Video 001: First Shot in the Dark

[pisticus]

[ Alright let's see how this works! Prompto has his phone propped up in an area where he can get the angle just right while he records this. He wants to be able to show off the images he has after all. ]

Hey guys, so I know it's not the best quality video, sorry. This whole network thing is weird to get used to.

Anyways! Hi, I'm Prompto! Uh...I'm from a place called Eos, specifically I'm from the Kingdom of Lucis. Before I left there was this thing that has been referred to as a plague...it's called the Starscourge and it's like really bad. Basically it makes the nights longer. For a bout ten years before I got here...we didn't have any sunlight because of this stuff.

Because of that, we had a lot of these things,

[ He holds a picture that looks a lot like the monsters that have been around in the much darker areas ofthe castle. ]

They're called daemons. there are a few different types but....but they are all...

[ He pauses a bit, scratching at his worst before he looks back at the camera. ]

They are created when people or animals are affected by the Starscourge, basically they are parasitized by it and after a while they become daemons. The only cure that has been found was thanks to a person known as the Oracle. I used to know the one back home...well knew of her.

She was my best friends fiance and sort of a celebrity in her own way. Total sweetheart too.

Anyways, these daemons start off as people, like you and me...and then....then those people get sick...and if it isn't treated...well...then you get what we have here.

Daemons can be fought, they can be killed....they just...some are harder than others and some take damage from different things. All will take damage from light based things though, it's why I use Quicksilver here. One of the best guns for tracking moving targets and destroying limbs.

What I'm trying to say is that they are beatable....don't give up. If a scrawny kid like me could fight them for five years, a whole group of us can do it just fine.

Also...if you have any questions I might be able to help.

About the daemons....not much else though...sorry.

Comments

[ishotyouuu]

[Yeah, guess who just got back from a sleepless night taking care of his best friend and thus is not taking this well at all? Especially since he's just realized what is potentially wrong with said best friend?]

And you just decided to wait until now to tell us? Not when this bullshit started happening? What, were you just fucking waiting for your oh-so-important big entrance or something?

[pisticus]

I just got here at the beginning of the month and I was sort of doing my own grieving, thanks.

As it is I didn't even know what was going on until I had to do a bit of recon myself. I didn't want to give people information only for it not to be right, ya know?

[ishotyouuu]

I'm sorry.

[He doesn't sound sorry. Prompto's argument is reasonable. Maybe even sympathetic. Unfortunately for him, he's caught Wade on a day in which he's run out of both reason and sympathy.]

I'm sorry, I don't think they sell any "Cry To Someone Who Gives a Shit" Hallmark cards. I'd be happy to find you one otherwise.

This shit's being going on for a month. An entire fucking month. And you expect me to believe that you were pulling recon duty all this time, watching everyone get sick, without so much of a warning to us as to what it could possibly be?

Either you're one of those types who love chaos and conflict or you're utterly shit at reconnaissance. I can't decide which one would piss me off more.

[pisticus]

[ Prompto's about to say something before he just shuts his mouth and glares. He just listens before letting this guy get his anger out.

when he finally finishes is when Prompto finally starts to talk again. ]

Alright, I get it, I am way off my game and yeah I'd be pissed too. Obviously you are going through some shit, sorry to hear that.

I'm giving you information, take it or leave it.

If I seem insensitive then oh well, I've lived with this shit for ten years. Ten years of utter darkness with daemons that are bigger than cars. I lost my best friend to stop this shit, if there was some other way that would have been great.

As it is if we can find a way to heal people without the Oracle then that would be great. Can't really do that with people yelling at me for being 'late' to something I didn't even know was happening for what ever reason.

[ishotyouuu]

Sorry that we're "going through some shit." Your sensitivity is touching. Seriously, I'm about to cry.

[Sarcasm. The gift that keeps on giving.]

I gotta tell ya, somethin' about your story doesn't exactly add up. Wouldn't "living with this shit for ten years" put you in the perfect position to recognize the warning signs when they were happening? Wouldn't losing your best friend galvanize you to try and make sure this didn't happen to anyone else? I mean, isn't this how these sorts of heroic origin stories even work?

Now we've got an epic clusterfuck on our hands-- a clusterfuck that could have been mitigated if you'd only just piped up sooner. I don't know your story, bucko, and frankly I don't give a shit. But if anything happens to my best bud because you couldn't man up and tell us about this shitstorm sooner-- if I end up havin' to put him down because of it... well. I'm memorizin' that pretty face of yours. 'Cause I just found a new potential outlet for my rage.

Enjoy your stay.

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