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eastbound2022-02-09 06:30 pm
- dragon quest xi s: eleven,
- kingdom of the wicked: wrath,
- mo dao zu shi: xiao xingchen,
- npc,
- npc: the merchant,
- oh! my emperor: beitang moran,
- persona 5: akira,
- star wars: slick,
- threadjack away,
- tian guan ci fu: xie lian,
- umbrella academy: five,
- warcraft: anduin wrynn,
- warcraft: wrathion,
- witcher: yennefer
audio | username: raven master
( Some might recognise the calm, glacial voice. Others might despise it. ) Good afternoon. For those whose acquaintance I have failed to make already: I am the Merchant.
It seems several of you have misunderstood your remit. You were sent to the ruins of Ellethia to grasp the stakes of our enterprise, and why your role in ensuring there is no repetition of this catastrophe is critical. You were assigned in hopes that next you are told those who willingly inflict the dead upon innocents deserve retaliation, you will heed your instruction.
Instead, you have opted to meddle. It is in your natures. I have come to accept it. But there are lines that should not be crossed — ones you have trampled with impunity.
( A pause, while he collects himself. ) Our associate Enam informs me that you have taken it upon yourselves to terminate the lives of the... sleeping tower dwellers. without cause, remit or invitation. Perhaps slaughter is commonplace in your homelands. I have clearly miscalculated your appetite for bloodshed.
No matter. You have killed good men and women. Ensure that you dispose of their bodies at sea, before the cycles of the land inevitably wake them. I trust, seeing as you had no qualms in ending their lives, you will be equal to the task of disposing them.
I expect our friend Zenobius will now have to seek out an alternative to his life's work. A pity.
( Silence, as if the Merchant might have neglected to end his communication. When he speaks, it's deeper, forcibly collected: ) Should that happen, seek out stored supplies, forage and maintain the wells. Your ship arrives within days. I bid you well on the next leg of your journey.
( ooc: in response to Moiraine, Eleven and Yennefer's decision to euthanise the Sleepers: on 11 February, characters may notice Zenobius is no where to be found. Characters can find him in a deep sleep akin to that of the Sleepers, at the bottom of one of the semi-dried wells previously inspected by Kaneki and John Connor.
Over 11-13 February, characters may notice the garden legumes and food supplies stop replenishing. They may have to leave the lighthouse to hunt for their sustenance. Water can still be procured from wells.
The voices and echoes that haunt the lighthouse become even more vocal, if not yet more violent.
The ship arrives to collect to group on 14 February. )
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You're right, I would not know. But someone who would hear that plea and believe it, can you truly put the blame solely on them, when you sent us here without explaining really what happened here?
Several times before we have been put in this position of having to end lives, purely because the people they belonged to wished it so. What would make it alright then, and not now? Why were those people different?
What happened to time here?
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I know often what is reported to me. I do not even know who committed the murder. Enam and his associates did not witness and could not communicate.
But, seeing as no other human hands but those of your group exist, I can deduce.
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I know it was people from our group who did it. I just think they truly believed they were doing the right thing and bringing a merciful end to people who were suffering and asked them for help.
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You're angry, and sad. So you're lashing out, and it's easier to blame it all on us, isn't it? Because how else would you live with yourself if you didn't?
[He's not even trying to be intentionally cruel here, but really, it doesn't take a genius to see that this goes both ways.]
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I am telling you: dispose of the bodies.
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... But there were some bodies that came out of the water. Is putting them out there really enough to make sure they won't wake?
Sorry, I might be asking too many questions again. I'm just not quite sure anything is actually dead here. It all feels so weird.
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I'll tell the others of the option, at least. Now that this has been done, they should at least get the assurance they will rest in peace once and for all.
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Better the sea. Even you can roll flesh into water. Or perhaps you might on the way into the sea trip on a knife and fly it all the way into good Zenobius' heart, as you pass by.
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It's easy enough to preserve a corpse with talismans. I am more concerned about whether or not the people manning the ship will agree to transport them or not. We can't make them if they don't want to.
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