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[ Angel Devil. ]
[  chatcube, or action. ]
[ if you're visiting the rose barn,
look for the door with the creepy bat-and-angel-wing sigil on it. Knock first! Or get zapped. ]

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[evening 18]

[endsjustified]

[ring ring. ring ring]

[finalbows]

<sub>[ here he is minding his own business and not about to drop a copy of Lord Avon's Jaylius Caesar on his face falling asleep reading, when an angry-eyebrowed cube shows up between his face and the book.


instead he starts and drops the book on them both. ]</sub>

night 23 zzz

[catposting]

[ your hair's a different shade of red tonight. perhaps you recognize it. what you don't recognize is the dark, hidden-away room surrounding you; you're not trapped, just isolated. the Angel of Death wouldn't be caught dead in this casual attire, but somehow, this feels natural to you. it's more durable than it looks.

you're tense. a blank holographic screen appears in front of you. you know instinctively to tap it, to reveal the answers that you seek.

do you? ]

Re: night 23 zzz

[finalbows]

_{[ of course he fucking does he might be a matryoshka inside a dog rn but he's still a curious monkey ]}

sometime day 22-23

[chasseurdebeaute]

[at some point--possibly not long before DokiDoki Demon's game, or perhaps they weren't found until well after--Angel Devil may discover that he can see the shaft of an arrow outside his window as he walks by. If he looks out to investigate, he'll see a little woven pouch hanging from a ribbon, tied to that arrow. It's been charmed to be water proof, the spell dispersing when the ribbon is pulled.

Inside he'll find the following letters:]

Angel Devil,

You make things around here a lot more interesting. I'd like to hang out with you some more.

((letter 1))

---

[instead of a name there's a brief sketch of Angel Devil to indicate recipient. the face isn't detailed but the profile and the feathery hair are pretty unmistakeable.]

When you stop to look, you can always see me. But if you try to touch me, you can never feel me. Although you walk towards me, I remain the same distance from you. What am I?

((letter 2))

---

Angel Devil,

Another way. I promise.

((letter 3))

---

Angel Devil,

Regardless of what you say, you still seem like a nice guy to me.

((letter 4))

Re: sometime day 22-23

[finalbows]

<sub>[ cool these are all cryptic and or bullshit. He's keeping them in a neat stack in his room barely peeking out from under some notebooks.


The picture goes up on the wall. ]</sub>

day 25 morning

[catposting]

[ a voice message, carefully conversational ]

'sup, teammate. I'll be late to dirt gathering today; gotta test a couple of things in the mist. Cloverlord and the apothecary are with me.

Keep your mouth shut, please. Styx has permission to sheep-ify me if I'm not back by sunset, so you can make fun of me then. If anyone asks about chores while I'm gone, just make something up. Inconsequential, preferably. Get yourself another outfit, yadda yadda.

Counting on you. ☆

Re: day 25 morning

[finalbows]

_{[ The catcube vanishes with a little meow, and he's left dusting off fur. He scowls at one little banded strand held between his fingers... ]}

...if you die out there, cat, I'm telling the sheep your new name is fodder fiend...

Day 25

[endsjustified]

[ A few hours after this, but before Shepswap ends. CALLING HIM BACK. ]

I have your volunteer.

Re: Day 25

[finalbows]

_{[ extremely brightly, ]}
You have my volunteer! My goodness-- the Angel Devil works fast, but for today, the boatman works quicker.

I've got the work in progress with me out back of Rose's barn right now, if you'd like to see what you're-- well, they're getting into, beforehand.

Day 25, night

[featherduster]

[ RINGY DINGY ]

Re: Day 25, night

[finalbows]

Hello, evening, you've reached-- _{[ stops to yawn. Angelcube looks rather sleepy. ]}


Angel Devil, of the Rose Devil Army. Your business with me tonight, Minuet?

