SCAWWY 😱 caelus

[concoctive]

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week1 thursday;

[trashprince]

[ what's that? caelus already was all over alfyn upon his scary cyoa return but is back for more? that's right!!! where are you holing up, buster? a villager house? he's here with his candy bucket and concern ]

Hey.

[concoctive]

[ a villager house as mandated by EVERYBODY EVER? it's so funny everyone was like ( points ) go lay down ]

Hey, Cae. [ he's been cleaned up, stitched, bandaged, and just looks tired now, eyes red-rimmed but he's alive. he's here. ]

[trashprince]

[ wow almost like someone got their ass kicked by a cyoa and needs rest and comforting ]

Did you see--

[ karlach said not to put all that pressure on daan ]

--someone who knew what they were doing?

[ whoever properly bandaged alfyn likely had to remove caelus'....... attempt ]

[concoctive]

[ this makes him snort softly. there's not a lot of people that know what they're doing! just him and daan! ]

I saw Mr. Daan, yeah. I also patched some stuff up myself, and a few others did some touchups to what got done on the spot.

[trashprince]

Would it be too much to tell one more person what happened to you all?

[ sitting down on the edge of the bed. ]

[concoctive]

[ he shakes his head, before nodding after. ]

It's alright. Better everybody knows what they can, right..?

[ a beat ]

... we got lost in the fog. All apart, at first, 'til me and Tot found each other and then saw Geto and Pickles. In a big castletown with white stone walls. But the streets were empty and the people... they were scared, hidin'. Like I've seen folks be durin' wartime and plagues in Orsterra.

Don't blame 'em. The guards, we couldn't tell at first, they were so far away, but they were dead. Walkin' dead. [ looking straight ahead on this part, away from caelus. ] And there was this tree, ain't seen one so big before. It was dead, too, but had this... rot. This energy and rot.

Like it was rottin' the place inside to out.

[trashprince]

[ listens, attentively, not pressing to skip ahead (not once!) as alfyn offers this sought after lore. the more he hears, the worst caelus' frown deepens. first a cultist, murdering host town. now a zombie city. what the fuck actually?

except the tree sounds familiar in a way. horribly. uncomfortably. ]

Did you find out what it was?

[ were they sent to a stellaron?? marastruck have walking dead vibes. ]

[concoctive]

[ me laughing knowing this is critrole but holy shit yeah this is very xianzhou lore, huh. alfyn is clueless, as he speaks, staring ahead for a little bit as he turns over his words in his head before he gives them. ]

Not... exactly. There was a woman there, she was the one controllin' the undead, and the one that was doin' everythin' to the tree and town. She definitely had an influence on the tree.

She was - she was tryin' to revive herself. So I don't think she was related to Scawwy's cult or anythin'. Less lofty ambitions than revivin' a god. But... she used a lot of familiar faces against us. Friends from here, and from home. All undead puppets.