aprescoup: (karsa)
destination: still east ([personal profile] aprescoup) wrote in [community profile] eastbound2021-10-06 09:57 pm

username: lady of the willow tree | audio

( She has long suffered, her great sigh speaks, every fool that's walked this world. ) ...you took more dead. Why are you like this? You want friends? I buy you friends. Three for five coin pieces, at the market. You are ugly, maybe I pay seven. And you are fools! No one likes you. I pay nine.

Pah! What is your luck? What is my luck? These other clapping seals in their little frills, with their little cakes and their little cups, they are playing their little games. And they come to me with messages. I I have the look of a saint now, who delivers word. How fortunate Karsa is. How grateful.

Look here. Pay attention. ( She spits out the words: ) First come the beggars, the Bessis. What is their puny fire worth now? I breathe hotter each morning. They ask for their captives, to hide their shame. Imagine! You kill, and you kill, and you kill, and then you keep your dead 'allies' like vermin, and it is not good, when you are found out. Who could have thought?

( And softer: ) The others. The Attaryl, for whom speaks the red woman, Vannozza. They want their dead. For burial. Ha! As if she will not use them to say, looooooooooooook! Look what my cousin's good friends! Look. But the witches... these are their dead.

So, talk, choose, and — ( The transmission seems to flicker, her voice first feeble, then doubled, then she shrieks: ) No. No. You do not dare, you do not presume, you do not, you fur-clad pink pig, you do not dare

( But Karsa falls silent. To a quiet backdrop, broken only by a rhythmic drip, speaks undead Lord Anurr of Sa-Hareth — who has not been seen since arriving in Sa-Hareth. He seems to borrow the voices of multiple men, women and children, never settling on the one: )

H elLo   Li TtlE   FrIenD S. HoW   Ha VE   YoU   Be EN?   GoOD?   Yo U   ArE   Go OD   peOPlE.

Go oD   ThIn Gs   SHOUl D   HaPpE N   T o   GoOd   Peop Le.   And   GoO D   EnDing S   to   Th Ose   Who   HAV e   SuF f e Red   LoN G.

N o?   Y E s.

And   Th E y   havE SuFFer Ed,   ThEse   AtTa ryL.   An D   N oW   ThEY WoU l D   Be   Use D   aGA in?

No.   So   Man Y   BuRNs. So   ManY   WA I Ls.   I heAR   ThE M   FroM   HerE.

GiVE   Them   To   ME.   Th E Y   Will   Be   O U R   BrothER s   In   SA-HARE Th.   Fr E e.

( As quickly as Anurr interrupted, his voice disappears. A long heartbeat's silence. By the time Karsa recovers command of her own transmission sorcery, she is quieter for it, rattled. )

You... that. That disgusting creature. That... well. Well, you heard him, didn't you? You heard him. Tell me what you wish done. You cannot have it all ways. Only one answer.

( ooc: the floor is yours, threadjack away, debate the fate of the six undead claimed in the Bessis tower disaster, plus the three previously weaponised by Wei Wuxian. Characters with 'ownership' of the dead get final say — please state it! All the undead will go to the petitioner with the highest number of votes. Haltham Anurr will not be answering any comments. )
gladiokinesis: (Default)

[personal profile] gladiokinesis 2021-10-14 09:06 am (UTC)(link)

Are you saying it would be less weird if the chicken was revived in the stew? No offense lady, but you're talking in riddles.

paperbutterflies: (Consider)

[personal profile] paperbutterflies 2021-10-14 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
Mmm. Maybe. Then I will be ready for them.

That said... What do you wish about us who have arrived so? To stay and do something, or to go?
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[personal profile] scrapgege 2021-10-14 02:30 pm (UTC)(link)
No! I mean, I asked a question, but if you don't want to answer, I'm not going to keep prying or anything like that.
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[personal profile] in_theworks 2021-10-14 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ... ... ]

Wouldn't it have been neater to just put them out of their misery?

[wouldn't it have been kinder, to let the dead rest finally?]
paperbutterflies: (Consider)

[personal profile] paperbutterflies 2021-10-14 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm... what do you find of value, then? I think that might be different depending on who is answering.
weifinder: (listen | the sound of silence)

[personal profile] weifinder 2021-10-15 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
On the mistaken belief that there was time to do much of anything but react and pull out of the situations we were in at the time. No, I wouldn't have been capable at that moment.
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[personal profile] in_theworks 2021-10-15 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. [yeah, okay, that makes a little more sense, but] But you're not in that situation now. [but what's stopping him from putting them out of their misery now?]
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[personal profile] in_theworks 2021-10-15 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[there's a long pause, before ... ]

On a scale from, like, one to ten, how likely am I to end up a zombie, when I get killed in this fuckery?
weifinder: (carried | i know how hard it is)

[personal profile] weifinder 2021-10-15 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Which is why, as we're having these conversations, I'm stating my own leanings. I've been studying these women, what they've endured lingers on them for what, a century? For a long, long time. Their existence is pain, or a tool that feels pain and delivers it. That's not living, from what I'd call of it.
valeas: (☾ r i m o r s o)

[personal profile] valeas 2021-10-16 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
I understand, and I hope you don't feel pressured to yield any results.

I also realize this is far from my area of expertise, but if may lend you assistance, know that I would offer it. ( it would no longer be the first time she dabbled in a darker pursuit, at least. )
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[personal profile] inferus 2021-10-16 12:46 am (UTC)(link)
A useful skill, especially given the danger this group often faces including accidental poisonings. His "offer" colored my view of him for the worse.

You have an afterlife in your world to send them on to, or is it simply allowing them to rest? I've no sense of any afterlife in this world, but there is a great deal about this world I am unfamiliar with.
( his powers do not work in the same way )
soulsrob: (I watched a rosebud very long)

[personal profile] soulsrob 2021-10-16 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
I suppose I could darn a sock if pressed to do so! Are there many socks in need of mending around here?

[She smiles though, amused above all else]

I feel like there are many things who need it, but socks hardly count among them.
weifinder: (ask | the endless of darkness)

[personal profile] weifinder 2021-10-16 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
I can try, and see where we go. As Karsa says, I do not like him, 'our Anurr.' Not that like or dislike need enter into any equation.
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[personal profile] valeas 2021-10-16 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
If you were to place your dislike aside, would you arrive to the same conclusion?

( her own inclination, newer though she may be to the group, is to give anurr nothing. )
weifinder: (patriarch | i walk)

[personal profile] weifinder 2021-10-16 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
Yes.
weifinder: (ask | a battle for gold)

[personal profile] weifinder 2021-10-16 06:53 am (UTC)(link)
I wonder at times if his nature is not one that... is easier for his allies to predict.

Ah, not strictly so, more a concept of reincarnation spirits enter into, or are sundered away from. Here things operate differently, but to which extents, I don't know; information conflicts, as I imagine isn't a surprise, and most go to philosophy, not much conceptual fact.
soulsrob: (What will I be?)

[personal profile] soulsrob 2021-10-16 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you have a plan for that?
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[personal profile] soulsrob 2021-10-16 11:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, if you want something done right...
soulsrob: (Brought on by dew and sun and shower)

[personal profile] soulsrob 2021-10-17 12:00 am (UTC)(link)
Will that make you feel better? Killing me, specifically?

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