Night 28

[electricflock]

[ring ring ring]

[peep peep peep]

1/3

[finalbows]

_{[ INHALES ]}

night 29

[catposting]

[ the dream starts with a memory. you're viewing it as yourself, an impossible, invisible intruder in the wind. this particular memory was available in the fountain a mere six days ago, but this variation is much, much more vivid than a fountain image. it's like you're really here.

the memory plays in full, but doesn't disappear when finished. follow? ]

Re: night 29

[finalbows]

<sub>[ > Follow.

You can see the problem they're having. Putting a piece like that into living organisms with fully developed boundaries to their being is the work of a scalpel, not a hammer-- it's beyond hard, to fit a second yolk into an egg that's already sealed its shell.

It needs to understand it as part of itself, you muse, perhaps too loud. You can make it follow to your shape later.

That corpse sure is a mess. ]</sub>

day 30 post-game. like after biscuit's gone to sleep

[secondbornsun]

Shepherd.

[ unexpectedly, it's a tartcube. ]

Re: day 30 post-game. like after biscuit's gone to sleep

[finalbows]

...Yes? Guilty as charged.

_{[ there are ambient sounds of insect life in the background, wherever he is. ]}

day 31

[failsaver]

[ LOOKING FOR THE ANGEL NAMED DEVIL ALLLLLL OVER.

eventually he ends up snooping around the forest. SIR WHERE ARE YOUUUU ]

Re: day 31

[finalbows]

_{[ "vibing." in a certain definition of the word. sitting atop a rock. cast in a sunbeam. with his shepherd's crook over his lap, and a sharp ear out to his surroundings. ]}

[laaaaaaater post-prisoner's dilemma, night 30]

[endsjustified]

It works as is.

[this doesn't come as a call, this comes as a physical note shoved through his window by a ghost because Charon doesn't trust him to remember jack about shit anymore]

Re: [laaaaaaater post-prisoner's dilemma, night 30]

[finalbows]

_{[ god I wish I could say he sees this any time soon but it's defs not gonna be before chant wakes up at least ]}

Late Late Night 30/Early AF 31

[ohlord]

[RANDOM ASTRAL MESSAGING:



Therefore you have no excuse, O man, every one of you who judges. For in passing judgment on another you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, practice the very same things.]

Re: Late Late Night 30/Early AF 31

[finalbows]

_{[ this one he rather vibes with. fits with his worldview.]}

day 31 morning

[adorabrawler]

[ howdy ]

Have you seriously been gone all night?

Re: day 31 morning

[finalbows]

...shepherds don't have to sleep. I didn't even like having to, to start with.

What do you want, shrimp.

Day 31, dusk

[wants_the_phd]

[Azdaja comes looking for Angel Devil in the woods, starting with the area where they met up the first time. She's carrying another drawstring bag full of food.]

[Sniff sniff sniff]

Re: Day 31, dusk

[finalbows]

_{[ winner winner chicken dinner, there's a scent trail, leading west this time. closer to the safer depths, rather than closer to the mist. that's a good sign, right? ]}

Day 32 - right after Charon's disappearance

[spinebuddyandme]

[ RING RING RING ]

Re: Day 32 - right after Charon's disappearance

[finalbows]

<sub>[ ...UH.



PICKS UP? ]</sub>

Yes?

DAY 36

[finalbows]

_{[ continued from here because i'm self conches about the kind of things angie was about to do and or say on a team post in front of god and everyone ]}

Re: DAY 36

[finalbows]

Over here still a good spot to put my clothes down?

