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Ratonhnhaké:ton ♣ Connor ([personal profile] mustact) wrote in [community profile] eastbound2023-10-24 09:58 pm

[Video, un: howl in one, before the Colosseum attack]

[ It's early in the morning, probably too early for some people. Ratonhnhaké:ton has not yet slept, having recently returned to his lodgings after infiltrating the barracks of the Hand. Not that he looks any different. Late nights or no sleep is far from an unusual experience for him.

Though his expression is fairly blank, there's definite anger in his eyes. ]


I have just returned from the barracks. A troupe of mimes were held captive there. They were the ones who trained the assassins that attacked at Maximus Faustus's feast.

The leader was insistent the people they trained were not human. In a way, the mimes were also teaching them how to act human. They are capable of doing so, but it is not natural to them. I believe one of our own has shared a similar sentiment.

[ His jaws flex, his gaze flicking to the side as he considers his own words. ]

It seems the Hand is willing to use any methods at their disposal to accomplish their goals, whatever they are. Perhaps they should be dealt with, before something worse happens.
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un: absterge | lmao i'm so sorry

[personal profile] downswing 2023-10-24 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Now you condone bloodshed.
downswing: (conserve)

let this pony play his single trick (it's murder, the trick is murder)

[personal profile] downswing 2023-10-27 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
How else to deal with the Hand?
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[personal profile] downswing 2023-10-29 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Their sponsor.
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un: of corpse not / audio

[personal profile] nothinglikefather 2023-10-25 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
Wait wait.

Mimes were teaching people to act human?
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[personal profile] nothinglikefather 2023-10-26 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
That seems a very strange choice.

Were the mimes caught by the Hand or hired by them originally? Because if we have proof of that, to take to the senate...
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[personal profile] nothinglikefather 2023-10-29 05:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you had a chance to look for that proof yet?
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[personal profile] nothinglikefather 2023-11-02 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Then let's do that. Seems the best thing to start with and we can follow up any leads.
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un : deft hand of little deaths (voice)

[personal profile] scrapgege 2023-10-25 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I knew it. They don't feel like people.
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[personal profile] scrapgege 2023-10-27 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Their qi is different. Not human.
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[personal profile] scrapgege 2023-10-30 05:24 pm (UTC)(link)
It's like... the life energy that's in every living thing. The qi of a living human is rather unmistakable. And that's not what they feel like.
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[personal profile] scrapgege 2023-11-02 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I can, yes.

There are others around who can, to a lesser extent. Because they trained for it. I'm just a little better at it.
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[personal profile] scrapgege 2023-11-05 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, it can. It's a long process though. It usually takes years.
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[personal profile] scrapgege 2023-11-12 08:55 am (UTC)(link)
Were you hoping to learn? I am sure they would not mind teaching.
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[personal profile] scrapgege 2023-11-21 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
You can always ask, I am sure some could show you the basics.

[technically, he could too, but the last time he was a teacher... let's just say it didn't end well.]
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[personal profile] scrapgege 2023-11-29 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's about to suggest Lan Wangji, but then seems to think again.]

Maybe Master Lan Xichen? I thin he's a sect leader so he has a lot of knowledge. I think Wei Wuxian also would know, although I don't know if he can still do it.