Third Field of Fonons [Action/Voice] (Backdated to the 11th)

[yourfononsarewhack]

[Action]

[Once there was a mansion - built on a legacy of oiling, wealth and a pure, sterile family pride. But that was all just a dream. Jade found himself instead standing in an empty plot of land. He kneeled down, pressing his hand against his forehead as he remembered. He remembered everything and everyone he really was. The man who was born as Jade Balfour, who used to scowl at the types of shameless nobles that he had just been living the life of. The first thing he thought of was at least a dozen better tactics that he could have used against Zompano. Then he thought of his true family - his true life - all the damage he had caused. Once again, his greatest and only true weapon - his mind - had been infiltrated and misused by other inhabitants of this world. This was getting to be very frustrating.

And there was more anger burning inside him - familiar to him, but in a way he couldn't quite put his finger on. Either way, he is set to get to the bottom of this. No need to waste time licking his wounds. No time to think about - what Zompano had done to him. And how he had survived...

He spends his time staggering throughout Luceti, where earlier that day there was a whole city and automobiles. As he does so, his red eyes are all the more glaringly obvious sans his glasses. He trudges his way all the way up to Community House 1 - to lock himself in his workshop, and his research. He only lingers outside of Community House 7 - he knows already that Rapunzel lives her. This place had made them family once before after all, but that time was much more bizarre and vaguely remembered. He hesitates, wondering whether or not he should pay a visit. Either way, he eventually makes his way to his workshop in House 1 and is back to his research. He has to piece together exactly what happened. Now that his memory is back, he remembers that first night - the lights on the barrier. To think... they'd truly been invaded.]

[Voice]

[Eventually, he takes out his journal. And mechanically bangs a few pans together into it. Maybe that should snap the fellow inhabitants back into attention. This matter was something that absolutely had to be discussed, after all.]

Rise and shine, everyone. Let's not dawdle on this. I understand that at the moment, most of you must be dealing with something that feels akin to a hangover of a cosmic scale. However, we are all very due for a debriefing. Or, in more layman's terms: let's review what in the blazes just happened.

[ooc: You can consider this a placeholder post of sorts. Feel free to wait until more event stuff plays out before tagging in if that will help - and similarly some of Jade's tags here may be on hold while more of his own event stuff actually plays out.]

Comments

voice,

[elevatoravatar]

"That is not necessarily true. The universe plays its song and we all dance the roles we accept. Most lack the awareness to realize this though and simply fall into roles."

She pauses for a second while pondering.

"I do remember before being overcome by fatigue and awakening in that strange world a large number of strange people walking about just beforehand. I must say though, as I have never been forced into the realm of dreams before the whole ordeal may have skewed my visions of it. All I remember was waking up in a world that was not my own and not this one with evidence of a role I was to play, but no instruction on the role, so I simply watched the ordeal play itself out."

voice,

[yourfononsarewhack]

It still sounds much too physically exhausting for me.

Oh? So you weren't altered at all. Is that what you're saying? [Just like his supposed wife. He wonders what kind of link there is.] And all you did was observe... Is this correct?

voice,

[elevatoravatar]

"As the lie was formed? Yes. Once it was formed I tried to subtly awaken those caught in it, but I do not think that was what you meant in your question."

She taps her chin in thought for a moment and nods.

"Of course, my siblings and I were created to assist our master's guests in seeing through lies so it is possible that had something to do with it."

voice,

[yourfononsarewhack]

Let me clarify something. Are you telling me that you were basically created to act as a living lie detector? I'm not mishearing anything, am I?

voice,

[elevatoravatar]

"No, my master assisted me to assist guests in the completion of their contract. We exist to balance the scales of order and chaos and chaos frequently spin lies. If one is incapable of seeing the truth, one can not help others see it."

She lets out a breath.

"I do not know the exact reason I was created, that is why I left the Velvet Room."

voice,

[yourfononsarewhack]

I see. [He's not so certain what to make of her testimony - and whether or not her "creation" implies an existence similar to that of a replica.] It certainly sounds like a unique existence, at the very least. Yet it's only natural to want to set off and seek the answers as to your own existence.

voice,

[elevatoravatar]

"Is it? My siblings did not share my enthusiasm for that goal. Well, perhaps my brother did but he has always been the most timid of the three of us. But unique is as good a word for it as any I suppose."