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Creedence Barebones

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You have found a set of antler wind-chimes

This strange artifact gives off a hollow ringing sound, as if being blown by a gentle breeze, once it is hung up in a space, regardless of whether any wind ever blows over it. The sound is incredibly soothing, causing people who are nearby to feel any feelings of anger, rage, depression or the like to be dampened the longer that they are in the presence of the chimes. This effect has a radius of ten to fifteen feet, encompassing one large room or two small ones. However while it is seemingly beneficial at first, if the chimes play around a person for more than an hour, they may find it increasingly difficult to have any emotions at all, as if the chimes were sapping them of their feelings completely. This effect persists for as long as the person was under their effects after they leave the room.

Should anyone smack or strike the chimes, they will cause a discordant note that makes the chimes otherwise useless for 24 hours. Everyone besides the person who has smacked the chimes within range will feel their emotions exploding within them, threatening to send them into a blind rage.

Ruby Rose

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A white cloak
This cloak of pristine, nearly weightless white is silky soft to the touch and has an eerily familiar feel to it, no matter who wears it. If the cloak is pulled tight and the hood drawn up, it causes the person wearing it to become invisible and soundless, almost undetectable. Quite the gift, and yet it comes with a steep price. For as long as it is worn in this way, the wearer cannot interact with anything other than doors, windows and other methods of entry. Otherwise, their hands will pass through any person or object that they attempt to touch or pick up.

Worse still, this inability to interact persists even after the hood has been pulled back for as long as it was worn, making it impossible for them to speak or interact with others until a time has passed equal to the time they used the cloak's power. It will be as if they were a ghost.

Jean Grey

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An Antler Censer
The metal bowl inside of the grip of these antlers is hot to the touch, though it leaves no burn marks. It constantly radiates a controlled sort of heat. The instructions read "In sacrifice is born new life." The meaning becomes clear as soon as the antlers are touched. Intentionally or not, it is impossible not to prick one's finger on the horns. If one tests with the blood, dripping it into the bowl, they will find it sizzles and boils away to create a quantity of ash equivalent to the amount of blood poured into the bowl. This ash, if scattered over another person, has a regenerative effect equivalent to the wounds sustained to produce the ashes. More ashes can always be created, but only a quantity of just short of a fatal wound can ever be stored at a time. It can heal grievous wounds, but it cannot revive the dead.

Unless...

A user was willing to sacrifice their life to slake the bowl's lust for blood. Once, and once only, doing so could create a single gem that could be crushed in the hand and spread over the body of someone whose body has yet to crumble away into dust. Doing so would return to them to life.

Henry Coles

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A tentacuar pendant!
The moment that she picks up this strange, Cthonian amulet, Henry will be able to barely see a compass point underneath the metal tentacles. However, it never seems to be pointing to proper north. Instead, every time she steps out of her home, she will find that the red side of the compass points always back to her home. No matter where she is, it will point in the direction of either her home or the way out of whatever strange realm she might be in, in order to lead her home.

The only downside is that, like any good compass, it doesn't tell her what obstacles, walls or distance may be involved. It only tells her the way to go home.

Ichigo Kurasaki

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An Antler Cross
The cross, when it is taken into the hand has its purpose made perfectly clear. It is a very powerful artifact, but one with significant limitations. When presented forward, a hemispherical barrier is formed in front of the person who holds it, through which nothing but air may pass. No person, monster or their weapons can enter or attack through this, and only gaseous or incorporeal threats can move through the barrier. The barrier can be held active for as much as an hour, but at great physical strain to its user. While holding it, they will be able to do nothing more than grunt a few words at a time and not move to hold the barrier. After taking it down, they will be physically exhausted and barely able to move for six times as long as they held the barrier.

Furthermore, this barrier is only a forward hemisphere. It is unable to protect behind the user, meaning that they must figure out how to position the barrier to best effect.

The Scientist

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An Antler Decoration?
This macabre effigy is set up on a most outside of the Scientist's home one day, and the moment that he approaches within arm's length, its eyes will glow a feral red. An eerie voice will speak out, "Name thee the password." The next 1-3 word phrase, whatever word that might be, will immediately become the password, which cannot be changed from this moment onward.

