video; un: stargazer

[leicesters]

[Once things have calmed down with the doppelgangers and the vorest forest, there's something else left to be addressed. So, Claude addresses the network.]

Hi friends! Claude here. I haven't met most of you yet, so I suppose this would be a good time to say "nice to meet you", too. Hope your mirror images were nice to you and not... you know.

[Claude's sitting indoors by a sunny window in his treehouse apartment, his small white wyvern familiar snoozing beside him.]

As eager as I am to get to know everyone, what I actually wanted to talk about was the situation with Elphame. Since Arthur dumped the decision on what to do on our shoulders, we'd better figure out how to cast our votes.

For my part, based on past relations between Elphame and Camelot, invading Celliwig is out of the question. Humans and fae have waged wars here in the past, and it's taken a lot of effort to earn the peace they have now. Camelot has even been making strides to learn about fae and coexist peacefully with them. Given Celliwig is our best chance for communication, attacking would be completely counterproductive. Even if we did, there's no guarantee we'd succeed, so why risk it?

That said, direct negotiation hasn't worked either, so our two remaining options are to focus on slowly building up trust via trade links, or deal with matters on Celliwig's terms and accept their trials. Honestly, I'm not clear on the details on that, so if someone who knows more could get the rest of us up to speed, by all means...?

[He trails off with a shrug, then gives a sheepish smile.]

Anyway, I've waffled on for a while now! Long story short, I think our peaceful options are really the best shot we have at this, it's just a matter of deciding which is best. I'm really not interested in letting a violent old history repeat itself. Feel free to pitch in with your own thoughts... Maybe we can even come up with something better than what's already being proposed.

[He gives a lazy wave, before ending the feed.]


[ooc: threadjacking is welcome and encouraged! go wild]

Comments

[blushing_beauty]

Hypothetically you could argue there were three wars, but one of them occurred so soon after the other I'm not sure if it really counts separately. The last one was more a war for survival against a dragon the size of a mountain and his undead legions.

[Yeah... if you think monsters are bad, try dealing with Risen.]

Oh... well what if it was less trade and more like a gift, or bribe?

[leicesters]

Hold that thought on gifts just a second-- what was that about dragons and undead?

[Lay all the crazy details on him! He has to know.]

[blushing_beauty]

Oh... that's right, you weren't exactly there. It was sort of hard to miss in our world, but Grima is one of the dragon... let's call them gods? Annnnd he isn't particularly benevolent. Actually it would be accurate to say that the entire reason for is existence is that he wants destroy all of mankind. He'd been asleep for nearly a thousand years, but every thousand years or so he wakes up again, and humanity has to fight to defeat him. He can only be killed by his own power, so all we're able to do is put him to sleep using a divine blade gifted to us by Naga, one of the more benevolent dragon gods.

...

Does that make any sense?

[She's usually a better story teller than this, but in this instance she was more trying to relate facts of her world, than spin an adventurous yarn about her world and its heroes.]

[leicesters]

Interesting... Why is it always dragons and gods...? [He's mostly just muttering under his breath, not actually expecting an answer.]

It does make sense... Mostly. What did mankind do that this dragon god hated so much?

[blushing_beauty]

... Tell me about it.

[She kind of is just... agreeing with that statement. She'd swear that the problems plaguing this world probably have some sort of sinister dragon god behind it too.]

Honestly? I think the answer has been somewhat lost to history. It was such a long time ago now that the fell dragon came to be, and it doesn't particularly feel like explaining its reasons for hating us. The divine dragons probably would be able to answer that question better than I can, but I only know one or two and I never really felt like I could easily approach them for conversation.

[Seeing as one of them didn't even seem to have a physical form anymore...]

[leicesters]

Only one or two? That's a lot! I'd be bursting to ask them questions.

[...But not everyone is as nosy as you are, Claude.]

Oh, but I suppose we're getting a little distracted from the topic at hand, aren't we...?

[blushing_beauty]

Well I'm not really anybody important, so I'd feel like I was wasting their time asking them silly questions they'd probably have already answered dozens of times to others.

[She really hates to impose on people.]

O-Oh! Right... errr... what was the topic at hand again?

[The Fae Olivia, the Fae.]

Well... maybe I should at least introduce myself since we've been talking this long, I'm Olivia.

[leicesters]

A pleasure, Olivia.

And as far as I'm concerned, there's no such thing as a silly question. You won't get answers unless you ask, right?

[says the guy who pesters way too many people with way too many questions...]

[blushing_beauty]

You haven't tried to answer all of Lord Nobunaga's questions, have you?

[She did... for some inane reason, make the attempt... and promptly found she'd bit off more than she could chew.]

I'm not very good at confronting people with my questions, so I'd rather just let sleeping dragons lie as the old saying goes.

[Lord knows Rhea's told enough lies Tiki was the sort of divine dragon who slept a lot, and tended to associate with people of much more importance than her anyways.]

[leicesters]

Um... No...? Who's Lord Nobuwhatsit, and what is he asking?

[Somehow he missed that whole thing on the network.]