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[ The water begins to bubble, rising up and up in the bowl like a fountain, until it spills out of the bowl in waves, soaking into the dirt and around them. Still, though it overflows, the bowl seems no less empty than before - and the water climbs up and up and up, until the fountain becomes the gentle waterfall of a small stream no bigger than the circumference of the bowl. Through the waterfall, you can see -

Like a broken tail light, flickering and inconsistent in its brightness, a lump of faulty lighting takes center stage of the waterfall, by and large covered up by the tattered, human-like skinsuit you could recognize as Mehniel, though their outer layer is torn enough that you can see bits of feather and fur poking out, and on the floor around them are abandoned bits of feather and hair too, dim light now that they've been torn out. Behind them you can catch the vague shape of something, though you'll largely see the lights illuminating it from underneath a bevelled stone indent in the ground. Currently, the lights are a dull, constant red. If you squint you can see a glimpse of the wall behind; on it are hieroglyphs, unreadable to you. ]

PLOT TOPLEVELS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER W/ CONTENT WARNINGS:
TALK WITH THE ANGEL - cw mild body horror in Yugi's thread
! IT'S THE FEDS
THURSDAY ACTIONS TURN-IN
THURSDAY: PRE-FIGHT - cw vein/artery mention in Requiem's thread
THURSDAY: FIGHT - cw dismemberment, decapitation via explosion, eye horror, body horror
THURSDAY: POST-FIGHT - cw body horror (yugi, nemesis) dismemberment, decapitation, general gruesomeness (king) implied suicide (hurricane)

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Mehniel?

Holy crap, dude, are you okay? Where are you?

[But his eyes flicker to the shape behind the angel - linger, and then linger longer. Because that... that looks awfully familiar. That looks like a place he's never, ever going to forget.]

[

sharply, ]

Obviously not! And, how should I know that!

[ same old bird. ]

Well, how - how'd you get there?

C'mon, you gotta give us something. Otherwise, how're we gonna bust you out?

[ that's true. the tone of their previous words washes away, replaced with embarrassment. ]

....... When I landed in Hell, I was surrounded by those I thought were other angels - I was foolish. They captured me and put me in a metal contraption - some sort of demonic carriage.

A demon carriage?

And they just - what, took off with you? How'd the carriage work?

?

Are you fascinated with the carriage? At this time?

[ bewildered, but ]

It sounded like it was a horrifying beast.

I wanna know about anything we can use to get us from here to there. If they got some kinda carriage, that's an option we didn't know about before.

You got any idea where they took you? Like, what direction, how long you were traveling...?

No idea!

I could not say, I was asleep for some portion of the journey.

[ useless ]

Okay. Okay, that's - we can still figure this out.

You know how to travel between hells or whatever?

Just how would I know that!? This is my first time here!

[

,

winces

yelling is bad ]

Okay. Okay, no big. Don't worry, dude; we can figure that part out.

[He's quiet for a second or two, trying to figure out what else to ask.]

You said a bunch of demons who looked like angels grabbed you, yeah? You see any of em? You got descriptions, or names...?

... There was one with many eyes, that smelled of lilies. One with lion's feet, that smelled of roses. One with burned legs, that smelled of myrrh.

The last crackled like lightning, and smelled of the rain.

No names? And no, like - hair, color, eye color, height, wing count...?

Was that last one going barefoot?

This is already a dangerous connection. Speaking their names would be rash.

[ with a pause ]

Not that I know most of their names anyway. I heard something about an "oracle" and a "messenger", though.

What were they talking about? You overhear anything when they were bringing you here, or when they showed up?

Something about a message from the Almighty? I don't understand. That person - I couldn't tell if she was a demon or not.

How come? Can't you usually smell that kinda stuff?

I can. But she . . .

[ hum ]

It could have been her ability. My senses would never betray me, but I believed she was an angel from the moment I saw her.

Her ability? You know something about what she can do?

To put it bluntly: she has a lot of charm!

Any idea how to, uh... not get charmed, when we come and get you?

Pray that you don't run into her!

Okay. Stealth mission. Got it.

We, uh. We gonna need anything special to get you out when we get there? Like... what's holding you in, anyway?

I haven't checked the door yet. I haven't been able to move.

What, like - at all? What's holding you down?

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