audience: laudna

[mygod]

Comments

[undread]

It depends on your definition of "children." Some of the young ones, like Kate, are far too sensible to scare.

[but others are little babies.]

Yes, I've decided it's better if I have a positive attitude about all of the sacrifice. I was a little bit cross about it yesterday, but I've moved on.

[also, some people explained to her that they should pretend to trust the npcs so they can find out more information! so that's what she intends to do with these incisive questions.]

[mygod]

[ huh ]

"Positive attitude" is pushing it too far in the other direction, don't you think? No one should blame you for having a breakdown after being told that your life is being forsaken through no fault of your own.

[undread]

I didn't have a breakdown and I won't.

[curtly]

Plenty of people have tried to forsake my life through no fault of my own.

[mygod]

[ ok queen whatever you say ]

Repeated instances of that don't necessarily make it easier.

[undread]

Sometimes it does. It makes me less inclined to believe they'll succeed.

[mygod]

[ tilts head. they sound mildly impressed ]

I suppose that is one thing. The uncanny ability to survive it all.

[undread]

Yes! Very uncanny, in my case. The last time someone tried to sacrifice me for some silly plot, I actually did die, and it simply didn't stick as it was supposed to.

[mygod]

And that is the origin of your current state?

[ they do an obvious once-over of her, from head to toe ]

A reanimated corpse?

[undread]

Yes, exactly. Twice reanimated, actually.

[mygod]

What? What was the second time? Are you just naturally unlucky?

Or perhaps extremely fortunate, to keep coming back.

[undread]

...Hmm. The second time had nothing to do with either luck or lack thereof. But the first time seems to have just been a coincidence, yes.

[mygod]

Would it bother you to speak at length about either?

[ though it's said in the tone that makes it obvious enough famine is curious ]

[undread]

No, none of it bothers me.

[it does but she will trap herself by claiming it doesn't.]

The second was pretty dull. Very standard. We got in a fight and lost and I died, and my friends paid to have a cleric bring me back.

[mygod]

[ HOW DID I MISS THIS WHERE DID IT GO AAAA RUNS BACK CRYING

also help me laudna just talk about something else ]

Do you still want to be alive?

[undread]

[smooches dana and this virche evermore]

I'm not. But whatever I am instead, yes, I want that.

[mygod]

[ cease ]

More still you wish to accomplish?

[undread]

I want to protect Imogen and the others. After that, I'm not so sure. But if it was possible, I wouldn't mind continuing. It's not about accomplishing anything. I simply don't have much interest in what lies on the other side.

[mygod]

Imogen and the rest of your friends who brought you back to life? Do you also come from a dangerous situation that might involve a cult or kidnapping like half the people here?

[undread]

Yes. And yes. We were going to go fight a demon so we could stop the cult of the godkiller that lives on the moon.

[mygod]

[ dryly: ] Why are these trends so common.

[undread]

The moon thing is also common?

[mygod]

Not yet, but it's only been a week.

How are you getting to the moon?

[undread]

There's a bridge. Sort of a portal. There was a big ritual to open it and everything.

[mygod]

Is magic truly so accessible in your world? I had guessed as much, but being able to take a trip to the moon seems excessively so.

[undread]

Magic is reasonably common. Traveling to the moon less so. Also, to activate the portal, Ludinus had to trap some sort of god in an orb.