[MINGLE] One-Man Show

[sixthiteration]

WHERE: Inari Shrine and elsewhere
WHEN: 25 January 2019 through ?
OPEN TO: All opted in characters
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[eaglesonofnone]

Altaïr's eyes narrowed for a scant moment as he watched and listened to Zevran. While he could see the words were coming from a place of his own experience, there was still a timbre to them that brought his level of respect for the man down a notch or two. The deliberate discounting of someone else's experience - perhaps it was specifically because it was Altaïr's, but he was as yet unwilling to dedicate any more attention to it than a passing notion - spoke to a degree of self-importance that he truly disliked.

"The question of you causing this," he said mildly, "was never raised, Zevran."

[rebornpaladin]

"Wait," Shiro says, turning to face Zevran, "you've experienced something like this here?"

Shiro hasn't experienced any of the powers that people have talked about, but if this is anything like that, another manufactured experience of the village or whoever's controlling it-

His frame tenses a little.

"...Did you receive a message, a video clip, on your wristband last month?"

[youcantkillme]

Connor turns his attention to Zevran, but there are problems with his arguments. Both his and Altair's, really: although there are similarities between the exchange Zevran's explanation describes, there was very little about the vision that Connor could have provided the group beforehand, if he would have even agreed to showing it. Altair's explanation isn't perfect either, because it assumes the need for the participants to all be alive.

Connor remains skeptical, but doesn't interrupt. He'll let Shiro answer, and then speak.

[ombranera]

"Much like you said it was like your Apple, this is like my power." Zevran does not roll his eyes, does not let more than the barest edges of frustration with the situation slip past his otherwise civil mask through- though it is a near thing. Trapped on a mountain, that is fine. Trapped on a mountain with men he finds...

Trying? Delightful fun. "I shared my life of my world with Alistair upon his arrival. Apparently, things were...quite different with his Warden. I wished him to know and held him and we were able to experience that which we had not lived." Something in the magic of this place- but it had been him and not this shrine, by the fountain.

"A message? No. I received nothing of the sort. Perhaps it is like the door? To the mansion on the eve before First Day."

[eaglesonofnone]

"The only thing I am relatively certain of in any of this," Altaïr said, his voice heavy with the quiet that only an instructor could manage, "is that something is at play which none of us can fully fathom. It seems that in part, most of us have some sort of experience with this, whatever it may be, but not in this exact fashion, and likely not with this exact means. Yet one thing, in my experience, remains true:

"All of this must be treated with caution. Costs and outcomes will remain unknown until it is too late for anything to be done about them."