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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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[A beat, as she remembers something, and then:]
I'll also have to touch you.
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[ .......he sounds like a toddler lamenting the unfairness of his life as he does, indeed, plant his butt cross-legged right there in front of her on the ground, bouncing one knee impatiently, leaning elbows on his thighs. ]
You really think this is gonna work?
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[Tohsaka steps around Vash to the large expanse of his back. After situating herself behind him, Rin kneels and places a small palm where she had it previously during the attack.
Rin's eyes close as she uses her sensitivity to mana to seek out if there is any of her own left. To him it might feel incredibly odd. Like a fish swimming in the ocean of his veins. Like water pressure flushing out pipes.
Yes... there is still some of her left in here. Power that his 'body' is slowly absorbing. If left alone it would fully become his own. However he seems more eager to leave sooner.]
Mmm... You're going to have to expell some of this.
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...
well, she's right; all they can do is try it and see what happens. so, Vash goes still to permit her to do her thing - whatever her thing is - before he rubs his chin at her response. ]
Expel it? [ okay, that should be... fine? maybe. ] How do I go about doing that?
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[If this man is another amateur she should just quit while she's ahead, honestly. No more apprentices—]
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[ yeah, she's speaking to a man who definitely doesn't deal with things like 'mana' or the entangling of one's mana with other manases... mani? manas. ]
Look, don't make that face at me! I-I'm trying to follow along, I swear!
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[She says this "as-a-matter-of-factly". In fact there are a lot of things that she addresses like that she probably... shouldn't.]
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Couldn't you pick a better analogy...?
[ alright; alright. foreign energy first, she says with confidence (how does she know so much about this stuff, anyway?). he doesn't think he's ever tapped into his abilities without his life - or someone else's - on the line, and it's kind of strange to think about utilizing them frivolously. still, if they want out--
he closes his eyes.
...
..... ]
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[ s-scrunching his eyes further shut, ]
Are you looking at me? Stop looking at me, I'm shy.
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[She has weighed the options and the result is torturing him is funnier than having to wake up and deal with the state of the world.]
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if he squeezes his eyes shut any harder, he might accidentally pop them in his skull and create some kind of an unfortunate internal mess, ]
If I didn't know any better I'd say you were making this worse on purpose. But that can't be right, can it?
[ the sarcasm drips from his voice as he hunches further in and away from her, like that will somehow make the sound of her voice easier to ignore. yes. very effective strategy. working great. working out great, here. ]
Can't you at least turn around??
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[After the little tease she tucks her arms behind her and spins on her heels to give him some "privacy".]
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[ he offers this haughty retort as he once more closes his eyes and focuses into a state of Zen now her back is turned... THANK YOU, he DOES INDEED have performance anxiety (or is just messing with her because it's fun, whatever).
and in the silence that follows comes the soft rustling of feathers as they unfurl. ]
...By the way.
[ he can multi-task... ]
Was that really your sister?
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Yes. The process in which she turned into that thing is overly complicated and has a long backstory that would probably make little sense to you.
[Unless he's a Servant, but she's never heard of anything like his abilities before. Hrm... then again her Archer wasn't a hero of the past, but one of the future. The Grail, after all, can pull from any time it likes.
The rustling of feathers sparks something in her. The immediate desire to feel the down and touch wings... but that desire is simple and fleeting enough that she kills it with ease.]
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Were you able to get her back?
[ whether it's naive or optimistic a thought considering what he'd seen of Rin's sister and her fate, he can't help but be hopeful that was the inevitable outcome of that experience. ]
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The last thing I remembered before crawling out of the ground was my preparations to kill her.
[So Vash gets no satisfying answer to that. Does Rin kill her own sister? Does she strike Sakura down to save the world from a corrupted wish granter and the human vessel it used to collect the energy it needed to manifest? Or does the human heart that Rin had tried for over ten years to bury under the ideals of a mage make her falter? Does her sister instead get to kill Rin and run free to destroy all before her as an act of revenge against a world that wronged her?]
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instead, his only answer is the slow and subtle stretch of those long, faintly aglow feathers
one of which creeps over her shoulder and begins tickling her nose. ]
You were about to do something real stupid, weren't you.
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Shut up! That thing wasn't just my sister anymore. It was All the World's Evil. The Holy Grail had been corrupted, and promised to grant her wish of revenge. Would you rather I let that ruin the world at large? Ugh, you're just like him!
[At least the Shirou Emiya she knew had the balls to give up on that unhealthy ideal to focus on saving the one person he loved. She had to respect him for at least that much.]
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I don't know what half of those words mean, but I believe you, geez... Don't go 'n get your feathers in a ruffle.
[ lol get it because he has the fathers so it's kind of funny and like
okay. ]
Must've taken a lot for you to make that choice. It isn't so cut and dry when it's family.
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Hm, she wouldn't be surprised. A person with a body like that couldn't have had a simple life.]
Ayako — that's what you can call me if you'd like.
[Gem girl suits her just fine, too.]
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Vash's stretching his hand for hers; though its source is immediately apparent upon contact, she will get an earnest dose of his gross amounts of warm fuzzies. ]
Vash.
[ that's his name, don't wear it out etc etc, ]
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[ sure enough, it seems like he's fading-- or is it that they're beginning to rouse, separate from their shared state of togetherness? ]
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