audio | un: wei laozu

[weifinder]

Master Zenobius was recovered from where he'd collapsed in a dry well. We have him resting and sleeping safely now, to those who may be concerned.

Ah, and for those of a mind for it, several... memories of his were shared in not entirely useful ways with me. I'll run through them for those wishing to hear about them, if there are any of you. After answering initial questions, ah?

( ooc: first comment will be wei wuxian's sharing of what he learned via Empathy, please go "..." and yell at him, Jiang Cheng or Lan Sizhui, or Wen Qing on principle. )

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memory sharing thread

[weifinder]

As for what of Master Zenobius' remembrances I gleaned, it was something... as follows. Half is nonsense, but memory's like that, isn't it?

( he goes through this list in order for the most part and sticks pretty close to what's described there. )

Thoughts?

audio; un: sizhui

[paperbutterflies]

We really need to be careful with mirrors? Something I believe we already knew, but...

[ ... he's usually not likely to yell, but he is paying attention. ]

[weifinder]

Mm, mirrors made here. Or at minimum, the one.

[beitangmoran]

This only seems to bring more questions that were starting to come to me following some recent discoveries.

Namely, who made these mirrors? Everything we seem to have found out so far implies they didn't make them, but find them. So where are they from? How did some of these make their ways all the way to Sa-Hareth? And will we find more as we go?

[weifinder]

Correct to ask, and correct to wonder. I have the sense that they were trying to awaken or activate a mirror, only it didn't go as hoped or planned. The magic involved, yes, changes things? Calls to things. Yet where did they originally find themselves buried?

un: moonage daydream (audio)

[lancifolium]

Again, mirrors play a part. It's clear that we need to learn more about how these mirrors were made or otherwise enchanted.

[weifinder]

Perhaps even more immediately, how to seal them.

un: white pawn; audio

[chosenbylight]

[Although you cannot see it, Anduin frowns (it feels as though he is always frowning these days, the expression on his face sad and concerned. It feels... Strange, to have himself featured among this list. Though he is grateful to have been able to be there for him, for whatever time he could.]

This poor man.

Did you know, he told me he could not remember how long he had worked in this place. I thought he meant he did not know. But now I think it may simply have been so long...

[weifinder]

I'm certain we could ask Master Scorpion to know how long the time has spanned. If he chose to answer.

In the meantime, what we can do is provide for a man who returned to the well he was once thrust into by the hands of one he trusted. Or looked up to, or whatever nuances were between him and Master Matthias.

un: ut malum pluvia | audio

[somebadnews]

[ He's talking about mirrors, so of course Five is listening. Here they are, a place where they studied them exclusively, and he still has only picked up fragments of information here and there. The only time he thought he was onto something was when he was being magically compelled and subsequently started to lose his own memories.

So it's not really any wonder that he's stuck on one thing before he gets into what he saw. ]

How did you manage that?

[weifinder]

With great difficulty.

( come ask in person, young old man. )

audio; un: qishan

[silverneedles]

Was that wise?

[weifinder]

I don't know that there's ever an application of such that can be claimed as wise, only different degrees of necessarily informative...

audio; un: heavenly four seasons

[eternallywandering]

I don't fear so much what is seen in the mirrors. Since they can shift their properties - from glass to liquid - I think it best not to touch them. However, what bothers me is who might be watching from the other side?

[weifinder]

Singular who, or plural. Or where that other side is: what is on that side, watching or otherwise.

Though what do you mean, about shifting glass to liquid?

un: absterge

[downswing]

Sit. Rest.

[weifinder]

I will, I will. You?

[downswing]

Not he who dared empathy.

audio; un: qishan

[silverneedles]

For any who are curious, Zenobius is physically fine. His bruises will heal in a few days.

[weifinder]

Thank you for announcing as much, Wen Qing.

[downswing]

Mistress Wen honours her craft. Signals of violence?

[inferus]

( Wrath has avoided much involvement within the Lighthouse itself given what he sensed about it- the compulsion magic, the fractured nature of it all. Still. )

He was collapsed within a well?

[weifinder]

Mm, within a dry well, one that I believe featured in those memories I did likewise see.

audio; un: heavenly four seasons

[eternallywandering]

Thank you for rescuing him. I want to think the best about him, but this feels like a trap.

Be cautious.

[weifinder]

I am, but do you have specific cautions you believe I should hold? He is much like the sleepers I didn't myself have chance to see.

( because he wasn't making wishes to go through a door, due to everything else he'd been busy with. one bad idea theatre avoided mostly by circumstance and chance. )