weifinder: (headache | won't you come in)
Wei Ying (魏婴) | Wei Wuxian (魏无羡) ([personal profile] weifinder) wrote in [community profile] eastbound2022-08-13 10:46 pm

audio | un: yiling patriarch | early on during the summit

I've been whistling while I work, and I have yet to find any response whatsoever. Which is to say, ( he continues, almost at a laconic drawl: ) to any and all of my fellow ragtag members of the eastward bound Merchant's caravan with a gift for detecting life, death, or anything of the spirit: have you felt anything?

( he freely admits to how unnerving it is to him to have no reaction, no response whatsoever, when he reaches out to find the resentful energies that have been throughout all of this world they've wandered since his arrival, well over a year before. )

Because I, for one, can't find a damn thing.
downswing: (pokegot)

un: absterge

[personal profile] downswing 2022-08-14 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
Spirits absent, or hold silent?


( Sometimes a spirit merely wishes to ignore you...! )
downswing: (memento)

1/2

[personal profile] downswing 2022-08-14 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
( PLEASE HOLD, a man makes attempt to reach out — )
downswing: (inundate)

[personal profile] downswing 2022-08-14 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
No ripple. No echo. No voice.
downswing: (system)

[personal profile] downswing 2022-08-14 07:31 am (UTC)(link)
Present.
downswing: (accounts settled)

[personal profile] downswing 2022-08-14 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
The cycle disrupted.

( Lend him another moment. )

What weapons left to you?
scrapgege: (002-04)

un : deft hand of little deaths (voice)

[personal profile] scrapgege 2022-08-14 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
There are no ghosts here. That's not...

It's not good to have too many ghosts in one place, but it's not normal to not have any at all. There should always be a few benign spirits around, and maybe a few human ghosts but there's nothing.

It's not natural.
downswing: (uhmmmm)

[personal profile] downswing 2022-08-14 03:03 pm (UTC)(link)
You mean to speak you have made attempt and found resistance.
consignation: (thats a lie)

un: sect leader jiang / audio

[personal profile] consignation 2022-08-14 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ this man has never met a fight he couldn't pick. ]

And why are you looking so hard for trouble? Again??
matermali: (047)

un: headless ragdoll (audio)

[personal profile] matermali 2022-08-14 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Vanessa couldn't place it until someone said something, because she hadn't tried to reach out. That should have been suspicious enough; usually there's always something in-between trying to call out. Her voice is low with a grating whisper, and she doesn't bother to hide the concern that makes her words waver. At first it's just a mutter under her breath. ] Absent whispers. Quiet prayer. Strangely silent beneath the chatter.

[ Louder now, more controlled: ]

...So that is where the unease stems. Has this happened before?
binghua: (32)

un: daozhang | audio;

[personal profile] binghua 2022-08-14 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh. This...this is quite a question. Xingchen does not reach out immediately, instead focusing inward toward his own questionable body and comparing it to how he's felt these past few months, ever since their fight inside the volcano.]

My own abilities have not been as steady recently, owing to the spirits I took upon myself inside Ke-Sanwon. They seemed to negate my cultivation, but their hold has lessened as of late. Such lingering effects could owe to me not sensing anything here, though I will note that Shuanghua has been still the entire time.
scrapgege: (002-01)

[personal profile] scrapgege 2022-08-15 09:50 am (UTC)(link)
Exactly.

So... how can you tell if people are alive or dead when there doesn't appear to be anyone dead around? What can we compare to?

downswing: (house rules)

[personal profile] downswing 2022-08-15 09:57 am (UTC)(link)
( That moment when you're far too close to agreement with a member of the Yunmeng household and should drink to your declining faculties. )
downswing: (interim)

[personal profile] downswing 2022-08-15 10:01 am (UTC)(link)
Wei Ying has been known to stir them to conversation.
matermali: (059)

[personal profile] matermali 2022-08-15 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It sounds like a grotesque fairy tale. That hits awfully close to home, but she isn't used to others sharing the burden of sensing such things.

She wants to ask more about Taravast, but perhaps later. ]


Is it the people, then, or the city? City-wide wards are not something I would have thought possible before now, but it could stifle our senses. [ A curt sigh; frustrated with herself for not knowing more. ] Perhaps, too grand a theory...

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