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Aion Teleos NPCs ([personal profile] aionpcs) wrote in [community profile] aionchat2022-07-10 02:52 pm
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THE REGENT'S ADDRESS [OPEN TO ALL]

[It comes on fast, once the Regent has your spirit in their hold. Around you, you may see other Aions stumble in the same moment, as if shaken by the same tectonic motion. An inexorable darkness claws at your senses, and you have only a few moments, hard fought, to reposition yourself so that you don't simply drop to the ground when it overtakes you. It has similarities to Communion, to the way another entity's thoughts and words reach out to your mind, but by the same token it's entirely foreign.

This presence is not like another person, it is like a raging, screaming cacophony that drowns out everything else in its path. Whether you be Kenoma or Pleroma, the Regent's presence in this metaphysical realm is staggering. To the Pleroma, though, it also feels caustic, as if the movement of their aura is enough to erode your own, with time.

Gradually, a new world forms. Unlike other Communions, where you are ultimately grounded in reality, here you can been dragged to what seems to be its own distinct psychic realm. A vast, void-filled courtroom, where only the throne at its front has a defined form. Around you, you see shadows of other people, other Aions, that have summoned along with you... but for the moment they seem spectral and unclear, their identities obscured by the realm's aggressive focus on its master.

The Regent sits at their throne, their body swathed in dark fabrics that drift and flutter like smoke. They have no face to be seen, only a faceted silver mask, without any markings or the barest indication of what might be beneath it. Their size is indistinct, maybe a bit taller than you are. They at first sit reclined, but straight up as their 'guests' arrive.]


It's been a long time coming, my subjects.

[At first, they are the only one that can be heard. Though you feel as if you have some physical presence here, a shadowy body of your own, if you attempt to speak no sound emerges.]

To the Pleroma: well done surviving thus far. Granted, I feel as if my Kenoma have made things easy for you. How strange, that most of you were allowed to wander a city within my empire without recourse. Able to summon that wretched creature to your side, even.

I hope you've enjoyed yourself, in the time you've had, because this will be no more. You've spread your infection in Venera, in Godsblood, and it is only necessary that these wounds be cleansed by the touch of the Kenoma. Your presence gives the people ideas... ideas that would disrupt the fragile peace they've come to enjoy, after so many years of suffering. As a kindness, I will only trim the vine, rather than burn the vineyard. What Venerans have taken up your cause, I will see shorn from my empire. And in Godsblood... an example will be made, as of the Sovereign's moon.

My Kenoma will do this for me. Fight them, if you want. But know that I am no longer asking for your fealty. I am demanding it.

[As if opening their court for questions, you will find yourself more able to act. Those that speak or take action will find their physical forms taking shape, standing in the court as people rather than shadows. If you want to question the Regent, now is the time to do so.

OOC: This post is a free for all! We will try to response as the Regent to people who directly engage with them, but you are also allowed to threadjack and interact with each other if you like. Please note that we will not be responding to tag ins done later than the 12th.]
inutilis: (✞ gentle questions.)

[personal profile] inutilis 2022-07-11 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
That isn't true.

[ this answer firms something in his eyes; it isn't anger or indignation, but some deepening of grief. ]

You have your life. You have the lives of those beside you-- the memories of those you loved, and who loved you in return. You have everyone who will love you still, even if you keep down this path you've chosen.

The reason... matters. You matter. And there is always more to lose if you gamble like this.
dragonmount: (🔆 036.)

[personal profile] dragonmount 2022-07-11 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ it's because of the response the last time he'd asked a reflexive question that he bites back this one too. why should the regent tell him, an enemy, what they need to succeed — and what the pleroma need to stop? ]

Did you destroy our worlds?
semicharmed: (nervous gesture 2)

[personal profile] semicharmed 2022-07-11 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ On a theoretical level, Matt can acknowledge that the mind, the body, and the spirit are bound by subtle strings. One pulls on the other. So the phantom of Amos' touch should feel the same as the real thing--but Matt can't help which strings tug at his heart most easily. Upon realizing what Amos is doing, he feels almost lonelier for it, like getting a reminder that you can be close to someone in a technical sense yet feel as though you're worlds apart.

Still, he can appreciate what Amos is going for here. If Matt doesn't focus too hard, the contact feels nearly like it would if they were in person. ]


Thanks, [ he murmurs. And then, his mental voice feathering to a whisper, he adds, ] We can talk later.

