WEEK 5 MINGLE - AMARANTHUS

[foundationmods]

Another trial, another horrible outcome.

This time, it affected so many people...and yet, they still weren't done.
Who would be killed next?
Would they be able...to handle whatever happened?🗈

Still, things were just the same as they had been the past few weeks.

The goats and servants were still around, and so too were the witches.
It was all becoming routine at this point.
Was that a good thing, or a bad one...?
It was...too hard to tell, now...

...Either way, they were now closer to the end.
So, like always...they had to see it through.


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MEETING

[incrediblystressedout]

[Early in the morning, Joey takes her turn sending out invitations via goat. She's vaguely aware she could use her phone, but when you have a staff of anthropomorphic animal butlers, why not use them for added gravitas.]

Guys. Ballroom. Now. Bring snacks.

[She leaves off after that, hoping the brevity gets the message across. Once people arrive, she'll elaborate.]

So, this week it was my turn to have fun vision time with Watanuki. I was gonna share this yesterday, but the book took a lot out of me...and put some things in context. I think I saw another 'possible future'.

[improbablenotimpossible]

Do tell, what did you see?

[He leans forward, eyes brightening in curiosity]

[cryosurgeon]

[Erhard is sitting beside Sherlock, of course. He's just as curious, but there's more apprehension present in his eyes than the detective's.]

Hopefully this is one of the better possibilities.

[excavated]

[ this is the most useless comment but Caim is here was he invited? did the goats tell him about this? fushigi mystery. but he is watching.... oh, and I guess he brought snacks too? who wants onigiri. ]

[aleph_armed]

[Don't think she won't have one that has wasabi in it. She absolutely will have one with wasabi in it.]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[Vinea's here too, unsurprisingly. She probably was invited, honestly, and she brought cookies.]

Good to see you taking an interest, too.

[excavated]

I thought that it might be interesting.

[ Since there are a lot of people here, and that means he can learn more this way. ]

[oceanicbutterfly]

It usually is. And if not, we can always make it that way.

[miniature rainclouds never get old]

[excavated]

[ flatly: ] Don't make a mess.

[oceanicbutterfly]

I won't.

[only clean water in her indoor storms]

[excavated]

... [ well good because he likes water ]

[aleph_armed]

What was this one, then?

[Gebura has... actually brought snacks along! Specifically, some tteokbokki crackers.]

[keydomhearts]

Was it better than the other two?

[ PLS GOOD NEWS ]

The Actual Vision

[incrediblystressedout]

Well, it did seem nicer...

So, Watanuki was playing...uh...what are those classical Japanese guitars called? Not important. He was playing it and I was dancing and I slipped into another place right about...here.

[Joey retraces her steps from the day before as a visual aid.]

It was some kind of Japanese house, and Watanuki was there, and he told me an expected guest of his had arrived. At first I thought it was the past, because it seemed like he was running a business? And his guest looked a lot like Yuuko, so I was confused.

But they had a talk, and Watanuki knew her name, which was uh...[].

Yeah, I couldn't hear it. Like it was redacted.

Anyway, she was surprised at this, which is how I definitely knew it wasn't Yuuko, and Watanuki said to me...

[She closes her eyes and concentrates on the memory.]

"Though it has been a long, long time since then, so I can understand your confusion. Yuuko, Nirrti, [], they're all names that have been used before."

And then she said that misfortune had been following her everywhere, like she'd been cursed with bad luck. And Watanuki said it was "a power that you haven't yet had much experience with." They started talking about it, and I was back here.

[She relaxes from her public retelling.]

I think that was a future where Nirrti got reincarnated, or lost her memory of all this, or something. Which seemed like a win, after seeing what she could be remembering?

[aleph_armed]

...Is that really a win, though...?

[The person that died, got "reincarnated" as a robot, and lost most of the memories of her past life before getting them back has opinions on this, yes.]

[incrediblystressedout]

It might be a win. Watanuki was alive, some form of Nirrti was alive, and we weren't on this god damn island, as far as I know.

[aleph_armed]

While that's true, I'd rather that Nirrti deal with her issues in this life, rather than the next.

[She takes this moment to dramatically toss a certain metal charm into the middle of the ballroom before continuing. Written on it is the word Soul]

Even if the body forgets, the soul remembers. The sooner she faces it, the sooner she faces it, the better for everyone, including herself.

[incrediblystressedout]

[That's right. Watanuki had said the same to her. She's silent for a moment in recognition of the implications.]

Well, hopefully my dream was about Watanuki helping her work it out on her own time. I didn't get to hear their conversation, though. Maybe she did work it out in that future, and it's just her power sticking around. Watanuki did say that 'Misfortune' didn't really cover it, and that he'd help her.

Anyway, I think this indicates it's possible to get out of here with the "Nirrti forfeits" plan. Not that it's what's gonna happen. I mean, if these visions were all going to come true exactly, it'd be really convoluted.

[aleph_armed]

That's true, this only indicates a possibility... Still, it's not a possibility I can be satisfied with.

I'm going to tell Nirrti everything I know about the book tonight. If anyone else wants to tell her, you should probably do it before it gets too late.

[incrediblystressedout]

...is that really a good idea? If she doesn't know we know can't we like...save it?

[Wait.]

Or, well, if that derails things, maybe no one will die tonight...

[aleph_armed]

I doubt it'll stop anyone from dying. Still, we only have six days left before it's too late. We might be able to pull off a miracle, but in the worst case, we're going to end up too late and unable to do anything.

That's just going to end up hurting both sides of Nirrti more. It might be a riskier option, but if saving the other one is impossible, then we need to at least allow her a chance to confront herself and come to a conclusion, one way or another.

[oceanicbutterfly]

[👀]

[incrediblystressedout]

...hey Vinea, you know Nirrti better than we do, it seems like. Do you have any thoughts on this plan?

[Technically, Vinea is on the Witch of Misfortune's "side", but it's not like that's ever stopped her trying to be helpful before.]

[respring]

[ .......

She looks like she wants to say something, but is holding her tongue, hmm. ]

[keydomhearts]

I don't know if that's a good idea yet. She didn't react well when I tried bringing up who she was before... I don't know if she's ready to face that pain.