48941: Whispers of Sorrow - Saturday, December 6 2025 - 1:10 AM
Ah, it is the lunatic. Bad news for anyone who meets her I fear.
48942: Catirate - Saturday, December 6 2025 - 8:58 AM
To cut our favorite paladin some slack:
We've only seen her interact with a Ghoul trying to kill her, and Maria. With Maria she dissociated while walking together, then came to with:
- An unfamiliar knife in her hand.
- Maria swearing at her.
- Having apparently stabbed Maria.
There's no scenario where Shalhia *didn't* stab Maria, but we don't know where that knife came from. Yes, a deluded Shalhia could have grabbed it from Maria's pocket - or, potentially, Maria saw Shalhia mumbling and took the opportunity to gut her and leave her to die of blood loss, with Shalhia disarming and retaliating by instinct. Keep in mind that Maria is a murderous bastard herself, and kept Shalhia's escape key on her and didn't even use it as an incentive or reward.
Shalhia is a potential danger to anyone around her, but her self-control may keep her steady in face of her trauma. Granted, for the sake of the plot she's probably going to grievously wound someone before we get out of her.
48943: Radical Dreamer - Saturday, December 6 2025 - 9:50 AM
That's a bit unfair. She's had less than a dozen psychotic breaks from reality. A true lunatic would make it their preferred way of interacting with the world.
That said....I do think she's dangerous to Tobi. I don't know how those spirits gifts will manifest but I suspect it will be visible to someone with the sight.
48944: Whispers of Sorrow - Saturday, December 6 2025 - 8:40 PM
Put bluntly, everyone who's teamed up with her has swiftly died. So, all other considerations aside? She's a plague to be avoided.
@Catirate: Considering the situation with the knife? I don't think we can trust anything Shalhia claims to have found in Maria's pockets. Especially as she didn't find the universal keycard Maria spoke of: https://www.neorice.com/hoh_4116
Ah, it is the lunatic. Bad news for anyone who meets her I fear.
To cut our favorite paladin some slack:
We've only seen her interact with a Ghoul trying to kill her, and Maria. With Maria she dissociated while walking together, then came to with:
- An unfamiliar knife in her hand.
- Maria swearing at her.
- Having apparently stabbed Maria.
There's no scenario where Shalhia *didn't* stab Maria, but we don't know where that knife came from. Yes, a deluded Shalhia could have grabbed it from Maria's pocket - or, potentially, Maria saw Shalhia mumbling and took the opportunity to gut her and leave her to die of blood loss, with Shalhia disarming and retaliating by instinct. Keep in mind that Maria is a murderous bastard herself, and kept Shalhia's escape key on her and didn't even use it as an incentive or reward.
Shalhia is a potential danger to anyone around her, but her self-control may keep her steady in face of her trauma. Granted, for the sake of the plot she's probably going to grievously wound someone before we get out of her.
That's a bit unfair. She's had less than a dozen psychotic breaks from reality. A true lunatic would make it their preferred way of interacting with the world.
That said....I do think she's dangerous to Tobi. I don't know how those spirits gifts will manifest but I suspect it will be visible to someone with the sight.
Put bluntly, everyone who's teamed up with her has swiftly died. So, all other considerations aside? She's a plague to be avoided.
@Catirate: Considering the situation with the knife? I don't think we can trust anything Shalhia claims to have found in Maria's pockets. Especially as she didn't find the universal keycard Maria spoke of: https://www.neorice.com/hoh_4116