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Sun 20th Nov 2022 05:19

Midnight's Journal: After Curses

by Midnight Erebus

"I swear on the Heart of the World that the Librarian will be destroyed. That he shall know no peace, no rest, no comfort if it is within my power to crush it. He has slain a crewmate today. While I did not know Royce well, he was clearly a great fighter, a great genius, and a great crewmember. He will be missed by many. I regret that I did not spend much time with him, but the missions we were on and my fights with and against him were joyous moments in my life. I will not forgive the one who took that away. I will not forget. The Librarian says he'll be coming? Well my fangs will be waiting.... and he will suffer."
 
"It makes me angry repeating what happened. But I must to make sure the memory never fades. We were on a mission to remove the silver mountain we crashed into Liminal. The main location of my first mission with him in fact. Where I met Tsoki as well. Royce seemed to know something was going to happen as he expressed as much to me when recruiting me for his team. I wasn't sure what to expect but I won't turn down a call for action from a crewmate."
 
"So away we went. To the engine room that once rested within the mountain. We soon found a strange rift within that Royce immediately jumped through. I didn't know what was going on at first. The figure inside was unfamiliar to me at first. However I couldn't leave him on his own with that rift soon closing so I followed. Inside was this paper man wearing a red suit reading a book in some strange world. I had my suspicions, but when Royce attacked and he soon summoned paper soldiers? I knew exactly what we were dealing with. The fight that ensued was challenging to say the least. We were knocked around to all sorts of scenes, all sorts of realities, fighting old memories, battling many clones of the librarians, battling his soldiers. It was overwhelming. I even resorted to testing out the Kukla's transformation magic. It worked thankfully. I can fully recharge it. Still, even that power was not enough. Not even with my Shadow Shroud magic in addition. We soon got dogpiled and overwhelmed. The strength of my transformation got me free but Royce had his arm broken by the Librarian while Akhana and Patagon were getting overwhelmed and buried. Royce was out of reach and I could only save one of the other two...."
 
"The choice.. was surprisingly easy. I have nothing against Patagon, but well, I know Akhana more. I know Lio had a crush on her, I know I enjoyed my interactions with her, while Patagon I hardly knew. He's just the communications guy. As cold as that might be to say. It's not that seeing him broken to an inch of his life is easy for me, it's not. Still, a choice had to be made quickly and I admit I acted purely on personal feelings. Still this may have been the right choice in the end. This was also the moment Royce was killed and sealed away in a book. A book we only retrieved because of Akhana. I knew at that moment with two of us down we had to get out. So with the Librarian not truly being there, I did the one thing I could. I unleashed all of the energy of my transformation into a single massive mass of shadow to hopefully disrupt him long enough to pull out the chisel from Tsoki's world and jam it into the fabric of reality."
 
"I thought for a moment I sensed the Librarian in pain but I was incredibly focused on escape at that moment. I didn't realize it until after Akhana confirmed the thought to me later. The important thing is though that we escaped... but the Librarian knows where we are now. He will be coming. When he does? I will make him beg for forgiveness."
 
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Continue reading...

  1. First Day on the Wanderpus
  2. The Results of Midnight's Final Exam
  3. After Action Report: Destruction of the HTTP Wanderpus
  4. Midnight Erebus's Bestiary, Page 3
  5. Midnight Erebus's Bestiary, Page 2
  6. Midnight Erebus's Bestiary, Page 1
  7. Midnight Erebus's Bestiary, Page 4
  8. Midnight Erebus's Bestiary, Page 5
  9. Midnight Erebus's Bestiary, Page 6
  10. Midnight's Old Journal, 12/23/3540
    23rd Day of the 12th Month, 3540 AM
  11. Midnight's Old Journal, 01/01/3541
    1st Day of the 1st Month, 3541 AM
  12. To Liminal's Moon
  13. Midnight's Old Journal, 05/11/3541
    11th Day of the 5th Month, 3541 AM
  14. 100 Questions About Midnight, Part 1 - The Basics & Growing Up
  15. 100 Questions About Midnight, Part 2 - Past Influences, Beliefs and Opinions
  16. 100 Questions About Midnight, Part 3 - Relationships with Others, Likes and Dislikes
  17. 100 Questions About Midnight, Part 4 - Self Images and Etc.
  18. The Storm
  19. After Mission Report: The Floating Island
  20. Midnight's Private Journal: After Legends Rise
  21. Midnight's Private Journal: After The Pot & Kettle
  22. Midnight's Personal Journal: After Call My Name
  23. Expanded Questions About Midnight - The HTML Wanderpus
  24. Midnight's Private Journal: After The Ascension
  25. Midnight's Private Journal: After Ante Up
  26. Midnight's Private Journal: After Teeth
  27. Midnight's Notes: The World Fair
  28. Midnight's Journal: After Hello Tomorrow
  29. Midnight's Journal: After Pretty Little Things
  30. Midnight's Journal: An Interesting New Sword
  31. Midnight's Journal: After R.Y.L.A.H.
  32. Midnight's Journal: After Diners, Dungeons & Dives
  33. Midnight's Journal: After Palm Reader
  34. Midnight's Journal: After Bookwyrm
  35. Midnight's Journal: After Veldt
  36. Midnight's Journal: After Where You'll Find Me Now
  37. Midnight's Journal: After A Bard's Tale
  38. Midnight's Journal: After Valhalla's Calling
  39. Midnight's Journal: After Broken
  40. Midnight's Journal: After They Know Me
  41. Midnight's Journal: After Welcome to the World
  42. Midnight's Journal: After Villainous Thing
  43. Midnight's Journal: After Curses
  44. Midnight's Journal: "The Librarian's Defeat"
  45. Midnight's Journal: "The World Changes"
  46. Midnight's Journal: After Sleep is for the Weak
  47. Midnight's Journal: After creature
  48. Midnight's Journal: After Dear Fellow Traveler
  49. Midnight's Report: After Love From The Other Side
  50. Midnight's Report: Handclap
  51. Midnight's Journal: A Story to a Giant
  52. Midnight's Journal: Constellations
  53. Midnight's Report: Wolf
  54. Midnight's Report: Of Bees and Bones
  55. Midnight's Report: Building Steam (Flower and Geoff)
  56. Midnight's Report: Nothing Breaks Like a Heart Ep. 1

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