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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!]]

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They were a little more real then we expected.

[A grimace, then:]

Before, we had dreams where we were more or less the only ones. This wasn't true in this dream-what we called the Black City. It was...horrid, especially for monsters.

Which caused us, in our anger, to lash out, and kill some of the people in the dream. And that's when the witch in charge, Morgana, came to let us know that we had put some of her people in a coma.

And that is how we found out it was a real city, not simply a possible future, or something from the past.

[Yeah, he can see how that would've gone pear-shaped very quickly.] So that's the only time it's been something from the present? I guess I should be happier nobody managed to pick a fight with the true fae, then, something might've gotten messed up.

[If things from dreams of the present could affect reality, he feels like it'd be more likely to also happen with dreams of the past than future. But then, this kind of thinking is still pretty confusing.] ...What were they actually doing to the monsters? I heard things got bad here last month, but I haven't heard much about anything before that.

It was still worse then what it was, but otherwise- the only present dream we know of.

[The question has her sigh, and close her eyes briefly.]

They took away their minds and wills. They used collars, the bright wall to ensure that they would have the compulsion to obey any witch- and all humans were witches.

They harvested without consent. They breed monsters like cattle, and separated children from their parents at age four- when you could see what monster traits set in.

They also were making a monster army. They also had them fight in the pits.

[There's a bit of a weighty pause after she explains that, because...yeah, Momo can see why people lashed out getting thrown into the middle of all that.]

That's... [Screwed up? Unimaginably cruel? It's hard to find words that cover it, so he just lets out a hefty hiss though his teeth.] Honestly, it sounds like a worse evolution of what the true fae were doing in that dream. They had the pits and the selective breeding already, and enslaving people without the mind control. I have to wonder if that's where they got their ideas from.

[Though apparently they weren't listening to the story too well if a higher power had to intervene last time and ultimately led to all this Cwyld business.]

Some things may have come in a complete and full circle.

We did find out about a rebellion. So, when we were invited to the city by Morgana, many people who decided to go made contact.

And many more decided to help the rebellion in various ways, ending in a riot a few days before their departure.

Yeah, I'm not surprised things got to that point. I can't imagine wanting to leave that place how it was when you arrived. [Momo knows from experience that starting uprisings effectively can be hard, so at least it didn't totally fail.]

So did they overthrow the system? Is that why you're just now getting this new information?

Some of us wanted to stay, but we also had people we smuggled with us onto the boats, so we couldn't stay.

They did, and we learned that it was a success last month. That's when I was able to go back.

Well, if it worked in the end, then that's good. [For what sounds like a fairly quickly formed alliance, it sounds like it went about as well as it could have gone in terms of actually initiating change.] Did you visit for this kind of information or just to see how things were going?

Neither.

I was conducting lessons and baking pastries for the Council, at their request.

...They invited you to bake pastries after a situation like that?

[He sounds kind of bemused, because the lessons part of that makes sense, but pastries weren't the follow-up he was expecting.]

I approached them with pastries I had made that morning when the Dorchact Council came to visit.

It felt like the polite thing to do, and when I offered to make more they accepted.

Fair enough. It seemed kind of a non-sequitur for a second there. [Momo's thinking in comedic terms there, honestly.]

Anyway, thanks for your work in getting the new information. It sounds like it'll come in handy, even if we're not completely sure what the story is just yet.

Forgive me, I should have explained.

But yes, I was glad to provide. And I hope this elicts interest and excitement of the world we're in.

Well, it's definitely got me curious as someone who only just got here, so it was good to talk to you...Caren, right? It seems like you've got a lot of other answers to deal with, so I'll let you get on with it.

[He's gotten answers to most of his relevant questions by this point, and he'll probably listen and read through the others later on.]

Yes, it's Caren. Have a pleasant day, and please.

Take care.

[He's gonna see some sassss.]

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