Part 1.
I’m Amaquelin, the queen of all medusae… At least someone wants me to believe I am. I’m not really sure what reality is anymore. I just have too many memories that don’t make sense. Some of them even contradict each other. Like some amateur writer made a backstory for me, but wasn’t satisfied, and remade it without erasing the old data. Sometimes I was living alone, sometimes with my parents. In one case I was living among humans, in another within a medusa tribe. But those aren’t important now. I learned to ignore those fake memories a long time ago, and simply using them as an information source.
My first memory I’m sure isn’t faked, that I woke up in a room with other people. At first glance most of them looked human except one lizardman and a dwarf girl. At this time I had only the memory of a single timeline, which hadn’t interacted with human younglings yet, so excuse my mistake from that time. One guy introduced himself as the “protagonist” and started investigating every simple detail of the obviously empty room. Protagonist, what a weird name to call your child… That’s not the important part, I hadn’t even realized when I left the room with the dwarf and another girl, whom I learned was a famished vampire in a few minutes. I would rather not share the details, but I can say the dwarf didn’t survive the interaction… That’s the fate of the weak. She obviously changed once she wasn’t thirsty anymore, but I didn’t want to take the risk. I helped her hide the body, but we parted ways afterwards.
I went back to the weird empty room, where after a few hours the protagonist - who made a longer journey outside- tried to interrogate me. From the conversation I learned he met the vampire after we parted ways, and she directed him towards me.
Some random guy overheard our conversation and wanted to attack me, just because I’m not a human. In the end I petrified him by accident…
The protagonist guy was concerned and wanted to know if I could reverse the process. Of course I could, but why would I? He just wanted to kill me, just because I am different than him… So I made up a fake story, how I should exchange my life if I wanted to do that. In the end he chose not to force me, and we explored the surrounding area together. The vampire girl joined our little journey once we met again.
In the end the protagonist guy told us, he can see different timelines and ours is basically a dead end… which made me think he was worse than the guy who wanted to kill me before. He just said we are doomed and he has no reason to try to save us… I don’t care if one other version of me is saved, instead of me… My emotions just went out of control, I had to run away, I couldn’t care who I affected my curse by accident, in the end one of them wasn’t petrified, and wanted to calm down, but he didn’t manage to do that before the protagonist catched up, and I directed all of my remaining hatred towards him… after he become the fourth statue, I managed to control my emotions and my curse so no one else was in danger anymore.
The next moment my vision went dark and I woke up in the same room, with mostly the same people. But instead of the protagonist guy, there was a girl, who introduced herself as Krystal. Her name made way more sense, than the guy with his weird name. But we couldn’t interact much, after she told everyone my name, and chaos ensued… Krystal got petrified, and I was killed afterwards…
My first death was quick and painless. I didn’t know how lucky I was at that time.
I woke up. I was confused. Didn’t I just die? As I looked around I was back, where I turned the protagonist guy into a stone. And there were more statues around.
The guy next to me still tries to calm me down and the vampire seemingly catched up to the protagonist guy only now. Seeing the statues she was curios what happened.
I needed time to compose my thoughts. But I said the only thing I could assume what happened.
“I just saw a glimpse of an other timeline, where I died… Didn’t he said it’s his ability?”
Silence.
“I mean what happened to them…” as she pointed at the statues.
More silence.
Summary
This concludes the part, which was played in monster mistery via the players from the viewpoint of Amaquelin [ms Lin] Honorable mention to @Zone_Q11 [protagonist guy] and @Leafia [Krystal] who gave me the inspiration to write this story
to be continued
