3rd Circuit, Video [UNSEELIE LOCKED]

[zerotohiro]

[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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video, private.

[atoned]

[ zuko thinks for a moment, pursing his lips, fingers against his chin. and then, casually: ] She'd hit me with a boulder.

[ it may not be able to help them with the machines, but it's always assisted them in the other things they've done — she's knocked sense into him that way, made him realise his worth with a rock to the head. she'd done so two years ago. his entire body aches at the memory of it. ]

Toph would tell us to leave the machines to her. She'd be able to destroy it or even control it, maybe. Aang would try and distract it with his airbending, and Katara would probably try and make it slip on water. Sokka would tell it a bad joke, and I'd try and melt it. [ to him, they were the perfect team, able to work in sync. he knows if toph were here, she'd call him dumb for writing himself so short, like his firebending wouldn't be able to dismantle a machine as well as her metalbending could. ]

[ his shoulders fall. ] She'd just know how to pull it apart, like she could figure out its insides and stuff. Toph always knew how to bend really small rocks. Kind of like how I know how to bend fire so it doesn't really burn me, I guess. [ when he'd been in the earth kingdom, he'd been so mad that he'd burst into flames himself. ] She'd figure out how it worked. What made it work. What could possibly stop it. How to break it, like shoving a stone in its joints.

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[zerotohiro]

[There's a huff of laughter at that. Knocking sense into people. Sounds about right. As he listens to Zuko detail how the Avatar gang worked together and how they'd operate here it just makes him miss the Big Hero 6 even more. He knows how all of his friends would be able to help if they had working gear and how they'd react to this situation…assuming they'd all be on the same side. This world sucks.]

…sounds like you've got a lot of good friends back there. [He frowns in thought.] There's gotta be somebody else who knows how to do this earthbending thing, or someone who can examine the machines like Toph can. Maybe the natives know something? They've been using magic for centuries. Someone suggested flinging dirt and grit into the machines to slow them down but I don't know how well that's gonna work. We need to brainstorm some more.

But that's a good place to start.

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[atoned]

We probably need more than just a handful of dirt. [ what would toph do? she'd throw boulders into their shoulders, into all of their joints. she'd form clumps of dirt and throw them at each and every one of them in a bid to break their bones. zuko presses his finger against his chin as he thinks, perhaps aloud, perhaps out of turn. ] Boulders hurt. But if you can make them big enough, but small enough at the same time, maybe if there's an opening in the metal shoulder, we could maybe stop them from moving.

[ he looks to his locket to clarify, ] Have you ever felt like your leg or arm was stiff and it hurt to move? Maybe we can do that. But the natives may know something better. Or maybe they even have dirt that's magical and could work!

[ because there's such a thing as magical dirt. ]

video, private.

[zerotohiro]

[Out of everybody in the Drabwurld, magic dirt really isn't that far-fetched. Still, he's trying to picture it and there's a subconscious wince as he imagines the stiff muscles and the feeling of immobility that comes with it. He hates that. He hates that a lot, but he gets exactly what Zuko means.]

This is where I'm hoping maybe somebody knows an enlargement spell or something that we can use or a different kind of earth magic. The natives would know...let's start with them first and see what we can figure out from there. Sound good?