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Mesdames et Messieurs, Voilร , C'est Vous

Bievenue

You're wrapped in a soothing, all-encompassing darkness.

Well, perhaps not perfectly all-encompassing -- you can see some slivers of light here and there, just enough to realize that your current space is literally wrapped in something, and that you are a highly customized burrito at the mercy of an entirely too fluffy bed and set of blankets. Moreover: you are definitely not alone.

Depending upon the contents of your bed (two of you, waking up dressed exactly in what you wore last you remember back where each of you came from, in the exact same state as those last moments no matter how illogical or disjointed), it may not be comfortable or feasible to stay cocooned up for much longer. There's a low, muted GONG, GONGG coming from not far away, your bed creaks like a beleaguered ship in an unannounced storm, and it is joined by even more noises of movement beyond the bed canopy as you try to take stock of where you are.

Eventually, you either fall out of bed or drag yourself into this world: your new and strangely crowded personal rooms, the clock insistently sounding out the hour, and the halls and heraldry of the venerable Chรขteau Ambregris -- a lavishly decorated and fully furnished version of a more-or-less authentic French castle (assuming you know what France or a castle are).

Left to your own devices for the moment, you may find it helpful to explore the castle for your own purposes, check out the suspicious statues and personalized plaques in the Promenade of Reflexion, or perhaps to try to get to the bottom of the mysterious and frankly alarming amount of bread piled up in front of the place settings in the Banquet Hall. (Were you thinking of escaping? Any attempts to leave the property will be met with no forward progress at all, treadmill style). There's just about every kind of loaf, roll, boule, baguette, croissant or even animal-shaped bread you can think of stacked in baskets. There's absolutely nothing else save for plain bread, but at least you won't starve.

[OOC: Welcome to Chรขteau Ambregris, a perfectly normal castle receiving perfectly normal guests. Feel free to ask any questions in discord! The NPC Meet & Greet will be later today, March 8 at 6 PM EST/3 PM PST.]
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[personal profile] stygiomedusa 2025-03-09 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, though I do have a fondness for jellyfish.

[Out of all the sea creatures, she has a favorite.]

Dangerous, as well... A lot of Corruptors gather on the shore, I've heard.
antline: (ghost)

[personal profile] antline 2025-03-09 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Jellyfish...they're very slimy. Lot of tentacles. But pale...you can see the water through them.

What do you mean by.....Corruptors?
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[personal profile] stygiomedusa 2025-03-09 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
That is true, but they're also quite beautiful despite what they're made of.

[She tilts her head.]

Corruptors... those who have been transformed by Mania?
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[personal profile] antline 2025-03-09 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I can see how they're beautiful. I think some look like flowers...people consider flowers to be beautiful.

[He's drifting closer before sitting at the edge of the pool.]

I don't know what you mean.
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[personal profile] stygiomedusa 2025-03-10 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
What do you consider beautiful?

[She swims up the edge with lazy strokes, treading water.]

You don't know what Mania is...

[Interesting. Weird, also!]
antline: (ghost)

[personal profile] antline 2025-03-10 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
Mm. The horizon.

[The sun, setting.]

...No. Unless you mean...just what mania is. Madness, yes?
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[personal profile] stygiomedusa 2025-03-10 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
The horizon...

[Hums... yes, she can see that there's something beautiful about the horizon, even if she's not thinking about sunsets.]

No. Well, in a way Mania and madness go hand in hand, but Mania is... a force of its own. An energy, if you will.

[Maybe now he'll be able to hear the capitalized "M",]
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[personal profile] antline 2025-03-11 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
An energy.

[He's never heard of it.]

It sounds bad.
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[personal profile] stygiomedusa 2025-03-12 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
...It can be. Not all impacted by Mania are dangerous, but some do become violent. They can still be helped, though.
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[personal profile] antline 2025-03-12 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
That's good...so you can break them out of it.

How?
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[personal profile] stygiomedusa 2025-03-13 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
Cleansing the corruption, taking it on yourself... Though you can't entirely reverse the transformation, you can soothe their suffering and relieve their worries.