The City of the Specter, Atem's Palace

[metagame]

The corpse sinks to the floor
Even the brightest gold, even the sharpest blade
Becomes sand, becomes dust

Comments

[beathollow]

You're scared, right? If it's like what happened to me, something is hurting him, changing him, but you don't know what.

[metagame]

"If you really wanted to help him, none of would have killed those guards!"

Mafuyu isn't very convincing according to Avrae... stares at that (2)...

[beathollow]

... Killed- what?

( she's genuinely shocked, for what it's worth. )

[metagame]

"Don't play dumb with me!"

Mana points at Shalem, then Joshua, then Haruka.

"Those guards were only trying to do their jobs! But they had to go and start a fight!"

[beathollow]

( mafuyu covers her mouth, pale. ... paler, that is. )

... I truly didn't know. I'm so sorry.

[finalmix]

[ mana can do no wrong because hey she's Valid but then again josh is feeling very attacked right now!

also i used up my action for this round so he can be unconvincing as heck, but ]

Sure, even if I did start the fight [ you threw a pot at them, josh ], they were all kind of skiving on the job anyway.

[ why ELSE would they be eavesdropping and laughing at the group instead, you know???? ]

[beathollow]

( joshua you are so lucky she decided to friendship no jutsu you this week or she would be smacking you right now )

[finalmix]

[ smack him anyway he deserves it ]

[emptyself]

Shut up, Joshua.

[finalmix]

[ ignoring! ]

[emptyself]

[ also extremely shocked ]

They...what?

[metagame]

She swings her wand to point at Soujuurou.

"I said what I said!"

[emptyself]

[ HE WASN'T EVEN THERE! HE WAS WITH ATEM!! except soujuurou's not going to make excuses. he looks genuinely disgusted, not with the priests but with his own teammates, but part of him figures that they won't get farther ahead unless they defeat them.

he puts himself back in fighting position, fists tucked close to his chest. ]

Fine. I guess you have a right to fight us.

[cleansewithfire]

Wait, what?

[ What happened after she left guys??? ]

[metagame]

"You heard me! Your 'friends' killed the guards!"

[cleansewithfire]

[ She's looking at Shalem and it is now finally occurring to her that Shalem is, perhaps, not entirely hinged right now. ]

I see.

A moment, please.

[ Sunrise this is not how you should handle this probably—]