27 ♐ Video ♐ Loss and Gain

[aim_exorable]

[It's sometime at the end of Friday that Darkleer makes this post. He didn't want to ruin the festival for anyone beforehand, but now that it's coming to close, he thinks it's a decent time. For once, Darkleer is appearing on the network without his glasses willingly. He's honestly an open book without them- blue on yellow eyes filled with a bit of sadness, loss, and tiredness. Normally he wouldn't take off his glasses for anything, but- she was his auspitice. She deserves his all, even if...]

Princess Zelda of Hyrule is no long in Vatheon. I imagine many of you knew her, as she was well engaged in much of the community, including the Welcoming Committee and crafting the tunics which assist in breathing underwater. It is also thanks to her that we have been able to find out more about our situation trapped in Vatheon. She was an excellent leader, a keen and intelligent woman, and the finest auspitice one could have asked for. We will all be blessed if she is brought back to Vatheon at some point in the future, yet even if not, we were all fortunate to have her in our midst. I doubt I can take her place, but if you have any questions about Vatheon and its purpose, I will do my best to answer you.

Coincidentally, if there is anyone in Vatheon who possesses a calm head, knows how to settle disputes evenly, and isn't afraid of clowns, please contact me.

Mr. Captor, I would also like to speak with you.

[There's a moment of silence, and then he takes a breath before reaching down for his glasses. He puts them on again and feels the better for it.]

With all of that said, Vatheon, I would like to make you all an offer. In order for this to make sense, however, please allow me to explain a device known as a syalladex.

[Behind Darkleer, what almost looks like a stack of pecular cards pops into existence. The top one seems to show a picture of a bag of bird seed.]

On Alternia, every troll has a sylladex, which is a storage system you carry with you everywhere. It is composed of captchalogue cards which are organized into a deck, a fetch modus, and a strife deck.

The captchalogue cards are where you store your items. You can often find them for sale in the Nostalgia Quarter. The number of items you can hold in your sylladex depends on the number of cards you have, although you can store multiple objects in one card so long as they are similar in nature or purpose.

[He gestures to his deck, which seems to shuffle until another card is on the front. Are those.... Is it a picture full of robotic hoofbeasts? Yes. Yes it is.]

You should be warned that if you do such a thing, then you must bring out all of the items stored on the card even if you wish to retrieve just one.

The size of the item you wish to store is limited, and I would not recommend attempting to store your hive in it. That would be silly. However, depending on the type and quality of your sylladex, you can store large items in it. If you are not sure what kind of items you are capable of storing inside of it, please contact me and I will advise you.

Now we will move onto the Fetch Modus portion of the sylladex. Fetch modi are the methods in which your cards are organized and in what fashion you can retrieve them. There are a variety of fetch modi, as many prefer something which suits their personality or preferences. For the purpose of this demonstration, I have equipped my sylladex with the Array fetch modus, which allows me to pull an item from any of my cards without much fuss. You can equip your sylladex with multiple fetch modi if you so choose. For example, I often use this particular fetch modus.

[He kind of just... reaches over to grab his cards, fiddles with the back for a second, and- pop! The cards are now a different color, what do you know. The deck shuffles again until the card shows, for a moment, a stack of freshly laundered towels. It then immediately shows a screen of a chalkboard with what appears to be a very complex math equation. Darkleer lets it be shown for just a moment before seeming to nod slightly and out pop a whole pile of towels.]

I will attach a document with this broadcast with a list and explanation of a few more fetch modi types. This is not a complete list, and if you have a different idea for a kind of fetch modus that would suit you, I am willing to listen.

Lastly, we have the strife deck, which contains its own specibus. This is where you store the weapons you use for battle, although it should be noted that a deck only contains one particular weapon of its kind.

I am explaining this to all of you because I have made quite a few sylladice during my stay in Vatheon for a few individuals not from Alternia. After the disaster of the flooding, I thought it would be prudent to distribute them out.

If you are interested in possessing a sylladex, please respond to this broadcast and we can work out the details. If you wish to pay me in some manner, I will accept it.


[After the post completes itself, a document containing a list of different kinds of fetch modi becomes available.]

Comments

[Video]

[stridercentric]

[Bro has very little opinion on Zelda leaving because, well, he didn't know her personally. She did seem like a kickass leader from what he could tell, but hey, she's a videogame princess. Not the pussy kind like Peach, either. Zelda is a badass. ...Why exactly didn't he bother to get to know her personally?

Ah well. On to more pressing matters.]

Handing out sylladice to total newbs, huh? Yeah, there's no way that could turn around and bite any of us in the ass.

What's this about clowns? You get in trouble with juggalos or what?

[Video]

[aim_exorable]

I'll make sure they do not catch on fire or some other inane things. Besides, they'll have to learn at some point. We were all children fuddling about with them at one point.

And.. [Wince.] To some degree. The Grand Highblood and I have a... complicated relationship. It required an ausptice, which Zelda was. Now that she is gone, I thought it would be prudent to start looking into another, just in case.

[Video]

[stridercentric]

Not me, man. I was a fucking natural. But hey, if you think you can teach these kids the ways of sylladex, good luck to you. Just remember, with great strife specibi comes great responsibility. [He shrugs.]

