You can regenerate too, you know. If you got eaten alive by the Master of the River you'd be fine once you went out the other end. Maybe a little smelly.

But the "going south" I was talking about has more to do with the environment's reaction to certain uh.. circumstances. If someone here happens to experience love and that love turns to emotional pain, there's a large chance that person can get stuck here. If they get stuck, the NPCs lose shape and turn into giant shadows that if they so much as grab your hand and you can't destroy it before they get you, they'll swallow you up and you can say goodbye to your memories, your personality.. and you'll become just like the NPCs.

[ Yuri smiles and holds out her hand for a shake. ] Yuri. That or Yurippe's fine, whichever you prefer. Yuri's my actual name, Yurippe's a dumb nickname someone made up but it grew on me.