kaisou | video; un: snowy

Entry tags:

video; un: snowy

WHO: Phainon and everyone
WHERE: Libra, mostly
WHEN: End of the month!
WHAT: Prophecy post!
WARNINGS: will update if necessary

[The feed opens to a certain good boy- Phainon is sitting on a couch with Snowy, his white Samoyed, partway in his lap. The dog seems to be worried for the man, who himself has a fluffy white tail that is hanging and only wagging every so often, with white ears that drop onto his hair. It frames his entire mood without saying anything at all.

When he speaks, his voice is a little more serious than he usually carries it.]

I'm told that usually the prophecy posts are done around this time, so I've got a few from different people here. [A beat, and he frowns, his tail stilling.] I'll be honest, from what I've seen so far? It doesn't look great.

[Snowy whines, and Phainon pets his head, the man exhaling as he starts.]

Usually my prophecy is from my shadow- and this time, it turned into a broken sword. I've seen those before, in my past life; felt them, too. [He figures he doesn't need to elaborate, since the words themselves should be a good idea of the image he saw.] I have Bailey's, they told me theirs was the Hanged Man- but it kept switching between being upright and reversed. They said that... "Upright, it means uncertainty, sacrifice, waiting, lack of direction, perspective, and contemplation. Reversed, it means stalling, disinterest, apathy, stagnation, and avoiding sacrifice." [A beat, and Phainon scratches the back of his head.] Nito said his sounded like an actual roar, too.

[A huff, and his tail briefly sways, Snowy chuffing in his laugh.] Whatever is coming, I think it'd be better to be careful, you know? None of this sounds good.

[And he'd rather people be safe than sorry.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Pythia usually comes in at this time with a cryptic couplet or at least a poem, but there's... nothing from them. Only silence remains.]

[...Hm. Where's that weird cat... usually he's very prompt even when he wasn't feeling well...

Takame will just DM them right quick.]

Have you seen aught amiss in your visions? If you wish, I can relay the information.

[If there's no response for a while, he'll follow up.]

Are you alright?

[Strange. There's no response from Harumasa. However, he did say he's under the weather this month, so perhaps he's just resting or fell asleep?]

[Takame's been paying the Fortress more visits to see Maxima while he's been sad. He knew Harumasa was not in good health right now.

But he still had a bad feeling about this.

He did not know the young man well enough to pry, though...]

Hmm...

[The fact that things as out of the ordinary as cards not staying consistent is alarming. Honestly there was much about this that Takame disliked. Usually he texted what he saw but this time you can see the intensity in his eyes.]

I've heard many a dragon's roar in my time. 'Tis rare that what follows is something pleasant. It may stem from sorrow or rage or pain... but I cannot say for certain.

My apologies for such a dire view on matters we cannot confirm. But I ask that we be careful in the coming weeks.

I've spent the last few days stuck watching fuckin' hospital dramas. Not because I wanted to, but because every fuckin' time I tried to watch anything, it turned to that. Didn't matter what channel I switched to - I couldn't even watch fuckin' youtube without it turning into a "top ten saddest Grey's Anatomy moments" video.

So. Got something to do with hospitals would be my guess. I'd be real glad if it can fuckin' stop now because if I have to watch another episode of St Elsewhere, I'm gonna kick something.

Do I wanna know how bad St. Elsewhere is, Mr. Husk?

[Okay, maybe he's laughing just a little at this.]

[He will kick your entire ass!! ]

It's complete bullshit. You know, maybe it could have saved itself, but the ending is one of those things that retroactively wrecks the entire damn thing. It's so fuckin' stupid.

Oh, I've heard about other shows like that!! Where it's a good story, but the ending ruins everything about it, right? That sounds really annoying.

But you've basically been stuck with those every time, huh? I think even I'd lose my patience after a while.

Yeah. This was one of those fuckin' "it was all a dream" kinda things. Except even stupider - because it was all invented by a kid and the hospital was in his snow globe? Absolute bullshit.

Yeah! It was goddamn pastry week in the baking show and I was getting ready to see British people lose their shit over not being able to make pie. Instead, I had to watch Zach Braff do an inner monologue about ... shit, I don't know, hope or whatever.

Is that so, Sir Agapov? I have been detecting scents that are reminiscent of hospitals, myself. So it was not my imagination.

That must be...terribly depressing to have on marathon. My condolences.

Jesus Christ Sir Agapov? I ain't that fancy, fuck me.

Anyway, yeah if you've got those kindsa smells being picked up on it's looking real likely that there's a hospital in play. Which, given it's Kaisou, is probably some sort of horror murder hospital or something.

I just wanna watch literally anything else. For like. Fifteen minutes. I don't think it's asking much.

..Mr. Agapov, then? Or would you prefer Husk?

[But his conclusion is along the lines of what he was thinking, but didn't want to voice.]

