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:"TECH SUPPORT!  TECH SUPPORT!"

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:"I'm about to DIE!"

:"Death is a natural part of your life cycle.  Stay calm and think happy thoughts    You will be refunded after your departure if existence has not been up to our high standards* preexisting conditions may apply"

:"AN ANGEL IS TRYING TO KILL ME!"

:"..."

:"Please hold..."    *click!*

:<"Damn, batteries are dead!  I'm fucked!">

meanwhile...



soon..



back on the ground...





:"No...nonononononoNO!  I was so close...I...I've failed everyone.

Was it even possible in the first place?"

:"What are you talking about?  Why have you been trying to kill me?!"

:"All I wanted to do was end recursion, stop the pain, the endless repetition!"

If I didn't survive the Greylands, this whole mess would have collapsed in on itself!  We wouldn't have had to relieve the betrayal again!   We could have had peace...










I...I suppose that we shall forever remain the Lady Prey."



:" Ah!
Void, nothing left!
And no where else to go.

I have seen the world you have constructed,
and it pains me to my core.
I cannot understand it - I will not.
There is no reason or logic,
nothing concrete, exact, or meaningful to me.

You live amongst the vultures, draped in gaudy colours,
I am repulsed by the facade you so excel in.
You are too fascinated, and too proficient at the act,
that it makes me fear for your sincerety.

Oh!  How can I love that which is Sophia,
when her very soul is alien to me?

It is not that I despise it, or loathe
the strange interested that have captivated you.
I am unable to comprehend, and so I reject!
I distrust this place which you have
so forged out of madness.

The night descends in what was once a place for me.
Ridiculous motifs and symbols wrack an overtaxed mind,
strangled by stagnation and introspection.

I ask the why until the why is being asked
for the reasons why, and it is all based
on void, nothing!

The denizens of my star-strewn ruins clutch
at telescopes, and other machines of thought, watching
you, scrutinizing your mind.  They do not understand,

and I do not understand."





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:

Maybe it would help to review past posts?

An item gained earlier?

Hint:  What is the first thing you check in order to solve an adventure game puzzle?

:"You...you're just as bad as HE was, you know that?  It sickens me to look at you."

:"Heh, you don't scare me anymore, Advisor.  I see the truth now:  This place isn't real!"

:"And what is real, you stupid girl?!  Is simple interaction with actors not enough to provide a basis for morality?!"

:"Don't talk to me about morality, you hypocrite!  This place is a prison!  All your precious interactions were engineered to bring about my downfall!  You yourself said that the puppets can be recreated!"

:"..."

:"And now I will defeat you."

:"I'm afraid, dear Sophia, that there's one little thing you haven't quite figured out yet."



:"Who do you think controls the puppets?!  I was the one in charge of your Greylands, from the very beginning!  The fools in Heaven allowed me to oversee your reality!  This may be a prison, but I am the warden!

In this place, I am your GOD!

...

You know, I had hoped it wouldn't come to this, my future.  I really hoped that you would just have broken down, become possessed, and kill yourself.

Lord knows we have enough blood on our hands already.  But it is too late now for that."

:"Now it is time for us to die, Sophia."



:<"Help!  I need help!">

What will Sophia do?!

Hey guys, some "technical" issues here.  It's all drawn, but... well, I'm kinda busy destroying the final vestiges of a leech that's been draining my soul for half my life.

It's going pretty well    I think I may dedicate DNTTRS to those regrets that made it all possible.

As for the "seventh string" hypothesis, let me clear this up right now, before you guys start theorizing about the loyalties of all my supporting characters
1.  First off, strings do not work that way.  I cannot tell you how they work exactly, since that knowledge is not yet supposed to be available to you guys, but, as an analogy, you wouldn't amputate a plague boil to get rid of a disease.
2.  With that enjoyable image in mind, , even if destroying the string would have allowed Sophia to manipulate the cultist leader, let me please remind you that the cultist leader didn't exist in the first place.  He was an illusion.  Everything he threatened to do was an illusion, supposedly crafted by past Sophia, who IS past Sophia, not some imposter.  It's not even clear if the Angel cult itself was an illusion or not.  All we know is that the Advisor (past Sophia) tricked present Sophia into killing her only "friend" (more like a non-enemy) in this stupid grey world by disguising him as a threat.
3.  If it were that simple to just cut the seventh string, then none of this would have been possible, and the story would have fallen flat.  Yes, I am using story progression as an argument :/

In the future, I'll try to make the bad guy's monologue more... monologuey.  Its a fine line between leaving your readers in the dark, and having your bad guy be a mustache-twirling exposition machine.

Fight scene?

Fight scenes aren't the only things that need music... 

:"You want to know what I know?  How I know it?  You want to know what I really am?

Sophia is my future.  That much has always been true.  As for the reasons for possession, you will see soon enough...

Goodbye, little Heartbreaker..."






Conversation initiated!

:"Leave me alone, demon... I'm done fighting this stupid war."

:"And how do you feel about that, Sophia?  Are you okay?"

:"I feel... sad...worthless... just like they always said I was."

:"Are you all alone in this world?  Does no one love you?"

:"Yes."

:"And you feel sad..."

:"I feel dead inside!"

:"You're pathetic."

:"..."

:"I'm sorry?  What did you say?"

:"I said you were pathetic.  How does that make you feel, girl?  You feel SAD?  You gonna CRY at me?"

:"... Shut up."

:"Every thing that's happened is all your fault, Sophia.  How does that make you FEEL?!"

:"I said shut up!!"

:"Are you sad that no one has  talked to you in over a year?  Are you sad that your teachers fail you because you have different opinions?  Are you sad that your parents don't give a shit about your well being?"

:"SHUT THE FUCK UP!"

:"ARE YOU SAD THAT YOUR YOUNGER SELF TRICKED YOU INTO HURTING THE ONLY ONE THAT DIDN'T BLAME YOU FOR JOHN'S DEATH?!  IS IT ALL YOUR FAULT?"

:"NO!"

:"How do you FEEEL, Lady Prey?  How do you really feel?!"





:"My... future..."

:"Your eyes, for as long as you have been innocent, haven't seen color in over a year.  You have spilt the blood of your enemies.  And now you have caused the death of a friend.

I think its time to teach our younger self some respect for her elders."

:"How do you feel, Sophia?"