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ACTION; SUNNY HOUSE, OTA
[ The 5x7" whiteboard hanging from Weiss's neck with a long ribbon said "Reminders:" and a list of things that she needed to remember and could check off while she recovered.

Holiday Decor
      ~~North side of house~~
      ~~East~~
      South
      West
Shopping List is in your pouch already
Tree (wait for Sun)
~~Hide 3 mistletoe around house~~
Check for keys when you leave & write time: 8am 11am
Lunch (boxed in fridge!)
~~Call ?~~ Ask Sun who I was supposed to call
~~Feed/walk dogs/Pkmn~~
GSRF- Compile/Post what??
Visit GSRF to figure out ↑
Find mistletoe and write down where you hid it

Don't trust Father (do not erase)

The last one, of course, was written in red white board marker at the bottom of the board, separate from the rest of the list. His attempts to essentially destroy who she was just to make her be the person he wanted her to be were a step too far for her, and even if some of the details were a bit fuzzy, she wanted to make sure it didn't happen again.

He wasn't in control of her life anymore, she wouldn't let him be again, and that's why despite everything, despite the need for post-it reminders all over the house now and her self-made task list, she wasn't going to let what he'd done this time control her either. So Weiss was most definitely outside of their house right now, rather determinedly standing on top of her Arma Gigas's sword, holding a string of lights and a hammer, with a Boarbatusk dutifully untangling it around his horns while she pulls it up and affixes it to the outside of the house. Despite that Weiss usually goes for white and blue, this time she's going with a full array of large multi-colored lights for the holidays. Her Charizard is standing on the roof handing her hooks and nails as needed, and other Pokemon are just kind of running around the house or yard making sure Weiss doesn't forget anything. Anyone who knows where she lives or has business at their home or just wants to pass by and admire the lights is welcome to! She may not subscribe to Christianity but she likes decorating for the winter holiday compilation from all worlds. ]

TEXT + VIDEOS; a day later after a trip to the GSRF, ota
The people in charge of compiling these keep disappearing or changing so I decided to publish this for everyone! It's the whole set of crystal videos that we have from the last breach.

Special thanks to Cassian Andor, Koishi Komeiji, Satsuki Kiryuin on behalf of Link, Mobius, Belle, and Major Lilywhite for providing them to the GSRF. Special thanks to Olivia Moore for doing most of the work compiling. Thank you to Spock for working on examining the crystals in the GSRF's possession, which we will hopefully have more updates on for you soon.

Please forward any technical/science questions to a GSRF member. I'll try to answer anything else as best as I can.

View attachment: Crystal Recordings.mov

[ ooc note: that is not actually a video, it's a google doc. but pretend it's a video for RP's sake please. ]

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[To say Jaune had been frazzled after the hospital break-in would have been an understatement. He-- they, had almost lost Weiss, but what would have been the true tragedy was Weiss had almost lost herself, in a way he wasn't sure would have been any better than death. At least when you died, you still kept your memories (or most of them). Everything Weiss had worked for to become her own person would have been gone. He would have stuck by her, but that didn't change the fact that when he did get to sleep, he'd wake up from nightmares where Weiss would be fine one moment, and then not know anything the next. He had certainly been spamming her with texts ever since then, all along the lines of:

U alright?
how are u feeling nwo?
hey remmbr that time when we ___

He was sure he was probably annoying her at this point, but he would rather her be annoyed and safe and still herself than...not. After texting her with a reminder that he was on his way, he left and froze when he saw probably one of the weirdest sites he had seen yet while here. Even by Weiss standards, this was very extravagant.]

Uh-- [He eyes the Boarbatusk warily and waves at them before looking for Joan in the chaos. He speaks up more softly, in case Weiss forgot he was coming over.]

Hey.

[ Whatever Jaune maybe it's extravagant but why have the knight hold the ladder when you can just have the knight hold you!! ]

Jaune!

[ She looks over her shoulder and the knight moves his sword so it's slanted toward the ground and she steps down it like she was walking down a steep hill. Shortly after, he disappears, but the Boarbatusk sticks around (he's holding the untangled lights he has a very important job!) ]

Hey. What are you doing here?

[ Looks like that little reminder didn't really stick. She should've written it down. ]

[Admittedly, that is really cool. Like, Weiss Is Cool But Not That Kind of Cool So Why Does She Get the Giant Knight levels of awesome. And why does everyone go to the Dream Docks and suddenly discover even more amazing things about their semblances when he doesn't even know what his is?

The pang of jealousy is quickly gone though, and he looks a little disappointed to see the knight leave. Bye awesome knight. It's almost enough to distract him from the fact that Weiss forgot! He kind of flinches before smiling.]

I'm here to see if you're ready for our celebration party event. But it looks like you got your...horns full. [He grins proudly at his own pun.]

Celebration event. [ Most of the long-term stuff is fine, so she knows what it is, she just.. doesn't remember rescheduling. There's a pit in her stomach and she tries to remind herself that it's fine, he knows what happened, and he knows that she can't help this. It still.. it isn't a great feeling to not even be able to remember your own party, something her friend put work into. ]

I'm sure it's on my calendar inside, I just.. you know. Do you mind helping me unwind the boarbatusk? He's a bit of a stickler for keeping lights untangled.

[ Hers was not as good, at all. But she tried. (Get it, stick, because the horns are like sticks..) It's just bad. She gets out the little whiteboard marker and writes "Celebrate with Jaune- get ready" at the bottom, but above her note about not trusting Jacques. ] Then I'll go get ready.

Yeah. Do you-- [He stops himself before he asks her if she remembers. If this is scary for her friends, he can't imagine what it's like for her. But what if it gets worse somehow? What if this is just the beginning?

