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The Judges Of Sabra La Tau (sabra_la_iudex) wrote in sabra_la_tau,
@ 2011-08-27 19:25:00

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!days 260-269, arianna, ash & pikachu, kanou taisuke, nishi jouichirou, roy mustang, shinonome hangetsu, toyama kazuha, yamamoto takeshi, {tena fortissian}, {{{orihara izaya}}}, ~guardian, ~shadow

Who: Ophiuchus
Where: The Barracks
When: Day 266, Late afternoon
What:

[You return home empty handed after some time and have an oddly disproportionate idea of how many squidrats are in the ruins.

... Strangely, the Guardian doesn't seem as put out as he has with other missions.]

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	Re: [Later] hey__listen 2011-09-02 11:26 am UTC (link)
	Not exactly. So what do you want to know first of all? Or I should ask... what do you already know about the situation that we're currently finding ourselves in? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] eaves_dropper 2011-09-02 11:31 am UTC (link)
	... Interesting. [He shrugs.] This used to be a rather intact, self sustaining world. And then it burned. There's a relation between our activities in general and in specific with how well everything works or continues to live. Things are in a cycle of slow decay, some Judges have actually died this round and we're at an endpoint here. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] hey__listen 2011-09-02 11:33 am UTC (link)
	The barest of the basics, then. You know, I should be more disappointed in you for not looking into a bit more. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] eaves_dropper 2011-09-02 11:36 am UTC (link)
	What I've found of it is skewed to say the least. And drop the act, you know as well as I do that the sort of information we're talking isn't written down anywhere and not a casual subject to get it FROM people who were there. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] hey__listen 2011-09-02 11:39 am UTC (link)
	No. That's exactly why Surgeon pulled what he did along with the Judge Weaver. And that is exactly why King had them destroyed, or so I think it happened. I was a bit distracted by the life of Isaiah of Lacerta, the Priest of Many Names, so I can't be certain of how exactly Surgeon and the Weaver were destroyed. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] eaves_dropper 2011-09-02 11:43 am UTC (link)
	I'd say destroyed. The records relating to both names are missing. So a whole lifetime of information... It probably took a while. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: [Later]

hey__listen
2011-09-02 11:48 am UTC (link)

Not as long as it seemed to us, at least.

Most of the memories are a bit vague, but I remember most of the important details if I know what I'm looking for. Similarly, if you want to know about events that led up to Surgeon's taking action against the King. Or even before that.

Though I wasn't around for when the first Judge here was destroyed, I was able to find out the most of it. It's helpful to have a Bookman on hand.

But info for info. You know I have a number of things to offer. What have you got?

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	Re: [Later] eaves_dropper 2011-09-02 11:54 am UTC (link)
	Surgeon, Weaver, Trickster, Queen. Those are all elements I'm interested in at the moment. I'm sure you've gathered that there are two elements in play right now, one active, one interestingly passive. There's a third, I'm sure of it, active, but much more careful than the Queen has been. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] hey__listen 2011-09-02 11:58 am UTC (link)
	So we have King's rule, Queen looking to usurp said rule for her own gain, and a third party. ... about what I would think for this place. The question is... which Judge is running the third party? I would think it's obvious what support they're getting. Queen has already made certain the divide in Ophiuchus, after all. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] eaves_dropper 2011-09-02 12:01 pm UTC (link)
	And a Guardian who's rather unsure of where his own boundaries are. It's one particularly sympathetic to the Blanks, easily. Whoever it is, has Caduceus. That says a lot just right there. And she just moved on a Judge who we hardly ever get favor from... I'd wager an assumption. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] hey__listen 2011-09-02 12:03 pm UTC (link)
	That doesn't narrow it down terribly. Though having Caduceus doesn't mean much. After all. Who was it that brought in that disk again? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] eaves_dropper 2011-09-02 12:06 pm UTC (link)
	Chance rather than intent, we all went out into it blind. Honestly, there were only hints that it was related to a Judge at all, rather than something dangerous she simply wanted. And really if the after effect wasn't something you COULD control or HAD to like, we wouldn't be having this conversation at all. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] hey__listen 2011-09-02 12:11 pm UTC (link)
	The point is that Queen has her hooked her claws into whoever held that disk more than likely. And she could continue to work her claws in further. That's why it would be troublesome if you were caught. Or even would be troublesome if you gave her more chance to work on you. She's not called the Mother of Monsters for nothing. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] eaves_dropper 2011-09-02 12:26 pm UTC (link)
	To be perfectly honest, in the time I've been here, I've only sworn loyalty to two Judges, one in front of a snake because I had to and one out here because I chose to. If there's a side besides mine, that's it that last one. I'm sure you can figure it out. And yes, I'm well aware of where I am right now. What's the deal with the disks? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] hey__listen 2011-09-02 12:30 pm UTC (link)
	Technicalities will get you everywhere in this place. You should have used it to your advantage when she approached you. As it stands... if those disks have their symbols and posses traits of their domains, it only stands to reason that those disks are like pieces of the Judges themselves. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] eaves_dropper 2011-09-02 12:38 pm UTC (link)
	[Considers, a slight smile and then shrugs at the first statement.] [...] As you're sticking with what's glaringly obvious, you're either fishing or have no idea. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] hey__listen 2011-09-02 12:39 pm UTC (link)
	You forget, I remember why Sabra La Tau became the way it is in the first place. Of course I know. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] eaves_dropper 2011-09-02 12:47 pm UTC (link)
	Then what do you want? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] hey__listen 2011-09-02 12:48 pm UTC (link)
	What else have you got? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] eaves_dropper 2011-09-02 12:51 pm UTC (link)
	What I'm getting is the short end of the stick. But, I think I have enough to make headway through other avenues. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

Re: [Later]

hey__listen
2011-09-02 01:05 pm UTC (link)

[sssiiigh]

Think about it a little more. We live in the underground of a dead world. Above us, there is nothing. No sky, no sea, no grass, no air. How else would our patrons survive? How else do gods keep themselves alive? Especially when it's all done so desperately.

[there's actually an almost discomforted look on his face, as though he's remembering something distinctly unnerving]

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	Re: [Later] eaves_dropper 2011-09-02 01:09 pm UTC (link)
	... And likely how those exist here. [How deeply tied are...] ... That clever bitch. There might have been another reason for a strike on that particular Judge. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] hey__listen 2011-09-02 01:12 pm UTC (link)
	More than just to spur us onward toward the endgame, you mean? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] eaves_dropper 2011-09-02 01:13 pm UTC (link)
	More than that. Think about it, what kind of games has that Judge run? Communication. If you can stifle that... (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	Re: [Later] hey__listen 2011-09-02 01:15 pm UTC (link)
	... oh, dear. And if you think of it on another level... what a bitter old hag of a step-mother. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)