[open] 🐺 but little did I know

[activatingcombatmode]

Type: Text.
Sender ID: activatingcombatmode (Zack Fair)
To: Public.
Subject: About these brand things.
Warnings: Tba.

Hey, so. Where’s the smart people.

You’re all feeling these brands and marks on your hands, aren’t you? Can’t get close to certain people? Can’t hug them? Seriously?

There’s gotta be someone out there who has a potion or a magic spell or something to make them go away. Come on, where are you? Let’s figure this out as soon as possible. Hey?

[Zack can’t touch his boo and this is a fate worse than death and he’d rather be!! Dead!! Someone has to be out there with some sort of solution!?

There is no solution (?). Leviathan magic is just that strong. But he can still publicly complain about it.]

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text; un: noah

[afflatusexarch]

[ Look, he doesn't like it either. At all. ]

I've found nothing of the sort, though you know I would be more than willing to experiment a little.

text | un: netherese

[netherese]

It's absolute and utter nonsense, marking us as though we're property. I've not managed to dispel my own just yet, but I'm not about to quit so easily.

[Everything up until now had been bad enough, but this— this has pushed him too far.]

For now, a numbing potion to dull the pain might be the best we can do, but does nothing to change the fact that the very principle of this is wrong.

Text; [Emberized]

[emberized]

[Finally, a place to COMPLAIN!]

I don't know about brands,specifically
But those other guys

[Who he won't even bother to name. You either know or they don't.]

They did something to our tattoos
Had a way to wash em off

There's gotta be something like that

[activatingcombatmode]

If the experiment includes hurting you, I'm not into it.

[activatingcombatmode]

[He couldn't agree more! Post this on the wall!]

I'd say. Whoever thought this was an idea needs a good punch to the side of the head.

Can't believe this is happening, even with the paladins. Honestly. The hell.

Do you have any of these numbing potions?

[afflatusexarch]

That would be a touch unavoidable, of course. No more than trying to stand next to each other would cause.

[activatingcombatmode]

[Bros gotta COMPLAIN!! 🤝]

Yeah, I had to deal with that crap too. Wasn't fun losing my tattoo. The brands are even worse.

Something about this is fishy. And not the good kind.

[activatingcombatmode]

I don't know. I don't want to even start to hurt you.

I can stay on the Seventh Heaven for a couple of days. Until we find something that works.

[emberized]

You were there too?

[Oh, geeze. He didn't even--]

Well whatever it was

Even if we DID want to try it

It's gotta be at the bottom of the ocean by now.

Maybe Stormbringer or the Royal Fortune scooped some up before it went under.

I wouldn't count on it

[afflatusexarch]

Tis not myself that I worry for, love. The discomfort pales in comparison to other occurrences I had to manage another lifetime ago. Were it not for the pained expression you wear, I'd quite manage this quite contently as well.

[activatingcombatmode]

Just because you think you can handle it doesn't mean I want you to for my sake, Raha. It's not the kind of memory I want to stick to us.

[activatingcombatmode]

Yeah, I got caught up. Had to break out a few of my crewmates.

I guess I can't be hopeful we'll find a box of the wash just floating out at sea...

Damn it.

[afflatusexarch]

I do not think, Zack Fair. The only sigh of relief you may allow yourself in this situation is that I respect your desires above all.

[activatingcombatmode]

[Boy, oh boy.]

Don't get me wrong. I want to touch you. That's not a question.

This is just messed up.

[afflatusexarch]

I know. The feeling is mutual.

As the situation stands, I simply will be demanding more time on your shellphone.

[emberized]

[Augh, come on Zack, don't make HIM be the hope guy; his skills in emotional persuasion only stretch so far.]

Look the point is, it had existed.

So. Something's gotta exist for this too.

Simple as that.

[activatingcombatmode]

Calls every day, that's what we'll have to do for now.

There has to be something that will work out there, though. I'm not going to give up looking for it.

[activatingcombatmode]

[Look, he can't hug his wife?? He's a man dying??]

Nah, man. You're right. Something's gotta work out there. We've just got to find it.

This world's too damn big for something to not be out there that will work.

[afflatusexarch]

The effects are not as potent on Eltrut. We may be able to stay in the same home, just on separate floors. That might be its own torture, however.

Video calls, if you'd please. I have to be able to at least see your handsome face.

[activatingcombatmode]

Yeah... I'm not sure how I'll be able to handle myself knowing you're right there.

Video calls it is. Wouldn't want to miss seeing your cute face every day, either.

[netherese]

[He'll conjure letters to spell it out across the sky in flashing lights if he has to!]

While I understand that tensions are running high at the moment, and for good reason, this has gone entirely too far. I had been under the impression that the armadas had different goals, but were not directly opposed to one another. Not only is this a violation of our trust and our freedoms, but it casts aside all those months of cooperation and good will that many of us have put a great deal of effort into!

[He also can't be near the person he's most fond of, but unfortunately, that's a challenge they're already used to having to navigate.]

I'm concocting a small batch as we speak. They are practical rather than magical in nature, but their effects should help to take the edge off for those of us who are used to keeping mixed company in our daily lives. It is a temporary solution, but better than none at all.

[emberized]

And if it doesn't
We find a way to MAKE it work

[afflatusexarch]

I would suggest a petition. Unfortunately, I do not believe that would work in these circumstances. Why someone would wish to perpetuate this rivalry I haven't the faintest.

Mayhap I can make it periodically for a quick visit. A brief one, I promise, as to not set off the magic.

[activatingcombatmode]

Yeah, I don't know. Whoever wanted to stir things up like this. They need more than an angry-worded letter.

[They need a punch to the face.]

I'm not even sure a quick visit would work. But. But damn... I wanted to take you to see the wishing tree this year. We're going to miss it.

un: baymaxing

[baymaxing]

i'm more with the magitech than magic or potions. but i am trying to see if there's something i can do. i know back home there's like, uh, tattoo removal? not that i have one back home or am an expert. not sure if that might work here with these. especially since these link to our powers here for some of us. it seems a bit more complicated.