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.

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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. )

[downswing]

( What. Are you. Saying. Wei Wuxian. )

Consider eliminating them on withdrawal.

[weifinder]

... Lan Zhan?!

( who forgot he was recording )

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.

[downswing]

( Just let him gently expire on spot. )

Wei Ying.

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. )

[weifinder]

Ahahahaha, hah, ha, I left them with a flame talisman in parting?

( you say nothing, he says nothing, IT'S FINE )

[downswing]

And wisdom.

[weifinder]

( a pause, and a wry tone after a grunt of rowing effort: )

Some things bore correcting.

[downswing]

...Wei Ying.

( He will just... keep saying the name. )

[weifinder]

Lan Zhan.

[downswing]

Some modesty.

[weifinder]

Only if you hold me to it.

( and at that he chuckles, but really, ah... he hadn't meant for people who would remember to hear that...

no regrets, precisely, just more earned shamelessness than he can presently trade in. )

[downswing]

I ask.

[weifinder]

Fine, fine, we can discuss it in private after all this, as you like.

... Do you want to discuss this?

[downswing]

( The. Longest. Pause. Practically sprawling. )

To see you excused of dead.

[weifinder]

... We, ah. We might need to see the curse of the dead living taken off this world before that'll come to be.

[downswing]

You distort words.