Anyone who attempts to enter the front porch area or approach any door of the Scientist's door will hear in their ear the same eerie voice say "Password please." If they do not speak the correct password, they will be ejected by an unseen force fifty feet away. Their landing will be softened, but every time they attempt to enter, they will be asked, even if they are the Scientist! Better not forget that password.

This effect only works against corporeal and sentient beings, so it will stop intelligent monsters, but not bestial creatures or ghosts. If the Scientist is past the barrier, he can lift the effigy and move it to another house, but the password will never change.

Josh Foley

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An Antler Box (or humidor)
Within this box, Josh will find a single note with instructions and six sticks of incense. Each stick will burn for eight hours, and if burned in a room where someone is sleeping will ensure that nothing can wake them from the moment they hit the bed until the incense runs out, at which time they will wake refreshed and with only the most pleasant of dreams. However, nothing, not even a physical attack or a fire can wake them during this time, so only use it where it is safe!

This box replenishes every seven days back to six sticks of incense. It is worth noting, however, that if the incense is ever used more than one day in a row, the next day that they sleep without the incense they will be wracked by the most horrendous of nightmares. The more days in a row it is used, the worse these nightmares are, making sleep fitful. If six are used in a row, the user will barely be able to get any sleep because of the constant, near waking nightmares.

Peter Parker

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You have found an Octopus Bracelet!

What an odd little find! When Peter puts it on, he won't notice anything different other than a faint sense of power emanating from it. The power of the bracelet is only truly apparent in times of great stress and when he happens to be underwater. Whenever Peter feels threatened, should he raise his hand, the whole of a 20 yard radius becomes saturated by thick, black ink that is cloying and impossible for anyone but Peter to see through, causing considerable disorientation to anyone else caught in it. This may give him a chance to escape. However, this is not something he completely controls and will function whenever he is legitimately afraid. This effect may happen up to once an hour.

When underwater, he will find that he is able to swim perfectly and breathe underwater without issue, though his lower half will be transformed into that of a squid or octopus so long as he is underwater.

Ozpin

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Ozpin has received an antler crown!

This strange headpiece rests on a pallid bust on top of his counter one day. Should he put it on top of his head, Ozpin will feel an overwhelming sense of duality wash over him. For a moment, this will be dizzying and leave him in a state of what can only be described as spiritual vertigo. This happens every time he puts the crown on or takes it off. While he wears the crown, he will be blessed with a feeling that anything is possible, because it is!

Once per day, if he focuses, he will be able to look at a choice he is about to make, and know intrinsically which decision will result in a more positive outcome by his interpretation and which will result in a less positive one. The price is felt immediately, however, as he will not be able to remove the crown until its curse is paid. By the end of the day, another decision that he makes will automatically have a negative outcome, on par with the benefit he gained from the use of the crown's power. The scales must be balanced after all.

Atsushi

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Atsushi finds an Antler Necklace.

A simple looking article, but a powerful tool. Should Atsushi put it on around his neck, he will feel the effects immediately. The necklace radiates an aura of calm, making it easier for him to keep his emotions under control, protecting him from uncontrolled rage or fear even when assaulted by powers of Deerington. An added benefit, or perhaps detriment depending on how he looks at it, is that it dampens the effects of any regeneration of the person who wears it, while at the same time completely negating any negative effects to others. The dampening is not a complete negation, but it slows regeneration to nothing more than a trickle, taking hours for simple wounds beyond stopping bleeding.

Stefan Salvatore

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Stefan has encountered a pair of antler candleholders and candles.

On the one hand, they're rather useful. If lit, the wax never seems to run out and they never burn down. The candles shed enough light to evenly and warmly lit even the largest room in any home in Deerington, ensuring light in the worst of times. When lit, they even help to keep the temperature in the room even. Should the world around the room be intensely hot or cold, it will not be so in this room.

