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CROW
Occupation: unofficial leader of The Nest
Age: late 40s
Gemstone: "a pure black gemstone, highly polished and slightly tapered towards one end not unlike an egg" (first mentioned here)
Description: Crow has sandy blond hair and dark brown eyes, and can typically be found at home or around the train station. Reportedly, he holds a lot of influence over the town, and is a good person to talk to when troubled. While many npcs have been losing memories, Crow reportedly has not. He is the one who gave named npcs their bird names, as well as the one who named the town The Nest.
Age: late 40s
Gemstone: "a pure black gemstone, highly polished and slightly tapered towards one end not unlike an egg" (first mentioned here)
Description: Crow has sandy blond hair and dark brown eyes, and can typically be found at home or around the train station. Reportedly, he holds a lot of influence over the town, and is a good person to talk to when troubled. While many npcs have been losing memories, Crow reportedly has not. He is the one who gave named npcs their bird names, as well as the one who named the town The Nest.
SWAN
Occupation: ferryman
Age: mid 30s
Description: Swan has dark brown hair and dark green eyes, and can typically be seen out in the water on a boat during good weather, or couch hopping during bad weather and at nights. Six silver coins are used as a passage fee and conduit for her to take a person across the water; according to Lark, those who leave with her never return.
Age: mid 30s
Description: Swan has dark brown hair and dark green eyes, and can typically be seen out in the water on a boat during good weather, or couch hopping during bad weather and at nights. Six silver coins are used as a passage fee and conduit for her to take a person across the water; according to Lark, those who leave with her never return.
ROBIN
Occupation: rail attendant
Age: early 30s
Gemstone: "fragile light blue shards encased in clear gem" (first mentioned here)
Description: Robin has black hair and light brown eyes, and can typically be found around the train station or cafes in town. She was married to Jay, the train conductor who was murdered early in the game, and has picked up enough from him to operate the train if we ever get it working again. While she has lost a considerable amount of her memories, she claims to be content living in the present. An unknown individual stole her uniform and faked her death via the train's furnace at the start of the game.
Age: early 30s
Gemstone: "fragile light blue shards encased in clear gem" (first mentioned here)
Description: Robin has black hair and light brown eyes, and can typically be found around the train station or cafes in town. She was married to Jay, the train conductor who was murdered early in the game, and has picked up enough from him to operate the train if we ever get it working again. While she has lost a considerable amount of her memories, she claims to be content living in the present. An unknown individual stole her uniform and faked her death via the train's furnace at the start of the game.
LARK
Occupation: postman
Age: mid 20s
Description: Lark has ashy hair and golden eyes, and can typically be seen around town with his mail bag doing deliveries, or hanging out in the graveyard talking to the dead underground. As a postman, Lark prides himself in knowing people and places, but has trouble speaking and reportedly cannot read aside from names he's learned to recognize. It is not widely known, but Lark is able to speak with and, to a certain extent, control the dead.
Age: mid 20s
Description: Lark has ashy hair and golden eyes, and can typically be seen around town with his mail bag doing deliveries, or hanging out in the graveyard talking to the dead underground. As a postman, Lark prides himself in knowing people and places, but has trouble speaking and reportedly cannot read aside from names he's learned to recognize. It is not widely known, but Lark is able to speak with and, to a certain extent, control the dead.
RAVEN (née HAMTARO)
Age: pre teen
Gemstone: "completely clear, like a diamond, aside from a tiny red spot in the center: a gemstone trapped within a gemstone" (first mentioned here)
Description: Raven has black hair and grey eyes, and can occasionally be seen wandering around town but is most reliably found at Poppy Hall after dark. Following the "sacrifice" of several characters, he awoke without any memories of his identity or past life, and was given the temporary name Hamtaro before learning his true name. His family is dead, and according to the note he had written on the back of a photograph discovered in a burning house, he had sworn to bring them back no matter what the cost. According to the townspeople npcs, according to Crow, a boy named Raven died in a house fire many years ago.
