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KENOMA | voice, forward-dated to the onset of tdm dreams
[ Hello resident Kenomies, guess who???
Actually if you have no idea who this asshole is, that's okay, because rest assured he doesn't want to get to know most of you either. Unfortunately, business calls, and for the sake of not looking like an absolute gaggle of buffoons in front of the Regent a second time, everyone's neighborhood-(un)friendly furry is here to begrudgingly use Mind Twitter™ to make a public briefing.
It's largely voice only, because Eustace prefers to keep things impersonal, and shot through with an undercurrent of business-like terseness. ]
I'll make this quick. Many of us here don't have the experience to engage in a fistfight, let alone any sort of actual war. [ Or whatever the hell is going on here with the Regent and their plan for world destruction. ] For those of you with no combat experience but wanting to learn, Ciel and I are willing to teach you. Both of us are skilled in hand-to-hand combat, battlefield strategy, as well as various weapons. Emet-Selch has also volunteered his services, if you're looking for something outside the usual sphere.
[ Like magic, maybe.
But wait, there's more! From a different person no less. Still voice, and maybe some may recognize this one as part of a very exclusive club of Kenomas who not only did NOT get chewed out by the Regent, but also seemed to have gained their approval?? She’s sounding just as serious, but oddly also gives off the vibes of a science teacher of some sort, hm…]
I am not well placed to teach it, but I do have experience and understanding of magic. The possibilities in Horos are far greater too, the Regent themselves have said that anyone can develop powerful abilities regardless of their beginnings. According to Xishen, Aion powers don't adhere to any particular ruleset, they are mainly reflective of the person developing them: their wants, their needs, their expectations, towards themselves and the world around them. Those of us who already have supernatural powers merely retain traits we used to have in our previous lives.
Knowing that, we can help each other form ideas for personalized abilities you may wish to develop. They do not necessarily have to be combat oriented either, having combat oriented application is enough. For example, conjuring light: such a power would be most practical in navigating across low visibility spaces, but can be used to blind someone else in a pinch. Ways to harness it inwards instead of trying to influence your environment outwards can also be effective, such as reinforcing your own body to become stronger and more durable if you were mainly used to physical brawls before. Don’t be restricted by ideas of magic if you only knew it as fiction before, there’s much that can be done.
[ Eustace is happy to let Ciel explain this particular bit, because he sure as hell has no practical experience in this department. He's already moving on to cover something else anyway. ]
Additionally, preparation includes researching the opposition. If you know anything about the Pleroma, especially about any skills or powers they have, let the rest of us know.
We’ll start things off and group them by individual, prioritizing the strongest ones in combat. Please feel free to add names or faces, it’s fine if they’re a stranger as long as you remember what they look like and the powers they exhibited. I’ll be making a physical copy of notes for what we compile, it will be available to reference on demand.
[ Thanks for being the minutes keeper, Ciel. To close everything out, there's one last switch back to Eustace. ]
If you have any questions, ask.
[ There are indeed such things as stupid questions here, but at least the Regent won't be the one judging you for them. Maybe.
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OOC NOTES—
TL;DR: IC training offer/regain ideas power brainstorming/Pleroma shittalking powers notes comparing 3-for-1! We can handwave the training montages, for the two other points threadjacking is highly encouraged! Pleroma info compiling will happen under its separate TL, feel free to add new TLs under that with a name or url to someone’s icon (because why bother learning what the enemy is called, right) in the subject line if it’s someone your character would ICly want to draw attention to, it’s what Ciel and Eustace are doing based after their own PVP experiences. As per mod clarification to communion, this transmission will “float” around for about a day, which should give characters the opportunity to pitch in on whatever topic they want. We hope this all made sense! Feel free to ping us in the Discord/shoot us a PM with any OOC questions.
Also just in case: black = Eustace, blue = Ciel. ]
Actually if you have no idea who this asshole is, that's okay, because rest assured he doesn't want to get to know most of you either. Unfortunately, business calls, and for the sake of not looking like an absolute gaggle of buffoons in front of the Regent a second time, everyone's neighborhood-(un)friendly furry is here to begrudgingly use Mind Twitter™ to make a public briefing.
It's largely voice only, because Eustace prefers to keep things impersonal, and shot through with an undercurrent of business-like terseness. ]
I'll make this quick. Many of us here don't have the experience to engage in a fistfight, let alone any sort of actual war. [ Or whatever the hell is going on here with the Regent and their plan for world destruction. ] For those of you with no combat experience but wanting to learn, Ciel and I are willing to teach you. Both of us are skilled in hand-to-hand combat, battlefield strategy, as well as various weapons. Emet-Selch has also volunteered his services, if you're looking for something outside the usual sphere.
[ Like magic, maybe.
