, ([personal profile] yokeye) wrote in [community profile] irisnetwork2019-06-20 06:31 pm

un: rikugou

[At around 3:00am on Saturday, June 29th, a short message is posted to the Network. It's a link; to an off-Network public website.

Please forward this to your non-magic friends, if you believe hiding our existence is wrong.
www.prophetiesdelatombeedelanuit.fr


[The entry page is a black background with a badly done logo:



When the eye is clicked, it leads to a terribly designed website. Lime green and neon pink everywhere, with bold text in yellow and white. The text is center aligned, and a mix of hideous fonts. After a brief explanation stating the website is a collection of precognitive vision experiences, a video is embedded.]


[Video]:
Toki is in the basement of Theatre Lenormand. A soft red glow the only illumination to the room. He's wearing his Daybreak uniform, beret and all. Behind him, the concrete wall is decorated with fading drawings of the Herald's eyes from an incident last Monday. He waves at the camera, smiling. In his usual fashion, he plows right into a rapid-fire speech in Japanese. There are French subtitles in bright violet.

"There are very important things out in the world that you are not being told about and I'm going to talk about them here, because everyone deserves to have this information! MAGIC IS REAL! Did you hear that!? Okay? Yes! Magic is real and the supernatural exists! All of those things you've heard about in folktales and myths and legends actually roam the earth and these people, these magic enclaves, are keeping this from you! Daemons, vampires, werewolves, necromancers! It's all real! This uniform? Is from a magic school in France called Daybreak Academy! It's hidden up in the Alps near the German border, but will you find it on a satellite image!? No! Because they don't want you to know! Now, let me tell you about what happened to me and how I got to this magic place and why I'm telling you about it! Several months ago, I was just an ordinary person like every one of you! I lived in Tokyo, Japan, with my sister and one evening, while we were out at a shrine, she was attacked and killed by a werewolf! This could have been prevented, or at least considered a possibility if either one of us had known that lycanthropes existed, and it's not just werewolves; I know a werebear! Back to the point! After my sister died, I was approached by a normal-looking businessman and I thought he was a colleague of hers, so I talked to him, and before long I was admitting to wanting to have the ability to make sure this didn't happen to someone else, an ability to see things like this before they happen and prevent this kind of tragedy! As it turns out, this man was a daemon, but not like from a hellscape mentioned in various religions, no! Daemons are from a place called the Outlands, which is not on Earth, but is accessible from Earth through portals and other inter-dimensional travel methods! The daemon gave me exactly what I wanted in exchange for probably my soul or something, I don't know, but it took one of my eyes! Not like literally, because obviously it's still here, but it's blind! After that, these people came, from the Academy, and that's how I got here! This Academy is part of an intricate network of magic users and old bloodlines that are keeping their world separate from the rest of you; you who are affected by daemons and lycanthropes and magic and fey, there's fey too, and you interact with these creatures and concepts and don't even know it! Alright, that's the basic story here and what you will find on this website are accounts of my gift from this daemon: prophetic visions! Despite continued dismissal of my abilities as inaccurate and partial hallucinations, even from this magic community, I will tell you that they are true! Take everything as it is and prepare yourself for Nightfall, because even if you're not part of this secret world, it's here and the upcoming war will undoubtedly effect the world as a whole! PREPARE! FOR! NIGHTFALL!"


[The video abruptly cuts off. The rest of the website is how Toki described. Link after link to text files of typed vision notes, pictures of his records in various locations, as well as "proof" of Daybreak. Pictures of the campus and the grounds, scans of class schedules, candids of decidedly inhuman students and faculty, and some of Soleil.]
ohgoodgrief: (008)

UN: oolong

[personal profile] ohgoodgrief 2019-06-21 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
...Huh.

This was such a bad idea that it's intellectually fascinating.

What on Earth, Mister Rikugou?
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ohgoodgrief: (006)

[personal profile] ohgoodgrief 2019-06-21 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a panicked, primal scream that something people don't believe in is real. I understand where it comes from.

But it puts others in danger and doesn't clearly communicate the truth. It raises an alarm, but doesn't say what to do.

So, please, Mister Rikugou: calm down, pull that down before the school's IT staff do (if they haven't already), and we can talk about this.
ohgoodgrief: (014)

[personal profile] ohgoodgrief 2019-06-21 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
This isn't all of the information, Mister Rikugou.

And you're in no position to give them that. For that matter, nor is anyone else. You're giving them a selection of information that inspires fear, and little else.

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unpocoloco: (Nervously)

UN: Ollin

[personal profile] unpocoloco 2019-06-22 10:17 am (UTC)(link)
[This is definitely something of a disaster. He hasn't the faintest idea of what's being said in the video. Even with the French subtitles, they plow on far too fast for his already poor grasp of the language. But the pictures? The pictures are not good... He's immediately gripped with a swell of fear.

He goes back, finding the replies and there's... a lot of them. They all seem to say the same thing and as he goes that jolt of fear is replaced. Mostly. The old anger that comes up isn't quite enough to ease his nervousness with making an open statement about it like this but...]


