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[fracturedsoul]

So I guess we know now what happens when you sacrifice three corpses to the tower.

Everyone might just want to stay out of the tower in the arena until this is cleared up. If you go in, you wind up in a mirror boss fight with a shadow version of yourself.

If you leave and go back in, it keeps happening. I wound up fighting mine four times just to make sure. But on the plus side, if you beat it there's a chance it'll drop a memory charm. I got three of them, all from, like, alternate universe mes. I don't know if that's universal or not. Anyone else have data they'd like to submit?

[ Filtered to Jake English ]

Something I need to run by you, bro.


((OOC: After consulting with the mods: A memory charm definitely drops after the first fight; on each subsequent fight, there's a 50% chance of a charm dropping.))

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[fracturedsoul]

Sure, two more. Might as well, as long as you let me take a look at whichever ones you get in the future.

[ He takes the two remaining charms off and hands them over.

One is a very short, mostly insubstantial memory, of an eleven-year-old Dirk sitting on a stool in front of a watching crowd as the hat on his head calls out the name Slytherin.

The other is a bit longer; Dirk is walking down a sidewalk when a car veers around a corner and shots ring out. He barely manages to duck out of the way and survive the assassination attempt. The other thing that's strange about this memory? His surname is Crocker. ]

[goodboybestshot]

[Wow. And you know, something about that first one feels familiar. Like he knows that scene from one of his movies or something but he can't quite put his finger on it.]

[That second though, has his eyebrows jutting up in surprise.]

Good grief, that last one.

[fracturedsoul]

I know, right? [ He holds his hands out for the charms again; even though he can't remember the contents per se with them off, he wrote down the basics of them and memorized what he'd written so that he'd still know the basics. ] I'm really curious about that one. Both of 'em, really, though I can't tell if the first one is for real or just LARPing or some shit.

[goodboybestshot]

The first one feel frightfully familiar. Like I've seen it in a movie or something. [He's seen so many damn movies.]

[fracturedsoul]

That's strange. [ Dirk is just not going to elaborate, because there's already at least one fictional character here and if people from Harry Potter wind up in Rakuen somehow he feels it will be catastrophic if Jake realizes they're from one of his movies. ]

I'm going back in once I've rested up a bit. You game for another shadow brawl?

[goodboybestshot]

... [And then he grins.]

Have I ever turned down an opportunity to scrum with another?

[He's wearing it like a champ, but he does have a busted lip and a few nasty bruises from the last encounter.]

[fracturedsoul]

[ Dirk shoots Jake a thumbs-up. Good Jake, best bro. ]

...you're still unable to properly wield your pistols, aren't you? I'll get you a memory charm later today. [ He doesn't want to sell these memories, but maybe he'll wind up with something more useless later. ]