<sub>[ ... that's,
the warning shot .

anyway. I'm saying he's been wearing some absolutely overdetailed and overlayered fancy Rose outfit, which means Angel Devil has plenty of literal material to work with when he slips his hand out of Muffin's, puts some space between them, and starts undoing pretty shiny buttons and ribbons like he's a delicate sexy puzzle box with an hourglass figure, rather than the extremely methodical, no prevaricating way Muffin had seen him disrobe literal days previous. this is. still methodical, you could say, except. the method is profoundly different in aim.

thanks for bearing with me hopping over to inbox solely to open with saying "yeah angie's not getting into that tub without making an extremely extra strip tease out of it". ]</sub>

[day 39, some point before wellness checks happen]

[endsjustified]

[ring ring, this cube's little face is as stark neutral as he can make it this morning]

Re: [day 39, some point before wellness checks happen]

[finalbows]

_{[ the angelcube that appears in response is more of a flowercube than an angelcube, but that's par for the course for everyone during Super Rainbow Shape-shifting Week. ]}

Got my letter, then?

evening 41

[catposting]

Whoa, whoa, Sheep Fiend! Get your woolly ass back here!

[ after a day of patchwork horses and falling newbies and losing names he was HOPING for an uneventful evening but instead he's sprinting after this cosplaying dumbass. one that's beelining for the fountain. ]

Que ta la pique un pollo!

God ok. Brain is ready finally

[finalbows]

_{[ guess who was sitting contemplatively by the fountain with a coin, when a certain sheep practically plows into him. Sheep Fiend bounces harmlessly off of the Auto-Protect, but who's to say for whatever the little darling was holding? ]}

Late 42

[electricflock]

[ring ring!]

Um, you don't have to come if you don't want, but um. If you do want... I'm going to take some memories later tonight. At the fountain. Um—

[the cube flutters, as flustered as its caller, and suddenly hangs up. "at the fountain," where ELSE but the fountain, MUFFIN,]

1/3

[finalbows]

day 42

[debug_mode]

[a cube ring from a weed]

1/2

[finalbows]

_{[ her...? ]}

evening 46

[catposting]

[ this, but once others have cleared out from the fountain ]

Didn't think you'd stay out here.

[ Akrinak was already out and about before the big guy dumped everyone else on the grass. Angie may have caught him looking thoroughly entertained at the sight ]

Re: evening 46

[finalbows]

_{[ sighs. ]} I had an idea, didn't work. ...And I'm tired of losing. I'm putting my back into this one. If someone reads my mind right now, it'll just be of whatever I'm about to show playing out in the water, anyway.

Evening 46

[electricflock]

[It hasn’t been an hour yet. maybe a little over a half hour? far off enough from the appointed time to avoid “why didn’t you just wait?” and far enough from their split that he doesn’t look like he’s chasing after quetzal. hopefully.

really most of that time was spent working himself up to this call.

RING RING RING IT’S A CUBE]

[finalbows]

_{[ it takes a ring or so, before he picks up. Where is Quetzal...? There's no easy source of ambient noise behind him that make it immediately obvious.]}

Muffin?

day 47

[catposting]

[ catcube pops up. ]

Gooood morning! If you need me for something, you don't. I have to die. Don't worry, Clover's got it all under control.

See you soon~♡.

[ MUTED, DEAFENED, BYE ]

1/2

[finalbows]

WAIT, cat--!

[ he's gone. ]

nebulously night 46-48

[catposting]

[ you're floating. it is natural to you. you are a being of pure energy, a purple glow that transcended the need for flesh—

wait, haven't you seen this scene before? you strain and you burn and you shatter, just as you did the last time.

again, you wake up formless and free of pain. there's no field this time, only an infinite white expanse of Nothingness. you're alone. you remember the echo of your own magic - K̶u̶j̶a̶'s magic - but when you try to harness it, it's like you're fresh out of a pasture-limited teleport.

ahead of you, within the vast Nothingness, a tiny, colorless shimmer forms.

approach? ]

nebulously day 48 or 49

[catposting]

[ RING RING CATCUBE ]

[ Angie may have seen Akrinak get tossed into the fountain and subsequently turn into a kitten, up2u ]

Re: nebulously day 48 or 49

[finalbows]

Hello, shrimp with whiskers.