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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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this large clumsy geckidiot is quickening his pace to try and make it up to the top far more hastily than a second ago as dirt speckles his face again; Gen can probably sense the Evil Intent radiating from this guy, now. because he is absolutely gunning to grab one of those ankles again when he manages to crest the top of the sinkhole-- ]
You ever learn any manners, kid? Get over here, I'll teach you a couple myself!!
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Yeah? Yeah? Give me a shot then, dumbass!
[ Of course he squares up for a fight as he slides back out of immediate grabbing range, shoulders tensed and hand flexing to clench into a fist, but -- there's a slight wobble to his step as he prepares for a brawl. Despite how he's acting, he really is quite drained after subduing the Big Dude down in the sinkhole. (Not that that's going to deter him from throwing hands with the geckidiot.) ]
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which means he can go and flail his hand around in animated gestures of irritation to his heart's desire; how fun!!! ]
What's wrong with you, anyway?! You let me fall down there and then you go and help me out? What, was this all about the begging?!
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What's wrong with me? [ Wow, of all the people to be insulted by, he doesn't wanna hear that from this weirdo. Gen remains indignantly tensed and ready to throw hands in the face of Vash's frantic gesticulating. ] The hell's wrong with you? If you were gonna ask for help from the first place, you shoulda shut your mouth instead of giving me lip! [ So, yes. In a way, it really was just about the begging. ] I should've just left you in there to be that ugly fucker's lunch!
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[ why is he arguing on the sinkhole guy's behalf? who knows. but he sure is defending this random man's honor before going even more emphatic at Gen, ]
And so we set the record straight, all I did was ask for a hand and you went and THREW me down the well!! What happened to lending a hand to your neighbors in their time of need?! 'Don't kick a man while he's down' and all that?
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Now look here, you asshole!
[ Gen's voice, already an aggressive snarl, gains an extra sharp edge with his next words. Because while he's very much accustomed to being hated for things he's done and the reputation he's earned, it's an entirely different matter when he's getting fingers pointed at him for shit he didn't even do.
He surges forth without hesitation to snatch a hand into Vash's shirtfront, yanking him close so he can snarl right into the other's face. ]
I threw you down?! Are you fucking delusional, or are you just an brainless idiot? I left and considered ditching you, but you went and fell in there all on your own when the ground collapsed, you moron! [ Fabric creaks as he tightens his grip, leaning in so closer they're almost nose-to-nose, his words livid and guttural. ] -- or d'you want me to show you what it's like when I actually throw people around, huh?! Is that what you're asking for? You wanna go back in there again?!
[ Back in ... the hole. ]
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[ he's totally exaggerating this, but this kid's reaction is like
really funny. like, really funny. and nostalgic. and, on a pitiful note, maybe he just enjoys arguing with someone against the backdrop of wisping cigarette smoke; that's not so bad, is it?? with everything else going on, with everything as it is, surely that isn't so bad? ...no? LET A MAN LIVE,
okay well anyway, his only option is to continue shitlording. this means he will rise to the occasion and, since Gen is leaning so close... Vash smushes their noses together as he leans in with him, returning to give as good as he's getting. Vash takes time to painfully enunciate each bit of the next two lines: ]
AND I DARE YOU. You wouldn't.
[ .....man. yeah, he's feeling better already. ]
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As in, Vash makes the bold move of shoving nose-to-nose to him, shouting out that challenge, so of course Gen goes for it. And with Vash in such convenient range, how could he possibly turn it down?
He reels his head back to headbutt Vash right in the face.
And while this is hardly the sort of thing Eustace trained him in hand-to-hand combat for, hey, sometimes a guy’s got to improvise, right? Making good use of those lessons here, immediately following the headbutt, Gen deals a hard axe kick to the back of Vash’s knee to buckle his legs, followed by a vicious yank at his jacket-front in the opposite direction to topple him over.
Now, time to drag him back to the edge of the hole! You asked for it, Vash! ]
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terriblelife choices,Vash is tired. he's Blighted, albeit not so much so that he couldn't function at a pretty normal baseline. neither of these reasons explains why he lets this kid headbutt him in the face when he could've dodged (resulting in yet another screeching cry, a flail of hands to his face, an overdramatic backward reel as if an ox rather than a teenager had driven into him).
neither of those reasons explains why he lets Gen kick out his legs, seeing him crumpling like a snapped twig as he folds pitifully, still howling and yowling muffledly behind his hands at his face. there's some kind of half-cry going on here, some whining about how he wasn't supposed to take the bait or something--
and suddenly, those long, lanky arms are stretching out to grip at Gen's like a vice where Gen holds Vash's jacket, and he's squirming like a bug with his legs all wibbly-wobbly, trying to get enough purchase to find himself upright again. or, at least... prevent himself from being hauled to The Hole, ]
No!! No way in hell, if I go down, I'm taking you with me!!
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Those canine ears of his swivel back and away from the cacophony, trying to lessen how much of that supersonic screeching is getting blasted right into his four ear-holes, and Gen gives an irate grunt as he hauls Vash one, two steps closer to the edge of the hole. Though that's about as much progress as he gets to make before Vash's flailing makes it difficult to get any closer.
Briefly, it occurs to him that this guy's way stronger than he looks? Those twiggy arms look like they shouldn't be able to muster much energy, but the grip at his arms is enough to earn a slight, startled twitch as he stares down indignantly at his payload.
And then another round of wailing has him curling a lip in disgust. ]
-- god, fine!
[ At a certain point, even teenage spite loses out against the powerful sense of 'what a pain in the ass,' and when Gen has to shove his palm against Vash's face to keep a flailing hand from brushing against his jaw, he just about hits his limit. That irritable snarl is all the warning Vash gets before Gen simply drops him to the ground, kicking a nice puff of dirt into his face for good measure. ]
Get the fuck outta my sight! And don't you fucking dare forget you owe me your life, you moron!
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fearsome, isn't it.
Vash ends up 'ooph'-ing where he's deposited right on his ass on the hard ground, rubbing his backside and making an affronted face... but, at least - most of the wailing has stopped!! ]
Yeah, that's what I th--
[ --ought,
his shitty retort is cut short as he eats a mouthful of dirt, aaaand now he's coughing and spluttering and rubbing at his eyes,,,
Gen run RUN RUN BE FREE ]