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wrath. ([personal profile] inferus) wrote in [community profile] eastbound2023-06-20 01:00 pm

video. un: a_civil_serpent. threadjack away.

( Wrath's expression is as unreadable as ever as he, and presently Lockwood, walk away from Kuthuba, who has taken a rock and thrown it at the moon, howling, "Stooooooooooop looking at Kuthuba!" More rocks follow, shot upward and plopping back to the ground at Kuthuba's feet.

Wrath pauses, lets out the slightest of sighs, and then continues forward. )


At least they're not howling derogatory words this time. [ Lockwood remarks in a mild tone, though the quick look he shoots Wrath suggests there may be a story there. ]

How lucky for the rest. ( Though Wrath might take the howling at the moon personally given his wife's lunar connection. Regardless. Now that they are far enough away, Wrath gets down to business as there is much to convey: ) The Huntress was here before. Her influence, at least, remains.

For those unaware, she is part of the Undead Lieges - the brotherhood. Two years previously, according to Kuthuba, a woman ran through the forest here. She was sought by mortals for her beauty. Many died in their search, lost in the mist. She wore no clothes, had long, red hair, and eventually, was banished to her husband. As some in our group may remember, she was married to the Beastmaster who was slain months ago. In our initial encounter with her in Taravast, she was able to control those associated with Death to follow her, do her bidding, ( the slightest lock of his jaw - near imperceptible, but the flash of violence in the gold of his eyes is far more visible, he would like to see her destroyed ) and she was drawn by fire and magic. She does not linger.

It would also seem the two of us can now view the Lumberjack haunting and stop him. We spoke to him. He believes his work is good as it forces people to face their past, making them better people, more able to move through time... unburdened. He wishes to do well with his haunting so he does not disappoint a 'them'.

The lumberjack, seems to be someone who wanted to do right, but who was easily influenced, used and abused. The villagers were not very kind to this young man, yet he always saw their actions in an innocent light. [ Does Lockwood sound a little judgmental about those who had been using this kid? Yes. Yes he does. ]

We recovered three pages of what appear to have been this young man's diary. On one of the pages he recounts that his family believed him prone to starting trouble, that odd things happened around him, like water bursting, or air turning stormy. I get the sense that he was a lumberjack because it was an out of the way occupation for him.

Apparently he tried helping his uncle selling fish one day, but had an altercation when a customer tried to haggle the price. The customer began to choke, struggling to breath. A foreign woman in white, [ Lockwood recounts the woman's details as if reading from the diary page itself ] approached our lumberjack, told him he was special, that she could help him. Then all of a sudden the customer could breath again. [ Which had obvious implications. ]

Has anyone else encountered anything about a woman in white, or other villagers who seem to have abilities they are either unaware of, or unable to control?
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[personal profile] blackscales 2023-06-20 07:33 pm (UTC)(link)
A woman in white, not a man? An interesting change.
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[personal profile] blackscales 2023-06-20 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
The colour is not exclusive to him, but I'd be interested in a better description of her attire to be sure it isn't a familiar uniform. Especially given that described behaviour.
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[personal profile] downswing 2023-06-20 09:00 pm (UTC)(link)
The Huntress.

( This, as much, is blood-chilling. ) Signs of her power?

( He remembers, far too closely, its impact on the dead, the necromancers. The risk inherent. )
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[personal profile] blackscales 2023-06-20 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Perhaps. She mentioned they can speak to ghosts, after all. It seems as if he may qualify, to some degree. Not all can see him, he is no longer living. Perhaps they control him?
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[personal profile] blackscales 2023-06-20 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Too little detail to determine the meaning. Visions? Or seeing something that should have been masked by a veil of magic?
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[personal profile] somebadnews 2023-06-21 09:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ He knew it. (Or 'Wei Wuxian was right' but he still was inclined to think it was her.) The Huntress at least means it's not someone they haven't encountered before, but he's suddenly distracted by the last question. ]

...I've seen the woman in white.

[ Continues to see her. She likes to hang out in windows, but recently... ]

I'm pretty certain Miang-Si has too.
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[personal profile] blackscales 2023-06-21 12:14 pm (UTC)(link)
A tragic story, but one that does only raise more questions.
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[personal profile] downswing 2023-06-21 01:51 pm (UTC)(link)
She took too much last.
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[personal profile] beitangmoran 2023-06-21 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Of the specters haunting people these days in this place, one is a woman in white. She takes the appearance of someone you know and reenacts some of your worst memories.

Also interesting to find the Huntress here. I do wonder if her passage is not what prompted the start of the funeral rites we've witnessed and that others have reported on. She probably called the dead as she went. It was a veritable parade through Taravast, if you remember.
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[personal profile] somebadnews 2023-06-23 09:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's seen her many, many times. He'll skip past that to answer his other question. ]

I searched her room. There was a rope leading out of her balcony with strands of cloth from the woman in white. [ That he could identify them is telling enough. ] ...Red strands too, but I don't know who they belonged to.
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[personal profile] recklessenough 2023-06-23 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Lockwood, for once in his young life, holds his tongue and listens rather than throwing around his opinion. At least, for the moment! There is a lot to be learned, especially about this 'Huntress' and the feedback they're receiving about the woman in white also raises a lot of questions.

Eventually, he breaks his silence. ]


Are we thinking this 'woman in white' is this Huntress? If she's a ghost, then shouldn't we try to locate her source and seal it up?

[ Oh Lockwood, you sweet summer child. He is deliberately not thinking about his repeated failures to locate the source of the milk tooth babe hauntings he's experienced. ]
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[personal profile] blackscales 2023-06-23 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
I wonder how it came to be that more than one entity here had strange, latent power. A true chance of birth? Or something about this place? After all, I'd wager if your lumberjack became a haunting this way and the woman in white did too -- a similar process, perhaps. Different, died, became an empowered ghost of some sort.

We are almost certainly missing some important detail that would join it all together.
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[personal profile] beitangmoran 2023-06-23 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I was never close enough to her to experience it myself, but if that is so, then it seems to fit... yet I am not inclined to believe the ghost I have seen is her. Somehow, those kind of hauntings do not seem proportionate to the kind of power she wields. An underling of hers, perhaps?
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[personal profile] downswing 2023-06-23 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
How did you withhold yourself from her?

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