Not dead yet.

I wonder if I’ll ever see my sister again.

Breaking the cycle? Nah. We’re tortured forever up in this bitch.

He will NEVER escape the cycle of Samsara

Feels a bit lively around here. More than usual, anyways.

⠀⠀ ⠀ ─ ๋࣭ ✦.` ᴡʜɪʟᴇ ʜᴇ ᴡᴀs ᴅᴇᴀᴅ 、     ⠀  𝕷𝐀𝐙𝐀𝐑𝐔𝐒 ʟɪᴋᴇᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ᴛᴀsᴛᴇ ᴏғ 𝕯𝑼𝑺𝑻 、 ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀  ⠀⠀ɪᴛ`s ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ     ⠀ ⠀ᴀ ʟᴏɴɢ 𝕾𝐓𝐑𝐄𝐓𝐂𝐇 ; sʟᴇᴇᴘɪɴɢ ᴡɪᴛʜ 𝕯𝑼𝑺𝑻 . ​ 

─ ๋࣭ ✦.【 𝐃𝐄 𝕻𝐑𝐎𝐅𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐈𝐒 . 】@vagabondprayers.bsky.social · 5mo ago

⠀ ⠀⠀  ⠀  ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ's ɴᴏᴛ ᴍ͟ᴜ͟ᴄ͟ʜ ʜᴇʀᴇ 、     ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ʜᴀs ʙᴇᴇɴ 𝕸𝐔𝐂𝐇 ɪɴ ᴛʜɪs 𝕰𝐌𝐏𝐓𝐘 ʀᴏᴏᴍ . ⠀⠀. . . ʙᴜᴛ ── ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ  ɪs  ᴀ  ᴅ͟͟͟ ͟ᴏ͟͟͟ ͟ᴏ͟͟͟ ͟ʀ͟.      ʏᴏᴜ   ᴄᴀɴ   𝕷𝐄𝐀𝐕𝐄 ɪғ ʏᴏᴜ'ᴅ ʟɪᴋᴇ . ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ's ᴀʟᴡᴀʏs ᴛʜᴇ 𝕯𝑶𝑶𝑹 .    ⠀

Spent brass littering the ground. Walls sticky with gore. Glass scattered on the streets. Survival is paramount.

// funger verse is real…?

He’s already tried to kill me once. Given the opportunity, I don’t doubt he’d try again. [ Trying to run from his past, and here he was, getting involved with mobsters again. . ] Just means that I’m not going to give him the chance to.

𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐃 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋.@pathofgrogoroth.bsky.social · 7mo ago

i won't tell a soul if you do. some people. they won't be missed by anyone. i think he is one of those individuals. ( a beat. thin brows furrow. ) mm. that sounds cruel of me. but i can feel it. he's rancid to the core.

[ Marcoh clenched his fists. He’d ran into the bastard before — or more specifically, the bastard tried to ambush him in his sleep. Marcoh almost had him. Almost. He got away. ] He resembles a walking piece of shit more than a man. If we ever run into him again. . I’m not holding back.

𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐃 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋.@pathofgrogoroth.bsky.social · 7mo ago

mm, even some of the folks that came off of the same train had, ah. what do people call it. 'bad vibes'? especially that caligura man ... ( scrunching up her nose at the mere mention. ) i make it a point to retain my kindness. even in a situation as horrid as this.

It’s not so bad, but I get what you mean. [ Magic was something completely foreign to Marcoh. Though, if there was one thing that he was good at, it was fighting. ] You’d be surprised. . some people can be cruel. [ Cruelty in this town was anything but surprising. ]

𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐃 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋.@pathofgrogoroth.bsky.social · 7mo ago

i never did take a train before i came here. i think this all will kind of deter me from going on one ever again. ( she does feel a bit more protected with someone much physically stronger than her around. especially if she gets caught in something she caught out-muscle. ) aha, you don't owe -->

[ A slight smile formed on Marcoh’s face in response, if only for a moment. Then, that familiar stoic expression returned. ] I’m Marcoh. I was on a train out of Vatican City, but then it ended up stopping here. . now I’m caught up in all this. >>

𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐃 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋.@pathofgrogoroth.bsky.social · 7mo ago

i will be sure to watch your back then. ✨ ( even despite their circumstances, she manages a smile. if she doesn’t here now and then, she felt like she could lose her humanity all together. and she’s much too stubborn for that these days. ) i am eve. i am … very far from home. but i prefer —>

