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VIDEO | 21 NOV. EVENING | OPEN TO BOTH COURTS | whelp shit...
[ The message is broadcast twice, from two separate lockets. The background is a small inn near Daonna, Waver is in the forefront, while Kaldur has maps spread out across a table, and is quietly casting on the maps and making frantic annotations. ]
Good evening. As many of you have heard by now, much has been made about the threat of Reynard the Fox at Redgate. Doubtlessly, you’ve also noticed that since that announcement no other word has come out of the fortress. This is, to say the least, very alarming.
[ Kaldur looks up, briefly, to face the camera. ]
I am attempting to scry for the locations of individuals known to be at Redgate or near Redgate at this time, in light of the threat Reynard poses, in hopes that more information can be found.
If they have already engaged Reynard, and are trying to fight him, hopefully, we will be able to find out.
Until then, or until we have direct information from Saralegui himself, I would like to ask that everyone who is intending to lend aid to Redgate gather in Daonna. This gives us all an opportunity to group up, prepare, plan, and present a united front if things are as bad as they seem right now. Whenever we have word, we can act together. If you are en route, come to Daonna. If you are already up the mountains, please return.
I realize that I have no authority to enforce this, but I do ask that you heavily consider this option before forging on ahead.
[ In the background, Kaldur looks as though he is about to curse, and pulls Waver’s attention towards what he has found briefly, before setting at it again, and speaking towards the feed. ]
I also urge those who are heading to Redgate to gather with us, until we gain more information and can adequately prepare for what we will be faced with.
Thank you kindly for your time. If you have any further information on the situation, both Kaldur and myself would appreciate it being shared.
Good evening. As many of you have heard by now, much has been made about the threat of Reynard the Fox at Redgate. Doubtlessly, you’ve also noticed that since that announcement no other word has come out of the fortress. This is, to say the least, very alarming.
[ Kaldur looks up, briefly, to face the camera. ]
I am attempting to scry for the locations of individuals known to be at Redgate or near Redgate at this time, in light of the threat Reynard poses, in hopes that more information can be found.
If they have already engaged Reynard, and are trying to fight him, hopefully, we will be able to find out.
Until then, or until we have direct information from Saralegui himself, I would like to ask that everyone who is intending to lend aid to Redgate gather in Daonna. This gives us all an opportunity to group up, prepare, plan, and present a united front if things are as bad as they seem right now. Whenever we have word, we can act together. If you are en route, come to Daonna. If you are already up the mountains, please return.
I realize that I have no authority to enforce this, but I do ask that you heavily consider this option before forging on ahead.
[ In the background, Kaldur looks as though he is about to curse, and pulls Waver’s attention towards what he has found briefly, before setting at it again, and speaking towards the feed. ]
I also urge those who are heading to Redgate to gather with us, until we gain more information and can adequately prepare for what we will be faced with.
Thank you kindly for your time. If you have any further information on the situation, both Kaldur and myself would appreciate it being shared.
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None of that matters, however, for as soon as he gets a 'lock' on Reynard's location is slips again and changes, and while he spends a few moments frantically ticking off wildly different locations upon the map on which to find Reynard, the end result is little more than a mess. ]
It seems Reynard's location is not an option.
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It was worth a try, I suppose. There might be other, better ways of locating him, but hell if I know what they are now.
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[Kaldur couldn't say why Reynard was moving so quickly, but the fact that he is doing so, feels the need to do so, is... distressing in the very least. ]
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[Waver's frown deepens.]
Here's the other problem at hand: this means Reynard used magic within Redgate.
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Or, he could have some artifact that counteracts or mitigates the effect of the bloodstone.
[ Kaldur doesn't really like either of those possibilities ]
I cannot say I like either of those possibilities, but it is something to keep in mind, when seeking how, precisely, to deal with him.
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[Waver swallows the lump climbing up his throat.]
I don't even know who to ask.
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[ Not that either of those avenues would be particularly trustworthy, for one, but... who know. ]
The drabkeeper, if he/she could be located could also be a source of that information.
[ Basically: Ask everyone, and pray they don't tattle to Reynard. ]
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[ He's very distinctly not thinking about how he and Waver are essentially talking about how to gather information to tr and take down someone who seems about as indestructible as Vandal Savage. It doesn't speak well for their odds. ]
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The trade-off between control and functional soldiers. [ Kaldur has had to weigh that before. Not quite so gravely, but having to choose just how much information he tells his team. Often, he strives to be as transparent as possible but sometimes... sometimes he cannot. ]
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[Waver knows how silly that sounds.] Makes you wonder what it was like back when they first started bringing shard bearers in, what errors they made in getting that trade-off just right.
