There is no repentance.

[warriorscribe]

Characters: Enoch and anyone
Setting: All around the tower, Oct 24 until the end of the event (please note a day or range of days and floor in your subject line!)
Format: I'm starting in prose, but I'll match you
Summary: After two encounters, Enoch's finally succumbed completely(or nearly so) to his transformation's urges, going after people who he knows have sinned. Or those who do so in front of him...
Warnings: There will be violence if confronted with a known "sinner", maybe death?

It took a couple of encounters and a little over a week of time. But Enoch isn't hiding anymore. He wanders the stairs with his Arch out and held in one hand, his stride confident and purposeful. He has a stern look fixed on his face, though his eyes may at times appear troubled.

He's searching for sinners. He hasn't yet realized there are no other means of getting candy than stealing, which is a good thing; that would make everyone in a costume guilty of the sins of theft and knowingly condemning another to die. As it is, there are people he knows who he will attack on sight: Those who he knows have signed away their souls. Those who would take them. He who has stolen. He who has killed God. He who allies with a demon. They who are demons. And those who torture, harm children, attempt to kill - he makes a detour to a terminal for those before continuing his patrol.

But he isn't without some piece of himself left, as his sometimes-troubled eyes might hint. Somewhere inside, he doesn't want to kill. So he does all he can. He shouts a warning, the only warning that makes any sense to his warped mind.

"All you who have sinned, your time for judgment has come!"

Comments

Floor Thirteen, 24th.

[tohko_amano]

Tohko knew that she had tried to kill two people and had killed someone. She would have to deal with those problems soon. However, when she saw Enoch's message, she rushed to find him. He seemed like a really nice guy. Probably immortal and a little strange, but nice. So, she would try and stop him from killing the admins and anyone else. After all, while the admins probably weren't good people, and while some people in the tower probably were horrid, that was no reason to go and kill them.

Finally, she managed to find him standing before the cathedral. "Enoch! I need to talk to you!" She yelled. Maybe she would be alright. After all, she didn't think he knew about her killing and attempted killings.

[warriorscribe]

Enoch turned as he heard the sound of the familiar voice. It was an innocent, as far as he knew, so his wings folded calmly behind him and the arm with the Arch in it relaxed.

"Is something wrong?" he asked, raising his voice to carry in the odd sound-muting floor as he approached. He seemed, aside from the odd look in his eyes, the hint of sadness that didn't mix with his otherwise relaxed features, just fine.

[tohko_amano]

Relieved, Tohko caught her breath as she spoke. It didn't seem like had done anything outrageous yet. "I..saw your message on the network. The admins may do horrible things..but that doesn't mean you should kill them! If you kill them, then that brings you down to their level. Besides, how are you going to find them?!"

[warriorscribe]

"It is their choice to show themselves as I asked. But there's a difference between aimless killing and torture and an effort to punish it."

Truth to an extent, but Enoch's costume-warped mind has finally lost sight of that extent.

[tohko_amano]

That's true..but if you punish those who kill by killing them, then you're not better than they. Plus..I got the feeling that you weren't going to kill just the admins. Am I wrong? [Tohko hopes that she is..]

[warriorscribe]

"There is no Heaven here. No Sheol, no judgment. Nothing that will put sinners in their place. As long as I represent Heaven, I must act in its place."

Enoch felt a deep pain in his gut at those words, objections to everything, doubts clawing at his mind. But his own history was against him. He was used to denying doubt a place in his mind.

[tohko_amano]

"But you can change the sinners! Try to get them to see the errors of their ways instead of killing them! While killing them in your world might stop them, killing them here will just make them even madder, and it won't show them why they shouldn't hurt others." After all, wasn't the saying 'to err is human, to forgive is divine.'?

Plus, killing people in the stories sometimes did help..but it usually just caused even more trouble for the murderer, no matter how good his intentions were.

[warriorscribe]

"They won't change. This place breeds the conflict and strife they thrive on. All we can do is show them they will be punished."

[tohko_amano]

"I will admit that this place is no paradise, but punishing them by killing them won't work here. All they'll do is regenerate and keep hurting others. I don't think they'll care much about being punished for dying too much. And even if some of them won't change, you could at least try, right? If you need help, I'll help you out!"

[Oct. 24th, Aquarium] Sinners, you said?

[andajarofdirt]

[Though he'll never admit it to anyone else, Jack misses the sea. The sea was death and barren, in that place he was sent back, but it was still the sea. It was still enough. He walks along the Aquarium, absently fingering the walls of water, with a certain undead monkey hanging off his shoulder.]

Quit that.

[He bates at Jack, absently, trying to get the monkey to stop chewing on his hair, but the action is halfhearted at best.]

I'll throw you in there, make you fish bait, see if I don't.

He has to know they're sinners first. XD; (and no, being annoying and reckless is not a sin)

[warriorscribe]

*Despite giving in, there was in fact little changed about Enoch aside from the new urge to kill sinners. His patrol of the aquarium lingered longer than it had to. He encounters the other going the other direction, and, perhaps thankfully for both parties, doesn't recognize him considering they only communicated in text form.

