audio | un: yiling laozu | early on in the storm at sea event

[weifinder]

( so the audio comes on, no announcement, playing across everyone's pendant. the sound of the storm, of a boat at sail, and of a voice some will know, others might choose not to remember after his shouted love declarations, as he speaks with the dead of a ship quicksilver swears second damnation upon: )

Let me see if I understand. You and this crew are seeking vengeance against Quicksilver for him leaving you to die after you left him to die. Quicksilver is seeking vengeance by attempting to kill you all directly, whom are already dead. The Dawn's Reach Trading Company is surprised that entrusting pirates with a venture posing high returns went wrong once, and now again, while our other pirate captain wants just the tangible gains, and to the hells with everything else.

Meanwhile, none of you have control over the waters, which was the treasures heart. Is that somewhat correct?

( there is an extended pause, an awkward one for its seeming understanding of the true absurdities which have been spoken, before a voice unfamiliar to all the ragtag travelers responds in the cadences of the bodied dead: )

... Aye. It be like that.

Comments

un: absterge

[downswing]

( Sometimes, you need to hiss your disapproval: )

Flee the deathless man.

[weifinder]

( oh there's the hissing of his husband, meriting a blink but nothing else as the, ah, deathless crew remains in attendance.

then a low voiced: )

I'm getting around to that, yes.

[downswing]

How numerous?

[weifinder]

( a sighed: )

One crew, minus captain.

[downswing]

( Ah, that wretched thing, learning to trust: )

You require assistance?

[weifinder]

Oh... not at present. Cover when returning would be kind.

( the other side of trust: accepting, asking, requesting any kind of assistance, and not think of balances alone. )

[downswing]

( Ah, that beautiful moment when the pain in the neck, your soulmate must take every one of life's hardships on his back. )

...the testimony. Well done.

[weifinder]

( there's a hummed acknowledgement, but then he's making his retreat, so while words follow, they're not aimed at his husband in particular. just flowing ever on, like the rivers that emptied into the hollows which became the seas. )

un: man's greatest treasure

[reparo]

Unbelievable. [It just be like that.]

It truly proves the theory, doesn't it? An eye for an eye and the whole world goes blind. [A pause, and lower:]

If you need to be extracted, tell me.

Re: un: man's greatest treasure

[weifinder]

( lowly, since at that moment he's still speaking with augustus: )

Thinking is not the strength here, Miss. And thank you, if this goes poorly, I'll call--

( then it's back to talking with the pirates for a farewell in which... he thinks the pendant stopped recording. )

[reparo]

[Whispered, after a long while of her just listening in on the conversation.]

...switch your recording off.

[weifinder]

( a long... long... pause. )

Ah? Hahaha, did I just hear something?

( okay so having it be linked still to wangji is one thing. was it still linked to everyone?! )

[reparo]

You left this on for everyone...

[weifinder]

I'll choose to hope people admired the wit at my exit!

( hah... hah... hah... )

Anyway, I'm heading back right now, anything I should know?

[reparo]

You were extremely witty.

[weifinder]

Thank you, that'll be a comfort while I'm rowing.

un : dappled peals of the parted seas (voice)

[beitangmoran]

So human stupidity doesn't even stop with death, I see.

[weifinder]

( a wheezed laugh under his breath, and first: )

No, never stopped there.

[beitangmoran]

I am afraid this is my first time experiencing it so directly.

[weifinder]

May it be the last, but...

( then he's distracted and ah... Moran. congratulations, you get to hear the rest of his encounter before he backflips off the dead men's ship. in fact, hear even the thud of his landing in the dinghy he rowed over in! )

[beitangmoran]

Unlikely in this place, unfortunately.

So they want to bring us down with them? Some sort of sacrifice to this treasure, whatever it is?

[weifinder]

Oh, no sacrifice, this is more pettiness. Suffer like we do, argh! That sort of thing. The treasure doesn't appear to care.

[beitangmoran]

............ Well, that's even stupider. I didn't think that was possible.

un: white pawn; voice

[chosenbylight]

[The look on his face just now...

Anduin waits at least until Wei Wuxian makes his (honestly overdramatic) exit before he finds he cannot hold his tongue any longer:]

If you are in need of any assistance, Wei Wuxian, do let us know.

[He may sound more than a little exasperated at this point. Have you had enough of pirates, just now? He certainly has.]

[weifinder]

( quietly, since he's just nearing the end of this conversation before he departs the ship: )

Oh, a little fire's never turned away.

( but then the undead man and crew are being addressed, and he thinks he clearly cut this conversation, only he didn't.

so congratulations, also hear him refute augustus with how he'd do many things for his husband, and no one else. )