solnet | 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.

[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)

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'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, if his broadcast hasn't caught her attention simply because she hadn't met him before, his casual use of daemons certainly did.]

Wait, so the people getting sick are on their way to turning into one of these things?! It's not just a normal sickness?

[Have a wide eyed angel staring back at you, new guy, glowing wings and everything. Looks like her mind is running a thousand miles a minute, if the flush on her face is anything to go by.]

Do you know how this Oracle fixed it? Some kind of purification?

[Sara's tapping on her chin with a pen. She was taking notes about what he was saying.]

Can you tell me what the Oracle did when she cured them?

I'm a scientist back home, so I'm hoping an outside brain might be able to figure something out.

[Of course they could've used this information sooner. But you know what? She'll take it. They can talk about stupid mistakes when they have the luxury of wasting more time.]

How do people get sick? is it contagious? are people still themselves at all when they become daemons? You said there was a cure, but you act like we can't get it here. what was it?

That...huh. So that's what's been happening around here. I was wondering where the quiznak the sun went and why people were getting sick.

[He doesn't like it, especially because he doesn't understand how people are developing the illness. Lance wants to protect his loved ones, but how can he when he doesn't know how?]

Does it target certain people, the illness? Or is it just random on who comes down with it?

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