Just a Passing Assassin...

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Spiral: It wouldn't hurt to get a good scan going..



Steady: Alright, give us one sec and-



Fiddle: Done.

Steady: Wait, that fast?

Fiddle: Yeah, you're both linked to the system somehow so..

Fiddle: There we go?

Spiral: Wait, what does that mean?

Fiddle: You're a checkpoint, you being linked to Cabinetta gives her access to our systems.

Fiddle: And seems like your current mods are still active?

Fiddle: Including some of your most recent recent scans, not like that's been fully implemented...



Cabinetta: Shapeshifter..

Spiral: Huh?

Cabinetta: My kind can shapeshift, including taking on the treats of others as a form of blending int. In other words, you taking front has caused us to change in was further than just visually.

Spiral: That's wild.. Cabinetta says she can just shapeshift to activate them?

Fiddle: Mm, fiendish folk can do that. Some people really desire scans of beings that can shape on the spot so they can activate and deactivate various traits without needing to use exterior devices. Interesting.. you manage to gain a lot from drinking that poison..

Steady: Yooo, we gotta mess with that though.

Spiral: Yeah..

Cabinetta: Drinking the venom shouldn't have worked though..

Spiral: What do you mean?



Cabinetta: That's a myth...

Spiral: Question, Fiddle?

Fiddle: Mmhmm, something wrong?

Spiral: Cabinetta says sucking the poison out of someone doesn't work.



Fiddle: It shouldn't have technically, no. But what you pulled wasn't poison, it was never going for the veins technically. Its mass from the target latching on to the nerves. Organic and living.

Spiral: Huh...

Spiral: You know, that does give me a idea.

Steady: Lay it on me.

Spiral: Think I'm ready to take a good crack at it, feel like the two of us combined are strong enough to do that. If we're sharing scans I'm probably resistant, yeah?

Fiddle: In theory.

Spiral: Then bring it right in, I'm ready to go-

The castle starts to rumble. You can hear the creaking of bent metal gates scraping across the ground.

The big massive door separating you from what's out there starts to slide open.

Cabinetta:...You invited it.

Spiral: W-what? What do you mean?



Cabinetta: The protective seal is meant to shut it out, you invited it in using my voice...

Spiral: I didn't know that's how that works?!

You can feel quivering from her.

Spiral: There's gotta be a way to undo right? Like-

Cabinetta: You cannot undo a invitation like this..



Steady: Hey, why is this happening? What's all this fog?

Fiddle: It's already reaching me in the other room, we're going to warn the Hunter over here, Turnip says there's a panic room to keep him in.

You don't see any fog.

Spiral: What are you talking about?

Steady: Shit's thick dude! Can barely see you right now, we gotta go!

Cabinetta: I... don't see it either.. it usually has fog around it.

Spiral: I don't see the fog, Fiddle?

Fiddle: Could be illusionary, your scan data might be protecting you. For now I think we should retreat, last out til daytime.

Steady: Yeah, both of ya'll behind me.

The door cracks fully open.

A humanoid being, one who's presence reminds you of Cabinetta. A creature of multiple voices ringing as one. A fiend too but... even stranger than anything you'd recognize as one in presence.

It looks directly at you.

Cabinetta's thoughts becoming like indistinguishable growling in response, some locked away rage pounding on your head.



???: You really tried to hide things out..

???: Coward.

???: When I was a town you had no issue getting your hands dirty.

???: But now when we're just like you, you crumple at a glance.

It tilts its head for a moment. It starts walking your way.

???: Those eyes are wrong... you aren't the beast who killed me..

???: Where is she?