open | an alenroux press release

[sterngaze]

[A couple weeks after the conclusion of the Exalt Oracle trial, a communion message goes out to all Kenos’s shard-bearers — at a brisk mid-morning hour for Springstar residents, and evening for those night owls in Highstorm. Surely an agreeable enough time for all, yes? The voice will be familiar enough to anyone who listened in on the ambassador talk a Kenos month ago; it’s Liem, mayor of Alenroux Meridian’s resident straight man.]

Greetings, everyone. I have some updates to share regarding efforts to make Alenroux fully and safely inhabitable, which I hope you will be pleased to hear.

Last month, prior to the events surrounding the Oracle, a contingent of Springstar military overseen by several shard-bearers launched a multi-pronged expedition north into Alenroux’s forests, in order to locate the source of the monsters that continue to infest the woods. While I’m sure those of you who frequent Alenroux will have noticed that the flow of especially dangerous, augmented creatures mostly died off after the dismantling of Aetós’s underground facility, we have not been able to expunge the general monster population from the forest despite ongoing efforts, so this was an attempt to remedy that.

These expeditionary forces succeeded in locating three separate cornerstones and portals that were previously disgorging monsters. At this time we think it likely that they were connected to the timestream in some way that allowed creatures from other worlds to come through, but the portals themselves proved extremely hazardous to life attempting to breach from this side. All three have now been destroyed, and while we cannot say with certainty that there are no further portals out there, we are optimistic that this will allow the danger to those living in Alenroux to be further reduced by the joint forces still stationed there.

If you have further questions, you may direct them to me, or to Hayame, Akua Sahelian, Keitaro Miura, Gray, Byleth Eisner, Link, Kim Dokja, or Dee. [He means D.]

Comments

[wolfish]

It would be better to bring a book to you, wouldn't it? Often there are diagrams involved, and not everyone's at the same place in their knowledge.

[warmare]

Do you think I have time to read when I ought to be patrolling or training the Legionary's archers?

[wolfish]

...So you have time for me to read to you instead?

[ Is he getting that right? ]

[warmare]

No, I have time for you to summarize.

[She only listens to Liem read The Order of Numbers, because... she'd needed something to tie them together, before he had called her a friend.

... But she supposes she will not be listening to that anymore.]

[wolfish]

You can't summarize medical procedures.

[ Hayame what if someone tried to mend your boo-boos based only on summarized methods??? ]

[warmare]

Here I thought you'd look for more than just medical procedures.

[... though she feels like summaries should still be enough, come on]

[wolfish]

If it were, say, about our circumstances here, of course I'd share with the class. No exciting tidbits there just yet.

[ Give him a little credit, Hayame. ]

But do you really want to hear about innovations in long-distance communications? Email? I've been reading up on dragons, but Cid's more knowledgeable about them than I am.

[warmare]

[What, she's just checking!!!]

No, I do not want to.

Call me if you find something useful about this place or how to get back to our own worlds.

[wolfish]

[ So that does interest her. He'll note it. ]

You'll be on my list of people to alert.