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Entry tags:
- arcane: vander,
- arknights: gavial,
- bastard!!: dark schneider,
- black butler: sieglinde sullivan,
- expanse (the): amos burton,
- fate/: quetzalcoatl,
- fate/: rin tohsaka,
- fire emblem: claude von riegan,
- genshin impact: tartaglia (childe),
- genshin impact: zhongli,
- granblue fantasy: eustace,
- magnus archives (the): the archivist,
- orv: dokja kim,
- star wars: cassian andor,
- star wars: jyn erso,
- trigun maximum: vash the stampede
The Seeds of Unrest, Phase Two 🌱
UPROOTED
Time has not been kind thus far, and the future will be no kinder.
The slow passage of days to weeks has seen both cities increasingly ravaged by the untamed growth of the enlarging roots. Their size is enough to uproot buildings by their foundations, if not bisect them entirely where they push through unfettered. In the worst-hit areas, entire blocks are left abandoned - if even standing at all, displacing families and leaving businesses in ruins.
Cetina and Kathova have been in near constant contact with Bearers via Communion, feeding them information about which areas to focus their lifesaving efforts. Yima’s Manor and the Seat of the Tribune - despite their closeness to the Trees - have been fortified by your leaders and act as a base of operations for each respective faction. You will be able to return to either to find sanctuary from the chaos beyond, but the innumerable civilians are not so lucky.
Bearers are tasked with rescue and recovery efforts and requested to assist hands on the ground with taking refugees to temporary shelters. Survivors must be dug out of the debris. Those who are capable of healing will be enlisted to assist at hospitals and triage centers. Supplies must be gathered and harvested from areas that are collapsed and too dangerous for civilians to navigate. If you are feeling generous, you can go on search and rescue missions, as many people are considered missing in both Highstorm and Springstar. Some areas are completely cut off to regular foot traffic by the massive, winding roots bearing countless Blight-blooms. Citizens are succumbing to the Blight flower’s effects persistent from phase one with more and more frequency.
While both cities slowly succumb to a deepening catastrophe, the situation worsens.
The slow passage of days to weeks has seen both cities increasingly ravaged by the untamed growth of the enlarging roots. Their size is enough to uproot buildings by their foundations, if not bisect them entirely where they push through unfettered. In the worst-hit areas, entire blocks are left abandoned - if even standing at all, displacing families and leaving businesses in ruins.
Cetina and Kathova have been in near constant contact with Bearers via Communion, feeding them information about which areas to focus their lifesaving efforts. Yima’s Manor and the Seat of the Tribune - despite their closeness to the Trees - have been fortified by your leaders and act as a base of operations for each respective faction. You will be able to return to either to find sanctuary from the chaos beyond, but the innumerable civilians are not so lucky.
Bearers are tasked with rescue and recovery efforts and requested to assist hands on the ground with taking refugees to temporary shelters. Survivors must be dug out of the debris. Those who are capable of healing will be enlisted to assist at hospitals and triage centers. Supplies must be gathered and harvested from areas that are collapsed and too dangerous for civilians to navigate. If you are feeling generous, you can go on search and rescue missions, as many people are considered missing in both Highstorm and Springstar. Some areas are completely cut off to regular foot traffic by the massive, winding roots bearing countless Blight-blooms. Citizens are succumbing to the Blight flower’s effects persistent from phase one with more and more frequency.
While both cities slowly succumb to a deepening catastrophe, the situation worsens.
STIRRING STORMS
As the days pass, inexplicable and unnatural weather occurrences will randomly plague both cities. They can last as long as a full day or as little as an hour before dissolving entirely.- Flurries: this snow is tainted by the Blight, making the snowfall look like ash. Any organic matter it touches will be affected by reopening wounds, re-infection of illnesses, or re-experiencing injuries that may have healed over years ago.
- Thunderstorms: these storms carry a frigid rainfall and heavy cloud cover, making already difficult-to-navigate disaster zones harder to clear. As each thunder bellow crashes overhead, you might swear you hear a familiar voice reaching out to you in the fading rumble… one that sends a message - either from the future or past.
- Fog: dense clouds of thick, freezing fog will roll in randomly, making visibility even more precarious. In your search for survivors - or your companions, you may find yourself coming face to face with someone else, instead: a version of yourself (or a companion) from another timeline. You may also hear your own voice calling out to you from within the fog, attempting to beckon you further into the mist.
- General Note: Exposure to any of the above weather patterns will increase your Blight infection.
