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Who: Nightingale and you
Broadcast: Video
Action: If you're on the Caprine
When: August 14

[It took Nightingale a bit to get around to posting this, and she seems oddly nervous as she does. Still, as the feed comes on, she takes a deep breath.]

Hey. So, for anyone who doesn't know me, I'm Nightingale. I got here... a month or two ago? I guess, somewhere in there. But this is actually my second time doing this sort of thing- I'm now two worlds removed from home, which is fucking great. But it sounds like I'm not the only one like this. I'm starting to suspect there's more of us in that boat here than there are people who have never done this before.

So I wanted to just gather information. See how many of these different interdimensional hellholes there are. I know of two others that were... suspiciously similar to the place I was at before, so maybe there are more themes to these places I haven't figured out yet. And I've heard of a few more since I got here, so.. Yeah. I'd like to hear what those places were, why they told you you were there, what they made you do there... If you went back home then came here, or got taken here straight from there, and so on. Things like that. A record of these things might come in handy eventually, you know?

Thanks for listening.

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What was it like? What were you brought there for, and what did you have to do there?

It was a magic castle, very idyllic landscape with a town full of people not far away. If you were on the castle grounds, material wishes within reason could be granted. We weren't exactly expected to do anything openly, just do as we pleased.

However, it seemed that the castle itself was...alive, in some sense. We found evidence that it fed off the souls and emotions of people it captured. Anyone there had something important taken away from them- an item, an ability, a memory. Sometimes as if to make sure emotions ran high- the castle would...change the setting. Sometime the change would be a nice change in scenery, or very bizarre- and sometimes it'd be horrific and we'd have to fight for our lives.

Also it didn't help that the castle seemed to have a tendency to bring in violent people, so when the castle wasn't trying to murder us, people would try to murder each other.

[Fun times all around]

[there's the scratching sound of writing as Allen talks.]

That town full of people... They weren't people who were brought there, like you, were they?

[There's a pause.]

No, they were people once brought there like we were. But the castle had fed on them so for long they had been....drained dry. They were...essentially husks of whoever they used to be.

[But hey, bright side- free stuff?!?!?]

Edited 2015-08-15 02:55 (UTC)

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[There's a sigh there.]

A castle, with people who were like you, but a fundamental difference... It sounds similar to my place, but almost worse.

[You know, except for the regular repeated torture and murder that happened.]

Mm...

Apparently there were other castles in that world that also took people and fed on them- each one with different means. I almost wonder if our castles were in the same world.

Not possible. Our castle wasn't in any world.

It was...floating in space?

Blank white void. I never saw it happen personally, but if you went too far away from the castle, it... did bad things.

[He considers that]

Hmm...it's not completely impossible it wasn't in the same world. The first year our generation was in Paradisa- our region was an isolated zone. If we tried to go past the mountains, it'd return us right back to the castle. The barrier eventually faded away so we could travel further, but...

Well, it's not impossible you were in that same sort of isolation zone, but with more severe consequences.

Edited 2015-08-15 03:14 (UTC)

[shakes her head.]

The castle was a world that had... met the same fate as everyone else's there. So, I'm still saying it's unlikely.

That story...where did you hear it?

I mean...what proof did they have that that story was true?

... The Queen who ruled that castle. And every other Echo there.

....

That's it? What's an echo?

... People who were like us, but... For whatever reason, they gained god-like power, but in exchange, could never get their memories or home back.

One of the ones who told us is someone I trust absolutely.

I see....

[That sounds fake, but alright. Sure.]

I wonder why they would make that sort of choice.... [Over an entire world, that's rough]

They didn't have the choice.

...Ah.

Sorry to hear that.

... Well. It can't be helped, so there's not much point in focusing on that part.

[AKA, she really doesn't want to think about that because that's fucking depressing.]