Normally, Enoch might be found doing the same wistful motion. But now...he's shaking as he looks at the water, reminded of Armaros and now wanting to kill him and that was where the costume would find resistance still, Enoch's very body rebelling from the stress of it. He glances over at Jack when he hears the remark, but given his tone and motions, thinks it's an empty threat. Worth nothing. Just as well, considering he's wrestling with his own brain again.*

(Half the PotC universe would heartily and loudly argue with you on that) XD

[andajarofdirt]

[It's pretty hard to ignore the light show. Even Jack has to take a moment from his torment dealing with Jack, to look. Or try to look, it hurts a little, all that light.]

Oi, mate, coming a bit too stro--HEY.

[Things Jack Sparrow does not like: 1. Krakens. 2. Supernatural beings hellbent on killing him/taking his soul/make him pay. 3. Paying for things. 4. Having his hand bitten by nigh indestructible, undead monkeys that could really use better timing. He fumbles a bit, but eventually grabs the pest by its little vest. He addresses Enoch... or well, the general area where he is.]

Coming a bit too strong, aren't we?

[Don't mind him if he's sticking the struggling, screaming monkey into the water, though. It's not like it can drown.]

(Take it to Enoch's logic, not mine <_<)

[warriorscribe]

*Well... The monkey isn't a human, but still.* I can't control the glow...

You aren't going to drown that creature, are you? *He makes a move to try and get the monkey out of the water, reaching for it.*

(Heh <3)

[andajarofdirt]

[Jack snorts, pulling the monkey out and away from Enoch. It's not that he likes the little annoyance, okay. He doesn't. It's not like he's attached to it or anything. He's just. Familiar. That's all.]

I wish.

[Releasing Jack caused it to roll around Jack's arm back to his shoulder, where it made a sound of annoyance and busied squeezing water out of its tiny clothes. Jack shook his head.]

Must be hell of a problem to sleep in the same room as you, mate.

[warriorscribe]

*How...very strange. It's unknown enough that it doesn't warrant attack...at least at the moment.*

It must be... It's why I return to my room later than normal. *And he pulls the blankets all the way over himself. He figures it has to help some...* I hope these afflictions end soon.

[andajarofdirt]

[Welcome to the parade of the unusual, Enoch.]

Isn't that worse, though? Like, sleeping and being woke up with the extra light, instead of just trying to sleep with the light? Kind of defeats the purpose-ity of your good intentions in the first place, doesn't it?

[warriorscribe]

I've found most aren't very light sleepers.

*And Jack may notice the light actually doesn't seem so bad when he isn't looking at Enoch directly. Perhaps people with their eyes closed can't see it at all? Enoch hasn't tested this because he isn't really aware of it though...*

[virginwarrior]

Sinner or not? Had Lenneth sinned in her life? Yes, she had to have. She'd never killed someone, although she had performed a soul transfer at the request of a man, saving the life of his servant in exchange for his own soul. She collected many souls in her time as a Valkyrie, though whether it was a sin or not hadn't been something she thought about. She did as Odin had instructed.

The goddess overheard Enoch as he made his announcement on the terminal, stopping midstep to watch him. She clothes in her usual cobalt blue armor, her sword, Angel Slayer, hanging at her side and helmet covering her head.

[warriorscribe]

Enoch felt someone's eyes on him, and he turned to look at the warrior, inclining his head curiously with a bit of a tilt to it, to ask what she wanted. He was aware that his message was unusual, but was not aware of anything beyond that, the costume's work dulling his usual perceptions.

[virginwarrior]

"An odd message. Shall I assume you intend to seek them out now?"

She knew one person who would likely cause trouble, someone from her own world and she'd prefer to deal with him herself if it came down to it. Though, she hadn't heard anything of him in some time. Perhaps the administrators had seen fit to be rid of him but, alas, that was too much to hope for, really.

[warriorscribe]

"If they show themselves, yes. I know they keep themselves locked away beneath us, but there is no way to reach them. There would be no other reason to leave this message otherwise."

[virginwarrior]

"Ah. So it is a specific group of sinners that you seek. I fear your quest shall go unfulfilled. They're sure to know everything happening, all that is planned. I hope that you won't find yourself disappointed."

She was sincere in that hope, surprisingly. Of course, perhaps it wasn't surprising at all, for those that knew her. Lenneth tended to be quite sincere in hoping others didn't end up hurt or upset in any way.

[warriorscribe]

Enoch shook his head solemnly. "I won't spare anyone else for the sake of seeking them out alone."

[virginwarrior]

"Why do you seek to judge those imprisoned here? No man or woman is free of sin. It would be best to simply slay all those here rather than provide warning."

No being was without sin, no mortal being in any case. She'd seen the souls of men laid bare before her as she collected souls, judged them on whether they were fit to fight for the gods. She'd taken them all though. Even one man who could only find a single good deed he'd ever performed in life.

[warriorscribe]

"I will be fair in this. Who am I to say whether one has sinned simply because it's likely?"

It would probably scare him later, how many things were left untouched. How many of his thoughts and actions were still his own... Certainly not the worst of it, but...