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. )
reparo: (flight)

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[personal profile] reparo 2021-10-06 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not work - I'm just trying to not say awkward things!
weifinder: (srs | of a hole he's made)

[personal profile] weifinder 2021-10-06 09:56 pm (UTC)(link)
Shouldn't is a nice sentiment.

Shouldn't isn't strong enough, but yes, it is nice. We do what we can do it does not pass.
reparo: (ancient runes)

[personal profile] reparo 2021-10-06 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
A spell would thaw the frozen field.
downswing: (survive)

[personal profile] downswing 2021-10-06 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
( Demanding. )

I know the work.
bearshermark: credit: <user name="morninglight"> (contemplative)

[personal profile] bearshermark 2021-10-06 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[A pause, considering what he knows of undead warlords. He'd assumed, but after a moment's review-]

More or less, from my understanding.
weifinder: (caught | the safest place to be)

[personal profile] weifinder 2021-10-06 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Then we would sell to Anurr, because this city already sells itself to the rest of the undead, knowing and otherwise.

Or we grant them all final peace. So many fewer swords aimed at everyone's back.
reparo: (defense against the dark arts)

[personal profile] reparo 2021-10-06 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I mean - nice sentiment is as frank as I've been lead to believe I can be on these channels, but yes - we do what we can.

[briiiiiiiiiiiiiefest pause.] I'm grateful you replied to explain. Having only recently "arrived" [literally air quotes as she speaks] myself, that was a shock.
weifinder: (profile | i've made my decision)

[personal profile] weifinder 2021-10-06 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Wonderful. I'll return to my charms until then.
weifinder: (hurting | and fight for a change)

[personal profile] weifinder 2021-10-06 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't claim it right. Lan Zhan doesn't speak incorrectly, to say that a people asking for their own should be allowed their handling. In a better world. Where burials and grief are open and full bodied.
downswing: (interim)

[personal profile] downswing 2021-10-06 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I am not your enemy.
in_theworks: (pic#13877373)

[personal profile] in_theworks 2021-10-06 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Did. Cool.

Okay, okay, uh. I don't suppose you have -- [think, Wrench. you know what's in gunpowder] -- charcoal, sulfer, annnnnnnd saltpeter! Saltpeter handy!
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reparo: (care of magical creatures)

[personal profile] reparo 2021-10-06 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
It wouldn't destroy nature, I said thaw, not burn it to the ground. Besides, what is the point of working a frozen field? What crop would grow from ice?
reparo: (s.p.e.w.)

[personal profile] reparo 2021-10-06 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
That's so much worse than what I was picturing.
weifinder: (ahaha... | next to me)

i cry at phone typing errors

[personal profile] weifinder 2021-10-06 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
There's enough that's happened it gets... confusing. You're welcome. Anurr has been quiet for two months, but I find no surprise in hearing from him now, on this, over our "private" communications.

( aka, something to keep in mind. )
in_theworks: (pic#13877372)

[personal profile] in_theworks 2021-10-06 10:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Look, you wanna blow up the BBEG or not?
jeoha: (pic#14129408)

un: azure stream

[personal profile] jeoha 2021-10-06 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Experience and wisdom speak to advantage, and in this arena you offer more than we would otherwise have. Hence his questions.

We are not of this world and our feelings on the undead are likewise shifted. Yours align far more closely with the rest of your people's, one would assume.
weifinder: (listen | the sound of silence)

[personal profile] weifinder 2021-10-06 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh no, Karsa. Whatever fool I am, it's not that kind.
reparo: (care of magical creatures)

[personal profile] reparo 2021-10-06 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh for the love of - I'm not the one you need to be fighting right now, am I? You don't know how full my belly is or how much hardship I've encountered until now.

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