However, the candles have a disturbing quality, should Stefan inspect the tiny flames closely. They are in fact hellfire, and though the fire does not extend beyond the candle holders, it is wise to only douse them with the snuffer that is included, or risk harm. Anything that actually touches the flames will be utterly consumed and turned to ash, as if burned by hellfire normally. If, however, the hellfire is used to take a life, it will snuff out the candles forever, their flame expended.

Reaper

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Reaper has found a deer antler pen.

This instrument works like a perfectly normal fountain pen that seems always to have ink in it. It always writes with absolutely even penmanship in even unskilled hands it is capable of passable calligraphy. The true power of the pen, however, comes should Reaper ever prick his finger on the tip of the pen itself. Blood will pool in the pen and it will still be able to write. The moment it happens, which he might feel compelled to allow at some point, he will realize that he can use it to write a message.

Whoever he writes a message in his own blood will receive the message a moment later, the paper appearing in front of them. It will appear and only be readable by them, only answerable by them, whatever words they speak appearing on the message before it disappears again and returns to the writer. No matter how badly technology fails in Deerington, he will always be able to send a single private message. So long as he is willing to bleed for it.

Louis

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Louis finds some antler utensils!

He never needs to go hungry with these babies! As soon as he picks them up, he will know this for a fact. Should he touch them to a bowl, he will find that it fills with a nourishing stew, hearty, tasting and filling. Eating this soup will make him feel fully fed and invigorated for the day, perhaps even with a bit more pep in his step. What could be better, considering the problems with food around Deerington?

Everything in Deerington comes with a price, however. The utensils are a little on the addictive side. The more that he eats the stew, the more that he wants to eat nothing but that stew. The flavor of any other food begins to die in his mouth, and after a week everything will taste bland and flavorless. But, hey, as long as he doesn't care about eating the same meal every day, it's not so bad, right? And, if he decides he's sick of it, his taste buds will go back to normal in a few days.

Mami Tomoe

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Mami has received a teapot!

How cute! And as soon as water is poured inside and it's capped, it starts heating just like that, without any outside heat! How very convenient! Well, it's certainly a time saver if nothing else. But, the real trick comes whenever it is used to brew tea.

The teapot only brews chamomile tea. There's a little set of instructions that say so, and regardless of the tea packets that are used, the result is a very nice chamomile tea. Anyone who partakes will find themselves very calm, almost drowsy. It's next to impossible to be angry or violent while drinking. The longer that one sips, the more prone to falling asleep. And if people fall asleep like this together, they will dream together in a shared dreamland. It isn't the Great Sleep but the dream may be one of a pleasant memory for one of those drinking. No drachma charging but pleasant dreams!

ARID

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Look, ARID a positively stylish deer skullcap just for you!

Ok, this may be one of the ugliest pieces of mismatched headware imaginable, but if ARID dares fly in the face of fashion, they will find that it has a very powerful effect. They will feel extremely well shielded and defended. Although it has no impact on ARID's mood per se, any attempt to mind-control, magically or technologically influence any decisions, invade and hack the mind will fail. Their thoughts cannot be read and they cannot be possessed so long as they wear this ridiculous cap.

Helena Bertanelli (CW: Mysophobia, Delusional Parasitosis, Filth, Grime)

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A Personal Horror Has Occurred!

For someone as accustomed to the grime of the city streets and getting a little down and dirty, even bloody, as Huntress, a little bit of dirt under the fingernails shouldn't feel like a big deal should it? In Deerington, nothing is ever so simple. It starts almost innocuously one day, with the feeling like she hasn't completely gotten the grime out completely, just a slight oily sensation. After the troubles of the last month, it really shouldn't feel that strange to experience just a tiny bit of grimy sensations now and again.

After a couple days, however, the sensation doesn't go away. In fact, it seems to worsen with every passing day, growing at first distracting and then eventually overwhelming by the end of the five days. Nothing physical seems to alleviate it. It itches and makes sitting uncomfortable, standing uncomfortable, everything uncomfortable. As of the last day, it almost feels like there are things crawling over her skin though she can't see them, and she swears when she looks she can almost see the bulges where they were just moving at the corner of her vision, but they aren't there anymore.

