Anon Video

[volksdaemon]

Posted: June 18th (Late Evening)
From: Anon



[What you see is just the mask. Then, the video pans up to catch the exterior wall of the Community Center where shinki may remember arriving. Within 10 seconds, the video feed cuts, but for over an hour before this point, there have been other masks being dropped off at temples around the Far Shore.]

[[See the OOC Plotting Post for opting in to getting a lovely mask deposited on your temple doorstep! Anon may also reply if he feels like it.]]

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Video Location: Nekhbet's Temple

[volksdaemon]

[It looks like a garden outside of a house built on a hill, but there's vultures everywhere. Then, from outside of the frame, another mask drops among them. To the chagrin of the birds, the video feed cuts off.

That's when Schuldig teleports away, before the birds can cause him too much trouble.]

Video: Location: The Noose Forest

[cryptaesthesia]

[A mask has been left for Yuri in the forest. It's been attached to a noose. The rope is still swinging as if it's been recently touched, but there's no one in sight.

The video cuts off.]

anon

[revolutionfalcon]

[Shun keeps an eye on the network when anything major comes up, and he recognises the mask design as soon as the video is posted. It's mere chance that he's just left his seat to do something else briefly when the video of his own garden is posted, and he gets back just in time to see enough to recognise that scenery and the mask dropping among it. Though he knows how unlikely it is he'll catch the culprit, he teleports himself into one of the trees edging the garden, looking it over and seeing nobody remaining there before he drops down silently onto the ground and goes to inspect the mask.

As soon as he picks it up, he feels there's something off - it's too light, too flimsy for something with the associations he knows it has. Something like this would never last on an ayakashi in combat. It's remarkably mundane, in as few words, and after one more check over to ensure there's nothing concealed on or in it, Shun teleports back inside with it.

He waits until at least one other on-location video is posted before replying.]

--

So, a pathetic attempt at fearmongering. Trust me, our enemy wouldn't want you any more than anyone here does.

Video; anon

[volksdaemon]

[Have a printed-out sign, not handwritten but by a computer, placed in front of the video.]

Our enemy?

permatext and permanon

[revolutionfalcon]

"Our" meaning everyone in the Heavens right now. But you can go on deluding yourself into thinking they'll spare you if you pander to them enough.

Re: permatext and permanon

[volksdaemon]

[Another printed-out sign.]

Funny. We'll see.

Video Location: Ixtlilton's Temple

[cryptaesthesia]

[Someone unfamiliar with the temple could assume the mask belonged there as it's perched innocently next to its obsidian cousins that decorate the temple's arch stones.

It's all wrong though -- wrong shape, wrong color, wrong size -- and it's not so innocently stained with a smear of red drying brown...

<The video cuts out>]

Video Location: Well outside of Aido's Temple

[volksdaemon]

[There's a rather traditional looking well filled with water and for a backdrop? An apartment building. While they may look incongruous, even more than that surprise will be the fact that there's a mask laid down in the bucket from which someone can draw up the holy water.

The video pans from a shot clearly with the apartment in the background, down to an overhead shot of the mask in the bucket, then cuts out.]

[blizzardrock]

[Anonymous.]

I don't understand the message.

Anon; video

[volksdaemon]

[Another printed-out sign shown to the camera.]

You will.

[blizzardrock]

Is that an "eventually" or a "soon"?

[volksdaemon]

That's on you.

[blizzardrock]

Anyone can say that, though. Shifting it onto me won't work.

[volksdaemon]

Don't care.

[blizzardrock]

You cared enough to take a video.

[volksdaemon]

Several. You'll have to figure out why.

[blizzardrock]

Because you wanted to play a guessing game?

[volksdaemon]

Because a magician never reveals his tricks.

[blizzardrock]

Doesn't rule out the guessing, does it? Is it that fun if you can't see the results of your tricks?

[volksdaemon]

But I can.

[blizzardrock]

Voyeur.

Video Location: Neith's Temple

[volksdaemon]

[There's a large estate-sized temple with a North-African flair to it. On top of the roof, another mask is shown resting on top of one of the glass skylights down into a room with a valuted ceiling, that may even be recognizable inside.

Then, MESS flies into the video frame in its brightly lit cube form, stark against the night sky. It shudders, then falls next to the mask. Then the video feed cuts out.]