// i just remembered that i had daan in my party and he fucking DIED on the Kaiser fight right before I got ending A. bro is never going to ascend and become a collective consciousness

[ Sin was something that could take many forms. For Marcoh, that was guilt. He’d killed a man in the boxing ring under the orders of a mob boss. It was an immense burden that he carried. . one that would eat him up from the inside if he wasn’t careful. ] >>

𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐃 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋.@pathofgrogoroth.bsky.social · 7mo ago

i was lucky to be rather acquainted with the local eccentric librarian. it taught me everything i needed to learn from there. ( never mind the sins she’s committed to get this far with it all. no one is a saint. not here. not anymore, even if they were before. though, she doubts anyone was. ) —>

Guess that makes two of us, then. . [ It wouldn’t be the first time Marcoh’s learned a lesson that way. Definitely not the last. . ] Books, huh? How does that saying go? “The pen is mightier than the sword.” [ Perhaps even more so, when the pen is calling upon powers of dead eldritch gods. ]

𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐃 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋.@pathofgrogoroth.bsky.social · 7mo ago

i learned that lesson the hard way. i go for the head myself. ( phew … taken care of. she pulls her bag off of her back and rummage about in it. surely she has stuff she can share for him. ) ah, the magic? i spent a lot of time going over books about stuff like that. though, most of the magic —>

[ Marcoh was hesitant for a moment as she whispered out the healing words of Sylvian. Though, that hesitation turned to relief when the wounds on his hands began to close on their own, staunching the steady drips of blood coming from his knuckles. ] . . .

𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐃 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋.@pathofgrogoroth.bsky.social · 7mo ago

( her usually blank expression softens a bit as she takes his bloodied knuckles into her small hands. closing them over his and murmuring to herself. healing whispers. most of her magic is offensive, but it helps to be prepared. ) stomp them out once they drop. they are not as likely to get up.

Let’s take a look. . [ His hands are bleeding, knuckles stained with crimson. Some is his own, some. . well. ] Ran into a Bobby. He kept getting back up, so I just kept swinging. . [ It looked as if his hands had been scraped on asphalt for a mile. Geez. . ]

𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐃 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋.@pathofgrogoroth.bsky.social · 7mo ago

it’s a miracle that i haven’t been jabbed by any unknown needles yet. though, that has been the last of my worries. do you need bandages? are you injured right now?

Can’t find one bandage in this fucked up town — not a single one, but you know what you CAN find? Oh, y’know. HEROIN. In the trash, of all things. Gimme a fuckin’ break. .

Falling deeper, and deeper. . It’s not the fall that gets you. It’s the sudden stop.

[ Majora wasn’t the only one who had that feeling. With danger lurking around every corner, being paranoid had it’s merits. ] The forest? [ Marcoh rose a brow. ] What kind of beast are we talking about here, exactly?

Majjy@mujuraofchaos.bsky.social · 10mo ago

“I wasn’t on the train, so I wouldn’t know. I came to this town through the forest.” Majora would shiftily look around them. It was as if he was paranoid. “Some damned beast won’t leave me alone. It’d be nice to drive it off, but it’s pretty strong.”

// Interesting time to be a funger fan

O LORD GIVE UPDATE

[ So far, Marcoh had been alright on his own. It’s a struggle. Part of his mind wants to keep going it alone, though survival takes precedent. Another hand wouldn’t hurt. . ] . . I suppose I don’t, for now. I don’t think I remember seeing you on the train.

Majjy@mujuraofchaos.bsky.social · 10mo ago

“You’re not wrong. A lot of things are happening. I just don’t know what.” The horned man looked absolutely clueless, but perhaps he had an opportunity. A possible partner in crime. “The name’s Majora. I hope you don’t mind me tagging along.”

You’ve got that right. I don’t think it’s just the war that’s done a number on this place.

Majjy@mujuraofchaos.bsky.social · 10mo ago

“Weird name for a town. Nobody belongs here right now. Just look at this place. Dead bodies, and distorted beings.”

What the hell is all this about a stinger?

In times like these, numbing the senses would be preferable compared to staring down whatever abomination awaited them outside the safety of the PRHVL Bop.

𝐒𝐇𝐀𝐃𝐎𝐖𝐄𝐃 𝐒𝐎𝐔𝐋.@pathofgrogoroth.bsky.social · 10mo ago

a strong drink … she wishes she could get her hands on some wine.