Gemstone: "completely clear, like a diamond, aside from a tiny red spot in the center: a gemstone trapped within a gemstone" (first mentioned here)
Description: Raven has black hair and grey eyes, and can occasionally be seen wandering around town but is most reliably found at Poppy Hall after dark. Following the "sacrifice" of several characters, he awoke without any memories of his identity or past life, and was given the temporary name Hamtaro before learning his true name. His family is dead, and according to the note he had written on the back of a photograph discovered in a burning house, he had sworn to bring them back no matter what the cost. According to the townspeople npcs, according to Crow, a boy named Raven died in a house fire many years ago.
MAGPIE
Age: early teens
Gemstone: "blue and yellow, splotched like flowers run through a photoshop distort filter" (first mentioned here)
Description: Princess Stephanie Astrapia (aka Paradise Magpie, aka Magpie, aka Maggie) has sandy blond hair and golden eyes. While not related by blood, Crow and Maggie consider themselves father and daughter. An unknown individual has been using her name and reputation to communicate with the characters, and has stolen six silver coins.
Gemstone: "blue and yellow, splotched like flowers run through a photoshop distort filter" (first mentioned here)
Description: Princess Stephanie Astrapia (aka Paradise Magpie, aka Magpie, aka Maggie) has sandy blond hair and golden eyes. While not related by blood, Crow and Maggie consider themselves father and daughter. An unknown individual has been using her name and reputation to communicate with the characters, and has stolen six silver coins.
SPARROW
Age: mid teens
Gemstone: "like a fire opal: bright yellow and red that dance like flames when turned" (first mentioned here)
Description: Sparrow has black hair and bright blue eyes, and is difficult to get ahold of; the most reliable way to meet her is to wait for her to come home, which she does some nights. She has an interest in the supernatural and the occult, and reportedly is the person who gave other npcs their gemstones. She is Maggie's best/only friend at the start of the game.
Gemstone: "like a fire opal: bright yellow and red that dance like flames when turned" (first mentioned here)
Description: Sparrow has black hair and bright blue eyes, and is difficult to get ahold of; the most reliable way to meet her is to wait for her to come home, which she does some nights. She has an interest in the supernatural and the occult, and reportedly is the person who gave other npcs their gemstones. She is Maggie's best/only friend at the start of the game.
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[Hey, a connection to Hell is still a connection to the outside world, right? He'll take that information gladly.]
[But, since that's not very helpful to him....]
And how about the one that was inside of the village church? The spirit of the stained glass. Do you know it? When it fled, it seems that it took the 'hearts' of the people with it.
I am interested in that one, in particular.
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I know who you're talking about. Who set it free? Did they know? Oooooooooohhh, I bet they didn't!
[ OOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHH whoever did that is going to be in SO much trouble, Sparrow looks so delighted, having stopped in the middle of the street to give Matoba her full attention, interest renewed. ]
Now that one, I want to be around when you talk to it. You open up a path and get me back there, I'll get you in contact with the thing. Cross my heart and hope to die.
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[Matoba dryly informs her, brows raising in mild reaction to her excitement. Somehow, he felt as though anything that could excite this young lady must be thoroughly troublesome. The type to go around invoking help from demons on the fly......]
[(Well, that was pretty hypocritical of him. He'd invoke whatever was available to him, too. He just wouldn't make good on those deals.)]
[Just how much should he tell her? That's what he contemplates before answering.] ...A fire was set to the church, some weeks ago. In the wreckage, it seems that the seal on the glass was released. Although, given that there seem to have been certain ...individuals tampering with the glass, I couldn't rule out that it was a factor. [Diluc]
When we were able to enter the church again, the glass had been shattered. It was only when I examined it then that I noticed traces of a broken seal, and by then the door to this island had been opened up, so I imagine they must be connected.
So, Miss Sparrow. I scratch your back and you will scratch mine. Is that right? [Making deals with witches he didn't know usually put him on the high ground, but he's not sure what to make of this one. Maybe he needed some collateral...]
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[ Sparrow doesn't bother to hide the delight on her face, bright blue eyes dancing with gold in her excitement. This is all very good, very exciting information for her, but there is something fundamentally wrong about Matoba's understanding in the first place: ]
But there's no way a simple fire would've have been enough to dissolve that seal.
[ She would know, as would he, if the seal were holding back a being so powerful it had torn a hole in existence. ]
What happened before the fire? Something else must have changed inside the church.
