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.

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[weifinder]

Which means helping ourselves, too, before we lose reason to wish to examine the oddities.

My ability to sense the dead runs true when I leave the citadel's influence, for what that's worth.

[wooden_one]

Is that so?

Then, whatever is happening is localized only to the city? Does your ability return as soon as you step foot out of the citadel?

[Not like, delayed or anything?]

[weifinder]

Once you reach the Mouse House on the ground, yes. It truly is just affecting the citadel itself, as far as my abilities are concerned. If the effects on the denizens of the citadel last outside of it, I don't know.

[wooden_one]

If it is so localized, what is causing it?

[Some sort of barrier? Some sort of item with a specific range?]

Perhaps there is something or someone in the citadel that is the source of this...?

[weifinder]

I'm inclined to believe a something over a someone for the duration of it, but yes, that's entirely possible.

[wooden_one]

[He frowned, as if annoyed but when he speaks it's the thoughtful voice of someone trying to work out a problem.]

...is it distance? Or is there something keeping the effect from that place? If there is a barrier that can be made to neutralize the effect perhaps we could narrow down where this thing is...?

[weifinder]

At this time, we don't know. They're the questions we should seek answers for, but I presume it's related to the place, and to something here, whatever that something is.

[wooden_one]

Undoubtedly it is here...though if it is affecting both sides of the city, both of them must be within range of it at all times no matter where they are in the rotation.