In which Minali talks to her demons

<yzabtech[DM]> ==START==
<yzabtech[DM]> ((copypaste your last reddit post))
<MinaliPranta> Jegus Sufferer. What fresh hell is this.
<MinaliPranta> You try to connect Heart-to-Heart with your shadow self. This is your job, right? To deal with the self? And whose better than yours?
<MinaliPranta> (You also remember a code you found ages ago - REKT. Is that useful?)
<yzabtech[DM]> You attempt to use your god-tier powers, but it seems to rebound.
<yzabtech[DM]> "Well, well, well," your shadow-self speaks. She sounds like you.
<yzabtech[DM]> "I thought teal-bloods were supossed to be stronger than this."
<yzabtech[DM]> supposed*
<MinaliPranta> This is sooooo weird. For one thing, there were supposed to be 5 Wells. Or is 5 not a thing with your shadow-self?
<MinaliPranta> "Stronger? I'm trying to get to know you first!"
<yzabtech[DM]> ((fuck i forgot))
<MinaliPranta> ((haha it's fine i've been too subtle about it))
<yzabtech[DM]> ((no you once mentioned it to faerzen))
<yzabtech[DM]> ((damn it i should have remembered))
<yzabtech[DM]> "You haven't figured it out yet, have you."
<yzabtech[DM]> "For one thing, you know me as well as you know yourself."
<yzabtech[DM]> "I'm your shadow."
<yzabtech[DM]> "And those god tier powers could be used in much better ways."
<yzabtech[DM]> "By much better people."
<MinaliPranta> You see if you can mine your shadow for information. "Are you those 'much better' people????? Teach me, then..... We're supposed to be the same people, aren't we?????"
<yzabtech[DM]> You can't mine your shadow for information because now you're pretty much just mining yourself for information.
<MinaliPranta> If that's the case.....you go inward. You try to have a Heart-to-Heart...with YOUR Heart. You close your eyes and feel both your actual heart and the Heart of your powers beat through you. You try to sink into them. What happens?
<yzabtech[DM]> You find your own feelings.
<yzabtech[DM]> Your anger, doubt, sadness.
<MinaliPranta> You feel your anger, doubt, sadness try to consume you. You're tired. Frustrated. So close to the end...only to find yourself as the block. What do you need? What does your anger, doubt, sadness need? Your immediate thought: food, but you just ate ice-cream. Has your shadow, though?
<yzabtech[DM]> Your shadow has not had any ice cream.
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<yzabtech[DM]> As for what you need, that's for yourself to find out.
<yzabtech[DM]> "Are you done yet?????"
<yzabtech[DM]> "I'll give you a hint."
<yzabtech[DM]> "Thief of Heart. Thief."
<MinaliPranta> "Almost!!!!! What ice-cream flavour do you want????? I'll get you some :) :) :) :) :)"
<yzabtech[DM]> "Heart deals with emotions, but it also deals with the concept of the self."
<MinaliPranta> the way to a person's heart is through their stomach, after all
<yzabtech[DM]> "If you've reached--"
<yzabtech[DM]> "wait....."
<yzabtech[DM]> "Ice cream..."
<yzabtech[DM]> "This is a trap, and I shall not fall for it!"
<MinaliPranta> "Oh come on, relax a little!!!!! If you're anything like me, you probably don't want to fight either!!!!! Have something to eat!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D "
<yzabtech[DM]> "W-what are you doing."
<yzabtech[DM]> "You're not supposed to be nice to me!"
<yzabtech[DM]> "I'm supposed to mentally break you!"
<MinaliPranta> "Why not????? Why shouldn't I be nice to myself?????"
<yzabtech[DM]> "Make you lose all will to fight, so you may be sweeped away by the hosts!"
<MinaliPranta> "And why exactly would I want to do that to myself?????"
<yzabtech[DM]> "I-I don't know!"
<yzabtech[DM]> "Stop it, you're making the ratings go down!"
<MinaliPranta> "And how can I lose all will to fight if I'm not even interested in fighting in the first place?????"
<yzabtech[DM]> "Or...talk, or something--"
<MinaliPranta> :D :D :D :D :D
<MinaliPranta> "Seriously though, you sound like you could use some ice-cream. Chill. What flavour?????"
<yzabtech[DM]> Shadow-Minali's head seems to glitch out of existence briefly, before reappearing.
<yzabtech[DM]> "The ice-cream robot probably was destroyed by now!"
<yzabtech[DM]> "Why are the ratings going back up again?!"
<MinaliPranta> Ratings????? Are you on TV?????
<yzabtech[DM]> ".....have you not heard the speech made by the hosts?"
<MinaliPranta> You wish you were some level mechanical so you could fix the ice-cream robot. Or that robots had hearts so you could just fix its sense of self. Except you're not a Sylph, so.
<MinaliPranta> "Yeah yeah, something about how we're so close to the end but then we have to find y'all, I heard that much. Forgotten it was live-televised though!!!!!"
<yzabtech[DM]> "Yadda yadda yadda gladiator sport to watch you fight until your inevitable death?????"
<yzabtech[DM]> "And your ice cream thing gave me an idea. Wait one second."