The best soap in the world won't clean it. Washing herself to the point of cracked and damaged skin won't alleviate the symptoms. Even trying to cut the apparent critters out won't find anything more than hopefully shallow wounds. The only chance and hope of finding any relief is, you guessed it. Confession. They say that if you've wronged someone, it's a stain on the soul. So, maybe if she gets out there what she's done wrong to someone, or just confesses a big crime she's never admitted to publicly, that will do the trick. And it does, for a while. Every confession gives her relief for 24 hours, but at the end of that, the symptoms come back in full force.

This curse will last for 2-3 weeks (Player choice) and may begin whenever you like.

Albus Dumbledore (CW: For Body Horror/Split Tongue)

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A Personal Horror Has Occured!

It was just a slip of the tongue, you tell yourself. A moment of pain, a stubbed toe. A hiss and words that are familiar come out of the mouth. Albus can understand them, and yet he should know that it should not be possible to hear him speak those words. After all...

Albus does not speak Parseltongue.

The moment that it happens, the curse has truly begun. For the next three days, he will find himself increasingly unable to speak in a normal language. His tongue splits like that of a serpents and by the third day the only language he will be able to speak in is parseltongue. On the one hand it's a bit of body horror, a forced transformation that is anything but pleasant. On the other hand, it is much much worse.

Every time he tries to rely upon any form of communication that does not require him to speak, his hands will ache like the worst carpal tunnel, making it nearly impossible to write or type clearly. Whenever he speaks, people will react with exactly what someone might expect. Hearing parseltongue solicits the primal reaction of fight or flight in some, while in others it breeds outright suspicion. They can barely understand what he is saying to begin with, and that is only if they remain and don't flee, shout at him or worse, but they can at least get the gist of it. However, it is nearly impossible to trust Albus while he is in this state. Hopefully he can manage to get through the next weeks without too much trouble.

This curse will last two weeks and may begin at any time.

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You know what they say. You can never truly know someone until you walk a mile in their shoes.

You wake up one morning, like any other. Nothing seems unusual about the day, nothing at all really. In fact, if you ignored the heavy snowfall lately, it would be an otherwise perfectly average day in a town in Maine. A glance out the window will show that there's been some paths carved in the snow, so maybe you can get out of the damned house a little. It won't last, so you might as well enjoy the freedom, right?

When you go to get dressed, however, there is something odd. There's another set of shoes there. Maybe you recognize them as a friend's, or maybe you've never seen them before in your life, but they're definitely not yours. On a whim, you feel an almost inexorable compulsion to try them on, and they fit perfectly! It does not matter how biologically impossible this might be because of different species, foot sizes, the fact that you've never worn high heels in your life, they fit, and fit perhaps better than any other shoes you've ever worn.

That's when the rubber meets the road, however. The moment you put them on, your memories feel fuzzy for a moment and then everything is just wrong. Your memories of life become those of the person whose shoes you are now wearing. Inconsistencies are papered over for a moment. Flagrant inaccuracies just don't seem important at first, and you go about your business, being them. There's always a strangeness to your day, a sort of surreal oddity to it. It feels 'off,' and every time you look in the mirror you swear that you see the words somewhere in the reflection "Cogito Ergo Sum. At qui ego sum?"

Eventually, the nagging feeling gets worse and worse until you're compelled to find the person wearing your shoes. Only then can the curse be lifted by talking about the pieces of each other's false lives, sharing bits about oneself and realizing in the haze, confusion and fear that they are sharing your memories, not yours. When enough have been shared, the urge to trad shoes comes, and once the right ones are on your feet it's all back to normal. The false memories bleed away like the morning fog. At most, only vague recollections linger unless the two of you choose to continue talking about them. But the next time you look in the mirror, backwards, written in blood are the words. "?I ma ohw tub ,ma I erofereht kniht I"

Merry Christmas, Deerington.