While this was obviously... not the way to do this and it's good this is being taken down... perhaps this isn't a discussion we have to entirely shut down in the safety of the school?

I mean, a lot of people's first introduction into this world is through really terrible means that wouldn't nearly be so bad if there were any way for those on the outside to be aware of it. And there's a lot of other restrictions and complications with families... Of course there's dangers in stepping forward but that's the case with so many different things like some people don't like people from other countries or with different orientations or things like that, and yeah there's all those things about what happened in the past but nowadays it seems there's more of us getting hurt by other people on the inside because we're trying so hard to keep this secret.

Maybe... a voluntary stepping forward by a lot of us in this community wouldn't necessarily be... entirely a bad thing?


[He sends, winces, and holds his breath. At least if he's already in trouble breaking secrecy by those photos then he can't make things worse. Probably.]
deuteranope: (108)

un: weaseling

[personal profile] deuteranope 2019-06-22 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
keyword: voluntary

another keyword: in a not fucking insane fear-mongering rabid fucking breakdown by a shithead with broken logic and no impulse control that always ends up fucking hurting other people and himself because he can't fathom that he might BE FUCKING WRONG
unpocoloco: (Tuning)

[personal profile] unpocoloco 2019-06-22 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
That

Yes, okay, that's

A point.

I'm not sure I'm the person to really advocate either which way in terms of Toki's choices, but yes, voluntary. There are enough of us that couldn't perfectly quantify themselves as harmless that having a mandatory outing of everyone wouldn't be the best. I just think it should be an option. An option where people aren't attacked by our own people.
deuteranope: (mav147)

[personal profile] deuteranope 2019-06-22 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
wow it's almost like when you say shit reasonably like giving options, it sounds reasonable. as opposed to, say, ripping that option away from everyone else by slapping up a shitty website with private info

at least I see he fucking listens to SOMEBODY even if it's after he's already beat the shit outta that piñata for all its candy before discovering it's a goddamn horse... don't fucking coddle him though it ain't gonna change what fucking happens. the second you try to help him in a way that doesn't play into his delusions, he goes feral again
unpocoloco: (Nervously)

[personal profile] unpocoloco 2019-06-23 11:52 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not coddling. I've got no problem letting him know when I'm unhappy. Which I am. I just think there's enough people here covering that aspect for the moment. If no one listens to him that's just going to confirm his beliefs. That's not how you help someone who's already dealing with paranoia. I'd like to give him his chances first.
deuteranope: (mav044)

[personal profile] deuteranope 2019-06-23 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
yeah well someone can only listen for so damn long when they aren't being heard in return. you know I had to make this fucker promise to not stab out his own fucking ear? guess what he fucking did anyway when he got to his room

now he's throwing a shitfit because I tried to tell him that's actually fucking crazy WHICH IT FUCKING IS
THAT IS NOT SOMETHING A SANE INDIVIDUAL DOES YOU DIPSHIT

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panpiping: (wist108)

un: wish-ywashy

[personal profile] panpiping 2019-06-22 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll do it!
Pick me!

You all are being
really unfair about humans!
Which is weird!
A lot of you are them!!
When I lived with them,
I didn't get burned at the stake at all.
Not all changelings can say that though...
Hm.
unpocoloco: (Nervously)

[personal profile] unpocoloco 2019-06-22 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Wist, weren't your human parents
Um.
Weren't they kind of terrible to you too?
You said they didn't keep you, right?
That's not the worst, but it's not the greatest.

More support for this is nice but we should also be careful.
panpiping: (wist133)

[personal profile] panpiping 2019-06-22 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
What?
No!
They were great!!
They kept me?

...Oh!
When they got their daughter back,
I think is what we talked about.
They didn't want me to visit
for some reason?
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[personal profile] unpocoloco 2019-06-22 01:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe.
Maybe they were okay.
I could just be getting this all wrong!
There are always exceptions!
But, generally, when a parent doesn't want a kid
whether or not they're biologically theirs or not
and specifically when they eventually ask that child never to come back
It usually means they weren't the greatest of parents.

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[personal profile] unpocoloco 2019-06-22 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
De nada, Toki.
You're already in trouble so I'm sure you've heard enough but let me just say, it's okay to have doubts about things like this. It's scary, even without the bad stuff mixed in.
It would just be better to take these thoughts to other people first.
Even if one person doesn't agree, you may just need to find the right person.
Preferably an adult or someone experienced.
And then the thing can be better worked out on how to work with the topic.
Do you think you might be able to try that in the future if you're having thoughts like this that scare you or make you angry?

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un: wish-ywashy

[personal profile] panpiping 2019-06-22 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Bard human!
You made such a pretty announcement!
Thank you for including fey!!!
panpiping: (wist81)

[personal profile] panpiping 2019-06-22 01:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah!
Especially since
a lot of us can be really tricky.
Just because I don't lie
doesn't mean other fey won't.
We could be anywhere!
That's why
there are so many stories about us,
I think!
panpiping: (wist82)

[personal profile] panpiping 2019-06-22 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah,
you get it, you get it!!
The truth is fluid!
Lies are fluid!
Those things can't always stay in boxes.

Oh!
We could do an interview!!!

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