<yzabtech[DM]> "Or five. Haha."
<MinaliPranta> Oh dear.
<yzabtech[DM]> Shadow-Minali glitches out of existence, before reappearing with a cone with black ice cream in her hand.
<yzabtech[DM]> Are those tentacles coming out of the ice cream or is that just you?
<yzabtech[DM]> And is that an eye?
<yzabtech[DM]> "A technological marvel, it is."
<yzabtech[DM]> "As I was saying," Shadow-Minali says between licks of ice cream,
<yzabtech[DM]> "Heart deals with emotions, but it could also mean the concept of the self."
<yzabtech[DM]> "The soul."
<yzabtech[DM]> "Your denizen, his weird rapper thing, even though he should have no knowledge of what rap is, considering he's a game construct."
<yzabtech[DM]> "It's music."
<yzabtech[DM]> "It moves the soul."
<yzabtech[DM]> "You're a Thief.""
<yzabtech[DM]> "You don't even realize what you could do at your peak power."
<yzabtech[DM]> "I'll let you realize it."
<yzabtech[DM]> "The look of horror on your face would make the ratings skyrocket."
<MinaliPranta> You already sort of know. You steal souls from people. You've been avoiding trying to do it because that doesn't strike you as being particularly nice or lovely. Which is why you try to talk to your opponents first and get them to calm down.
<MinaliPranta> Steal their hearts in more pacifistic ways
<MinaliPranta> (well, usually. You wonder if those imps still hold a grudge against you.)
<yzabtech[DM]> "..."
<yzabtech[DM]> "YOU CAN RIP THEIR SOULS OUT OF EXISTENCE!"
<yzabtech[DM]> "YOU CAN TURN THEM INTO SHELLS!"
<yzabtech[DM]> "SHELLS!!!!!"
<MinaliPranta> "I KNOW!!!!! AND I DON'T WANT TO DO SO!!!!!"
<yzabtech[DM]> "WHY?????"
<MinaliPranta> "WHY SHOULD I????? They're just being themselves!!!!! Who am I to try and turn them into playthings for my amusement?!?!?!?!?! I am not evil!!!!!"
<yzabtech[DM]> "You could BREEZE through this thing!"
<yzabtech[DM]> "I'm HELPING you here!!!!!"
<yzabtech[DM]> "I'm supposed to FIGHT you!!!!!"
<MinaliPranta> "What ELSE is there to breeze through?!?!?!?!?! You're the only one left!!!!! And you're me!!!!! Do you want ME to turn into a SHELL?????"
<MinaliPranta> That kinda gives you an idea though
<MinaliPranta> Can you steal the shadow's soul and put it within yourself?
<yzabtech[DM]> "I'm not you completely, I'm just your shadow!"
<yzabtech[DM]> You want to steal the shadow's soul?
<yzabtech[DM]> Go ahead.
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<yzabtech[DM]> You can steal the shadow's soul.
<yzabtech[DM]> Nothing's stopping you but you.
<MinaliPranta> You reach out for the shadow, trying to tap into that part of their soul that connects with yours. The part that makes this YOUR shadow, not anybody else's but yours. You try to pull it within you. You're probably going to turn into some kind of weird scary fighty thing, but hey, you're just fighting yourself then.
<yzabtech[DM]> "h-hey. w-what are you--"
<yzabtech[DM]> "Oh. you figured it out."
<yzabtech[DM]> Shadow-Minali starts to blur.
<yzabtech[DM]> "I thought you never would. I thought you were too kind, too weak."
<yzabtech[DM]> "But you did it."
<yzabtech[DM]> Shadow-Minali blurs more, fading in and out of existence.
<MinaliPranta> "We all have our demons."
<yzabtech[DM]> "But one more thing before Igo, are you strong enough to face what's ahead?????"
<yzabtech[DM]> I go*
<yzabtech[DM]> "Don't think the Showstoppers are going to leave before their act starts."
<MinaliPranta> "You're really a part of me now. You're the one with the fighting spirit. If I can't do it, I'm sure you can."
<yzabtech[DM]> "Well then, I have to admit."
<yzabtech[DM]> "That's a good wway to think about it."
<yzabtech[DM]> "To feel about it."
<yzabtech[DM]> Shadow-Minali blinks out of existence, as the fog lightens around you.
<yzabtech[DM]> You see a few others fighting their fights.
<yzabtech[DM]> You level up to rank 30.
<MinaliPranta> How ARE they doing?
<yzabtech[DM]> They seem unaware of their surroundings.
<yzabtech[DM]> It's best not to interfere.
<MinaliPranta> ((how the fuck am I supposed to update my scoresheet now))
<yzabtech[DM]> You see a few others, who seem to be done with their fights. They're waiting.
<yzabtech[DM]> ((magic))
<MinaliPranta> You come over to where they wait. You feel a little feistier. The Thief awaits within.
<yzabtech[DM]> You've managed to turn your demons into your strength.
<yzabtech[DM]> You can feel that the battle's not over just yet.
<yzabtech[DM]> The Showstoppers won't exit without their own act.
<yzabtech[DM]> ==END==
<MinaliPranta> woo!