𝐧𝐩𝐜 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐭

[uruz]

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SLEEP ONE TWO THREE FOUR ESPERA

SLEEP

A manipulative enigma with grand presence and power within The Murmur that rivals that of a god, and many already treat Her as such. She is everywhere and nowhere at once. Call to her, and she may answer you. She may even treat you, if you treat her, but be prepared to sacrifice. Painful offerings and loyalty are her favorite gifts of devotion (She's also a hopeless romantic).

The Numerals and Espera seem to despise Her, and One is inexplicably bound to Her. What Sleep has disclosed about Her intentions seem quite simple: Collect more Vessels to host Her power, expand past the Earth She's tied to, and deliver them all from loneliness and prolonged suffering to a divine eutopia only She can create.

For that, She needs One.

ONE

A somber, shy and elusive individual that better expresses himself through poetry and song. One's past is shrouded in mystery, tragedy and his own amnesia, but hinted to hold an incredible power that not even he is aware of. One has devoted his entirety to Sleep through blood sacrifice in an attempt to skew Her attention from the vessels to himself, but whether that was successful or not has yet to be known.

Vessels have been made recently aware that One has suffered Lunar Exaltation before the world was destroyed: An ascension, from mortal to more, and a beacon of power that remains the reason why Sleep seeks to claim him.

TWO

Not much is known about the Numeral Two, other than he is an expressive and unburdened Token, mute but not idle. He was very close to One before being thrown into a voided plane of existence by Sleep's hand, and scattered into fragments. Espera claims he is essential to returning One to his senses and putting an end to Sleep's reign.

Currently missing, but one fragment has been found.

THREE

An impish Offering of the Trickster variant, the Numeral Three has a playful disposition and colorful means of expression. Rather chaotic but not malicious, he takes the form of three-eyed corvids, cacatuas, and foxes with frequency, while answering riddles fuels his permanance for brief bursts. His connection with the Waking World is stronger than Two's, but in no less need of mending.

Currently his appearances are unreliable; He may be seen in shared dreams or when he has enough power to solidify from the Void's realm.

FOUR

The first Numeral to vanish and the last to be found. Not much is known about Four, other than having a very strong connection with Three.

Currently missing.

ESPERA

Revealed to be Nymphai, The Espera were birthed from One's exaltation and were meant to guide him on his journey from mortal to more before being barred by Sleep. She, (or they), is (are) a singular entity of three bodies, which are missing in a similar manner to the Numerals. She has a stronger presence within the Murmur but too weak to manifest physically, and is always watching to aid the Vessels in any way she can.

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Comments

One

[sculptedash]

[It takes Ash a little to find the courage to start asking questions. Actually forming tethers had been a terrifying experience for her. To let people in and judge her for who and what she is. But it hadn't been a breaking point for her either. So maybe it was time to reach out a little further.]

...Do you mind if I ask a few questions?

I feel like we have a few things in common. First Vessel, and Invictus' chosen child some to have some overlap. We're pretty pro at ruining worlds by the looks of it.

Espera said you suffered from your own demise. Something about Decay-

Would you tell me what happened? How you got this way?

ROLL: 19

[uruz]

[ in any of one's distant singing, humming, even clicking keys on an old piano is interrupted, he stops, almost immediately like a songbird caught, and all there is left to do is startle enough to fly away. that's almost what happens; ash cuts in with questions, and one recoils into his reticence.

it goes without saying, it takes a while for him to respond back. a few beating moments, like the pauses between fidgets. ]

My Tethered have disappeared. It was . . . By choice. [ mostly. he doesn't remember. ] We have not severed. And thus . . . The thread decays.

[sculptedash]

[Ash probably could have started off slower. She had just been cornered about her own past actions, but maybe that's what was needed to get some answers.

She considers the answer briefly.]

Was it your choice? Theirs? Mutual?

Is that why your dream felt off? Because the threads were decaying?

[uruz]

Mutuality . . . Would result in the end of a Tether.

[ if it was theirs or his, one does not say. sometimes he feels like its his. sometimes, theirs. others— it is as if no one had a say at all. ]

It is a constant sensation.

[sculptedash]

[Huh. That answered a lot about her offering to sever her tether with Sharon. Unless it was mutual it wouldn't snap. ...But Sleep had the power to cut them.]

...What exactly does it feel like?

[uruz]

It is, [ one takes a shallow, shivering breath, ] like holding the breath of someone who has already stopped breathing. Like heartbreak, tenfold. Like holding onto a string that . . . is cutting into you.

[sculptedash]

[It’s weird. How familiar that feeling sounds. Bolo had said her brother was already dead before Gary killed him. But she still remembered those last moments so clearly. And the time she spent after with his body.]

I’m sorry you have to experience something like that all the time.

I still feel it too.

[uruz]

[ . . . . . . he doesn not know how to react to that. so, one diverts: ]

You continue to succumb.

[ it is not so much a question, as it is seeking her own confirmation. ]

[sculptedash]

[Ash gives a little shrug at that.]

A little. Maybe. It hasn't been as bad since some people have...

Well forced themselves onto me. Made me care.

[She doesn't really get the same flashes of Hosts anymore, and her talking has stabilized.

The last thing she really remembers noticing was the dream being off.]

But I felt that pain before I got here.

I imagine it would be worse having to deal with it and a tether added on.

[uruz]

[ it is never an easy pain to rid of; loss. one thinks that he never will, even if the memory gaps. he wishes he could just . . . forget. everything.

but he sympathizes. ]

I am . . . Sorry, as well.