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3rd Circuit, Video [UNSEELIE LOCKED]

[Loki and Hiro have taken a small room in Diasbaile, mostly barren save for the wooden cabinets that seem to blend into the background. Loki would have done this himself, but there was insistence on Hiro's part of aiding in the delivery of the very, very bad news. The focus is on the two of them, and Loki speaks first.]

Hello.

This is a message of the emergency broadcast system. As you can see, our sirens are down for the moment, but I assure you that the news is none less dire.

[Loki's voice drops to something uncharacteristically serious.]

Ah, yes. So—listen up, Unseelie.

[Hiro's sitting almost a little too close to Loki, face more ashen than anyone in their court has ever seen. It's a reality they have to face and while he'd been hoping Loki would find some more information in his research, they're running out of time.]

Some of you had a vision at the beginning of August. A dream about fire and machines with shards for eyes. I didn't have the vision myself, Loki did…but we can both confirm these are real. These things are being created now and they are coming. Monsters that run on shards and blood. But there are some things you guys don't know yet.

[When Hiro stops, Loki barely glances down before he picks up without missing a beat, as if he's giving him a moment to collect himself. Loki looks perturbed at the recollection of the golems, but not nearly as pale as Hiro.]

Our dear friends the dwarves have crafted mechanical monsters, forged from melted metal and living shards. These mecha-beasts are brought to live with blood magic and runes. Not your basic run-of-the-mill runes, not even my fancy-smancy "stay out of my room" runes, but hundreds of them in intricate designs—sorcery that's very possibly lost to antiquity—all working together to bring them to life.

And if that isn't nightmare material, these large, metal machinations have keen senses when it comes to shardbearers, even those that find means of hiding themselves, if you get my drift.

There are hundreds, even thousands of them, with no exaggeration.

[The longer they stay on camera, the more Hiro finds himself shrinking into his sweater. Loki delivering the brunt of the bad news helps, but dredging up the memories is more than mildly horrifying. There's one key factor though that they've neglected to mention.]

We don't know when they're coming, but judging by the amount of time between the last vision and its turnaround to coming true, it's soon. Really, really soon. We don't know when they're coming and we don't know the full extent of what they can do or why they're being unleashed.

[A pause.] Ideas. We need ideas on how we can combat these things and how to keep everybody safe. Start using your brains and focus on what's really important here.

[The important thing, he thinks, is that this war? It's much, much bigger now than just Seelie vs. Unseelie. It's now about just staying alive.]

I would suggest highly against approaching them… [Loki glances at Hiro.] …As I’m certain we’ll offend them somehow.

[Considering the fact that there are other things…he can agree with that.] …right. Defense ideas then. Lay 'em out. [A beat. And then:] Privately, if you would. Doesn't matter if they're coming for all of us…this is still a war.

[And he sure does know that there are certain devices generated by a certain witch that can see this broadcast. He had agreed that the Seelie should know what's coming. Doesn't mean they should be privy to everything else, too.]

Not exactly how I pictured life in a giant robot series, hm?

[Though that’s meant more for Hiro. They have some questions to answer, and Hiro needs a little bit of a perk up.]

[Hiro at least gives a small grin in response, but says nothing else. Definitely Q&A time.]

[ooc: As a note! Most threads will be answered by Hiro, but he may call on Loki for assistance. Additionally, Hiro is aware Hermione's compasses can see posts on both networks so those with compasses are capable of seeing this post. They just won't be able to see the threads in this post. Have fun guys o/]

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Maybe not everywhere we want to build them, but we can select one or two places to try? I might be able to recruit a couple of guys I worked with on Spire 10, too.

[But. Hold it. He knows what that means.] Ariadne, no. We don't know if that'll hold up against them. [...although.] ...but then again, is your shard detectable in that form?

We can hope they'll slow them down, if nothing else.

[ And Ariadne, yes. ]

We don't know that it won't, either. If it doesn't, I can shadow travel out. And- you know, I'm not actually sure.

