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Myriad Reality

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*The chunk bounces off of the barrier and hurtles to the ground*

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*At the same time Veil and Noct come back from the Queen's chamber with the second ring*

@Vacare

Did you find the room you were looking for?

Myriad Reality

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*When you open it up you find out its a journal of sorts. You stop on a particular entry*

"... I fell in love with her, despite having fallen in love with someone prior. But I cannot help myself, I am merely human. If only there was an easier way to tell her, but I confronted her by the lake where we first met. Oh Laila, I'm sorry - I'm sorry for being only one person. I'm sorry that I couldn't keep a leash on my heart." - Michael Evans, 21st of Summer, year 933

@Vacare

Closes the book and latches it to an unseen mechanism hidden within the folds of my dress, and makes my way back out into the hall*

Myriad Reality

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*As you trace the maps you notice a small notebook by the side of the bed.*

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*You don't smell anything out of the ordinary, just the smell of dust and ruin. However, as you look on you do notice a faint barrier around the castle.*

@Vacare

*Snatches the notebook from the bed and shimmies into a corner before opening it up*

Myriad Reality

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*As you do you reach a peculiar room that looks different from the others. Decorated with banners and maps and trophies of conquest*

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*As you climb you notice the shadows refusing to enter the castle. As if something was stopping them*

@Vacare

*Sneaks into the room and traces the patterns of the maps*
Huh...

Myriad Reality

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*As she vanishes I continue down the hallway in search of the bedroom*

@Vacare

*Peeks into the rooms as I jaunt down the hall, sticking to shadows*

Myriad Reality

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I'll continue down the hallway here then, let's meet up at the stairs once we're done.

@Vacare

*Salutes*
Aye aye.
*Twirls to the left and vanishes into the shadows*

Myriad Reality

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Sure... It should be safe... Unless you run into shadows again.

@Vacare

If I do, I'll let you know.
*Motions my thumb to the left*
I'll head this way and meet up with you later.

Myriad Reality

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Then I think it's up to us to piece together what happened. Let's search first the queen's quarters. It should be the biggest room here.

@Vacare

Think we should split up? We could cover more ground that way.

Myriad Reality

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There was a thing like this back on my old world... Places marked with such sadness and hate that the spirits and feelings lingered as a wound in the world. Going through them, people would hallucinate and lose themselves in the miasma of the past. It works a little differently here... I think... And this is just conjecture... But whoever's still lingering here suffered so much and left a wound on this land...

@Vacare

Then it’s up to us to fix it!

Myriad Reality

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I think the thing responsible for the shadow is an event in the past... This place... The more I look around... It looks like it was sieged.

*I kneel down noticing a fallen banner and pick it up*

A banner of red and gold. Different from the tattered blue and white decorations downstairs...

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Destroying the place would be tactless... I know where you're coming from. If we just remove the source of the pain then it'd be fine. But I think this person just wants recognition... Someone to remember... Someone to piece together the story... Someone to make this place a home again. Otherwise, it'd tell us to just level this place. But that's just my conjecture.

@Vacare

Do you think the magic worked on its own to make this, or did someone have to cast it?