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deernet2023-04-07 07:37 pm
cynomorpha) wrote in deernet2023-04-07 07:37 pm
video | un: dust2dust
[ He's sitting on a rooftop, hand-rolling a cigarette from a kit in his lap that is out of frame. He glances off into the distance briefly, then speaks, ]
I have been hearing tales of Argonaut this season. It interests me which of the Pthumerian Patrons mirror the figures from my own world.
[ The cigarette is wetted closed and then set at his mouth. ]
We call her the Crying Spider [[cw: there is creepy spider art]]. A tiny, fragile thing that holds the whole of the realm together with her hope and her wonder.
[ He lights the cigarette and gestures with it, trailing smoke. ]
But it's a heavy burden learning her arts. The more you know hope, the better you know true despair, hm? It can be quite a precarious task.
[ He looks more closely at the camera, smiling unpleasantly. ]
I have a feeling many of you would not care for my former world any more than this one.
[[ ooc; about | plotting comment ]]
I have been hearing tales of Argonaut this season. It interests me which of the Pthumerian Patrons mirror the figures from my own world.
[ The cigarette is wetted closed and then set at his mouth. ]
We call her the Crying Spider [[cw: there is creepy spider art]]. A tiny, fragile thing that holds the whole of the realm together with her hope and her wonder.
[ He lights the cigarette and gestures with it, trailing smoke. ]
But it's a heavy burden learning her arts. The more you know hope, the better you know true despair, hm? It can be quite a precarious task.
[ He looks more closely at the camera, smiling unpleasantly. ]
I have a feeling many of you would not care for my former world any more than this one.
[[ ooc; about | plotting comment ]]
Video | UN: ClickClickBloom
I can't imagine holding a realm together is very easy. It sounds like she has a whole lot on her shoulders.
I've- Well I've seen what that can do to a person. I don't think I envy her.
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[ He leans back against some roofing, eyes turning off into the distance. He came up here to butterfly watch from a great distance. He can't see anything but a faint flickering of movement. ]
As for the Spider... She loves creation a little more than the rest, or so the story goes.
video | un: sds
I'm not a big fan of... gods and even less of a fan of people that worship them.
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[ He exhales smoke. He's in a chill, meditative mood. He's not always in the mood to hear from the masses, though. ]
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And what weapons would those be?
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[ It's viewed more that the celestial beasts gave their new human creations a set of gifts. Something to get them started on the long road of their survival. ]
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Do you practice any of their trades, ideologies, or magic arts?
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[ read: Yuh. ]
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un: bluestar
[The speaker is a burly Russian blue mix with a scar across her shoulders and a torn ear. She sounds like she has a British accent. It also looks like she's replying from the middle of Trenchwood.]
I'd never considered worshiping spiders... or moths, before.
[She's not judging, though - Twolegs are strange and unfathomable to her, but that doesn't mean they don't abide by their own logic.]
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[ His tone is dryly humorous. ]
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[Her tone is, similarly, one of dry humor.]
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[ Now he's just bein' rude. ]
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[Who knows when she'll get used to hearing everyone meow at her.]
The cats of my Clan looked to our warrior ancestors for guidance. If we had spiders and moths weaving our world together, they're lucky our kits never thought to pounce on them.
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[ Creeping Dust's tone is not one of fierce defense for a deeply felt religion. No human has met with one of these celestial beasts in several thousand years, and there is nothing to validate their accounts. What Creeping Dust can attest to is that the teachings ascribed to each creature are effective. He has the abilities that he was promised. He has spoken with the dead who have achieved his temple's goals thorugh the spirit gates.
Whether or not the folklore is true is not exactly important to him. ]
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Still, I can't say I hate this world. Just certain parts of it at certain times. Of course, I've been here for a long time.
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[ That may speak to her point... The Kingdom of Five Beasts is a hard place. ]
But I have not been here a long time.
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A lot of those are the people. But, that's beside the point. Forgive me for not introducing myself earlier. I'm Vira-Lorr. It's a pleasure.
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[ A pleasure? Most people find him incredibly disagreeable, so he takes that with a grain of salt. ]
My name is Creeping Dust. I have yet to decide on the merits of the people.
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[...look, she gets along with Reaper and Maul unironically. Vira-Lorr definitely didn't mind disagreeable souls.]
It isn't bad to keep a bit of caution to start. However, most of us are willing to help each other, for no other reason than mutual survival.
private; voice; un: ushiromiya
Are there many more creatures like that where you come from? As many as the Ptumerians here?
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[ An exhaled sound of smoke. ]
No one has spoken to or seen the Five who attended to the creation of our world and us in quite some time. If it was ever true.
[ He is ambivalent about whether all the old folklore is true or not. There are enough empirically true things that he has leveraged in his day to day life that the exact tale isn't important. ]
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[ .. maybe it's not the most elegant way to put this sort of thing, but then again, Ange does tend to be direct like that. It's something that apparently doesn't fully stop even when she isn't feeling at her best. ]
Most religions where I come from tend to work that way, believing in a god that created everything and is just somewhere out there, but hardly shows itself. Or multiple gods, even. I haven't heard about many words where they're as blatantly present as here.
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[ #Cryptic necromancer shit ]
I do not consider that a god. Merely a more powerful species than myself. But that may be an argument of semantics.
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What a way to put that, Ange thinks - but then again, it's not like it's the first time she's met anyone who puts things in a kind of cryptic or poetic way. The witches back home loved that sort of thing, after all. ]
Oh, yeah. It's definitely semantics. You'll run into that sort of thing more often here, especially with the sheer amount of cultures that are represented here. [ Hence why Ange doesn't seem too bothered by his own preference as to what to call it, easily shrugging it off. ] I think that if you'd ask the locals here, they would probably view the Pthumerians as gods. They seem kind of crazy about them.
Voice; un: lothrat
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So they tell me. I do not make my plans in hope.
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Do or do not do?
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Something like that.
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I aim for balance, most days, at this point.
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[ Creeping Dust's casual certainty is kind of annoying... ]
My particular sect is devoted to the acquisition of knowledge.
[ Which probably sounds harmless enough. But they're also the necromancers of the bunch. ]
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Oh? Does your sect have a name? What do you think of the School of Mutter and its Archives?
Video; un: darkness
[The soft-spoken, smooth, and velvety voice that spoke was completely at odds with the rather demonic looking red-and-black horned visage on the screen.]
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