Alexander: Then we should discern how it is spread. Alexander: You mentioned your God Bahamut was responsible for yours no longer spreading. Without the god's intervention, how would the tale unfold.
Refrigerator: I would not be entirely certain it is him. Refrigerator: Here, I cannot feel the gods, so they may hold no power in this realm. Refrigerator: But it has not spread. Of that, I am certain.
Glacies Fleuret: That could be the case. Glacies Fleuret: Truly, I do not know how many people I was expected to treat, so it could be more common that I am aware of.
Alexander: Belated congratulations! Alexander: Though that does put the sole burden upon your shoulders. Alexander: How absolutely dreadful. Alexander: Well should you have a free night there is something I would like to try in the realm of dreams. Alexander: To judge if your soul has become corrupted. Alexander: And to see if we can't test spreading the parasites in an environment that will have no consequence upon waking. Though it does make for a faulty test bed.
Glacies Fleuret: Thank you. Though, it remains to be seen if I arrived at the altar. Glacies Fleuret: You are awake now, but I do intend to return to my slumber when able. Is this morning too soon for your tests?
Alexander: Would you look at the time. I do appear I have fallen into a more nocturnal schedule. Alexander: I will be up. Alexander: I had a few more avenues of study I wanted to explore. Alexander: Do rest well.
Glacies Fleuret: You ask a great deal. Glacies Fleuret: Still, and I do not mean this to signal I have any doubt, but I would have your honesty rather than your kindness in this. Glacies Fleuret: I fear for many with my condition.
Alexander: Then my honesty you will have. Alexander: This Starscourge born of your star is a terrifying, dreadful thing and it becomes more terrible the more I learn of it. Alexander: I do not understand how the gods of your world work, but I would hardly give them reverence would they not provide you with a way to cure the disease. Alexander: I do not have any delusions of truly being able to provide you with a solution, but I would like to try.
[A few minutes pass with typing in progress.]
Alexander: The rest I will need to say in person. Alexander: Do I have your consent to meet with you during your rest using BARiTONES abilities?
Glacies Fleuret: Truly, they are not so great, but you cannot deny any aid given when you are without succor. Glacies Fleuret: You have my full consent. Thank you for your consideration.
[Glacies will dream her own dream for a while after she drifts off to sleep. Whether she remembers it or not, well, who can say but Glacies herself? The scene will eventually shift. She'll find himself on an almost black, flat but even rocky surface. The edges eventually drop away to nothing, and as far as the eye can see is faint starlight covered by a haze of purple clouds.
Alexander will be standing in the middle of the platform waiting for her, but dressed in not his normal attire minus the mask and with the hood pulled down away from his face.]
[He tilts his head curiously at Pryna, but does not comment on her companion.]
Emet-Selch. 'Tis my title, but per tradition does it become synonymous with our names upon taking office. It is the name I have given BARiTONES and a few select others. It only feels right that you should know of it as well.
Ah, you should have full use of your abilities here. If you recall how to use them.
And to fully finish my answer from earlier, the reason for being so very curious in your Starscourge is twofold. I do find the situation to be a distasteful one, and if any amount of this research would aide in its cure then would be a boon to you and yours. I would not see you suffer as it seems your life is dedicated to curing your people.
As for the second reason, I am also curious in it because studying it could present itself a very powerful tool in my own arsenal should I need to bring about another Calamity. I'm sure it does sound very strange to your ears to hear me declare my dislike for this Starscouge in one breathe but attempt to use it in another! If you would allow me to explain though it might be lengthy.
In the distant past, a great calamity threatened all life. It began without warning. The very laws of the star were warped and broken, and chaos swiftly spread throughout the land. Faced with annihilation, we sought to imbue the star with its own will. Through prayer and sacrifice, the will of the star was made manifest. Zodiark was His name, and by His grace was the calamity averted. A savior mighty and magnificent, deserving of reverence and gratitude ... one would have thought.
Yet some thought otherwise. From the fears of these naysayers would rise Hydaelyn. As a counterbalance to Zodiark, Hydaelyn was created with the power to enervate Her foe. The singular ability strikes not as such banal things as flesh, but everything that defies the target, diluting its existence. For example, were She to strike you, two individuals she would make identical in appearance, yet reduced in all respects. Strength, intelligence, the soul itself --- all is halved.
And so they fought, and they fought, and they fought. And in the end Hydaelyn was victorious. With all Her strength She smote Him and His being was divided into fourteen. The selfsame fate befell not only Zodiark, but the very star. Into fourteen fragments was the star and all that dwell upon it shattered --- a source and thirteen reflections.
Those of us that survived the Sundering, few that we were, took it upon ourselves to rejoin the worlds. We discovered a connection ‘twixt Source and shard --- a flow of energy that maintains elemental balance. Disrupt the balance of aether on a shard, and it can be rejoined with the source. And thus do we toil to make the world whole again.
