Dec
22nd
2017
The Time is At Hand · 2:27am Dec 22nd, 2017
The corpse continued to laugh as the blood, nearly about to flow onto the bell, began to reverse itself, flowing back into the laughing corpse.
Divine looked at the creature; this was not how he imagined it to be. He looked at the singer, who was so lost in the thrall of orgasmic self-lust, that she’d long stopped flowing normally and was now bleed and she continued to pleasure herself. “What the hell?” he voiced.
The blood flowed back into Shimmer and she sat up, breaking the bonds as if they were nothing. She looked at Divine Right with eyes that were a solid milky white, as if cataracts had completely covered her eyes. She then kicked off her leg bonds as if they were nothing, then hopped off the sacrificial stone and stretched.
You know - completely normal and rational behavior. Nothing to worry about.
Called it
4755788
You can't have called It. I'm not Stephen King.
Merciful emperor.....
"Solid milky white eyes".
Check.
Oh, yeah, that's definitely Grogar, alright.
Looks like our dear Prince Divine miscalculated by quite a bit with his ritual.
But then again, didn't Sunset say that he was "punching way above his pay-grade in all this in that one chapter?
Looks like he's about to find out just how far above that what he's messing with is.
Now Sunny and Company just need to show up in scene so she can deal with a ram necromancer and a delusional, lunatic prince.
Yeah, no pressure at all.
Nice l'il preview of what's to come, btw, Shin.
4755786 Well put.
4755809 And you took the words right out of my mouth, dear sir.
Is it wrong I want Divine to survive his encounter with Gogar and end up getting arrested by the law? He has several nice charges coming his way including mass murder and an act of war against the US government. He will definitely be getting the death penalty and I doubt the government of France would protest having him killed. Still he is about to have a major wake up call about summoning any creature that is called a demon.
I was kind of hoping for a twisted undead Shimmer alongside Grogar, mainly for the catharsis of seeing that tear into Divine, but having a Sunset vs Shimmer match works too. The overwhelming amount of dark magic coming out could be the kickstart Razz needs, and it could also screw with Sunset (though I’ve been wanting to see Sunset and her demon self tag team someone in general, maybe like a Stand/Persona). Good thing she didn’t rip out anyone’s memories earlier. Still, that entire no kill thing got silly when half the Sirens are mutated beyond recognition or already walking corpses (not to mention the distraction team is mowing them down like), but it also means less dead bodies for Grogar, so it might benefit her in the long run. Can’t wait to see where this goes.
4755801
Sounds like someone was bad at tag and hide and seek...
4755912
How so? She's got principles and maybe she feels violating them would be a betrayal of what she believes in.
4755956
It doesn’t mesh with anything else going on. She already killed one of the mutated Sirens (the one that shot Adagio), and the other stuff going on showed that a good chunk of them either aren’t human or are already dead/mindless. You’ve got the distraction team in essentially what’s an action movie plowing through Siren monsters and zombies and Heli dogfighting basalisks, while Sunset, the magical one (who also ran into that thing that ate Razz and the Mobius path), hasn’t ran into or noticed any nonhuman Sirens yet? It does make sense that Divine and/or Cantana wouldn’t willingly keep the uncontrollable Sirens close to the altar, but the lack of those encounters feels weird. On top of that, it doesn’t gel well with the tone of the other two POVs.
What I’m trying to say is it feels out of place to focus on it. If she just kept knocking them out without drawing attention to it, it probably wouldn’t have bugged me at all, but with everything else being focused on, it feels a bit forced. Plus, one set of principles is clashing with another one here (her willing to sacrifice everything to save the world and her friends/family, except her no kill rule when even Razz told her to stop), which clashes with the feel of the rest of the endgame so far.
Edit: Side note, now I’m picturing Sunset redirecting the Gordian Note energy build up into a pinpoint strike on Tirek. Probably not possible, but hey, it would be a fun way to deal with both problems.
Ooh the audience speculation has got me so happy. You'll all understand why when the next chapter rolls around.
4755956
Well there’s a difference between saving someone’s life and not letting them die.