LU 17 - Echo 1

=== Retconned. ===
Kopple walked to The Verdure. Making sure to ignore the beacons whispers. He was ready to capture Echo. He ran up behind them and put a bag over their head "GET OFF, GET THE FUCK AWAY FROM ME" screamed Echo as Kopple dragged them all the way to Dr. T's (not Thornberry) therapy office. Once they were there Kopple explained the situation. Echo had gone insane worshiping a god and now wanted to kill him because he didn't believe in said god. Dr. T had a talk with Echo where Echo revealed that Kopple had taken one of his lives. After this Dr. T asked to speak with Kopple. He said that he killed Echo in self defense after Echo attacked him. Prec then arrived with bombs ready to kill Kopple for his crimes against The Efflorescence. Echo could not help with this as Kopple had taken all of their gear other than a hidden netherite thorn (knife) in their pocket. The group went outside and Prec set off a bomb, wounding but not killing Kopple. A chase ensued and ended up with Prec taking Kopple to The Verdure to show him the beacon. He hoped that the beacon would connect him to The Efflorescence. Meanwhile Echo convinced Dr. Thornberry to make strength potions after threatening to expose his lab. Echo then arrived at The Verdure and got re-geared. Kopple while Echo was gone had convinced Prec that Echo had gone insane worshipping a fake god. Echo then began trying to stab Kopple but Kopple got them down to 3 hearts. Echo then ran to their panic room and locked the door. Quickly writing something in their diary. They heard footsteps and hid in the walls as Kopple and Prec broke in. Prec was unsure if he had made the right decision to betray The Efflorescence.
As Prec expressed this to Kopple, Echo mined the floor out from under Prec telling them that they should come with them and help the efflorescence. Prec placed lava on Echo saying that they had gone insane and must die. Echo easily avoided this however. Kopple dropped down and talked with Prec as Echo tunneled away. Prec could not choose a side and decided that death was better that betraying his friends. He placed a bucket of water (he is a strider and that kills him) and killed himself. Both Echo and Kopple were devastated by this but that was only one life. Prec came back and held out the water bucket again. Kopple and Echo tried to convince him not to do it but he wouldn't listen. He began tunneling away. Echo followed him as Prec placed the water again and took another of his 3 lives. Prec then disappeared. Kopple and Echo fought blaming each other for the deaths of Prec, eventually tunneling to the surface. Echo drank a strength potion as Kopple tried to run away but Echo used their trident to catch up and stabbed him in the back. He screamed in pain as he lost a life. "Now you feel the suffering you put me through." said Echo. Kopple used his trident to run away.