Planning on apping at Es War Einmal (canon: Exalted)

[ecoterrorism]

...No.

Absolutely not.

I have already had quite enough experience fighting a battle I don't care for without having to do it on behalf of a nation of people apparently too weak to take care of themselves. At least I can be assured of my current circle-mates having some basic degree of competence. [ ...except maybe Hematite. How much of an idiot do you have to be to pause fighting to waste time asking defeated opponents to "please stop being bad"? ]

And the whole thing is because they're frightened that their precious kingdom will be overtaken by "thorns"? That sounds like a good thing, if you ask me. Not, of course, that anyone ever does.

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[consultmybooks]

Well, um, I did hear that the thorns apparently devour the bodies of the living.

...but, um, something tells me that you might not be terribly bothered by that, either.

[ecoterrorism]

If people are too incompetent to get out of the way, then I fail to see how that is my problem.

...Though... I will admit that devouring vines are an unnatural and somewhat disturbing concept.

[consultmybooks]

((ooc: Out of professional curiosity and the fact that I've attempted to achieve a similar effect and failed miserably...how did you make those icons?))

I did hear a little thing about them being surrounded.

And I'm both intrigued and a bit disturbed that you only consider vines that devour flesh and bone to be "somewhat disturbing". That was a new one even on me.

[ecoterrorism]

(( All the credit belongs to Carly! That being said, this is a pretty nice tutorial, as far as I can tell. ))

[ exasperated ] How did they let an idiot thing like that happen?

Flesh-eating vines sound like something that would be produced by my own world's Wyld, the land of the fair folk, who dissolve mortals to dreamstuff. In my homeland, a treaty with their kind means that any too incompetent to avoid falling to the forest floor are fair game. Meanwhile, demon-possessed Anathema roam the land in search of followers.

...I am not easily impressed. (( Exalted: 50% badasses, 50% pure unadulterated horribleness. ))

[consultmybooks]

Nor am I. [Former Watchers - 50% badass, 50% books.] I am, however, rather easily fascinated, especially when it comes to something new. I'd been trained for most of my life in the horrors of my own world. Even had my office situated over a portal to hell, for a while.

So I certainly don't mind the change of pace.

[...] So, um, you go by treetops, then?

[ecoterrorism]

That seems like a...remarkably poorly chosen location. [ small frown ] How did you manage?

And: used to go by treetops -- whole cities built there. But...I have not lived in Halta for some time. [ For all that she's not a particularly expressive person, it's relatively obvious that the fact is embarrassing or shameful to her. ]

[consultmybooks]

Not well, at times. But that was, um, only when it became an open portal to hell. Over the course of seven or so years, it was generally polite enough to stay...as closed as it was, um, possible to be.

[...fairly obvious, yes. You have his sympathies there, Cynis, even if he finds you a bit off putting otherwise.]

Where do you travel now? If, um, if you don't mind my asking.

[ecoterrorism]

[ flatly ] Does this mean that it is my turn to be surprised that you found that reassuring.

...I travel with a circle of other Dragon-Bloods over what at times feels like most of Creation, searching for stolen firedust on behalf of our...liege. [ she says the word with distaste ] We have found Deathknights in...[ her voice catches -- something deeply upsetting? ] a slave plantation. And we have been chased out of the city of Charek. Now we head to the Western Seas. Some plot is unfolding in the Realm; perhaps it will bring about its downfall. I should be so lucky.

(( /spews tabletop nonsense at you SORRY! >.<
Also, ~for the record~, Exalted names go like Asian ones: last name, first name. ))

[consultmybooks]

I do enjoy surprising beings far more powerful than I am. One of my, um, few remaining pleasures in life, actually.

So, you want the, um, the end of Creation? Am I following?

[Because, if so, welcome to the Big Bad list, Oroonoko!]

((ooc: Hey, I like learning new things! :3 No worries!))

[ecoterrorism]

A respectable ambition.

And no; you confuse "Creation" and the Realm. The one is the world I come from, and the other is the debauched empire that blights it.