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1 - [Near the containment block, open to anyone]
[So the creature that is probably Kagura has been feeling a lot better with the passage of time. It went from having trouble speaking to visibly burning with strength and floating around its cell. That said, it seems to spend most of its time either sitting in open space thinking, or manipulating the strange currents of energy and matter it can create, apparently for practice.
But seeing how it's been fairly peaceful, and how it seems that it's not radioactive unless it specifically wants to to be, the creature has been allowed out of its containment cell for a bit.]
Conditional already. I didn't expect to be getting points for good behaviour as a hazardous material.
[The multilayered, echoing female voices sound a lot healthier than Kagura ever did as it floats across the corridor. The vaguely sardonic, thoughtful tone, on the other hand, is rather more Kagura. Want to run into her in her first day out of the clink?]
2 - [Dusty area outside Alhambra, please only people with at least a little positive CR]
[Kagura is some distance away, floating in midair, very still. It's a bit hard to discern features in a face made out of fire and light, but the dull glow betrays a contemplative mood. She seems to be trying to remember something, and the voices mutter to itself - it's a rather unnerving effect, really, since it's hard to place where any of them is coming from]
"Great tree. Please protect us. And lead us in the future that we have not seen yet.
The world does not move. It moves only inside you..."
Is that the "HellSinker"? What did you want me to see?
[And that's when she notices you coming, and the head turns. She makes a quick greeting gesture with one hand, and the dim glow regains some strength as her inwards concentration diminishes, and floats down to meet you.]
3 - [For the NPC commanders]
[Well, it was inevitable. Finally a GRAVEYARD representative is here, with the intention of picking up the Apostle armor and its occupant. It appears to be a man in an officer jacket and five Executors with their Mistletoes as guard detail. He's asking (decently politely) to be allowed to meet with the suspected PRAYER as well as with the commanders of Unity, because GRAVEYARD would like to recover Kagura and make sure she's safe - and learn whatever she's learned.
So now he's at the door, waiting to be received.]
[So the creature that is probably Kagura has been feeling a lot better with the passage of time. It went from having trouble speaking to visibly burning with strength and floating around its cell. That said, it seems to spend most of its time either sitting in open space thinking, or manipulating the strange currents of energy and matter it can create, apparently for practice.
But seeing how it's been fairly peaceful, and how it seems that it's not radioactive unless it specifically wants to to be, the creature has been allowed out of its containment cell for a bit.]
Conditional already. I didn't expect to be getting points for good behaviour as a hazardous material.
[The multilayered, echoing female voices sound a lot healthier than Kagura ever did as it floats across the corridor. The vaguely sardonic, thoughtful tone, on the other hand, is rather more Kagura. Want to run into her in her first day out of the clink?]
2 - [Dusty area outside Alhambra, please only people with at least a little positive CR]
[Kagura is some distance away, floating in midair, very still. It's a bit hard to discern features in a face made out of fire and light, but the dull glow betrays a contemplative mood. She seems to be trying to remember something, and the voices mutter to itself - it's a rather unnerving effect, really, since it's hard to place where any of them is coming from]
"Great tree. Please protect us. And lead us in the future that we have not seen yet.
The world does not move. It moves only inside you..."
Is that the "HellSinker"? What did you want me to see?
[And that's when she notices you coming, and the head turns. She makes a quick greeting gesture with one hand, and the dim glow regains some strength as her inwards concentration diminishes, and floats down to meet you.]
3 - [For the NPC commanders]
[Well, it was inevitable. Finally a GRAVEYARD representative is here, with the intention of picking up the Apostle armor and its occupant. It appears to be a man in an officer jacket and five Executors with their Mistletoes as guard detail. He's asking (decently politely) to be allowed to meet with the suspected PRAYER as well as with the commanders of Unity, because GRAVEYARD would like to recover Kagura and make sure she's safe - and learn whatever she's learned.
So now he's at the door, waiting to be received.]
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Therefore, my answer is; significantly, but not completely.
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[The floating being stays silent for a few moments before continuing]
You were curious about that thing I was reciting. It's from a memory. A memory from a city that could not have existed, filled with impossible wonders, in an era where humanity shouldn't even have discovered fire.
It's idiotic. And yet I know it's true because as far as my head is concerned I was there. These are her memories, but it gets hard to differentiate them.
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Are you still yourself? Or are you afraid you have become a different person? And I do not mean that on the physical level.
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I think she's hoping I can end this fool thing once and for all.
[On the second part, Kagura falls silent for a while]
That's the hard question, isn't it, General? I have undergone some experiences that would probably change anyone. Blowing yourself up gives you a little perspective.
But if I do change, is it me changing, or would it be another influence? I don't know. Philosophically, I can't know. And to you, I don't mind admitting that it's extremely unsettling.
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What other visions came to you? Anything important?
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[Kagura falls silent for a moment, and her glow dims, as she remembers. Even her voices seem to change as she continues, in a tone that makes bones buzz an stones skitter]
Everything is connected. A point is all other points. Thus, it is all of the world.
Looking in a lost dream. But all time is gone. Thus, they cry, forever.
...I remember that, too. There was something in there. Someone. She did not agree. Maybe something happened.
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No offense intended.
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But honestly, before everything went to hell and the PRAYER shared mind apparently crashed around their ears? I wouldn't think it'd be hard to find people willing to not have to think again and protect their home and everyone they love at the same time. I am fairly certain I could find a dozen people that would take such a deal in any large city you care to name, even now.
[Apparently, while Kagura seems less acerbic than before, a large chunk of her pessimism survived the metamorphosis]
Of course, it did not work as expected. The eternal city wasn't eternal... but the tree in the center was. And the guardians that couldn't die until it did were left to fester in the dark despair as the eons rolled by.
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And that is to be expected. What most people value highly, even if they do not realize it, is their own sapience.
In any case. Do continue about the tree.