[OPEN] [Warning for cannibalism and gore!]

[shantiprayer]

((Backdated to before the icebreaker mingle
Warnings: References to and discussion of cannibalism. Maybe descriptions of gore? Also some crazy of a different flavor than last Jaunt.))


[Over the last couple of days Sera had steadily gotten more and more withdrawn. Surely that was understandable, given what had happened to her in the last Jaunt? Except it wasn't about that; it was something worse. Something she gave no other outward sign of until she was forced at last to reach out on the psychic network. Now without the strength to even try to filter her emotions, her mental voice brings with it her desperation, fear, and hunger. the thoughts come in fragments, like she's having trouble focusing.]

Please- Please, I need help- I- I have the Demon Virus. I need to devour-

REND. KILL. [Here there is a shift in the mental voice. It is still obviously Sera, but it feels different. It's harsher, almost feral, and brings with it a sensation of bloodlust. Sera's struggle against these alternate instincts can be felt as well. Desperate to stay in control, but slipping with terrifying frequency.]

No! Please I need to- Need to devour people- Devour or I lose control. But There's no enemies here. No morgue. I don't want to hurt-

OM MANI PADME HM

Don't want to hurt anyone- But- But if I don't devour I'll lose control- And then I'll hurt everyone! Please- Please, if the Virus takes over- Someone stop me before- Before I hurt my comrades-

EAT THEM ALL EAT THEM ALL EAT THEM ALL EAT THEM ALL EAT THEM ALL EAT THEM ALL!

No, please!


((OOC: Hijikata and Leonardo will be stopping her from rampaging, but in the meantime everyone's welcome to speak to her psychically!))

Comments

[rekkaning]

I'll look, too. [A few miles out isn't too specific, but time's ticking and it isn't as if she's unused to working with large areas. Sending out her scouting fish will make it easier, too.]

If...a small flying fish comes near you... don't worry, that's mine. Hang in there.

[shantiprayer]

Thank you- Should have help- Others coming- But if they can't- [If they can't it'll probably be too late by the time Rekka finds anything, but Sera certainly isn't going to turn down the attempt at help. If there's even a slight chance that it'd happen fast enough, she can't afford not to take it.]

I'll try not- To not attack it- From instinct-

LITTLE SNACK

hope you don't mind the time-skip?

[rekkaning]

[What Rekka does not know is that she won't find anything by the time another solution is found. But if she always waited on the assumption that someone else would do something, she'd be dead.]

[Later, after things have settled down a bit, she... Well, there's a question she's been wanting to ask but has been afraid to, and now there isn't the excuse of "more important things are going on right now" to hide behind.]

Hey... Seraphita. [Since that's the only name she knows Sera by.] ... You didn't lose control of it...because of Harrogate, did it?

Works for me!

[shantiprayer]

[When Rekka reestablishes the connection, there's no longer the feel of hunger and demonic instincts coloring Sera's end. She does seem to wince when addressed as Seraphita though.]

It's just Sera, when I'm myself.

[It comes across with more bite than she'd intended. She pauses, likely while taking a deep breath to calm herself, then continues.]

Sorry. No, I didn't. Not really. The more I use demon's powers, the more I have to devour to stay in control. When I got back to Liminal Space last time, I panicked.

[rekkaning]

Sera.

[She can understand freaking out; she'd lost track of the Stranger by the end, but that was because she'd had her own trouble to deal with.]

What kind of powers do you have, that you'd use them there?

[shantiprayer]

I...

[She's hesitant, but takes a moment to steady herself and continues anyway.]

I can transform into another form that's bigger and stronger, with natural weapons. In that form I can breathe underwater too, so it was instinct to change when I woke up underwater. I can do magic too, especially ice magic and healing magic.

[rekkaning]

[So the change came from being underwater... That's a lot more reasonable than what Rekka thought had happened.]

I see... Seems useful. No harm done, then... [Well, except for the...'hunger pang' just now, but that's been resolved for now, so.]

I suppose the healing doesn't work on the problem you were having?

[shantiprayer]

[Well, being underwater and panicking to hunt certain people down and use very powerful healing magic they didn't actually need on them just to be sure. Still a fair bit different than what Rekka was certainly imagining.]

No, it can heal physical wounds but can't make up for the lack of needed energy. The energy needed to cast the spell would actually make it worse, if I tried.