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    Whispers of Andre and Ridley

    Following the compass led Andre to a river. On the opposite bank Andre could make out another door with accompanying signpost, half-hidden amongst the trees. A fallen tree trunk, half-rotten and overgrown with moss, lay across the river as a makeshift bridge. In the near-darkness it was...
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    Whispers of Andre and Ridley

    The whispering voice remained silent for the moment. The metal glint was revealed as an old-fashioned compass. If Andre chose to pick it up, he'd see the needle spin wildly for a few seconds before it finally settled on a direction.
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    Whispers of Andre and Ridley

    A city boy like Andre would likely find the dense woods hard going. Outstretched branches and thorny brambles snagged at his clothes, and the uneven ground underfoot constantly threatened to trip him. Still, though, it was less dark than he might have feared. Clusters of bioluminescent fungi...
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    Whispers of Andre and Ridley

    ...talking about ... -urder. you tort- ... to death. don't sanitise ... cute little euphemism. fuck you. Andre could have been walking for minutes or hours. Was the dungeon playing games with time and distance, or with his perception of them? Either way, he eventually found himself arriving...
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    Whispers of Andre and Ridley

    The door opened as easily as the first, returning Andre to the clearing he'd first arrived in. It looked the same as when he'd first entered: the door, the sign, the forbidding woods, and the path leading deep into the trees. ...finally ... to me? don't play ... know what I'm talking about
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    Whispers of Andre and Ridley

    The conversation grew louder as Andre descended, although no more distinct. As long as he didn't pay too much attention the voices sounded as though they were speaking Galarish, but if he focused he'd find himself unable to pick any recognisable words from the jumble of syllables. ...gonna...
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    Whispers of Andre and Ridley

    The door opened easily and Andre found himself standing in a bedroom. Based on the nature of its contents, he might guess it belonged to a child or young teenager. The room as a whole had a haphazard air, suggesting the occupant wasn't much for tidying up after themselves. Ghost-type pokemon...
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    Whispers of Andre and Ridley

    Andre would find himself in a world of twilight gloom. Even before his eyes adjusted to the low lighting, he'd likely realise that he'd returned to his human form. Gradually, he began to distinguish between light and shadow, to pick out details from the world around him. He was standing in a...
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    Whispers of Andre and Ridley

    "Wow," Ridley said, "wow, sorry, I wasn't aware I had to be a perfect paragon of moral goodness and purity to say that torturing a guy to death is bad. I mean, I always thought there was maybe a difference between hurting people by accident and feeling bad about it and trying to get better so...
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    Whispers of Andre and Ridley

    Ridley hadn't liked Mike. The guy had been an asshole, and it seemed doubtful that he'd improve on further acquaintance. If Ridley heard that he'd died, even that he'd been murdered, he wouldn't have cared. There was even a part of him, he could admit, which would have thought good riddance. "I...
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    Whispers of Andre and Ridley

    What was that thing? Some kind of pokemon? It looked a little like the illustrations Ridley had seen of xerneas, with its long neck and spreading crown of antlers. Or like a deerling with a god complex. Be not afraid. And suddenly, Ridley wasn't. "Making the world a better place?" Ridley...
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    Whispers of Andre and Ridley

    What the fuck - Ridley spun around, the knife still clutched tight in his hand.
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    Whispers of Andre and Ridley

    Ridley hadn't expected the dungeon to take mercy, but he didn't think he could live with himself if he hadn't at least tried. "I'm sorry," Ridley told Mike. What was wrong with him that he couldn't stop treating this thing like a person. It didn't matter. It didn't matter. It wasn't really...
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    Whispers of Andre and Ridley

    "I don't want to do this," Ridley said. "I... I don't want. Please. What do you want from me? I'll beg if you want me to." It wasn't a person. It wasn't a person but it looked like a person and it looked at Ridley with fear-bright eyes like a person and Ridley couldn't make himself believe he...
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    Whispers of Andre and Ridley

    Yeah, okay. Ridley's not stupid. He knew this was coming. There's just a gulf between the intellectual knowledge that something is coming and the emotional impact of seeing the murder weapon in front of you and needing to pick it up and... He really fucking hopes this is the murder weapon. He...
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    Whispers of Andre and Ridley

    Mike being awake made it worse, somehow. It had been easier to remember that he wasn't a person when he - when it - had been lying limp and quiescent. Ridley breathed in. Ridley breathed out. Whatever happened in this room had already happened. Ridley couldn't change anything. The only real...
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    Whispers of Andre and Ridley

    Ridley shoved the painting paraphernalia off the stepladder and sat down. Both facing and not facing Mike felt equally awful. Ridley settled for facing. "So hey, this is fucked-up," he said conversationally, not sure whether he was addressing Andre or the dungeon. "You get that, right?" What...
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    Whispers of Andre and Ridley

    "I can't," Ridley said helplessly. "I can't. I'm sorry. It wouldn't change anything even if I could." He had to keep telling himself that.
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    Whispers of Andre and Ridley

    Oh. Understanding clicked into place. Oh, what the fuck. What the fuck Ridley didn't want to do that either. Maybe Ridley had it wrong. Maybe he'd do this and it would be wrong and the world would reset and Ridley could sit there and think, wow, that was a crazy thing to think Andre might...
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    Whispers of Andre and Ridley

    Ridley stared at the bags for a moment. There were several possibilities he could see here, and he didn't particularly like any of them. This dungeon was already fucking with his head; he didn't need to add altered states of consciousness on top of that. "I don't know what you expect me to do...
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