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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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Me?

[ with a crackle, his body glitching out - is he closer? ]

Security detail for our lady Oracle. You're trying to visit her, right?

Edited 2019-08-20 07:13 (UTC)

What can I say? She's hard to track down.

[He goes to take a step back - hisses, and catches himself, shifting his weight so that the fake leg takes more of it.]

You got a name, security dude?

Edited 2019-08-20 07:16 (UTC)

Hey, I've got a few, even. Depends on who you're asking.

[ with a pause ]

You don't look so good, guy. Tell you what, you turn around and pretend this whole thing never happened, and I'll do the same. Water under the bridge, right?

I'm asking you.

[He hesitates a beat at that - glances toward Nem.]

...pretty sure that's a no can do. We, uh. We made a promise to someone.

You wanna help us out, answer a couple questions so we don't gotta bug your boss, maybe we can play pretend.

Yes, yes. You want to know what my favorite color is, right? It's yellow.

Kinda had some other stuff in mind.

Well, don't be disappointed if I don't have an answer for you.

You can start with the name thing. For real, dude, what do I call you?

If you don't know it, then you can just call me Furfur. Professional name.

Okay... Furfur. Sure.

You, uh. You probly know what this is about, huh?

I know exactly as much as I need to know.

So you know what we're after?

Cause the thing is, we don't gotta get into your boss's place if we can get the deets somewhere else.

You don't get to get in, anyway. That was never on the table - the only thing you get is to choose whether you want to do this the easy way or the hard way.

Edited 2019-08-20 18:19 (UTC)

I mean. Pretty sure that's up to you?

I told you, we made a promise to someone. You wanna give us something we can work with, we can walk. We don't super wanna tangle with you, either.

I'm just waiting for a question, guy.

We're looking for someone. We wanna know how to get to where he is from where we are.

Oh, that. You can't! There, done.

Okay. Where can we get to there from?

No clue! That's above my paygrade.

But there's a way?

Probably?

[Takes... kind of a shaky breath in.]

Okay. Okay, cool.

That's something, anyway. I can work with that.

Need anything else?

I mean... if you're in a chatty kinda mood.

You and him used to know each other, yeah?

Haha, man, that brings me back. Yeah, we were both destruction angels.

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