I've heard a couple of stories from people in our court about walls that kept monsters out. It's worth a shot. At least around Diasbaile, Ariadne. [Because while he cares about their court as a whole...he cares a little more about the place he calls home now.

Ariadne absolutely not. Jason will kill him. On the other hand, the fact that she's not sure if her shard's visible as the shadow is interesting.] Good point. Shadow traveling's a lot faster than I thought. [Surprise, guess what he booned himself.] You never asked Morla if your shard was still part of you whenever you...transformed or whatever? Like Loki said we had concealers on but they still found us.

[ he takes a breath in through his nose, coming out his mouth. his eyes wander from Hiro to Ariadne. ]

It would be very, very bad if a Spire Baroness were to lose her shard because of dwarves.

[ DWARVES. ]

[ What Jason Todd doesn't know won't hurt him, okay? ]

Morla isn't the reason I originally became the Devourer, so no; it didn't cross my mind.

[ Her head tilts as her gaze fixes now on Loki. ]

It'd also be very bad if we all died and I could have done something. If we're all potentially going to die anyway, if we're all definitely going to die if we don't get shards, then it's worth a shot.

As someone who's been on suicide missions before? Seriously, think this one through. [There's another glance at Loki, hoping he'll be able to back him up depending on Ariadne's next argument. The problem is that it actually makes sense...even if it seems impossible to find a plan.]

Is there anybody you can talk to about what else the Devourer is capable of? Maybe that's not a bad idea to follow.

I have.

[ She's also Very Stubborn. ]

The creatures the Devourer is related to aren't exactly chatty. Or normally found. They came from the night sky after the stars fell.

When the stars fell? [He's trying to remember if he really heard details about this story.] Maybe there's something else we can look into. Or maybe they'd be more wiling to come out and talk to the Devourer if we did something extra? There has to be another plan outside of "the Devourer tries to attack the shard gundams."

Before your time. And- well, they kind of tried to eat everything and I don't think they spoke. We don't really want to call them back.

Unless you meant the dwarves.

I'm pretty sure we don't want to call them back either. I've talked to a couple of them months ago and they seemed fine but something changed. They're all heading back to work on these things. Kinda means they all feel the same way about us now.

And Loki doesn't trust the dwarves either.

So what options do we have other than sending something just as big to try and stop them?

[ "hit the big thing with a hammer" is such his brother's mentality that a smile almost quirks up at the ends of his lips. ]

Dismantle them. Figure out how to. Even if you're rather large, it'd be best to hit them where it hurts.

Katsa thought to confront the dwarves themselves, though I wonder how that will turn out.

Gotta get close to figure that out. I can distract from the people who are doing that.

We need to figure out how before we can even get the opportunity. All joints were reinforced with a sick mix of shard and blood magic.

For all we know, the dwarves are beyond the Cult in their mastery of shards. It would make sense.

[ he tips his head and knits his brows. ]

Between this and Morla's request of us, I'd not say that's far from the truth. Even if the truth isn't really my strong suit.

[ he straightens his voice, a loose fist to his lips. ]

Though these metallic beasts must be directed by someone.

I imagine orders would come from the king of the dwarves, but there would have to be people in between him and them.

[ She just has no idea who. ]

Wouldn't they just be other dwarves? Kings always have royal advisers or people they think of highly in their court that'll carry out their doing don't they?

[Isn't that kinda what Morla has? It makes sense to him, but he might also be missing something.]

But they may be on the field. Disrupt the line of communication and that gives us an opening, potentially.

Good point. [But that still means risking people.] ...you got any soldiers we can borrow to put on the job then? [Is she willing to do that? That's what he wants to know.]

I can do it. [ :| ]

And if you find something you can't fight, then what? It makes more sense to keep you as back-up just in case, Ariadne.

[It doesn't, but he really doesn't want Ariadne in the line of fire either.]

You're aware that actually makes no sense at all, right?

[...sigh.] Just...be careful with whatever you choose to do, okay?

I will be. No point in dying when the whole goal is to keep us all from dying.

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