vestige network.

( the man in the video is (as hinted by his robes) one of the cultivators that some have had the fortune or misfortune of encountering, but he at least seems to understand how to center himself in the video and that's better than some.

those who have met wei wuxian before will see a new sort of tension to him, a stressed pinch to his brow, a determined set to his jaw even as he offers a slight grin in greeting. )

Hello, fellow prisoners. I'd say I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the chipper girl did that well enough, good work there. But yes - whatever it is that's happening to you, it really does call for blood. Speaking from, ah, firsthand experience. ( ...terrible joke, absolutely terrible.

now his grin fades to something more grim and businesslike. ) So if your arm is turning to crystal or, I don't know, wasting away or something - speak up, alright? Most of us have blood, and some of us could stand to have a bit less of it. And if you don't say something now, someone's going to have to waste more blood on you later and it's a whole big ordeal.

( says the hypocrite currently failing to disclose to anyone his own rotting hand and arm. )

Or you could die, I suppose, if that sounds more fun to anyone. ( entirely facetious, of course.

a beat and then, ) Anyway, I think I have blood to spare in a pinch. Maybe if you do too, speak up here or something so the rotting-and-crystallizing lot know where to find you.

( that seems the be the area of most need - at least the people with headaches (or whatever that drawing is meant to indicate) can bleed themselves for relief. )



( for the record, this post is also carefully filtered away from jiang cheng because let's not have that fiasco again. )

cw: blood, event related body horror

[Fran waves at the camera happily, looking excited. A part of her upper arm is wrapped tightly in a neon strip of t-shirt she'd torn from her last gas station haul, though the rot has crept down below where the bandages end.]

Everyone, I think I may have solved it. It's in this book. [And she holds up the book, open to the pages with the illustrations in question.] Does everyone have this?

You see, everyone looks so upset at their limbs being eaten away by whatever it is. But then they put red on it and they're happy and whole again.

Friends, I think the red might be blood! I think we need to get blood on the parts of us that are rotting. Or simply shattering, in some cases.