video > text; un: white_lotus

[pummelling]

[Happy.... approximately.... 1 in the morning, Team Ophelia. The video greeting the network is tough to make out, but the faint cries of insects in the dark, otherwise still night seem to indicate that Kung Jin's outside. A small oil lantern near his feet bathes him and the farmhouse he's sitting in front of in a faint orange glow.

Anyone looking carefully will also spot a young boy in his mid-teens, head bobbing occasionally into the side of the frame as he nods in and out of sleep. Jin glances over at him, rolling his eyes.]

Hey, team.

[Jin settles forward in his seat, fiddling with his robe and continuing in a low whisper.] Some ronin geniuses, on both sides, are trying to overtake farmhouses in the Flowerlands and convert them into makeshift bases. If you're still up and not too far, I'm gonna need some help keeping watch out here.

[Jin's shrugging out of a sleeve, now; the fabric slips from his shoulder to hang loose at his waist.]

The farmers aren't exactly equipped to deal with this alone.

[Right on cue, there's a rustle of definitely not cicada-noise in the background. Jin's eyes narrow. On his way to notching an arrow, he swats the kid beside him in the shoulder with the longbow. (He comes to with a snort, looking around wildly and brandishing the farmer's scythe he has gripped tightly in both hands.)

He pulls his arm back, muscles taut and steady as the bowstring that's a second from letting loose--

annnnd he switches, abruptly, to text.]

And you might want to make it snappy.

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[video]

[moneyballer]

[this is just a video response of asher millstone biting maybe his entire fist after putting it in his mouth]

text;

[pummelling]

[dont worry these titties are Strong and will make it back safely as long as this farmkid doesnt get in the way]

:) 💗
Go to sleep, keeping pests away isnt gonna be too hard

audio; un: alucard

[reposing]

I don't rest at night. I can come immediately.

text;

[pummelling]

Please and thanks. Neither side's started anything yet but they're getting braver the longer that all of this goes on.

[pardon his text, can't let this random farmkid know about his ~magic~ necklace u_u]

TEXT. UN: LOKI.

[selfimage]

Have you ever seen Home Alone?

[ this is actually a serious question. ]

[pummelling]

I don't know, maybe once?

...

Are you saying what I think you're saying

text | un: rohan

[opensup]

I can't be of any assistance but I wish you luck nonetheless. If you decide to interrogate let me know and I can provide my help then.

[pummelling]

What, like good cop bad cop? Unless you're some kind of psychic, I think we're good.

[little does he know--]

text; un: lodge

[refashioned]

I can't provide much help unless you think a scathing review of their work would do the trick.

I can, however, make a request: if we're going to negotiate peace, we're going to need to point out to the Empresses who's undermining them. Someone's doing that. It'll help us look better in the long run when it comes to restoring order.

[pummelling]

[At first, he's going to snap at her: it reads as throwing the common people under the bus, and their first meeting had already rubbed him the wrong way in that department.

But Veronica makes an unfortunate point.]

What's the chances we'll be blamed for sowing all of this discord here, d'you think? Be honest.

text | un: lucina

[tolight]

[ Why is she up at 1am, who the fuck knows. ]

I'll be there. [ I don't need this to go anywhere just know she'll be a bro and keep watch o7 ]

[pummelling]

[thanks 4 da help...........bro]

I knew I could count on you. Thanks, Lucina.

@kansas [ text ]

[signifies]

I'm not far away.

Where should I meet you?

[ He is, but he's also very fast. ]

[pummelling]

[Hopefully setting down a pin on his coordinates will suffice.]

I'm with a local kid who wanted to help defend his family's farm. If you've got powers, don't use em while he's looking.

audio; un: wellsuited

[ofobedience]

Sounds like fun. I'm game.

[Of course he's game. He smells violence.]

text;

[pummelling]

Easy, boy. [JIN]

Nobody's started shooting. Yet.

action;

[wolfchild]

[ she doesn't bother with text. she just shows up.

with a giant fucking direwolf in tow. ]

[pummelling]

[zokla jfc

If there are any more ronin hanging around, they're a lot more reticent about jumping in with, you know, the giant fucking direwolf around. Jin's handling it a lot better than the poor farmkid who only wanted to help-- he's cowering some steps behind Jin, what kind of forest monster is this ?? / ? ?? /?]

That works.

[he sounds mildly impressed.]

But we still need to be on our guard.

audio; un: inuyasha

[boxedcrook]

Oh yeah? [He's having to talk over the distant drum of yelling and voices.] Tell us something we don't know.

Half of them are running around like chickens. HEY! [He's stuck several yards away from Jin's location, trying to herd frenzied, scared farmers and untamed, bloodthirsty renegade Clans.] Are you stupid or something? You can't fight them! Get out of there! [There's a burst of more scream to the right, filling up the audio momentarily. Women.] Dammit.

Where are you? They're just shooting anywhere, and it's starting fires!

[pummelling]

[By the time Inuyasha's in the mix, Jin's only picking up on the network sporadically, due to... you know... everything being h e l l tbh god help them all. (The kid's long gone, having chickened out and ducked back into his home to fortify his mothers' doors.) But he eventually catches him on his jewelcomm's feed, and the frantic cacophony of battle seems to echo as their feeds pick up near-identical sounds from different directions.]

Think I can hear you, Inuyasha! I've moved to the next farmhouse, they're starting there! Look for the ronin going down in--

[Jin strings his arrow, the tip shimmering with a halo of blue magic...]

--now! [and lets it fly loose. His aim's true, and there should be a sea ronin not far from Inuyasha's left who goes down, wounded but only stunned by the arrow.] Look for my staff, the eyes glow red! [Sure enough, there's a pair of gleaming red dragon's eyes shining a short distance away from him too.]

text ; @z }

[hackedhistory]

Do you still need a hand?

[She doesn't know how long this is going and things may have been settled by now.]

[pummelling]

[She's late enough that things have evened out, but...]

Only if you're not going out of your way. Otherwise, lets see how tomorrow night goes.

[....]

I'm more worried that I'm gonna fall asleep before the night's up.

[becauSE HE'S STUPID ENOUGH TO TRY TO STAY UP ALL NIGHT HONESTLY]

text; un: cyclops

[evenslimmer]

Do you still need backup?

[ And, just in case he's missed the action: ]

Could you tell where they're mounting their attacks from? Maybe we can track them back to their original base once we've rescued the farmers.

[pummelling]

[Cyclops has just missed the worst of it. Some minutes later, Jin replies back, sticking to the text:]

the forests just outside the farms and off the paths.

It wont be TOO tough to track them - humans make a real mess camping out in the forests - but the sooner we can get to it the better.

text | un: shelby

[soldiersminute]

That seems an uphill battle you're fighting.

[pummelling]

that's how it usually works on this team, yeah.