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avalononline2021-04-14 09:52 am
eightfoldfiend) wrote in avalononline2021-04-14 09:52 am
voice; un: stranger
(cw: sickness and the frustrated war devil will probably be saying gross, violent things in comments.)
[A guttural wheeze.]
If one more person tells me--
[Sneeze.]
--that I need to calm down and learn to be human I'll burn this whole city to the ground.
[This has been a PSA.]
[A guttural wheeze.]
If one more person tells me--
[Sneeze.]
--that I need to calm down and learn to be human I'll burn this whole city to the ground.
[This has been a PSA.]
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[The excitement falls away, replaced by frustration. He violently shoves the bone dragon off of him.]
How many soldiers do you have and why? Is there a war?
[It seems unlikely. Even without his powers he would have caught the scent of massive armed conflict ...he hopes.]
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[He waves a hand. He doesn't want to get too into it. It's fuzzy anyway, because anything with Akechi is always going to be.] The war is two-fold. Underground, and with other realms. It's more subtle these days. Worse than dealing with ninjas. [He has no idea how much that means to Yuber.] All information, and even worse politically than what I'm used to fielding. [Weary sigh.] If you haven't met, or heard of other versions of yourself, you could miss the undercurrents entirely. [Oda has declared war... on himself. Don't... don't ask.]
The magic of this realm doesn't translate others' well, so if you're hoping to get it back, don't waste your time. I haven't determined yet if that's natural causes or someone's active decision, but I doubt the latter. Too much to lose with filters like that, and no sense enabling new power if the point is just to restrict it entirely -- at least not without demanding subservience.
It is curious that you got healing without soldiers to heal though. Perhaps because you can already kill with traditional means? [Will. Life. He's thinking.]
[Nope, he's at a loss too.]
2/2
[A grin.] At least that's fun, right? [Should he be encouraging a demon to fight him? Probably not, but since that's ALL Oda ever seems to do on the flipside of adding them to his army and expecting them to cut him down 24/7, (see Akechi Mitsuhide) he's just like that.]
cw: mentions of random npc murder
Yes. At least chaos is fun.
I've been given far too few chances to partake these days.
[Killing people in dark alleys sates his appetite for a little while. The more talented mages are sometimes even a challenge... But it's not the same as a battlefield.]
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So no greater ambitions of your own?
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In this world my only ambition is to escape. To end the stasis, safely restore time and go home so I can finish my work.
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If you don't like being sick, I can promise it can get so much worse.
cw: talk of suicide
Killing myself to leave this mortal coil is not my intent. I don't want to disappear, I want to thrive.
If the only way to do that is to save this world then so be it. I will save the world, time will flow, we will go home and all living things can rejoice.
And I can finish my work.
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[Literally, only Oda's thoughts on this.]
Oh good. [Rests both his hands behind his neck.] What's your work at home anyway?
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Who cares?
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[He answers after a long pause.]
My work is chaos.
[If it seems like there should be more to it than that it's because there is. Yuber doesn't feel like getting into the whole True Runes thing, however. ]
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But I assume there's something specific about your home you miss. Aside from being weaker and your shift in magic.
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Hmm...
"Miss" isn't the right word.
[He sits back in the bed and regards Nobunaga with quiet boredom. The sickness is still there, he can feel it swimming between his ears, but with the breaking of the fever some of his panic-induced madness is gone. The violent intensity that had been blazing in his eyes is now existential exhaustion.
This sort of swing isn't unusual even when he is healthy, however. Many human traveling companions have been frustrated in the past at his tendency to sway between blood-lust hysteria and a deep, dark boredom.]
It's not like I harbor any love for the world I left behind.
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[HONESTLY, Oda Nobunaga is the same exact way, and he doesn't have a supernatural excuse! He's just fucking crazy. Bored to murderous with NO given triggers! So alas(?) he thinks Yuber is more cool/fun/stable than a lot of otherwise "normal" people...]
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My world is where my sworn enemy is.
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What are the odds of them coming here?
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The True Runes. Geddoe and Chris each carry one and he still has his own. But this man seems to think he's referring to a flesh and blood adversary, not a set of magical, god-like parasites.
He blows out a breath and answers as if he were referring to the one nemesis he has besides the Runes.]
Who knows?
My world is certainly in stasis but that won't stop a familiar from getting a funny idea in its head and bringing him here.
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[He could suggest killing Yuber's familiar, but... that seems like a bad idea.]
Don't wear yourself out with useless fights. If getting home is your ultimate goal, then you'll need to focus your energies.