, ([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.]
deuteranope: (mav080)

un: weaseling

[personal profile] deuteranope 2019-06-21 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
I'd ask what the fuck is wrong with you but even without a fucking word limit not one fucking soul could answer that fully
strings_theory: (ida6)

[personal profile] strings_theory 2019-06-21 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
[Such unfair bullshit.]

Good~ If you ever need me, just call on me. Not like I'm doing much around here and putting someone in their place sounds fun as fuck.
wherenoonegoes: (Hiccup Serious)

[personal profile] wherenoonegoes 2019-06-21 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
People used to be burned at the stake for practicing magic. I had to hide my entire village in the Outlands to keep armies from killing or enslaving the magical creatures we were protecting. From what I understand about the modern world, there are still people who would gladly do all of that again if they knew about magic.
strings_theory: (ida49)

[personal profile] strings_theory 2019-06-21 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
(ʘ‿ʘ)ノ✿

Good!
nor_iron_bars: Our careless heads (Stumbling but yeah)

Let me know if this works with what you have in mind.

[personal profile] nor_iron_bars 2019-06-21 02:20 am (UTC)(link)
[She suspects she can guess why he's doing it, even if she doesn't quite care. ...Maybe she would have, once. A decade or so ago. But she's pretty sure Wist isn't going to dig up that part of her a second time.]

got it in one, kid.
everybody makes their own choices.
good or bad, we all just gotta live with that.
for however long we got, anyway.


[As for information... well, good or bad, she follows the money. And right now, Daybreak Academy is still signing her checks. She'd already started censoring his website before she even replied to this post- subtle edits here and there, removing anyone too recognizable and replacing them with "close enough" stock photo substitutes that don't look quite like anyone actually attending the school, making anything supernatural look like a really obvious bad photoshop job.]

[Taking it down would be way too obvious, but by the time she's done the whole thing is going to look like a badly-executed student prank, not a scrap of actual sensitive information left. Honestly, he's practically done most of her job for her, with those font choices. She leaves a few careful bits of code behind, to log the IP address of anyone who's visited the site- or anyone else who might, after this. If trouble comes from that quarter, they'll know.]

[But, pausing as she makes one final edit... she clicks back and reverts a single part, leaving the drawings of the Herald's eyes visible as they were. No names, no faces, definitely no locations. She's even managed to carefully splice a few bits of fake audio in to change Toki's speech to something slightly more safe. But just this one thing... she'll give him that.]

[No one who isn't already familiar with supernatural, or about to be, is going to actually recognize the Herald's eyes. If they're seeing that symbol, they're already in too deep to back out- even if they don't know that yet. So it's not risking anyone's safety to leave it where people can find it.]

[And maybe he could use one thing to hold onto, in the middle of all this. She thinks he might need it.]
Edited (I accidentally a word.) 2019-06-21 02:26 (UTC)
opheliaafterdeath: (.13)

[personal profile] opheliaafterdeath 2019-06-21 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Catch 20-2. You either do or don't.

Life is a bunch of bullshit that way.

But I'll be serious here kid. You fucked up. You've put a lot of people in danger. Some kids here are here to be safe, the faculty too. You put up their pictures, their schedules.

For someone like me who thrives on information like this? That alone is enough for me to stalk them, figure out the rest of their lives and kidnap or kill anyone I want. And whoever's left will come after you for being the dumbass who put this up.

Maybe you saved some people some grief. But you really got to ask what it's costing everyone else.

And don't give me that 'whatever' bullshit you did when we talked about your visions and conspiracy theories. Whatever happens next is your own fucking fault. Great job, martyr.
sauerfacedcyborg: (You've just vastly reduced your expected)

un: Ziggy

[personal profile] sauerfacedcyborg 2019-06-21 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
I want to make this very clear to you: you have just jeopardized the safety of at least one individual using this school as a safe haven. Any harm that comes to people in that situation as a result of your broadcasting their location is going to be your responsibility.
soft_focus: (extra 10)

[personal profile] soft_focus 2019-06-21 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
I thought having to go to Oxford for the TV people was just so that nothing bad would happen on their TV things.

Not so that no one would see anything normal.


[This is Normal, see. BUT THAT ISN'T IMPORTANT RIGHT NOW.]

Yes!

I like the city ones the most. Are those the places you like most there?
opheliaafterdeath: (.5)

[personal profile] opheliaafterdeath 2019-06-21 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
Metaphorical examples exist kid. I'm a monster but I'm not stupid.

Screen shots are a thing. Pretty sure schools still give out the whole 'what you post on the internet stays forever' lecture. Guess you missed it.

And yeah. Anyone could have found that information. But you were the one who put it up. There's no maybe. You did fuck up. Just admit it.

Because frankly, you're screwed. Have fun with your consequences and nobody taking you seriously anymore, mr. conspiracy theorist.
marmoron: marmoron (dispassionate)

[personal profile] marmoron 2019-06-21 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
well congrats
but serious question?
what would you have done differently had you known werewolves were real?
wherenoonegoes: (Hiccup Chief)

[personal profile] wherenoonegoes 2019-06-21 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
There are already people in hospitals that do exorcisms Toki.

As for your second point? It's a nice hypothetical, but it's not worth people's lives. As much as I wish otherwise, people haven't changed that much.

There's still way too many people who hate and fear what they don't understand and outright refuse to even try. And people like that aren"t the kind of people who are willing to live and let live.
nor_iron_bars: And in my soul am free (No that ain't your style)

[personal profile] nor_iron_bars 2019-06-21 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
only if we fuck up real bad.
i give us about 47% odds.
not the worst gamble i've ever taken.
compared to the time i drank that green stuff, this is actually pretty safe.


[She runs the numbers every two or three days, using the same program she coded to put together stupid office betting pools. They're up two percent from yesterday.]
sauerfacedcyborg: (You've just vastly reduced your expected)

[personal profile] sauerfacedcyborg 2019-06-21 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
If you know, then you'll understand why we can't take this situation lightly.

[Ziggy is. So mad right now.]

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