[network] @joacin; video/audio/text; poof [day 164]

[haillenarte]

[@joacin's voice is calm, husky, and professional.]

I would like to announce that the rubble in the museum has been cleared. There is now a viable path to the other side.

[there is an accompanying video:

the camera focuses on haurchefant — who else? — doing some heavy lifting, shouldering a large block of concrete from the pile and pushing it to one side. he isn't wearing a shirt, and even in the dim lighting of the museum, his muscles glisten with an alluring mist of moisture. haurchefant grunts. he doesn't seem entirely aware he's being filmed.

the camera then pans over to aymeric, who is just as topless and well-built as the first elezen, though considerably more tan, and less sweaty. he pauses in his work to sigh and roll his shoulders, running one hand through his dark and attractively disheveled hair. the camera keeps moving. house and merlwyb come into frame, but even though merlwyb has stripped down to a fairly revealing cotton bodice, the video doesn't linger on her. instead, it moves toward the last of the ishgardian knights, estinien, who has just finished removing the last of his armor; his back muscles flex while he pulls his luxurious silver locks into a ponytail — and just as he turns around, the video ends.]

Thank you for your patience regarding this matter.



[...unsurprisingly, five minutes later, @joacin posts another message to the network.]

apolgies
my apologies
please do not watch the preceding clip, here is the correct video
i am deeply sorry please frgvie me goodbye

[the second accompanying video is much shorter, and simply features the rubble pile collapsing in a cloud of dust, metal, wood, and glass while a startled hange yelps and moves out of the way. when the dust settles, there's a clear path to the other side! how nice!

...no shirtless elves in sight!]

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brief video/text @Enoch

[warriorscribe]

[...At least something good happened in all this mess. Enoch forces a smile that won't come naturally in the wake of the obituaries, thinks better of it, and switches to text.]

Well done! I was thinking of coming to help, but I suppose I'll explore in your wake instead. Do you have food? I can bring some with me.

@joacin; text

[haillenarte]

[what an interesting-looking fellow. francel is a bit bemused by the fact that enoch bothered to send a video just to show a smile, but it seems like a nice enough gesture, so his reply is a bit more cheerful than it would ordinarily be.]

We would appreciate any supplies you can bring!
Some of our companions are bringing food already,
but they also mean to linger in the tunnels for a time,
and I am unsure how long our supplies will last.
Presently, there are seven in our party,
and despite our best efforts, our food stores do not last long.

[warriorscribe]

[If he felt he would have been able to keep smiling he might have kept it on video.

But he can't right now.]

Then I will bring what I am able. I'd imagine your companions need quite a lot of food, especially after all the work they've done.

[Haurchefant in particular he knows has been here for a long time, and his build doesn't seem to have changed terribly much - he knows how much he needs to eat, himself, and his own muscle is now much more lean than the bulk closer to Haurchefant's it used to be. If that's any indication of how much they need...]