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I'm afraid that the church had been set ablaze just a few days after I arrived, so I don't have a great deal of information about that. [Matoba muses, raising a hand to his chin.] But to my knowledge, other than those who had tampered with the hearts in the glass, there was... That coffin. The one which seems to have borne some aspects of this island.
[He holds a hand out to the sky, as if one expecting rain.] The blades, the blood. I've been led to believe it is a result of a number of ill-informed sacrifices made to that coffin. Ah, and ... the boy.
Do you him? I'm told his true name is "Raven". It seems he has no recollection of his former self ... Ah, but that happens, with half-baked revivals of the dead. [He puts his eye back on Sparrow's, with her sparking blue-gold.] He's practically no different from a soul that's been forcefully reattached to a puppet body, as he is.
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Huh. If by "true name" you mean the name Crow gave him, then yeah, I knew a kid like that. He's gone though: Crow personally took care of him.
[ Crow isn't somebody she messes with. As with Lark and Swan and all the others, Sparrow received her name from him too, and that's about as much to do with him as she'd like. ]
Serves you guys right, though, throwing blades and blood over here on our side! You know how many people died because of that? I hope Raven's zombie gives you all hell.
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[His suspicions rotate back to that notebook, and the words from the back of the photo he'd been told about. He didn't want to believe it so easily, but...]
[More importantly.]
Please don't lump me in with the Sightless ones, [Matoba's tone goes dry and stringent again; clearly this is a matter that weighs on him heavily!] I have more common sense than to test throwing random objects into a sacrificial vessel. I had not yet awakened in the village when all of that took place, so take your complaints to the proper individuals, if you please.
[Starting with those IDOLS. But that does remind him of something.]
... You are aware of that growing hole that has opened up in this island, aren't you? They're all off feeding it once again. [...] Is that the doing of that thing from the church?
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I dunno.
[ She doesn't know everything. Has her suspicions, yes, although covets them. ]
That "thing from the church" isn't on this side, if that's what you're asking. I'd know if it were, and I would've dealt with it. Those guys are feeding some other eldritch horror— which, you know, I'm kinda surprised you haven't already collapsed the entire thing in if you're so against it.
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[As for void-kun...]
It would be rash of me to act before I have the facts, [Matoba replies matter-of-factly, with a small shrug of his shoulders.] This place and its residents are proving quite useful to us. I don't like the idea of feeding into some greedy monster, but if satisfying that thing will assist in us eventually being freed from that village, some sacrifices are necessary.
That's why I decided to seek you out, dear Sparrow. [A smirk curls his lips.] I do not know every form magic or every ayakashi that may grace such an unfamiliar place. I need context.
--Are you not bothered by it? [He tilts his head, trying to get a gauge on Sparrow's thoughts.] That bloodthirsty thing in the church basement. It seems rather detrimental to your safety on this island, no?
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[ There's no elaboration on that, flippant as much as she is confident. She's not worried, and maybe that says something of her opinion— it's the same with Crow, she thinks, that unflappable man not always having all the answers but people taking comfort in him all the same. ]
They've already given too much for me to do anything about it anyways. Who knows, maybe it'll grant their wish? It's not like the goal of gods and demons is to wipe everybody from existence- more like the opposite.
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[Matoba has his own complicated feelings about the gods. But one thing he's certain of is that what they call their benevolence is not always wanted.]
[Then again. Sparrow's flippant attitude towards the island's fate, and the existence of them here... Maybe they already had a complicated existence beyond what he would call humanity.]
I will see what I can do to find you on your path back to the village, [Matoba agrees, and holds up a finger.] As thanks for your information. But, what happens once you return... I make no promises.
Is that acceptable, Sparrow?
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Of course. That's "home" after all. Over there, I'll be in my domain.
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[Something like that was more promising than threatening. After all, if Sparrow was this talented, she would be quite the useful one to have on-hand, right?]
[No fear. Just plans. Matoba bows his head respectfully, or at least in the show of it.]
I look forward to it, Sparrow-san. The day when I can see your power.
Ah, and I will get you that coffee. I haven't forgotten.
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I would've cursed you if you hadn't. [ this is both a promise and a threat ] Don't forget the chocolate, cinnamon, and mini marshmallows!