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Regis Lucis Caelum CXIII ([personal profile] kingkingcxiii) wrote in [community profile] hugtopia2020-12-22 08:23 pm

[Video] All that we See or Seem is but a Dream within a Dream

[When the video starts, those who know Regis might notice that his face is a little redder than it usually is. He's also wrapped in what looks his own cloak and a heavy riding cloak, one that a person would expect to see out in the frozen wastes, not in a city like Havenwell. Honestly, he looks a little silly all curled into the cloaks as he is, but since waking up out in the backyard under Peter's silver apple tree, he has yet to shake off the cold. It might be a long process considering he has no idea how long he was out there.

Actually, considering he usually puts off heat like a furnace and still feels this cold, he has an idea and it's one he doesn't like. Cor would have his head if he was still here.]


Those who have been here for a while know that we have been communicated with through dreams before.

[Who could forget the strange warning that came before the break in last October?]

I think it may be happening again. How many people are having dreams with the ghosts who visited us in them? And how many of them are talking to you? Mine had quite a lot to say and in regard to something I have investigated before.

[He takes a moment to fight back a shiver and then quotes what he remembers from the dream, once again grateful for how good his memory is. His hands had been shaking too hard for him to write anything down when he first returned to the house.]

"The world began as thus: it was a rock. He came upon it first, and loved it immediately, this empty rock where nothing lived. He burrowed deep inside and devoured it inch by inch, teeth breaking upon the surface and growing anew. Through Him, over time, the stone became soil. The soil grew fertile through His work, yet all was still naught but rock and soil.

Then the Winged Lord appeared, uncertain of the path He was to walk. He was hungry, so He clawed at the stone to find where His prey crawled."


The natives have just remembered the Winged Lord for some reason, but we still don't know who the first "He" is. Could "He" be trying to contact us in some way in order to keep things in some kind of balance? I am very curious to hear what everyone thinks.

[The video ends here, but once he is done with that Regis sends out two quick texts.]


[Locked to Ardyn:]

Remember when I told you I would inform you if anything weird happened after touching the ghosts? I think I just hit "weird."


[Locked to Honerva:]


By the time you get this, I am certain you will have seen my video post. Would you be willing to work with me on a new investigation if I started one? We have talked before of how strange it is the natives are now remembering the Winged Lord. How far behind do you think his fellow is?
unnecessaryflourishes: (that might be the very thing...)

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[personal profile] unnecessaryflourishes 2020-12-30 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
If it is a matter of memory, perhaps a recollection of this first being will come to the natives in time?
unnecessaryflourishes: (you have yet to convince me)

[personal profile] unnecessaryflourishes 2021-01-04 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
An individual unit needing to purge its own memories shouldn't have any bearing on the central database.  Assuming there is one to which they can refer.

[And if they are having trouble coming to a consensus, there may not be.  That or the database itself is somehow incomplete, to say nothing of the fact that Emet's experience is with Allagan technology, which these are not, for all they might be similar in function.]

Still, if the memories are connected enough for one to be mentioned in the stories of the others, I see no reason the data on this initial "He" shouldn't exist somewhere.
unnecessaryflourishes: (that might be the very thing...)

[personal profile] unnecessaryflourishes 2021-01-12 05:21 am (UTC)(link)
The library might well be a database.  But if it is, I doubt it would be anything like the original database.  That or the damage was more severe than anyone expected.

[Both are reasonably plausible, and without direct first hand experience - or any direct indication from any of the robots as to what to expect - all he has is conjecture.  Conjecture that can, at least, draw on his experience with Allag, but it's still little more than guesswork at best.]

Still, it certainly can't hurt to see if there is any information present in the library.
unnecessaryflourishes: (you have yet to convince me)

[personal profile] unnecessaryflourishes 2021-01-20 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
It would be for the best to have someone look into it.

[It'd give him something to do, if nothing else, and it's hardly as if he has much else by way of longer-term projects just at the moment.]

Although I can hardly promise that the information will be there.

[Which is to say, yes, he'd very definitely be both interested in and willing to look into the library angle.]
unnecessaryflourishes: (carefully listening in)

[personal profile] unnecessaryflourishes 2021-02-13 05:33 am (UTC)(link)
How very intriguing. Still, I believe I should be able to find someone willing to join me in this particular endeavor.
unnecessaryflourishes: (what have we here?)

[personal profile] unnecessaryflourishes 2021-02-18 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
I should like to hope he and I would share a similar level of skill.

[It's offered as much as a way to downplay his own continued uncertainty of what to do about the knowledge that he has been in the city and yet has no memory of it as it is anything else.]

Still, it is appreciated, regardless.