So a god walks into a bar...

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WHO: Xie Lian, Ignacio Varga, Stephen Strange, maybe more?
WHEN: In the second phase of Alem's siege
WHERE: Around the arkets and near the Hellgate
WHAT: Xie Lian has some existential conversation while feeding stray kids and investigating the gates to hell, as you do.
WARNINGS: It's Xie Lian, so he might offhandedly mention some of his past which includes suicide and torture, and a whole lot of people dying.


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Igniacio Varda - The markets

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[With food becoming more and more scarce, Xie Lian has bene giving away more of his already meager rations. This is, once again, strangely familiar, and Xi Lian ends up just ignoring his own hunger pangs or feasting on whatever doesn't look too old or moldy when he can.

Given his kind and gentle disposition and propensity for giving out food, he's gained a small gaggle of children who usually follow him around, laugh at his small misfortunes, marvel at some of his 'magic tricks' and ask for more food, and today is not exception, except...]

... We can go to the markets if you want, but I don't have any money to buy anything.

Stephen Strange - The Hellgate

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[Xie Lian initially stayed away from those gates of hell, whatever they really were. between his bad luck and his power, it seemed more dangerous to go closer than to stay away.

But then he noticed the fluctuation in spiritual levels, and Lan Wangji suggested it might have to do with the reinforcements of the seals... and if anyone is equipped to go investigate and not die from it, it's probably him.

It's not actually that hard to get close. The guard has definitely thinned, most men diverted to defense of the city after two of the towers fell.

The paper talismans look familiar even though the signs on them aren't. And the energy... it also feels familiar.

Xie Lian has, after all, been to hell before.]

I wonder if my talismans would work...