But wait, there's more! From a different person no less. Still voice, and maybe some may recognize this one as part of a very exclusive club of Kenomas who not only did NOT get chewed out by the Regent, but also seemed to have gained their approval?? She’s sounding just as serious, but oddly also gives off the vibes of a science teacher of some sort, hm…]
I am not well placed to teach it, but I do have experience and understanding of magic. The possibilities in Horos are far greater too, the Regent themselves have said that anyone can develop powerful abilities regardless of their beginnings. According to Xishen, Aion powers don't adhere to any particular ruleset, they are mainly reflective of the person developing them: their wants, their needs, their expectations, towards themselves and the world around them. Those of us who already have supernatural powers merely retain traits we used to have in our previous lives.
Knowing that, we can help each other form ideas for personalized abilities you may wish to develop. They do not necessarily have to be combat oriented either, having combat oriented application is enough. For example, conjuring light: such a power would be most practical in navigating across low visibility spaces, but can be used to blind someone else in a pinch. Ways to harness it inwards instead of trying to influence your environment outwards can also be effective, such as reinforcing your own body to become stronger and more durable if you were mainly used to physical brawls before. Don’t be restricted by ideas of magic if you only knew it as fiction before, there’s much that can be done.
[ Eustace is happy to let Ciel explain this particular bit, because he sure as hell has no practical experience in this department. He's already moving on to cover something else anyway. ]
Additionally, preparation includes researching the opposition. If you know anything about the Pleroma, especially about any skills or powers they have, let the rest of us know.
We’ll start things off and group them by individual, prioritizing the strongest ones in combat. Please feel free to add names or faces, it’s fine if they’re a stranger as long as you remember what they look like and the powers they exhibited. I’ll be making a physical copy of notes for what we compile, it will be available to reference on demand.
[ Thanks for being the minutes keeper, Ciel. To close everything out, there's one last switch back to Eustace. ]
If you have any questions, ask.
[ There are indeed such things as stupid questions here, but at least the Regent won't be the one judging you for them. Maybe.
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OOC NOTES—
TL;DR: IC training offer/
Also just in case: black = Eustace, blue = Ciel. ]
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Of course. Let us know your availability and what you hope to achieve, that you're willing is enough for us.
[She follows along his pivot, seamless in its transition.]
I have no concrete example to reference, but spontaneous manifestation seems as likely as a process of gradual buildup. Xishen would likely know more details, as one of the few Aions remaining who've lingered on this plane for more than decades following the last great war. She did already teach us about communion, too. That said, the more of us try, the more likely we'll also have results to compare among ourselves. I've made a suggestion to Amos some time back he was receptive to, but I haven't checked back with him about it since.
[He might be a potential point of reference, whether he decides to chime in or they reach out to him first.]
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[ So Ciel beat him to the punch on that front. That's cool. Amos' voice comes through laidback, like this is something that's just par for the course, actually. (In a way, it is, isn't it? Or if not now, it will be soon enough.) ]
Magic isn't a thing where I'm from, so hell if I knew what to think about any of this, but I'd also like to actually be useful. Talked some things over with a couple of people. Just spitballing, but it made sense. I've spent a lot of years in fluctuating gravity environments, and lo and behold, think I can recreate that now.
[ There's a brief pause, and a slight uptick in happiness in his voice when he speaks up again. ]
Feel stronger, too. So that's good.
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[The message is accompanied by a celebratory and uplifting warmth, the sentiment isn't held back and very much genuine.]
Please let us know if you'd like practice and/or sparring partners, we'll help in however ways we can too.
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[ He's pretty chill about it all, but damn, if that sentiment doesn't feel really nice. He kinda just wants to sit with it for a moment; it's foreign to actually feel something like that. Sure would be nice if he could reciprocate it, but a muted sort of pride will have to be good enough. ]
I'd be down, it'd be nice to get a sense of what I can really do with this. [ In a fight; other stuff is kinda useless. ] Feels like I'm hitting a wall any time I try to really use it, but it's only been a few days, so who knows.
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Thank you for sharing your perspective on this. While I must admit I would prefer a more specific method to obtaining these powers, I'm gladdened to hear that it seems to have happened organically enough for you. Especially considering you didn't have any prior experience with such matters.
( regardless of what one might expect of a demon, makoto didn't have any innate magical abilities, so it's a bit of a relief to hear... )
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Yeah, I got nothing on how to make it actually happen, sorry. For all I know it was dumb luck on my end, like I started thinking about things I could maybe do and a little later I could kinda just... feel it. At least the bar seems pretty low.
[ They're all on the same team; he'd help if he could, but this is still all really new to him. ]
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I appreciate it.
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Certainly. I am the one beseeching you and yours for help, so I am also more than willing to make clearance in my schedule for whenever might be most convenient for you, Ciel.
My goals are simple enough. Still bereft as I am of any magical ability, I want to be able to wield weapons well enough to be able to attack and defend with at least moderate competency.
( he doesn't really have the terminology to explain specifics in words, so he tries to convey a brief scene to her: a tall man (makoto's retainer, it seems) pressing two very different types of blades into his hands. they're daggers, as he isn't really strong enough to wield anything larger — in his right hand is a long and elegant dirk, meant for piercing, while in the left is a parrying dagger with a cutting blade, a heavy cross-guard, and notches meant to catch enemy weapons worked into the metal close to where the two conjoin. "offense and defense," he had been told by his retainer at the time. )