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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.]
vivificantem: (029. nearer my god to thee!)

[personal profile] vivificantem 2022-07-10 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Believe what you will. I'm sure I wouldn't want to believe that my actions were prolonging the suffering of those I care about, either. Those I claim to love.

Others suffer so that you can live. This is just fact; it always has been, regardless of what world you find yourself on. How many here have suffered, have gone to great difficulties to keep you safe? How many wouldn't be in danger right now, were it not for you?

Is it worth it?
vapour: (pic#15154906)

[personal profile] vapour 2022-07-10 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Calm down, puppy. No one listens to a dog that can only bark 100% of the time.
subsist: (pic#15626809)

[personal profile] subsist 2022-07-10 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ ... hm. consider kaeya mildly surprised that barnaby is asking questions so freely, but he says nothing for now. time to keep an eye on one rabbit. ]
chronosynthesis: (❖ Well of Precognition)

[personal profile] chronosynthesis 2022-07-10 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Syrlya doesn't even have the words to respond to this, he just stares at Paul an expression caught between bafflement and incredulity.

What the hell is that.]
youngprodigy: (∄ speak up)

[personal profile] youngprodigy 2022-07-10 09:05 pm (UTC)(link)
[The scowl on his face deepens.

It's obvious he doesn't entirely know how to respond, however.]


...People are stronger than you give them credit for.
lachtara: (Souls)

/s-soothed

[personal profile] lachtara 2022-07-10 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
He half expects some manner of discipline to be at the door and still answers it regardless.

Instead, there is a servant with tea he hasn't asked for. It's met with a mild look of suspicion, but he takes it anyway. The brew is a familiar blend used for calming headaches and the like.

Who would assume he needed....? Ah, Ciel.

He gives a genuinely amused smirk. Ah, how terrible astute of her in assuming he would get a headache from such a short exchange. Emet-Selch closes the door without a word and sips the tea quietly, making an 'Mmm' noise of approval as he does so.
snakeandfangs: (pic#15435837)

[personal profile] snakeandfangs 2022-07-10 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ if he didn't have the wherewithal to stop himself, then it would certainly be yuuta who reigns him in. that hand, that touch, is more convincing than anything that could be said or done. because in the end if toge did decide to continue... ]

... Yuuta...

[ as much as he wants to fight, it's pretty much impossible on a number of fronts. downcast, toge shakes his head. ]

Mentaiko.

[ fuck ]
vapour: (pic#15016253)

[personal profile] vapour 2022-07-10 09:06 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It is what it is. He has nothing against Toge, of course, and he's actually one of the few Pleroma he sympathizes with. He definitely isn't feeling amused or proud watching the Regent do any of this, on top of their continually political bullshit. He signed up to fight people and end the world, not bring a reign of peace under terror.

What a mess.

Still Childe will motion to Toge with his fingers and tap gently on his chin in a 'chin up' fashion. Don't be sad over him, that's a waste of energy.
]
dragonmount: (🔆 old haunts.)

from across the metaphysical room,

[personal profile] dragonmount 2022-07-10 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ you good, dude? ]
youngprodigy: (≉  to die to die to die)

[personal profile] youngprodigy 2022-07-10 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[Do you ever have the sudden realization that someone you thought was merely misguided is completely fucking insane?

Cid can't even glare, because this is easily one of the craziest things he's ever heard anyone say.]
vapour: (pic#15040731)

[personal profile] vapour 2022-07-10 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ cool, this is exactly what Childe wanted to say but didn't feel like getting bitchslapped by the Regent for making them look bad.

Thank you for doing this.
]
recursive: (74)

[personal profile] recursive 2022-07-10 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
( he gets it. he really does. he would want to believe this is the ideal situation to try to put this bad guy down, with all of them here to combine their efforts to do so, but —

his gut tells him that's not the case. he knows it's not the same, but they might as well be within the Regent's domain expansion; this place operates to their rules, with a full guarantee to hit.

he replies in a low undertone: )
I know. But this isn't the right time or place. We'll get another chance.
hippocarnival: (✮ 137 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2022-07-10 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yuya doesn't speak up at first, in part due to the horror of the Regent's threat. But he does listen, to the Regent, and to everyone who speaks up before him.

