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[thetombkeeper]

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[rolltoavoidpossession]

[Ryou doesn't answer for a bit, thinking. Marik should get to know what happened, right?

It takes him a bit of time to work himself up to explain what happened, considering how upsetting it was to be blamed and almost killed over something he didn't do, but eventually the explanation comes.]

There were two people named Aigami and Mani. They were...being raised by Shadi as kids, and the Spirit tried to kill them when he killed Shadi.

They blamed me for killing Shadi, and Aigami came after me. Mani managed to somehow get the Ring from where it was buried in Egypt, and it was controlling him.

private;

[thetombkeeper]

[Marik takes a bit to reply himself, thinking over the news that's just been revealed to him. Shadi, adopting outsiders. He wrinkles his nose at the thought. The tomb keeper clans are closed sects. Just letting anyone in could allow outside influences to warp their practices and muddy the clan's genealogical purity. Odion is excluded from this for various reasons.

Why is it always Shadi throwing a wrench into things. Everything falls back to him. He wouldn't be surprised if the man was responsible for the rifts between the different clans.

Were his own past goals the same as they were in Ryou's timeline, Marik would comment how this Aigami fellow sounds like a copycat. But seeing as this version of Marik wanted the Pharaoh's powers rather than revenge for his father's death, the thought never occurs to him.

When he sends his next message, he changes it to private. No need for prying eyes on such a sensitive topic.]

People seem to enjoy blaming you for everything concerning the Ring, don't they? Your body was being puppeted. It's not like you had a choice in the matter. You shouldn't have had to go through all of that because of a proxy.

You aren't the Spirit of the Ring committing all of these atrocities. At most you're an unwilling alibi and even then, it's not like you remember what he does when he takes control of your body.

What ended up happening to the two men?

Re: private;

[rolltoavoidpossession]

[He's grateful for this conversation being set to private, largely due to how sensitive this is for him.]

I've had my fair share of people blaming me for stuff the Spirit did, or at least thinking I was a troublemaker because they thought i was doing that stuff.

Mani got the Ring first, and was influenced into trying to kill me. He tried to resist though, and I think it might have been rejecting him. Aigami got it second, and it corrupted him worse.

[Less said about how it corrupted Aigami, the better.]

Last I heard, Aigami went back to Egypt after everything was dealt with.

[thetombkeeper]

I'm sorry you had to deal with that. It's a difficult situation and most people no longer believe in magical relics.

[He's... not really. But it's the polite thing to say. He also doesn't particularly care about this Mani or Aigami person either. Marik wants to know how and why the Items were unearthed. Again.]

What happened to the Ring itself?

[rolltoavoidpossession]

I know. I was transerring schools a lot because the Spirit kept putting my friends in comas and I couldn't explain why it kept happening, so everyone else started avoiding me. Had a teacher who knew about my track record too, he tried to make me get a haircut if I wanted to be accepted at Domino.

[And he previously mentioned during the Christmas meetup how Bobasa/Shadi identified him as 'evil' and kept him from helping find Atem's name out.]

I don't know what happened to the ring. There was a lot happening when Aigami got corrupted ad I didn't see what happened. I graduated and then got brought here a bit after that.

[thetombkeeper]

Sounds like you've just had bad luck all of your life since coming into contact with the Ring. Not that I'm surprised.

[Gods, public schools sound so stupid the more he hears about them. Hair regulations, are you kidding him...]

I see. I can only hope it was brought back to Egypt and properly sealed.

You mentioned the Spirit told you about Shadi, you know of the Kul Elna, and how the Items were created. What more do you want to know about them? Their specific functions?Or something else?