Well, first, you all need therapy! Not that this goat monster knows that therapy is. But, uh, it doesn't look thrilled with your responses? You all fail! CYOA over, take your prize and go home.
No, just kidding. It's not quite that strict, but it bares its fangs in what resembles disapproval, silent for a long moment.]
This power was never meant to be yours. [Sorry to those of you who like it? :/] It has corrupted those with weak wills and brought much ruin to innocents, by the hands of those who sought to use it for their own ends.
I do not intend to see it used in such a way ever again.
[STARES AT SOME OF YOUR ANSWERS]
Oh humans, who have suffered much in your lives to come here now. [Well, mostly. I'm not saying I might exclude one of you from that category, but. Actually Vlad can have a little suffering, as a treat. Except your coping mechanisms?]
Show me what you will do. Are you willing to face what you were and what you have become?
[They might get the sense that this is strictly a yes or no question, and that they miiiiight want to consider their answer very carefully...]
[ thanks for editing to acknowledge vlad's suffering
Vlad is certain that he won't be corrupted--his will is not weak by any means, he can withstand whatever this is--but the note of not wanting to give this power to those who "seek to use it for their own ends"...well.
Surely the goat monster isn't happy with that. But then maybe it shouldn't have offered it to him in the first place. Seems like a you problem, goat man. ]
Of course. I wouldn't be here if I wasn't.
[ Vlad knows exactly who he was, is, and will be. The goat can try and intimidate all it likes, but Vlad cannot be swayed. ]
the last thing gu yun has ever been in his life is weak willed. his stubbornness is one of the arguable only things that has kept him alive, up to this point. when it comes to achieving peace in great liang - to pushing back the dragons and the tigers that chomp at their borders - he'll stop at nothing.
even if the cost to him is great, it doesn't matter. he'd be the marquis of order, or a lowly guard on the silk road, if it meant great liang could prosper. so of course, he's willing to face whatever consequences come with this, and whatever it might do to him. ]
[thank god you aren't giant slackers and you all said yes
For a few moments, the goat monster stares at them with its (several) eyes in silence. Then, once more, they'll find their consciousness fading. Hope they aren't sick of this and waking up in new places, because it seems like that's about to happen again!
But as everything turns to darkness, they will hear a voice. It seems to be that of the goat monster they were just speaking to, but there's something more gentle in it, this time.
Even if the world is full of sorrow, I hope you can remember to be—
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Well, first, you all need therapy! Not that this goat monster knows that therapy is. But, uh, it doesn't look thrilled with your responses? You all fail! CYOA over, take your prize and go home.
No, just kidding. It's not quite that strict, but it bares its fangs in what resembles disapproval, silent for a long moment.]
This power was never meant to be yours. [Sorry to those of you who like it? :/] It has corrupted those with weak wills and brought much ruin to innocents, by the hands of those who sought to use it for their own ends.
I do not intend to see it used in such a way ever again.
[STARES AT SOME OF YOUR ANSWERS]
Oh humans, who have suffered much in your lives to come here now. [Well, mostly. I'm not saying I might exclude one of you from that category, but. Actually Vlad can have a little suffering, as a treat. Except your coping mechanisms?]
Show me what you will do. Are you willing to face what you were and what you have become?
[They might get the sense that this is strictly a yes or no question, and that they miiiiight want to consider their answer very carefully...]
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Vlad is certain that he won't be corrupted--his will is not weak by any means, he can withstand whatever this is--but the note of not wanting to give this power to those who "seek to use it for their own ends"...well.
Surely the goat monster isn't happy with that. But then maybe it shouldn't have offered it to him in the first place. Seems like a you problem, goat man. ]
Of course. I wouldn't be here if I wasn't.
[ Vlad knows exactly who he was, is, and will be. The goat can try and intimidate all it likes, but Vlad cannot be swayed. ]
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[ WOW!!!!
the last thing gu yun has ever been in his life is weak willed. his stubbornness is one of the arguable only things that has kept him alive, up to this point. when it comes to achieving peace in great liang - to pushing back the dragons and the tigers that chomp at their borders - he'll stop at nothing.
even if the cost to him is great, it doesn't matter. he'd be the marquis of order, or a lowly guard on the silk road, if it meant great liang could prosper. so of course, he's willing to face whatever consequences come with this, and whatever it might do to him. ]
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[Simply, easily, like he's never known a fear in his life. Whatcha gonna do, fight him for it?]
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[ Also simply. ]
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For a few moments, the goat monster stares at them with its (several) eyes in silence. Then, once more, they'll find their consciousness fading. Hope they aren't sick of this and waking up in new places, because it seems like that's about to happen again!
But as everything turns to darkness, they will hear a voice. It seems to be that of the goat monster they were just speaking to, but there's something more gentle in it, this time.
Even if the world is full of sorrow, I hope you can remember to be—
Too bad the sentence doesn't finish, before Vlad and Childe wake up in one place, and Gu Yun and Primrose in another.]