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netherwork2022-10-13 04:50 pm
redsoil) wrote in netherwork2022-10-13 04:50 pm
β sutekh | end of event
I found some curious things, when dealing with the dead who were left behind in the Oakwoods.
Firstly, they appear to have died while filled with horror. I have also collected samples of a blue substance found around and upon their bodies. I am certain that I am not the only one who took note of this.
You are welcome to what I gathered. I do not care what you decide to do with it.
Additionally, in comparing the bodies of the explorers to those who were slaughtered by the mounted warrior -- their deaths are notably different.Deaths within un-deaths, this is ridiculous. To my knowledge, the components of a soul are universal. Regarding the explorers: I found no sense of soul, nor any of the components. For them to lack is ominous, but may also amount to nothing more than an oddity of the realm.
They are empty, and that is all I know.
At this time, I am only beginning my considerations. I will continue to deliberate for your sakes.
( OOC | While Set is here to Report On It, any characters that went poking around the explorer's bodies would be able to find blue dust that causes their Shadows to go "YEAH LMAO NO"!! Set's personal responses will be delayed, as I'm still tagging the event!
Feel free to take this in whatever direction you'd like. Did your character uncover something? Are they interested in something that happened during the event? Are they considering anything based on Certain Experiences They Had In Canon? pepesilvia.gif )
Firstly, they appear to have died while filled with horror. I have also collected samples of a blue substance found around and upon their bodies. I am certain that I am not the only one who took note of this.
You are welcome to what I gathered. I do not care what you decide to do with it.
Additionally, in comparing the bodies of the explorers to those who were slaughtered by the mounted warrior -- their deaths are notably different.
They are empty, and that is all I know.
At this time, I am only beginning my considerations. I will continue to deliberate for your sakes.
( OOC | While Set is here to Report On It, any characters that went poking around the explorer's bodies would be able to find blue dust that causes their Shadows to go "YEAH LMAO NO"!! Set's personal responses will be delayed, as I'm still tagging the event!
Feel free to take this in whatever direction you'd like. Did your character uncover something? Are they interested in something that happened during the event? Are they considering anything based on Certain Experiences They Had In Canon? pepesilvia.gif )
un: jonas.
un: lark
I mean, where do they go?
Why are we here at all if there's something else waiting???
un: η«
text; un: warder
Perhaps the powder is residue from a plant. My assumption is the Oakwoods themselves are responsible for the explorers' deaths. It wouldn't be the first time a wood turned on its inhabitants after being slighted.
text; un: keith
un: bloodrose | text
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I share the same thoughts as the one below --
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However, the idea elicits far too many follow-up questions for me to commit to it at this time. Too much is unknown.
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Are we truly loose souls, or are our souls tethered to our bodies still?
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[ Even if he wants to yeet you through a wall still. FRUSTRATING CHILD!! ]
I thought the same as you. 'Were their souls taken somewhere else'. The reapers we faced tried to haul us off wholesale, but who's to say they did not have the means to part soul from form once at the Forges.
As for the rider -- are you aware if anyone was able to pursue it effectively?
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[ also several folks who are just, generally interested in drugs which is kind of alchemy?? also, he's sorely tempted to actually put some on his tongue to test it out ye olde style. ]
In this place, I'm dismissing nothing. The Oakwoods did come alive around us at times, threatening our safety -- why not a residue, as you said, that infested them and caused their demise.
You've experience with hostile forests, then?
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Maybe the headless thing on a horse had smth to do with it. It was on a tear, and it killed all those ppl.
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Who is this. I don't know the user name.
... But no. I followed him myself and [had a very bad no good day] failed. There was something at work I couldn't identify, it made it impossible to corner or trap him. He may have returned later to kill again. If someone else was more successful, I didn't see.
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Where you come from, at least. You know a lot more than a human could...
If the flow here is arrested, are we meant to move on somewhere else?
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Some experience, yes. The Black Shroud was home to spirits known as Elementals, and the people who lived there did so only by their grace. Any who dared antagonize them would soon face 'the Greenwrath'. Treants would uproot themselves and attack, animals would turn unusually hostile, that sort of thing.
The Elementals strength has waned the past few years, but I expect it's only a matter of time for them to regain it.
[ There's also the woods he grew up in, but that was more thanks to the reputation of the wood-warders than anything supernatural... ]
( un: mellifa | text )
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do they count differently where you hail from
because i'm counting eight
what's the ninth
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Oh, right. That would be the intellect. Akh.
It requires proper funeral rites and offerings, without which it has difficulty entering existence.
text.
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are you saying the intellect doesnβt exist until after someoneβs died
text βͺ un: retort
When you said the dead were filled with dread, did you glean that from their corpses' expressions? Or were you able to read their emotions in another manner?
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What do YOU think happened to them, Jonas?
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I don't know the answer to where we're meant to go from here. I hate to admit it, but I'm sure my brother would have been more knowledgeable about the afterlife.
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Kemet's god of war, Set. The redhead. We had the same style choice for a while.
A rider who comes and goes as it pleases, slaughter in its wake. Hm. I wonder if it did return later, as you suggested - if so, did it kill anyone other than the individuals involved in that rite. I'm concerned it wanted to disrupt such a thing.
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THERE'S AN ENTITY?? I'm assuming you don't mean those feathered hags!
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Don't quote me, not in this place, as it is not Kemet nor beholden to its ways.
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[ him not man of science jayce, him smash..... ]
I guess, the way that I was differentiating between the two group was -- I felt nothing from the explorers, when I came in contact with them. No emotions, no memories, no thoughts. Nothing that was 'them', in comparison to the slain members of the rite. I felt their emotions, and saw things they had as well.
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Have you examined it, yet? Did you feel -- did anything happen, when you were collecting it?
Regarding the explorers, I saw their faces. At least, the ones who had faces. They were contorted into the most agonized expressions, and when I touched them... there was nothing. There ought to have been something, the way that there was with the Hierarchy members -- I have, a curse, you see. It makes it so that I see their pain, feel their agony...
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The intellect, or akh, is -- complex. It's not an act of thought, but more of a living representation of the dead. It's like... what is the word. Hold on, let me use the translator --
[ he really can't figure out how to say it without forcing the autotranslation to decide on the word it wants to use to convey the ancient tongue he speaks ]
A 'ghost'.
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No, there was nothing. There should have been... something. Anything. But there was no spark, no reaction. The only thing I could gather was that my Shadow seemed quite displeased with its presenceβand so I collected as much as I could in response.
[ There's a pause. Kaito stares at his phone, at the words he's reading. A small, sad smile draws on his features. ]
You have my condolences. I wish I could say it's a comfort to meet another who experiences such, but it's not. Our curse can be a gift, but it's typically just... pain. I experience the emotions of those who live, but I can tap into the emotions of the dead if needed.
That aside, it's quite troubling that those who were lost in the forest had nothing attached to their lingering auras. I wonder if the libraries in Serene might be able to provide us further context on this.
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What happens if you don't pass the test?
[ Not Gonna Ask About Sibling Drama ]
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[He takes his time replying to this one here, choosing to respond when he's a little more alert.]
Tell me, do you recall meeting a young boy within the forest?
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Ah. The supposed god. I remember you now.
We don't have enough information to tell, but several of the dead belonged to the Hierarchy.
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or the word you're using is wrong
being dead
being a ghost doesn't make you smart
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Maybe whoever or whatever did this took or absorbed the souls and that's it's drool or smth? Or maybe the soul removal process was like cremation and that's what's left of them?? Maybe they're just being peddled at the Forge and forced to inhabit shovels for all of eternity.