lucetilocked | voice. [locked to residents]

[It's been almost two weeks since the mission, and Kotetsu's barely managed to hold himself together during that time; a royal mess, you'd say. But with the arrival of Kaede and the underlying truth that, eventually, it'd be brought up... He decides he'll put his two cents out there.]

... A while ago, me and a buncha' others went on a mission. It was s'pposed to be a pretty normal thing; I mean, routine stuff. But then, we were attacked... and things got a little fuzzy and crazier than it should've. [A pause, as he considers what to say. How to say it. Maybe he shoulda' picked out someone who was better at words or... hell, even wrote down what he was planning to say. As it is, he's sitting here with a few bullet points scribbled out, itching his head.]

From what everyone could tell, it was a band of dream shifters, like the kind people fought before. And that General Ass--... guy was in there, too. I met him in a dream, and he basically helped to get me out of it. Like he did for other people. It's pretty confusing, you know? That he'd help us out. But he told me... before everything got hard to keep track of, he told me that...

[He massages his temple, trying to remember the exact words.]

He said they wanted to offer us to the planet. Some--special hour, or something. That his people had a bigger plan for us. Said he'd kill me right where I was if it wasn't for everything else goin' on. Tch, he was basically just a confusing bastard. But what I could tell was that there were people like him--those third party fellas--that weren't on his side. Dream guys who wanted him to go down, because he was just as stuck as we were by the looks of it. Or else he'd just let us all die and be on his way, right?

And--! (shi-) [flipping over a paper, one sec] He said something about.... Shamans...? That things don't stay dead without 'em. He was looking for one while we were stuck there.

[There's a hushed silence. Sounding pretty uncool there Kaburagi. Try to at least sound like you know exactly what to include.]

I, uh, don't know what else I should add. It was all a pretty big blur, but I figured... the malnosso tried to get me to talk about it, but I figured it'd be better off here. The people who were there can also add some stuff here. Leave the line open for all the stuff they can--contribute? [is that a decent way of phrasing it] Or if anyone has any questions I'll try my best to answer 'em. I think this info is just as much yours as it is anyone there. The others probably got things more thought-out than me... so...

Alright.

[OKAY I'M GOOD

I'LL JUST

STOP HERE

because talking in length about this frustrating shit is too much]

((ooc: basically a free-for-all, especially for anyone who has anything to offer from the mission! I figured we could have this up even without everything threaded out, can add replies as we go? go for the stars, n' stuff. :|))

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To you? [ She gives him a thoughtful expression, quiet for a moment, then asks: ] Would he really go out of his way to track down a single person?

[ Especially one just from an enclosure, rather than a Malnosso at large. She knew little of this Count, however, so the possibility... His next question stops that line of thought suddenly and Leonhardt actually manages to get a surprised look out of her for once. ]

Huh? You mean one that locks down abilities?

I was sent to ensure that he would die and not come back. By my hand he was drugged and tied up and delivered to the cultists to be sacrificed. That is a valid enough reason to wish for revenge.

[He pauses for a moment and takes a drink of a glass of tea he has. It actually does have honey in it to try and help with his voice, but is doing little good.]

Yes. I'd rather not ask for a dangerous item from my world to do that.

Were they going to sacrifice him, though?

[ Or was it just a wild ruse to get the Count to his own faction, she has to wonder. The politics outside the enclosure always did seem so convoluted... ]

Well. I know there are ways to seal the power of a True Rune in my own world, which are fairly powerful in their own right, but I don't know if those would work on anything else.

[Leonhardt honestly isn't sure what actually happened. Either there was some strange politics involved, or the Count used his abilities to save his life. Those are his going theories for now.]

That is what I was told and Specialist Davis would not have any known reason to wish to increase the numbers of cultists.

[He takes another sip of the tea as he considers that. It does sound as if his voice is growing fainter and he's probably reaching the limit of how much he can speak for now.]

It is the same with the one from my world, except that it has other effects.

[And actually, since his voice is pretty much about gone now, he's going to go ahead and pull out a notebook of his. From the looks of things, it's something he had in his world. He turns it to a page where he noted observations of an item called "The Gospel". It lists off various noted effects: stopping the effect of an artifact and breaking it, a power outage in Zeiss, unsealing the Shining Ring, creating "ghosts", causing earthquakes, making a machine act on its own, causing realistic dreams (this one has an added note that Dream Shifters are similar to this effect, that obviously was written later), controlling a dragon. Definitely sounds like a very strange item indeed. There are other things said on it, but it's far more technical overall. It's evident from the page that he did do some extensive research on this item and the first two effects hint towards the use he's considering here because they drain power.]

You can't really assume Davis knows everything behind his orders, either.

[ The bad habit of not telling one's soldiers everything seemed like an issue that would span across all universes, honestly. The notebook drew her attention off of that subject, however, and she leans in closer to read the notes. The Gospel? ]

Interesting... I can see why you wouldn't want it here. [ And she doubts the Malnosso would allow such a thing, even if they could get it. Could they? She had to wonder. ] But that doesn't tell me what you want to seal, or why.

[Of course Leonhardt doesn't assume Davis knows everything, if anything he may well have been tricked.]

Mind control. [Well, that wasn't as audible as he would hope, but hopefully Yun gets the point. That definitely answers for what, and implies why well enough. Who wishes to lose control of their free will? In case she doesn't understand he's flipping through some pages to get the observations from that particular mission where he wrote down the things they got from the servants and security.]

Mind control?

[ That's ominous. She frowns thoughtfully for a moment. ]

Hmm. Is the power attributed to a person or an item?