video; un: steelsamayarai

[feytality]

[ this time maya is on video!!! she looks Super Serious for once. weird. ]

The dead here have had their souls severed from their bodies. Some of them... I can't sense their spirits at all, and with the undead, the souls are outside their bodies, and tethered to them. That's why.... it's all so messed up.

I've talked to several spirits, and they say a tall, lanky man with brown-ish hair did this to them. We need to find this person and stop them.

Does anyone have any information?

[ ooc: she's talking about scylla! ]

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text. un: constantine

[lastrequests]

( he shouldn’t get involved because he doesn’t care and whatever, but. on the psychic side of things, it’s a little.. concerning lately. )

Try the tower. Very top.

( there. he helped. )

[feytality]

[ constsuntine ]

Where the games are? Or.... a different tower?

[lastrequests]

That one. There’s a lot of stuff coming from it at the top that wasn’t there before. You want a lead, that’s where I’d look.

[feytality]

Thank you. I'll.... see what I can do.

[ probably the worst idea ever for this teenage girl to go back into the games alone. ]

[lastrequests]

By yourself?

[feytality]

Unless someone wants to come with me.

[ clearly rattled, though ]

[lastrequests]

( he’s not concerned. he’s not concerned. )

You know what goes on in there, right?

[feytality]

[ keep telling yourself that bud ]

Yeah. I've.... already been through it. I just managed to escape.

[ he might notice that her left arm is bandaged.... ]

un: Emet-Selch | video

[untsundered]

So you possess the sight as well, do you? Indeed, it seems as though the fully dead's very souls ceased to be entirely. A horrendous thing to consider, far more extreme than I would imagine most capable of. Souls are not so easily destroyed in their entirety, at least not typically.

[Emet-Selch is wearing his red and white half-mask, covering most of his features with it as he speaks, clearly looking over his own pile of hollow dead bodies, his expression far from amused.]

The state of the shambling ghouls are a bit more expected, though typically the lingering aether of the deceased is what gives cause to the bodily animations, errant leftover impulses from their previous lives spurring them to action and what not. That the souls linger as though shackled is... odd. Though perhaps the lack of a proper Underworld is also to blame.

[He lets out a breath that's more like a punctuating sigh.]

As for the person, finding him is paramount. I should like to have words with him.

[feytality]

[ if the situation were less dire, she would absolutely make a comment about his phantom of the opera-ass look. but he's with dead bodies, and maya's entirely in serious mode, so no sassy commentary is made ]

Something like that.... do you have that kind of power too, mister?

[ she's not surprised, even though he's a man. anything can happen here ]

I, um, don't know what aether is... but I don't think there's a lack of an afterlife here. My friend Tristan was able to send a soul along peacefully with an item they have.

[ as for confronting the guy.... ]

Mr. Dion and I are going to try to the top of the games tower to find him. You can come with us if you want.... but, um, just be warned that the tower neutralizes all powers, and if you get caught you can end up in the games. I've been through them already, so I can help, but....

[ it's still a huge risk ]

[untsundered]

Indeed, though I forget myself. I am Emet-Selch, Third Seat of the Convocation of Fourteen, Overseer of the Underworld.

[Maybe one would bow or do something after such an introduction, but instead Emet-Selch just stares on at the feed, his golden eyes glowing lightly behind his mask.]

However, I would suggest you do not mistake one releasing the souls from their shackles for there being a true Underworld present in any immediate vicinity. I would feel its flow, and I decidedly do not. Souls are capable of traveling amongst the sea of stars, however, and so they may find their proper rest elsewhere still, with your friend's initial guidance.

[A lonely journey it will prove to be for them, but better than being shackled to their corporeal and rotting forms...]

I am not overly concerned over the contrivances of these games, I am not wont to falling victim to that which plagues you infinitely more fragile beings. Though I may take a different approach to you and the young dragon.

[feytality]

Um..... Maya Fey, spirit medium and legal assistant. [ nothing so fancy as overseer of the underworld. is this guy a god of sorts? sure. okay. this may as well happen ]

Well, that's.... a problem. We need to make sure they're able to pass on peacefully, like they're supposed to... do you, um. Usually send them off, Mr. Selch?

[ he would know better than her.... ]

Well, let's keep each other posted, okay? I'll let you know what we find out. And... I can try to help now, since I can see you're near the bodies.

[ although, one thing is bothering her......... ]

"Fragile beings?"

[untsundered]

["Mr. Selch" surprises him in its cultural absurdity to him, and he doesn't fully hide it from his features when he hears it. He's not upset about it, just a little blindsided by it!]

Please. Just say Emet-Selch, it is a single name and title both.

But yes, we should remain in correspondence, and not merely for the sake of the task at hand. I am rather intrigued that one of your... short-lived nature is quite so keen when it comes to souls. I have not observed such ability among your kind while being here, and so consider my curiousity piqued.

