aionpcs: (regent)
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.]
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.
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.
locumstudentesquire: (Hm??)

[personal profile] locumstudentesquire 2022-07-11 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
[this whole conversation: +100 respect points from Ryunosuke.]