Your Starscourge is dark aspected. Creating such a disruption in balance is a delicate, tedious process. Yet have we to succeed in this aspect of aether though we have tried and failed.
Yes, and I am glad for it. So, you are certain of what becomes of them? You have done research?
If I think of it another way, in our memories or perhaps a soul being divided across two places . . . Yes, a memory returning to someone ends its existence, but it is also returning to its whole. Granted, I do not know how our memories exist without us. Could it also not be like that?
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Alexander: You mentioned your God Bahamut was responsible for yours no longer spreading. Without the god's intervention, how would the tale unfold.
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Refrigerator: Here, I cannot feel the gods, so they may hold no power in this realm.
Refrigerator: But it has not spread. Of that, I am certain.
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Glacies Fleuret: Truly, I do not know how many people I was expected to treat, so it could be more common that I am aware of.
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Alexander: Though that does put the sole burden upon your shoulders.
Alexander: How absolutely dreadful.
Alexander: Well should you have a free night there is something I would like to try in the realm of dreams.
Alexander: To judge if your soul has become corrupted.
Alexander: And to see if we can't test spreading the parasites in an environment that will have no consequence upon waking. Though it does make for a faulty test bed.
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Glacies Fleuret: You are awake now, but I do intend to return to my slumber when able. Is this morning too soon for your tests?
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Alexander: I will be up.
Alexander: I had a few more avenues of study I wanted to explore.
Alexander: Do rest well.
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Glacies Fleuret: Still, and I do not mean this to signal I have any doubt, but I would have your honesty rather than your kindness in this.
Glacies Fleuret: I fear for many with my condition.
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Alexander: This Starscourge born of your star is a terrifying, dreadful thing and it becomes more terrible the more I learn of it.
Alexander: I do not understand how the gods of your world work, but I would hardly give them reverence would they not provide you with a way to cure the disease.
Alexander: I do not have any delusions of truly being able to provide you with a solution, but I would like to try.
[A few minutes pass with typing in progress.]
Alexander: The rest I will need to say in person.
Alexander: Do I have your consent to meet with you during your rest using BARiTONES abilities?
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Glacies Fleuret: You have my full consent. Thank you for your consideration.
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[Glacies will dream her own dream for a while after she drifts off to sleep. Whether she remembers it or not, well, who can say but Glacies herself? The scene will eventually shift. She'll find himself on an almost black, flat but even rocky surface. The edges eventually drop away to nothing, and as far as the eye can see is faint starlight covered by a haze of purple clouds.
Alexander will be standing in the middle of the platform waiting for her, but dressed in not his normal attire minus the mask and with the hood pulled down away from his face.]
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Good morning, Alexander.
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Emet-Selch. 'Tis my title, but per tradition does it become synonymous with our names upon taking office. It is the name I have given BARiTONES and a few select others. It only feels right that you should know of it as well.
Ah, you should have full use of your abilities here. If you recall how to use them.
And to fully finish my answer from earlier, the reason for being so very curious in your Starscourge is twofold. I do find the situation to be a distasteful one, and if any amount of this research would aide in its cure then would be a boon to you and yours. I would not see you suffer as it seems your life is dedicated to curing your people.
As for the second reason, I am also curious in it because studying it could present itself a very powerful tool in my own arsenal should I need to bring about another Calamity. I'm sure it does sound very strange to your ears to hear me declare my dislike for this Starscouge in one breathe but attempt to use it in another! If you would allow me to explain though it might be lengthy.
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[small nod, glancing at Pryna before looking back to Emet]
I recall a few, thank you.
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Yet some thought otherwise. From the fears of these naysayers would rise Hydaelyn. As a counterbalance to Zodiark, Hydaelyn was created with the power to enervate Her foe. The singular ability strikes not as such banal things as flesh, but everything that defies the target, diluting its existence. For example, were She to strike you, two individuals she would make identical in appearance, yet reduced in all respects. Strength, intelligence, the soul itself --- all is halved.
And so they fought, and they fought, and they fought. And in the end Hydaelyn was victorious. With all Her strength She smote Him and His being was divided into fourteen. The selfsame fate befell not only Zodiark, but the very star. Into fourteen fragments was the star and all that dwell upon it shattered --- a source and thirteen reflections.
Those of us that survived the Sundering, few that we were, took it upon ourselves to rejoin the worlds. We discovered a connection ‘twixt Source and shard --- a flow of energy that maintains elemental balance. Disrupt the balance of aether on a shard, and it can be rejoined with the source. And thus do we toil to make the world whole again.
Your Starscourge is dark aspected. Creating such a disruption in balance is a delicate, tedious process. Yet have we to succeed in this aspect of aether though we have tried and failed.
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You did ask for my honesty.
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If I think of it another way, in our memories or perhaps a soul being divided across two places . . . Yes, a memory returning to someone ends its existence, but it is also returning to its whole. Granted, I do not know how our memories exist without us. Could it also not be like that?
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