Let's Cook This Goose

[yuezun]

Type: Video
Sender ID: yuezun (Dongfang Qingcang)
To: general public
Subject: Battle Tactics and the Great Eight-Headed Goose
Warnings: Discussion of a great goose barbecue! Will update if any come up


[Dongfang Qingcang has his shellphone set up so that it will record him standing in front of it from several feet away. His chin is raised imperiously, his expression is nearly empty, and when he speaks, his tone is bored and even. The sun is behind him, creating dramatic lighting.]

This venerable one is the Great Devil and strongest in the Three Realms, Dongfang Qingcang, Moon Supreme of the Moon Tribe. Mortals would know this venerable one as a god.

[A pause so that anyone listening could make of that whatever they willed.]

As with many who have been brought here, this venerable one finds his full power has been sealed and only some has been restored through the tattoos. This would not matter were this venerable one to set himself against any others brought here as his power is still vast and unfathomable to all but a bare few.

[If Cid is listening: Shut up.]

However, this venerable one has found that despite his power, certain creatures that menace the God-Beasts who have provided sanctuary to us all are particularly... tenacious. This venerable one can easily injure the eight-headed beast, but it is an unfortunate truth that it is able to flee before a killing blow can be made.

As such, this venerable one seeks to find others who have control over the power of fire. Heads severed with fire and whose wounds are seared shut do not regrow. But there are eight necks and more heads grow where one had been should the wound not be sealed properly. This venerable one wishes to gather as many who can wield fire as possible in Eltrut, where it will be easiest for any, regardless of alliance to gather and await the eight-headed beast's next attack.

When it comes, this venerable one is willing to lend any who wield fire a measure of his power. Once all who can have been so graced, we will attack as one. We will severe it's heads, seal the roots, and kill it before it has a chance to flee.

[[OOC: This is a set-up post for anyone who wants to participate! The mods have said that Daqiang is okay to power up other fire users for a mass attack on the Goose and that doing so can and will kill it! Daqiang has the ability to transfer energy and fire-based based abilities and spells are easiest for him to power up, take the least amount of energy for the most effect, etc. So if you want to assume/use the Untitled Goose Bounty 2 prompt in your Test Sail top levels/responses or your monthly posts and include either Daqiang having powered a fire user up, or the post-battle victory bbq, you absolutely can. Assume the big battle takes place near the end of the month, is all that I ask. As Daqiang will be expending all of his energy on this and ending up having to spend at least a week in recovery and I want that to happen in January.]]

Comments

[afflatusexarch]

[ woah woah woah. Are you. Calling him out? Like that? Now he feels all flustered again. ]

'Tis not that I seek to prove myself. [ Okay so it is. A little. ] I only wish to provide all of the assistance that I am able.

[yuezun]

Then when the battle commences, do so. That will be all the proof you need give.

[afflatusexarch]

I can't tell if you are being enigmatic or simply stubborn.

[yuezun]

You wish prove yourself, regardless of your protests. And you say you wish to provide all aid you can. So do so. With your actions. Not your words.

[afflatusexarch]

You certainly do know how to make me feel like a child being scolded.

[yuezun]

[There might be a twist of amusement on his lips.]

You are young.

[afflatusexarch]

We have discussed this matter before.

[yuezun]

You are the one who brought up your age.

[He's just the one teasing about it.]

[afflatusexarch]

[ Well fine! Two can do this. ]

I am sure that I did not, Great Devil Dongfang Qingcang.

[yuezun]

[There's a pause. A blink. A head-tilt. An arched-brow.]

Oh? You were the one that said you felt like a scolded child.

[afflatusexarch]

"Child" is relative. It is not defined nor constrained by age.

[yuezun]

[G'raha... that's... that's entirely not true.]

It most certainly is.

[afflatusexarch]

Oh? Then at what age do you no longer consider someone "young," Mister Moon Supreme?

[yuezun]

One is a child until they are an adult.

[Because 'child' was not relative. It was a specific age category.]

One is young when they have less than five thousand years of wisdom.

[afflatusexarch]

Ah but that is your standard.

Elezen do not hit their growth spurt until their twentieth summer. Should they be treated like a child merely because their bodies take longer to develop than their mind?

Dragon whelps are still children until their adaptations make themselves known. This is no slow process and can be one hundred summers or more.

For some, sixteen summers is considered the end of childhood and yet male Viera are made to survive their harsh clime as early as thirteen.

There is no set "age," but rather how one matures over the course of time.

[yuezun]

This venerable one does conflate all youth with being a child, merely that a child is young.

However long a childhood is measured for the race in question is how long one is a child. Many immortals are children for several hundred years and may remain so for a couple thousand before they come into their adulthood.

[He recognizes that G'raha is trying to win on a matter of semantics and yet... Fine. He gives a dismissive wave of his hand.]

Forget it. Your age is immaterial.

[afflatusexarch]

[ And he realizes that Daqiang is humoring him by "dismissing" the topic.

Which makes G'raha just outright laugh. ]

[yuezun]

This venerable one is leaving first.

[He muttered and hung up. See if he's going to let G'raha have the last word - or laugh.]