text; @Goldilocks, after April fight

[likemybooks]

[Everyone has to know. Some saw what happens to Ereshkigal during the fight, some only know that she disappeared. As the one responsible, Taryon feels he's deserved the position on breaking the bad news to ll Outsiders.]

It is with a heavy heart that I must relay to you all that our friend Ereshkigal is not with us any longer.

She was thrown into a Rift by the kaiju and vanished.

She fought valiantly and tried to protect me even in her last moments.

I'm sorry. I wish we didn't suffer such a heavy loss in this fight.

- Taryon Darrington

Comments

@rubber ducky

[curingidiocy]

[ There aren't any words to describe the feeling that overcomes Ratio at this post, but at the same time, a part of him is filled with doubt. ]

...I have solid grounds to believe that she has not passed. However... I am unable to determine, exactly, has happened to her.

[likemybooks]

I want to hope she's okay. I hope she can find a way out. Maybe she won't die like I did.

[He knows that sometimes, people disappear and can't be rescued. And without a body, could LILITH bring her back, even without her memories?]

@BAD DADDY

[zauneyete]

[ NOT HIS FAVORITE SUBJECT FOR BULLYING ]

You mean her godlike power wasn't enough to save her? Shame, and she was always bragging about how she could simply take care of me.

Apparently, I could have opened a manhole, and pushed.

[ anyway ]

[likemybooks]

[the fuck, grandpa?]

I wouldn't exactly compare you to a giant monster that takes more than a goddess to take down.

not here.

[misclassed]

[ laughed irl. ]

@bustermove

[busternaut]

[Dearka reads this, and immediately he's taking it... Badly. Way worse than he would normally, tbh.]

the fuck you mean she's gone.

[It's a reactive message. It's not like there's anything else Taryon can add that will make any difference in easing off the hurt. Though, the news being broken by the guy who died and then got brought back with zero memories of anyone here... Might possibly be having an adverse effect on his reaction? Hmm.]

[likemybooks]

She was thrown into the rift and disappeared. I couldn't find a way to pull her out of there. I don't know how else to describe it.

[Was Dearka close to her? Is he upset that one of his friends may be at fault?]

I'm sorry.

@duelwield

[coordination]

Didn't you see what I found in those corrupted files back in Alexandria?

There's not nothing on the other side of these rifts! Wherever it is, and whatever else is through there, she's not the sort of person who'd just fall in and die.

We need to get to work on finding a way to reach her, because I'm sure she's doing what she can on her end and waiting for us to do what we have to from here. Just like in Transylvania.

[likemybooks]

I haven't.

[He could spend several minutes going through the entire backlog of messages to find exactly what Yzak is referring to, but he can just ask and save time.]

There are kaiju on the other side, I'm aware of that. It reminds me of the time when my friends traveled to the Shadowfell, only they were prepared and deliberately investigating the plane.

Did you find anything on how we can communicate with her? Or travel there safely?

@Destiny

[intertwinedfates]

hey, don't write her off just yet! Eresh is tougher than anyone gives her credit for!

we don't know enough about the rifts to say she's definitely gone for good, right? she might pop out from another one at some point! until we know for sure she's gone, we should be out there looking for her, or at least keeping an eye out in case she shows up again and needs help!

[likemybooks]

[Yato's optimism may not erase the heavy guilt and worry in Taryon's gut, but it makes breathing a bit easier.

Maybe there's a plan. There always has to be a plan, they just need to do more research, they shouldn't give up, what if for once in his life Taryon doesn't permanently lose someone he cares about thanks to his own carelessness---]

Thank you. For not giving up.

[What he wants to say is that he doesn't want to hope, just like he told Vox Machina and let him grieve and accept all is lost, but he's not the only one who was close to Ereshkigal here. Yato can have his high hopes.]

I guess there's not much we can do but wait and see.

@kuzunoha14

[the_fourteenth]

[This is deeply distressing on so many levels.]

What are the rescue efforts

[likemybooks]

I don't know.

Do we run into the rift and look for her? We have all of these leathers and bones.

un: forgery

[misclassed]

So that's what happened? I'd wondered when she disappeared so suddenly...

