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Video 001: First Shot in the Dark

[ 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.

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wow, look at that, the exposition we all needed right on schedule.
the day is saved.
lemme see if i've got all this straight, pal:
you brought in your weird alien parasite flu and it's turnin' people into monsters.
but since we don't have your pal's magical healer girlfriend, we're s.o.l. and killing them's the only other option.

Wait what?
Okay wow, I just figured people would want to know what they're up against.
And it's not like that!
I didn't bring shit here, last I saw of home the Starscourge was gone.
As for that last part...for now yeah I guess? I mean unless we can figure out something else.
I just said it was the only cure we found.
I don't know, maybe people from other worlds will be able to help?

[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?

Edited 2017-01-20 21:36 (UTC)

y'know? it's considerate of ya to share the inside scoop with us. i appreciate that, if it ain't clear.

guess i'm a little sore about all this.

Edited 2017-01-20 21:39 (UTC)

[ Aaaand he switches to video, revealing a... skeleton wearing a galaxy print hoodie and a blanket. Don't ask how a skull manages to have dark circles under his eye sockets, but he does. ]

Cut a monster some slack, wouldja?

I haven't been feelin' myself lately.

sounds like daemonblight

gotta dump strong enough purification on em and itll help

but sounds like you had a case of one person strong enough to overwhelm it

hope weve enough purifyers to dump it on the kids in the castle huh

[ Because there is that other option. He's familiar with that one. ]

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?

Don't take it out on the newbie.

I'll be picking your brain a little later. I gotta go take a look at a couple of things first.

Edited 2017-01-20 22:02 (UTC)

Well I mean sort of?
Lady Lunafreya sort of....I guess the Oracle was to take the blight into themselves?
But who knows, maybe something will work?
It'd be better than the alternative if you ask me.

[ He's seen enough people go south, he doesn't want to see that here if he can help it. ]

Okay, yeah.

Uh...what's your name?

I hope I can help you out, back home...well it took a lot last time.

Name's Colin, and I appreciate all the help you can offer. You've given my research a new direction to go in.

But I think these shenanigans are starting to get to people. Not your shenanigans. Queen's. Sorry, thinking too many things at once.

well that sounds like it didnt work out well in the end

i might be able to get my purification back
probably best to let someone who already got it do their thing though

or hope for your lady or mine to show up

Yeah....I noticed.

Thanks by the way, but they're not totally wrong...I should have got this info out sooner.

It....well it would have been better...but we had to deal with a...complication.

[ Prompto...that "complication" has a name. ]

If Lady Luna was here, oh man that would be awesome!

But...can that happen? Can...can people show up from different times?

[ She's sort of 10 years dead for him... ]

I'm....

Oh wow.

[ Sorry Sans, Prompto is staring. He's never seen something like you before. The skeletons from his world are daemons and they will try to kill you before you even get tot try to talk to them.

However the more he looks the more he see's familiar signs. ]

I'm sorry.

totally
someones here from when i knew him a good century ago
[ When I knew him a good century ago. Yeah sorry he's not human at all- ]

of course
hes the only one from home whos here with me so
who knows how it works

Atmo out the airlock, no sense worrying about it now. At least we've got it now. It jives with some of my thoughts and eliminates some others.

What else can you tell me about Starscourge?

That sounds like a transformer name, I swear to all the gods...

Oh geez, man, I apologize. Didn't realize grillin' the newb was so completely unacceptable.

[ That's the skeleton's usual, Brooklyn-inspired drawl, all lazy, apathetic rumble and little commitment, albeit rusty with sickness. But his tone thickens with something else, next: anger. ]

Who'dya figure I should take it out on? You volunteering, pal?

Last I checked, YOU ain't the guy with 5 HP and a sickness eatin' you alive. So, heh heh. No.

You don't GET to tell me I'm outta line.

[ Anger comes more readily than despair. Hell, that'd kill him quicker than the magical space flu. ]

[ After a brief interlude, Sans returns to this. ]

I ain't interested in your pity, pal. I want answers.

I wanna know how this parasite works. What stops it, how your Oracle fixes people up. Everything we could'a used last week or the week before.

Matter of fact, I AM volunteering. Better than watching you sit on your butt waiting to die, and deciding to take everyone else down a few pegs before you go.

And yeah, as another matter of fact, I DO get to tell you you're outta line. When I see you acting in way that would make Papyrus sad, you're godsdamned right I'm gonna speak up about it. No matter how much you think otherwise, you're better than that.

You're tired, I get that. You're sick, I get that too. You're pissed off, totally fair. Quit proving Undyne right.

[ Sans will most certainly remember this. ]

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.

I see what you're doing. Provoking an emotional response so you get to act superior. Then you get to say you were drawin' aggro to shield somebody else, because you're just so magnanimous.

Yeah... You've done it before. [ Rooftop. Someone else was there. Someone who... he... it doesn't matter. ] Time to mix up your act, pal.

But, heh heh heh heh.

Invoking my brother..? [ And the woman who tried to kill him over a grossly incorrect suspicion, who also invoked his brother like this, that's just icing on this shit cake. ]

And here I thought I was the monster.

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