no_compromise | 1st Chapter [Voice/possible Action] Forward Dated to May 8

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1st Chapter [Voice/possible Action] Forward Dated to May 8

[It was raining, something that rarely happened in the arid region of the Far East on his homeworld. It was raining when he pulled himself up out of the mud three days earlier with a soreness in his shoulders and a baffling block of missing time that he could not explain. With his immortal body, sleep was optional and even unnecessary--the last time he slept was over seven years ago, just before the fall of the Spiral King and his army.

The black out bothered him more than the wings, but his inherent pride as a warrior and a beastman kept him from more than a cursory question here or there over the journals. Soaked to the bone and thoroughly irritable about the information he absorbed via the strange journal that arrived with him, Viral finally emerges from the silence he had built up around himself.

The video feed opens to the beastman sitting in relative comfort in a shabby fort he built for himself amongst the fallen branches from the winter. It was obvious that this wasn't the first time he had broken his needless exile, as the new feather pants had been traded out for his comfortable travelling gear, including a very ragged brown cloak and an equally worn red scarf. Though dry for the moment, his hair was still tangled and not fully cleared of the mud.

Clearly his isolation was more important than finding an apartment. Though, if pressed, he would explain his thoughts on that manner.]

[Very Broken Filter away from all possible members of Team Dai-Gurren]

Luceti. I am Viral. [Pronounced like the word 'virile.' There's a subtle pause, either from the inherent awkwardness of this or his noticing that the filter is terribly broken.] If any of you here have ever encountered someone by the name of Simon [pronounced 'see-mon.'], from a place called Jeeha Village, who also calls himself 'the digger' and is currently ranked at High Commander in our world, if you have met his brother Kamina or any of their friends in Team Gurren or Team Dai-Gurren, I will not ask you to disregard anything you may have heard about me. Whatever they said is likely true.

[From a certain perspective and point of view.] I only ask that you keep an open mind.

Also, is there someone on this network who can explain why the animals are talking? Does the rain normally last for this long? [Another beat.] I've been here for a few days now, so I understand enough, but this climate is unfamiliar.

[With that he ends the feed, not wanting to say much more. Though tempted to just shut the journal, his questions about the local fauna and climate are pressing enough to be a bother. He's there, in the woods toward the west. Feel free to find him.]

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The rain will let up before the week is out. [Voice low, rough, and ever so slightly amused, Adele addresses the weather first and foremost.]

The animals...that depends on what it is they are saying.

[It's a wisp of a blond woman. Viral doesn't bother to flip away from the video feature, but just nods in acknowledgement.]

I was hunting. You can take a guess.

I do not hunt, nor do I often venture outside the village.

[Another human too used to creature comforts. Would she have joined in the riots that threw the 'High Commander' into a prison cell next to him?]

...It can't hurt to try sometimes.

At the moment? It could. Quite literally.

[She huffs a laugh, winces, and settles back against the pillows. The ache was far less than it once was, but still present.]

But perhaps I may try my hand at it once I am well.

[Yeah, that woman was injured. And someone he could probably snap in two if he cared enough to. Not that he would--she was oddly attractive, for a human.]

You'd be better off if you found someone to go with you if you're like this. This forest is very dense.

And has a vampire in residence. Though since you have not commented on being attacked, I suppose you have had no trouble at night.

I heard that there was a hostile resident, but not that this person is a 'vampire.' Even if there was an attack, there would be no problem.

...if you don't mind. What is a vampire?

I suppose you are more than able to protect yourself, then. Good. Fewer patients for me to worry about.

[A beat. She blinks. Staring.]

There are no Vampires in your world? Not even in works of fiction?

Very few works of fiction have survived the thousand years of the Spiral King's reign--the circumstances were less than kind. While there may be something over the broadcasts in Kamina City, I wouldn't know. I don't interact with the residents there much.

[All said with a perfectly straight face. Feel free to notice how the Kamina he mentioned now has a city named after him...]

Are you a doctor? [It was a question to change the topic, although odds were that they would rarely need to meet if she was.]

...

[Odd, but. Noted. Kamina was named after a city. It wasn't the first she's heard of such things, though. It does strike her as somewhat strange in every instance.]

A surgeon, yes. Though at the moment I am not much use to anyone.

[If only she knew the truth.]

...because of your injury, correct? Or is it something else?

Just the injury. Though my own wound aside there has not been much call for me in the village. I'm grateful for it.

So there's little in fighting aside from the 'vampire' and the drafts mentioned in the journal? It makes for a comfortable prison.

Missions are voluntary as well, but. There is not often conflict in the village.

A fine place to become complacent. [Just a touch of acid on the word, there.] Even with the experiments.

Complacency gets you nowhere.

[Said from the man who has barely given himself a chance to rest for seven years.]

...No human's been successful in doing anything about this prison, have they?

[Did they lack the drive, the will?]

It was smaller, once. Tighter to the village. We did not have access to the lakes, the mountains or the shore beyond. Through the efforts of several villagers it has been expanded. Some are studying the barrier- trying to find a way to break through. I cannot say they have been met with much success.

I see.

[So the humans themselves were different, and likely have never heard of the concept of 'spiral power.']

...what is it that Kamina or Simon would have said of you?

We're rivals and enemies. It wouldn't have been anything flattering if they did say anything. From the sound of things, they didn't.

There have been none here that I know of that go by those names, nor have any arrived. The cycle is not yet over, however.

I see.

[It was welcome information, even if it didn't give him reason to fully relax right yet.] I will keep my eyes and ears open then, thank you.

Do influxes like this happen normally?

You are welcome, Virale.

Every two months since the first group arrived years ago.

So it's a regular--[beat.] That's not how you pronounce it.

It isn't?

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