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[nothinglikefather]

[ Originally recorded the day of the senator's ill-fated party.
Jacob's voice is sore, rough from coughing, and throughout the recording he coughs periodically, as if he's just escaped a fire. ]

It's a snake. The Chained God. A great big fucking snake, covered in... in bits of paper. With writing on. Couldn't read it.

The chains are too. We were chaining him up, the the floor. It was broken, full of fissures. Not the chains, the floor.

We were chaining him, and he was... he said he someone else had... broken the womb? Birthed destruction? Not him. Or they'd taken up the mantle, because they'd chained him up.

[ He coughs then, and keeps coughing until someone seems to pass him a drink, and he murmurs thanks.]

That priestess. She asked me afterwards. If he was still a threat, I think. Told her that he was a bloody god, and they'd chained him up, so if he got loose then they'd be fucked.

That's... that's what I rememeber. Before the fire started.

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[nothinglikefather]

Some would say offering that help was influencing. I don't, I'm saying others might question why we're here at all.

[And then something is said that makes everything else the man says go in one ear and out the other, utterly ignored as Jacob latches onto soemthing that he knows, or at least, he thinks he knows.]

Brotherhood? The Brotherhood is here?

[That makes no sense. Why would they be arming the undead? That can't be right. He thought the Templars had something to do with this, not... wait. Wait.]

What Brotherhood?

[inferus]

( Just how uninformed are new individuals to their group? Does Karsa not give a thorough summary to new arrivals? And they are all then expected to influence this city without understanding the implications? )

I imagine you are referring to a different one than what exists here.

( One that he clearly has quite a bit of history with if the reaction is any indication. )

...the Brotherhood is what the alliance of the Undead Lieges refer to themselves as. They have attacked many cities, killed and taken control of many people including the very first to come through the beacons, and taken over a large majority of Akhuras... this world. This is the group Messalina claims to want to destroy so she might free her own undead army.

[nothinglikefather]

[ The expression of confused hope fades as the man on the other end of the line explains more, and Jacob vaguely remembers being told this, and he certainly rememebers the part about the Undead Lieges and Messalina's own ambitions.]

Yeah. Yeah.

The Ephians are between a rock and a hard place- and I don't pity them making the decision.