un: man's greatest treasure (video)

[reparo]

[-- a scramble of images: sky, trees, rooftops. And noise: flapping of wings, birds cawing, and in the distance, for those who recognise her voice, Hermione Granger yelling-]

Give that back! I don't want to hurt y - ow, you little - Accio communicator.

[Whatever projects image with the communication talismans/crystals/what-have-you goes decidedly zoooom as it gets yanked, bird holding it in its beak and all, back into Hermione's outstretched hand. She wrestles it out of the beak, and sends the mad bird flying with a shielding spell, on camera.

Then finally, harried and disheveled, her face appears in the video in full glory: the scratches at the edge of her face, and neck, and the mad look. It melts into concern, when she notices the device is transmitting.]

Oh - balls. [A sigh.] There's something wrong with the birds. They've been attacking all morning - and no, these aren't mine. I've seen farmers try to chase them from the crops, so everyone please be aware.

[ooc; LET'S GO PLOT, LET'S GO.]

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[silverneedles]

Yes, of course. Send it to me and I will read.

[reparo]

Yes - good, thank you, Lady Wen Qing. I appreciate this. I have also been trying to create a badge. I want to - I'm going to show the women of this village how to recognise poisoned or tampered with face paints, and food.

I thought maybe badges would make their support more subtly known? I call the attempt Women Against Poison - or W.A.P.

It's as much as I've come up with to deal with atoning for my "ancestor".

[silverneedles]

Women Against Poison. Have you discovered many poisoned face paints? I have not inspected any I've picked up but I have yet to use any, as well.

What was the cause of your ancestor's curse?

[reparo]

[well, about that.]

She poisoned the face paints she gifted to other women, and left them scarred

[silverneedles]

Your solution is sensible, then. Do you mean to encourage the women to not poison the face paints, as well?

[reparo]

I sure hope so, because prior to the birds attacking, I'd been handing them out to the ladies. I hope they take the time to read those...

But to answer your question, I encourage them to not poison, definitely. I also point out that any husband who shuns you because your face is covered in pockmarks is a man worth throwing in the bin.

[silverneedles]

A very radical concept for many of these women but a worthy one.

[reparo]

If we're going to leave fires wherever we go, some of them might as well be the fires of feminist empowerment.

[silverneedles]

Feminist empowerment? Is your W.A.P part of that?

[reparo]

It definitely follows the principles of it, at least. I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't point out to the women of the village that their catty behaviour to each other is the very tool that keeps them under the thumb of their spouses and fathers.