irisnetwork | 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.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

i can't do that
they need to know

You're endangering yourself, on top of everyone else at campus!

Yourself, because of the faculty.

Everyone else, because you just said two things: a) Outland creatures kill people and b) where to find them. Since we have those as STUDENTS here.

How do you think that wouldn't lead to angry mobs, if this DOES reach people???

should the students here be more important
just because i know them?
there's a lot less of us than normal people
you're the one getting angry here
have faith in the populace
they're not going to come and take over the school because they know it exists

I'm angry because this is stupid and ill-advised!

I care about the safety of people, that's all I've been working towards all my life, but this is... you have no idea what consequences it could have.

well, we know what consequences NOT INFORMING THE PUBLIC has already
time to try something new

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. ]

[Civilians. James, like Ky, is doing nothing but proving his point. This is being run like a secret military operation, and no one else matters.]

i wasn't safe

[ 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.

your father probably believes it's helping
maybe it does sometimes
but in the end
ignorance isn't good
why keep people in the dark?
why can't they judge for themselves
not knowing what's out there
doesn't mean it's not still there

It's going to cause chaos and panic. Panic hurts people. The things happening here are all the materials of ghost stories but not everyone who is an Outland creature is evil.

I'm not sure people will understand that.

Nightfall is less than two years away, we can't risk dividing all our forces by social unrest.

you have to let them TRY to understand.
why are you fighting for a world that has to hide?

I'm not fighting for this world, I'm fighting for the whole world. I'm fighting FOR the people who don't know.

Maybe after Nightfall things can change. Maybe the way things were handled in the past wasn't always ideal. But if we reveal everything now, we might be be fighting a two-front war.

And then everyone will die.

everyone was already going to die
if this is how you do things!
maybe having the rest of the world know what the fuck's going on
WILL CHANGE THAT

Why are you so sure we'll fail Nightfall?

why are you sure we won't?
really, which one of us can see the future here?

Did you see Nightfall yet?

And I'm sure because

All my life I watched the adults around me prepare for this, tell me to prepare for it. The whole secret world has been doing nothing but scheming and planning to make this victory happen, seers included. If they're not panicking, neither will I.

[ So basically... he's afraid of thinking about the alternative. The idea of Nightfall has become normal to him, because it's always been there, but he also developed an optimistic attitude about it in order to get by. ]

Edited 2019-06-21 15:04 (UTC)

i see the herald

[That's really all he has to say here. His visions are so messed up, if he'd seen Nightfall, he might not even know it.]

Have you talked to other seers about this?

YES!

[He takes that comment to mean "you don't know anything, find a seer who does", because it's a common response to anything he says that isn't agreed with.]

Well, are they seeing similar things? Are their visions regarding nightfall negative? Identical?

YES! 53% NEGATIVE! IN VAGUE THEME!

That's... a very specific number.

Did you actually do calculations??

no. someone more competent did.
i trust her predictions.

[Jail technically said a 47% chance of winning, and he's not sure how she got to that number, but those are unneeded details.]

The scales are still almost even.

We just need to build on this foundation. We are building on it.

do you know why we're fighting?
what they want?
because i don't.
did anyone tell you the reasons?

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