Marshie S1E2: "Into Darkness"

## Episode Guide

**"Into Darkness"** is Marshie's second episode of the Skyline: REM series.

## Summary

Back at the village, August leads Marshie through the festival towards his home and lets her grab one of his extra weapons. She grabs the first thing she sees (a small sword). August grabs a bow just in case they need something ranged As they’re leaving the village they bump into Vivien. Vivien asks where Sunny is. August lies and says Sunny is helping with the festival stuff in the main town. Vivien leaves and August freaks out because he just lied to a higher-up.

They both run off to try and find Sunny ASAP They meet back up with Dimitri and ask if he’s found anything. Dimitri is a little upset that Marshie is there. He shows them a feather that looks like one of Sunny’s. There seems to be a trail of feathers and we follow it. They eventually find Sunny in a tree and Marshie calls out to her. Sunny jumps down and shushes Marshie. She then points deeper into the forest. They all look to where she’s pointing (August and Dimitri ready their weapons).

They notice that this chunk of the forest is all withered and fucked up. They have no idea what the Wither is but they can assume that it’s probably causing the animals to act up A large Wither Cow jumps out of the fog. Marshie panics and throws the sword she got from storage at the cow. The cow looks at the sword and then back at the group. The others look at her and ask why she threw the sword. Marshie says she thought the cow would go fetch. The group argues a bit before they’re interrupted by the cow rushing at them.

Dimitri, again, is the one to get everyone under control so they can actually fight the thing. (Spoiler: he does most of the fighting.) Sunny tries to help with the boomerang she got from the festival earlier but fails at using it saying she doesn’t know how this thing works. She, Marshie, and August group up to trade off weapons. Sunny gets the sword, August gets the boomerang, and Marshie gets the bow. Sunny has no idea how to use a sword and just stands there. August is god-awful at using a boomerang. Marsh has no sense of aim with a bow.

They all swap weapons again until August gets his sword, Marsh gets the boomerang and Sunny gets the bow. Dimitri is done with their nonsense since he was basically soloing this creature while the others were dumb. With the power of teamwork and friendship, they defeat the cow. When the cow dies it leaves behind a black rose. Marshie takes the rose and the group talk a bit before heading back to the village. When they get back Vivien is freaking out. She immediately goes over to them in a panic making sure Sunny is okay and bombarding them with questions and reprimands. August gets scolded for lying to the person but all is forgiven because Sunny is back home and safe.

They join in the festival and talk with some people and do other festival activities. Marshie sees August and Dimitri talking and goes over to them. They talk about the Wither and what to do about it. They say they’ll keep an eye on it, but as long as it stays within the forest and doesn’t spread to the village it should be relatively fine. They’ll need to find a way to get rid of it but that’s a future plot point. Marshie remembers about the item and how they needed to give it to the Stranger. She and Sunny go to find the Stranger and give it to them. They ask what the item is for. Stranger says it’s a special gift for "the one we're celebrating".

Sunny reveales that the one the celebration is for is Farha and that Farha won't actually be at the festival. They say they’ll have to save it for later then. They take a couple petals from the rose and put them on slices of cake for decoration and give Marshie and Sunny both a slice of cake. After giving them their cake Stranger leaves. Marshie and Sunny go back to the festival. On the way back they bump into a hooded person. The person asks if Marshie and Sunny can help them with something. Marshie says yes, they gives her a crystal and tell her to return it to the statue for some festival ceremony. Marshie and Sunny go to the statue and return the crystal, flash of magic and they booth get poofed away.