And he... understands, a little better than he'd like to, the Regent's stance. But that's a line of thinking he swore he wouldn't follow again. And he hates the idea that some of the people directly hurt by the Regent are supporting it.]


Is it... really other people's suffering you're doing this for, or just your own?

[He couldn't see the people around him when he was drowning under that kind of miasma. Not really.]
galdorleod: ([blond] silhouette)

[personal profile] galdorleod 2022-07-10 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Howl recovers from the shock of this 'invitation' relatively quickly. There's something distinctly familiar about the roar of this darkness, the way it overwhelms the mind, and while Howl is just as susceptible to it as everyone else, it comes as much less of a jarring surprise.

He watches everything unfold around him — Estinien's predictable attempt at the Regent, the shouts of anger and disapproval from the Pleroma Aions as they find themselves before the Regent for the first time, the sense of annoyance that some of his fellow Kenomas express at the Regent's decision to do all this — in silence. Internally, a heavy emptiness starts to weigh on him. He knows that this means war — finally, the war is beginning, and things are going to get bad.

And that... is fine. It does not trouble him. He has no objections, nor is he particularly excited. It's what the Regent wants, and so, he must do it. No other course of action makes sense.

Still, Howl is acutely aware of the fact that this is the first time he's seen or spoken to the Regent since his flagrant disrespect of them several months ago. During a lapse in the drama, he takes a step forward, puts a hand to his chest, and bows at the waist. As is usual when Howl feels like he has nothing to say for himself, he says nothing, relying instead on the meager physical gesture to say what he doesn't have the courage to try to express.
]
galdorleod: ([blond] conversation)

[personal profile] galdorleod 2022-07-10 09:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[ A+, no notes. ]
aquaveiled: (himeka-543)

[personal profile] aquaveiled 2022-07-10 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Himeka's eyes narrow, the twitching of her tail becoming more staccato. A microcosm indeed...what they do here won't have any effect on the world outside, will it? Estinien will remain unharmed?

She glances up to her friend before resettling her gaze on the facsimile of the Regent's face. ]


Will it?

[ There's a twinge of skepticism in her own voice. The Regent did say they can't trust the Kenoma to do as they wished. And she has to believe that there are those amongst the ranks who don't like this plan either. ]

It sounds like things haven't been going as planned.
epiprocta: (57)

[personal profile] epiprocta 2022-07-10 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Having manifested quite close to Kaeya in this metaphorical room -- maybe because of their shared legacies, maybe by sheer happenstance -- Kaeya should be able to hear it when Gen mutters under his breath, ]

Brown-noser.
goldendeceiver: (every crack)

[personal profile] goldendeceiver 2022-07-10 09:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Gotta say, Chamo, that'd all be a bit more compelling to us if your boss hadn't just made literal threats on the well being of those people you're looking to "keep from suffering".
goldendeceiver: (and it's both cradled you)

[personal profile] goldendeceiver 2022-07-10 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Unintentionally here for you, bro. 👍 ]
subsist: (pic#15626810)

[personal profile] subsist 2022-07-10 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
[ kaeya heard that, of course, but he won't give gen the satisfaction of drawing out a proper response. he simply shrugs his shoulders. ]
aquaveiled: (himeka-570)

we love him

[personal profile] aquaveiled 2022-07-10 09:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[ This man is absolutely...




...lost in the sauce. ]


How much of it did you end up drinking?
vivificantem: (086.  master grant that i may never seek)

[personal profile] vivificantem 2022-07-10 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Just as your own argument would be more compelling if you had chosen to listen properly. The threats made are not against those that are under our protection as a whole, but rather those being corrupted by your influence. If you fail to prune the branches that are infected with rot, you kill the tree.

Our necessary reactions cannot be said to be the fault of those spreading the infection, as it were.

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