THE BLIGHT COMES FOR ALL
As if it were not enough to see the cities that have become your salvation at the end of the Timestream falling to collapse and ruin, the Bearers will slowly begin to realize their previous immunity to the Blight is eroding. They will begin to show symptoms of infection that increase into May’s event. ( For more information on the effects of the Blight and purification methods, please see the OOC Summary. )
Now that their last bastion - the Bearers - are just as much in harm’s way as everyone else, the populous’s efforts to formulate a temporary stop-gap solution are being rushed to completion. Time is not on anyone’s side. They will continue to work with those who have been kind enough to volunteer their resources and brilliant minds - collecting materials and attempting to figure out a way to avert their otherwise inevitable destiny.
🌙 YIMA will stress for all Zenite Bearers to prioritize their well-being and to avoid unnecessary exposure, to manage their symptoms as much as possible. They must fight for their own survival to bring in the birth of a new universe - and their lives are too precious to risk. Beyond that, she asks them to save what they can of their people and their most critical structures with the understanding that hard choices may be necessary.
🌞 CYRUS will implore all Meridian Bearers to prioritize the general population's lives and turn their efforts to save as much of Springstar as they can. He will note that Bearers have ways to help keep one another from suffering too much contagion and to coordinate their usages appropriately, to keep one another safe, and watch their backs.
Now that their last bastion - the Bearers - are just as much in harm’s way as everyone else, the populous’s efforts to formulate a temporary stop-gap solution are being rushed to completion. Time is not on anyone’s side. They will continue to work with those who have been kind enough to volunteer their resources and brilliant minds - collecting materials and attempting to figure out a way to avert their otherwise inevitable destiny.
ORDERS
Orders from your leaders will come as soon as infections among the Bearers have been confirmed.🌙 YIMA will stress for all Zenite Bearers to prioritize their well-being and to avoid unnecessary exposure, to manage their symptoms as much as possible. They must fight for their own survival to bring in the birth of a new universe - and their lives are too precious to risk. Beyond that, she asks them to save what they can of their people and their most critical structures with the understanding that hard choices may be necessary.
🌞 CYRUS will implore all Meridian Bearers to prioritize the general population's lives and turn their efforts to save as much of Springstar as they can. He will note that Bearers have ways to help keep one another from suffering too much contagion and to coordinate their usages appropriately, to keep one another safe, and watch their backs.
ANOTHER EN-TREE-TY
The Tree of Life continues to sicken, yet - thankfully - the progression of the Blight is slow. Still, Bearers will find themselves occasionally compelled to take a moment to sit beneath its boughs and vibrant leaves, even as some begin to show signs of discoloration and rot. Any characters who sit with the Tree with the purple leaf they found on their person after phase one will find it warming to the touch, its veins laced with gold. This effect will be even more effective if taken into the cavernous roots beneath the Tree! While this may fill you with a temporary sense of calm, it doesn't seem to have any other effects... yet still, you are compelled, if not curious.
The Tree has offered you this gift for a reason. Perhaps you will find its use before long.
...As long as you - and Kenos - survive long enough to discover it.
The Tree has offered you this gift for a reason. Perhaps you will find its use before long.
...As long as you - and Kenos - survive long enough to discover it.
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[ Dark is quick to be unhappy with the answer, forgetting that others here aren't from the same world as him. He's used to knowing everything, and anything he hadn't known, he'd been able to figure out in only a few moments of hypotheticals.
Not waiting for Rin to reply to him, he moves directly in front of her, squatting a little lower and hooking his hands under her thighs to pick her up by force. Manuveuring her until she's got both legs around him, he pushes her flush against him with his other arm, holding her tightly to his chest. ]
You want to stop somewhere to rest? I doubt there are any other people out here. We've already combed this area three or four times now.
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[There is no argument or even a halfhearted attempt to get away from him. Tohsaka tucks her left arm between them as she drapes nearly limp across his front. Her right arm seems to have more strength, and she curls it around his neck.]
Somewhere with a roof, please.
[Maybe in a half dilapidated shop or under the awning of a café. Rin's head tucks tiredly under his chin. Her breath short, and sometimes sharp, as if something keeps stinging or burning her.]
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Hm...
[ It's surprisingly slim pickings, but Dark manages to spot an antique store in good enough shape. He'll take Rin there. He's strangely quiet carrying her there, with a palpable lack of banter or bullying. Once they arrive, though, he sets her down on one of the items for sale— a dark green, velvet wingback chair. ]
You need me to go get the medicine from our room?
