Text; un: anonymous

[survivalthroughhate]

Whatever you do, DO NOT eat the vanilla chocolates being passed out by the Chocolatier! I am serious, if you do, the results are dire and will be a catastrophe. Throw them away, destroy them, but don't eat them or give them to anyone else.

[That's it, just a few cryptic lines sent out anonymously. Maul's fucked it up good this time and he knows they're only going to snowball from here.]

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un:bardhat

[grandtheftperson]

I don't suppose you'd be willing to share what they do, precisely? Homicidal rages? Enhances Corruption? Makes you fall in love?

[survivalthroughhate]

It makes you kill the next person you see whether you want to or not.

[grandtheftperson]

That IS a fairly unpleasant drawback! But still quite good to know; have you observed any other of the Chocolatier's gifts being as high risk?

text, un: GoldenFlowers

[the_obedient_servant]

Well, that sounds bad.

Text; UN: BlackMoths

[blackmothwings]

What do they do, precisely?

text | UN: forgetmenot

[nilheality]

[The text returns is hand-written.]

Ah, yes, them.

I have learned firsthand how horrible their chocolates are. What does that one do? The three we have discovered are one that makes you vomit organs, one prevents you from using your limbs, and one that turns you partially into a deer.

text; un: padlocks

[enblightened]

i had decided early on to not eat anything without prior knowledge of what they do precisely

what happened?

un; joker

[stealhearted]

Can I ask how dire specifically

because I was compelled to eat my chocolate but it just gave me cat ears

text; un: violet

[virtuosital]

I'm pretty sure a lot of people are going to want to find out what this dire catastrophe they can cause by eating vanilla chocolate is since you didn't say, but more importantly, are you in trouble because of these dire catastrophic results?

text - UN: IceCream

[threelayers]

Good to know.
That's about the last thing anyone needs me eating.
I already have enough impulses, thanks.

[survivalthroughhate]

No. The other one I had merely involved some shapeshifting that wore off after a day or two. While I know this place can often have terrible effects, I never thought it would be this bad.

[survivalthroughhate]

Bad is an understatement in this case.

[survivalthroughhate]

They make you want to murder the next person you see.

[survivalthroughhate]

This one was worse than any of those. This one makes you want to murder someone when you lay eyes on them.

[survivalthroughhate]

I didn't WANT to eat it. I was COMPELLED to eat it. There was no choice in the matter.

Someone is dead now because of me. That's the effect the chocolate has, it makes you want to kill someone.

[survivalthroughhate]

I ate the same one, that's why I thought this second wasn't going to be so bad. I should have known better with the way this place operates.

This one makes you want to kill someone.

[the_obedient_servant]

I've surmised the effects from your other responses.

This seems extremely dangerous, yes. They all are in their own way but this is a unique case where I don't think there's a single use for this outside of intentionally causing people great harm.

Is it a blind rage sort of thing...?

[survivalthroughhate]

Not yet. But I will be when people find out it was me.

[After the way Maul has been running his mouth on the network, he knows that no one is going to believe this wasn't intentional. He'd dug his grave and has now just jumped right into it.]

[survivalthroughhate]

No, the last thing anyone needs is to undergo what I have already gone through. But you are smarter than me and likely won't fall into the same trap.

[survivalthroughhate]

You've just summed up this place in its entirety. Anyone who thinks these Pthumerians are benevolent are incredibly naïve. They enjoy watching us suffer.

Somewhat. You simply become obsessed with the death of a single person and carrying it out. I didn't want to but it was like my mind was in a haze. All I could focus on was seeing them dead. As soon as it happened, I snapped out of it and realized what I'd done, but by then it was far too late.

[nilheality]

[There's a moment. On the other end those words are so shocking that she drops the telepathy that was holding the omni upright. There's a jostle for a moment as she has to grab it with her tentacle before getting a chance to consider the words.]

[They are not forthcoming.]

I am so sorry.

Did you. Were you. Were you unsuccessful?

[Please say yes. Please say yes. Please say yes.]

[survivalthroughhate]

No. Unfortunately, I succeeded in trying to kill them.

[Even if he hadn't really meant to, Willow was now dead by his hand. And Maul knew there wasn't a single Sleeper in Trench who wasn't going to believe he hadn't done it of his own volition.]

[the_obedient_servant]

Even if they were benevolent, what they might see as benevolent can be deeply twisted in it's own right. But yes, I think there's a degree of sadism to a lot of them, if not all. This month's patron in particular seems quite twisted to me, in its own way.

This place does love to make us do horrible things while stealing away our agency to choose to do them. You have my sympathies.

[nilheality]

Hells.

[For a mercy Vira-Lorr told her how death isn't really death, so at least there's that. So... mm... how would you address this...?]

Did you know the person? Is there anyone that they know who would want to know?

[survivalthroughhate]

When one is as above sentient beings as we are above insects, it's hard not to look at us the way a child might want to throw a bunch of insects into water or fire just to see what will happen.

Indeed. I already have enough struggles with doing terrible things of my own volition and trying to choose not to. I need no help from this place.