Auspice... God damn, another one of those troll romance things? So was she the auspice of that Highblood troll or is it way more complicated than that?

Audio/

[rebull]

[A silence before-]

[Long sighed breath.] ...Yeah.

Audio/

[aim_exorable]

Yes.

...Do you want to just sit together for a small while? Nothing more than that.

[feralfanatic]

I am sorry to hear that. I know how important she was to you. I am sorry I did not get to meet her sooner.

[Almost a full year under the sea before they finally ran into each other. It was an achievement, really.]

If... you want company, you know I am there for you.

[aim_exorable]

[He still doesn't understand how people didn't run into Zelda, she was everywhere, dang.]

That... would be nice, actually.

[video]

[sylphauxiliatrix]

She... what?

[As the video feed starts, she's looking incredibly distressed. In fact, she's not glowing at all at the moment, her skin a normal troll grey. She wants to ask him if he's sure. She want to check, to say it's a lie or a trick or... She knows better. Darkleer would have been thorough. If he says it's so, then it is.]

No...

[video]

[aim_exorable]

I apologize that I had to break the news, Miss Kanaya.

[audio]

[grandhighblood]

[Snorts, raising an eyebrow as he's reclining back on some kinda rock-carved chair in the cave.]

Heh, now I all know you think a brother is all kinds of motherfucking dense, but I all see what you're trying to do here, motherfucker.

[audio] jack woop woop woop

[rebull]

Well if you didn't make it seem so right that you're so dumb.

[warriorofwinds]

Zelda's gone?!

[aim_exorable]

Yes. I apologize for breaking the news. I noticed when I attempted to contact her about a few things, such as the sylladex issue.

[Video]

[fightforastar]

I wish I'd gotten to know her better. I take it you were close friends?

...why "not afraid of clowns"?

[Video]

[aim_exorable]

Yes. [His expression softens for a moment.] We did much work together, and talked about many things in Vatheon. She was in one of my quadrants, and a close friend.

[Oh, wait, now they're talking about clowns. Scoooowl.]

I am having issues with... one in particular. Zelda was, as I said, my auspitice, and she helped calm.. arguments between him and I.

[Video]

[hecklinghare]

[Annnnnd Bugs is just going to stare at you for a really long while, Darkleer. Because....this is just too much logic for him to fathom]

...all I'm gonna say is you trolls got some pretty silly woirds.

[Video]

[aim_exorable]

Well, some of your words are fairly silly as well, if I may say so.

sorry this is late ;n;

[replicatedcourage]

[While sylladice are neat and all, Sola's a little more reoccupied with the first part of Darkleer's post. He hadn't been over to Zelda's in awhile, being busy with other things, but now he regrets it intensely and a very worried face appears over the SFC.]

Darkleer... who's going to figure everything out if Zelda's not--... she can't be gone!

[Despite all their rocky start here in Vatheon, Sola had viewed Zelda as one of the single most important people in his life. She's his princess, she's a constant presence, and to have that gone... There's the other Link still here, he guesses, but Zelda was also the only other person from his time, from his Hyrule. She gave him a soul for the goddess' sake! He's not sure what to do without her.]

ssssh it's okay /birdcuddle

[aim_exorable]

[Darkleer had more gone over sylladice because that had been what he had wanted to talk to Zelda about. With someone like her, he had a feeling she wouldn't have wanted him to put off something like this for her own sake.]

I'm sorry, Sola. She is. I doubt I can do as much as she did, but I'll try to help things stay together.

[Video]

[radiantwingedone]

[ It takes him a long moment to even figure out how to reply to this.

Mostly because it would be incredibly rude to deny the words, as his gut reaction was to do. Zelda was someone who he couldn't really see the bubble without and...

Its just painful of a different sort, to even think about. He actually watches it twice, because he hadn't realized there was more being said after the information that had to be mistaken about Zelda.

Duke just... will avoid somehow double checking that because of unease. He ... doesn't want it to be true, thus the way to keep happily in the state of unknowing is to ignore that part of the message.

The second spot is interesting- ]

This is without the restriction of ... no more than fifteen of a single item?

[ Also he approves of that math function one. ]

[video]

[aim_exorable]

If you mean for storing in one card, then yes, you could store more than fifteen of a single item. With some of the larger ones, you would want to be careful, of course, in drawing them out. If you allocated a single card for each separate item, then you could also do that. You would simply need fifteen of the cards.

[crabbygenius]

[She's going to wait until after his little demonstration to make herself know. Washu.. might have been taking notes.]

Level headed and not afraid of clowns huh? That's a tall order to try and fill.

[aim_exorable]

[Darkleer just... sinks his face into his hands.]

I know.

[video]

[heartandsoul]

Ah...that's too bad.

[But it happens, chances are Zelda will be much happier back at home anyway.]

Oh--Mr. Darkleer, you mentioned those things before, didn't you? When I asked about storing a lot of objects in one place. [He was completely shitfaced at the time but still.] I wouldn't mind having one.

[video]

[aim_exorable]

Oh my, did I?

[Completely shitfaced.]

Of course, Miss Maka. Would you like it to be delivered to you? For some reason, I feel as though you would appreciate the Array fetch modus..

[For some strange reason that isn't the faintest of drunken memories.]