sacredpath | pc: uruha

From:

[the emotional vibes are not great here either—wary, and a lingering mix of horror, grief, and adrenaline like he just walked away from a scene—although physically uruha looks pretty okay.]

Yeah. Lucas, Maomao, and Neverah. [...] You were with Anders and Fidelio?

From:

sacredpath

Neverah...?

[lucas has said so, but he sounded less than sure of it.]

That's right, only the three of us. And I didn't know there had been another group until after the doors locked and I saw the state Lucas was in.

From:

kumeyuri

Unless she was just a hallucination, but considering the item she picked up from our choices at the end, I sure hope not...

[...]

How was he, last night? [a beat] How are you?

From:

sacredpath

Lucas seemed well enough, but I wasn't going to pry in a room filled with that many people. He let me pet the rabbit.

[as for her.]

I will not lie, it was not a good experience. But I'll manage, as I do. What of you?

From:

kumeyuri

Oh, he brought the rabbit with him?

[(aki voice) i don't remember the chao but i will remember this rabbit]

... Pretty much the same here.

From:

sacredpath

He did. What a sweet little bunny.

[smiling for a second, warm, just from thinking of this wonderful bunny. but then he continues, and her mood falls again.]

What happened to all of you? Lucas made it sound as though you were just... wandering the countryside, rescuing rabbits from snares, and I didn't want to push with so many people around.

From:

kumeyuri

[he blinks.]

Well... a lot of it was pretty confusing. I think we were all hallucinating to some degree, and I remember that he and I were animals—but now, in my memories, I remember that we weren't?

[he shakes his head.]

Anyway, I started off with him. Didn't even know about Maomao and Neverah until later. We set off to find missing travelers, fought off monster wasps, saw illusions of people we cared about—if Lucas isn't saying anything, it's partly because I think... it might've been Yves he saw get hurt? [a beat] Like I said, we were all kind of losing our grip on reality, so what he saw as Yves, I didn't.

From:

sacredpath

I love not knowing what is and isn't real, don't you?

[ugh. damn, man.]

From:

kumeyuri

It's great, questioning your perception of reality...

[anyway.]

Along with the rabbit, Lucas spent the rest of the trip carrying around... what he thought was a near-dead Yves? [...] Based on what came with us when we got out, it was probably just a deer.

From:

sacredpath

[oh well that's incredibly fucked up.]

Poor Lucas.

From:

kumeyuri

[if it helps this unconscious body had better rolls for dodging harm than most of us.]

... Yeah. It was pretty messed up. [...] We met up with Maomao and Neverah at one point, and after that, it was mostly solving puzzles and getting punished for every wrong answer.