WEEK 2 MINGLE - ARTEMISIA

[foundationmods]

Things had changed so rapidly in the past few days.

The loss of two of them hung over like a shroud, made even worse by the fact that an innocent person had been executed.

Was this....how the rest of the game was going to go...?🗈

....Even if it was, there wasn't much they could do now. Yuuko herself hasn't shown up in public since the trial, and while some have talked to her, she's been...subdued.

Did the trial hurt her just as much as them?

Regardless, the island is still beautiful, if deadly. Summer continues, beaming down on all of them, the waves of the sea warm and inviting.

But even if things look bleak...

They have something in their hands that will soon lead to the Truth, and the heart of this matter.

And in the air...lies a heavy sense that everything is about to change.

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[chaoscontrol]

A ghost? Well hell. Why not. Let's grab a werewolf and a zombie and we'll have a Halloween party.

[he huffs a bit. But he can see that the ordeal clearly upset Ruler, so he tones the sarcasm down a few notches before speaking again.Actually, he seems very upset by it]

Ruler, are you alright? Perhaps it's some sort of empathy with this spirit?

[improbablenotimpossible]

I... I am not a man moved to such feelings but yet -

[He seems completely baffled by his own his own reaction, brows knitting as he tries to compose himself, a hand curling up against his chest]

But this feeling is like what I felt when I had awoken, as if I am grieving, and had been for a long time with no end in sight...

[chaoscontrol]

But such things would not matter if you were feeling emotions that were not your own.

[Some sort of psychic phenomena]

... But what does it have to do with that book? Aren't its pages blank?

[improbablenotimpossible]

The pages are still blank, but I believe, given it happened after I had put the book under my pillow - that what I saw and felt is deeply connected to the book.

[chaoscontrol]

Hm...

[excavated]

Even if a book's pages are blank, the book itself can still hold power, too... maybe it's something like that.

[chaoscontrol]

Isn't there some sort of indentation on the cover as well? Something missing...

[excavated]

"Place the fragments inside it, and learn of the truth."

That's probably what that is.

[chaoscontrol]

The fragments. Physical fragments? Or like the "fragments" the Witch showed us?

[excavated]

I'm not entirely certain of that, unfortunately.

When I talked to the fake Yuuko-san about the epitaph... she was reading a book. It had a strange mark on the spine that said that it belonged to The City of Books, and when I asked her what it was, she said it was "what remained of a gameboard, a fragment of a world preserved for all time".

[chaoscontrol]

[Shadow rubs his chin thoughtfully, furrowing his brow and folding his ears a bit]

A fragment of a world... Perhaps... the story of a world that has experienced its end. Nothing left except the memories contained in the book. Maybe trying to catch up on history so it doesn't repeat itself.

[excavated]

Yeah, it's possible that's the case. The words that Ruler-san might have heard could possibly be "Please help me" or "please save me" in that case...

[ He doesn't want it to be the other option that's in his head. ]

[chaoscontrol]

Maybe she is from that world... and she died when it collapsed. Or something else...

[excavated]

That's possible. We might have to learn more about that world... but we don't have too much details to go on right now.

[foundfate]

Maybe...the fragmented memories? Like what Ruler-san saw?

Maybe writing them down on the blank pages is how we solve it?

[chaoscontrol]

Perhaps... It's worth a shot?

[foundfate]

I'll suggest it to him and see what happens.