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I find it weirdly reassuring that I'm towards the bottom of the barrel.
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[ He knows his weaknesses, his susceptibility. If they had drawn him here only just a bit sooner, or a bit later. Sooner, when he was faced with what seemed a betrayal by King Orin, or later, after he had the time to stew upon his faults in regards to Tula's death... He could have very easily been a very good, obedient soldier with a lot of tactical experience. ]
But, bottom of the barrel is a nice place to be. It is where you find all the interesting bits of wreckage.
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[The joke is an awful one, but Waver has to make it all the same.]
It makes you wonder why they pick the point in time that they do. If they make errors when they do it.
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My best guess is that, each month of this time corresponds with some strange flow of time the other worlds, and they simply draw from whichever time-point is closest to them.
[ Save energy and all that. Multi-verses are strange that way, man. As someone who had briefly met their King from another one. ]
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[He smiles, wry.]
All I can say is thank God they decided to go with thirty nine year old me, rather than nineteen year old me. I'd have lost my shard by now if they had.
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You mean that tiny string bean was nineteen?! Cripes.]Perhaps you don't give yourself enough credit. [ In fairness to Kaldur, one of his best friends could completely whup his ass most times at the tender young age of thirteen when he was seventeen, so... ] You would be impressed at what talented individuals at that age can do, in the right or wrong sets of circumstances.
[ C'mon, Waver! Believe in the me who believes in you! ]
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y u p]While I'm not inclined to disagree, I know I would badly mishandle the politics of this place due to a chronic inability to know when to keep my mouth shut at that age.
[He grins. Waver deeply values how nineteen year old Waver shaped him, but there's no denying that he was also a right brat.]
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Glaucus preserve usThat, Kaldur can believe. Dropping some of his team alone in the Drabwurld? That would go over about as well as logic and reason in a Monty Python movie. Only with more broken bones, probably. ]
Very few nineteen year-olds of my acquaintance would probably do well in the politics of this place. [ Kaldur has problems, and he's much more used to monarchies of this variety than many others he knows.
Though nineteen year old Batman might be a sight... He'll have to have Nightwing ask Alfred one of these days... ]
But you survived, so it couldn't have been too terrible.
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[Waver shrugs. The next part, Kaldur's earned.]
And only because I had to. Mage politics back home are truly something you either survive, or you aren't a mage. Easy as that.
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There is some such politicking in my world among the higher sorcerers, I am told, but Atlantis usually keeps out of it other than our Queen Mera. [ Because she's kind of one of the most powerful sorcerers ever, but that's not here or there. ] Most Atlanteans are magical in some sense, that is how we survived. Some of us are just... more powerful than others.
[ Kaldur's natural electricity, for one, is not a particularly easy trait that he mastered quickly. ]
But, I confess, I have not met many fellow mages who's powers were identifiably magical. [ Bending and boons were one thing, to be born with that talent, or to have learned it otherwise? (Hermione is the only name that comes to his mind). Quite another. ]
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[That had been a day, that's for sure.]
To give you an example of how persaive it is back home, genetics are a massive factor in one's powers back home. Because of this, and because we're a small community in the end, arraigning marriages to produce more powerful offspring is a major preoccupation. Older families are more powerful because of their longevity as well as their skills, and so trying to get in good with them, finding allies, and ensuring a family legacy are all massive preoccuptations.
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That would... not be an existent problem in Atlantean communities, for the most part. We are, as a species, all magical to at least some minor extent, though the traits are more dominant in some than others. [ Kaldur, Tula, and Garth, for example are very strongly magical. ] Part of our adaptation to underwater life was first precipitated by magic, and that has remained an inherent trait.
[ The rest of that sounds vaguely like European nobility politics, which Kaldur has almost negative interest in, but does not surprise him in the slightest. ]
Power-games, however, tend to be universal. [ Also, Kaldur would ask about inbreeding problems, but that seems almost rude. It may or not be still written across his face given the brief awkward scrunch of his features. ]
You, I suspect, were not... as pedigreed as could be prefered. [ Something about the lack of deference in tone. ]
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btw these numbers are my bs and not DCU approved.
GOT IT
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