[A beat.]

...However, are you confused about the chasm betwixt us in terms of our existential realities? Do you believe me to speak pejoratively of your kind? I speak only of the truth of the matter.

>action?

[feytality]

Okay.

[ that's her response to "Emet-selch" also "I want to observe you". this guy is kind of weird, even if he is a god of sorts. ] I'm nearby, I'll be there in a minute.

I'm not confused, I just think it's rude, even if you are some kind of god or something. I was just trying to make sure you didn't get hurt.

[ you dont gotta be an ass about it!!! ]

>action!

[untsundered]

[Oh but he DOES. He is such an ass...]

You need not concern yourself with me.

[But that's all that really needs to be said before the network connection is pointless and they are within each other's vicinity. Emet-Selch is an imposing sort, not only in manner but in size as well, though he has adjusted himself to better fit within the buildings and surrounding area, he is still 6'7". His robes and mask making him similarly distinct, and as he cranes over the soulless corpses which plague his interest, he barely looks to Maya as she approaches.]

Tell me: have you always been possessed of such ability, or was this one you later acquired? Any inciting incident, perhaps?

[feytality]

[ yeah, she almost regrets being sassy with him earlier, given that he is intimidating as all hell. but still. she waves with her good arm. her bad arm's bandaged up, and she generally looks pretty battered. she has obviously been Through It. ]

[ but that's not stopping her! very plucky. she makes her way to the corpse pile, hesitantly closing the eyes of one of the dead ]

I've always had it.... it runs through my blood.... um, the women, anyway. Though not all of them have it either.

[ she thinks of morgan, not able to channel. but only very briefly ]

Is it really that abnormal here? I figure most people have powers that are more impressive.

[ like him, probably. ]

[tensibility]

You can talk to them?

[Luffy's Observation Haki let him sense the spirits, allowed him to see that things weren't quite right. But that didn't mean he could actually converse with them. Which was unnerving when several of them had the faces of people he knew, people he cared about.]

I don't know this person they're talking about, but if you figure out where they are point me at them and I'll kick their ass.

[feytality]

Yeah, I'm a spirit medium. It's my thing.... kinda.

[ she likes the cut of this guy's jib. she, too, would like to kick scylla's ass ]

They're at the top of the games tower, apparently. But that tower suppresses people's powers, and if you get caught you get thrown into the death games, so.... be careful, if you're going there.

un: twinArmageddons | text

[p2iioniic]

oh yeah.
ii've 2een that guy before.
iit'2 hiim doiing all thii2?
you're 2ure?



oh yeah.
ii've 2een that guy before.
iit'2 hiim doiing all thii2?
you're 2ure?

[feytality]

[ she has to actively squint at the text for a bit but she manages to more or less decipher it ]

Several spirits have ID'd him the same. You've seen him before? Is it.... "Scylla"?

[ thanks daniil ]

[p2iioniic]

ii have.
ii don't know hii2 name but ii've 2een hiim before iin the dii2tance.
iif you're 2ure iit'2 hiim, that'2 all ii need two know.
ii'll let accelerator know iit'2 a22 kiickiing tiime.

[ Because that's their plan. ]



ii have.
ii don't know hii2 name but ii've 2een hiim before iin the dii2tance.
iif you're 2ure iit'2 hiim, that'2 all ii need two know.
ii'll let accelerator know iit'2 a22 kiickiing tiime.

[ Because that's their plan. ]

[feytality]

Just be careful... we don't know what he's capable of.

[ and yet she's planning to confront him herself ]

[p2iioniic]

he turned an aii iintwo a fle2h-and-blood per2on, made a bunch of undead, and put up a biig a22 depoweriing fiield around a whole buiildiing.
ii think we have a pretty good iidea of what he'2 capable of.
and he need2 two be nuked from orbiit.



he turned an aii iintwo a fle2h-and-blood per2on, made a bunch of undead, and put up a biig a22 depoweriing fiield around a whole buiildiing.
ii think we have a pretty good iidea of what he'2 capable of.
and he need2 two be nuked from orbiit.

[feytality]

Well, I mean, yeah...

[ but maybe this person has powers of their own. ]

Mr. Dion and I are planning on confronting him. We'll report back with what happens, I guess.

[p2iioniic]

...
fiine.
but iif you don't report back two me or accelerator on iif iit worked or not.
wiithiin twenty-four human hour2.
ii'm goiing two have two a22ume you both got thrown iintwo the torture buiildiing.
and then we are goiing two curb2tomp hiim p2ychiic 2tyle.


...
fiine.
but iif you don't report back two me or accelerator on iif iit worked or not.
wiithiin twenty-four human hour2.
ii'm goiing two have two a22ume you both got thrown iintwo the torture buiildiing.
and then we are goiing two curb2tomp hiim p2ychiic 2tyle.