aprescoup: (haltham)
destination: still east ([personal profile] aprescoup) wrote in [community profile] eastbound2022-03-29 07:41 pm

video | un: haltham


( Friends, family, travellers: you might remember this friendly speaker, eyes bright and wild while blood's drenched the better half of his grinning face. )

Hello? This is Haaaaaaltham. How do you do? Me... I'm — ( The pendant briefly slips from his hands, showing glimpses of Haltham and a rolling, feral dead creature he subdues with a final snap of its neck. Patiently, after recovering the pendant: ) Fine. You, um... you're fine, yeah? Also? You're good people. Good people.

So I told m'friend, I told her... said, me, these are good people, and they will help you. ( Another pause, as a rabid goat jumps over Haltham's head to crush a dead man. Behind him, rows of burning homes distinctly different from the snowed-under peaks of Haltham's native Sa-Hareth. ) Goat says hi. Good goat.

Now... now, my friend, yeah? She's... last we met, she wasn't that, she was... riding hard. In the fancy magic city. And them others coming after, her old friends. One of them. Only... now she's not feeling friendly with the Brothers no more. Now, she's wanting to be friends with us. All of us. Cause she's... in a bit o'trouble with that one. The mean one. The one that brays like animals... and... that's no nice way to treat a lady. Me, I always thought... you got a lady friend, you treat'er well.

She's got to stay in Krrrr-Croak-Weeeey-who? Couple o'days. Call it... three? Four weeks? But she doesn't want no finding, when the animal comes. And she's a little... slimmer in her strengths. Til the old man mountain breathes fire again. So, you know. If you can be nice to her, our huntress. She'll make it worth everyone's while. Yours... mine... ( Another undead creature assaults his back, only to solidify in pure ice within half a heartbeat. Haltham points behind himself: ) His.

What do you say? ( All at once, warmth wanes from Haltham's voice, hollowing it: ) ThIn K. Th ErE aRe BenEfitS o F Gi vInG HER tHre E weEks o F shElt Er. WhaT Do YoU saY?



( ooc: — cast an IC vote until 23:59 GMT on 2 April if the party should hide and protect the Huntress for a few weeks in Ke-Waihu, during the Beastmaster's upcoming visit

— new characters can assume party NPCs Asgeirr or Hatisse have shared told them about the Huntress, Haltham/Anurr and Beastmaster

— feel free to spam/threadjack/discuss IC opinions in this post — Haltham will respond sporadically; no input from the Huntress at this time! )

beitangmoran: (Default)

private/voice

[personal profile] beitangmoran 2022-03-30 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose you did catch the mention that the volcano is going to erupt very soon.
weifinder: (glance | his body tense)

same, ongoing

[personal profile] weifinder 2022-03-30 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, and while I've not, ah, witnessed any such things myself, I was under the impression those are rather dramatic, damaging, and also inclined towards fires?

So she comes, to use... that power. Or he does. Or they both do.
beitangmoran: (Default)

Re: same, ongoing

[personal profile] beitangmoran 2022-03-31 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
The volcano is also linked to the fortune tellers' powers... and potentially his power.
weifinder: (oh... | oh this is a mad boy)

[personal profile] weifinder 2022-04-03 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Is that so? Due to the nature of its elemental strength or something else... well, I don't know that it strictly matters, but it is a powerful part of the natural world, and power attracts like, and those who'd have it.

Invigorating for both, or something which might be tempered, or taken.
beitangmoran: (stare2)

[personal profile] beitangmoran 2022-04-03 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Most probably, yes. I tried to press for more answers on the nature of the link btween the volcano and the Beastmaster's power, but I could not get any.
weifinder: (ask | and a dream in my soul)

[personal profile] weifinder 2022-04-03 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm, but knowing there's a link... can the volcano in it's power consume one of them, if they're made vulnerable, do you think?

... Though how is any large blast going to allow the countryside to survive?
beitangmoran: (Default)

[personal profile] beitangmoran 2022-04-04 04:48 pm (UTC)(link)
That would depend what type of power the mountain wields, I believe. Lava should normally burn a body, but them? I would hesitate to be so categoric.

Given that some of their citizens gained strange power from it, I assume the villages have been around the volcanoes for a long time, at least long enough for at least one other eruption, and if they are still here, it must means they know what to expect and they've built for it. If they haven't... Then their situation is more dire than I first thought, which is entirely possible given the clowns they have for leaders.
weifinder: (concern | and you know)

[personal profile] weifinder 2022-04-05 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm, that's perhaps what we should investigate in the process of understanding what this eruption will do.