Psychic Bridge II to everyone jauntside

[neverfeltthatway]

It's Armin.

[The text is somehow bigger and bolder than usual when the network is like this, attracting your attention even if you'd usually try to filter it out or ignore it.]

Yes, I'm dead. Well and truly dead, not just a ghost, but I can still access the network. I'm not really sure how. I'm broadcasting to both sides right now, so this connection will only last about half an hour. But everyone, please listen - this is important. Before she tortured and killed me, I recognized the being inside Bernkastel.

It's Nyarlathotep.

Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos. One of the outer gods. I think the ghost Bernkastel was in is essentially his overlay now - merging with her didn't give him access to the network, at least. Don't approach the lakebed - not yet. You don't stand a chance on your own, any more than I did.

But I have a plan.

I can teach the living to make talismans that will repel the god. If we have groups to distract and repel him, there's a brief ritual that can separate him from his host, and do to the witch what they've been doing to other ghosts, stripping and consuming will and power.

Doing that should leave him adrift - as long as he's being repelled, he'll have no choice but to return to where he came from. If he's not being repelled, he'll be free to do as he pleases. This is all if there's someone ghostside willing to lend me your form in order to perform the ritual.

It will be hard, and incredibly dangerous. We'll need to coordinate and work together, and I can't promise we'll all survive. But it can be - it must be done.


[ooc note: in game, this post takes place after Malik will have reported Armin's death to everyone lifeside, even though Bix hasn't thrown it up yet.]

Comments

[helborn]

Maybe we can find you a squirt gun of holy water or something, that seems to work okay.

[neverfeltthatway]

Holy water would work on the poltergeist, the evil spirits, but would only be mildly annoying to the witch and the Chaos.

[helborn]

I mean that's true, but you need the distractions clear so they don't interrupt you.

[neverfeltthatway]

I was clarifying, for Eren's benefit.

[He didn't want Eren to misunderstand and start spraying Bernthotep, expecting it to be effective.]

[bite_the_hand]

Holy water? So if I get a bucket of whatever that is and-

[And there's Armin answering his question before he can finish it. Oh well, it was worth a shot. Probably for the best that it won't work, anyway. Thorne would never let him live it down if he tried to go all Wizard of Oz on this witch without even knowing that reference.]

So the holy water is the ammo for these squirt gun things, right? I'll take one, but I don't want that to be the only thing I'm relying on.

[helborn]

Well it's not typical ammo, but it does hurt some of them. Not the main ones, but we need clear shots at what we're going after.

[bite_the_hand]

Which is why I'll take one, but I don't want to be totally relying on it. Guns can run out of ammunition. [He's used to going into battle with weapons that run on limited supplies - the gear used to fight Titans can only store so much of the pressurized gas that makes it work, can only hold so many blades at a time - but that's still not a situation he likes to be in if he can help it.]