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[Annabeth's face pops up, curls a mess as usual, but considering the turtle developments, she doesn't look nearly as cross as usual?? There's the sounds of water splashing around somewhere in the suite, but she doesn't appear to care.]
It goes without saying that the turtle's health started improving at last. [Because powers! And it's swimming again!] I know various numbers of us were tasked by Evandau into investigations, and I don't know how all the other situations turned out, but Doctor Soranik Natu, Rogue, Percy Jackson, and myself found something probably worth sharing.
We were assigned with investigating a string of robberies initially, but really, the important part is we discovered a series of incomplete archways in several different homes and attempted to recreate one in its entirety.
The whole "world between Life, Death, and Dreaming" thing everyone gets on arrival? Start taking it literally, if you weren't before. Keeliai as we live in it here is the Life plane. The archway opened up a portal of a kind, and said portal took us to the Death plane.
[A blob of water floats across the screen, blurring Annabeth's face, but it's still possible to see her turn around in a huff, and from somewhere off screen there's an "Oops, sorry!" before the water flies off. She continues unperturbed.]
It was basically a version of Keeliai gone awry and ruined, everything rotting away, and we found markings in the form of some kind of blood magic, directly over where the Emperor's Palace is in this plane. Scans proved it to be kedan blood in origin, some of it fresh, and the pattern was being drawn by - you know, what we're here to fight, in a magical attempt to kill Tu Vishan. We were able to wipe the incomplete blood slate clean and stop this part of his illness before leaving the plane. [By 'we' she mostly means Ocean Jesus did A Water Thing.]
Unfortunately, or fortunately, the way in seems to be gone. The archways all disappeared once we got back, as did that particular methodology in creating them. [Melted pins ahh. A pause.] The Death plane is probably where our infamous threat is hiding. Its domain, so to speak.
Tu Vishan's health is picking up, but this - this situation here, with this thing we're up against? It's definitely not over.
It goes without saying that the turtle's health started improving at last. [Because powers! And it's swimming again!] I know various numbers of us were tasked by Evandau into investigations, and I don't know how all the other situations turned out, but Doctor Soranik Natu, Rogue, Percy Jackson, and myself found something probably worth sharing.
We were assigned with investigating a string of robberies initially, but really, the important part is we discovered a series of incomplete archways in several different homes and attempted to recreate one in its entirety.
The whole "world between Life, Death, and Dreaming" thing everyone gets on arrival? Start taking it literally, if you weren't before. Keeliai as we live in it here is the Life plane. The archway opened up a portal of a kind, and said portal took us to the Death plane.
[A blob of water floats across the screen, blurring Annabeth's face, but it's still possible to see her turn around in a huff, and from somewhere off screen there's an "Oops, sorry!" before the water flies off. She continues unperturbed.]
It was basically a version of Keeliai gone awry and ruined, everything rotting away, and we found markings in the form of some kind of blood magic, directly over where the Emperor's Palace is in this plane. Scans proved it to be kedan blood in origin, some of it fresh, and the pattern was being drawn by - you know, what we're here to fight, in a magical attempt to kill Tu Vishan. We were able to wipe the incomplete blood slate clean and stop this part of his illness before leaving the plane. [By 'we' she mostly means Ocean Jesus did A Water Thing.]
Unfortunately, or fortunately, the way in seems to be gone. The archways all disappeared once we got back, as did that particular methodology in creating them. [Melted pins ahh. A pause.] The Death plane is probably where our infamous threat is hiding. Its domain, so to speak.
Tu Vishan's health is picking up, but this - this situation here, with this thing we're up against? It's definitely not over.
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What infamous threat?
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[She's been here so long at this point SOMETIMES SHE FORGETS OTHERS HAVEN'T...] Were you here when the turtle was deathly ill?
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[Those guys were as conversational as a rock. So, Mako hadn't bothered really trying.]
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The name can't be spoken outside the palace, at least as far as I'm still aware.
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[A pause and a sigh-- no, try and tackle this from a different angle]
What about writing it, then? Or even describing it?
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[:T] Starts with an M. If you go back about 2-3 weeks - or look for the most recent post made by Evandau - he says the name over the consoles. I could write it, but it won't autotranslate, and we may not speak the same language.
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[he doesn't have a ton of patience-- but even he can realize that Annabeth did give him a place to start looking.]
... But thanks. I'll look for the name. I'm Mako, by the way.
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[Which she ignores, though her face is still drawn in a line.] This thing is what was making the turtle ill. What I was talking about - what we found - was a part of that.
[Patience ain't a thing she has much of either most of the time.] Annabeth.
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Alright, two or three weeks back. Is this the first time it's made the turtle sick, or are there other times? And what happened then?
[Hopefully specific enough, but that isn't implied as strongly, because he genuinely wants to know. And pissing her off seems like a bad way to find out]
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It's the first time he's been sick as long as this group of foreigners have been around, and he was increasingly noticeably ill over the course of a few months. But we're not the first group the Emperor's summoned to face this thing. We don't really know what happened last time, except there were at least 300 people, and they're all dead now.
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What? How long ago was that? [and what happened-- but already knew the answer to that.]
Or is just the number of people, and the fact that it happened all you know right now?
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So, you don't know if they're being or truthful or not if they do decide to tell you something, is what you're saying.
[some stuff was starting to make sense, now...]
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Most of the things I've told you have been confirmed through other means. [Pause.] But I don't think Evandau and Eshai tell the entirety of the truth most of the time. Not that everything's a lie either; it's just - complicated and tricky.