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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.]
subsist: (pic#15626303)

[personal profile] subsist 2022-07-11 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ this is why this guy is with the pleroma...? strange....... ]
passio: (pic#12440857)

[personal profile] passio 2022-07-11 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ hey fuck off ]



[ in truth, rather than anger, dextera simply hunches his shoulders. miraculously, he isn’t embarrassed by the regent calling him out so plainly—he knows he just restarted the world, taking everything that was already present to him and changing one element. it’s a shame the regent doesn’t have anything they find so dear as to understand why that element was everything.

that seems to be the end of that, in any case. maybe another day. ]
epiprocta: (59)

[personal profile] epiprocta 2022-07-11 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ Dextera ........... what the fuck ]
semicharmed: (NERRRRD)

[personal profile] semicharmed 2022-07-11 03:34 am (UTC)(link)
[ Matt has finally stopped dissociating long enough to pay attention, and ...

Listen, he has a lot of empathy for this position. Not the ideological position, his take on whether one can cleanse the cycle of life and death is a little closer to well not with that attitude. No, specifically he can empathize with the social position of the Regent dunking on you in front of all your peers.

It sucks! It really does! Especially when other people pile on and then before you know it it's a whole Thing. You're doing amazing, heretic. ]
dragonmount: (🔆 020.)

[personal profile] dragonmount 2022-07-11 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ i mean, that's fair man ]
wolof: I craved the taste of it (A poison so sweet)

[personal profile] wolof 2022-07-11 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
I understand.

[ She did, because she'd taken those hundreds of thousands of souls. She'd looked at the long cost -- and then she'd paid that oh so long price. ]

There are those here who you won't convince. I think the Regent among them.
comelately: (we took all the blows)

[personal profile] comelately 2022-07-11 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
Shut up! There's no reason that I would be "alive" and he wouldn't...!! Is he in one of those egg things, too?!
vapour: (pic#15709339)

[personal profile] vapour 2022-07-11 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
Come on, Grandpa!!! Childe is best grandchild.
vivificantem: (086.  master grant that i may never seek)

[personal profile] vivificantem 2022-07-11 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
We're not a suicide cult, for one thing. We would be doing a pretty bad job of ending ourselves if that were the case; we're not waiting for any specific signs from the Regent - we haven't even been actively working against you, until now.

As for suffering being a part of life, I never said it wasn't. At the same time, I don't believe it right or fair for the continued existence of a few to be considered worth the combined suffering of many, which is the current state of the world.

Life normally adheres to some sort of cycle, whether we like that or not. The Pleroma's refusal to let the current cycle end isn't going to change the inevitable, and I'd argue that it shouldn't be allowed to.
lachtara: (Conversations)

[personal profile] lachtara 2022-07-11 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ Perhaps it may be overlooked - although it is not entirely with the intent of making a point to be seen - but Emet-Selch gives an assessing look in Zenos' direction. He is mildly curious about what this could bring. ]
vapour: (pic#15709362)

[personal profile] vapour 2022-07-11 03:43 am (UTC)(link)
—Got a surprise for you, Father.
comelately: (of a mile-deep hollow)

[personal profile] comelately 2022-07-11 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
...!

[ angry grunt. ]

Fuck you! I don't believe it... I won't.
baltimores: (075; it’s a long way)

[personal profile] baltimores 2022-07-11 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ Yeah, this doesn't seem to be working, and Amos doesn't get why. He drops his hand, leans in a little closer so he can be heard as he matches Matt in tone. ]

If that's what you want. [ There's a promise to his words. He'll come and find him when this is all over. ] It'll be okay, though. We just gotta do what they say. We got nothing to worry about.

[ Remember their chat after the feast, Matt? The first time they'd met the Regent? They'd both fucked up. They'd both gotten second chances. This is that; time to hold up their end of the bargain. ]
vivificantem: (090. and to be loved)

[personal profile] vivificantem 2022-07-11 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
[He can read the Deep Concern, though he can't quite gauge what it's for.]

Several of those with you seem to believe that I'm either determined to lie to you or that I simply don't know any better, due to either being some kind of deranged or just not knowing what I'm talking about. But you would trust the answer I give you?
baltimores: (149; well alright)

[personal profile] baltimores 2022-07-11 04:03 am (UTC)(link)
[ Amos searches to meet Kaeya's eyes, a distinct happiness to his own gaze. Yeah, you're fitting right in, buddy. Really glad to have you. ]
subsist: (pic#15626284)

[personal profile] subsist 2022-07-11 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
Father Abel...

