The Tower crossing a Reversed Queen of Swords

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[Action 1] On random streets

[Elizabeth has just found Minato's body, she's moving kind of erratically, her face is pale (ok, its always pale) but her eyes are no longer dancing.  If you speak magic, she's saying a doozy in Lost Carcosan, if you don't speak magic those words would unnerve just about anyone.  Odds are she's not paying attention to you, but if you move towards her, she'll fluidly have a knife pulled and glare at you not looking quite right.]

[Action 2] 948 Beulah St!

[Elizabeth has just sat down on the stairs of a random house, she's not really paying attention, the knife is sitting at her side, she's stopped muttering in that horrible language, but she's muttering about a cell phone to call herself with.]

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[It's completely by accident that Maya comes across Elizabeth sitting on her doorstep; nearly tripping over her on her way outside. She frowns to herself as she catches the bit about calling herself. That's never good news, in her experience.]

Are you okay?

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[She peers up at Maya with those creepy gold eyes]

"I need a cellular phone... To invoke something to deal with the loss of persona... Do you have one?"

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[Maya shakes her head.]

Not since coming to Mayfield, anyway. Did you say "persona?"

[Huh. That strikes a chord, somehow. And what's with this woman's eyes?]

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"Yes... The master said never to invoke it but... Given how Erebus has taken over, the Joker curse couldn't be any worse..."

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[!!!]

The Joker curse?! [That's what she was afraid of.] There are definitely other options. People lose themselves to that curse!

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"But what if you have already lost yourself? The madness of this town has claimed a life that will be a seal to save a billion lives. A seal that you can not reset the world to bring back. Igor is not here to fix this, only I, and I have been cut off from my power... Perhaps the Great Old Ones were not always so wrong..."

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Igor? [The name is hauntingly familiar, and not just in an old monster movie sort of way. She shakes her head.]

But this place is different than wherever you come from, even if they were a seal originally, they might not be here! And anyway... [She frowns. She's been avoiding leaving the house the past few days, having heard enough about what's been going on outside.]

Don't people usually come back here? Once they've been injured or killed. It's happened, hasn't it?

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"The seal... He was here.. BEFORE he became the seal. I... I was to protect him... But the town required me go home lest the droning come.. When I returned... When... No. They have not been coming back. Each soul turns into a power for the murderer. I have a small girl to murder, but have chosen not to, and here we are..."

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... oh. They're not...

[She shakes her head again with more enthusiasm.] The Joker curse isn't the solution! You have to think positive! There's always another way, you don't have to resort to that.

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"I am not strong enough to restart the world... Not here... Not again...."

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I didn't even know it was possible to restart the world. [IRONY.]

You don't have to despair like this. What's your name?

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"I am Elizabeth... Servant of Igor... Attendant of the Velvet Room. Protector of the seal.. Yes, once the world was restarted to save a soul from oblivion. It was in the game that led to my being given to Igor with my sister and brother."

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The Velvet Room...

[Maya frowns, carefully lowering herself to sit beside Elizabeth on the stoop. No use looming over her.]

... I remember the Velvet Room. There was always singing. [She gives Liz a sideways glance.] But I don't remember you. ... I'm Maya.

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"The innocent sin.... My family was a prize of that competition."

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Your family was a prize? What do you mean?

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"To be made of the same soul stuff as the dark ones, but simply to not understand humanity. To be raised by Nyarlathotep would have lead to great calamity, but in the care of our Master... We represented... Well... I know not, but, that... Is what fate deemed happen."

"But now, the seal that kept the beat Erebus from awakening Nyx has been taken..."

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[It all sounded a little big and overwhelming for Maya, but she reached out to lay her hand against Elizabeth's forearm.]

And... who's Nyx, then?

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"Nyx is a death goddess... Nyx hangs above the Earth and watches her people sleep every night from the sky. In your future, and my past, one used the technologies of Sebec and Nanjo awaken her to live as gods, but the plan failed before it could be completed. Then, a great ordeal happened and she was awakened by the breaking of the seal with despair. Then one man gave his soul to form a new seal."

"He was here, before he could form that seal, and someone killed him. My task was to destroy the despair that kept him as a seal for while we of the velvet room are not human, we are human, and I mused if all souls were worth saving by him, is his not worth saving by me?"

"Though, it is pointless, he was slain before the seal could be made, I only see oblivion as being capable of destroying despair."

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[Maya listened intently, though her expression shifted at the mention of oblivion.]

Now that's just nonsense. Do you know how many people are in this place? How many people come from worlds with impending doom of their own? Gods and demons and mad scientists and whatever else you can possibly think of! This town has dangers of its own, but I don't think what's here will effect the outside world, or the other way around...

[Okay, grasping at straws, but considering all of the various ends-of-the-world numerous citizens seemed to have left behind, it stood to reason that if something was going to leak over into Mayfield, it would have by now, didn't it?]

We can't jump to any conclusions in this place. There's no way to predict what's going to happen when this mess is over. You're getting ahead of yourself. What you need to do is calm down, put your chin up, and give yourself a couple of days to cool off until we can think of a logical way to resolve this!

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"Then I need to find those who killed the seals, find out what they do, and what persona are immune to that. And kill them. Every day. Just before breakfast. Till the end of time."

"I.... Know no other way. I am sure it is what Igor would tell me to do."

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[Oh jeez.]

In what world is that logical?

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"In what world is death temporary and those who hunt their fellow man are rewarded while those who try to avoid such darkness are punished with madness... I suffer that madness now. My curse for refusing to kill a small girl."

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Okay. Fair point.

[Maya frowned. There wasn't much that was logical about Mayfield, on a grand scale. She shook her head.]

You certainly don't deserve punishment for refusing that.

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"No... But.. To think unclouded. If they wish madness... I figured the Joker would be perfect."

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Joker is...

[She trails off as she suddenly recalls a very clear picture of the Joker himself, surrounded by victims who have been lost to their shadow selves. She shakes her head furiously.]

He's not the answer! You can't call him!

[Would he even appear here? She doesn't want to find out. She can't call up another picture like the first one, but the name alone keeps causing knots to form in her stomach.]