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[principals]

Who: All y'all
When: Day 1 – Morning
Where: Everywhere
What: School is in

[Somewhere, a bell begins to ring. You may know the type—obnoxious and loud, signalling the start of a brand new day of lectures and learning. Rise and shine, lovelies; wakey wakey eggs and bakey! And with that, just as the toll falls silent, you hear the sound you may have been waiting for: the click of a lock.

You're free to explore.]

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[experiencepoints]

... Tell me about the darkness, then.

[carptricks]

[Pinches the bridge of his nose for a moment, before he responds]

. . . it's nebulous, and adaptable. It sucks the life, color, and personality out of everything it touches. It leaves things gray and cold and emotionless.

It's contagious too, moving from world to world. Beauty-- one of the Personae in Aather-- had to cast a spell to stop it in its tracks in Aather. But in order to do that, she had to bind herself and the other citizens of her world to the restrictive roles of storybook characters. She had to take away her. . . and everyone else's. . . free will and ability to choose. It left them defenseless against the darkness, even if it bound it to a single world rather than spreading everywhere it can.

The darkness can take take the form of monsters, which we can fight hand to hand, but it can also take a more intangible form. Emotions, impulses, dark thoughts. . . stuff like that. It's greatest weaknesses is the power of choice, free will. . . and the bonds of those you care about most.

That's why the Personae need us to fight it. They can't choose, so they can't fight. We can.

[experiencepoints]

If it leaves something behind, then it's not our reaper things.

[carptricks]

. . . it leaves nothing behind. That's the point.

[experiencepoints]

"Gray and cold and emotionless" is still something.

[carptricks]

Figure of speech. The point was that the darkness turned everything it touched into a huge void of. . . nothingness.

[experiencepoints]

... That does sound like ours.