WEEK SIX MINGLE

[grigori]

kings: week 6 mingle the big orange

22 Remain

Another week, another world to explore. Once again, waking brings you to unfamiliar surroundings, the bitter touch of Nerak cold fading to the more mild weather of autumn. The sound of cars or people talking or faint music greets your ears, no matter the time of day or night, and the light pollution is intense. Hope you weren't counting on seeing the stars.

Welcome to Kings, where you'll have your pick of shopping, entertainment, cute date spots, or just about anything else that you can think of! The city has something to offer for everyone. You'll never be wanting for things to do here - just try not to get lost in the subways. The locals may not be the most willing to help out.



Waiting for you to join them in the main plaza of Star Circle are Baraqiel, Shamsiel, and Suriel. You might have to push your way through the crowds to reach them properly, but no one's blinking an eye at your Watchers today. There are other people in costume hanging around already. What's a few angels to add to the antics?

Suriel greets everyone with their usual cheerful smile, fox daemon pressed close to their ankles to avoid getting lost in the crowd. "I bet this world reminds a bunch of you of home, huh? Let's all make the most of it while we're here!"

Baraqiel heaves a sigh, daemon weasel-formed and half-hidden in the folds of their hood as it suspiciously squints at every noise its little ears pick up. "Speak for yourself." They do not seem 100% thrilled with this worldhop, come the new week, but do at least offer something to the travelers gathered. "For those of you less used to cities like this, there are motorized vehicles of varying sizes in Kings - try not to get run over by them."

With a soft laugh, Shamsiel will look at Baraqiel and gently pat them on their upper arm and their falconet daemon will then proceed to take flight from their shoulder. At least they seem to be relieved that Baraqiel gave them a warning for those who aren't going to be familiar with it. "And much like the previous worlds we've been to, please be mindful of what you end up doing here. We are just visitors, after all, and it'd be rude if we left it all a mess."


As for your effect of the week... Your past injuries have cleared, with no phantom pains left to haunt you, your loved ones, or your launders. Instead, you'll find that you are unable to speak dishonestly - any time you try, your words get stuck on the tip of your tongue and never quite make it out. It's honesty week, lads - no more lying to yourselves or anyone else.

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[lefthandpath]

To add onto this, please don't mistaken this as only a select few children. There was an entire room filled with them in cages that Miss Rika and I were led to when we were separated from Mr. Sholmes and Yoo Joonghyuk-ssi. Miss Rika was put onto the side of the room with the younger children while I was led to the side with the elder children.

I managed to get a scientist to talk about the experiments somewhat.

It's not just a matter of Dust, but the quality and quantity of the Dust. Supposedly, those who have committed more sins are the ones with a higher Dust concentrate, but it's the quality that they were more interested in.

Likely because the worse the sin, the higher the quality, the larger amount of energy would be generated from the severing of the link between child and their daemon.

Miss Rika was selected for experimentation because of these reasons.

Which is why... I feel it's very important to state my opinion that while we need to find a way to reunite with those who have died, it is us the living who are the most in danger due to what I believe these murders and executions might be leading us toward--being weaponized, in other words.

[malewife]

... The scientists there did mention it was too late for adults to be free of sin and be free of the angels, which is why they choose children.

I believe they were refining their tracking to seek angels and eliminate them.

[lefthandpath]

It's wholly ridiculous because the whole things about Sin is that we are, supposedly, born into it!

[JUST. HE'S SO?! ANGRY?!]

It makes everything about what that note Kim Dokja-ssi found seem like poor justification for the cruelty and abuse and suffering they're orchestrating!

[malewife]

Born into in other worlds, possibly told by the Authority in this universe.

[ Religion is all about control, isn't it? ]

[greatdeduction]

...

[He's thoughtful, but frowning.]

Does anyone know if the dead have their daemons there with them? Was it ever mentioned?

[malewife]

... I believe they do not have their daemons.

[greatdeduction]

Hm.

Then I wonder if that Dust from those daemons was, indeed, harvested for their cruel cause.

[aono]

[Boy, that's a troubling thing to hear.]

They don't? They're just...gone?

[bloodread]

They didn't at the ball.

[lefthandpath]

I'd assume not. Their daemons collapse into Dust, don't they? But it's not the same as when they're forcibly separated, is it?

[lefthandpath]

Both sides are wretched!

[it's always like this!!!]

[aono]

[Hm. Bad.]

But...the angels are the ones doing this, aren't they? If these scientists are trying to build a bomb to destroy all Dust, which would destroy the angels too, then why would the angels cooperate and put us through all of this?

[lefthandpath]

Angels are messengers of God. They do as they are told by the Authority--whether it be His Benevolence or His Wrath.

You know the stories, don't you?

That's why.

This could be another... Flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, Egypt--take your pick.

Man was made from the Earth, from Dust. It only follows, then... if a group is trying to destroy God--the Authority, then of course...

But this is my theorizing. This is a conflict, after all.

[aono]

But those calamities came from God, right? It sounds like this is coming from people, not God. You'd think God would intervene before a group could destroy it.

[malewife]

You can think of it as angels have involved others at varying degrees and some of these others don't want to be involved anymore.

[ you know


like what's happening here. ]

[aono]

[well.]

So we have to clean up this mess or we're all getting turned into a bomb?

[malewife]

... We do not know for sure if the executions and kills here fuels a bomb.

[ even though

he does think that ]

[lefthandpath]

Why do you assume this God, the Authority, is any different from us or the angels?

Angels were once human--or whatever they may be called in other worlds--according to what information we've gotten. Just look at the Watchers to see that much.

What I think is... one side has always used the energy from the releasing of Dust to bring down calamity. The other side is now trying to weaponize it to destroy that Authority.

So it's a race. And maybe some angels do support the side that wants to destroy the Authority--there was a war in Heaven once, after all.

[aono]

And that's what this whole 'celestial vs temporal' thing is about? Whether our Dust is used to bring down a calamity or to destroy the Authority?

[lefthandpath]

That's what I think, yes.

[doesn't know for sure but like... looks at all this info.]

[arcsplainist]

I believe you are precisely correct—that the Dust of those killed is being harnessed into a weapon. We are wrapped up into a war, after all, and if one side has the means to destroy the other...

We are a means to their end, and not in the way we had initially imagined.

[lefthandpath]

That is what I believe, yes.

[arcsplainist]

Yet with every death, we are inadvertently tipping the scales into one side's favor. If we continue as we are, we are soon going to be left with a clear winner.

If we were to somehow stop this war on the morrow, for example, I wonder if that unbalance would affect the outcome of it.

[lefthandpath]

It may not. Consider how many Temporals have been killed in comparison to Celestials. We may already have the scales tipped.

[yueshen]

I believe that is why it is so important that we must consider the comments made by the angel that Rin and the others met; that we must unite, and find the Kingdom of Heaven within us, whatever that may mean.

We need to find a way to dispose of the 'sides' all together.