INBOX for purgastory

[aerodynamic]

HELLO

"Yo. Is this thing on?"

GOODBYE

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Comments

[aerodynamic]

Yes. The four of us were together pretty much the whole time, but there were other people in the expedition party who were people from this place, too. Or other people we found elsewhere up at the top of the summit. Everything fit together way too neatly.

[ which is. confusing. because he knows that wasn't entirely real. ]

[dulymoted]

Too neatly to be believed, I wager.

What happened? What is it you were made to do, the four of you?

[aerodynamic]

None of us questioned it at all. [ alarming, really. ]

... it was our year to join the expedition to head up the mountain and try to kill the god who came down every year for the Erasure. Expedition parties are small, but all four of us wanted to go to try and make it as far as we could.

[dulymoted]

[was this an akayona cyoa]

So it was a test of your mettle?

But...it didn't pan out in your favour, I take it.

[aerodynamic]

[ help. ]

I wouldn't say it was a test when we volunteered to go because we were tired of waiting around. Nobody makes it back from those expeditions alive, but we were gonna go anyway. Things started going wrong pretty early on in the ascent, but we were getting further than the expeditions before us.