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. )
jinzhong: (Hold up // monkeysbananas)

un: golden koi boi ; audio

[personal profile] jinzhong 2021-10-06 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Hey! I didn't want to show up dead!
weifinder: (patriarch | i walk)

un: chenqing

[personal profile] weifinder 2021-10-06 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Final death. Full spirit release.
downswing: (dandelion)

un: absterge

[personal profile] downswing 2021-10-06 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
They have a tribe. A people.
weifinder: (ask | where shadows hide)

[personal profile] weifinder 2021-10-06 09:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Is there no point where the dead have suffered enough for the machinations of the living?

( we're ignoring anurr, who is collective dead nonsense with his very own loving agenda of

being an undead overlord

he also sneezes. and coughs a moment later.
)
weifinder: (calm | as i walk)

[personal profile] weifinder 2021-10-06 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
And will that people give them rest, or make of them further tools for destruction, political or physical?
binghua: (16)

un: daozhang | audio

[personal profile] binghua 2021-10-06 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Put them to rest. Their lives are finished. No one else should have them, no matter what freedoms they promise.
downswing: (tide will break)

[personal profile] downswing 2021-10-06 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Would you not wish returned to your own?
reparo: (herbology)

un: man's greatest treasure; audio

[personal profile] reparo 2021-10-06 09:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[rattled - rattled and unsettled and it shows. audibly.]

What...was that? Who was that?
binghua: (27)

[personal profile] binghua 2021-10-06 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
I know the dead do not need to suffer even more than they already have. My tears make no difference.
reparo: (s.p.e.w.)

audio

[personal profile] reparo 2021-10-06 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I heard a lot of voices - dissonant - and it sounded terrible.

[Some Dark Lord bullshit right there.]
Edited (HABIT) 2021-10-06 21:31 (UTC)
weifinder: (ask | the endless of darkness)

un: chenqing

[personal profile] weifinder 2021-10-06 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Anurr, who was friendlier when pretending to be Haltham some months back when a number of us first find ourselves in Sa-Hareth. He's an undead lord, just not one of the brothers of Unhalad's, taking over the other citadels across these regions.
weifinder: (ffs | like a bird on the wire)

[personal profile] weifinder 2021-10-06 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
And you helped advocate for and was aided in seeing a slaver ship set alight.

What calculated benefit are you seeing here, Karsa.
bearshermark: credit: <user name="morninglight"> (suss)

[un: sprite bulb] voice;

[personal profile] bearshermark 2021-10-06 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
In short, no one worth listening to.
binghua: (25)

[personal profile] binghua 2021-10-06 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
If my sin is to have a heart when no one else will dare, then call me an evil-doer.
reparo: (care of magical creatures)

:D :D :D yes

[personal profile] reparo 2021-10-06 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, grand. And I suppose he didn't get that monicker because he's trying to establish a feudal village populated by the risen dead where he is lord, did he?
reparo: (care of magical creatures)

[personal profile] reparo 2021-10-06 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
...I beg your pardon?

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