The Tower crossing a Reversed Queen of Swords

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[Action 1] On random streets

[Elizabeth has just found Minato's body, she's moving kind of erratically, her face is pale (ok, its always pale) but her eyes are no longer dancing.  If you speak magic, she's saying a doozy in Lost Carcosan, if you don't speak magic those words would unnerve just about anyone.  Odds are she's not paying attention to

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[itswhoopasstime]

[It's completely by accident that Maya comes across Elizabeth sitting on her doorstep; nearly tripping over her on her way outside. She frowns to herself as she catches the bit about calling herself. That's never good news, in her experience.]

Are you okay?

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[She peers up at Maya with those creepy gold eyes]

"I need a cellular phone... To invoke something to deal with the loss of persona... Do you have one?"

[itswhoopasstime]

[Maya shakes her head.]

Not since coming to Mayfield, anyway. Did you say "persona?"

[Huh. That strikes a chord, somehow. And what's with this woman's eyes?]

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"Yes... The master said never to invoke it but... Given how Erebus has taken over, the Joker curse couldn't be any worse..."

[itswhoopasstime]

[!!!]

The Joker curse?! [That's what she was afraid of.] There are definitely other options. People lose themselves to that curse!

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"But what if you have already lost yourself? The madness of this town has claimed a life that will be a seal to save a billion lives. A seal that you can not reset the world to bring back. Igor is not here to fix this, only I, and I have been cut off from my power... Perhaps the Great Old Ones were not always so wrong..."

[itswhoopasstime]

Igor? [The name is hauntingly familiar, and not just in an old monster movie sort of way. She shakes her head.]

But this place is different than wherever you come from, even if they were a seal originally, they might not be here! And anyway... [She frowns. She's been avoiding leaving the house the past few days, having heard enough about what's been going on outside.]

Don't people usually come back here? Once they've been injured or killed. It's happened, hasn't it?

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"The seal... He was here.. BEFORE he became the seal. I... I was to protect him... But the town required me go home lest the droning come.. When I returned... When... No. They have not been coming back. Each soul turns into a power for the murderer. I have a small girl to murder, but have chosen not to, and here we are..."

[itswhoopasstime]

... oh. They're not...

[She shakes her head again with more enthusiasm.] The Joker curse isn't the solution! You have to think positive! There's always another way, you don't have to resort to that.

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"I am not strong enough to restart the world... Not here... Not again...."

[itswhoopasstime]

I didn't even know it was possible to restart the world. [IRONY.]

You don't have to despair like this. What's your name?

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"I am Elizabeth... Servant of Igor... Attendant of the Velvet Room. Protector of the seal.. Yes, once the world was restarted to save a soul from oblivion. It was in the game that led to my being given to Igor with my sister and brother."

[itswhoopasstime]

The Velvet Room...

[Maya frowns, carefully lowering herself to sit beside Elizabeth on the stoop. No use looming over her.]

... I remember the Velvet Room. There was always singing. [She gives Liz a sideways glance.] But I don't remember you. ... I'm Maya.

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"The innocent sin.... My family was a prize of that competition."

[itswhoopasstime]

Your family was a prize? What do you mean?

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"To be made of the same soul stuff as the dark ones, but simply to not understand humanity. To be raised by Nyarlathotep would have lead to great calamity, but in the care of our Master... We represented... Well... I know not, but, that... Is what fate deemed happen."

"But now, the seal that kept the beat Erebus from awakening Nyx has been taken..."