theater....... (stinkbombed)

[bookpapers]

i need to find a... shitpost.... if u will

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[scrapdraught]

[oof. Okay.]

I, uh. Heard they were giving you all bits and pieces. Didn't know about the ownership thing though.

[would prefer not to be thinking about Daan and his stupid loose spine tonight but here we are!! The mood is now numb.]

[drymonster]

I don't think we know for a fact how it works, but we don't want to take any risks either.

[scrapdraught]

Smart move.

I was trying to ask War more about the organs just today. He couldn't give me a straight answer.

Frankly, if they're going to bring about the cult's god, we might be better off getting rid of them.

But I was also wondering if they weren't components for another spell. Maybe that resurrection ritual all the dead keep hinting at.

[bookpapers]

So that's what they meant by rocks and body parts and oviposition?

[scrapdraught]

...I'm sorry, ovi-what?

[ANNA I'LL KILL YOU]

Okay, cards on the table: I have received very sweet letters from a lot of well meaning ghosts, but none of them have told me a damn thing about this fucking ritual.

[bookpapers]

[woah maybe anna is innocent...]

Yeah, same with me. I only know this stuff from Yuffie and Laudna's letters.

Yuffie's had a line that went "strip bar trees cats rocks j-censored j-censored rocks bees oviposition rocks GIANT SKULL rocks".

[drymonster]

[ ....just mouths what??? ]

[scrapdraught]

[Blinks.]

...Whatever happed to spells like abra kadabra?

[mogger]

Okay, but that letter was from Karma.

[ so let's take it with a grain of salt ]

But I have heard about the rocks from other people. I wonder if they're supposed to be runes or something.

[drymonster]

[ the emotion of Ugh ]

Oh, yeah, don't pay attention to that, then.

[drymonster]

[drymonster]

My theory is that they're doing a different ritual on that side — with, yeah, the rocks.

[ a nod at lavi. ]

A letter I got from Aerith-chan asked if I'd found anything on that trip through the fog, and then said "we're becoming geologists over here instead." So that it made it sound like... whatever they're doing with rocks is different from what we're doing, but has a similar purpose.

[mogger]

Mmmhmmm. Cloud said that too. Rocks. They've got their own stuff going on. But our body parts from Thursday trips are for a different ritual. So we have to keep them.

[undread]

[an intense jealous feeling.]

...Astarion got a rock.

[scrapdraught]

[There there...]

We'll get you a nice rock tomorrow.

[undread]

Everyone is asking about the rocks. He took that one on purpose so he'd get more attention.

[scrapdraught]

It's good to know they've got work on that side too. Nothing worse than having to sit on your hands and wait for rescue.

[and now that my audience thread got further shdhdhshdh]

...Though, about any ressurrections. Essek said that the cult is vast enough that even thwarting this sacrifice wouldn't guarantee we're safe. Bringing anyone back might only put them in danger again, even after we've botched their plans.

It's too soon to say, and they're waiting on more input from Nehan in the, uh. Purgatory or whatever. But it might be that we'd all be safer on that side once push comes to shove.

[She scrubs her face. There's not a lot of privacy in here. She wants desperately to knock back something stiff.]

Again, not sure yet. And we don't know much about the place to begin with, whether it would be a permanent home or somewhere we could escape from, or...just death. And it may not come to pass that way.

Just something to keep in mind.