During the second fourth wall liminal

[darkhourdear]

 Um, guys? There's definitely a voice in the thunder but I can't hear what it's saying. Has anyone else heard it? I mean I could only hear it with Sithen ears, so probably not but... I can try to analyze it with my Persona, but I'm not sure what good it'll do.

And... I guess has anyone figured out anything about it this time? There's a lot of stuff.

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[solvethepuzzle]

[He gradually crawls through everything being said here, and, after a few moments deigns to offer something up himself.]

That sense of paranoia inflicted on us is not natural. Protections against the eldritch are able to clear it.

[darkhourdear]

...That doesn't seem like a good sign...

[solvethepuzzle]

No, it isn't. [Obviously. He's been mad with eldritch-induced paranoia before. It had been far from pleasant. The sense here had been at least far weaker than it had been for him in Harrogate.] This is the first confirmed indication of eldritch influence in Liminal Space in some time.

[darkhourdear]

Could it... be something else? [hopefully??]

[solvethepuzzle]

If it weren't eldritch in nature, the magic I used to banish it would not have worked. [He is not here to comfort anyone. These are just facts.]

[darkhourdear]

[damniiiiiiit.

excuse him he'll just. quietly panic. and stay inside now.]

...Can you tell anything else from it?

[solvethepuzzle]

[Well, if you're going to get so upset, then yes you might as well stay out of the way and let clear-headed people handle things.]

The robed figure doesn't react to it. [So the paranoia is eldritch, but the being everyone only catches glimpses of? It's not, apparently.]

[darkhourdear]

[look he got turned into a shadow monster and it was not fun he doesn't want a repeat.]

That's. Well, not as bad, at least.

[solvethepuzzle]

[He got driven insane by eldritch magic and doesn't want a repeat of that, and he's still out here for now. Of course, that's because he learned the protective magic. Otherwise he'd probably consider it too dangerous for himself and hole up inside, too.

[More out of practicality than fear, though.] Which still leaves the question as to who or what it is.

[Possibly a Trump. Or maybe just an especially paranoid new arrival.]