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[ When you next open your eyes, you find yourself standing in a hallway of stained glass windows; the door behind you closes completely shut before disappearing, you in a corridor that leads to nowhere. You're stranded, here . . . wherever you are . . . ?

The light that reflects through the glass is a gentle one, and the whole place seems to glow, almost binding in illumination - it's been recently swept here, or otherwise recently polished so everything isn't so musty; still, there's a distinct feeling of heaviness in the air. One could almost mistake the feeling for reverence.

There's only one direction: forward, into the light. ]

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[ when you live in ☆ZRAEL, the idea of a natural phenomenon shoved into a small building doesn't seem all that unusual.

he reaches down to put his hand through one of the springs of water. one of the ones that isn't steaming, but he's still prepared to pull his hand back if it's too hot. ]

Is this holy water...?

[ It's cool to the touch, bizarrely. It just seems like water to you . . . ]

[ hmmm. is this holy water? does any water in heaven count as holy water???

he has no idea, so just in case, he's taking out one of the bottles Intensity gave him and filling it with water from the spring. ]

[ You now have ??holy water??.

Congrats! ]

[ doo-do-doo! he will go ahead and fill up the second bottle, too—if it turns out this isn't what he needs, he can just dump it later. then he tucks both bottles back inside his coat.

... now, what to do. he could just fumble around until he (hopefully) finds something, but that seems like such a pain. after considering for a moment, he flicks his hands upwards, attempting to make all the fog and steam rise upwards to the top of the cavern. he has no idea if Verticality can work on things that aren't solid—he's never tried—but hey, it's at least worth a shot. ]

[ the water vapor rises up, floating up and up to the top of the cavern. The rest of the cavern is laid bare for you to see.

Ridged stalagnates decorate the nearest third of the cavern, unlit candles standing on each ridge. With your vision cleared, you can also see every pool is marked with some sort of unreadable glyphs, with metal discs planted on the ground in front of all of them.

A little ways away, there seems to be some sort of netting that ties from one pillar to the other. ]

[ nice.

first things first—since he's already close to one of the pools, he bends down and brushes his hand over the metal disc, examining it more closely. ]

[ He touches it, and it begins to glow; he knows how to use it - he just needs to tap on it . . . ?

One - Wellness
Two - Healing
Three - Exorcism
Four - Extermination

Right now, it's set to Wellness. ]

[ oh.... well that's sure something. now he's wishing Intensity had given him more than two bottles.

he's going to tap it and set it to Three - Exorcism. ]

[ You set it to Exorcism! Are you going to Exorcism a mans???? ]

[ also, abruptly, you'll hear this sounding suspiciously like hurricane, reverberating through the walls: ]

Uh... hello?

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[ he... was about to go empty one of his bottles so he could re-fill it with EXORCISM water, but the voice makes him stop in his tracks.

he shouts back: ]

... Heeello, may I ask who's calling~?

[ and then he waits for an answer. ]

[ No response.

Huh! ]

[ wait. actually: ]

Anchors aweigh! All hands on deck, and full speed ahead.

[ ... weird.

after another few seconds of pause, he shrugs his shoulders and goes back to what he was doing. he empties one of the bottles back into another pool, then comes back to refill the bottle with water from the exorcism pool. ]

[ you have obtained the Exorcism Water (TM) ]

[ after a good 30 seconds of debating various things internally, he's going to set it to 4 - Extermination and try to repeat the same process with other bottle he has. ... a little more carefully, juuust in case. ]

[ Uh the bottle just literally dissolves.

Hm. ]

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[ and then, another, though this sounds like nemesis: ]

This is ops, we copy, but...

Don't burn your hand, okay...?

It's fine, it's fine. Pretty refreshing, actually! Maybe this is Heaven's version of a public drinking fountain? Gyahahaha.

... It's not hot?

[ hmmm ]

Well, you've never been to Lilith, right...? Maybe it'd be hot if you had?

—Oh, right, I remember Req mentioning that. That Hurricane got burned trying to touch a vat of holy water, or whatever...

So you do think this is holy water?

Mm. It's still kind of warm here, but if it's supposed to be blessed by Heaven, then it wouldn't burn anyone uncorrupted by their standards, right...? We could probably drink it, too.

[ she's not going to

but she's saying they could. maybe. ]

Hah... Bet it's the ultimate detox drink.

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