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Dami [Chequered Flag] Teaser

Was putting this in the tags of my previous post re: Julien and Occtis before realizing it was really it's own thought, but Julien wasn't at all wrong to warn the other PCs and Aranessa that Occtis's seemingly miraculous return to (un)life might be a ploy from House Tachonis to further bring ruin or to spy on them. Because doing a little corpse puppetry with the body of their youngest whom they just brutally and ritualistically murdered is exactly the kind of thing House Tachonis is wont to do. And Julien has no idea of what went on with Occtis across the veil, or that he thwarted whatever plan his family did have for him in the beyond by way of unraveling his own soul, all he knows is that the body of a guy murdered by the "make the dead get up and do things" family is up and doing things, and that everyone else for some reason thinks this is great and not suspicious at all!

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Julien screaming at Occtis after the latter wakes up as a Hollow One was such a great character moment because it really was like, Julien venting all his rage and frustration at a convenient target who was really not having a good evening himself to say the least, but also, of course it was Occtis.

Occtis was the person that, as far as Julien is aware, the rest of his family were interested in. It was because he (Occtis) was in potential danger from his family that Aranessa and his father asked Julien to find him, which Julien did so, and it was Julien who brought Occtis back to the Palazzo Davinos. And clearly Lord Raimond and Lady Aranessa's suspicions of danger to Occtis were right, because the Tachonis followed him there, and proceeded to slaughter him and everyone else in the house that thought to shelter him. With Julien himself watching Primus Tachonis quickly, efficiently, and brutally murder his father before following up with casting a Circle of Death that killed many people on the ground floor of the Palazzo, all while saying he wished House Davinos no ill will. All this death, apparently brought on by House Tachonis's pursuit of Occtis, and Julien bringing that pursuit to his home.

And then after all that, and after fleeing with Aranessa and Vaelus and Thaisha, with the latter carrying the body of the boy this all started with, the Tachonis boy sits up, his own death having apparently not quite taken. Julien just lost everything, and thing it was all for just gets to carry on with everyone celebrating what a miracle they have all just witnessed. All that rage and grief and guilt and regret had to go somewhere, and Julien focused it on the person at the heart of everything he lost.