audio | un: yiling patriarch
We've just heard from our friend Haltham about the fighting between Unhalad and Anurr forces nearby, so here's a question for everyone, brought up originally by our companions who got themselves drugged and fight-happy against the second living: what actions do you think we should or shouldn't take?
In Haltham's encouraging words, think wisely. Whatever we're doing or not doing has an effect by merit of choice. Also, a reminder that we still need to not end up in either's hands or revealing our location, given the reason we were summoned here has not changed, and our deaths can be a benefit to either side. Our lives benefit ourselves and our rescuers and the peoples here, by keeping us out of warlord hands.
( He's not opening up with his thoughts because he doesn't want it as a discussion against his take, but as people offering their thoughts after he asks the question. )
In Haltham's encouraging words, think wisely. Whatever we're doing or not doing has an effect by merit of choice. Also, a reminder that we still need to not end up in either's hands or revealing our location, given the reason we were summoned here has not changed, and our deaths can be a benefit to either side. Our lives benefit ourselves and our rescuers and the peoples here, by keeping us out of warlord hands.
( He's not opening up with his thoughts because he doesn't want it as a discussion against his take, but as people offering their thoughts after he asks the question. )

un: heart-fluttering hummingbird | audio
aliveout. )Let the dead play their politics. Captives go free.
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...unlikely. ( Only to carry on. ) We make attempt.
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voice ; un: knelt lady of swallow and song
There are people out there who need help.
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Not our people. Still our duty, unto justice.
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un: sweet lily of the hidden valley - handwritten
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Then your thought is to stay uninvolved entirely in these skirmishes?
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un: dappled pearl of the parted seas [voice]
[Moran knows he might not make any friends in choosing this stance, including that the hostages are none of their concern, really, but he's fine with it. He's had to make this kind of decisions before, and there are always lives lost.]
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( That, in reference to the captives. )
Moreover, we're not staying here. We've known that for the last month and then some.
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un: heart-fluttering hummingbird | audio
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un: deft hand of little deaths [Voice]
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voice ; un: knelt lady of swallow and song
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here comes 1 of 2 different cut ins lkadsjf
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text ; un: knelt lady of swallow and song
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voice ; un: knelt lady of swallow and song
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un: bashful bard of the emboldened flute, also text bc he's embarrassed by his handle
And your stance, Yiling Patriarch?
[ Can the text convey Jiang Cheng snapped his writing instrument in half scribbling out your dumbass cursed demonic cultivator title, Wei Wuxian? Because he did. ]
put your lips to service jiang cheng COME ON
Anyway it's claiming the world's worst joke, he had to do it sometime. )
Lead the two sides into fighting each other through the use of misdirection or a confusion array, get the captives out and send them freed to their homes. Leave a trail away from the farm and heading out toward the mountains.
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un: heart-fluttering hummingbird
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un: wide open-winged queen of butterflies | audio
I still say we need not get involved with either side of the conflict. If one side could prove themselves righteous, that might be different, but from what any of us have seen, they simply...aren't.
That being said, innocents are involved and they should be our main concern. Furthermore, I suggest only those of us who are able to protect ourselves should get involved even that much. Everyone else should remain safe in the house, perhaps with some of us to watch over them should any suspicion be cast in our direction for any reason.
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And your advice for how those assisting with the captives will do so as covertly and misleadingly as possible?
( A pause, then... a memory that's not his, but also his, now. )
How sensitive has your sword been to the energies of the dead here? Have you noticed any difference between those of different, ah, origins?
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un: anglicized
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*caveat that i might be quoting the wrong feeling for the wrong force and will need to look up later
thank you both canons for your vagueness etc
time for them to continue the point and stare meme
this is a mess
two men, confusing the heck out of each other
buddy, I need a drink
time for body shots
wei wuxian and xiao xingchen open up a bar...
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un: first blush of tender youth | audio
Is this going up for a vote?
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( He trails off into a dry laugh. )
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un: heart-fluttering hummingbird
Not all thoughts stand equal.
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[handmaiden of unsheathed swords] voice posted:
[ just briefly, a greeting. They met long enough to sic some mermaids and a lightning storm on a slave ship together, but Archeval hasn't gone to find the man after hauling him, unconscious, back to the House of Dew some days back with a bit of healing to leave him to rest. Arche's voice is at least a little bit the lighter to note that Wuxian seems fully recovered from his exertion. ]
Need we be involved in this at all? We certainly aren't going to do local politics any good by sticking our noses in, and the potential to do ourselves a great deal of harm is high. If they came straight to our doorstep that would certainly be one thing, but--
Hn. Even if we only went after their captives, it seems just as likely we'll rescue them only to have to turn straight around and behead them all once they turn. Unless you have some further insight into the situation? [ this one's all yours, Yiling Patriarch. His specialty is ghosts, absolutely not zombies. ]
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Still, send them on with hot beverages, if anything that's what they all seek out, heat in some form. Given where we are, not surprising, but it could be more part of their nature.
But sending people home, where at the least maybe they can make their farewells for whatever's coming... they won't evade the forces here, any side, indefinitely. Just as we can't. But we can give them a chance to make a choice they didn't otherwise have.
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