vayne aurelius (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
liberazoth) wrote2024-03-05 03:10 pm
liberazoth) wrote2024-03-05 03:10 pm
nevertheless the people still sketch the flame of their undying lives;
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[ mio has the right idea, though. vayne's no expert caver either, but he's done his fair share of expeditions into the unknown to map it out and gather resources
and suddenly misses the standard jrpg quick travel options intensely. adela said there was no known exit by land or by water. they can't fly. but maybe, instead... ]And ... I don't know.
If we're supposed to be growing this Astera as an offering to these spirits, or ... whatever they are, do you think there might be ruins buried somewhere that might tell us more about all of this?
[ if not an escape route, then might there be secrets hidden underground? a crumbling altar, a dais, some environmental storytelling scrawled haphazardly out on the wall detailing how exactly they screwed up and doomed the town for generations therefore? a stone coffin, a sealing array disturbed when it shouldn't have been?
he seems a little self-conscious suggesting it, though: ]
... Maybe it's just a silly thought.
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Just as Vayne is pulling back into his shell from the suggestion, Mio leans forward to seize on it.]
No! It's not silly at all. I think that theory could hold merit, even if we don't find remnants of whatever was here before. If it's really that expansive, someone might have hidden something there or left something behind.
[She sobers.] A memory of someone who's been down those paths before and isn't here to share it anymore.
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[ that sobers him real quickly too; he pauses while pulling out an extra length of rope to set aside. these farms are so haunted. ]
Miss Makima seemed pretty determined to learn more about this place. She's probably already been down here, in that case. Still, it can't hurt to look for anything hidden.
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[She might have more thoughts on the matter, but maybe she's interested in hearing Vayne take on it all first, setting the floor for him to come in with his own take.]
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... I wonder too.
In the end, we still don't actually know if the people who took the offer to leave ... Actually made it home or not. They could have chose to stay just because it was the safer option. Even though they don't know much about the town, they know more about it than they do the spirits, it sounds like.
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[She looks pensive. Mio knows how easy it is to fall into patterns just because you're told it's the thing things should be and how they've always been; she both completely believes that things could have unfolded the way they were told and suspects that things might be being downplayed as commonplace.]
Do you think it's strange at all to not see spirits that apparently have such extreme demands? I can't quite look at it rationally myself.
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[ that is, if they actually do exist. it really could go either way. they can choose not to believe both of the ladies, but that leaves them knowing nothing at all. or they can believe that everything told to them was truth in its entirety, and that they might not still be getting the whole story. but for what reason, though...?
(truths that might at the same time be lies of omission. ...not again.) ]
Still, this all would sound more like a bad ghost or horror story... if it weren't for how we're the ones stuck in it.