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[abandon_hope]

WHO: Lily + vistors!!
WHERE: it's the Lily barn!
WHEN: Postgame, morning of 75

[ WHEW LILY it sure has been a busy week! We have a lot of things to talk about!!

which is to say, we probably have assorted pillows and blankets piled into our new basement living room, with breakfast happening in the kitchen and jellyfish hangin' around elsewhere. and our assorted? fish related prizes??? ]

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[abandon_hope]

[ Kevin is still mcfuckin exhausted and also blind so you know what. He's made a small nest of blankets over here in the corner of one of the couches, albeit with his head very much poking out and enough of a cavern inside the blankets that he's not being squished in by them.

He has one of the memory coins they won and is now turning it over in his fingers carefully. hard to tell what he's looking at when he can't see. ]

What even is this?

[audacity]

[ cepheus had made himself pretty scarce in between meris things and the last ritual, but today he goes out of his way to make himself available. he!! is!! checking in!! on all of you!!!!!! less hovering than being present, or trying to be.

while holding his jar of baby moon jellies, probably. in between trying to help he's definitely showing them around lily's barn and meadow and talking to them softly, pausing now and again to listen, then laugh in response. ]

[spinebuddyandme]

[ Ananke's curled up in the corner of one of the couches with a book and a tall mug of piping hot tea beside him. He's occasionally shooting suspicious looks at a small beetle robot that's pacing around the ceiling and walls of the room ]

[spinebuddyandme]

[ sitting on the other end of the couch ]

It's a memory coin. Most rituals give them out to winners.

[abandon_hope]

Ananke?

[ he's pretty sure, given the tone, but not being able to see expressions is a HUGE pain. ]

What's a memory coin do?

[spinebuddyandme]

[ Nods

and makes a face when he catches himself ]

Yeah, it's me. It, uh. You throw it into the fountain in the middle of town, and it'll play one of your memories on the surface of the water.

[abandon_hope]

[ yeah your nods do nothing right now.

Kevin frowns instinctively, still turning the coin over in his hands. ]

What happens if you throw it in while you remember everything?

[endsjustified]

[charon has quietly dealt with the rest of his Ongoing Changes offscreen so. he's in a light shirt with parts of the back and sleeves torn out and pants that are also torn from the knee down to accomodate the growth of bony fins. you can see scales on every inch of his skin that shows, pale and translucently iridescent. it might be kind of weird to see him without his heavy outerwear on actually? he's still a big guy but he looks a lot less bulky without it.

(if you get up close to him it's also like. is that a bunch of scarring under the scales?)

he's puttering around the barn for the first little bit of the morning, tidying and making people an easy to digest breakfast in a weird parody of normalcy. but sometime later morning the dry air effect gets bad enough you can find him awkwardly writing notes at the edge of the saltwater lake while half-submerged instead, trying his best to keep the notebook from getting too wet.

up to you when you hit him up!]

[abandon_hope]

[ as breakfast is being handled, Kevin lifts his head up from his small blanket nest. he can't see the changes, but with vision gone, his supernatural senses are a bit sharper. And Charon feels ... weird. ]

Did you get worse?

[spinebuddyandme]

I think it still plays a memory, but it can be from any point in your life. I don't know if it's random or not... Styx used them sometimes, so Minuet might know if he got to pick what got shown or not.

[abandon_hope]

[ urgh. that's a different problem. Kevin makes a face. ]

Who's Styx?

[spinebuddyandme]

One of our old teammates. He, uh, left a little while ago.

[abandon_hope]

Oh.

[ That sounds suspiciously like a euphemism. ]

What happens to people when they leave?

[spinebuddyandme]

A lot of them get sent back home to the same point in time they were taken from. And some of them pull a Sleeping Beauty and just...stay asleep.

[abandon_hope]

... So he's home? Safe? Or is he asleep here?

[spinebuddyandme]

...He's asleep. And he's safe! Just...y'know, here.

[abandon_hope]

[ okay this is a new twist ]

Can I s - [ oops, wrong word ] - visit him?

[spinebuddyandme]

I don't think there's really a way to visit it. When you fall asleep like that, a bunch of sheep show up and carry you off to wherever Blossom keeps the sleepers.

[abandon_hope]

.......

I mean, that's better than him just lying around in a bedroom or something, but ...

[spinebuddyandme]

I know how it sounds. I don't really like it either, but we haven't been able to do anything about it.

[abandon_hope]

Right. I guess not.

[ He keeps fumbling with the coin, soothed by having sensation to focus on. ]

How are you and Scarab doing?

[spinebuddyandme]

[ also at breakfast; ananke is bundled up in a similar blanket nest, positioned on the other end of the same couch Kevin's on. He's eyeing the scales, caught between fascination and some mild concern ]

It doesn't itch anymore, does it?

[abandon_hope]

[ At some point during the jelly world tour, a shadow lifts itself out of the ground and tethers itself to Cepheus' leg. It goes taut, then tugs - and here's Kevin, cautiously following the shadow along to find Cepheus. ]

Who are you talking to?

1/2

[spinebuddyandme]

Oh, we're...better. I think. Apparently he's got this drone body that Charon suggested he use—

[spinebuddyandme]

[ Said drone pipes up from somewhere across the room, speaking in a tinny, DaftPunkian voice ]

CHARON: ADVISED MENTAL SEPARATION: DESIRABLE. THEREFORE: [SELF] WILL INHABIT [DRONE] UNTIL RITUAL EFFECT HAS RESOLVED.