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Remaining Characters without Dropping from 2018
Eddie Kapsbrack (May)
Chloe Price (May)
Jesse McCree (May)
Shiro (May)
Bruce Banner (July)
John Blake (July)
Skye (Aug)
Arthur (Sept)
Jean-Paul Beaubier (Oct)
Reaper (Oct)
Vira-Lorr (Nov)
Diarmuid (Nov)
Peter Parker (Nov)

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Progress of Vira-Lorr's Romantic Life:

-Status on entering Deerington: Bisexual, Male Preference. Virgin.
--Her virginity is part of the source of her power and so she's carefully protected it and was only recently considering giving that up in the aftermath of the war to Rex Raglan. However, he chose Dyshana, and so she isn't romantically involved.

2018
--She flirted with Chloe and a few others, more out of habit than anything. Vira-Lorr is a flirtatious woman, but there was no real intent to actually go further than flirtation.

2019
--January: She dies in the flesh tunnels, horrifically. In the midst of this, she begins bonding with Max Caufield and is traumatized by the method of death, feeling violated spiritually and ruined.
--February: under the influence of a strawberry tart aphrodisiac, she makes out with and gets quite far with Hana Song but not all the way.
--March:, she sleeps with Chloe Price. At this point, she's convinced her magic is permanently damaged and can't bring herself to care about protecting her virginity further. Chloe's clearly interested. Hana's gone. So, she offers and has her first full sexual experience. She asks Max for her blessing (which leads to later complications)
--Feb/March: she sleeps with Keith under the influence of a strawberry tart. They have a candid discussion about her not being pregnant in March.
--April: she dies to a Facehugger and is further traumatized by the experience, losing memories of home.
--May: While under this death effect, she dies at Chloe's hands, complicating their friendship and leading to a 3 month period of complete amnesia.
--June: through August 2019, she is employed as a prostitute at the Red Sparrow and regularly engages in sex with complete strangers (NPCs). She develops a deepening friendship and relationship with Max Caufield. She meets Raphael (TMNT) and early hits up a good friendship with him, flirting off and on regularly but not seriously.
--September:, she quits the Red Sparrow, out of a hope to change herself and address her building feelings for Max Caufield, carefully avoiding sex or romantic contact with others.
--October:, she and Chloe Price have a vicious confrontation over Max and her interest. Vira-Lorr realizes Chloe loves Max. Not long afterwards, Chloe dies and Vira-Lorr 'tries' to not approach Max too aggressively while her estranged friend is suffering memory loss.
--October: Vira Lorr meets Minako Aino and witnesses her transformation in battle. They begin to form a friendship.
--October: Vira-Lorr dies a fourth time but is not quite as horribly impacted by the experience as she was in prior occasions. She does, however, have regular sleepwalking episode that are very dangerous.
--November: Vira-Lorr meets Weiss Schnee and the two hit it off early on through sparring.
--December: Vira-Lorr has asked Max out to the New Years party, and feels compelled to finally confess her interest. This leads to an ill-fated kiss at midnight which gets re-wound by Max and undone, leading to a tense, awkward conversation. Max confesses she is in love with Chloe, and Vira-Lorr yields and pulls back, heart-broken but hopeful that they can be happy together.

