Force of habit her hand did not disturb the steam and ghosts could not smell. This is my place.” She leaned over the bubbling pot, waving steam to her face to check the cooking. “There is nothing new in this house, boy. A girl that tastes of static and smells like fresh plastic.” “There is a new one in the house, I’ve seen her. Her tongue hung low, down to her collarbone, as it was rumoured in life, so it was in death.īibik Neo sucked at her teeth. The lady of the house had a face that was immaculately powdered, ground talc filling up furrows like so much grout eyebrows delicately tattooed lips rouged blood red. The ghost boy, who had never cooked in his life, save the time his brain baked in his skull from the fever, said nothing, only looking at Bibik Neo for permission to continue. “Rendang cannot come out of a bag, you see, boy? No pounding of the rempah, no slow heat of charcoal,” she sighed. She watched over the servant girls cooking in the black and white and sepia days, she watched over the domestic help in the high definition days. Her throne room was the kitchen, the heart of a home, and that was where the lady of the house spent her afterlife. The dowager approved his salutation with the slightest of nods, inviting him closer with a crooked finger weighed with a heavy band of jade. According to her wishes (and such was her power that no one countermanded them), she was interred in the peony pink of a finest nyonya kebaya, slick across waist and hips, flowers twining round the waist, climbing to the collar and back down long sleeves. Bibik Neo was a colourful woman in life, and so she was in death. The ghost boy first consulted with the lady of the house, as was custom. On the thirtieth anniversary of his death, a new ghost came to the house. But the marrow of the house remained, so the living never stayed and the dead never left. Now, you can do that, strip a house down to the bone, flay the walls from it and pull tiles like teeth.
The newest owners had furnished the house with a television screen the same size as a car door, computers in every room, tiny bulbs the size of candles with the glare of lighthouses ripped out the old worm-eaten flooring in favour of inky Burmese teak.
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Walls skinned with the colour of the ocean meeting the sky, a driveway of parched and cracked stone, girded with the garishness of bougainvillea and the shyness of orchids. The house called the dead unto itself, and so the boy persisted, him and the others, outnumbering the living. The house had stood for close to a century, waking to kiss the sea breeze decades before, still standing when the red dirt roads had hardened to dark tarmac and the state had stolen the sea from it. No one had said his name in thirty years, even though he’d scarred the house with it, carved onto a tree in the garden, scratched into the paint under the outdoor kitchen. Instead, after submission, click the button under your post to assign the appropriate link flair, which will produce the same spoiler tags.The ghost boy was the colour of bone, of gossamer spider web, of salt trails of dried tears. You cannot use the above spoiler formatting to mask submission titles. Note: Spoiler tags only apply to text in the body of posts or comments, and not to titles themselves. To mark a spoiler as relevant to a specific part or subject of Pillars of Eternity, use the alternate formatting: (#s "Stuff happens") Spoiler tags can be used by typing followed immediately by (#s "xxxxxx"), with the content of your spoiler inside the quotation marks. Note that spoiler tags will not work when browsing on a mobile app, or when viewing a post from the front page of reddit, as /r/projecteternity's CSS will not apply there. r/projecteternity supports spoiler tags, which can be used to hide spoilers from other users until they mouse over the text, revealing it. Reported posts get looked at by the moderators faster.Īll content posted should be related to Pillars of Eternity and/or its sequels/expansions. Use the "Report" button to report any non-marked spoilers or other rule violations. For story spoilers in other threads, use Spoiler Tags as described in the section below. No story spoilers in titles! Mark threads or links that contain spoilers with a tag in the title. Pillars of Eternity aims to recapture the magic, imagination, depth, and nostalgia of classic RPGs. Paying homage to the great Infinity Engine games of years past: Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, and Planescape: Torment. Pillars of Eternity and Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire are isometric, party-based RPGs set in a new fantasy world developed by Obsidian Entertainment. Welcome to the Pillars of Eternity Subreddit!
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