Pseudocoma

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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Thu Nov 15, 2018 8:53 pm

You're not supposed to be controlling my body, so I guess we'll both have to be disappointed.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Thu Nov 15, 2018 9:49 pm

"If you did what you're supposed to do and filled your role in the greater scheme of things I would not have had to resort to this."
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Thu Nov 15, 2018 9:58 pm

Is that why you waited until I was wounded in battle? Very brave.

You were never a part of me, were you? You're her.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Fri Nov 16, 2018 6:26 am

"I'm part of you now."

"I won't deny that you bested me once. The Hollow Child and the Abomination followed out of revenge, but I did out of admiration. You beat me, after all. But then I saw how you squander your gift. What you call brave, I call foolhardy. It's how you were wounded this badly by a man with a knife. Pathetic."
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Nov 16, 2018 2:20 pm

Oh, of course you're so daft that you don't get sarcasm.

You're afraid of me. That's why you snuck into me and still couldn't chain me up until someone else had softened me up for you.

Now you're finding out that you didn't even do that right. I'm going to get out, and you're going to suffer.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Fri Nov 16, 2018 6:10 pm

"I have a hard time believing that. Sure, you bluster your feathers and you yell and shout, sometimes you even harm people, but underneath it all you've got a goopy blob of white-haired friendship and harmony. You put on the Mantle of the Raven, but I doubt you ever feasted on eyes, tasted the contrast of mortal terror and blissful relief when you embrace their minds at the end. You play pretend."

"You wouldn't even kill me."
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Fri Nov 16, 2018 11:46 pm

...if being the Morrigan was just being the battle-crow, it would be a lot easier.

You barely know me, let alone all of me.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Sat Nov 17, 2018 7:06 pm

"I know enough. You're so afraid of any missteps that you don't follow through on anything."
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Nov 19, 2018 3:33 am

And following through is what, killing people? What gives you the right?
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Mon Nov 19, 2018 6:17 pm

Cailleach stops and starts laughing. "The right." she actually says out loud and she almost sounds... sad?

"There's nothing 'right' about this. We play the part we're given and we do it well! They may not realize it, but they need things like us. The lurker in the depth, the siren on the cliff, they need us to give texture to the endless night, to the abyss their minds cannot conceive of lest it break. The meaning in the ravages of war, the comfort of anything at all existing beyond the veil. Because without us there is nothing and they will be lost forever in the dark..."
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High Concept: Divine Hag
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Aspect: Made of Nightmares
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Aspect: Reluctantly Human

Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Nov 19, 2018 7:54 pm

You keep wanting to believe I'm like you, don't you? That if I'm just like you, then that must mean it was meant to be?
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Mon Nov 19, 2018 8:00 pm

"Shut up! You are like me, you just struggle and flail in the muck, clinging to your mundane existence. It's pathetic and insulting."
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Nov 19, 2018 8:06 pm

Maybe I'm what you could have been.

And that bothers you, doesn't it?
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Mon Nov 19, 2018 8:23 pm

Cailleach doesn't respond for a couple minutes as she stomps through the cold. The silence feels oppressive, the only means of any kind of contact or control cut off by the simple act of Cailleach ignoring her. Maybe it's even intentional. An attempt to punish Sam.



"Why do you keep assuming what you are is somehow better." she finally does respond. "You can't even hold dominion over your own body anymore."
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Nov 19, 2018 8:33 pm

Because you waited until I was weakened. You had a taste of me when I wasn't, and you didn't like that, did you?
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Mon Nov 19, 2018 8:59 pm

"I did. Enough that I wanted it, so I claimed it. Cry foul all you want, it won't change anything."
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Aspect: Hungry for the Wrong Things
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Mon Nov 19, 2018 9:02 pm

You stole what you couldn't win.