He isn't mad at her and he understands. He's just shaken and frightened. Maybe a little clingier than normal.]

[He stares at her for a moment before laughing at the pun. Sorry for the delayed reaction.] Is he okay with me helping? I don't want to scare him.

If you want to, I mean. If this is a bad time it can wait...

These crystals were found outside of the barrier which surrounds the cities?

What? No one said that. They were found in the caves in Fayren during the last breach.

I'm sorry. You mentioned a breach - so - I thought it couldn't have been found before. That it must have been in an area where nobody could have looked. I jumped to the wrong conclusion - that was my mistake.

The area in the video doesn't look like Fayren at all.

Breach? Crystal Videos?

I'm still new around here and have absolutely no idea what your talking about.

What the heck is all this?

So these are the guys who had the cities named after them, I'm guessing?

[ Oh boy. Okay. Where to start? Might as well check the basic info to see if she's got that under her belt before going on about what's been going on with the barriers. ]

Have you been to the edge of any of the cities and noticed the barrier?

It certainly seems that way. It isn't as though we have anyone to confirm, but it's far too similar to be a coincidence.

Okay. Yeah. I've seen that before. I probably should have asked about this like a month ago, huh?

Agreed. I'll talk to Spock for more details. Thanks for letting us know about this.

No problem.

If he or anyone else you talk to happens to know what happened to the oaf who caused the breach last time, please feel free to share that information with the class, by the way. A bunch of people went after him and we haven't heard anything since besides a handful of people coming back with these crystals after getting out of a cave with magical crystal that keeps growing.

(I think Spock is also working on that.)

My name is Weiss by the way.

[ Thank god all of that is in her long-term memory rather than anything new. ]

Does the oaf have a name and description? I'll look into it. I assume Spock's got a location fix on the cave, has anyone been back to check on it lately? Captain Jim Kirk. I remember you from the hologram, nice to meet you. We might have been around at the same time the last time I was around. Were you here when that wizard guy had all the fliers at the Bay entrance?

No, it was just a situation that brought us to a new area within the Maw-- a cave filled with a regenerating crystal, so it's not particularly recommended you go along or without significant lighting, time, fighting capabilities (for the monsters that naturally live in the Maw), other people, and a good sense of direction.

The cave is also where a number of flowers we've been referring to as "Seek flowers" were growing. Flowers that bare a striking resemblance to the ones in the videos.

Warning duly noted! It sounds pretty dangerous for most people to just wander in there.

I see. So, sometime in the past, Fayren may have been very different - or there's a city somewhere, outside the barrier surrounding Fayren, which is much more advanced.

A lot of it you can get from asking in any Schnee Company branch as well. This is just the first public announcement of this.

The barriers are important because they keep what we've been calling "empty" or "void" spirits- I've heard a couple of different names for them. They're essentially monsters that can't be killed by normal means. If they catch you, they're capable of essentially emptying you of all of your emotions, leaving you with (wait for it) an aching void. (The names make sense now, I take it?)

You have to use spiritual magic of some kind to fight them typically. David Haller has special weapons he works with mages in Fayren to forge that bind some of the captured spirits to fight them, and while we've vastly improved our defenses in most cities, there are typically a lot of casualties and it's impossible to stop them from coming in when the barriers go down.

So while people come in thinking the barriers are there to keep us in, I'm relatively certain that they're there to keep those things out and keep us safe. No one's ever actually managed to make it out of the barriers without losing their emotions and turning on other people here to try and.. well, feel again, at any cost.

I don't think these videos were taken here. As someone else pointed out, the names of the people in the video seem to coincide with the city names.

The closest description we have sounds like a generic Ben Doll model, according to Dr. Seek. Like I said, whoever actually caught the guy and put an end to the last breach apparently didn't bother to bring him forward or tell anyone if they did.

The ludicrous "Don't panic" ones that just made people panic more? Yes. They're the reason I eventually started a welcoming and information sharing company so that we could have something more substantial and effective.

I'd agree, although - it doesn't mean these cities always had these names, especially considering what you've pointed out.

Since we don't have any reference to when these were recorded? Any place, Fayren included, may have looked different hundreds, or even thousands of years ago.

As illuminating as these videos are, there just isn't enough information to draw a concrete conclusion about our situation.

On that note. What other archeological finds have been uncovered here?

Anything which would give us further clues to what any of these cities were like in the past?

He's tied into my emotions. As long as I don't have a panic attack or breakdown or anything too emotional, he won't do anything I don't want him to. Using my summons for mundane things like this helps me learn to maintain them in more stressful situations.

[ You keep telling yourself that Weiss. We've all seen you use glyphs to slam the door in Whitley's face.

Which is probably one of the reasons she's trying to focus on being positive here. She doesn't want to lose control and hurt someone. ]

It's not a bad time, Jaune I just couldn't- [ She holds the white board up. ] I'm sure there's a post-it for it somewhere in the house, but I forgot to write it on my board.

The recordings don't exactly show there being much of a city left at the end of them. I doubt they're the same cities. It might be the same area but it's honestly hard to tell.

You may want to speak to the GSRF members specifically. I only gathered what I needed to share these right now, and I've been having some health issues lately that have been messing with my memory. It's getting better but I can't remember what else they're working on right now.

I don't think we've found much on the past though. Most of what they work on at the GSRF is scientific testing of currently available materials. It wouldn't hurt to check with Scribes and Scripts if they found anything either.

Okay. Wow. That is a whole lot to take in. I'm actually pretty glad I waited to find out about this shit. (Names totally make sense. thnx.)

Do the barriers go down often? It sounds like this has happened more than once around here. Is that something I should be watching for?

So the people who lose their emotions that you mentioned. Do they end up being able to feel again? Or do they just keep on being like an empty husk? Because that's really freakin' freaky/

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