synopsychic | Psychic Bridge II to everyone jauntside

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.]

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It looks like I'll be borrowing Beatrice's form to perform the ritual. If you're sure you want to learn it too, you can be the failsafe - to complete the ritual if something happens to Beatrice and I. Or, if you're willing and I'm still able, to lend me your form to complete it.

I do want to learn! I love learning magic and lore and stuffs and I always help Beatrice!

That's good.

Tell me, how much do you know about eldritch beings? [How much does he have to explain, before he can start with the ritual?]

Um. They live around here. They're even bigger and worse than the Trumps. They're alien gods, sort of? And if you know too much about them you go crazy.

Yes, that's right. You... understand that learning how to do this will make you more vulnerable to them, right?

Uu. It's okay. You have to risk a lot to get the results you want.

[He feels a strange sense of regret that she understands this, but can't quite figure out why. She understands the need... that should be good for them, shouldn't it?]

And the results we want are important enough to risk a lot.

So... the ritual we're going to try to do is to bind Bernkastel, so there's no more room for Nyarlathotep inside her.

That makes sense. If Bern is full of Bern, then there's no room for Nyarlathotep.

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