AUDIENCE 🚀 LUCIEN

[dropoffs]

Comments

[dropoffs]

[ That is okay. It is a very nice French onion soup with a toasted baguette, then dessert which is babas au rhum. It can add... Aromatics. I guess.

They stay politely standing. ]

That is worrying... Do you still feel that you are here in this realm?

[tombtaker]

Aye.

[ he feels disturbingly in this realm, actually. looking up at them, carefully. ]

You can summon their spirits, but you can't put someone back into a body?

[dropoffs]

If you ever feel lost, you're free to hold my hand.

[ Which may seem weird, but they do mean it to be comforting. They look down at him through their stupid helmet. ]

I'm not very experienced in either ordeals, but they are written to be different specialties. There's... A disconnect from the body and soul. That is something I do not know how to weave.

[tombtaker]

I put mine back.

[ lol. lmao even. also not entirely true - his cleric did it. ]

I was dead, for about two years. During that time, an interloper took control of my body and-- puppeted it around for its amusement, covering it in glitter and charms and vile ink, and then it was killed and left in the ground to rot. I was able to return to it.

[dropoffs]

That's a feat, Mister Tavelle... Many would envy you.

[ They don't know the truth, so they will believe him. ]

I'm sorry to hear that your body was used as someone else's vehicle, but glad to hear you've repossessed it. Is this interloper... Gone? They won't try to take your body back? I only ask because I do not know how souls work in your world.

[tombtaker]

[ it's not untrue either, as much as simply not giving credit entirely where its due. taking credit for the group project sort of vibes to the story.

he runs his hands into the sides of his hair under his horns and pulls, expression twisting and then relaxing again into cold. ]

It's gone. It's a dead thing. A splinter stuck so deep it seeps putrefaction into the wound, and it never shuts up.

[dropoffs]

[ you are the group project lucien it's okay ]

... It never shuts up?

[ They were Following and then that. It's dead, but it is rotting me like a parasite, by the way it talks. REAL? IMAGINARY? They are just obviously flabbergasted. ]

One of the voices you hear, then...

[tombtaker]

I told you I had experience.

[ this feels like job-crossover though. ]

It isn't even the only one. Somehow it is more annoying than nine wailing and whining and screaming philosopher-mages who want my attention all at once. At least those bastards are quiet here.

[dropoffs]

Oh, Mister Tavelle.

[ Like what can they do for you, wow. ]

And I'm assuming it still gives commentary nevertheless even if you ignore this voice.

[tombtaker]

Nevertheless.

[ leveling them with a look. ]

So if you've experience summoning, then perhaps you can exorcise as well.

[dropoffs]

Do you think that is possible? Do we have the means?

[ They are open to this, actually, but there's a chuckle as they ponder. ]

It would it be ironic for a witch to learn how to exorcise.

[tombtaker]

I don't know. It'd be-- removing whatever part of thatsoul clings to this like a parasite.

Think of it as cleansing a house.

[dropoffs]

Hm... I can try my best with your guidance, but I would level your hopes.

At least I am good at cleaning.