Kyrie Eleison

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<h1 id="splashtitle">Kyrie Eleison</h1> <span style="opacity:0;transition: all 2s ease-in-out;" id="splish"><<include "Splash Menu" div>></span><<timed 4s>><<addclass "#splish" "visible">><</timed>>

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<p>Written and coded by <a href="lapinlunaire-games.itch.io">Lapin Lunaire Games</a> for the 2023 Anti-Romance Jam and 2023 Neo-Twiny Jam.</p> <hr> <h2 style="text-align:center;">Assets</h2> <ul> <li>Gold Astronomy Overlay by <a href="https://www.creativefabrica.com/designer/digital-curio/">Digital Curio</a></li> <li>"Teutonic No. 3" by <a href="https://moorstation.org/typoasis/designers/lloyd/">Paul Lloyd</a></li> </ul>

<p>You meet your Maker <<if visited("kyrie") is 1>> when you are old enough to know better but young enough still to do the foolish, <<link 'heroic'>><<replace "#maim">><p>She maims you but denies you the ease of death. It pleases her, you think, to know that no trace of how fiercely you fought her survives as you do. <<include "benedictus">>.</p><div class="choice"> [[🝐|gloria]] </div><</replace>><</link>> thing. <<elseif visited("kyrie") is 2>> with fangs bared and muscles straining against too many lifetimes to win against. You are centuries too old to know better and young enough that the blood and liver she feeds you still tastes like your own. <<choices>> [[🝐|gloria]] <</choices>> <</if>> </p> <div id="maim"></div>

<p>Your Maker’s strange mercies <<if visited("gloria") is 1>> garb you in ruddy beauty that leaves you as cold as winter waters. The <<linkreplace 'silver'>>silver<<replace "#coin">>—you store coin and cross in a linen-lined box and burn yourself on the hasp like prayer<</replace>><<replace "#nextglory">><<choices>> [[🝐|credo]] <</choices>><</replace>><</linkreplace>> of your youth and your mother’s home tarnishes where you cannot touch it<span id="coin"></span>. <span id="coin"></span> <span id="nextglory"></span> <<elseif visited("gloria") is 2>> keep you <<linkreplace "sated">>sated<<replace "#sated">>The ache of the hunger to come will turn your resentment into something like sorrow when she is gone. You will not forget life, but you will not remember it the way you want to. The <<linkreplace "hunger">>hunger<<replace "#death">><p>Searing. <<timed 2s t8n>>Inescapable. <<next 1s t8n>><<linkreplace "Death in negative.">>Death in negative.<<include "glorificamus te">><</linkreplace>><</timed>></p> <</replace>><</linkreplace>> steals all clarity to render itself brilliant. <</replace>><</linkreplace>>. <span id="sated"></span> <div id="death"></div> <<elseif visited("gloria") is 3>> save you from everything but <<cycle "_gift" once>><<option "the hunger">><<option "the loneliness">><<option "yourself">><</cycle>>. <<choices>> [[🝐|agnus dei][$end to true]] <</choices>> <</if>> </p>

<p>“I saved your life,” she tells you<<if visited("credo") is 1>> one day, when everyone your ghost ever knew is dust. <p>She watches, calm as the nights that have become the rest of your days, as you rip your shirt off and jab a blade-flat hand against the <<linkreplace "scars">>failures<<replace "#factorem">><<include "factorem caeli et terrae">><</replace>><</linkreplace>> that lie gnarled across your torso.</p> <p id="factorem"></p> <<elseif visited("credo") is 2>>, as if that can change either of your fates. As though anything can be <<linkreplace "unmade">>unmade<<replace "#scythe">>You smile—it’s a soft scythe taken from her lips—and shroud her to hide the trembles and hollows that hunger carved into her. Your Maker has her <<linkreplace "strange mercies">>strange mercies<<replace "#closure">> <<choices>> [[🝐|sanctus]] <</choices>> <</replace>><</linkreplace>> and you have yours.<</replace>><</linkreplace>>. <</if>> <p id="scythe"></p> <span id="closure"></span>

You see your Maker in sunlight, the slim scythe of her smile saying nothing from where it sits in forbidden slumber. You <<cycle "_creator" once>><<option "re">><<option "un">><<option "">><</cycle>>make yourself: <br><br><<timed 6s t8n>>Sacred.<<next 2000ms t8n>> Succumb.<<next 2000ms t8n>> <<link 'Still.'>><<dialog>><center><h2>The End</h2>Do you want to remember?<br><br><<link 'Yes.'>><<run Engine.restart()>><</link>></center><</dialog>><</link>><</timed>>

<<widget "choices" container>> <div class="choice"> _contents </div> <</widget>>

<<set $blood to 1>> <p><<linkreplace "When">>After<<replace "#lived" t8n>>were Made<</replace>><<replace "#s" t8n>>survival<</replace>><<replace "#final">><<timed 1.8s>>Your Maker is long dust and longer dead when you realise that you are the last Creation. <<include "benedictus">><div class="choice">[[🝐|gloria]]</div><</timed>><</replace>><</linkreplace>> you <span id="lived">lived</span>, you hunted for <span id="s">safety</span>. </p> <p id="final"></p>

<p>Your Maker has taught you to pull your voice as fine and cutting as first snow, so you spit against all her grace, “This is not <<link '//life//'>><<replace "#creer">><p>She looks at you with the same face she Made you with: the faintly sharp smile, the eyes that come alive only in the echoes of death, the image she would have Made you in had your desperation not been so amusing to her.</p><p>“You will forget the differences, Pandora.”</p> <<choices>> [[🝐|kyrie]] <</choices>><</replace>><</link>>.”</p> <div id="creer"></div>

<p>You mourn your Maker on a winter’s night when the moonlight is cold and silver enough that it feels holy. You wrap her body in linen and leave her to shudder in the promise of sunlight.</p> <<choices>> [[🝐|credo]] <</choices>>

You <<if $blood is 0>>remember<<else>>forget<</if>> the taste of blood: <<if $blood is 0>>thick, salty, and too searing for how cold it leaves you<<else>> too thin and too estranged from satiation to ease the burning in your gut.<</if>>