[ Our he says. What an odd choice of words from someone that isn't Lucien. Still, it is quite brave of him to offer considering that the Blight blossoms have highly overrun both of their living quarters. Going back means risking affliction. ]
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[Somewhere in the back of her head Rin's brain makes the connection. However the pain makes it difficult to really act or acknowledge the realization. Perhaps later, when all this is over, she'll lash out on him. However for now she struggles just to keep herself from crying out.]
It won't fix everything, but... It's the bitter stuff. Smells herbal and a bit resinous like an apothecary.
[She hates it. She hates how much he knows about her now. And that when ever he gets close he'll smell it on her — that medicine. She's been too busy purchasing gems to care about the perfume or scented shampoo she'd use to mask the scent back home.]
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You'll have to describe it a little better than that. Is it a pill, powder... tea? Am I supposed to just go home sniffing around the Blight like a dog or what?
[ He sighs audibly. ]
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"Our room," you say! And you don't even both remembering how often I make that. You—!
[Tug! She tugs pathetically on the locks of hair she has in her fist.]
It's not unlike the poison we made. A powder mixed into liquid. It'll be very green instead of colorless when added, though.
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You act like I was supposed to know it wasn't gross old people tea...
[ And he wasn't going to judge her. It's certainly not something he nor Lucien would ever hope to ingest. Rin also not being a fan of it humanizes her considerably. It'd smelled like a witch's brew or something. ]
Hang tight here, then. And don't let anyone come in and sexually assault you or anything.
[ This is Dark's first worry while seeing her weak, and it's unfortunately because he's predatorial in nature himself— such thoughts, engraved in him for centuries, don't just evaporate.
He looks around the room and pulls an old curtain out of the corner, tossing it over her head so that she's out of view. Once he's deemed her unassuming enough, he nods at his own work. ]
I'll be back. If you want anything else from the dorm, now's the time to ask.
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Ugh. And now she's covered like a pet bird set away for the night. At least she has Sakura's shard saved. In fact since she's been so focused on collecting gems she really hasn't had the time to gather or own anything else.]
I'll be here when you get back. Promise.
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Do I mix it with water or?
[ He's like a confused kid in a chemistry class. ]
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When Dark pulls away the curtain it seems she's already broken into a light sweat. Her brows furrowed and Rin's teeth worrying at her bottom lip. Hard enough to break the surface and cut a little blood. Rin hisses out her next words.]
Yeah — water, juice — it doesn't matter. I just need to drink it.
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The door jingles when he lets himself back inside, lowering down level with the armchair and offering the strong-smelling medicine to Rin. ]
Here, wait a sec.
[ Dark reaches for the side of Rin's face, brushing his thumb over her lip to mend where it'd torn. ]
Try now, drink up.
[ The cup is lifted closer to her. ]
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Only a good boy when things hit rock bottom, huh?
[Her right hand holds his as she guides him to tip the cup. She encourages him to help her knock it back like taking a shot of alcohol. The foul medicine overtakes her senses, and despite her taking it for over a decade it still makes her want to hurl every time.
Tohsaka coughs a little after, but almost immediately the crease in her brow softens. It's not a super quick fix, but the relief does start immediately in the smallest way. Like an aloe balm for skin that caught too much love from the sun.]
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[ Simply put. Dark sets the cup over on an end table beside the chair when Rin is finished, blue eyes searching her carefully for signs of recovery. ]
Feeling a little better?
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Mn, there's something else that needs taken care of, though.
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[ He lifts one eyebrow up a little higher when he moves closer, ironically enough, obedient like a dog. Dark looks her Rin unsure of whatever else might be needed. The energy is changing in a way that sort of embarrasses him for some reason. It's all too on the spot— too quiet. ]
What?
[ He tries to break through the atmosphere himself, annoyed by it. ]
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[She starts with a soft touch. The brush of her hand on his skin. The grazing of her knuckles on his cheek leading up to combing fingers through Dark's hair.]
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I'm not from your world, remember? If you want something from me, you'll have to say it clearly.
[ She's making advances. ]
It's not a kiss, is it? You know what'll happen since you're a virgin.
[ And her being a virgin eliminates sex from the equation. What's this weird energy, an why's it throwing him off? Dark squeezes his molars together, resisting an urge to, well... ]
Tch, you're making it real hard for me to stay good. Here's a warning.
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[Tohsaka pouts a bit at his reaction. Not because she doesn't like it. No, it's that he has such a reasonable reaction that she frowns. Of all times for him to question her! She hates that she's a little charmed by this unusual level-headedness.]
Magical energy as I know it is produced by the inner self, your life force - or "Od". It can also be absorbed by the ambient energies in your environment called "mana". The magical energy is absorbed by the body like osmosis and settled in the body fluids of a person. Saliva and blood are options, but are relatively low in concentration when considering other avenues.
