Audience: Vore Club

[probe]

wow i didn't even have to make a new filter

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[chevaleros]

[ well, they're alive, so it's an improvement. vira sits down across from them, refraining from doing any fussing. ]

I suppose this has to do with our 'adventure.' And yours?

[probe]

[dryly:] My head is back. That's as good as it's going to get.

[anyway.]

It does have to do with these... adventures. I assume Harrowhark has mentioned I intended to look. [they pull their robes closer, a little like they're cold.] I did look. And I did see her. Though not in the form you described.

[toesies]

Yes, well, it would be great if it could get at least a little better.

[Pride, please be kinder to your own flesh prison. Why are you cold.]

She did, yeah... [And then the NPCs ran off to get maimed not even two days later.] What do you mean by that?

[dotcom]

... was it how she normally looks? From where you're from?

[ they have her bag so like it would probably be awk if she still looked cweepy ]

[bonetiddies]

Did you think it her, or was it more illusions?

[It's probably rude to pepper him with these questions in the middle of his explanation but it's a four person thread what are you gonna do.]

[chevaleros]

[ it is a four-person thread, in this case she'll cut pride a break though, looking a little... hopeful? relieved? cautiously so, but she can't help it, waiting for the other shoe to drop. ]

[probe]

The way she normally looks. [they confirm, shivering.] My suspicion is that it was more illusions.

These are... they're not going to stop happening. [which they hate, a lot, judging by their tone.] I experienced - not exactly what you have described to me, but close. A long repeating hallway with experiences I don't care to remember waiting behind every corner.

[a cough.] It had a theme. Like yours.

[toesies]

[... She glances at the others from the corner of her eyes like, uh. Extremely dislike the direction this is going.]

Uh-huh... Go on.

[This is a four person thread so she will let the others ask questions instead.]

[dotcom]

[ he notices the glance, but he'll continue look at pride as he

internally hates that a lot. ]

... what was the theme?

[bonetiddies]

[She will just. Listen quietly.]

[chevaleros]

[ if it's still just illusions when the avatars go, then what's it mean for the rest of them? her voice goes quiet, resigned. ]

...Were you tested in some way?

[probe]

The theme was less about hunger and more about wanting what someone else had. I don't often care what others have, so it was... jarring.

[a sigh.]

I walked the same hallway over and over, in a loop, knowing that the others had left me behind. That I was going to lose. Didn't know what I was going to lose, just that I was. I would consider it a test.

A phone rang, and I heard Mercy's voice on the other side, asking me to... [a pause.] ... to not leave her alone.

[toesies]

... Oh.

[Oh, no. She is sad now. Oh, no!!]

That sounds... familiar.

[To say the least. She will leave the elaboration to someone else.]

[dotcom]

... mm. She didn't want us to leave her either.

[ he taps his chin, his expression growing more grim at the memory. ]

Did you... answer?

[bonetiddies]

[It just calls to mind how she'd sounded as they died - her tiny voice in her head.]

Yes. It was the same - she said it when we died there.

[chevaleros]

[ though the wiser part of her knows these are just illusions, it makes her wonder how many times mercy has lost people like this, and who she'd lost before them.

she closes her eyes a moment. ]

Did you see her?

[probe]

[wow guess who hates hearing that this has happened twice! this avatar.

pride just breathes for a moment, and then:]

Briefly. She was with her mother at the end of the hallway. They went through the door. I tried to follow, but I ended up back at the start. [they're just listing this off clinically, now.] Went through the hallway a few more times. Followed the sound of a familiar voice until I found Envy, again.

[a pause.] Envy threw himself in front of a blow meant for me. I'm still not... entirely sure why.

[toesies]

[There is so much she hates about everything Pride just said, so the reply she settles on is:]

Because he didn't want you to get hurt...?

[She says this so gently, so slowly, so unsure.

Mostly because Pride ended up in a way worse shape than Envy so, like. Good job, Envy! You failed. You did nothing. Terrible job, everyone.]

[dotcom]

[ he also can point out that envy did nothing. he chooses not to, not because of kindness, but because he is upset about mercy and that's more important to him than dunking on the other avatar. ]

... I guess you all went through something personal...

[bonetiddies]

I think Sheila's right. So you may thank him by being a little less severe with him going forward.

[This is honestly character development though because she used to believe that Envy should mind being stabbed less stan Pride.]

[chevaleros]

[ this character development, wow. vira rests a hand against her cheek in an oh dear sort of gesture. ]

He seems like the type who's afraid of losing others, even if you did stab him.

[ in any case she also will not point out that it did not help. ]

How did you two manage after that?

[probe]

[you are all so mean to poor envy.

pride just rests their head against the wall - and then flinches? and pulls back, trying to stay sitting up.]

He died. [they say flatly.] Couldn't take him with me so I had to keep going.

[everybody is mean to poor envy including pride, apparently,]

[toesies]

Oh, Envy...

[To be fair, what would anyone else have done with the corpse? C'est un corpse.]

Do you need a pillow, or... something?

[Trying to ask if their head is okay without asking is their head is okay.]

[dotcom]

[ listen. corpses are heavy? they died in their weird hellscape and came back just fine?

but he just looks at sheila and moves on without commenting. someone else ask he's asked so many things. ]

[bonetiddies]

If he was dead, it was likely the right decision.

[Or maybe not, maybe it would be bad for Envy to revive in a weird hellscape instead of outside the simulation room, but like. Pride is tiny. I need y'all to know that this is still the shorties convention with Pride in the room. What could he realistically do.]

All of you made it back, in the end.