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can a slave do this? *dies and goes back in time* ([personal profile] usurpers) wrote in [community profile] aefenglom2019-07-24 07:38 pm

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Name: eren jaeger
Date: juril 13th
Format: video

[ Around a fire in the dark of night, a few tents and the movement of witches, entertainment and the like of volunteers behind them, Eren sits outside of the city wall with company as the feed starts, Lex sitting next to him with Dogmeat sprawled out a few inches away. ]

Anyone with any intention of walking closer to Wilder’s Edge, don’t go alone and don’t go unprepared to fight.

We ran into something. Humanoid, with a creepy laugh. It mimicked our faces, our movements, and it was not playing around.

[ The flex of her talons, the little grit of her monster-sharp teeth, probably makes it clear exactly what Lex thinks about that. Shoulder to shoulder, Eren’s head dips, sideways to rest his cheek to the top of her head— spontaneous as the dragon sinks half his face into her curly, furry, feathery hair. There’s no resistance; if anything, the chimera leans into it. ]

Fighting that thing alone wouldn’t go well. It wasn’t infected, as far as we could tell. The Cwyld isn’t the only danger here.

[ Eren confirms with a nod that comes with wetting his lips, only turning his face to direct himself to the camera again else he’d muffle his words. His own ink-dipped hands and claws hold somewhere around her back, under her opposite arm and stretching out the wide tears at the back of his ruined, bloodied shirt and closed nape wound that had been healed by magic hands. he points to his neck. ]

It looked predatory. And it probably won’t back off unless you take it down, or trap it first. The veterans don’t know what to tell us.

[ Eren also doesn’t spend too much time with video feeds, and presses. buttons, like a grandpa. He presses all the damn buttons (that probably fuck up configurations plenty, he mutters fucking because technology is hard), until a photo is tagged to the post. A lot of photos, most of them blurry messes until one actually shows a body, of the mimic in question. A black sleek face, no features to show for except for a broken mask, long limbs, and teeth like needles behind the fissures. Its neck bares a shredded hole and its middle is spilled.

Dryly: ]
We didn’t get a before picture.
fiddlestick: (elliot210)

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[personal profile] fiddlestick 2019-07-25 05:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well. That is definitely terrifying. Elliot understandably looks a little shaken, but is a lot calmer than you'd expect a musician to be. First thing was first:]

Are you both alright?

[As for the monster....]

Do you mean the veterans out there don't know what it is?
whomthebelltolls: (Hat)

[personal profile] whomthebelltolls 2019-07-25 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[And that is a cordial nod of recognition back to Lex. They both look rattled, but healed, so she's not going to press them about how they're faring. Besides, new enemies mean new things to consider.

Like fighting a mirror, so confusing it with two people...
] I assume this means it was throwing every attack you threw at it back. Neither of you are... Witches, though, so I'm not sure if you would be able to answer if it was able to emulate magic, as well. [This, she looks a little bit more at Eren for. He looks like a dragon, and if she recalls, they do have some elemental magic.

As for Lex...
] And any other weaknesses you may have gleaned from your fight. The more information we have about it, the better prepared we can be. Especially since it seems even people who are native to this land are unfamiliar with such a creature.
purpose: (( let the games begin. ))

[personal profile] purpose 2019-07-25 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Smart of you both. [ Her lips twitch, faint. ] And Dogmeat. I should have figured he'd be a fighter like you, too.

[ As for the rest of it, she doesn't directly touch on her surprise. Her own changes have been a sore subject; she can't imagine they aren't the same for anyone else. ]

If there's more out there ... [ Rey tails off, smile fading as her lips pinch. ] We're going to have to find ways of dealing with that, and figure out why they're showing up now. We can't just ignore it and hope someone else won't get hurt the next time we go beyond the city.
fiddlestick: (elliot126)

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[personal profile] fiddlestick 2019-07-26 12:48 am (UTC)(link)
Oh- [He gives a wave in Lex's direction. Hey gurl.

After that. He puts his hand to his chin in thought]


Hmm...not sure what they'd get out of not saying anything, since that thing's a risk to their people too. [He's not completely saying it's not possible, he just doesn't see the benefit]

If they don't know, it could be a Cryptid. [A worried look] They're strong fiends from another plane of existence that appears whenever my world's out of balance. Which, considering all of us aren't exactly from here....

[it's completely possible something else is getting through]
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[personal profile] purpose 2019-07-26 01:30 am (UTC)(link)
It's the right start.

[ There's a particular emphasis on it, a certainty emanating from her, if only to avoid any misunderstanding that she thinks it's insufficient. They've done well. ]

I'm only worried about what it means for us if there are creatures out there that look like us and act just like us.
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[personal profile] chainveil 2019-07-26 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well that is troublesome, to say the least. Liliana purses her lips. ]

An interesting Public Service Announcement. Photography skill is lacking, but this is a very interesting beast you've found. Tell me, did the environment react at all to it?
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[personal profile] bloodyuseless 2019-07-26 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
...It looks scary.

[A very helpful response from a perturbed-looking vampire!]

