WEEK FIVE MINGLE

[grigori]

nerak: week 5 mingle at your service

25 Remain

Waking up this morning will reveal some unfamiliar surroundings. While Camebit had an autumnal chill in the air, things are a little different, now - the air is frigid, and waking up is an adventure, considering you are swaddled to the nines and cozied right up to your roomie of the week (where you have one, anyways). Everything around you is made of ice and packed snow, fogged glass and porcelain, and it is freezing. Who thought this was a good idea? Even the brisk chill of Camebit in the skies above everything was more forgiving than this! This isn't a transition! Whose manager can you speak to..?

About that.



You have to trek out of the lodging, and over into the building made of actual wood and stone, to actually see your Watchers of the week. They're all dressed in their full cloaks again to combat the chill, even in this building, although both Rameel and Satariel are standing much closer to Yomiel than they usually do - much like they had in Ahnkeen, actually.

"Good morning and welcome to Nerak! If you've ever wondered what it was like to stay at an ice hotel, then you're in luck!" Rameel says with moderate flourish as they make sure to keep close to Yomiel—their daemon currently not found anywhere near them as they make the announcement. Looks like they're without their black box of musical wonders this morning.

While the other two Watchers press close, Yomiel's daemon has wrapped itself around their neck like a polecat scarf. Warm. Arm cradled gently against their chest, they pause to glance at Satariel before greeting everyone. "Try to be careful. The ice can get slippery, especially when you're all looking like that and leaving a mess everywhere you go." Whatever that means.

Satariel seems a little more subdued than usual but offers everyone a smile, daemon bear-shaped against their back, large head peering around at everyone while they take in the travelers that come to join them here in the hotel lobby. Their cloak is completely closed around them - not even the front of their dress can be seen, and they're clearly holding it tightly shut. "Please be nice to the hotel staff - if I catch any of you being rude to them, I'll kick you clear across the tundra before sticking you in their outdoor 'jail' for timeout. We're guests, but they're working hard to accommodate us, alright?"


With the new week, travelers will find that they no longer the adorable animal features they did in Camebit, but something much less cute. Injuries from their pasts have come back to haunt them, major or minor, and they cannot be healed. The good thing is that they don't seem to hurt or really take a toll on the travelers at all - at least, not until they're touched, and then both you the other will feel the pain from the moment the wound was inflicted. This effect lasts all week.

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Comments

[perfectdistance]

I think it's more like... the "Authority" is only pretending to be the Creator or God. The Authority is somebody who's just... decided that they're right and they believe they're acting on God's behalf. Uh. Maybe.

If Xaphania thinks that Metatron is God, and they originally rebelled against God proper, that's even more reason to double down on their anger.

... Does that even make sense...

[booksleeves]

It does make sense, yes. Either way, the Authority is not what we would consider to be an omnipotent creator God.

[perfectdistance]

So we have two sides, Xaphania and Metatron. All these worlds, and ours, caught up in their war.

"Both don't care, have both destroyed realities in conflict."

Ain't paintin' a good picture here.

[booksleeves]

Yes. What they've done to all these worlds and to us is despicable!

The question is, how do we stop them?

[perfectdistance]

Somehow... sever the ties between Xaphania and Metatron and the worlds they're trying to overtake?

That's easier said than done. I dunno where to even start with that.

[callalilies]

Perhaps with one of the Watcher's items...?

[perfectdistance]

That might sever the ties of the watcher to the Angels. But that's a different problem than the world one.

[callalilies]

What about an explosion?

[perfectdistance]

"This explosion would not only change the world we know, but the worlds we would never see."

... That note from a few weeks back? Didn't really work out for the worlds we've been to.

I really don't wanna blow up anybody's world.

[booksleeves]

But didn't we also receive a note implying the 'explosion' was something more along the lines of a revolution?

[perfectdistance]

So they... tried to revolt against both sides? Or just the side that had the most hold in the world to begin with?

[booksleeves]

It sounds like a hypothetical to me. That device Rochalizo has - maybe it could be used in some way to revolt against both sides?

[callalilies]

That's what I was thinking...

[perfectdistance]

How much longer d'ya think we got before we've gotta make some kinda decision?

[callalilies]

I wonder if we could ask. But in the case we can't, perhaps it'd be best to assume that we don't have much. What happens here keeps escalating... there's only so much more before it all comes to a head, right?

[perfectdistance]

[He looks incredibly anxious, but it is a Thursday.]

Always gets worse before it gets better.

[callalilies]

[ he just nods, folding his arms. ]

We will have to prepare, what we've done already is quite the start. We can do this.

We have to.