(text) (un: man's greatest treasure)

[reparo]

A moment of your time while we await the next wave of...whatever forces come our way. Let's share our findings, please - there have been many pieces moving on this board.

We know from Wrathion that the Huntress credits the Man in White for her powers, but despises him. Some of us have witnessed her somehow ripping out her heart and cutting it into pieces, and handing it to Miang-Si to bury them around Yancai - she mentioned it would make her powers take root.

A word of warning: do not touch the heart slivers with your bare hands. They hold powerful magic, and we can probably fairly assume this to be necromancy, and may sway you to - well. Eat it. I don't recommend doing this part either.

Red and I healed one of the beasts that hunt for her in the woods, and he (I am unclear if it's a he, but it feels unfair to call it an 'it' when he's been so helpful) took us to the hiding place of one sliver. On the way we unearthed a box that belonged to the Huntress and inside it a lock of hair, black hair - which possibly belonged to her son. It feels odd that she would still hang onto that, considering that she gave him into the care of the House of Ravens. Was this a demand from Matthias in exchange for power, or just zealotry?

Either way, there was a location engraved on the box, Kathul - we can thank Red for cleverly figuring out it was a location. It's south of here, and might yield nothing but also might unravel some mystery so I thought it was worth sharing with the rest of us.

Comments

[damnable]

Still got my own heart. Touching the Huntress' piece of heart just made me feel like I had none and so compelled me to consume the piece in its place.

[vestments]

( there is a DELAY whilst marc digests that piece of information. )

And did the Huntress gain a connection to you, or was it solidly one way?

[damnable]

Hard to say yet. I consumed the heart, and then I could tell where the Huntress was, what she was feeling. I knew which of the Undead were hers, they didn't try to touch or attack me, and I could control some of them.

I don't know if I'll figure out whether or not this is mutual until we run into her again. Gonna solidly hope for not, but there's gotta be some shit consequences for something like this. Otherwise why would the heart compel me to consume it?

1/2

[vestments]

( a long pause and then, because marc spector is a fucking idiot and in spite of the 'don't recommend eating the heart' commentary from hermione— )

If a second run through's required, I'm not normally someone anyone likes being connected to.

[vestments]

But it could be argued that eating human heart is penance enough.

Who knows.

[damnable]

Are you volunteering to eat some heart too...?

( ...................is that what's happening here? )

I don't think these Undead are all that picky about who they're connected to, but why does that give me the impression you've been connected to some being in the past who didn't like it?

[vestments]

If it's necessary.

( yes. )

It saw me as food.

I'm not ... easily digestible.

[damnable]

Well, the group thanks you for your willingness to sacrifice. Also, if you're at all powerful, and eating the heart lets her take you for a spin, we might do the opposite of thanking you for that.

( Just sayin. )

A weird but cool flex. So it ate you, or tried to?

[vestments]

At best, I've been described as 'interesting'.

( for... whatever that means.

(marc may or may not be aware that it's Not At All helpful.) )

Tried. Failed.
And then I made it an offer it couldn't refuse.

[damnable]

Must have been one helluva offer.

Who or what was this 'it' that tried and failed to eat you?

[vestments]

Acceptance and companionship.

Haunted house.

[damnable]

...during no point in that story was I prepared for any of those answers.

So what made you so indigestible? I didn't think a haunted house could have a sensitive.... stomach?

[vestments]

I've what's been described as

( HMM. )

a fragile mind.

( the answer that explains—

—perhaps not much, unless you've been so lucky as to meet marc. )

Alongside frequent communion with an ultraterrestrial being.

I'm not particularly welcoming.

[damnable]

Someone described your mind as fragile? Shit, might have to steal that for an insult in the future.

But yeah, that does seem like it'd in indigestion - no matter what your stomach's made of. So is the ultraterrestial being the god of the moon that you're a priest of that you've been talking about in this post, or are you just that unlucky to be communing with more than one powerful being?

[vestments]

It works best if it's true.

Luck's not got anything to do with it in my experience, but the ultraterrestrial being would be Khonshu, yes.

[damnable]

I have a lot of experience with gods but can't say I ever heard of that one before. Heart devourer, protector, and god of the moon - that's a wide range.

[vestments]

Egyptian.

( does that explain anything? marc really doesn't know. )

The eating of hearts isn't a regular thing.

[damnable]

Something me and this Khonshu dude have in common then. ( just gonna hope for herself that it was a one time thing. )

[vestments]

Hopefully the one and only.