[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

DISCUSS

[voidhearts]

[Make a plan with your allies for what to do.]

[cosplayed_out]

I don't know what just happened to me!

[umbral... absorber??]

[voidhearts]

[Nell runs over to Tsumugi and pats her on the shoulders a couple times, looking her up and down.]

It's some kind of Void Spark...I don't think I've ever seen this one before...

D...do you feel any different?

[cosplayed_out]

It just feels like I can do... something.

What's the Umbral? I think... I can absorb it.

[velluminous]

Are those not creatures from Void which Nessa has created her Pact with? [ she may have spent a bit too long in the NessaShop staring at the spells available to her. ] Do you feel alright?

[cosplayed_out]

I guess I'll just have to try it and find out... maybe I can absorb the barrier?

[velluminous]

Steal some of her power away from her?

Do it.

[voidhearts]

Uh...Umbrals are creatures from the Void. They're shapeless and super malleable, j-just like Void Spark itself...

M-maybe you have an Umbral's power right now? The power to absorb something?

[cosplayed_out]

I'll try absorbing the barrier.

[voidhearts]

O-okay! Do you want me to do anything?

[cosplayed_out]

I think you should go invisible. I'll need you to make me invisible at the right time. You shouldn't be a target.

[voidhearts]

O...okay!

I'll use my Drop to make you invisible! Let's go!

Re: DISCUSS

[velluminous]

[ wincing, being a petty dramatic baby ]

Did—she she open holes in portal to do that?

[ this near-sighted woman ]

Re: DISCUSS

[voidhearts]

Uhhh...

Okay, I guess there is a way she can attack us from behind it without the crystal...!

Re: DISCUSS

[velluminous]

Kaaaah! If I had Dispel Magic, this would not be problem.

[ yes, it would ]

Re: DISCUSS

[voidhearts]

I-I'm sorry...!

Is there anything I can do to help?

Re: DISCUSS

[velluminous]

[ rrrrrrrr seething for a moment, but it's fine. It's Fine. ]

You must stay safe. Stay unseen, if possible.