[IC] [Reverie] SEPTEMBER 2022 - PALACE GAME

[pyrighteous]

[ Welcome to the inside of Hunter's heart! Potential CWs include (but are not limited to):

- Torture
- Character death
- Gaslighting/manipulation/bad parenting
- Child abuse (onscreen and implied)
- Experimentation/vivisection
- Body horror
- Drowning
- Full Owl House Spoilers

Generally speaking the onscreen stuff will be kept PG-13 (this is a Disney cartoon after all!) but the implications may be exponentially more horrific (this is a Disney cartoon after all!!)

If at any point you are uncomfortable or need to me take extra care in glossing over ANY topic, please ping me right away in Discord. I am happy to do everything I can to keep this game fun for everyone! ]

Toplevels:

START AREA - GENERAL
- Session 1
- Session 2
- Session 3

???

AFTERMATH - GENERAL

Comments

[inclementia]

While he's like this? I hardly think that's a fair deal, him under duress.

[While Belos drifts closer, Percival trudges through the sludge closer trying to get to the cage.]

[pyrighteous]

No duress. I've told him the truth: that I'll forgive him for all his transgressions if he does this one simple thing for me.

[ The cage wobbles at Percy approaches, sinking in a little deeper. Hunter watches him approach with wide eyes.]

[inclementia]

[He doesn't see the cage sinking further, just catches Hunter's eyes and tries to be reassuring. Positive, the way Keyleth or Pike would want to be in a situation like this. He's not very good at it, unfortunately, and he would rather take action than hope.]

His transgressions of what? Being a child? He's more than made penance for me and my team, we've since moved on. I doubt I could hazard any guess what he's done that you perceive to be a slight, but I also doubt it's worth this.

[Just reaching one arm out to try and get a hand to the cage-]

[pyrighteous]

[ Percy can grab it, but the cage is HEAVY. There's a whole ass kid in there, plus the mud sucking it down.

Belos just shakes his head, clucking his tongue at Percy. ]

Didn't he tell you? He killed me.

[inclementia]

Oh, then we're even. He killed me too.

[SO pleasant about it. (: ]

So if I can forgive and move on, so can you, I'm sure. Let him go.

[pyrighteous]

Irritating. You ought to understand.

[ He gestures with his staff - and Percy will feel his hand starting to petrify. ]

[inclementia]

[He feels it, eyes glancing down at it before back up to Belos.]

That dying is painful? That it's not our first choice? Oh yes. That's actually my second time dying. I'm fully aware.

What exactly you're thinking I should understand is beyond me.

[pyrighteous]

[ Yeah that petrification sure is taking root. Problem for future Percy? ]

He's failed you on multiple occasions. This is just the consequences of his actions. It's simple.

[inclementia]

Then he should have the opportunities to make those failures right.

Let him go.

[His voice starting to layer with a second, just a whisper under his breath, his shadow having a just barely longer face.]

[pyrighteous]

[ Oh? Oh. Belos can't help but grin at that. ]

He is making them right. Soon, he'll have finished that process.

What does your passenger say?

[inclementia]

My... passenger.

[It takes Percival a full moment to realize who exactly Belos is talking about. But the moment he does, it washes over him like dunking into an ice cold river.]

I don't think he has much to say in this matter. Just let him go. Last chance.

[pyrighteous]

No chance in hell, Percival.

[ He lets a small smile spread over his face. ]

Or should I address you as someone else?

[inclementia]

No, no, you got the name right.

Which is good because it is the last thing you'll do.

[AIMING TO TAKE THE SHOT... FIRING]

[pyrighteous]

[ OW FUCK

The shot RIPS THROUGH his shoulder, splattering slime all over the far wall. Belos makes a frustrated noise in turn, aiming a slime scythe at his neck. ]

[inclementia]

[Woop - aimed too low, he'll have to remedy that. Before he can even take aim to shoot again, he sees the slithe coming at him, trying to duck and not quite making it. Percy hisses as the skin is sliced just by his ear and feels the warmth dripping from it.]

Nice try.

[And aims again, but it'll take him a second to readjust.]

[pyrighteous]

[ In that time, several tendrils of slime reach up and attempt to embed themselves in Percy's legs. ]

[inclementia]

[He feels something against his leg moments before jumping out of the way. One manages to scrape through the dermis of his though with another hiss between his teeth but he manages to avoid any other damage from it.

Okay okay really taking aim now. Trying to get at Belos' stupid green scarred head with stupid hair.]

[pyrighteous]

[ It bobs back and forth, but soon enough, Percy lines up the shot. ]

[inclementia]

[Mmmm Yep, gonna take that shot right now actually. Aiming for right between the eyes.]

[pyrighteous]

[ THERE we go. That nailed him good and hard.

He curses despite only having half a head, retreating back. ]

[inclementia]

Had enough yet?

[Unloading and reloading! Takes a whole action. Whatcha got there, Belos? A smoothie?]

[pyrighteous]

[ GURGLES

at this point he IS a smoothie. from the cage, Hunter lets out a distressed noise. ]

[inclementia]

[He watches the blob abomination retreat away, in time to hear that noise.

He swivels Bad News to rest against his back and focuses on Hunter now.]

Hunter? Come on, I've got you. [And reaching one hand down... Take iiiiit]

[pyrighteous]

[ He reaches out? He can get his hand through the cage, but not the rest of him. ]

The lock is - is somewhere under the mud.

[inclementia]

Of course it is.

[SIGHS. Taps that hand once before starting to climb down.]

Don't suppose you'd know which side?