Which rather answers your question, doesn't it?
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Tue Nov 20, 2018 2:44 am

"Stop being so full of yourself, it's not very becoming. If I thought you'd wear the mantle to took up properly I'd let you go."
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High Concept: Divine Hag
Aspect: Starlight Through Sea Water
Aspect: Made of Nightmares
Aspect: Hungry for the Wrong Things
Aspect: Reluctantly Human

Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Nov 20, 2018 4:03 pm

I've seen what you think is 'proper.'
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Tue Nov 20, 2018 5:38 pm

"Good, then you know what I mean. Though I fail to understand why you abhor death so much."
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High Concept: Divine Hag
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Aspect: Made of Nightmares
Aspect: Hungry for the Wrong Things
Aspect: Reluctantly Human

Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Tue Nov 20, 2018 6:02 pm

You're the one who takes people before their time.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Wed Nov 21, 2018 1:28 am

"Before their time." she replies, aping Sam. "There's no such thing. There's no grand design, no big plan we all adhere to. Or else all that morality of yours is just the meaningless quabbling of something no different from that automaton beneath the Rift. A meat-puppet in the strings of fate, pretending to make choices."
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Aspect: Hungry for the Wrong Things
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed Nov 21, 2018 2:01 am

But that's what the Morrigan is. Everyone has a time and a place. Everyone struggles or accepts it, but it always comes.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Wed Nov 21, 2018 3:39 am

"Have it all figured out, have you? By doing your best to avoid it you somehow learned eeeverything there is to know about it. Then, please, all-knowing Morrigú, why don't you tell me who determines what the right time and place is!?"
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Aspect: Hungry for the Wrong Things
Aspect: Reluctantly Human

Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed Nov 21, 2018 3:50 am

I know what I remember when the madness takes me, and it wasn't what you're doing.

Switching from the sea to the air doesn't make you the Morrigan.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Wed Nov 21, 2018 8:02 am

"Madness!" she scoffs. "And you're just as ignorant of what I do as you are of your own actions."

"You ally yourself with fascists because they seem like your lover. You turn your nose when I give soldiers a more meaningful death than they deserved. And when I show you the truth you strike me down with the strength of your unearned feathers so you can drive a stake through the heart of a balance you know nothing about! You've done more damage to my world than I ever could have, gnawing on nightmares and bones."
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High Concept: Divine Hag
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Aspect: Hungry for the Wrong Things
Aspect: Reluctantly Human

Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed Nov 21, 2018 4:30 pm

Oh aye, certainly it was about that and not the fact that you were trying to drag my friends to a watery grave.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Wed Nov 21, 2018 5:45 pm

"I never said I wasn't. I smelled the conflict in the waters and I followed. Death does taste sweeter when the prey is scared..."
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High Concept: Divine Hag
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Aspect: Made of Nightmares
Aspect: Hungry for the Wrong Things
Aspect: Reluctantly Human

Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed Nov 21, 2018 5:49 pm

So don't be surprised when the prey was more than you could handle.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Wed Nov 21, 2018 6:59 pm

"I wasn't!" Sam can feel the annoyance and frustration in Cailleach's thoughts. She even stops and balls her fists hard enough for the fingernails to painfully push into her palms. "You're so... boorish! Surprised, maybe, but not as upset as you seem to think! I grew upset when I found out how you squander the power used to best me! I cannot fathom how the two of us could possibly be two sides of the same coin. It... aggravates me!"

"How can you be so distressed by what I do yet completely unbothered by the hundreds that drowned as you scurried away. So vengeful towards the little girl playing with her ridiculous toy-world yet so indifferent towards the clay-boy's betrayal. So entwined with your role yet so dismissive of it you call it 'madness'!"
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High Concept: Divine Hag
Aspect: Starlight Through Sea Water
Aspect: Made of Nightmares
Aspect: Hungry for the Wrong Things
Aspect: Reluctantly Human

Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed Nov 21, 2018 7:10 pm

I was fighting for my life the whole bloody time I was in your world. You think that didn't bother me? You weren't in me then. You don't even understand me now.

