[charles just lets out a quiet bark of laughter. what a sick joke, hearing those words. his hand twitches around the hilt of his sword, but he stills it.
he is paying attention to the other conversations, sorry, but hey, he figures they're paying attention to his too. he just shakes his head, before moving towards the elevator.]
...we don't have time for that. [ he says, as a person who really should maybe take a moment but chooses to continue suppressing everything. he's still holding amame's gaze just long enough before it's actually too hard, and so he turns for the elevator to follow to our SPLIT PATHS???????????? ]
[ Welcome to the basement. The place is rather dim and kind of awful -- you can see people who will likely never see the light of day again for the rest of their lives, swinging pickaxes to further the tunnels underneath the casino, making room for more vaults -- more places to store gold and riches, built by the hands of the poor.
There is nothing you can do for them. Even if you gave the most rousing revolutionary speech, Charles, they are too downtrodden and committed to their 435,622,359th swing, earning one Ahn per hit of the pickaxe in the stone.
That strange feeling of 'resonance' grows stronger as you go deeper into the dark. It also gets... colder? Yeah, significantly colder, a strange chill that travels up your legs and settles somewhere deep.
You feel lonelier, somehow.
Your surroundings get icier and icier as you go on, too, slivers and little veins of crystalline rime making way to entire walls, swathes, caches of never-melting frost.
Finally, you come out into a clearing, staring up at a massive mansion. The doors call you forth to enter like a pull. ]
[STOP HE WOULDN'T GIVE A SPEECH that's more of his friends' alley than his........... but okay yeah his gaze does linger on the people like he wants to DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE SITUATION.
he will be good though and follow the cyoa path which is to go deeper in, even if he's frustrated by the inaction... dislike all these other feelings too, though.]
[ he's following after the two of them, and he would normally find this kind of fascinating but with the one-two punch of what just happened and now going further into a kingdom of iceolation, he's just keeping to himself. he doesn't bother giving a verbal response, shoulders hunched and staring around the path before they come up to this mansion.
[ As you step in, your scenery changes. You lose sight of your fellow companions for the time being, seeming to step into a mirror reflecting all you are -- you, and only you, and the sins you've carried.
The Bough resonates deep with you, asking you to see yourself first.
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I wouldn't. You never want to expand on anything, so why should I?
[ WAIT, SPLIT PATHS??????????? ]
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he is paying attention to the other conversations, sorry, but hey, he figures they're paying attention to his too. he just shakes his head, before moving towards the elevator.]
Let's go. Unless either of you needs a moment?
[SPLIT PATHS??????????]
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There is nothing you can do for them. Even if you gave the most rousing revolutionary speech, Charles, they are too downtrodden and committed to their 435,622,359th swing, earning one Ahn per hit of the pickaxe in the stone.
That strange feeling of 'resonance' grows stronger as you go deeper into the dark. It also gets... colder? Yeah, significantly colder, a strange chill that travels up your legs and settles somewhere deep.
You feel lonelier, somehow.
Your surroundings get icier and icier as you go on, too, slivers and little veins of crystalline rime making way to entire walls, swathes, caches of never-melting frost.
Finally, you come out into a clearing, staring up at a massive mansion. The doors call you forth to enter like a pull. ]
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[ hmmm hate this place. but off we go into the mansion! ]
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he will be good though and follow the cyoa path which is to go deeper in, even if he's frustrated by the inaction... dislike all these other feelings too, though.]
I can agree with that.
[off they go!]
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...okay. in we gooooo.... ]
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The Bough resonates deep with you, asking you to see yourself first.
Charles!
Isabel!
Shoma!
Have fun. I say this like you probably didn't already see the TLs on flatview. ]