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apocalypsehowcomm2022-05-16 08:09 am
- !event,
- !finale,
- !npc,
- bucky barnes (mcu),
- cornelius hickey (the terror),
- cortana (halo),
- edalyn clawthorne (owl house),
- hunter (owl house),
- kate cordello (original),
- katrina (siren),
- manji (blade of the immortal),
- zz_addison montgomery (grey's anatomy),
- zz_ade bennett (the wess'har wars),
- zz_ainsley whitly (prodigal son),
- zz_andrew jaeger (original),
- zz_beauregard lionett (critical role),
- zz_bruno madrigal (encanto),
- zz_callisto (xena: warrior princess),
- zz_donna noble (doctor who),
- zz_garner cinderbrooke (original),
- zz_george milton (of mice and men),
- zz_jeff calhoun (original),
- zz_john carter (er),
- zz_jonathan sims (tma),
- zz_luka kovač (er),
- zz_malcolm bright (prodigal son),
- zz_misty quigley (yellowjackets),
- zz_neal caffrey (white collar),
- zz_nick valentine (fallout),
- zz_orpheus (hadestown),
- zz_rye kalibash (original),
- zz_tim drake (dc comics)
Event - Appalachia: Into the Pines
Footage plays on the television as a new story comes on, showing a series of sweeping vistas, intercut with clips of wolves that have clearly been filmed at some local wildlife sanctuary. "As far as anyone knows it, the last wolf to ever freely roam the Allegheny Mountains was slain in West Virginia in 1897. Daniel Stoffer Hamrick saw to the beast's passing, and the woods in our part of the world have gone quieter ever since. Appalachia does not forget its history, though. It buries it beneath coal and flyash, debts and white powder and pills. And the blood of people taken before their time, by the mines, by the mountain, by things we don't have names for, just hurt. But Appalachia does not forget.
"This is Cindy Parsons with Channel 5, Wolf News." Footage cuts to a newscaster standing outside a gated apartment complex with FYRE's logo emblazoned on it. "As we know, our beloved Wolf Pen is home to one of the biggest FYRE worker housing complexes in Wyoming County. It is a monument to the history of our town, and this week, we'll be on the lookout for visitors from all over the country, coming to see the grand re-opening of the historic Bluestone Mine as a museum."
Footage cuts to a nondescript businessman, identified by the news footage as Carl Watts, CEO of FYRE. He's smiling blandly as he stands at a podium and gestures to the entrance of the mining tunnel behind him. "The Wolf Pen community has been a partner to us for decades now, and we knew it was finally time to give something back to all y’all. We'll have our soft opening on Monday with a full Rumble Down Under party in the old mines scheduled for June 15th. We'll have a live bluegrass concert and anticipate a huge influx of tourists to the area to help out our neighbors itching for a few more pocketbooks to tend to." A wink.
The footage returns to Cindy. "FYRE has stated that this new museum will provide an educational tool and tourist attraction for those wanting to learn about West Virginia, Wolf Pen, and the hard-working men and women who have made this beautiful part of our nation their home. Time will tell. Time is always telling when it comes to the promises of people who have used our land and our bodies to line their pocketbooks. They fill our blood and our lungs with black tar and-"
Cindy cuts out and is replaced by in-studio anchors. "Thank you, Cindy!" a blonde woman says, smile just a little strained. "I think we're all looking forward to seeing the big opening by FYRE on Sunday and that rocking good party next month. It should be a gneiss one! Now to Tim with the weather. Tim?"
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[She looks uncertain, but at least it's possible. It doesn't entirely add up, but her original theory doesn't entirely add up either. And she doesn't think he's lying, so there has to be some kind of answer.]
Do you have a better explanation? Did you ask your palisman if he knows anything? [She'd still like to talk to him, but she doesn't ask again for the moment.]
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[Just a little bit of bratty dunking on Lilith it's fine, especially when he doesn't have a better explanation. He makes an exasperated noise..]
Flapjack knows what I know, not... everything you're going on about. [Flapjack cheeps in agreement at that.]
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Well... it was worth a shot. Hey, red. [She adds the last bit with a glance at the cardinal.]
You're not wrong about my sister, though. [If nothing else, dunking on Lilith a little bit is apparently something they can agree on.] Mostly it was the Deadwardian architecture I had to hear about for hours on end. Of course... I seem to remember I did most of the work on the gadget she used anyway.
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Hunter looks over at Eda, baffled.]
You did? Are you serious? You took time out of your life of crime and being a - a public nuisance, and built a machine that can detect time pools?
[That's hard to believe, okay!]
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Hm? Nah, we made it when I was around your age. Maybe a little younger. We just never actually found one back then.
[She is leaving out the fact that's because they had to power it with titan's blood. Although it's not like she has any for him to steal here anyway.]
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[Sorry Eda, but he's only a teenager.]
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[This is at least somewhat of a joke given she's well aware she looks older than Lilith, but then again it is true that she's the younger sibling.]
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I don't believe that.
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Lily just had an excellent skin-care routine called not being cursed. [She says this grumpily, but without much real malice. Water under the bridge and all.]
Besides, everyone looks old when you're... what, fifteen? [She's pretty sure it's somewhere around there. Albeit maybe not chronologically.]
