, ([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.]
transfusionem: (pic#12951301)

[personal profile] transfusionem 2019-06-20 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[The message is sent to Toki, instead of the network post.]

Where are you? Are you okay?
buddinghopes: (it's hopeless...)

[personal profile] buddinghopes 2019-06-20 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Did you even stop to consider some of us are here to NOT be found?

Good job painting a bigger target on the school.
bejustorbedead: (A sinister eye)

[personal profile] bejustorbedead 2019-06-20 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ky's reply takes several minutes as he processed what's said, before replying]

do you know what kind of harm you might have done did you even ask anyone else if they are fine with being exposed like this

you can play martyr all you want i advise against it, but it is your life ultimately, but you cannot be so reckless with the lives of others without their knowledge or consent did you ask every student here if they are fine with this i doubt it
evangelclairvoyance: (WELL ACTUALLY)

[personal profile] evangelclairvoyance 2019-06-20 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I can appreciate wanting to keep those without magic from being hurt, but there are quite a few students and teachers alike on this campus who come from the Outlands.

Doesn't this put them in danger?
onebetter: (serious)

[personal profile] onebetter 2019-06-20 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Everyone in Secret Societies is working tirelessly to prevent any incidents. Countless of them have risked or lost their lives making sure that civilians are safe wherever possible. However possible.

This is the same as military intel not being posted on the internet for all to see.


[ He's parroting, here. These are things he believes because they've been told to him all his life, over and over. Now that they're being question, not just by Toki, but also others... James isn't as sure how they hold up anymore. ]
inkedspell: (022)

[personal profile] inkedspell 2019-06-20 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sari knew Toki was a little out there, but this...she hadn't expected it to go so quickly to this.]

Tik-tok, what the hell is going on?

[Because she had already been worried about him and now he basically just did a Snowden and Tinfoil Hat video all wrapped into one. This is not good.]
hippocarnival: (✮ 189 ✮)

[personal profile] hippocarnival 2019-06-20 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
No! But don't you think there's a reason that, for as long as magic's been around, everyone who's not already part of it thinks it's fake?!

[Deep breaths, calm down.] I don't know what they do to force people to be quiet when they try and reveal stuff like this. But it can't be good. How much did you say? What did you show?

[He watched like the first 30 seconds.]
transfusionem: (pic#12951351)

[personal profile] transfusionem 2019-06-20 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
That doesn't sound like you're okay! You know if you need help you can ask me for it, okay? I don't know what's going to happen either, but you can trust me. I just want to help!
buddinghopes: ([angry tirade here])

[private]

[personal profile] buddinghopes 2019-06-20 11:38 pm (UTC)(link)
You're just putting more lives in danger! If someone here got hurt because someone tracked them down because of this, that's on you!

I don't care if YOU put yourself in danger, but I'm here to NOT get killed! Which is what will probably happen if this gets into the wrong hands!
evangelclairvoyance: (Can't be helped)

[personal profile] evangelclairvoyance 2019-06-20 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
True.

But you did just point out that someone you knew was killed by a lycanthrope and that a daemon took one of your eyes. Most would consider that to be hostile behavior.


[...no. That's too sarcastic. It's true, and someone should say it, but it's unlikely to defuse the situation.

Ugh.

He'd think about what his superior would say if his superior wasn't an idiot.]


What I mean to say is that I'm just a little worried. In my experience, people tend to resent that which they don't understand.
marmoron: marmoron (not that im judging but judging)

[personal profile] marmoron 2019-06-20 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
im trying to help you, dumbass
before i learned magic was real i used to read shit about conspiracies and cryptids all the time
i wouldn't have read this because it's searing my eyeballs
Edited 2019-06-20 23:47 (UTC)
bejustorbedead: (I am unsure)

[personal profile] bejustorbedead 2019-06-20 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
not when you are dragging people into harm's way you ask them all you do not throw the unwilling into a fight you do not put targets on the back of those who want to keep their heads down there are students here who are here because their lives are forfeit if certain people know where they are
moonlitdancer: (FUSION SUMMON!)

[personal profile] moonlitdancer 2019-06-20 11:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[It only takes until she sees a candid picture of Cat Dancer for Serena to slam the door of her room open, heading out on a warpath. She doesn't approve in general, but he is not using her familiar for this!]
Edited 2019-06-20 23:49 (UTC)
onebetter: (sad time)

[personal profile] onebetter 2019-06-20 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[ And there is it. James had been trying to just skirt by the topic awkwardly, but of course there was no way that'd ever fly. ]

I'm sorry.

[ That message stands on its own for a moment, because he is. Being sorry simply can't make him condone Toki's recklessness. ]

There's no way this argument can ever sound good to you, because the system failed you. I get it. But my father, his men... his friends... I've grown up watching them solve crises that nobody ever knew about or had to be scared of. Every friend of mine who had a happy childhood, only had it because there were people sacrificing themselves along the way as unsung heroes.

The system has its place. And you're putting yourself in danger.

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