[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.]

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[survivaltricks]

[it's immense, the pressure he feels weighing down his shoulders. it's immense, but he's so tired, so exhausted, so angry and so done with Esmau that he pushes his way through it]

[he doesn't have any witty lines. he doesn't have any heartening battle cries. but he does have invisibility via Stylish Phantom, and he is immediately slipping into that invisibility before he lunges forward and swings his dagger at her in another Paradise Lost assault]

[and, if that does manage to crit. . . he is following up with the Show's Over, as he did before. because fuck Esmau, fuck this fight, fuck this Palace, and fuck this noise!1]