[ A BIG FAT OVERVIEW ]
[ after shenanigans, a tired Cepheus is back on the stump again ]
...alright.
For everyone who's here, there's been a lot of talk and info being shared all around, and there's a number of us who really don't know the main parts of what it is we're doing, so... I'm just gonna go over everything I know at this point. If I miss out any details, please speak up.
This place we're in is a dying world. The surface was destroyed ages ago by the sun-- the Old Woman-- and the rest of the world's gods moved underground with their people. Those gods are the Judges. What they did was a disruption of what should've been a natural cycle of life and death, and Death-- the Gentleman-- left at the time this place was born. With no real "death", there wasn't anywhere for souls to go, and the Old Man-- the Pillar, the stone that makes this place-- started to take them in to feed off them. ...and over time it started taking living people, too.
The reason why we're all really here, playing Games under the Judges, is because they need us. They need what we can give them. Whether it's joy, sadness, fear, industry, communication... they feed off these things from us, and it's what keeps them alive and gives them power.
But our group, here in the South Block-- we're at the stage where we're soon gonna be given up on, left to the Old Man to take, and a new batch of Blanks is gonna be brought in again to the North. To start over. At the minimum we've got three weeks before we run out of time.
[ looks around at everyone. ]
And we're not gonna let that happen.
There are some Judges who don't want that to happen to us either. They're the ones who've been helping us try to escape, to break this cycle, and end this place once and for all. Messenger is one. Flowers, Librarian, Persona. Those are the ones absolutely confirmed; Beauty's said to be one more, but no one's seen her for a long time.
...the main point of our plan is: we're going to have to destroy the Judges themselves. Most of all King himself.
As Tide mentioned, every Judge has what's called a keystone. It's their only exploitable weakness, and destroying it means destroying a Judge-- and with the Gentleman back, doing it with no chance of them coming back to life. The main plan of action now is to find as many keystones as we can. As for the actual method of destroying them...
[ glancing at Ed and Chrono ]
...I don't know the details, save that it is possible-- but the priority is now on finding them.
We already have one of the major Judges--- Queen herself. We have that of Messenger's... and Librarian's. But those two are our allies right now, so they oughta be treated as separate till the last moment possible.
We still need a whole lot more, and we need the help of as many people as we can to find them. It's not a job that's gonna be able to be done by just a few of us.
[ looking at Badger and the other Monoceros ]
I understand if you don't want to or can't get directly involved in this part of it, but... I hope at least knowing all this helps, no matter what you decide to do.