Day 1 Night

[12npcs]

[ Over the murmur of conversations, explorations and violent attempts at escape, there comes a sound tick tick tick tick tick.............. CLICK.... The sky above snaps across the dome from blue to black... and everything goes dark.

A glow comes from the front door of each of the inns and one by one, you can see street lanterns begin to light up steadily past each of the gates.

The only flickering, organic light comes from above in the tower, spluttering high, high above everyone, through the slats of the closed shutters. After a moment, it's gone. ]

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Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[thevineintervention]

Perhaps she is devoted to a wrathful god.

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[allsneakandnoplay]

[snorts.]

Isn't that all gods?

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[thevineintervention]

Aah, as you say.

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[allsneakandnoplay]

Are you some kind of apothecary?...

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[thevineintervention]

Aah. That's not a bad way to put it!

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[allsneakandnoplay]

Guess that should come in handy.

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[thevineintervention]

I usually do, sooner or later!


But then, so does a sword.

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[allsneakandnoplay]

And that's where I come in.

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[thevineintervention]

So, are you a brave hero, then, perhaps?

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[allsneakandnoplay]

. . . I'm no hero. Just a killer.

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[thevineintervention]

[ The conviction and resignation in his voice gives her pause, and the expression softens from its frantic glee for just a moment. Then she smiles again. ]


Aah, well, that too has its use.

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[allsneakandnoplay]

[....he gives her a bit of a studying look.]

You certainly took that in stride.

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[thevineintervention]

Well, there are all kinds of people in the world, after all!

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[allsneakandnoplay]

Hnh. Some people any normal person would stay away from.

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[thevineintervention]

Do they? Stay away from you, I mean.

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[allsneakandnoplay]

Plenty do. It's not a good mix.

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[thevineintervention]

I think I see!


Well, will you kill me, Raiden? Mm, just, if you had to guess.

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[allsneakandnoplay]

Wh... why the hell would I? you gonna give me a reason to, Miss Druggist?

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[thevineintervention]

[ blinks. considers. ]


Mm, if I'm really thinking about it. Well . . . that depends on what you take as a reason, doesn't it?

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[allsneakandnoplay]

Yeah, I guess it does. Well? Are you the cause of all this? are you going to start picking everyone off? Is all of that poison?

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[thevineintervention]

Aaaaah, I do not think that I am, nor that I would care to kill any of you, but particularly not a few of you.


Some of it is poison, though. It would be best if no one helped themselves.

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[allsneakandnoplay]

. . .

[PRESSES HIS HAND TO HIS FACE]

Lady, what the hell is wrong with you? Why are you so calm right now?

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[thevineintervention]

. . . is it really so terrible that it should upset me?


Everyone dies, sooner or later, right? That's as certain as the rain falls and the sun burns. Before then, probably, many other people will die. I'll know some of them, I'll love some of them. But no matter how calm, or how scared, or how careful I am, there's nothing to be done about it, that's just how it is.

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[thevineintervention]

What if whatever kills me is terrible, or slow, or something I love and trusted. Mm, a handsome stranger seems way better than that, don't you think?

Re: [Back in the Crossroads of Comet and Gallows...]

[allsneakandnoplay]

. . .

[sighs.]


Everywhere I go, even in some clockwork puppet town, someone wants to talk philosophy.