[ He kind of means "never." He's used to having people not check up on him--at home, at school, in the cities where he's rented and then moved on. Here, too. Like for real, who around here actually stops their day to see whether he's alive or dead? Hopefully, Amos will be distracted with the Regent's chess moves and Matt can just ... keep his misgivings to himself. ]
comelately: (what can I say)

[personal profile] comelately 2022-07-11 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
There's a big leap between greater change and deciding everything needs to go. You're not the judge, no matter how high and mighty you are.

[ he folds his arms, sighing. ]

Look... I don't know what the "right" thing to do is. I'm not expecting you to change what you're doin' just because of what some loser said to you here. I'm just trying to understand why this is happening to me.
comelately: (the race on my own)

[personal profile] comelately 2022-07-11 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
'Cause this wasn't my problem until you pulled me here. Why do we have to solve your shit for you? Look at me - you think I don't got enough issues already?

[ he knows the scope of this conflict is, apparently, encompassing all of creation - but it's hard for him to wrap his head around that. It doesn't seem that big; he'd never seen hide nor hair of it back on Earth. In his mind, he feels like this should just be contained to this world, or wherever the Regent is from. Callous, perhaps, but honest. ]

... I got problems, but I was getting somewhere for once, even if it was a struggle. I don't want all of that to disappear. I know I'm not the only one.
passio: (pic#12118226)

[personal profile] passio 2022-07-11 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ dextera flinches; the flippancy makes him feel like an idiot. ]

But…

[ he doesn’t understand how everyone can so valiantly speak up against the regent, or how some members of the kenoma can casually speak with them as if they’re a friend. dextera is crushed under the weight of their presence—even if they have an advantage by being familiar. ]

I’ve already done it… I’ve already remade the world… and nothing changed.
aquaveiled: (himeka-574)

[personal profile] aquaveiled 2022-07-11 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
[ Himeka exhales slowly, but nods. ]

Yes. I have.

[ What she doesn't say is that she's afraid she may have to do it again. Here. ]

I wouldn't wish it on my enemies.
comelately: (we're blind by design)

[personal profile] comelately 2022-07-11 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ ... ]

All right, fine. Make it my problem, then. Keep staying in my way, and I'll kill you.
dragonmount: (🔆 dragon reborn.)

[personal profile] dragonmount 2022-07-11 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
[ if he hadn't already been channeling, already been holding the One Power, he might have just snapped off an answer.

but he is, and his control is poor even at the best of times, and this is not — the best of times. he doesn't even think. it's not a conscious decision. but between one heartbeat and the next, he gathers up all that destructive power that'd been sizzling through his bloodstream

and hurls it at the regent in a burst of bright light. ]
passio: (pic#6016793)

[personal profile] passio 2022-07-11 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
I brought my brother back… I brought him back, but he left again…

[ he says this slowly, as if recalling a memory. ]

Life is doomed to repeat. You can’t cleanse it all.
comelately: (even when the sun is burning)

[personal profile] comelately 2022-07-11 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ dextera is being traumatized right now but please know that somewhere nearby, johnny is staring at him as he speaks with a combination of bewilderment, confusion, and possible offense (on the chance that dextera was just pretending to be mute before...) ]
affal: (178)

[personal profile] affal 2022-07-11 03:26 am (UTC)(link)
lockedon: <user name=cocodar site=twitter.com> (094)

[personal profile] lockedon 2022-07-11 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ Dex....................buddy, pal......... ]
snakeandfangs: (pic#15419446)

[personal profile] snakeandfangs 2022-07-11 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
I don't have to demand anything from anyone.

[ narrowing his eyes, toge doesn't like being judgmental--- but in the face of someone willing to be this oppressive...? ]

Sorry that you do.
comelately: (we are exactly where i wanted us to be)

[personal profile] comelately 2022-07-11 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
-- Then where the fuck is Gyro? Why isn't he here, too?

[ i'm sorry rand but this is PRESSING ]
vivificantem: (086.  master grant that i may never seek)

jesus let us pretend that I know how grammar works

[personal profile] vivificantem 2022-07-11 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
The Regent discourages unconditional love. It's something that I can understand, given our ultimate goal. But love doesn't have to be unconditional to hurt like that. And sometimes you love people so much that you have to destroy them.

Unconditional love is a selfishness. It just encourages you to hold on to that which should have been released long ago. Smothering. Impeding us, and impeding others. Our love and our desire for peace - our desire for all beings and all worlds to know freedom from suffering - just happens to look like this. Different from yours, but it's as I've been saying. I don't hate you.

Nothing about this is about despair, or hating life, or hating you.
Edited (fml that was going to bug me) 2022-07-12 02:00 (UTC)

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