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carrionmywaywardsunI am NOT writing a whole-ass heist scene for this memory so you're just getting a summary and highlights.
'Red Crow' and a very well-dressed androgynous individual ('Star') rob the wedding of what appears to be some incredibly wealthy and powerful individuals. Some very special objects have been pulled out of a vault for the occasion and those objects are the target of their heist. Along the way, they meet an aggressively nondescript woman ('River of Glass') who is also there to rob the wedding. As it turns out, they all want different things from the fancy vault objects, so they cautiously agree to work together, to great success.
Viewing this memory is pretty much like watching a wuxia heist film. Over the course of their preparations and the day-long wedding ceremony, there's plenty of acrobatic, superpowered action as the trio sneak, charm, and fight their way through the wedding party's entourages, before making a clean getaway with the goods, leaving their pursuers and the wedding party discombobulated and humiliated. Also with perhaps more corpses than you'd normally expect from a heist, but it's fine, don't worry about it.
Afterwards, 'Red Crow' and 'Star' part ways with 'River of Glass,' and have a slightly disturbing exchange as they hit the road, where it becomes clear that they remember no details about River of Glass, only vaguely remembering working with a third person at all.
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Some additional details:
'Red Crow' is Sparrow's evil twin. He looks exactly like Sparrow, but has red streaks in his hair, red eyes, and a sallow, sickly complexion. His clothing is extremely goth, right down to wearing hanfu wrapped the wrong way around as if for a corpse. He is the designated sneaking around doing spooky shit in the shadows guy. Cool shit he does during this memory include:
- moving with completely and utter silence between pools of shadow as he sneaks around somewhere at night
- dropping from a high ceiling onto a guard and breaking their neck with his thighs
- pulling a pair of long black knives out of his shadow and throwing one across a room into someone's eye
- stabbing a knife into someone's shadow and then melting into that shadow and controlling that person's movements as part of their shadow
'Star' (short for Eleventh Star Rising) is a very pale, androgynous-looking individual with ink-black hair and eyes. They are VERY well-dressed and well-mannered but clearly have a frothing hatred for 'Dynasts,' whatever that means. The wedding is between two Dynasts so they are very into the idea of messing it up and humiliating all parties involved through the heist. They are the designated social charmer grifter person and they are VERY good at it. Cool shit that they do in this memory includes:
- having inch-long golden nails that grow into fucking talons that they use to rip a guy's throat out
- simply chatting to a group of people and somehow sowing discord amongst them when previously they had seemed to be getting along just fine, to the thieves' benefit
- transforming into a demonic-looking-yet-still-kinda-hot form that allows them to walk through walls
- inflict inexplicable levels of bad luck on someone attempting to pursue the party as they make their getaway
'River of Glass' is a very nondescript young-looking woman with short wavy white hair and yellow eyes. She seems mysterious, knowledgeable, and wry, and is the muscle of the group. As noted above, once she leaves their presence for good, 'Red Crow' and 'Star' seem to completely forget all details of her existence. Mysterious! Cool shit that she does in this memory includes:
- absolutely destroying a group of heavily armed guards while completely unarmed and unarmored (notably does not kill anyone though some are not in great shape once she's through with them)
- running upwards on empty air with uncanny and inhuman grace
- hitting a column with her palm, causing it to suddenly age until it crumbles to dust (and thereby causing the pavilion it was supporting to also collapse)
- suddenly appearing in a room where she DEFINITELY was not before when you were QUITE CERTAIN that she was somewhere far away
The wedding is between a member of 'House Ragara' and a member of 'House Cynis' which apparently means the whole ceremony is a HUGE FUCKING DEAL. Everything is DRIPPING in wealth and power and status. Everyone is dressed to the nines, there are guards in the respective house colors EVERYWHERE. A very few Very Important Guests appear to be elementally flavored in some way, with elemental physical traits and superhuman powers. There is definitely a fight scene with some of them and it is very cool.
The empire that the Dynasts belong to is partly based on Song Dynasty China, so 'fantasy ancient China' is your guide to the visuals of the wedding party's clothing, armor, weaponry, etc.
'Red Crow' and 'Star' have a flirty, if violent vibe. They seem to work well together but not necessarily trust each other. If they're not already sleeping with each other, they want to be. Both of them act distrustful of 'River of Glass' but over the course of the heist seem to warm up to her as she proves herself to be a skilled and reliable companion. 'River of Glass' seems to take their distrust and violent flirting with each other with good humor.
('Star' is an Infernal, Penumbra caste, and 'River of Glass' is a Sidereal, Chosen of Journeys, though she introduces herself simply as an agent of Heaven.)
