you could feel fear? Or, do you think it's a burden?

[ Having choice. Being able to feel afraid of what lies ahead. Blade also wonder if Chara ever truly imagined living a life of their own outside any "loop", if not for the initial response - that is answer enough. ]