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Sixteen, I'm sixteen. [He's saying that in that haughty kind of I'm-an-adult sort of tone.] I'm the youngest scout to have made Golden Guard.
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The next part is less funny though. It's bad enough that he is a kid, but she also knows enough about what he is at least guess that it means Belos specifically wanted a child soldier.]
Oh yeah? How old was the last one? [She does her best to keep her tone to casual curiosity.]
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[He huffs, sobering.] I don't know, I never asked. [Belos never offered up that information, and it never seemed appropriate to indulge his curiosity.] Older than me.
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What's so great about being the youngest one, anyway?
[After all, it's fun to tease him about being a kid but being a kid isn't a bad thing.]
You're a kid. You should be-- [she gestures vaguely] --doing kid stuff. Making friends and... dumb mistakes, and learning who you even are, and everything. You shouldn't have to be caught up in all this. [None of the kids should.]
You've got your whole life ahead of you to figure out your shit for yourself. Why rush? [Apparently she has absorbed that he's sixteen, because she's decided he's old enough to swear in front of.]
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[Or at least, it means that Belos considered him to be good enough earlier than the previous Golden Guards, and that means the world to him.
He gives her a look that's partly confused, partly irritated. Why is she going on about kid stuff?]
I don't need to be a kid. I'm not one. [He hasn't been one for years, no matter what other people say.] I know who I am, and I've already got my life figured out. It doesn't involve whatever you're talking about.
[Even if there are parts of it he doesn't really care about.]
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Yeah... I know it feels like that. [She says this mildly. Partly because it's not worth turning it into an argument and partly because well, she definitely felt a lot more grown up at that age than teenagers look to her now. She even thought she had everything figured out for a while there.]
Hell, I wanted to join the Emperor's Coven as a teenager. [Which isn't a fact she shares much, but partly she drops it for the potential shock value.]
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With her admittance that she wanted to join his coven, he's just now he's realizing that he's learning a whole bunch about her since they wound up here. He isn't sure how he feels about that, but he's sure as hell shocked about the coven thing.]
Really? Well - it's the best coven out of all of them. [Of course she'd want to join it???] Why didn't you? Join, I mean. Not good enough?
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Not good enough? Nah, I had it in the bag. Ask Lily who actually got better test scores somet--
[She cuts herself off, maybe because she doesn't want to sound like she was ever a nerd and maybe because she doesn't know if either of them are likely to see Lilith again. Probably some of both.]
Anyway... I did want to, but it was Lily's dream more than mine, and they said we had to duel for it. I wasn't about to fight my sister. [And the fact Lilith didn't realise that might hurt more than the actual decision to curse her, but she doesn't want to spend too long on that train of thought.]
And I wasn't big on joining a coven that wanted me to, either. [In retrospect, she wonders if it was a matter of limited spots as much as a matter of not letting family join together, or some kind of test just to see which one was willing to do it. Not that it makes much difference now.]
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He's baffled, honestly. This is a side he never expected to come from her. He isn't sure what to say, and it takes him a few moments to think of something.]
I think if she knew you were telling me all of this she'd be really angry.
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Either way, Hunter's comment gets a snort.]
Yeah, she probably would. [Given Lilith's rivalry with a teenager and all.] But hey, I'm leaving out the stuff that actually makes her look bad.
[Apparently she's obnoxious enough to mention there are things that would but not quite enough to elaborate. She may be opening up more than usual, but Hunter doesn't need to know how the curse went down. He should probably know about Belos lying to Lilith about curing her... but she doubts he'd believe it anyway.]
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He raises an eyebrow, immediately interested in hearing more and not trying to hide it.]
What do you mean? What else is there? I already know about her being completely high-and-mighty about everything. [It's his turn to snort.] She likes reminding me that I'm about half her age.
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[A part of her considers answering the rest, if only because he sounds genuinely curious. But it would be sharing Lilith's worst life choice with a kid she actively dislikes. And Eda isn't exactly close with Hunter so far.]
But nah... I don't think you're ready for our whole life story. Maybe some other time. [She'll think about it.]
I will give you something to take the wind out of her sails next time she's mean to you, though. At our first Covention, Lily was so excited about seeing the Emperor's Coven perform that she peed herself a little. [And that's apparently never going to stop being funny to Eda.]
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[He isn't expecting to though, not since Lilith is exiled and all.
He does frown at that, but it's hers and Lilith's personal life and if she isn't willing to give that information then he won't pry. He knows what it's like wanting to keep personal things private.
And hey! She's still giving him something hilarious. His eyes widen before he sputters, and lets out a brief laugh.]
Really?? She was that big of a fan??
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She really was. Trust me, I wish I was joking. I had to hear about the whole thing for weeks.
[In retrospect she's a little nostalgic about back when her sister talked to her about everything, but it was annoying at the time and it's still funny to complain about it now.]
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I'd never have guessed. She's so stuffy, but I guess it makes sense if she's going to be that enthusiastic about something it would be the Emperor's Coven.
[Because it's the greatest, you see.]
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She was always a little stuffy... perfect prissy li'l Lilith. [Eda grumbles that last part, but with a lot less malice than she would have used a year or two ago.]
But it got way worse after she joined. And after she gave herself that makeover. Trust me, she didn't used to be... [Eda just sort of gestures vaguely as she remembers the persona her sister was playing up for so long.] Cool.
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