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魏婴 Wei Ying | 魏无羡 Wei Wuxian ([personal profile] laughitoff) wrote2022-09-03 09:23 pm
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[PALACE GAME - LAN WANGJI RUN]

Everything is red. You are dying, somewhere far beyond pain, the very essence of yourself going to pieces. You’re shattering so badly you don’t know if you’ll ever find all of yourself again, if you’ll ever put yourself back together. There are teeth on you, ripping, tearing, devouring. There are teeth inside you, carving their way out, and those are worse.

This is a memory, happening at a remove. It is not yours. This is not happening now.

Everything is grey. You wake up in a prison cell, eyes wide, the ceiling flat and blank and unfamiliar above you. For a moment you simply think, no. You think, Please, wasn’t it over? Wasn’t it enough? You consider closing your eyes again and refusing to get up, until oblivion reclaims you. Even if you’re no longer dying, everything hurts.

This is a memory, happening at a remove. It is not yours. This is not happening now.

What is happening, then?

You–

–sit up.
strikingchords: (at the end of the day.)

[personal profile] strikingchords 2022-09-05 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
["What are the Treasures?"

"How were they lost?"]
strikingchords: (write the song you need to hear.)

[personal profile] strikingchords 2022-09-05 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
[...

one more:

"Are these answers based on Wei Ying's own understanding?"]
strikingchords: (just to sit outside your door.)

[personal profile] strikingchords 2022-09-05 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
[oh cool, interesting insight into how this works. he's going to take out another piece of paper, write "Lan Zhan scorns Wei Ying's failures" on it, and use Heresy to fucking destroy it. smears his hand through whatever crumbled ash is left, nuking it from memory

then he'll writes on the bottom of the first paper:

"Wei Ying is only human. A fate earned is not a fate deserved.
If all his efforts were foolish, would be proud to be called fool.

I wish him here.
I will find him.
"

then he will draw an array on the paper and concentrate very hard on using both Orthodoxy and his cultivation to send that whole Q&A to Wei Wuxian's shadow, wherever it is behind its door; he is expecting this to work like a sending talisman, so the goal he's envisioning is the paper catching on fire and crumbling in his hand, hopefully for its words to appear elsewhere.

he won't know if it was successful, of course, but he can hope.]
strikingchords: (this will be the death of me.)

[personal profile] strikingchords 2022-09-05 05:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ow! that's fine for the moment though. he'll stand, picking the Ideal Rock up to weigh in his hand as he does. hmm.

is the collective huli jing still hanging around?]
strikingchords: (you love them all the same.)

[personal profile] strikingchords 2022-09-05 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
...

[attaches a small bit of his own spiritual energy to the rock and tosses it out of the entrance to the cave, to see if anything outside stirs that he can see from here]
strikingchords: bb (8T)

[personal profile] strikingchords 2022-09-05 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
...





[exhales pointedly and goes to look at the blood pool.





okay yeah I'll just ask. is it the same blood pool that he remembers. anything weird going on with this pool o'blood, narration?]
strikingchords: (camanchaca.)

[personal profile] strikingchords 2022-09-05 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
[shifts into a dragon and wings up to the cave ceiling to look at the remains of that barrier more closely...]
strikingchords: (coming back all damaged.)

[personal profile] strikingchords 2022-09-05 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
[hangs onto the ceiling and flicks a pebble down into the blood to see what happens...]
strikingchords: (too hot to handle.)

[personal profile] strikingchords 2022-09-05 05:49 am (UTC)(link)
[hmmmmmm.

he wants to know more, but he doesn't want to burn more Orthodoxy to ask.

...

two more questions, actually.

- is there still a partial protective effect remaining from what wards are left holding these blood pool buddies inside?
- he does remember the arrays used on Wen Ning. though Wei Wuxian's protective circles use different sources of energy, Lan Wangji obviously understands the principles behind warding in general really well.

out of curiosity, could he replicate what had previously been done before, or something with a similar effect, with his own cultivation?]
strikingchords: (outrunning the dark.)

[personal profile] strikingchords 2022-09-05 06:06 am (UTC)(link)
[cool cool cool.

he's going to hang onto the ceiling upside down, bite one of his own feet or the tip of his tail for blood now and then, and start working, in that case. :B

he will:
- incorporate the remaining talismans into the pattern as much as possible
- leave the protection circle very clearly open to additions or refinements by Wei Wuxian
- use Heresy to destroy anything that's nonfunctional and unable to be restored
- also use Heresy and/or his claws to score the main circle deeply into the ceiling, hopefully creating a permanent effect. refinements can be added on top, because he doesn't want to go too crazy on overusing Heresy or adding stuff Wei Wuxian can't change by his own will, but the goal is to use rock carving to make the big basic marker of "THIS IS THE DEFINED AREA WHERE THESE OTHER THINGS CAN TAKE EFFECT" be just part of the ceiling now. (a note: he WILL probably use Heresy enough to get to the point of pain, if it works as intended in this context.)

the open-ended style of his work here is not wholly like his typical cultivation but is pretty similar to how he was trying to so-carefully leave space for Wei Wuxian when he was augmenting Wei Wuxian's wards on the gravestones in Reverie--trying to say "we can work together rather than at cross purposes" through design rather than words, however successfully or unsuccessfully that message came across.]
Edited 2022-09-05 06:09 (UTC)
strikingchords: (sweet air of the votive.)

[personal profile] strikingchords 2022-09-05 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
[cool, this should do as a nice solid barrier array till Wei Wuxian gets more ideas and leisure for his own improvements. shakes his head hard (he's kind of dizzy doing this UPSIDE DOWN IN SEVERE PAIN after a while) and then opens his wings and drops to the ground at the edge of the magic circle again, meeting the huli jing's eyes (?) as he returns to human form.

he'll drop down to a kneel without breaking eye contact, presses his hand to the ground, and channels all his power of intent into using Orthodoxy to fix the cracks. he will once again push it till he's in pain in the other direction, trying to forestall further damage in the future as best as possible.

he wants more light in the cave, too, so insofar as he visualizes anything on purpose, he imagines the blue light of spiritual energy pouring into the empty spaces to solidify them, leaving behind soft illumination and a solid basis for the array.

he does not think of this with purpose, but the way the river of scales on his back runs between the banked ridges of his scars and fills them in until his skin is smooth and strange under his fingers is likely not far from his mind.]
strikingchords: (above us only sky.)

[personal profile] strikingchords 2022-09-05 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
[hums thoughtfully, adds a second circle with his own spiritual energy just inside the first for an extra layer of protection and bought time, and then heads to the desk. maybe Wei Wuxian left notes.

...

it's also worth asking.

what does his curse mark from the huli jing look like here?]

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