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Prompto Argentum ([personal profile] clickclickbang) wrote in [community profile] aefenglom2020-02-08 09:56 pm

005 | Video

Name: Prompto Argentum
Date: 2/8
Format: video

[In the background of this video, there's the (relatively) hushed sounds of a certain Sun King's voice, trying to get someone to stop and rest, as she should. He's being met with growls of "I'm busy!" along with some pots and pans clanging and chopping as she’s clearly trying to make Something. It might be a stew? There's still the remains of a varied breakfast and food packages that were just set on the table. Pointing this out does not appear to be much of a deterrent.

While all that’s going on, Prompto just sort of. Gives the camera a Look.]


So, I was going to let everyone know that hey, I'm back, Insomniac Delivery is back up and running, please do not try to eat my chocobo, photos will be back soonish, et cetera et cetera, but Caren dropped some interesting information at breakfast this morning and that takes priority. So.

[Pause for effect. An effect that is likely somewhat spoiled as more extreme measures of putting things on higher shelves is met with highly vocal protests decrying it as an unfair move.]

Apparently Dorchacht used to be a monster city.

[Yet another pause for further effect. And also a drink of coffee because boy, does Prompto need the (sugary, creamy, mostly everything but coffee) caffeine this morning.]

So, according to Caren's...contact? Before Drummond or whoever came around, witches lived in a separate part of the city because they were considered the dangerous ones. They said they treated the witches fairly and I'm pretty sure it'd be hard to treat people worse than how Dorch was when we got there, but, uh, maybe take that part with a grain of salt?

[And of course, in the midst of Prompto trying to explain, he’s interrupted by the menace in the background.]

This also could have been centuries ago so- no, I don't want tea. I don't feel like being drugged today, thank you!

That's not what-- [He lets it go. It's not that important right now. He plucks a ladle away from Caren.] It sounds as though they avoided the consequences of full moons without Bonds, but still engaging with one another.

[Prompto is just gonna ignore all that going on in the background. This is important. And also Ozy can handle Caren better than he can, let’s be real.]

They also told Caren about where Monsters and Witches came from, according to Dorchacht's lore, and what the Cwyld is...sort of. At least why it's a thing.

It's different from what they tell us here. According to their story, the Sisters freed the monsters from the True Fae and...Ozymandias! Don't put my knives there!

[And there she goes, back into the background. Specifically, onto the counter to save her knives. Her efforts are near-immediately spoiled as Ozymandias loops an arm around her middle and tosses her over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes.]

You're only going to confuse everyone worrying about something like that right now. If you’re not going to rest, at least focus. [He brings Caren back into view, setting her down, but keeping a firm arm wrapped around her. It would probably be a very nice hug under other circumstances.] What Caren was trying to say is that the True Fae then angered the Sisters by teaching humans magic. Thus, they created the Cwyld as punishment for their insolence.

Prompto, I trust you can manage from here. I'm going to remove the temptation to continue trying to cook.


[He barely waits for an answer before opting this time to at least princess carry Caren.

Prompto, meanwhile, stares in utter bafflement as they go off because that sure is a Witch princess carrying a freaking Chimera. Just for a moment, though, before he turns back to the watch.]


Yeah, what Ozy said. Anyway, uh. That was a lot, but there were other things Caren’s contact mentioned, but this is already pretty nuts so...any questions?

[[Prompto, Ozymandias, Caren. All three are available for questions!]]
showsnopiety: (pray to your)

[personal profile] showsnopiety 2020-02-09 05:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Prompto, please don't confuse the nice man. He just got here.

[To lan wangji:]

I assume it was to kill the True Fae. From the dreams we had, True Fae bred monsters like another would dogs.
taciturnly: (i hate to kill you)

[personal profile] taciturnly 2020-02-09 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
( so. pets? like rabbits. assuming that both the sisters and the true fae are considered “gods”, power seems to be at the core of their quarrel. isn’t it always? lan wangji, technically, was well on his way to immortality before he landed here and when it comes to power, corruption doesn’t give a damn whether you’re mortal or immortal.

neither does common sense, apparently.

lan wangji sighs deeply, soundlessly, addressing everyone. )
Then they must be incapacitated. ( not killed, mind you. that’s a last resort thing, and he’s well aware that they might not have the necessary strength to accomplish such a feat. yet. )
Edited (english pls) 2020-02-09 17:58 (UTC)
taciturnly: (sell crazy someplace else)

[personal profile] taciturnly 2020-02-09 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
And the Sisters?
showsnopiety: (broken down)

[personal profile] showsnopiety 2020-02-09 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
It was the first time that I heard the Sisters being referred to in this manner.

It's my fault for not getting a clarification. My apologies. I can try to ask for what they meant later, possibly next month.
taciturnly: (he's hot when he's blindfolded)

[personal profile] taciturnly 2020-02-09 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
( if cultivation was a thing here, if he still had his golden core, things might be different, but the laws of aefenglom and his homeworld simply don’t seem to align. still, he knows monsters. real ones, demons and corpses and strange afflictions, as well as darker methods. nothing’s impossible, and his knowledge, however impractical here, can certainly serve as a canvas for what he’ll learn here.

so he’s just. going to mull this all over. find a library and read. and investigate.

have a few seconds of silence as lan wangji’s eyes drift downward, a polite bow of his head. )
taciturnly: (they call it a royale with cheese)

[personal profile] taciturnly 2020-02-09 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
( it’s definitely a start, if nothing else. so lan wangji nods slowly, addressing both the young man and the young woman. ) No need to apologize.
taciturnly: (gonna take my p/a ass elsewhere)

[personal profile] taciturnly 2020-02-09 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Mn.

( he does have more questions, especially regarding monsters, considering how his... closest confident here is one. he just needs to make sense out of what he's just been told, and honestly, it's a wonder he's managed to ask as many as he already has. dire times call for dire measures, and all that.

so he bows, fully this time, a way to thank him with his hands clasped in front of him... which might look a little weird from the watch but hey, it's the thought that counts. )