Reverie - Ingo Palace

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[stirtheblood]

Dunno who that is, but pretty sure I got my own taste.

[He has no reason to think this but it seems true.]

What are you gonna do about it?

[derailer]

"Your taste, or the people who have gone missing in a snowstorm?"

[stirtheblood]

Either, I guess. But I meant the second thing.

[derailer]

He just ignores the other option then.

"I'll likely be sent out to retrieve them."

[stirtheblood]

"Be sent out?" So you're just doin' what they tell you?

[derailer]

"Yes. That's the correct path of action."

[stirtheblood]

Says who?

[derailer]

"I am saying it. You really are doomed to a life of turbulence. You'll never learn how to keep your head down."

[stirtheblood]

What's the point of life if you're just goin' through it with your head down?

[derailer]

"I am living in the service of others. I'll leave you to your spiteful obnoxiousness, then."

He bows, and then turns to exit.

[stirtheblood]

Are you...? You said I'm here 'cause of somethin' ya did for yerself, right?

[More or less.

There is not really anything Vicious can do except follow Ingo out anyway. He shifts Litten so see if he wants to hang out on his shoulder and he goes.]

[derailer]

"Something he did," he says, hatefully. "I have nothing to do with this."

Litten hunkers down on your shoulder. It's a snowstorm outside; the settlement is on the slope of a mountain, and there's ice and snow on the ground.

[stirtheblood]

—Tch! It's damn cold!

[He changes his mind immediately and moves Litten back against his bare chest. Keep the kitten warmer. Keep himself warmer.]

...So "he" brought me here, and you're just givin' me a cat, tellin' me to live in peace and harmony, and washin' yer hands of it?

[derailer]

"I didn't give you the cat." He has no further argument. He is crossing to a different tent, poking his head in to have a conversation in a lowered voice while blocking Vicious from entering it.

Litten happily keeps Vicious warmer, though.

[stirtheblood]

Sounds pretty cowardly t' me...

[That's mostly muttered to himself. Vicious will at least look around the town and get the lay of the land]

[derailer]

Everyone is inside due to the snowstorm. Would you like to go up or down the slope to investigate the town?

[stirtheblood]

[Ehhhhh down. Higher on the mountain seems more cold.]

[derailer]

You pass another tent or two, but more notably, at the base of the slope, you encounter some railroad tracks and a train platform. There is no train at the platform, but there is a glitchy ticket machine with a screen you can interact with.

[stirtheblood]

[Vicious has a brief flash of a vision of something called a "cell phone," and goes over to poke at the ticket screen.


He cannot read any of it, however.]

[derailer]

When you poke the screen a window pops up. Litten reaches out to place a paw on the screen, and then you hear in your head the message that appeared:

"Insufficient plates for purchase."

[stirtheblood]

...Tch. Plates? The hell is that about?

[He kicks the ticket machine.]

[derailer]

Litten meows, worried about your frustration.

Ingo's Shadow is coming down the slope now, pausing on the train platform to look at you. "You're going along with this farce now? I thought you weren't a fan of things people wanted you to do."

[stirtheblood]

I ain't "goin' along" with anythin'! I got no idea what's goin' on or what any of this is!

[derailer]

"And so, because of that, you have no choice but to go along with someone's plan for you. You have no plans of your own."

He hops down off the platform, walking across the empty train tracks to cross them.

"I am going to search for the missing people. Go along with my plan for you, and you will follow me. Go along with his plan for you, and you will wait for the train. Or go along with your own whim, and it will be none of my business. Stand still and perish in the storm. It is all the same."

[stirtheblood]

That's stupid. Plannin' for myself don't mean I gotta do somethin' totally different than what anyone else wants to do. Just means if I do it, it's 'cause I decided to, not 'cause it's the "correct thing to do."

So you want me to come look for the people with ya...? How come?