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Crescent

As The Crescent:
Every Monday, the Crescent will meet with the Signs and be given the opportunity to grant one other player immunity for the week. This immunity will allow the player to live for that week even if they are chosen as a victim by the Corrupted.

Should the Crescent choose to protect someone and that person is selected as a victim, however, the Crescent's name will be provided as the victim and they will die in that week to protect the chosen player.

The Crescent will also be allowed to submit a name for a victim in order to protect someone else. If they are concerned that someone they wish to protect will be chosen by the Corrupted, they may enact a trade to sacrifice another player. While there is no guarantee that the name they've offered will be chosen, this action will earn favor among the Signs.

The choice must be made at the time of the meeting. The Crescent only gets one meeting per week and they must choose wisely if they wish to protect someone and risk their own life, or offer someone as a failsafe sacrifice. (i.e. "I would like to protect X" versus "should X be chosen by the Corrupted, I would like to substitute Y.")

When the Signs seek to summon the Crescent, a portal will appear when they finds themselves alone. Upon entering the portal, they will be brought into a tea room where the Signs are waiting for them. When their visit in the room concludes and they choose to exit, the portal will disappear. The Crescent will find that no matter how long they spent in the tea Room, no time has elapsed outside of the portal.

Additional notes:
The Crescent will be allowed to ask questions about the ongoings of the game and communicate with the Signs in their weekly meetings. They will be able to also receive small hints in the game should they perform well, including game mechanics, locations and more. However, the information received will be up to the Signs' discretion.

Best of luck.

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Certainly. I'll start.

Is there anyone you miss particularly, having now been cast in your new role here?

[Wow, what a question.]

I miss being able to spend time with my friends. We didn't get a ton of vacation time together because we were always working, but the time we did have was some of my favorite. Plus there's someone else that's really important, too. I'm hoping I get to see him again whenever we get out of here.

Same question though.

[There's something nostalgic and understanding as Milla nods along, smiling at whatever mental image she's conjuring of Sol and pals. It certainly seemed familiar in a warm way.]

Of course, I will be excited to see my fellow spirits again, once things have been faithfully restored, and we are released from here.

But... sometimes, I must admit to missing a place I cannot return to, and the people who reside there.

[Milla pauses—chuckles lightly, and smiles, shaking her head and closing her eyes almost in admonishment of herself.]

Ha, ha. I suppose it's not particularly funny, but... that is the first time I've admitted it out loud. Perhaps it's easier, as you are unaffiliated, Sol.

[That's a mood. But he looks at her curiously from under his hood.]

It's not a bad thing to admit it out loud, I think. But...why not? Is it really impossible to go back?

[She considers, and shakes her head.]

It's not impossible. Within the next thousand years or so, I suppose it may be possible to do it once more, depending on the flux of power within the world.

But for the moment, I must stay where I am, within the realm of spirits. To do otherwise would be...

[selfish.]

...to deny the future we fought for.

Oh...[Okay, that makes sense and he's nodding to himself because it's not like he doesn't understand duty or a future that hinges on one person.] It must be hard though to have to stay in one place. But people can come and see you and still talk to you, can't they?

[...]

No.

The path connecting the human world to the Spirit Realm has been effectively dismantled, and destroyed.

Saving extraordinary circumstances, I will never be able to see the humans I fought alongside in person again.

...but that's not fair. They're your friends, aren't you? If you fought alongside them and did everything together to get things to where they were, why can't there be another path made somehow or something?

[There's a beat of hesitation—and then Milla smiles.

There's something around the edges of it, though, that blurs into a nostalgic kind of sadness.]

Ha ha ha. Rather than fair or unfair, it is what is right—and what we agreed to.

[She closes her eyes.]

We made another path to the future. Although we will always be apart, our goal is one and the same—and in that way, we will always be as one.

...I guess so. [He concedes to that point, because it's not like he doesn't get it.] ...for a while, I thought that what was right meant I'd be separated from people forever, too. But that wasn't the case. We just had to find another way to make it happen.

Maybe the same will happen for you.

