As an empire of dead men leave their graves

[whatisright]

Who: Justice and YOU
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Blameless and Iskaulit
When: After the glitches kick in.

[Video & Blameless Action, Day 1 of glitching]

--Gone, vile thing. [The communicator turns on as it's thrown against the wall. Loyalty the pygmy snow leopard paces in front of the camera, making loud unhappy noises and largely obscuring the vision of what's going on inside Justice's room (for it has to be Justice's room with Loyalty, right?). Justice's voice sounds different, so much so that it's not immediately recognizable, but it echoes strangely. When the camera can see past the pacing legs of Loyalty, it doesn't focus properly on the person standing in the room. It's like the camera can't quite register that there's a person there at all, but there's definitely an outline there, and it's definitely glowing blue.]

Muire! What did you do?

[Iskaulit Action, Day 3 of glitching]

[For those who don't know much about Justice, it's not clear that this is Justice. The spirit glows blue all over, and it wears ancient Tevinter armor that obscures its face entirely. Looking at it directly may provoke a headache--there's something about it that seems fundamentally wrong, like it's not supposed to be there, and if one looks at it long enough, it may start changing shape to better reflect the observer's vision of justice.

It is also incredibly tense, and its sword is drawn. It turns to the observer quickly, and in an androgynous voice, it says,] Speak, mortal, and tell me where I am.

[Iskaulit Action, Day 5 of glitching]

[It's official. Loyalty is literally the only indication that this is the same person anymore.

Justice walks the Iskaulit with Loyalty at heel, but this Justice looks nothing like people are used to. For one, this Justice appears to be a woman. For two, she has different armor, one that's older and sleek and resembles elven work with a long hood over her head instead of a helmet. Long, pointy ears are occasionally visible under the hood, but she's hidden her face with a scarf that hides everything except her eyes, which seem too sharp to be entirely human or elven. Her skin still glows blue, and she walks with a sword at her hip, and when she speaks, her voice still echoes, though it's considerably more feminine than usual.] Where have the dreamers gone?

[Some may recognize that she's speaking in Ancient Elvish, but the augments automatically translate her into Common, so does it matter?]

[Wildcard - Meet Justice on any day]

Comments

[whatisright]

Of course they were. [Justice says it dismissively, like she can't believe she even has to explain it.] They still are, most likely. Their kind do not easily die, if they die at all. They were the ones who won the war against the earthshakers. If you do not know of them, then they are asleep, or perhaps hidden away and plotting how to restore their world.

Does passage through the barrier ever leave a mark? On the barrier, or perhaps on the land of the physical or the dreams?

[bryces_pup]

[If it weren't for the fact that A) she's rather overwhelmed and B) this was Justice, she'd probably be considering punting the spirit out the airlock for the attitude.] But why would they have all fallen asleep or disappeared at the same time?

I'm not sure. To do so physically might, but that's only been done twice.

[whatisright]

I can only speculate. Perhaps there was a rebellion among the elves, and the people exhausted their leaders. Perhaps the titans awoke and attacked. Perhaps the Evanuris fought amongst themselves until they were tired enough to sleep for thousands of years. [Justice pauses for a moment, brow furrowed.] ...I would guess that one. The Evanuris are known to disagree, and where there is much power and conflict, there is eventually violence.

[No one ever said that power gives people the ability to get along all the time.]

If it has been done twice, it will be done twice more. Then twice again. Do your people know how to repair that kind of damage to the barrier?

[bryces_pup]

[And Riona can only nod along. She's in no position to refute any of the speculations. But it certainly unsettles her the more she thinks about it. With nothing to be done about it here, she decides to leave it as is.]

There was a breach that happened rather recently, and it sparked other rifts throughout the south. Luckily someone is able to close them and are doing so. Nothing like that has happened before, and it wasn't caused by normal means. I believe mages have ways of being able to mend smaller tears in the Fade, but I'm not the best person to ask.

[whatisright]

If you do not know how it happened, perhaps the being that created the barrier between worlds has returned.

[She says it casually, like it's just the natural way of things and it was going to happen eventually. Justice hasn't quite grasped how momentous that would be to someone who's only just learned of what the world is meant to be.]