iii. video. open, then unseelie-locked. backdated to the end of september, ~29-30th

[vrykolakas]

       [UNLOCKED: VISIBLE TO ALL.]

[Candlelight laps at the dim image of the Brucolac's face, showing up mottled scars along his cheeks. His expression is tired. Whether it's the light or exhaustion, his olive skin looks faintly greenish.]

Alyosha of Redgate is dead by the hand of Reynard the Fox.

[It's not a lie. She is exactly as deceased as he is. He sighs out a breath, tches faintly, and moves on, his hoarse, scratchy voice impassive.]

Unrelatedly, I require information on the thief who stole the feathers of the birdking. He wasn't found? Did anyone pick up a trail?

[He knows he wasn't found. Hence (partly) the current sticky situation he's in.]


       [LOCKED TO UNSEELIE.]

I'm at Caer Scima.

[He hisses through his teeth, rubs his forehead; his head is pounding, thick knots of tension twisting in his temples, pain shooting down his neck, bursting behind his eyes, tightening his jaw. Bone-dry and grimly humourous, he says:]

If anyone, preferably human, feels they have a surplus of blood.

[That sentence is left unfinished, the conclusion—in his mind, at least—obvious.]


       [LOCKED TO ALICE & BERSERKER.]

[Flatly:]

What the fuck happened.

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[ooc: I realised too late that dating it this way means it went up a few days before new arrivals, damn it! but PLEASE feel free to have any newbies reply a few days late, if you so wish. c: ]

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[thebreakingwave]

Not really the circumstances I planned on offering you a drink, but nothing goes as intended.

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[vrykolakas]

Not you. You need it. I'll take you up on it another time.

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[enthraller]

Oh, does he still have you on that Garuda job?

[he hadn't heard. you got a bit busy with your new bloodsucking friend, and so did he.]

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[vrykolakas]

Mm. You aren't?

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[all7seas]

I've never been accused of a surplus of blood, mate. What's happened?

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[vrykolakas]

Politics.

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[dragmire]

What became of Reynard? How and why did this happen?

[His tone is cold and harsh. He rather liked Alyosha. She had the potential to be a good ally. To think that ambitious fool Reynard had offed her certainly angers him. It's high past time he did something about that nuisance.]

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[vrykolakas]

I'm trying to ascertain.

She made a challenge; he accepted; he won. Stuck her through the belly. They were, I gather, old enemies.

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[gordianknots]

Thank you for getting the information out.

How long do you plan to remain in Scima's walls?

[vrykolakas]

I don't know. Not long, perhaps. It depends upon what I find regarding this damn thief.

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[erythristic]

What in god's name happened?

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[vrykolakas]

A fight. What else? She challenged, he accepted, and he stuck her through the stomach so hard his sword came out through her spine.

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[gwynbleidd]

[Only a handful of particular people are going to need blood for a reason, and to him, none of them are really that good. Usually.]

Did you find the blood you needed?

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[vrykolakas]

Mm. I always do, eventually.

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[ziggyzoggy]

Condolences.

[It's almost pitched as a question--he has no idea how close you were to this person, and knows nothing about Redgate. He'll have to get the story sometime.]

Can I ask what ya need the blood for? [Cause if it's like, a religious thing, man, y'know. He knows where to get some. Won't be human, though. :|a ]

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[vrykolakas]

Thank you.

[He hears the question, opens his mouth as if to explain—but he's exhausted, and perhaps it can wait. Some other time.]

Food.

[A little awkwardly, with some slight surprise. He thought you knew about that.]

I've heard the shardbearer stuff is good.

[Some people take bubble baths to relax, Brucolac. Light some candles. Find other ways of treating yourself.]

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[boutant]

Vampire?

[ She'd met one, her first day here. This one seems... a bit more polite than Damon. Sort of. ]

You can have some of mine.

[ Some being the key word. ]

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[vrykolakas]

[His throat visibly convulses as he swallows hard, and he fights to keep his voice even and impassive as he says:] Thank you.

[It doesn't quite work. He's incredibly relieved that he doesn't have to go out and scrounge or hunt just now, and it shows.] A pint? I would be in your debt. I don't say that as a mere nicety.

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[chromosomes]

[ John doesn't reply until Harry's confirmed it privately, that what the Brucolac says is true. He remembers him from Redgate; he seemed okay, despite the whole fucking mess.

Both of them look like shit now. ]

The thief went straight toward Caer Scima. I had to abandon the trail for obvious reasons.

[ A pause, then, more quietly- ]

You were with her? When it happened?

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[vrykolakas]

Thank you.

[He remembers John, too, from various half-meetings and careful exchanges. Chiefly he knows him as one of the Seelie who had carted Alyosha back to her fortress. He had only heard about this later; at the time, he had been too confused by smoke and pain to track individual scents, and he had thought Alyosha was dead.]

Yes. [He shoved his hair back from his face.] Harry Potter was able to make her comfortable enough as she died.

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[extramural]

You look poor, my dear.

[ He likes the Brucolac. That means terms of endearments. ]

Should you need it, there are a great many rats in my rooms. Though if you can grow ill, I would advise against sampling them.

[ He would also advice against letting them out and starting a plague, but. Eh. ]

Will you tell me of this Fox and Alyosha?

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[vrykolakas]

Rats. [Why.] No thank you. I am long past my days of killing pests.

[He smiles thinly and is about to just say no to the Outsider's question (unconstrained, as ever, by politeness), but something stops him. The Outsider is so alien that it feels somehow less troublesome to explain to him than to Vol'jin, who has implied essentially the same question and been offered nothing.

After a thoughtful moment, he offers:]

Alyosha was the guardian of Redgate, a mining town to the West. Prosperous and—more peaceful than other places. [But not peaceful, really, at all.] A viciously clever old battleaxe with fear burnt out of her by dragon fire. [All of this is said in tones of admiration.]

The Fox is a mad fool sickened with ungodsly power, his chest stuffed full of stolen shards, an old enemy of hers.

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[mdma]

[effy is v e r y suspicious of that weird question.]

Why do you want to know how much blood someone has?

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[vrykolakas]

I'm conducting a survey.




I am trying to fix myself dinner.

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[herotypical]

[ okay. she might be oh so over the unseelies, but it seems she still gets their mail forwarded to her locket -- and so! ]

You know, I'm not sure there's really such thing as a surplus of blood. [ oh the conclusion is obvious and she likes none of it. none of it. ]

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[vrykolakas]

Never had a doctor leech you for your own good?

[—his voice is far too flat and unpleasant for that to sound like even a very dark joke.]

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[of_the_lake]

I do not know for certain.

I'm certain you witnessed the aftermath, sir.

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[vrykolakas]

Sweet fuck.

By aftermath, do you mean the crater, the fact that the entire fucking Market district of Treun smells of charred earth or something else?

locked to the unseelie court, forever, etc

[digophelia]

[ Currently shell shocked more ways than one and a bit worse for wear, Alice is not completely sound of mind, but that is sadly nothing new after a fight. ]

What do you mean what happened?

[vrykolakas]

You're alive.

Do you still have your shard? I thought Reynard had sliced you to ribbons.