[For a moment, she holds her breath, heart ever-so-momentarily in her throat--

--and the pressure is gone again, flowing out of her on a long, slow exhale, a smile at the corner of her lips still.]

Yes.

I hope for that, as well.

[...Milla...Sol stares at her for a moment, not sure how to say what he wants to say.]

...it will, someday. Even if it's a very long time from now. If anyone deserves something like that I'd think it's you in the first place.

Deserves? Ha ha ha. I feel I have already lived an incredible life, and I am a mere twenty years old. On the contrary, I feel that happiness, or at least, the opportunity for tranquillity is something that everyone deserves.

Some day far from now, far off into the future, when those humans who are dear to me have passed on—I will have no reason to return. For now, that one experience, that moment in time—that is enough.

...I think maybe I'm a little more selfish than you are. [He sounds embarrassed, but he doesn't mind saying so.] I'd want to spend as much time as possible with those I care about because those memories are really important.

But that just means you must be really strong to be able to keep going. [And he admires that.] They probably won't forget you either.

There is nothing wrong with selfish desires, as long as you are aware of them, Sol. If anything, you are all the more human for it. It is then up to you what you do with them.

I hope that to be true. I think about them every day.

I feel like you'd be a hard person to forget either way. [He tilts his head curiously.] But the same could be said here, couldn't it? That people's desires can be good or selfish, and it depends on what they do.

So how do we help them decide?

A good question, as usual, Sol.

The answer is that we must live by example to others. We cannot force their hands—so we must show them how it is done, and protect them wherever possible. We help by living, fighting for, and desiring that safe world.

Progress does not happen overnight, however—and therein lies the flaw in the scheme. Unless you are immortal, then one day, you will die, and your ideals and goals will be muddled, potentially forgotten by the next generation. It cannot simply be one person. Therefor, rather than forcing this change, we must develop it into a culture, stretching outwards, and build that into people's beliefs.

Essentially, that is what we must try and do here, on a smaller level.

[Wow. Milla actually got what the fuck Sol's been trying to say to everybody from the beginning and failed to do because he's not great at explaining.]

That's essentially how the core is going to be shaped. By the example set by you guys, so if there are people here that set a good example and allow others to follow them, we can continue banishing the unrest or whatever and stabilize the universe, and the worlds connected.

It's been several weeks since you guys got here. Do you think that people have made progress and found others to follow?

Then... the core is more akin to an infant than anything else, isn't it? A child that must be raised correctly by its parents.

Hmm... progress? I think so. Yes, I feel people are slowly forming groups, and growing to respect each other, in one way or another.

[despite the, you know. murders.]

Yes. That's exactly it. It's replacing the old one, but it's still very young and requires guidance. That's why it needs something to follow. [He hums in agreement to that though.] But the groups are still separate from each other, aren't they? How do we get everybody on the same page?

Mutual bonding, trust building, and time. Nothing will happen overnight—and people must be, in their own way, open to the opportunity.

Therein, I believe, lies the problem. Many are still closed to sharing their lives and minds.

So I've noticed. You can't really force bonding activities on people but it'd make it easier. Maybe make it into a game or something. If people don't feel like they're being forced, they might comply with that idea.

No, not at all. That is not generally how true trust is built.

[...]

Usually, it helps if all have one sole cause to unite against. At the moment, the corruption is present, but formless, and in everyone's hearts. In that way, it is hard to distinguish the corruption from the people themselves. What makes the choice to kill a corrupted friend better than an uncorrupted friend? The mixed morality of it severs the group dynamic, and forces people into hiding.

Perhaps, if the corruption took on its own form... if we could force it out, in such a way...

But if it doesn't...then we're faced with the same problem. So there has to be another way to make people realize morality can't always be what drives us. It's something I have to remind myself sometimes, too, but I get it's harder for others.

Morality... hmm.

It's a human concept. A determination to distinguish what is "right" from what is "wrong".

Rather than morality, or a fight against "evil"... the next best thing would be establishing a shared goal of best intent. We work together, animus aside, or at least temporarily abandoned, to do what is best for someone other than ourselves.

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incidentally that was the best milla tag i've ever written and it's all downhill from there

i love her though

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