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Richie "Bitch Baby Tears" Tozier ([personal profile] summertimeblues) wrote in [community profile] elnysa2018-02-17 09:29 pm

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[Surrounding a pair of stained and rumpled tomes is a jumble of a barbershop quartet. You have Yusuke Kitagawa, focus plastered to whatever he’s sketching in a tidy notebook. Red, last name unknown, is continuing to copy letters into her own collection and keeps her phone ready at her side. Richie Tozier and Dorian Pavus are the only ones paying attention to the video feed. Ironic, as neither one of them should even know what a livestream is.]

Greetings to the damned, coming in live from the asbestos-caked halls of learning down here in Olympia’s residential nerd district. My name is Rich, this is Dorian. Say hi Dorian.

Greetings, from your local residential… nerd? What does that even mean, dear Richie?

It means a well dressed man. [Richie smiles sweetly at the fossil sitting adjacent before turning his attention back to the camera.] Over here and ignoring the masses are people of lesser import. Anyway, we’ve all gathered here because we took up some of that under the table money in exchange for odd jobs, and today they stuck us up here in the book prison. We’ve been tasked with translating all this old hocus pocus and we found some interesting stuff, looks pretty well like a related spell. I know some of us remember that cuh-lossal skull in a cave. Terrible vacation destination, by the way, piss poor accommodations and it’s definitely haunted. Just a hunch, but I think something died in there.

More like they were rather exquisitely prepared, died, and then proceeded to serve a "higher calling." [Dorian rolls his eyes, leaning forward to take up more of the screen.] It’s a question of what that higher purpose is. Judging by the preparations of the whole thing, it’s either incredibly sanctimonious or incredibly… condemning. Shall we show them the texts?

[One of the people of "lesser import" look up at this time — the one with bright red hair — as if on cue ( really, it was just some good timing ). Takes a brief moment to roll her eyes at the dramatics unfolding in front of her, but she reaches for her phone nonetheless; soon, a text attachment shows up with the video. Otherwise, she doesn’t look like she has anything to add, and quietly returns to her work.]

There you have it. Take a looksee, it seems we’re missing a beginning and an end there. Any other fun tidbits would also be appreciated if you’ve got them. I personally have always wondered how bar mitzvahs are conducted in magical medieval empires. Do they have a ceremonial gremlin for it? I’m too scared to ask the locals.

[Richie suddenly frowns, sidetracked by the human noodle etching in silence across from him.] Hey Stringbean, what are you drawing? Is it me? [He leans across the table to snatch the notebook. Lovingly (and quite skillfully rendered) is the skull in said cave. Richie gasps in delight.] It is! It’s me when I’m dead! What a cuuuutie!

[He’s now leaning bodily over the table to pinch at the teenager’s cheeks. Red makes a face, the camera jumbles and goes flat and pitch black on the table. The last thing heard before the feed cuts is Richie’s yelp of pain (Red's boot has found his shin) and Dorian’s long groan.]

((OOC: The text will be added as a comment to the post! Any one of the four losers present may reply, but it's mostly going to be Richie and/or Dorian.))
rosebyanyother: official art by mk buckley (I will remember the words that you said)

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[personal profile] rosebyanyother 2018-02-18 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, this is curious. Peter reads over the translations, looks at the picture - that's interesting - and then opens up a video to reply.]

I'm not sure if this is relevant at all - I'm new, you see - but while we were enjoying the hospitality of our rescuers above, there were several simulations we were encouraged to experience. One of them was a glimpse into the planet's past, where a dragon was being worshiped. Part of the offerings appeared to be freshly cut limbs.

[He pauses, then shrugs.]

I mention it just because the word "dragon-bearer" caught my eye.
vorrutyer: (confused)

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2018-02-18 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
How shall we resolve it?
originallutece: no wait yes i do I TOLD YOU SO (talk; i don't want to say i told you so)

[personal profile] originallutece 2018-02-18 04:27 am (UTC)(link)
Ooh, that was a rather unfortunate lack of support there.

[Someday he'll find someone who loves the sound of his voice. And given what she's about to say, was that bit of sarcasm really necessary? Apparently so.]

And oh, I don't mean to imply that it isn't useful. You're-- and don't let this go to your head, please-- right in that any scrap of information is vital. But . . . well. You saw how obsessed they used to be with ritual and rivalry, yes? Branding outsiders, Wyver and their obsession with magic and shamans and ritual, Olympia and their proud, obsessive way of puffing themselves up . . . sanctimony, and believe me when I say I'm very familiar with this, is dangerous.

I'd guess that this was meant to be some kind of weapon. Wielding the dragons, perhaps? Amplifying someone's power? Who knows. But I'd guess it was meant to be some kind of offensive tactic on Olympia's side, perhaps used under the guise of defense.
silvercrusader: but now i'm born ready again let's do this (anger ⚔ i was not born ready for a while)

[personal profile] silvercrusader 2018-02-18 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
Excuse you.

[Where the fuck did polnareff even come from, who knows, HERE HE IS NOW, SUMMONED BY THE MENTION OF THE FRENCH]

That'd be an honor to be a Frenchman.
originallutece: you have to DO things (talk; you can't just wish)

[personal profile] originallutece 2018-02-18 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
Specific items or specific people.

Tell me more about those crystals.


[Bossy.]
vorrutyer: (explaining everything (badly))

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2018-02-18 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
Or we could use our brains to go through and determine the source of the logical fallacy. But, all right, croquet. Why not.
shashka: (birthday cigars)

[personal profile] shashka 2018-02-18 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
You mean excoozey-mois?

[ when you butcher a language so badly it won't auto-translate. ]

If you ask me, there's never been that much to honor about the French.

[ look. it's not his fault he was born into a country where the former nobility were obsessed with the language. ]
originallutece: do as I say (talk; don't do as you will)

[personal profile] originallutece 2018-02-18 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
You can't be serious.
originallutece: oh darling no (talk; OH GIRL)

[personal profile] originallutece 2018-02-18 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
There's one man who earns such a word from me, Richie Tozier, and it most certainly isn't you.
priorly: (➣ curl)

[personal profile] priorly 2018-02-18 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Ritchie, look at the video screen. If he wasn't currently addressing you wearing a floral kimono it would still be clear that's what he's implying.]

A little revision of harvesting procedure and then off to sleep? Look what happens to a culture deprived of Harlequin Romance.

[Three guesses and a pin to stick in an anatomy textbook at figuring what the harvest may be.]

Speaking of restful nights - I got out of Wyver as soon as they let me, but I did spend some time inside the skull. I think I saw the parts they left out.

Who wants this translated, exactly?
originallutece: i've come to bury myself in you again (talk; hello science my old friend)

[personal profile] originallutece 2018-02-18 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
[She watches him silently, waiting patiently.]

Are you done?
originallutece: is your decapitated head on a PIKE in front of your weeping mother (anger; the only thing i'll be waving)

[personal profile] originallutece 2018-02-18 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, for heaven's sake, save the schoolyard pettiness for when it doesn't matter, not when we're trying to solve a problem about our universe.

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