ID: 5321184

Repeatable: True

Validate Conditions on Start: False

Auto Start: Yes

Auto Start Init: Yes

Event On

• Round Begin BA: 1

Activation Conditions

• Counter (7000621) ≥ 1
• Table Has Card (Badriyyah) = 1

Outcome Actions

• Options:

  Days later, those children who brought you flowers approached nervously, handing you a note—perhaps fearing your anger at their initial dishonesty—then fled quickly.
  
  The note bore a roughly drawn map, marking a wasteland at the city’s edge. It had once been a royal prison from the previous dynasty, now overgrown with flowers and grass sprouting from the bones of long-dead prisoners.
  
  Following the map, you found the place—and there, as expected, Badriyyah was tending to the blooming flowers. She seemed unsurprised to see you.
  
  As you told her about the secret curse of the Cultic God that had afflicted you, Badriyyah took your hand, studying the mark on your palm as it spread with angry red veins.
  
  "They are angry." Badriyyah murmured, releasing your hand. Her eyes did not meet yours. "They punished me severely, and you too. This is what we deserve." Her black tattoos had multiplied, her voice hollow and weary.

  • op1: Continue
• Case #1:
  • Options:

    "I won't abandon the cult—not from cowardice. But... the Cultic God, my master, is the only deity who ever answered my prayers. In my despair, when I thought someone like me didn't deserve happiness... They truly saved me." She shrugged, then pulled up a long needle. Seeing you flinch, she giggled again, now resembling the usual Badriyyah. "Besides, I won't abandon those fools. Oh, I know most cultists are illiterate idiots who've never eaten their fill, but should fools be bullied? Should fools be treated as fodder? With me here, they're... at least fools who know how to fight back."
    
    You tried persuading her further, but Badriyyah shook her head.
    
    "Let's talk about something else, my good lord. Do you know the source of happiness? It's always knowing where to find a switch that stops everything, a bell that wakes you up! Only knowing you can endure everything to gain liberation, to live differently, can you truly laugh from the heart. For many of my companions, death is that bell... and for me... behold this."

    • op2: Continue
• Case #2:
  • Prompt:

    She turns abruptly, showing you her back. Still gripping the long needle, she points backward... Among intricate patterns, just below her shoulder blade, a beautiful buttercup is tattooed. Its lines seem somewhat out of place with surrounding tattoos.
    
    "This is my own invention - not from our master's will, but because I wanted this design. I infused my own magic into this flower. I've tested it - my master cannot touch it. During every feast, every divine summoning, my back stays cold in that spot."
    
    She turns to face you.
    
    "If you trust me, I can tattoo one on your hand too - infusing both your power and mine. Perhaps it can expel the master's presence, free you from... those dreams. I know those dreams, of course - God, every cultist knows!"

  • Rite: Liberation Bloom
  • Disable Event: The whereabouts of Bailingye

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