[Endgame: rise or DROWN]

[warpweft]

[How long have you been exploring Nessa's palace now? You've met her family, viewed her memories, learned how to fight as a witch and tried to find the source of her power and the Treasure of her palace: the Voidheart. And along the way, you've tired your best, with mixed success, to avoid the incarnation of her eldest cousin and the representation of her trauma and fear, the Nightmare of Esmau.]

[Wherever you are in the Palace right now, you feel the ground briefly shake under your feet. Little shakes here and there haven't been out of the ordinary - Esmau is trying to blow the place down to the studs, after all. But that felt different. That felt....worse.]

[Your phone beeps as you receive a message.]

Comments

[velluminous]

[ what is tank? what is dee-pee-ess? ]

I should not be in close combat unless it is absolutely necessary.

[cosplayed_out]

Then who's the tank??

[velluminous]

[ she glances around at everyone else and feels an unpleasant heaviness settle in her gut. ]

Oh, Mammon. [ as she produces her pipe and a match ] It appears I have spoken too soon.

[cosplayed_out]

You're the tank??

[velluminous]

[ LIGHTS UP. TAKES A DRAG. ]

No one let me die.

[cosplayed_out]

That goes for all of us.

[velluminous]

I will guard you however I can.