2017-09-12

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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[personal profile] loyalrebel2017-09-12 11:01 pm

LIFESIDE: Malik Reports (CW: death, torture, dismemberment)

[OOC NOTE: This is, timeline wise, well before Armin's message and within 12 hours of Matthew's request for a healer.]

this is Malik

i have information about what is beyond the barrier of ghosts

first of all DO NOT GO THERE ALONE

no matter how strong or fast or clever you think you are or how many skills you have or how upset and angry you are about anything

DO NOT GO IN UNTIL WE HAVE A PLAN OR YOU WILL GET KILLED

CW: death, torture, dismemberment )