driving: (pic#13327194)
[personal profile] driving
- 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. )
lallipop: (pic#13535184)
[personal profile] lallipop
[The video is only about five seconds or so of footage, filmed by someone who doesn't really seem to know what they're doing. It's set in what looks like a forest--the edge of the Gods Wood, to be exact--centered on a patch of recently displaced mud and grass. In the middle is a dirty, soggy, beaten up old wooden sign, apparently dug out of said patch of mud by hand.

Written on it are the words BALANCE MUST BE RESTORED.

Then, in a separate post entirely because Lalli isn't good at this:]


found this
what's it mean?
dehanded: (27 - w3d3tO1)
[personal profile] dehanded
[ the fact that she manages to text half as well as she does is no small feat, thanks to her literal claws. you thought people with inch long acrylics made clicky noises when she texts? well ibaraki's claws are harder than... most substances found under the earth.

so, for that reason alone, she should be excused for typing with the caps lock on. ]


HELLO DA VINCI

DA VINCI

DA VINCI READ THIS !!!!!!!

DA VINCI

DA VINCI

DA VINCI

DA VINCI YOU ARE USELESS GET OUT OF THE STUPID SHOP AND READ THIS MESSAGE I AM SENDING YOU

OR I WILL SMASH YOUR BIRD DA VINCI

DA VINCI

YOU ARE A TERRIBLE CASTER

DA VINCI!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU THINK YOU CAN HIDE IN YOUR SHOP WITH YOUR EXTRA FOUS

BURNING SERVANTS

AND BEING USELESS? FINE. WE DO NOT NEED YOU.


[ end message. its fine that da vinci didn't respond. ibaraki doesn't need her! she's not tired and hungry and definitely not wanting to go back to chaldea and get some good real food. and real mana and maybe also not be in trouble for... various crimes.




she's not desperate, which is why 2 minutes later, she sends this message: ]


RULER DETECTIVE, IF YOU ARE SO WISE YOU SHOULD READ THIS AND PROVE YOU ARE WORTH MORE THAN THE USELESS CASTER DA VINCI

YOUR NAME IS HOLMES YES?

ELEMENTARY YOURSELF TO SEE THIS

HOLMES

HOLMES


[ reminder: she is not desperate, and deserves commendation for typing all this with her nasty gremlin claws. ]
enchangement: (take my heart)
[personal profile] enchangement
[ The video opens to wispy brown hair, blue eyes, eyebrows taking up the entirety of the screen.

Upside-down, in fact.

It corrects itself in a moment but it is impossible to tell if that's because the broadcaster has turned the device or flipped herself, instead.

Suddenly, her open palm takes up the screen.
]

Hi.

[ She puts her hand down, but it's still just eyes, eyebrows, hair, and the bridge of her nose in the shot. ]

We arrived here changed, in flux. Still changing? The parameters are unclear. It has only been a number of days. She's good with numbers, bad with calendars, occasionally interested in counting. Does it matter?

Have you been changed? A blessing, a curse? Is something missing? Growing a seedling where it once towered over the land? This is how it is for her.

No one speaks of the history of this place. The fissure between Emperor and Priestess. How we came to be here. Magic is vague. Technology is the same. A non-answer.

Why?
webdesigned: (118)
[personal profile] webdesigned

USERNAME: parker



( peter is Uncomfortable doing this. he tried desperately to change his username and nothing in his nerd brain and encyclopedic knowledge of coding languages has offered any respite from part of his name being attached to whatever he wanted to say. which means he has to be careful about what he says...

though, he's gotta ask, because he's gotta know.
)


so, uh, quick q

anybody feeling weird? not... quite themselves..... . . . . since they got here


( that's it. short and sweet. hopefully it's vague enough to not indicate anything but still leading enough to possibly result in getting the answers he's hoping for. )