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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.))
shashka: (model swaps with quiet are in)

[personal profile] shashka 2018-02-18 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
There's just something about their pompousness that gets to me, that's all.

[ ...not that he was born in Normandy... ]

That works much better. though physically, doesn't he remind you of another artist of musical inclination?

[ don't let him down on this reference, fellow 80's man. ]

punshots: (✘ cooltone.)

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[personal profile] punshots 2018-02-18 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
What did I say? Hella cursed!

[ And yet SOME PEOPLE were super chill with just like. Stepping on piles of bones to make way for their sleeping bags. How they are not super haunted by a million ghosts right now is beyond him. ]

I took, like, a billion pictures of those cave drawings if you need 'em. Whatever reason they were doing it for, they suuuure seemed to do a lot of celebrating. [ A beat. ] They didn't take out people's hearts, did they? In the...uh, "preparation".

[ 'Cause he totally saw that in a movie about this very thing!!! ]
tricksune: (m007)

[personal profile] tricksune 2018-02-18 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ he doesn't know what shrooms are, literally no one in this room understands anything you say, richie ]

What do you mean?
priorly: (➣ marvels)

[personal profile] priorly 2018-02-18 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Prior's from 1986 himself. Dumb, pre-internet heteros are all he knows.]

I don't think so. I always got the feeling romance authors lacked a certain amount of void filling in their own lives.

[Prior can appreciate the ability to switch between the serious and the absurd like a lightbulb on the fritz. Often enough one's how you get through the other, after all.]

And me too, so either that's what passes for a movie theatre in the Wyver suburbs or there's real magic in that spell. They're paying well, too, for a cultural anthropology research project.
flashystyle: (and the max budget of $7)

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[personal profile] flashystyle 2018-02-18 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
Hella cursed? That does sound rather appropriate.

[Now Dorian's going to be saying that like he's a cool adult, thanks Prompto!]

We'd love your photographs, Prompto. That's smarter thinking than the rest of us. I wouldn't worry about the heart so much as... them taking out everything.

[Enjoy the thought of someone being... inside out...]
flashystyle: (HGTV?)

[personal profile] flashystyle 2018-02-18 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
Shrooms being short for mushrooms.

[Dorian says, unhelpfully, smirking behind his hand from across the table.]
persistor: what do i do with all of these (pic#11971666)

[personal profile] persistor 2018-02-18 05:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ Stares bleakly. ]

What did you see? More ghosts?
punshots: (✘ saturated.)

[personal profile] punshots 2018-02-18 05:46 am (UTC)(link)
You got it, dude! I'll send 'em over.

[ But - oh...that is a rather unfortunate visual. He makes a face, not quite enjoying the thought. ]

You think that could be sacred? Seems pret-ty sketchy to me! Guess that depends on how they saw it, huh?
tricksune: (m004)

[personal profile] tricksune 2018-02-18 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ for the record, he shoots a look over his phone at dorian. can someone really trip over a mushroom? they're so soft. ]

Frankly, it sounds a fever dream. But if Akira saw it as well...

How can it be that you had a glimpse of such an aged ritual?
flashystyle: (have em but you know)

[personal profile] flashystyle 2018-02-18 06:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Dorian winks from over his phone, nudging poor Yusuke's leg under the table. He's kidding, small child.]

It isn't an uncommon thing. This world is full of ambient magic, and magic tends to latch onto events that hold significance, no matter how gruesome. It's also possible they wanted it recorded as a testament to... whatever. The equivalent of taking a photograph of your food.
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[personal profile] persistor 2018-02-18 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
Only it's in a dark cave where there aren't any cameras. And it just plays at unsuspecting travelers.

But why that part? That wasn't in the translation.
originallutece: a flying cityyyy? (talk; do you want to build)

[personal profile] originallutece 2018-02-18 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
Fair enough. Heaven knows they're interested in ceremonies themselves; I can't tell you the number of shamans I alienated there.

The question becomes . . . hmm. Well. If there's any possibility of dating these passages, perhaps, because then it would make it easier to pinpoint what area of time to research within Wyver.

[A beat, and she adds:]

. . . though I realize saying all this may lead to another fit. Do you still have those books on you?
originallutece: (talk; hmm--?)

[personal profile] originallutece 2018-02-18 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
My governesses weren't pleased to be teaching me, no. Fortunate that I wasn't in it to learn how to be polite, hm?

And thank you. I don't suppose you have any left, do you? I shan't say please for that either, but I'd at least ask to see it.
tricksune: <user name="minister"> (b003)

[personal profile] tricksune 2018-02-18 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ Red needs to kick some more shins. Meanwhile, Yusuke speaks in a whisper as he taps vacantly at their weird Instagram expy, showing Richie a plethora of fisheyed selfies and pictures of sandwiches, in sepia.

He's done his millennial duty, so now Dorian can be his smart wizard self. ]


Regardless, it does seem to match what we've read. Perhaps we should assume it's true. Though even so, I'm no closer to understanding the purpose of these rituals...
flashystyle: (babies like me very much)

[personal profile] flashystyle 2018-02-18 07:02 am (UTC)(link)
Are we speaking now?

[Dorian immediately sits up, beaming from a) the fact he is completely right and b) the sound of his own voice. Sorry Red.]

It must be something with the... dragon-bearer portion of it. But how does one bear a dragon?
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[personal profile] persistor 2018-02-18 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ Y'all are jerks. Though Red does stop to point at one particularly nice photo of spaghetti, or something. Gives him a small thumbs up, because that was a pretty great angle.

Anyway— ]
Not literally, I hope. [ Please tell her it's figurative. She's too sci-fi for this shit. ]
silvercrusader: (anger ⚔ my eyes are up here)

[personal profile] silvercrusader 2018-02-18 07:16 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, but, uh, who's asking you? Oooh, nobody, that's who.

But hey, maybe your country's all that much better. Where you from?

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