[Jaunt] [Week 1, Last Day] [FFXV Spoilers] A Painful Lesson

[keepcalmcookon]

[Ignis can't filter this, can't stop the bit of pain coming through the network--he's in literal agony over here. Or the desperation. Or the fear.]

Felih... Noct, I... We--help.

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[crouching_sin]

What did you do? Tch, where are you...

[keepcalmcookon]

Bonfire. [God keeping the pain out of his network voice is too hard.] Filter--I can't....

[He doesn't want to hurt others on the network.]

[crouching_sin]

For fuck's sake - are you able to get yourself to Liminal? Or no?

[keepcalmcookon]

No. Too much pain. FILTER.

[PLEASE he's trying to filter it from blasting everyone over the network with his rapidly losing ability to keep the pain out.]

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[neverfeltthatway]

[Armin hesitates to respond, as this clearly wasn't meant for him... but only for a moment. If he's understanding what little he hears correctly, he can help - in a way the ones being called probably cannot.]

...Would you like me to shut off your sense of pain until whatever it is that's causing the pain can be fixed?

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[keepcalmcookon]

You can—? Noct. Noctis Lucis Caelum. Him first! His back....

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[neverfeltthatway]

I need to be in physical proximity for it to work. Should I find you, or is someone taking you to liminal space?

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[keepcalmcookon]

[A bit of a delay here.]

Liminal Space. Felih's place. Someone came for us....

[levelthreehooligan]

So you guys... Got smacked too?

[Though wounds are routine for her, as is poison, the constant uptick of immense pain is starting to wear her thin]

2/2

[levelthreehooligan]

[A Different voice chimes in this time, frustrated and furious.]

Where is it I need to bring her. I have picked the manacles that kept her power in check, but that's about all I can do.

[leftbehindagain]

Smacked by what, exactly?

[keepcalmcookon]

A whip—an artifact. By the Angel of Punishment. Me, just one.

Noct.... his back... It's like a single would....

[leftbehindagain]

I know the one. [Or, well, his overlay does. Close enough, under the circumstances.] It's not going to stop hurting any time soon.

Give me a day or two and I can make something that'll at least ease the pain for the time being, but probably not remove it. Celestial artifacts can be annoying like that. If someone - it doesn't have to be one of you who was injured, just someone paying attention to all this - could stop by the bar to talk about it out loud and give me a reason to be seen working on this, I'd appreciate it.

[keepcalmcookon]

Whipped....

[levelthreehooligan]

Hah... Semantics...
[Pinya is only just managing to keep her pain off the network, but only just.]

Where are you? Ill- Get Fenrir to bring me, and he can take you too.

[keepcalmcookon]

[Yeah, it's Ignis's FACE and he's not managing quite as well. Mostly because he's also watching the most important person in his life bleed out and he's in too much pain to do anything.

And he's rapidly losing coherency. He no longer cares about filtering, either.]

Naoya's coming. Near the bonfire.

[acapriciousthing]

What do you need?

[Death is who you hope for in this situation, right?]

[keepcalmcookon]

For Noct not to die! I should have....

[acapriciousthing]

SHould have can wait.

Do you have a healer coming? I can help.

[keepcalmcookon]

[Finally someone with sense.]

A healer's coming.

Hours later - Pain Sucks Pls Help

[keepcalmcookon]

[The worst part is that he's learning to be coherent through the pain.]

We are safe, I must ask for help once again. The pain of the whip--it does not cease. I can endure my wound. But Noctis, his wounds are many--he needs help. I believe someone said they could block pain...?

[awondrousplace]

Oh, dear. I am so sorry I missed your first post, dears. Where are you? I can easily create something that will dull or block the pain. There are many chemical combinations that I know.

In fact, I could probably keep your friend unconscious until others work out how to more permanently remove it.

[leftbehindagain]

If they've decamped to Liminal, I might have you make a delivery for me. I'm working on something to dull the pain for them.

I'd be careful about blocking it out entirely, though, unless or until we can stop this guy from being able to hurt people. If he realises you're circumventing his punishment he might bring out that whip again.

[seestheworld]

If you still need help, I've got Nova Venezian alchemy and the ability to imbue food with magic, so I can probably come up with something too.

[keepcalmcookon]

I'll let you know if we need more help. Thank you....

[He's in pain and tired, but definitely not freaking out anymore.]