I know what Conduit does with her toys. I know what she would have done with us when she got bored with us, and you bloody helped her do it, didn't you? You lot would have broken people I care about without even a first thought,let alone a second.

Will had a moment of weakness but he'd bleed for me without hesitation. He's earned forgiveness, whether he believes it or not.

What happened to you? What made you like this? What happened to Mum and Dad in your world? What happened to Kat?
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Wed Nov 21, 2018 8:39 pm

For a moment her hands unclench and Sam can feel a response coming on, but as Sam goes on Cailleach starts shaking and fingernails dig into her palms to the point of blood.

"Maybe I should show you!" she roars and beneath the too-large coat the skin above her shoulderblades tears from clenched muscles and bones stab out, muscles and tendons winding around them, followed by feathers. It's painful in a way her shifting never is, like clenching a muscle that's already cramping. Intentional and suffering through it just for the sake of hurting Sam along with herself. "Rathangan, Bracknagh Road, aye!?"
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High Concept: Divine Hag
Aspect: Starlight Through Sea Water
Aspect: Made of Nightmares
Aspect: Hungry for the Wrong Things
Aspect: Reluctantly Human

Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed Nov 21, 2018 8:54 pm

You... you can't just fly there. Not from here. She seems a bit uncertain, perhaps jarred by the sudden pain.

Even... as the crow flies you'd drop of exhaustion before you got there. Before we got there.

Look. I know the mean something. They mean something to me, and they damn well mean something to you. Deep down somewhere you want to forget.

What do you think doing this is going to fix? Do you think you can just take them from me and I'll see the light?

Or do you just want me to hurt like you were hurt?
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Wed Nov 21, 2018 9:48 pm

The wings tear through the back of the coat and spread wide.

"You have no idea of the things I'm capable of! I want you to refrain from asking questions you so clearly do not want the answer to!"
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High Concept: Divine Hag
Aspect: Starlight Through Sea Water
Aspect: Made of Nightmares
Aspect: Hungry for the Wrong Things
Aspect: Reluctantly Human

Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed Nov 21, 2018 9:50 pm

...familiarity breeds contempt, doesn't it?

You tried so damned hard to forget what it was like to be me.
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Wed Nov 21, 2018 10:12 pm

"Shut up!" she shouts in a voice that is lacking it's usual affectation of superiority and old-fashioned choice of words.

"I wanted to like you but you turned out to be such a disappointment!"
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High Concept: Divine Hag
Aspect: Starlight Through Sea Water
Aspect: Made of Nightmares
Aspect: Hungry for the Wrong Things
Aspect: Reluctantly Human

Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Wed Nov 21, 2018 11:41 pm

And I was starting to bloody listen to you before you decided to steal my body and... I don't know, murder all my friends and family? Is that where this is leading?
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Wed Nov 21, 2018 11:47 pm

"You asked what happened." she says, her fists unclenching just enough for blood to run down her fingers. "I did. I happened to them!"
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High Concept: Divine Hag
Aspect: Starlight Through Sea Water
Aspect: Made of Nightmares
Aspect: Hungry for the Wrong Things
Aspect: Reluctantly Human

Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Samantha McManus » Thu Nov 22, 2018 12:02 am

There's a horrible silence from Sam's end before she responds, and for once she is afraid again.

...it was that night. Wasn't it?
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Re: Pseudocoma

Postby Cailleach » Thu Nov 22, 2018 12:51 am

In lieu of a response Cailleach let's out an almost guttural sound of anguish she tries to make sound like rage as she beats her wings and catapults them up into the air, again and again until they break through the clouds, the sun only a crimson glow on the horizon while they hang in relative darkness, suspend in weightlessness for a moment at the apex of their ascent. Cailleach's mind is blood and claws and her scream finally dies in her throat, fading into the thin, freezing air.
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High Concept: Divine Hag
Aspect: Starlight Through Sea Water
Aspect: Made of Nightmares
Aspect: Hungry for the Wrong Things
Aspect: Reluctantly Human

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