Merriment 15 ; Video

[crimsonsnow]

[ Jade looks tired, broadcasting from his room. Even still, he smiles through his whole message, his voice cheerful. ]

So, we can all agree that last mission was exhausting, can't we? For some of us more than others.

Which brings me to: Some of us were too busy anchoring to pay attention to anything else - we didn't miss anything too fun, did we? Did anyone learn anything exciting about our foe?

[ He could ask people individually, but opening it up to the floor just seems more efficient, in the end. After all... ]

I'm sure I'm not the only one who hates being out of the loop, either. If anyone else has any questions, feel free to chime in! The point of this is to get us all on the same page, after all.


((OOC: free-for-all place for anyone to share information they feel relevant about the previous mission and/or ask questions for other people to answer! feel free to tag others!!))

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[weifinder]

Mah, this makes me third chiming in, ah? I'll stick with Chaos, that's a simple way to refer to them. I know there were multiple places Chaos was being fought; I happened to be on another side of it, playing music.

( Which... sounds ludicrous, but to his credit, he does little more than off a half smile and cross his arms as he leans back against whatever's nearest. From the look of things, he might be in the spa car, presently not filled with persons making use of the space, though a head might poke in through the doors, or someone might have been seen leaving. )

They were there for the destruction of Diagad. They survived it, felt all that death and dying, had been reeling with the grief. Latching on to us as a culprit was easier than understanding the shapes that pushed down through the skies to rain horror on the world... there was an illusion of what that looked like, that Chaos called down on us.

( Keeping it factual, but not smiling anymore. )

Don't know if it's been the same for the rest, but I've been dreaming of Diagad's ending every night since. Starts the same way, a contentedness I feel as so real, it's surprising. Laying back and basking in that, looking skyward, and then the shapes arrive. They push down through the skies, everything starts to dissolve into chaos without the sense of it being a name, and the fear, the grief, the loss, and falling like it'll never stop.

( Here, he shrugs. )

But back to Chaos, they did seem to be fond of my music. Guess I have at least one fan out there in the greater collection of cosmos.

( Grin's back. Doesn't make it to his eyes, but does it need to? )

[crimsonsnow]

[ Jade nods along as he listens, understanding. He hesitates before he speaks. ]

Grief is a terrible thing, isn't it? And when you cannot do anything about the source of it, it certainly is easier to lash out at others...

[ It's clear he's just musing, thinking aloud, especially from his distant look. He snaps out of it after a moment. ]

I admit I've been having strange dreams, as well, but nothing of that sort. Lucky me.

[ It's said with a smile, but the smile is more wry than genuine. He's starting to see the picture, though. ]

...your dream. Do you think that's what Chaos themself experienced?

[weifinder]

It overwhelms. Channeling that for a while... ( he doesn't clarify, but it was channeling Chaos's grief, and everything else. So immense. )

I... think it could be. Could be a hundred interpretations of what it looked like. Could be seeing it through the eyes of every soul that was looking skyward when the world collapsed. Could be Chaos, remembering. It was all from Chaos, one way or another. Those dreams to me read like memory as much as half-remembered horrors.

( He uncrosses his arms to proffer up the empty palms of both hands. )

The world destroying shapes that descend from the sky are the consistent things. The world caving in, the falling. Other specific details change, but not those things. Chaos wanted to blame us for it, and I wonder if it's not because we come out of the Void as much as whatever swallowed their system did. Or if they latched onto something that tried, then left, seeing what was going on. Diagad was Void active, and newer to it, from what I understand.

( Lowering his palms, surrendering how much of that knowing is or isn't factual. )

[crimsonsnow]

When you put it like that, its understandable that they blamed us - lashing out in their grief, a misunderstanding taking root and festering in the wake of all that loss... Never mind that trauma doesn't necessarily discriminate between something that's actually a threat and something that merely looks like one. ...But now I'm straying away from the point.

[ He shrugs and shakes his head, before he sighs. ]

Do you think - and I realize you're no more likely to know than I do - that Diagad was destroyed because it was so new to Void travel? Or perhaps something else?

It's mostly just idle musing... But if there is a pattern in what worlds are being destroyed, I would like to know of it.

[weifinder]

I don't know. The shapes from the sky, are they attracted to new connection points, do they travel at whim, are they a guided consuming hunger? Are they even linked to the Void Ministry?

( He lifts up his hands, shrugging, showing empty palms again. )

I don't know. Anything I say will be supposition, but that we're running into the evidence and presence of whatever is devouring systems. Which... I lack context for, and I think that question's better for the people here who know more. Figuring out basics the last few months has been preoccupying enough.

[crimsonsnow]

[ Jade's smile is tired, but understanding. ]

Fair enough.

And agreed. Even having been here the two months I have, I still feel like there's so much I don't know... But I'm getting the sense that, at this point, all the things I have questions about are the same things everyone else has questions about.

[weifinder]

Mm, or those who know have too much else on minds to say if this or that is particularly relevant. How about—I learn anything of note, I'll let you know, ah?

( He doesn't mind networking, no matter who has been here for how long. )

[crimsonsnow]

That would be appreciated. I'll be sure to do the same for you.