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And when the blue light blasts through you, it <span class="mu-r"><span class="mu-i">screams.</span></span> Maybe you do too. You definitely fall to your knees, definitely claw at your throat with your free hand: there is something <span class="mu-i">inside</span> it stoppering it up and you don't know how to get it out. The Gil-entity's glasses gleam blue. Its teeth gleam blue, too.
When it ends it's like a windstorm hit you. You can't breathe, you mean <span class="mu-i">can't breathe</span>— you can make short little gasping cries but no air is reaching your lungs. "Holy shit," the Gil-entity says, and stares down at its hand. "Holy <span class="mu-i">shit.</span> Um, Lottie? Lottie? Lottie, say you're okay? I didn't— I don't think I meant to—"
Some part of you revels in breaking the entity's composure and the rest of you can't breathe. Your hands are around your neck, trying to squeeze the thing in there <span class="mu-i">out,</span> and to your muddled surprise it seems to be working— you can feel motion. The Gil-entity has crouched down to eye-level. It doesn't appear to know what to do.
You don't, either, so you stick to what's been working, squeezing and squeezing and squeezing until you start to hack and gag and ultimately heave out the thing killing you.
It's a snake. Two feet long or three, wide-tailed, black on the top and yellow on the bottom. It is covered in spittle and (having fallen onto the ground) dust. It is perfectly unmoving.
>[-2 ID: 5/13]
You stare. The Gil-entity nudges the snake with its foot, to no reaction. "Um, Lottie?"
"Mmrgk," you emit.
"...Is that what Richard looks like?"
All that work and your throat's <span class="mu-i">still</span> full. It's just mucus now, though, and you sniff it down loudly. "Are you actually Gil?"
"Yeah," probably-Gil says.
"You got... blessed?"
"...Yeah," probably-Gil says.
"Huh." You look down at your curled hands. "Without me?"
"I don't think it's the kind of thing you can do with somebody," he says seriously. "What happened with Richard?"
>[A1] Tell him what happened with Richard.
>[A2] Tell him what happened with Richard, and also about the red stuff.
>[A3] Evade the question.
>[A4] Write-in.
(The s are optional.)
>[B1] Ask if he at least went through a proper vision quest.
>[B2] Ask if he has epic water powers. (You know the blessing said he wouldn't, but doesn't hurt to check, alright?)
>[B3] Ask if he's a stupid pagan now.
>[B4] Ask why he was using the past tense if he's still Gil. That's just dumb and incorrect, objectively speaking.
>[B5] Whip out that good ol [Communion], just to, like, double-triple-check that it's actually Gil. Blessing or not, he's acting *weird.* (Spend 1 ID.)
>[B6] Write-in.
>[C] What do you do with the snake? (Write-in.)
