kaisou | [video]

WHO: August, with guest appearance by Caesar
WHERE: The app
WHEN: Evening on September 20th
WHAT: Prophecy Power Hour
WARNINGS: There is going to be a lot of swears. Oops

[August starts the video and he looks...very much not okay? He looks exhausted and stressed. A hand belonging to Caesar slides a mug of tea and a muffin into the screen. August sighs, takes a sip of the tea, and looks at the camera.

(He's going to be drinking that tea the entire time he's talking.)]

Okay. So. We're getting the visions and shit. Buckle up.

[He pulls out the list.]

Fog. Lots of fog. A log cabin? Sugar skulls and....Spirit Halloween, which those make sense, October's coming up so we'd get Halloween stuff and since la Día de los Muertos is first of November, some overlap makes sense. Uh, Caesar, what was your vision again? The song?

Yes, it was...

[Caesar, still mostly off screen because August is too exhausted to turn the camera, starts to sing. August waits for him to finish.]

The Spanish is all about remembering and so long as you remember the singer, they won't be away from you. All in all, pretty standard what you'd expect for, yanno, October, even if some of it doesn't make sense. And then there's this bitch.

[He holds up his tarot card: Tower, Upright]

I hate this fucking card. This fucking card, the fucking Tower, never means anything but chaos. Sometimes it's good! Given our luck, I don't think it is! It's change, unavoidable change, a massive fucking upheaval and I also keep getting this fucker.

[He brings up Death, also Upright. Caesar refills the tea, because August needs it.]

...and yeah, okay, it might be the literal death this time since it's October. And I only did a couple of readings where this one showed up. But I'm not taking a single goddamn chance, so I'm mentioning it here. Death upright usually means change and the end of a cycle, normally it's a good card to see, or at least neutral. But combined with the goddamn fucking Tower...

[August sighs and his familiars come over to start preening.]

Oh, and the Goodwill sent me a package with this. [He holds up a small vial of very pretty pink juice. It should be familiar to anyone who raided Zodiac's Palace in April.] Someone wanna tell me how the creepy Goodwill got immortal peach juice? Anyone in the Black Order wanna dispose of this shit for me? I need a nap.

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[You know what, Varian will spare some time to be freaked out about the impending doom later, the last thing is more important!!]

What? NO WAY! That stuff is all supposed to be gone!!!

you have got to be kidding me

not even about anything specific, this is across the board fucked

It sure the fuck was. I don't know what portal to hell that Goodwill has, but fuck it.

I'm taking a break off Academy work for a week

understandable, frankly

we should probably double check those wards are all in place for when things inevitably go straight to shit

yeah good idea.

fuck

things were going too well for too long

false sense of security and all that

yeah

also I'm thinking about making some part of the academy like

a safe house

place to go when shit is real

something like that

solid idea

haven't checked if we have a basement by any chance but we can find some space for that if we don't

we can pay someone to make one or something

Do you think if I grilled the guy about it he'd give me an answer or do you think he'd just talk about stars like he always does?

Probably stars. That guy is more obsessed with them than astrologists.

Well... that's all certainly worrying. But considering the time of year we're coming upon...

[Which reminds him]

I wonder if normal people will be able to perceive things like previous years.