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[ibalsamina]

[The Grumpearl projects an image: a long-furred Yungoos seated primly on a wooden Canopy platform. Her grin is restrained, showing only a sliver of her sharp fangs, and her surroundings are awash with color: the greens of lush foliage and the vibrant blossoms of various flowers, both growing naturally in the trees and collected for display around the edges of the platform.]

Hello, everyone. I hope you are all faring well, in spite of the extraordinary circumstances. I am still familiarizing myself with this "Grumpearl" device, so I also hope you can forgive me for any technical difficulties that may arise.

[Observing her in this moment, it's hard to imagine that there even could be any such technical difficulties. She is perfectly framed and her thoughts are silent—almost eerily so. Try as she might to make it all seem effortless, it seems she is trying very hard, in fact, to keep them focused and to herself. Not a single stray thought allowed.]

My name is Lusamine Mendel, and I was very recently recruited into the Cheri Guild. Although I am still new to this world, I intend to do everything I can to be of assistance to you all. If there is ever anything I might be able to help you with, please do not hesitate to ask.

[The dark green gem fastened around her neck gleams as she tilts her head.]

Now, I have a simple question for recent arrivals and longtime residents of Bottlecap Bay alike, if you wouldn't mind indulging me. What is the last thing you recall happening before you were transported into this world?

Comments

[improvking]

[ Hm. She got hit with cleansing light too? Perhaps a former fellow evil spirit, then? ]

I did. I couldn't make out what was being said... but it was trying to draw me somewhere. possibly here? it seemed to bridge the time between my being erased and waking up here.

[ibalsamina]

Yes... I experienced the very same. However... I was fortunate enough not to awaken in the ocean after I transformed. I awoke in the forest myself.

This "holy light" you spoke of... What was its origin?

[improvking]

the apotheosized Pharaoh... a human god-king, his divinity fully achieved.

bastard decided he didn't ~approve~ of me.

[ What with how the Ring-Spirit had been in the middle of turning the land of the living into a hellscape of darkness. He doesn't quite give that much away, but there's a definite sense that he's leaving something out of the equation as presented. ]

[ibalsamina]

A severe punishment, to be sure... Whatever could you have done to deserve such a thing?

[improvking]

as I said, Pharaoh didn't like me. that's high treason you know.

he didn't always have the innate power to back that up with me. I guess with his ascension he was taking the opportunity.

[ ..."I'm not lying to you, I'm just not telling you the full story. There's a difference~" ]