I Hate Shadow Destiny

Ugh!  I was pissed at her before, but now?  Least favorite shadow archetype by far.  I have to write this goddamn thing with an oboe.  Fuuuuck.

Basically, before I took over, she'd managed to reach a town in the desert and just hamelined it--you know, lead the people around.  Put them in compromising positions.  Taunted me whenever she saw her reflection.  Threatened to lead everyone in town off the edge of a cliff.  The usual stuff.

But now?  I don't even want to talk about it.  I guess I'm typing it though, so here goes.

One day, she was leading people around, making them walk into things, when she just...gave up.  Let me have my body again.  And I thought, sweet, I get to be me again.

So I took over and maybe erased the whole hamelining from their minds and replaced it with boring memories.  What?  It's not that bad.  Besides, they're better off not remembering.  Trust me.

So I went along my normal business, right?  Going back to the search, which led me to the Ash Crusade in St. Louis.  Like I said, they owed me a favor for banishing an Eternal Jester a while back.  Long story short, they said they'd keep an eye out, but they haven't seen him yet either.

I lost some time there, but I figured it was just lack of sleep.  I've kind of been pushing myself lately.  I really want to find him.  I was hoping I'd figure out where he was before anything else happened...and then the Second Cacophony happened, and his trail just...vanished.

Now I'm wondering what I did.  See, Shadow Destiny never actually let me have control.  She's just been content with partial control of me, letting me believe she was just contained in my shadow again.  I have no clue how to make her stop, but there seems to be a time limit on how long she can control me?  I'm not sure.  She's not saying.

What she is saying, in intricate detail, is how screwed I am.

I started heading back west again.  I figured I'd try some more northern states, see if I couldn't find a trail in the Dakotas or Washington.  I remember getting to, like, Idaho.

And then, I woke up, and it was Febuary, and I was in New York.  Wearing a pink dress.  Without a bladed electric bass with my best friend's soul in it.  Also, Paladins were shooting at me.  That's right, actually wasting bullets.

According to Shadow Destiny, the Paladins think I've kidnapped the Knight Captain's daughter, and am holding her for ransom.

However, as she tells me with sadistic glee, I didn't kidnap her.  I eloped with her.  Apparently she was tired of being trained to murder demons and wanted to go on an adventure?  So I married her?

This is apparently the dress I got married in.  It looks like the bridesmaid dress that all the other bridesmaid dresses make fun of.

And to top it all off?  Some cultists of the Ebon Widow captured her, AND Katrina, AND they're going to sacrifice both of them.  And because Shadow Me was a tremendous jerk, the Paladins don't believe me when I tell them this.

And now I've got to save her, by myself, with some woodwinds.  WOODWINDS.  I know they're, like, the second best vessels for the Infinite Song...but I'm so much more used to Katrina.  Plus, these don't even have souls in them.  I can't even put a soul in the oboes, because they're soulless abominations.  They'll just eat it, and even if I could, I don't have any convenient dying family members or friends to stuff in them anyway.  Plus, you can't even sing with a woodwind!

Well, maybe I could set up a song of me singing in advance, and then replay it while I sing by transferring that part of the Song...gah, I don't know.  That'd lock me into a single song...don't know if I'm confident enough to do that.

I don't even know this girl!  I'm too young and incredible to get married!

This is going to take some thinking.  And some planning.  And I am really, really terrible at planning.

Ug.  Spider cultists.  Why did it have to be spider cultists?

~~Destiny