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[curiositykilledthecats]

Who: Miah and anyone else!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Aboard the Huntress, if you really want it
When: Now

[Miah is looking into the camera, back to wearing her full plate armor to address the fleet.]

Good evening. I seek any in this fleet capable of smithing. It has been too long since I have held a sword, and I like not the feel of the so-called 'weapons' the Atroma have provided us. If any are capable of crafting a blade for me, or the tools and materials with which I may forge my own, I would be grateful. I lack the means to pay with coin, but I may offer payment in the form of labor or trade.

Thank you for listening.

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[limitstorm]

[ h... ello. pretty cat woman person. for a moment he just looks a little blank before shaking his head. ]

Uh--sorry for staring. [ how can he be so rude! ] What kind of sword? Not everyone can do magic, but there's a guy on my ship that's trying to make a flaming sword...

video;

[curiositykilledthecats]

[Hello Riku, cat woman person is pretty as fuck, and doesn't seem to mind the staring at all.]

I have become accustomed to such.

... A flaming sword sounds foolish beyond reason. [Don't ask me how long I had Ifrit's sword equipped, shut up.] I seek a blade of steel. Though I do not doubt they will be lacking in comparison to Excalibur or Hauteclaire, even a normal blade will suffice for now.

[limitstorm]

Excalibur...? The legendary sword?

[ like in his animes storybooks????? ]

[curiositykilledthecats]

The same. Recreated through Gerolt's skill.

[limitstorm]

Who's Gerolt?

[curiositykilledthecats]

... A slovenly drunkard of incomparable talent.

laughs

[limitstorm]

[ big words that he doesn't knowwwww uh. he knows drunkard? ]

So I guess it's back at home with everything else... which one was the other one? Hot Claire?

Re: laughs

[curiositykilledthecats]

Hauteclaire. A work supplied by the trader Rowena, and my own blade. It was a work of art as much as a sword, and no finer edge have I seen.

Though it was not mine, I have once held the fabled Oathkeeper as well.

[limitstorm]

Oathkeeper?

The--the sword? Or the...

[curiositykilledthecats]

... What?

[limitstorm]

[ ...... light damn it ]

N-nevermind. What'd it look like?

[curiositykilledthecats]

... The most beautiful blade I have ever laid eyes upon. Shining white, but with its gold trim, and a center of blue... When I took hold of it, it shone with a light strong enough to banish the darkness for a malm around.

1/2

[limitstorm]

[ s-sigh. ]

So it's not that Oathkeeper...

[limitstorm]

So you had three--no, two swords? You wielded them both?

[curiositykilledthecats]

There is but one Oathkeeper. What do you refer to?

At differing points, I have wielded many. Curtana, Burtgang, Excalibur, Hauteclaire, among others. And others still blades of a new era, those crafted by Garlond Ironworks, swords with no deeds to garner a name.

Some become damaged. Others were not strong enough for what I needed as the threats I faced grew. Curtana became the base that Excalibur was recreated upon.

[limitstorm]

I--uh, there's an Oathkeeper where I come from, too. It's... not a regular sword, so I guess I got confused.

[ not much 'confused'--more worried. ]

You go through a lot of swords... doing what?

[curiositykilledthecats]

Nor ours. Pray tell me of yours.

Slaying gods, and repelling the servants of darkness.

[limitstorm]

... oh. Well, I guess that's not too different from what we do. Gods, though?

[ SO NOT TELLING ABOUT KEYBLADES... ]

[curiositykilledthecats]

Primals. Myths corrupted then made manifest, gods summoned by the Beast Tribes. Their mere presence is an abomination not to be suffered, glutting themselves upon the aether of the land. If allowed to rampage, all life in Eorzea would be sucked dry.