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Daenerys Targaryen ([personal profile] dorzalta) wrote in [community profile] asgardgenesis2019-07-22 04:58 pm

[VIDEO] backdated, shortly after NPC post

» WHO: All
» WHEN: The morning following Tyr and Laufey's announcement on 7/17
» TYPE: Live broadcast


[ It takes some tinkering and awkwardness at first, along with a series of huffs and grumbles you thankfully miss... but when the feed does appear, enjoy a perplexed Daenerys looking at the screen (as well as a reflection of herself, Jon, and Robb). They are wearing modern clothes: button-down shirts for the men, a blazer for Robb, and a royal blue halter-like dress for Dany. ]

Well met, Wanderers. [ … she is speaking to you all, she hopes. ] My name is Daenerys Targaryen. This is Jon Snow and Robb Stark.

[ The feed will jerk as she attempts to angle the screen to both men, respectively. It's not at all elegant, and is, in fact, an eyesore to watch. Which is why seconds later she gives up on it and leaves the strange screen in place in front of her. (Robb gets up as if to try and help her, but his attempts are just as bad as hers. Eventually, he gives it up as a bad job too. Jon, who had inclined his head when Daenerys attempted to introduce him, merely watches now with a skeptical expression: it's going to take a while for them all to get the hang of this.) ]

In our world, war is commonplace. We have armies and generals, as well as a means to communicate when there is an attack on a city or castle. Here, that doesn't seem to be the case. [ Which is strange to her. For all her wariness of these self-proclaimed gods, the smallfolk of Asgard appear to be happy. ] It's why we've approached the gods about a means of gathering. The chaos which followed the dragon's appearance makes us believe that a type of war council is necessary for this realm.

[As Jon begins to speak, he seems a little bit uneasy, slightly awkward, but as his words spin out and gather momentum, he becomes visibly more comfortable with the idea of addressing everyone. It doesn't come as naturally to him as it seems to come to Daenerys.]

When the people of a realm don't work together to face a threat, the end is calamity -- death and hunger and suffering, for those who fought and for those who could not fight. When we know what our strengths are, we know how best to defend against what may come. And when we know what to do, we can be ready to do it, even when we face something that seems impossible to overcome. This is our realm now, all of us. Today, we can put our strengths together. We can begin to make those plans. Maybe we won't ever need them, it's true, but if we do, we won't be caught unawares again.

I know that you may not know us. Each of us has been a king or a queen; not one of us was born with that title. None of us means to try to rule anyone else here, none of us expects to be the loudest voice on any council, but we all have experience with planning for war, and with several kinds of threat.

Daenerys rides a dragon at home, and has taken cities in the East and freed thousands upon thousands of slaves there. I have been Lord Commander of the Night's Watch and King in the North: I've spent long years scouting and defending and preparing for great attacks on my homeland, fighting Wildlings first, and then making an alliance with them to fight the Army of the Dead. My brother Robb was King in the North before me; he was a successful general several times over in campaigns in the southron lands. He knows tactics, battle strategy, better than almost anyone you'll ever meet.

We have all fought for the lives and safety and freedom of our fellow men. We want to continue to do that here and now. We want you to join us, if you will.


[ Jon looks over at Robb, and Robb picks the thread up: ] Understand, we are not asking to go to war. This council is only meant to make certain that we are not caught so off our guard as we were when the dragon attacked. In order to do that, we’re going to organize the council into different groups: preparations, battle and response. We Wanderers come from different worlds, and in times of crisis our different strengths come out. We need to combine our strengths and work together if we are to effectively respond to whatever threats may come next.



( OOC #1: if you want to address a specific cast member, please indicate that in the subject of your comment--otherwise we’ll read it as fair game for any of us to attack C:

OOC #2: We made a spiffy ooc post detailing the war council, as well as sign ups for it. Check it out HERE. )
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[personal profile] needsnoheadsman 2019-07-30 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
[hi notmom]

Jon is my brother. [At least he thinks so.] You and Daenerys have met, then?
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[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2019-07-30 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, not long after coming to this place.

[It's a relief to find out Jon and Robb are related, though. This poor boy's always been so troubled when she's come across him.]

I had no idea you were such a seasoned general.

[And so young. The general part isn't surprising. It's the successful part of it.]
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[personal profile] needsnoheadsman 2019-07-30 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
My father taught me a few things about battle, before he died. I learned more after I went to war.

[And more after he died.]

I didn't think it needed to be mentioned. The war I fought in was back in Westeros, I saw no need to bring it up here.
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[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2019-07-30 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
It could have come up when we were handling those banners, but to be fair I didn't ask, did I?

[He's a curious young man, but she doesn't want to barge into things that aren't her business.

Usually.]
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[personal profile] needsnoheadsman 2019-07-30 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
To be fair to you, it wasn't something I wanted to talk about that time. [He'd called them his bannermen's banners, certainly, and he'd felt responsible for at least keeping them safe, but he hadn't told her he had been a general, had led an army to victory and defeat and death.]

But if you asked, I would've told you. If you wish to ask for any more detail now, I will tell you.
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[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2019-07-30 05:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Is that a position you wanted? Do you want something similar again?

[It's what he's setting himself up for.]
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[personal profile] needsnoheadsman 2019-08-03 03:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn’t ask to be king, and I wouldn’t want to be again. This council isn’t meant to put any of us over all of the Wanderers, and if someone gave me the opportunity to lead an army again, I wouldn’t take it.

[He is so tired of kingship. All he set out to do as king, he failed at.]
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[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2019-08-03 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
[She's glad to hear his thoughts on the matter, even if it might not be so simple if this gets off the ground.]

All right, Robb. That's all I wanted to know.