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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.))
persistor: backshot count: 10 (Default)

addendum: the translated texts.

[personal profile] persistor 2018-02-18 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
[...] upon the altar, being certain that the bearer is unconscious. In some more remote locations in the wilderness, a pit was dug and the surrounding cave decorated with murals depicting the ritual. Bones were found with serrated marks, indicating either rough-hewn tools for cutting or the gnawing of teeth. The shift from sacrifice to consumption appears gradual, related to—

[...] cradling the head, apply the poultice to the open incision. This will let the dragon-bearer relax such that they may participate in the harvest more willingly. Do not let the dragon-bearer exert too much energy, as they are vital to the completion of the process. Additionally, do not consume any of the poultice, and take care when harvesting materials that they are purified before consumption, as consuming a poultice-contaminated harvest will result in—
priorly: (➣ prophecy)

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[personal profile] priorly 2018-02-18 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Hello Dorian and... Dorian's friends. And also what the fuck, but that's a fairly standard reaction to network posts lately. This is quite something though. Prior remembers that skull a little better than he'd like.]

From the look of your texts I'd worry less about Bar Mitzvahs and more how they do a bris.
vorrutyer: (yeah sure let's go)

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[personal profile] vorrutyer 2018-02-18 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
Ritual sacrifice! How charming. How do you suppose they chose people to snuff it? Do you think there was a nomination process? I have a few people I could nominate.
vorrutyer: (whaaaat an idiot)

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2018-02-18 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
Don't be grandiose. I was talking about the baby that lives in the home behind mine. So much screaming.
vorrutyer: (explaining everything (badly))

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2018-02-18 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
Good heavens, how squeamish are you that rats would make you flee your home?
vorrutyer: (confused)

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2018-02-18 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
Why aren't the foul little grubs kept in boxes and then extracted only once they're old enough to have an interesting opinion?
vorrutyer: (explaining everything (badly))

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2018-02-18 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, sorry, for some reason I've been too busy with other things to sit hunched over in some musty room squinting at books. What else was I busy with...? Ah, yes. Partying and having friends.
vorrutyer: (hmmmmm not bad)

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2018-02-18 03:40 am (UTC)(link)
My party life affirmatively includes Dorian at all times. Even when he's keeping unsavory company.
tricksune: feel free to take any i haven't put there (01b)

[personal profile] tricksune 2018-02-18 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ Since the... broadcasting mishap, Yusuke's retrieved his journal from Richie's nefarious grasp, and they've been given the stinkeye by several Temple librarians. In an effort to keep things quiet, he uploads his 'notes' as a picture.

Cue earlier sketch of a skull and its surroundings, as well as some hazy recollections of the etchings inside. ]


This is one you meant, isn't it? I had thought it only a crypt at the time.
To think, that it might be for... this.
priorly: (pic#11746319)

[personal profile] priorly 2018-02-18 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
I admit, I'm less familiar with the ceremony than the result, myself. So - while reading about cannibals for fun and profit's one way to spend an evening - I'm not sure where we'd look for the rest of the spell. My little book of sacrifice, tucked down the back of a couch with suspicious stains?
originallutece: but not for long i promise you (talk; PUZZLED)

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[personal profile] originallutece 2018-02-18 04:06 am (UTC)(link)
Good god, I'm shocked your companions haven't willingly deafened themselves stuck with the two of you in one room.

[Thank god Dorian hadn't decided to play host. Still, there's a little pause as she frowns and reads that translated text. Hmm . . . ]

Dorian and I found something, though. Hang on a moment, I'll add it to your list. And if you'd like my guess? It's more likely something incredibly sanctimonious. These things usually are.
originallutece: is the type where I read to you from the book i wrote about physics (talk; the best sleepover)

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[personal profile] originallutece 2018-02-18 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Dorian has just been so dang busy translating texts!!]

". . . used in tandem with one another, their volatility increases noticeably. Our best suggestion is to separate the spells as thoroughly as possible until a more suitable method of combination can be found. A golden color is ideal; this seems to have produced the most stable effect, although the method of its production was unfortunately not recorded. We think that, perhaps, fluid from . . ."

More magic. Lovely.
beatupgrass: (✘ your toast has been burned)

video; un: ROCKET

[personal profile] beatupgrass 2018-02-18 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
What the hell is wrong with people?

[holy shit. none of that is okay.]
shashka: (something something white horse)

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[personal profile] shashka 2018-02-18 04:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ is he laughing? he's laughing. ]

Cute.

[ and look, the information is useful too. ]
Edited 2018-02-18 04:09 (UTC)
vorrutyer: (world-weary (and smug))

[personal profile] vorrutyer 2018-02-18 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
Dorian's taste is always impeccable. I don't think he needs your guidance in anything.
shashka: (kaz miller made out with a hamburger)

[personal profile] shashka 2018-02-18 04:16 am (UTC)(link)
I don't know if I'd go so far as to compare him to a frenchman. That's almost too cruel.

[ the French are reserved for his worst enemies, Richie. ]

I'd say he's more of a contemporary artist.

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