[ ...oh well! he really can't talk about being careful, so he won't. ]

[likemybooks]

[He seems pretty chill about this...]

It's risky fighting so close to one.

Just be careful, alright? [Muramasa's his friend. Taryon won't let another one disappear.]

@poker

[stonehearts]

Unfortunate. I had half a mind to do similar for failing to keep Ratio safe in exchange for whatever she's getting from their arrangement

[likemybooks]

I'm sorry?

What arrangement are you talking about?

not here

[busternaut]

[He's keeping his mouth shut but, also,

(Pretend it's in the FO4 font style ->) "Dearka greatly disliked that"]

not here

[zauneyete]

[ The biggest (implied) HELL YEAH BROTHERRRR ]

@gisei

[harboredfeelings]

[ This is. Not what she needed to read today. After a the shit Ereshkigal has gone through now she's lost in the Rifts?! That's just cruel. ]

What the hell do you mean "vanished"?

Those Rifts lead somewhere you dolt, why didn't you say something earlier?

[likemybooks]

[Yeah, Taryon thinks this reaction is well-deserved.]

I didn't have time.

But I don't know how to get her out of there.

@hellonurse

[wwtd]

[ it's only yato's hope that keeps her from wanting to curl up and lay on the ground and try not to cry (cry a lot)

also she wants to fight silco and anybody that's badmouthing her right now you're all on her Shit List ]

She's not gone. Ereshkigal is tough. She's a Goddess of Death. She's going to be fighting in there, and we need to fight too. If she fought to protect you, you should return the favor.

Let's expedite research on Rifts. I'm not leaving her in there.

@shiro

[cranekin]

(There are a lot of things on Tsurumaru's mind and out of everything, there are only a few things he would say aloud. It's not that he's unaffected by the news but he just processes things a little differently from most,)

How are you now?

[likemybooks]

[ Not the response he was expecting, but it's something different for his mind to focus on. ]

I'm alive. Thanks to her.

@AUO

[gilgamess]

I would not presume that she is dead.

Even if that is the case, it is not out of the realm of possibility that she may stage a return. It would not be the first time something of the sort has happened.

Death is a somewhat different sort of matter for us as Servants, and Ereshkigal is a goddess no less.

As the queen of the Underworld, she has a more intimate connection with death than any other being. Death is the ultimate eventuality of all life in the universe, and none would respect it more than she. All the better that, if this is the end, she went out gloriously in a battle. We may in that case hold proper reverence for her memory...

Besides, having died twice myself, it is not so bad.

Yet, I still certainly do not presume that this is indeed "the end."

[ Not that Gilgamesh has forgotten the talk they had upon his arrival about this world and the Throne and what death might mean or not mean here...

Troublesome that she should caution him and then POTENTIALLY go and get herself killed ... if that is indeed the case. But from what he knows of the Rifts, and reading these conversation threads, it sounds far from a guarantee that this is a demise so much as it might be a transportation to somewhere. ]

In fact, if she fell through a Rift, it may be that she has a greater view of the enemies of LILITH than we do. I see some discussion of a rescue party. Such a thing should be organized, but there must be strategic considerations involved. Depending on how the Rifts relate to the kaiju on the other side, there could be perils.

[likemybooks]

[This guy sounds like he knows a lot more about how gods work than Taryon, and his theories make sense. It makes sense. Ereshkigal is strong. She can survive.

And if...no, when she comes back, she'll know more than anyone else about the kaiju.]

I never got to ask: what exactly is a Servant? Are you protected from certain effects? Do you survive most things that will kill a normal man?

She said she doesn't have her full powers here. Being a goddess isn't going to help, I'm afraid.

text; @thepaleelf

[sanguivorous]

A friend?

[likemybooks]

A teammate and one of my dearest friends.

[They read Disney comics together...]

text; @rock hard

[golmi]

[ It takes only a moment of prodding at the oculars to place a face to the name, and what a nasty little shock that brings.

He’d seen her during the battle, that shy caster. Perhaps only moments before it happened. ]

Do you have anything of hers?

[likemybooks]

No.

I don't have anything of hers her, just her gifts back at the base.

Are you attempting to Scry on her?