video | un: daerienn

[violetchaos]

[ it takes some time, but eventually Yennefer figures out how to use the widget she was given and starts a connection, which she wouldn't bother with if she hadn't experienced what she did with Eleven and Moiraine. so, she had some questions for the rest of the group.

unfortunately, she's all business and foregoes any proper introduction to those she has not yet had the privilege of meeting yet. ]

I'd start this out by asking if anyone has done any dream walking lately, but I think it only adds to the mounting list of fucked up things that have already been going on. So, I'll just ask if anyone has been lured up to the 11th floor by our strange and fatuous host and if so, what their experience was like.

[ That seems the best way to open things up. The conversation might not be received as well if she starts with informing everyone that her and her companions have done the reasonable thing by killing the twenty people sleeping on the 11th floor. ]




(network is part of yennefer, eleven and moiraine's plot roll. )

Comments

text; un: Black Prince

[blackscales]

Lured?

You did not enter under your own power?

[violetchaos]

We did. He spoke of needing help and led us up and through a locked door.

Did he ask you for help, as well?

[blackscales]

He did not. I entered under my own power.

[ Curiosity! ]

What did he require help with?

[violetchaos]

How did you get past the hand ... thing? Zenobius pressed his hand to it and it unlocked the door.

[ she'll get to his question in a second. ]

[blackscales]

The sign asks what you wish for. The door appears to unlock if you state a wish. As with all wish-based things, I would not put a great deal of trust in it.

text | un:thewrench

[in_theworks]

Lured? No. WENT? Yepppp.

[he willingly went to the 11th floor, because he's nosy as fuck. the fact that he got a free wish out of it that turned out -- mostly okay was just icing on the cake]

It was like walking into a coma ward.

[violetchaos]

Is that all you saw? Just ten unconscious men and women?

[ she's hoping to hear about his experience. ]

[in_theworks]

Yeah?

I mean, they looked a little beat up? And one of the other guys suggested that, like, maybe the undead got to them and drained all their energy?

Buuttt ...

[can you hear the shrug?]

Why?

[violetchaos]

Yes, I got the impression from what I saw that a party had gone bad. They'd been attacked by, I don't know, perhaps the mermaids.

It almost felt as if they were set up somehow. Betrayed.

[in_theworks]

Considering everything has been all ~court intrigue~ since I showed up here, that really wouldn't surprise me.

[dinner party betrayals are what rich people do, right?]

But how? Like, did someone let the mermaids crash the party? Or did they lure whoever out onto the beach and they got jumped there? Or ... ?

[he has many questions -- and possibly some speculation, depending on what Yennefer tells him]

un: absterge

[downswing]

First, he lured vessels to doom.

Now... he invites people to quarters?

[violetchaos]

What do you mean he lured vessels to doom?

[ she's still new to this whole... mess ]

[downswing]

He signalled forth the refugees of a distressed vessel.

Sirens awaited them closer to land.

[violetchaos]

Do you think he did that on purpose? Maybe as a sort of sacrifice? I immediately felt he shouldn't be trusted.

[ But she wanted to know what was beyond that 11th-floor door. ]

[downswing]

Instinct alone led you?

hope this threadjack is okay!

[chosenbylight]

[As Resident Good Boy, Anduin feels as though he must step in and intervene here at least a little.]

I do not think that our friend here paints exactly the fairest picture of Zenobius' motivations, that day.

There was a storm, out on the sea. A ship was in distress. He used the mirrors, up on the 12th floor, to signal them to shore. Unfortunately the light of the beacon caught the attention of a swarm of mermaids as well.

He did seem genuinely relieved to discover we had not allowed these men to perish with the others.

[...oops.]

text; un: stormborn

[thebrideoffire]

What is dream walking exactly?

I have not seen the 11th floor. What did you find?

[violetchaos]

As it sounds, really. Walking in dreams. Most of the time in someone else's.

I advise staying away from it then.

[ That doesn't answer her question of what she found but maybe the warning would elude to finding something that wasn't too pleasant. ]

[thebrideoffire]

What is it that's on the 11th floor?

[Like anyone, if she was told to stay away from something, that made her all the more curious.]

What happens if you walk in someone's dream?

[violetchaos]

There is a group of ten people, both men and women, who have been in a forced sleep for an unknown amount of time. They cannot awake on their own.

As for what happens if you dreamwalk, it depends. I know where I'm from that it be extremely hard to get out of the dream. Here, at least, there was a way out.

[thebrideoffire]

Do you think they can be woken up? What happens if they are? Would their minds be...the same?

What else happens where you're from? Can you travel across all sorts of dreams and nightmares?

action; closed to Kaneki

[violetchaos]

[ At first, her thoughts are so deeply involved in what has been going on over the last several days to notice a recurring presence every time she looks beyond what is immediately in front of her. That presence was in the form of a person and one that Yennefer first notes visually while looking over a balcony railing.

As the day wears on, it seems to happen more often, enough for her to be able to pick him out quickly among a scattering of people. If she spots him when he's closer in proximity, he carries a box. And if he looks her way, something unfortunate always seems to happen to her.

Yes, very curious, indeed.

On her way down to the ground floor from the eighth, where she was staying in a room, Yennefer was focused on returning to Ellethia-Allayar when her eyes settled on the same seemingly young man and she lost her footing and tumbled down to where he stood. ]

Fuck.

[enucleation]

[ Unlike Yennefer who had been distracted by her own thoughts, Kaneki is very much aware of how many times he had seen the woman by now. It's true they are stuck in the same lighthouse and it's true they are bound to see the same person from time to time - they are a group, after all, and there aren't that many of them - yet the amount of times Yennefer has crossed Kaneki's path has led him to become awfully aware of her.

And the more he notices, more often he sees her.

Naturally his paranoia eats at him, wondering what she wants, what she knows. Why she is always crossing his path and what she hopes to gain from it. Does she want the box, does she want something else?

Eventually, as destiny so wanted, the two meet face to face. kaneki is finally ready to ask her what she wants, but before he is able to do so, Yennefer falls. Instinctively he reaches for her, to hold her so she won't fall down the stairs ] Careful --

Are you alright? [ despite his paranoia, Kaneki still wouldn't let her just fall ]

[violetchaos]

[ It was an accident that doesn't happen often, she's far too sure in her steps to let something so careless happen. But, here she is, stumbling into him in such a way that it almost seemed planned, even though it definitely was not.

Yennefer lets out an unladylike curse while trying to regain her footing and straighten again with his help. ]

I'm fine, yes. [ though her amour-propre did take a direct hit. ] That might have ended horribly had you not stepped up. So, thank you.

[enucleation]

[ in Kaneki's mind, it's all very planned. He tries to be careful with what he shows to others and will not immediately bring out the fact that she seems to be everywhere he is (not yet), but he is far too paranoid to think this is all a coincidence

He allows Yennefer to stand and offers her a small smile afterwards ]

This whole place feels like an accident waiting to happen. [ no one has died (again, not yet) and that is surprising given how the place is ]

I have seen you around, but I don't think we have personally met before. I'm Kaneki.