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Billy Hargrove ([personal profile] driving) wrote in [community profile] fellden2019-11-02 09:36 pm

[video, un: billy & un: clary] open to stars & moon

- does this really go out to everyone? Okay. Anyways, hey, I'm Billy.

Sure does! ( Helpful, Clary! She turns to the video feed properly, giving a not-very-cool-at-all half wave. ) And I'm Clary. I know I've talked to some of you before, especially about the branded and what they're up to. And... there's seriously no good way to say this, but we have some updates on that.

They were involved in the attack last month, and probably the famine, too. At least, the monster that killed me had that same brand. [ And the whole 'it killed me' business is as good of a segue as any to the topic of Death itself. ]

I was brought back by Death. It told me that the branded had something to do with Temperance. Death used to have her soul, but it was stolen a few months ago.


Which is probably around when the branded started showing up during harvest. ( The takeover between them is smoother than it has any right to be; an easy back and forth as the information is shared. ) As some of you know, a few of us got blank tarot cards from a guy named Vuzor after he said 'balance comes for us all'. Well- ( Clary holds up her tarot card. Temperance is displayed across the front in all its glory with gold writing over it saying TEMPERANCE RETURNS. ) Temperance stands for balance, usually. Keeping it. Which is sort of the theme that the branded have been running with. ( As though needing another ominous piece, Clary turns the card around to the back where a countdown is happening. ) And now we might have a deadline.

Death says we need to prepare ourselves and from the sound of things, it was dead serious. [ Okay, he covers his mouth to stifle a laugh. He didn't mean to make a death pun, really. This is very important information. ] So we've got less than a month to get our shit together, find out what we can, and either try to stop this from happening or get ready to face something that makes everything else we've fought so far look easy.

So if you know anything, or find anything, you better cough it up. [ He stands with his fists clenched like he's about to steal everyone's lunch money, before he clears his throat and his stance relaxes a little. Maybe threats weren't the best way to go about this. He's still getting used to being nice. ] I mean, shit, this doesn't sound like something any of us can face on our own, so it'll be better if we work together.


( And Clary has to turn away from the screen to hide her dumb smile at the bad joke, gaining her composure back in time for Billy to finish. ) Which we've all been doing a lot already, so we should be getting pretty good at it! But like Billy said, if you know anything we haven't mentioned, or find anything out, please let everyone know.

( With that, Clary will reach forward in order to turn the video feed off. )
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[personal profile] enkelis 2019-11-03 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know if anyone missed it; a lot of cards show suns, even rising ones.

It would help if the faction leaders were back, or the Warlock.
( Or, you know, literally anyone that could help with this.

Except Vuzor, fuck that guy. )
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[personal profile] purpose 2019-11-03 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
About that.

[ sweats. ]

He is back, actually. If the faction leaders are due to return at all, I've heard nothing about it.
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[personal profile] enkelis 2019-11-03 05:57 am (UTC)(link)
Oh.

( Wait a second... )

Oh!

( Yeah. Just clicked in her head. Okay then. )

I really don't want to take advantage when he's just gotten back, but... do you know if there's any way he can help us protect Kyst? It's where Billy was told to go to spread the word, and there's no way we can evacuate this place.
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[personal profile] purpose 2019-11-03 10:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Kyst is their home. They shouldn't have to evacuate.

[ That's not the point here, but Rey still stands firm on it. Too many have already been driven from their homes in fear over the previous months. ]

He's already making preparations. You can trust that he's doing what he can to protect Kyst and Forsvar. So am I.

If we divide ourselves across Fellden, we can get the word of Temperance's return out much more quickly.
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[personal profile] agonise 2019-11-03 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
The Warlock is fine. He'll return.

[ He doesn't volunteer how he knows this information. ]

The faction leaders never mentioned Temperance despite knowing of her. If they were going to help, they would have done it already.
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[personal profile] notimefordreams 2019-11-03 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Pretty much. At this point we can't really look to the faction leaders for much in the way of help, at least if you ask me.

We're in this on our own. The quicker we accept that, the better.
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[personal profile] agonise 2019-11-03 03:45 pm (UTC)(link)
If they even plan on returning.

One of Death's attendants suggested the leaders meant to make a point that bringing in Otherworlders would upset the balance of this world. They knew more than they were letting on the entire time.
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[personal profile] notimefordreams 2019-11-03 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
No surprise there. The Emperor wasn't being honest during that first audience to begin with but I don't exactly expect complete honesty from these types either.

So what exactly did they hope to accomplish by upsetting the balance? Just their side winning this war? I don't believe that for a second either.
Edited 2019-11-03 15:51 (UTC)
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[personal profile] agonise 2019-11-03 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know if it was ever really about the war at all.
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[personal profile] notimefordreams 2019-11-03 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
... Well that's a new one I hadn't considered. I don't care much about it myself but I thought at least the faction leaders did.

[Then again that sort of makes sense in a way, if any of what she speculated on with Finel during all of the snow and monsters bullshit could hold any weight.]

I sort of tossed the idea around with someone else, just as a thought really. With the way history is wiped clean in all the books here and no one remembers much beyond the war itself, do you think the war could be more of a distraction than anything else? From the real problem, I mean, whatever it is that's killing this world?
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[personal profile] agonise 2019-11-03 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe.

There are missing Gods. Judgement and Justice, if not others. They aren't dead, but they aren't sleeping. That may have something to do with the world dying.
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[personal profile] notimefordreams 2019-11-03 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[Not dead, not sleeping. Not existing?]

Given this is supposedly the birthplace of Gods, maybe they need to be reborn? If they're not dead or sleeping anyhow.

[That typed, Sarah sighs out loud on her end.]

Most of these Gods are either from or based on the tarot, right? I don't know a thing about tarot cards to be honest but when you do readings, do you need a full deck?

Not that this is a game or anything but maybe the world can't thrive unless the deck is full so to speak.


[It's a stupid way of putting it, she won't argue with that if he says as much. But it kind of makes sense to her if she's looking at this like some kind of puzzle or riddle.]
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[personal profile] agonise 2019-11-04 01:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's never actually read tarot cards, but he has Approximate Knowledge of Many Things; still, he's not an expert. ]

Opinion would probably vary. Regardless, being without Gods probably isn't good for a world that relies so heavily on them.
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[personal profile] notimefordreams 2019-11-04 05:44 pm (UTC)(link)
That's true. It might be in our best interest then to figure out how to save Temperance rather than kill her. Not that that's easy to accomplish of course.

[She'd just really rather try saving things rather than destroying them. That's how she's always been though, aside from one particular spandex-clad fae.]
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[personal profile] agonise 2019-11-07 01:40 am (UTC)(link)
We need to be prepared for the idea that she might not be able to be saved. It may be possible to contain her somehow without destroying her.
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[personal profile] notimefordreams 2019-11-07 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Containing her sounds like a decent plan. If we figure out how, of course.
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[personal profile] agonise 2019-11-08 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
The Gods seem to gain power from their followers. If her cult is disbanded, perhaps she'll be weakened.