Day 214

[fuckthemancers]

Who: Zulf, some birds and a Pokemon, and you
Open: Open (and a couple closed)
When: 214, midday
Where: By the Monument
What: In which things are written out, birds are a nuisance, and visits are made for numerous reasons
Format: Any
Note: Some time ago, Seimei asked Zulf to write down things about the world the Calamity originated in, aka Caelondia and the Tazal Terminals. Since this information is available to everyone (although written in Caelondian and Ura), you can consider this post as a reference! It's also available as a request sort of thing, if you or your characters have any inquiries about culture, technology, or lore about either place. It'd also help me out with what to write for Seimei (and the mun of Seimei) since, when asked where to start, his IC answer was basically "everything".

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Ever since returning from the sudden expedition a week or so ago, Zulf has been quiet. Not completely and utterly silent, like he's become on occasion- just quiet. There's been a lot of things to think about.

Today, however, at least he's out in public, seated by the Monument. There are papers by him, things written in both Caelondian and the Ura language. There's also some sketches of different outfits alongside them. He's steadily working on both.

Anyone is more than welcome to come over and investigate...

Assuming the large group of Rattle-tails doesn't try to swarm towards them first. Yes, they're here too, a mix of sizes. Yes, there's a tiny little Cubone on top of one of them, waving its bone around energetically. Don't worry, Zulf will give a sharp whistle when they start to swarm and they... should back off before anyone gets slammed into by a giant white bird.

[Locked for Zahi andor Zanya]
After a day of writing, talking, and bird wrangling, Zulf finally finishes and goes to retrieve something. It's just a basket of things gathered up from the Skyway, vineapples and such. When he gets to a certain Ura abode, he knocks on the door.

[Locked for Zia and Raile]
And with that done... Zulf does the search for two of his most important people. Don't think he hasn't noticed some awkwardness floating around here.

Comments

[fuckthemancers]

If you'd be willing to indulge me. I understand that this is of course very sudden...

[bastionpc]

Go right ahead. I don't mind at all.

[fuckthemancers]

[Zulf stays quiet for a little while longer as he sorts through his thoughts. He doesn't want to lie- that wouldn't help at all for one thing- but the truth is just... such a frightening beast to handle.]

After I came to Caelondia and after I found out the truth of what the Mancers were prepared to use on the Terminals... I became enraged. I did something foolish. I can admit that now, in hindsight. I won't regret the emotions I felt then, that I still feel sometimes, but my actions... put people I cared about in danger.

[His own people, and Raile, and Zia.. He tried to convince the boy not to go, but not hard enough.]

In the end, I ended up cornered and... If it wasn't for Raile, I wouldn't be here right now.

[Not as he is now. If Raile had ignored him, never forgiven him, just moved past with the Shard in his possession... Even with the Restoration protocols pulled through, would he have been able to bring himself to even look at Zia? Would he have been able to go ahead with that plan to try and make everything right? Would he even have any hope for it?]

I thought I'd managed to get over the event, or at least that it hadn't affected me as much as it inevitably did... But to find myself surrounded, knowing weapons could be turned on myself at any moment... I froze up.

[bastionpc]

[Zayna listens quietly, watching him as he explains things. Her focus on adjusting things is gone, figuring his story is more important to pay attention to.]

And what happened after that?

[fuckthemancers]

Tobias managed to snap me out of it, enough that we could finish things up on a more or less positive outcome, but... It still happened. I nearly failed in my role as a diplomat.

We're going to go out and see them again... So I have to find some way to just get over it. I need to do things right by everyone...

[bastionpc]

Don't you think you're putting an awful lot on your own shoulders? I thought being a part of a community meant that you didn't have to take on that much responsibility alone.

[fuckthemancers]

Yes, but... This is something only I'm realy qualified, as an Ura and a diplomat. I need to be able to at least this...

[bastionpc]

But you are not the only Ura here, Zulf.

[fuckthemancers]

...I need to make up for what I've done before.

[bastionpc]

That's no reason to take the entire world on your shoulders.

[fuckthemancers]

I don't know what else to do...

[bastionpc]

Let others help you.

[Says the equally stubborn Ura soldier.]

[fuckthemancers]

...I'm not going alone. Tobias and Zuko are coming as well.

[bastionpc]

But will you actually let them help you? Having them join you and actually allowing them to assist are two completely different things.

[And she knows how you operate, Zulf.]

[fuckthemancers]

[How do you people know him so well?]

I... want to say I will. Everyone helped last time.

[bastionpc]

Yes but did you let them or did they have to force their way in to helping you?

[Because you're an open book, Zulf.]

[fuckthemancers]

[...]

I asked for their help in tracking... They didn't really have to force anything after that.

[He sort of wasn't in the state of mind to be stubborn.]

[bastionpc]

... that's a start, I suppose.

[And she's giving him a look now like "you'd better keep it up, Zulf".]