un: wei laozu | audio | day after the summit

[weifinder]

Passing along a few highlights of my conversation with Asgeirr, our resident scholar ghost possessing a cloak from, oh, Sa-Hareth, that may be worth noting.

The citadel has raised and lowered itself, by a mechanism he believed connected to its central clock, for ages. However, it was largely for defense in the past, and the dragons were their primary form of offense in that defending. The civilians were kept safe. At that time, there was also no blurred lines between the dead and living—you could determine who and what was dead, and who and what lived.

( a pause, and he adds: )

He suggested it might be a thrall to the territories, or a freezing of the person at moment of death. Or that it might be something affecting us, but while that's clearly true, I don't think it's that specifically targeted.

Comments

[weifinder]

It seems likely, or at least probable. Did we already hear of a year in which that splintering occurred?

[downswing]

Recent times.

[weifinder]

Seems more probable, then. Recent times can line up with the sorts of recents driving the current bodied dead and empowered bodiless dead curses across the citadels, couldn't it.

[downswing]

It may.

Wei Ying. Not all matters need be bound.

[weifinder]

Lan Zhan...

[weifinder]

I want a bath.

[downswing]

( .................... )



Take it.

[weifinder]

I don't want a bear.

[downswing]

Your brother can fend.

[weifinder]

No, Lethe is going to send me images of bears the whole time, it's terrible! The dragon thinks it's funny.

[downswing]

The dragon is not incorrect.

[weifinder]

I'm both pleased your sense of humour has found strong rooting, and mildly amused it's grown like this.

Also proud, if I wasn't the bear's preferred target for nude hunting. It's terrible, Lan Zhan! I never even got to strip down in front of you!

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[downswing]

( HIS SON CAN SEE THIS

HIS MOTHER CAN SEE THIS FROM THE HEAVENS

XICHEN IS GAZING FROM BEYOND )

[downswing]

( THE GRANDMASTER IS SENSING THIS ACROSS LANDS AND OCEANS )

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At ease in your shamelessness.

Bones have been glimpsed before.

[weifinder]

( bae, all those people have technically already potentially and probably seen all this. in nude, running glory. which makes nothing look particularly glorious, if we're honest. )

Yes, well, counting when you've taken care of me passed out from injury is hardly fun, now, is it? :c

[downswing]

It does not entertain.

[weifinder]

See? Hence lamenting.

[downswing]

You did not lament.

[weifinder]

I didn't get to strip for you!

... First!

[downswing]

Your injuries do not console me.

[weifinder]

Which is why I'm lamenting that I haven't been able to strip for you.

Not out of unhappy necessity, ah? Or bears.

1/2

[downswing]

( Why here, now, in the midst of — this. Why the drained dregs of his heart, drowning. )

When you first barred my path, you were laughter, beautiful.

When you crossed my sword, you were flame, beautiful.

When we took paltry hot water in Yiling, you were righteousness, beautiful.

When you slipped at cliff's edge, you were cruel agony, beautiful.

When you stirred to second life, you were hope, beautiful.

[downswing]

When you bare the whole of you, you will be beautiful.