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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.]
recursive: (91)

[personal profile] recursive 2022-07-10 09:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I —

( wind swells in his sails, then leaves them; his shoulders slump. regardless of how much he wants to, logic isn't giving him much leeway to deny any of that.

what a daunting proposition that is, though, that by the very nature of their spiritual rebellion, they were inciting forces that might hurt some of the peoples they're trying to save... still, he isn't so easily dispirited. )


It shows that you've been opposed for such a long time, and with such fervor... ( even through — death? or whatever had caused that creature to become like that? it had been misguided, but he had believed toge when he said that it felt like it had wanted to do the right thing. ) And with everything I've heard, I can understand why! Of course people would want to fight and rebel against such hopeless future... By the same logic, you force them to do so!
vivificantem: (042. there in my savior's love)

[personal profile] vivificantem 2022-07-10 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
You're welcome to continue to reject any sense of responsibility for this all you want...? I never said that you couldn't do otherwise, but you can't act as though the idea isn't applicable to human lives and expect to be taken seriously.

We strive to bring about eternal peace. Again, I don't hate you for being short-sighted, nor do I blame you. But in the end you will be held accountable for your role in the suffering you've contributed to. As will I, as will everyone else. It's an inevitability.
galdorleod: ([black] stunned)

[personal profile] galdorleod 2022-07-10 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Howl blinks and shoots Emet-Selch a vaguely mortified look. Is now the time to risk getting yourself Marked again, old man?! at least there aren't any chairs here this time ]
goldendeceiver: (i'll take back the city for me)

[personal profile] goldendeceiver 2022-07-10 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Haha... I'm sure you do.

[ Because obvious seeming trap or not, they're still all going to be walking right into it, aren't they? ]
inutilis: (☼ quietly.)

[personal profile] inutilis 2022-07-10 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Liem...

...it is hard to miss the note of something melancholy, dejected, in the frame of this particular man among the others lingering here. so, after a silence has fallen and others have moved on from this space--

there are no words, just the quiet stretch of a hand to a certain Kenoma's shoulder and a gentle squeeze.

he's sorry. ]
snakeandfangs: (pic#15419446)

[personal profile] snakeandfangs 2022-07-10 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[ they sound... confident, but does the regent really know what they're up against? ]

I'll succeed. I'm doing it for the Innocent.
Edited 2022-07-10 21:43 (UTC)
vapour: (pic#15097146)

[personal profile] vapour 2022-07-10 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ gives Alphys an encouraging pat on the back, gently so he doesn't freak her out. ]
hippocarnival: (✮ 163 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2022-07-10 09:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yuya purses his lips. Okay, he can't say it's not entirely from his own perspective, there, but the Regent doesn't ask about that. So he doesn't elaborate, either.]

You use force. Against the people of Horos. Against us. Are you really seeing other people's feelings if you only give them the chance to believe what you do?
locumstudentesquire: (pic#15737455)

[personal profile] locumstudentesquire 2022-07-10 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ryunosuke jerks his head towards the familiar voice, bristling.]

I'll bark all I have to if it means drowning out all this... This sanctimonious... [He splutters for an appropriate word for a moment;] twaddle!
vapour: (pic#15709319)

1/2

[personal profile] vapour 2022-07-10 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ huh! ]
vapour: (pic#15709320)

2/2

[personal profile] vapour 2022-07-10 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ —ok, what the hell, smiles and waves back in similar fashion.

No big deal, no one said they had to be mean to each other.
]
Edited 2022-07-10 21:46 (UTC)
goldendeceiver: (but get your epitaph right)

[personal profile] goldendeceiver 2022-07-10 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
No worries. I plan to on this one.

[ He says like guilt won't still hit hard with every life they don't manage to save, but... at least he sounds convincing right now! ]
vivificantem: (040. there in my father's home)

[personal profile] vivificantem 2022-07-10 09:47 pm (UTC)(link)
We have done nothing to attack or torment anyone until your presence rendered it necessary. You continue to fail to realize that our actions are occurring in response to yours. Again, I don't hate or blame you.

I'm simply asking you why you believe it to be right and just to ask people to die defending you.
locumstudentesquire: (whats goin on)

[personal profile] locumstudentesquire 2022-07-10 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[Listening from the sidelines and taking notes on how to be a Boss Bitch tbh]
inutilis: (☼ h-haha well....)

[personal profile] inutilis 2022-07-10 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
If I believed your conviction flimsy enough to be changed by mere discussion, then... well. I would've invited you for tea by now, Your... ah. Majesty? Eminence? --Pardon, but I haven't had the pleasure 'til now for introductions and all that...!

[ Abel's rubbing a hand into silver hair with a chuckle....... ]

...A person who has decided the end all creation doesn't do so on a whim. It will take a bit more than plucky conversation to sway your mind, I feel. It seems you agree with me.
inutilis: (☼ ahHAHAHA nervous laughter--)

[personal profile] inutilis 2022-07-10 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ --oh! oh, well, if it's to be like that,

Abel gestures. for Childe to come closer. beckoningly.

hey. pssst. hey. hey. psssst. c'mere. ]
baltimores: (076; (I’ll make it))

[personal profile] baltimores 2022-07-10 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Amos is perfectly content to leave the Regent's words as they are. They have orders. They'll fulfil them. It isn't anything more than that.

But Matt's an ally he's entrusted a lot of himself to, and one he deeply wants to protect, so this is troubling.

He makes his way over, puts a firm hand where his shoulder should be, like maybe that'll be enough to get him back under control. It's the kind of thing that's seemed to work well in the past, at least; that steady, physical(...ish) presence.

Get it together, dude. You'll be fine. ]
zauneyete: (Tee hee)

[personal profile] zauneyete 2022-07-10 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Everyone's so upset, huh? Of course, Silco appreciates the posturing -- because of course he does. Not only is it exactly the way to make a threat serious, if one makes a threat, and then backs it up, but also, it mentioned the Innocent, and Silco's eyes narrowed, even locked in his seat, flicked towards those that he knew were housing It.

Oh, yes. He wanted to rid that thing in particular, from the world.

After a lull in the conversation, almost lazily, he doesn't even get up. If only he had a cigar to really complete the entire picture.
]

Who would have thought that things would eventually escalate? [ He says, with mock surprise, a hand to his mouth. ]

If the...vines didn't want to be "trimmed", perhaps they shouldn't have accepted the rot, hm? You all can hardly be mad now that the Regent has decided to do something about it.
hippocarnival: (✮ 103 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2022-07-10 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ah.

Maybe it's not so dissimilar after all.

Yuya pulls back a little in discomfort, his gaze transfixed on the Regent.]


Then who? Are you talking about people, or... something else?
vapour: (Default)

[personal profile] vapour 2022-07-10 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Aha! Well, I guess I owe you a dinner then with no strings attached.

[ despite his friendly expression he will get a bit more serious (not that he was joking about dinner technically) and speak a little quieter. ] ...If you still aren't feeling well mentally, you should disconnect from this ASAP, okay? This is definitely a poor space.
subsist: (pic#15626817)

[personal profile] subsist 2022-07-10 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[ it doesn't surprise him that the regent finds this all amusing. ]

Of course. No one is going to let this chance go to waste.

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