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I get it, so you want to borrow me as your mana cow.
[ And ordinarily Dark would be really excited about this development! If... her well-being hadn't depended on his next nut. He exhales some, trying to figure out what about it is failing to get him excited. He'd loved having women dependent and at his mercy before, decades and centuries ago, maybe, but something about this is just a little sad.
Does she even know how to perform? She's an inexperienced virgin, so it's probably still scary. Gh, why does he even care how she feels about it?
Dark draws away Rin into himself, carefully reaching around her to pick her up again. He's instead looking over to the matching antique couch that matches the velvet armchair— a space that offers them a bit more room to maneuver about. ]
Fine. If it's what you need.
[ Dark says need instead of want, knowing that the latter is unlikely. What somber, melancholy knowledge. Would Rin have needed to jack off some other person if anyone else had been in his place? He doesn't like to think about it. Without giving her too long to protest, he lowers himself down onto the couch beneath her, letting her straddle atop him instead. Now it's his turn, and he combs some dark hair out from her face. ]
I could do it myself too, though. It's not a big deal. You're embarrassed about it, aren't you?
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He settles them on the couch. Her petite frame in his lap as her knees straddle him. The pleats of her skirt follow the curve of her thigh. Slowly, shakily, her hands reach up into her hair. Pulling out her ribbons to carefully reform those dark, thick locks into a ponytail.]
I would still need to get it inside me. Consider this as "repayment" if you like. Or has the "Great Dark Schneider" decided that he has cold feet?
cw: nsfw
He's unsure of whether or not to be suspicious of it, to consider that maybe she's putting on a tough face or doesn't want to come off as vulnerable. Regardless of her reasons though, Dark won't linger on them if she isn't willing to either. His hand falls from her hair and down to his own pants, a thumb hooking into the waistband just above his groin. He pulls the leather taut. ]
'Course not. Excuse me for worrying about your end of things, little girl.
[ Gaze cast low, he lowers his zipper with a hiss of fabric. Now untucking himself with his middle and forefingers, Dark's heavy cock is pulled from the bulge of his trousers, its flushed head grazing and nudging the front pleats of Rin's skirt.
Dark's eyes lift from the display, leveling to meet Rin's own instead. ]
content warnings will continue until morale improves
With an apprehensive gulp she begins dismounting his lap so her face will be closer to... to the objective.]
I won't be able to fit all of it, so feel free to do whatever you want with the rest. Giant freak.
[Is it too late to ask for a pint of blood?]
still nsfw.... :') don't perceive this tag
[ Yes, he's big. And of course he notices that Rin hasn't stopped staring. Almost on cue, it swells a little higher while she watches it, not even fully erect or having revealed itself at finished length. Taking the girth of it in his hand, Dark slowly strokes at the base, lazily dipping and rolling his ballsack up with the tips of his fingers. They drop and fall when he works his way back up the rising arch.
Rin's lack of experience is more than obvious now as she watches him, blue eyes fixed on his actions. Dark doesn't mind it, though. He in fact finds it a little cute. ]
You know, it sure sounds like you're going to make me do all the work after all. Are you just planning to sit there with your tongue out or what?
Just assume this continues to be Nasty (nsfw) until otherwise stated, u_u
[Tohsaka huffs and grabs him by the shaft. And good lord, it even dwarfs her hand. She hates this. She should just bite him. She should rip it off and smack him in the face with i—
No. She's tired and it has made her more irritable. She shouldn't do any of those things. Instead she should remember her goal and strive to get there. With a sigh she uses her other hand to help steady him as she brings her mouth to press a small kiss at his tip. The texture of his glans takes her by surprise, and her frown is replaced with a more quizzical expression.]
same here nsfw after this point byee
It's a start.
[ By that, he's referencing her brief, experimental kiss on the crown. ]
I don't know, though. You don't look like you're having a lot of fun. It's hard for me to get into it if you frown the whole time.
[ And why would she be, if she's only sucking cock to replenish her magic? Dark feels restless and impatient, but with Rin too stubborn to let him take the reins of his own arousal, he's thinking of alternatives to entertain himself with. A hand wanders for her thigh, fingers trailing somewhere along her soft inner leg. ]
Let me do something that'll bring the mood up, okay? Turn the other way and straddle my shoulders so I can show you how it's done.
[ He tries coaxing her forward with his touch. Rin might not be excited about giving head, but Dark could certainly eat pussy all day. He's hungry for his own suggestion, and his tongue licks the surface of his pointed teeth should Rin just happen to look up and see him. ]
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cw: sexual assault allusion
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