[Several bursts of static and in between them - growling - howling - the tearing of flesh and the thud of something heavy striking the ground. Breath and the scrape of something sharp against stone (or ground?) - static, static and more static---

---snarl and splash and static and---]

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[Video now, and the Forge shows only ( Read more... )

What a wretched display.

[Hey, it's a Sophia, looking all sultry and silver-eyed and not like some big hulking monster.]

That was the second most unpleasant experience of my life. It seems I owe a few people my thanks for retrieving me from it, and not all of them warriors at that.

I'm...glad to be back among you.

[There is a rare sincerity in ( Read more... )

( locked to team Teresa )

[Something black slithers by the Forge, momentarily obscuring the video.]

Honestly, I don't know why you're being so stubborn. You're only making it harder on yourself. I have limited time to indulge you, and it would be such a shame for you to die, don't you see?

[Impatience has stretched Riful's polite tone thin. Meanwhile, a chained and ( Read more... )

[Teresa appears on video, looking more grave than she normally does, but no less commanding. If you've been paying attention you'll know what's troubling her before she even says a word.]

[And if you need a reminder, the feed occasionally shudders.]Anatole. This is Teresa. ...To be honest, I don't like having to do these speeches, but this is too ( Read more... )

[Surprise! Today we aren't on the roof - at least from the sound of it. Instead, in the distance, there is the sound of waves crashing against the docks... or against something, anyway. We must, therefore, be on the docks, or in the area of them.]

[The constant crashing may be relaxing, but it's also loud when one is in person, so when ( Read more... )

[ Arthur is looking a lot better than he did a couple of days ago, and is significantly less terse, to boot.We have been plagued by troubles recently. Not a week goes past, it seems, that Anatole is not inflicted with some horror or another. Despite all this, we prevail ( Read more... )