#030066

[passio]

The creatures from the well.

I don’t think they’re merely dolls or monsters. I think something is wrong with the well. When I used my purification on them, I was able to extract a feeling. They were once human. It’s as if everything that made up who “they” were was ripped out of them, but this town has shown me what mindless dolls feel like before.

This is different.

I know they’re dangerous, but I’m afraid to kill any more of them. Please be careful.

[ so panicked is this message that dextera forgets to include his name, but really, by this point in time, most people should know his hex code anyway. ]

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#EA0000

[theshowsover]

Is it like what happens to people after they die here?

[That's what he thought of, when he first saw them.]

#27DEA9

[mythratastic]

How are you sure that they were once human? How does your purification process work?

[passio]

In a way, maybe.

I wondered if people died several times, if they would end up like that. I don’t know if that’s what happened to the creatures.

[passio]

I don’t know how to explain it.

When I purify someone, I’m sublimating their “selves” to the purest form it can exist in. All their experiences and memories are etched into a crystal that can be read, but this crystal feels like it’s been hollowed out.

[mythratastic]

Like, it was once someone and then everything was extracted from it?

Never would have guessed. These creatures seemed more like incomplete shells to me, like they're waiting for the rest of their personality to be imprinted onto them.

[ But since Dextera's purification proves it's not that... hm. ]

#B91600

[heartsteals]

[ haha this sucks man.jpg ]

I suspected as much, but this makes it more than a passing suspicion. Surely there must be some way to restore their sanity and color to them?

- Lupin

[ he also doesn't really like that so many people apparently started killing them, but what can you do? it's hard to blame them when the things that appear here are so frequently dangerous. ]

[passio]

I would rather them be that way, than this.

I can’t read the crystal as well as I want to, but I’m sure of what I can read. I don’t think they’re “incomplete,” but “reduced.”

[mythratastic]

If that's the case, then it sounds like there were others from our own world brought here, since some of them are wearing the style of clothes from my own homeworld. [ And, she assumes, other shells are wearing clothes from someone else's world. ] I don't recognize any of them in particular, though.

[passio]

[ dextera purifies odd creatures as a matter of course, but he sort of wishes he hadn’t done this one. ]

I don’t know. If there is, I’ve already done all I can do for them.

Maybe someone has something from the town itself to help.

[passio]

The one I purified was wearing a mark from my world.

I don’t think it was anyone I know, though. I hope it wasn’t.

[mythratastic]

Hey, focus.

You did a good thing here, we need this sort of information.

[passio]

[ he’s already killed so many people from his home that one more will not stain his hands further, but it feels bad nonetheless. he feels wrong for doing it. ]

But there’s nothing we can do with it. The dolls are still attacking.

#FFD700

[wooden_one]

How does your purification work?

[passio]

It’s a little complicated. The end result is a crystal that carries within it the purest essence of the person or creature it was extracted from. Things that were never sentient can’t make a crystal.

[wooden_one]

Is it like their soul?

[mythratastic]

Nothing? It's just another piece to the puzzle. We'll just have to think of something.

What happens when you bring the purified crystal to the book?

[passio]

Yes. Like a tangible form of the soul, but it’s usually impossible to return it to the person.

[wooden_one]

I want to see it.

#1AC6FF

[alwaysfacepalming]

That's terrible. I was wondering what created them, but to know that...

How were you able to extract a feeling?

[passio]

Everyone has some part of themselves indelibly marked. Feelings, desires, memories, all of that makes up a living being.

[passio]

I don’t know how much you’ll be able to get from it, but I’m willing to show it to anyone who asks.

[wooden_one]

Come to my workshop. [Insert directions to the forge that he'd converted into his workshop...somewhere in town.]

[alwaysfacepalming]

So you were able to still pull something? Even from those. May I ask how?

[heartsteals]

Then we pray that someone sees your message. There are few men alive who deserve such a fate.

[ having your soul torn from your body, and that body left to wander in the thrall of whatever curse controls this place... ]

[passio]

I don’t know.

The pocketwatch reacts strangely with the creatures. I’m afraid to tempt anything else from the town.