[ abel speaks as if he understands who kaeya is and what he's been through. maybe he does, maybe he doesn't, but there's one thing for certain. ]

You have no idea what kind of person I am.

[ a traitor. a sinner. all the things that no one will ever love. abel wouldn't be saying any of this if he knew. after all, if not even his sworn brother could accept the truth... what are the chances that others will? ]

But I appreciate your words nonetheless. I know you mean well.
warmare: (恐慌)

[personal profile] warmare 2022-07-11 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
[Hayame has considered what she would do if she met this so-called Regent countless times since she awoke naked and weak as a foal in a hell that others called a shrine. She has fantasized about the sound her arrows would make punching through armor, the way bones might crunch beneath her hooves. But that had been a dream of meeting a physical being in a place that is real, and this-

This is magic, dark and foreign and something she still hasn't been able to master or even bring herself to accept, even as it happens around her. Some of the few people she was bound to by debt are rendered mute and useless with mere flicks of fingers. The shadowy being claims responsibility for the death of the worlds, her world, and all she can do-

Is stand there, shaking with rage. If she doesn't have rage, then it will be fear, and she can't- She cannot show this thing fear. She had not cared at all who was Pleroma and who was Kenoma until this moment, and now... She cannot show this thing or its servants fear, because in a matter of sentences they have become "enemy" instead.

And a warrior- a warrior cannot let their enemies have anything. Not their fear, not their blood, not their heads. (Or in this place...shards.) If her world is gone, then she has nothing but revenge to stop her knees from trembling. And revenge must have targets.

So Hayame doesn't speak at all.

Instead, she stares. She stares at every single aion in the court that bows to or speaks deferentially to the Regent... and it isn't a look that demands answers, explanations, or apologies.

It's memorization. Every silhouette, every shade of hair, every turn of joint, every eye color, every hint of scar or defining mark.

Everything she'll need to try and hunt them down like dogs in the streets once they leave this realm of magic and shadows and return to one where her strength might actually mean something.]
hikikosaurus: (it has a knife)

this post has the best mood whiplash, I love it

[personal profile] hikikosaurus 2022-07-11 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
[It takes her a minute - in which she carefully doesn't look behind her, in case it's a trick - before she realizes what he must mean.]

What, uh, what kind of question is that? I'm a lizard.
subsist: (pic#15697784)

[personal profile] subsist 2022-07-11 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ kaeya looks up just in time to catch amos' approval. if amos is happy... then that'll have to be enough, right? that's enough for him.

he simply nods quietly. i'm with you. ]
hikikosaurus: (yes we're going)

[personal profile] hikikosaurus 2022-07-11 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
[She lets out a slow breath, relieved to hear one of the others say so.]

I wish we could just... Talk it out, you know? But talking's just riling p-people up... I guess it really can't be so easy as all that.

[Of course, the worst is yet to come - scant minutes before the Regent confirms they destroyed everyone's worlds.]
baltimores: (143; I won’t)

[personal profile] baltimores 2022-07-11 04:18 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's the sense of, We're gonna have to catch up sometime. Like before.

Maybe this time, he'll be the one to provide the drinks. ]
locumstudentesquire: (HE WANTS TO TAKE DOWN HIS PREY)

[personal profile] locumstudentesquire 2022-07-11 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
....

[He pauses, crossing his arms at his chest to turn their response over in his head. He's still seething. This... person, who or what ever they are, is the root of all evil, as far as he's come to understand things. They're the reason his own world is threatened, the reason he and the other Pleroma have to scrabble around in the woods just to survive... The reason for all the misery in Horos, essentially. It's way harder to NOT yell at them?

...Kazuma's voice echoes through his head, unbidden.

You mustn't burst out like that when goaded, Ryunosuke. That's a lesson you need to learn.]


...A little bit, actually, yes.

[He still looks kinda angry as he says it, but it might just be the eyebrows.]

Actually, what I feel better about is the confirmation that you're simply a tyrant the same as any other: A pathetic, selfish bully, convinced that your intentions justify enacting whatever cruelty you please when in truth, you're not fit to rule a latrine, much less an entire world!

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