2020
--January: Vira-Lorr spends most of January severely impacted by the fact that she cannot safely touch anyone for fear of reading their mind and getting horrible paranoia. Raphael is one of those who helps her through this period.
--February: Vira-Lorr's flirtations with Raphael start to take root. At a certain point, he expresses interest back but forestalls a relationship. He has a salamander waiting back home. But they stay friends, and she continues to flirt.
--March: Vira-Lorr, still on a rebound from Max, decides to try casual dating out. Raphael isn't available, but she opts to ask Weiss and Minako out, just to try out a date. Both wake up and disappear shortly after their first date. Vira-Lorr talks with Keith about his issues as he copes with Chloe breaking up with him, and how he uses sex as a distraction.
--April: Vira-Lorr begins helping Keith with his emotional issues over having no memories after his latest death. Raphael wakes up and disappears.
--May: Vira-Lorr dies a fifth, traumatic death after being devoured by a snake. her sense of touch is destroyed for months, causing her to cave into the need to 'feel' something, anything. She begs Keith to use her sexually, since he can't use Chloe. They begin regularly having sex.
--July: Vira-Lorr's sixth death causes her to permanently suffer a detached head. The sitaution nearly breaks her psychologically and while the sex with Keith distracts her, she finds the lack of emotional connection becoming undesirable.
--July: Vira-Lorr meets Setsuna Meioh. Though she flirts with her initially, she becomes convinced that Setsuna isn't especially interested in her attentions, and so relegates it to friendship, not realizing Setsuna is flattered but unprepared to express interest.
--August: Vira-Lorr meets Makoto Kino. She is immediately infatuated with the girl, finding her both attractive, courageous and passionate. She flirts with her heavily almost from the start, particularly after hearing the things that Makoto yearns for in a companion, the very things she feels she isn't getting with Keith.
--September: Setsuna begins returning Vira-Lorr's flirtation while she doesn't seem to notice. Meanwhile, Vira-Lorr breaks her relationship with Keith off and actively pursues Makoto, only to hold off after the girl briefly becomes infatuated with David Alleyne and a bad situation crops up over Makoto's age at 17. Choosing not to cause an issue, Vira-Lorr decides to flirt but not ask Makoto's interest until her birthday in December.
--September: Vira-Lorr dies a seventh and currently final time, concealing this fact from most people in Deerington as the realm of the Dead is opened and accessible to all who've died as a result.
--September: Weiss re-appears without memory of their past. A little emotionally exhausted and already very focused on her building interest in Makoto, she chooses not to pursue their former connection, as she has many of her friends in town now.
--October: Makoto begins to fall in love with Atsushi after several tense shared experiences. Vira-Lorr, meanwhile continues to bond with she and Setsuna.
--October: Max Caufield wakes up and disappears, and Vira-Lorr tries to console Chloe Price with limited success.
--October: Minako Aino returns without memories of her former life. Vira-Lorr, deciding that she might be a little too casual in her interests, chooses never to mention that they had once almost dated and begins to become a closer friend to her.
--November: Vira-Lorr grows tense as she realizes that there may be interest in someone, likely Atsushi, and tries to increase the obviousness of her interest, seeking counsel with Setsuna and the recently returned Minako. Setsuna is a little disappointed and heartbroken by the interest as it mirrors the fact that they both always seem to fall for people who are in love with someone else.
--December: Vira-Lorr confesses on a starlit night in the snow to Makoto on her birthday. Makoto, now firmly infatuated with Atsushi, apologizes but shoots her down gently. There's tears shared but they stay friends while Makoto tries repeatedly to set her up.
--December: On New Years, Setsuna confesses her own interest and Vira-Lorr is stunned, asking only to have a little time, because she feels Pluto deserves to know that she's not simply a rebound.

2021
--January: Over the course of several talks and some persona reflection, Vira-Lorr decides to accept Setsuna's offer but is held by the complexities of the month's events.
--February: Vira-Lorr is trapped for 10 years reliving and dying before the end of a single day, before being rescued by Setsuna. they share a kiss and are agreeing to try out a relationship.
--February: Setsuna awakens and departs Deerington. Weiss also awakens and departs Deerington.
--February: Cursed and lonely, Vira-Lorr's mind is not what it should be. Suffering from the symptoms of 'rabid love,' she kidnaps Chloe Price and keeps her captive, screwing her senseless and drugging her over a weekend as pent up emotions between them are exascerbated and Chloe appeases her to avoid setting her off to potential violence. She's rescued when Eddie undergoes a 'shining' moment and confronts Vira-Lorr and cleans her during a downtime period on the 28th.
--March: Cursed by a personal Horror Lance is experiencing, Vira-Lorr ends up having sex with him in the Red Sparrow. Meanwhile she allows Chloe the month to cool off and decide how she feels about what happened. Cursed or not, it was ... a lot.

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Right now, I'm sort of thumping at my head, working on her state of mind. And after everything she's been through, including 2 years/12 if you count groundhog day madness, Vira-Lorr is probably emotionally spent, withdrawn, has lost countless friends and sexual partners and right now isn't so much looking for love, nor is she looking for emotional release to 'feel something' and drown out the pain like she got with Keith.

She's just bitterly lonely.