, ([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.]
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[personal profile] inkedspell 2019-06-22 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
I didn't say it was. But you're supposed to be looking out for yourself. This definitely isn't doing that.
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[personal profile] inkedspell 2019-06-22 02:44 am (UTC)(link)
That's great but you shouldn't forget to make sure you're doing well, too. It's like trying to bake a cake in a rusty pan full of holes.

[She is a hypocrite, but that's never stopped her before.]
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[personal profile] inkedspell 2019-06-22 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Look, she was young and didn't think things through when trying to bake all by herself in secret. It did not go well.]

I mean whatever you're intending probably won't come out the way you want it to if you're not making sure you've got the important things taken care of first.

You're the important thing, you know. Just so we're clear.
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[personal profile] inkedspell 2019-06-22 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
You're alive, aren't you? Then you're important. You need to do right by yourself so you can do right by others.
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[personal profile] inkedspell 2019-06-22 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[And this is exactly why Sari is worried, Toki!]

You're alive enough to think and feel and ask me ridiculous questions so that should answer your question. I don't care if you died already, you're alive enough now.
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[personal profile] inkedspell 2019-06-22 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
You can do both, you know. You can protect people and yourself. At least let someone else keep you out of trouble while you're doing it.