'Red Crow' and a very well-dressed androgynous individual ('Star') rob the wedding of what appears to be some incredibly wealthy and powerful individuals. Some very special objects have been pulled out of a vault for the occasion and those objects are the target of their heist. Along the way, they meet an aggressively nondescript woman ('River of Glass') who is also there to rob the wedding. As it turns out, they all want different things from the fancy vault objects, so they cautiously agree to work together, to great success.
Viewing this memory is pretty much like watching a wuxia heist film. Over the course of their preparations and the day-long wedding ceremony, there's plenty of acrobatic, superpowered action as the trio sneak, charm, and fight their way through the wedding party's entourages, before making a clean getaway with the goods, leaving their pursuers and the wedding party discombobulated and humiliated. Also with perhaps more corpses than you'd normally expect from a heist, but it's fine, don't worry about it.
Afterwards, 'Red Crow' and 'Star' part ways with 'River of Glass,' and have a slightly disturbing exchange as they hit the road, where it becomes clear that they remember no details about River of Glass, only vaguely remembering working with a third person at all.
~~~
Some additional details:
'Red Crow' is Sparrow's evil twin. He looks exactly like Sparrow, but has red streaks in his hair, red eyes, and a sallow, sickly complexion. His clothing is extremely goth, right down to wearing hanfu wrapped the wrong way around as if for a corpse. He is the designated sneaking around doing spooky shit in the shadows guy. Cool shit he does during this memory include:
- moving with completely and utter silence between pools of shadow as he sneaks around somewhere at night
- dropping from a high ceiling onto a guard and breaking their neck with his thighs
- pulling a pair of long black knives out of his shadow and throwing one across a room into someone's eye
- stabbing a knife into someone's shadow and then melting into that shadow and controlling that person's movements as part of their shadow
'Star' (short for Eleventh Star Rising) is a very pale, androgynous-looking individual with ink-black hair and eyes. They are VERY well-dressed and well-mannered but clearly have a frothing hatred for 'Dynasts,' whatever that means. The wedding is between two Dynasts so they are very into the idea of messing it up and humiliating all parties involved through the heist. They are the designated social charmer grifter person and they are VERY good at it. Cool shit that they do in this memory includes:
- having inch-long golden nails that grow into fucking talons that they use to rip a guy's throat out
- simply chatting to a group of people and somehow sowing discord amongst them when previously they had seemed to be getting along just fine, to the thieves' benefit
- transforming into a demonic-looking-yet-still-kinda-hot form that allows them to walk through walls
- inflict inexplicable levels of bad luck on someone attempting to pursue the party as they make their getaway
'River of Glass' is a very nondescript young-looking woman with short wavy white hair and yellow eyes. She seems mysterious, knowledgeable, and wry, and is the muscle of the group. As noted above, once she leaves their presence for good, 'Red Crow' and 'Star' seem to completely forget all details of her existence. Mysterious! Cool shit that she does in this memory includes:
- absolutely destroying a group of heavily armed guards while completely unarmed and unarmored (notably does not kill anyone though some are not in great shape once she's through with them)
- running upwards on empty air with uncanny and inhuman grace
- hitting a column with her palm, causing it to suddenly age until it crumbles to dust (and thereby causing the pavilion it was supporting to also collapse)
- suddenly appearing in a room where she DEFINITELY was not before when you were QUITE CERTAIN that she was somewhere far away
The wedding is between a member of 'House Ragara' and a member of 'House Cynis' which apparently means the whole ceremony is a HUGE FUCKING DEAL. Everything is DRIPPING in wealth and power and status. Everyone is dressed to the nines, there are guards in the respective house colors EVERYWHERE. A very few Very Important Guests appear to be elementally flavored in some way, with elemental physical traits and superhuman powers. There is definitely a fight scene with some of them and it is very cool.
The empire that the Dynasts belong to is partly based on Song Dynasty China, so 'fantasy ancient China' is your guide to the visuals of the wedding party's clothing, armor, weaponry, etc.
'Red Crow' and 'Star' have a flirty, if violent vibe. They seem to work well together but not necessarily trust each other. If they're not already sleeping with each other, they want to be. Both of them act distrustful of 'River of Glass' but over the course of the heist seem to warm up to her as she proves herself to be a skilled and reliable companion. 'River of Glass' seems to take their distrust and violent flirting with each other with good humor.
('Star' is an Infernal, Penumbra caste, and 'River of Glass' is a Sidereal, Chosen of Journeys, though she introduces herself simply as an agent of Heaven.)