How did you kill it?
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[personal profile] thisisamazing 2019-07-26 10:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Hopefully Eren's okay with a Night Fury nosing and nudging all over him to check for other injuries besides the bite. Apparently he decides he's satisfied, because he licks over him once, and then sets to sniffing around the campsite.]

[Hiccup frowns.] So it's- sentient. [At least capable of higher thought than an animal.] And it can copy abilities. I wonder if it could copy a witch's magic, too. That's... that's a terrible thought right there. [It's all terrible rip in rip.]

...I wonder how many there are out there.
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[personal profile] lonewanderer 2019-07-26 01:34 pm (UTC)(link)
At least as smart as a Deathclaw, [ Lex muses - and she'd lean into Eren's handling of her hair, but there's a dragon licking him, so instead she laughs and lets the dragons have some Boy Time. ]

It didn't copy any ability that we saw, [ she clarifies, a little louder. ] Just our faces and movements. I made it focus on me, since I had the gun, and had Eren lit it up with me right there - it wasn't expecting him to be willing to hit me with it, too.
lonewanderer: (☢ mad.)

[personal profile] lonewanderer 2019-07-26 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Every time I'd try and shoot it, it'd get too close to Eren. [ There's a little growl in her voice as she says it; clearly it's not a strategy that she had liked it employing. ]

But I'm fire resistant enough, so- couldn't hide behind us avoiding literal friendly fire. And it didn't seem to be able to mimic Dogmeat.
lonewanderer: (✫ sunglasses.)

[personal profile] lonewanderer 2019-07-26 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Could be they've always been out here. I mean, how many people go out into the Wilde, right?

[ But she sighs, leaning against Eren a little, letting her hand drop down to stroke Dogmeat on the top of his head. ]

Luckily the face seems to be the only thing it changed- and it didn't speak, other than its laughter.
lonewanderer: (☢ down.)

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[personal profile] lonewanderer 2019-07-26 01:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She returns the wave with a nod and a slight smile. ] Lex.

[ The mention of the Wilders and their privacy, though, makes her sigh. ]

Honestly? It wouldn't surprise me if they forget there's a whole fucking host of bullshit here that we, as mirrorbound, just don't know about. I mean, I'd never dealt with a chimera before coming here, and now I am one.
lonewanderer: (☢ hair.)

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[personal profile] lonewanderer 2019-07-26 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
The environment? [ Lex tilts her head, bird-like, from the side of the camera. ] Not that we saw. It was toward the edge of the Wilde, but- I mean, the plants and earth didn't move around it or anything.
lonewanderer: (✫ busy.)

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[personal profile] lonewanderer 2019-07-26 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Well, you're not wrong. ]

Teeth and claws and fire. Teamwork, too, because I think we'd have been fucked if we'd been alone.
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[personal profile] fiddlestick 2019-07-26 02:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Right, but Chimeras are native and known about in this world. It's new to you only because you aren't.

I just think something that aggressive would've made its presence known a lot sooner if it's a local creature. Though forgetting it is possible... [especially with the Cwyld putting a wrench into all things] I'll try asking around the Coven.
lonewanderer: (✫ prep.)

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[personal profile] lonewanderer 2019-07-26 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but why would they think to tell us about something native to this one? It wouldn't be unusual to them. And there's not a lot of people who come out to the Wilde, either.

[ She can't help her slight frown when he mentions asking the Coven, but Lex doesn't say anything else to it; she just turns her head and busies herself with her dog. ]
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[personal profile] thisisamazing 2019-07-26 02:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, okay, that- [Yeah he misunderstood there. Here he was assuming that nobody would breathe fire at their friend. (He probably wouldn't be able to. He's horribly soft.)] I guess that's... better... [It's not. He's frowning now, turning to Eren and stating,] You really need to be more careful.

[It's probably a moot point, considering the request Eren made of him recently. He's guessing now that one of those suits of dragonscale armor is going to be for Lex. Speaking of whom, turning back to her, he says,] I'm working on a fireproofing charm, if I manage to perfect it, I'm going to give you a few written into runestones.

Okay, so it- it copies faces and movements, that's still... bad... Is it, uh- where'd you leave it?
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[personal profile] purpose 2019-07-26 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
It could be that they were waiting for the right moment to show themselves. Maybe they thought we were easier targets, or — [ She purses her lips, frowning at the line of thought. ] — the mirrorbound arriving here has changed this world in ways we haven't realized yet.

[ It would make sense, Rey thinks, that the world has been thrown off-balance. They aren't supposed to be here, aren't part of this world, despite how it's tried to claim some of them — has tried to change them as it has changed her. ]

The world has been changing us, but I don't think it's as one-sided as we believed.
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[personal profile] fiddlestick 2019-07-26 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Well...they did know that you guys were going out there right? And for the veterans not to say anything after the fact...

[He picks up on that frown and pauses. Yeah, it's not hard to tell Lex doesn't like the Coven for some reason. Elliot isn't really the argumentative type, so he pauses and says in a measured voice]

...We can't rule either option out right now until we know more. If it's local, then we can try make notes of what areas of the Wilde they're in and what precautions to take. If they're a cryptid, we're in more trouble because if those are appearing, then it could appear anywhere in this world.

Right now, the Coven is the best option we have for information.

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