[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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[crouching_sin]

Fine, fine. Here you go. ... I'll be there in a few minutes.

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[keepcalmcookon]

Thank you... [He's still doing his best but. Pain. Fear. He doesn't want to send that across the network to everyone.]

Angel of Punishment--has whip. My face. Noct's back. Noct, so many times....

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[crouching_sin]

... Ah. Him. My overlay knows of him. ... I'll heal 'Noct' too. Let's get you somewhere safe.

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[keepcalmcookon]

Please... He's cold-- [A wave of desperation] --Help him!

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[crouching_sin]

Focus on something in front of you, or a feeling outside of you. Do not let yourself feel whatever it is you're feeling. Cut yourself off from it.

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[keepcalmcookon]

Noct....

[His focus.]

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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....

[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]

Whipped....

[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.

*wound, because whyyyy autocorrect

[keepcalmcookon]

... I... [Just adding bewilderment to that pain because that's too many words right now.]

[leftbehindagain]

Just keep breathing. We'll do what we can to make this manageable.

[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.

[levelthreehooligan]

I'll - ugh - I'll grab them, If I can.

Where- where should I take us?

[keepcalmcookon]

Noct's critical. Back's more blood than skin. Not... important yet. May soon not be important at all....

[He'll do what's necessary if there's no hope of rescue in time.]

[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.

[leftbehindagain]

[Oh, don't be so dramatic.]

The injuries can be healed. It's the pain that'll be the ongoing problem. Is someone coming to fix you guys up?