My scents operate much like perfumes or candles, with top notes, heart notes, and base notes. The top notes dissipate in about five to ten minutes, while the base notes linger on longer. I've taken this to mean that the top are the more superficial scents, and the base are the hidden truths.

One of the base notes was metal. This could simply be as it says on the tin, but...I have known the scent of blood to smell like iron.

It's a foreboding sign, if any. I only hope I'm reading too much into it.

Just Husk is fine. Don't need to stand on ceremony for me.

[Why do people gotta be so fancy with him?

The scent stuff is absolutely lost on him. Notes? Scent has notes? ]

...So, what? Like that fancy thing people say about wine sometimes?

[ Look, he's a bartender too - he can handle bartender talk. People do that when they just. Swill the wine around in their mouths instead of drinking it. A much more upscale market than Husk is ever used to, but still. He's heard it! ]

Blood smells would be foreboding as shit, combined with all the hospital stuff too. Ain't painting a pretty picture, is it? And better to be too ready than not ready enough in my opinion. Prepare for the goddamn worst and if it turns out not that... well, better than being caught the other way around.

Hm.

[Flins' fingers go to his lips in thought.]

Despite their purpose to save human lives, getting repeated premonitions of them is rather foreboding. Ideally, never seeing a hospital is the best outcome.

[He's stating the obvious, but its more just he needs to voice his thought process.]

How did those episodes end, Husk?

Yeah, especially when we start getting them at this time of the month. Usually a sign for what's coming, and if a lotta us have the same sorta thing? Makes it even more likely. So no. Not looking forward to whatever the hospital means.

[Uggggggggggggggh. ]

It was the final one. They pulled an "it was all a dream" bullshit and it was like... the fuck was the point of anything we just watched?

I'm still not sure the cards aren't haunted this month.

[They fiddle with one of their tarot decks as they shuffle and reshuffle. It's clearly so they can have something to do with their hands out of nervousness.]

At first, I thought it was one of my Pokemon playing around with the cards, but...

Edited 2026-01-25 22:19 (UTC)

Deck's haunted!

[He was there. He's just saying.]

The deck is haunted.

[He's just copying Lyney--but no seriously.]

I am not too well versed in tarot, but I can assume cards moving on their own is not the norm.

[Lycaon never expected that he would be getting these sorts of premonintions, let alone in scent form. It's far too layered to be a normal scent, and there's a story behind it despite him never opening the book, to put it metaphorically.

Lycaon is looking at a post-it note with his very neat cursive handwriting, going over what he's classified this prophecy to be.]

It is not only sounds, but scents that have been foretelling.

Top Notes: Peppermint, Frost.
Heart Notes: Plastic. Ammonia.
Base Notes: Peroxide. Antiseptic. Metal.

If I had to associate it with anything, it would be a hospital. The disinfectants there are very close to what I'm picking up.

However, there's something a bit more sinister when the metal is added in. It's not a typical scent.

I don't want to jump to conclusions, but a metallic smell may not always be iron.

Edited 2026-01-25 22:16 (UTC)

[Elsewhere, Viktor looked at his phone and then quietly turned it off without comment.]

[He was probably just feeling run down from the exertion and change in weather, or so he told himself. Besides, it was the height of arrogance to assume any part of a prophecy was going to involve him.]

[Hmm... Most of those scents could be found in normal conditions, even if all but the top notes make her nervous. Yet combined with the other fortunes...]

[Softly]

...I don't like this.

ARE YOU A DOG GUY TOO?

[HERMES???]

[They just had to get that out, sorry everyone. Anyway-]

its probably not that bad if no ones getting death tho right?? thats the bad tarot card?

Not necessarily. Death in terms of tarot isn't really... actual death. It actually has to do with either change or resisting or fearing it.

The Tower tends to be bad news though.

o rly? i guess that makes sense? in a real freaky kind of way but you didnt get that one right? nobody did?

Yeah. It doesn't help when media makes a big deal about the card just because of the name and imagery. But more often than not, it's a lot like what it represents: not as scary as it seems.

... I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the other tarot reader did.

thats what persephone says about death too idk if its because shes died like a hundred times tho cause i still kinda think its scary lol ... nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo??? oooooooooohmygod is bad stuff just are we CURSED???

[YES HI HELLO HE SAW THE WORD "DOG," BOTH EARS PERK UP AND HIS TAIL STARTS WAGGING LIKE CRAZY.]

Yeah, I am!! This is Snowy- [The Samoyed picks his head up and presses against Phainon's chest, sounding an "ar-rrrrrrh-rrrrrrh-rrrrhg" in protest of his owner saying his name so quickly.] And he found me when I woke up last year. He might've even tackled me to the ground when he first saw me.

[That is the BEST thing. Almost as cool as the little butler robots. How have they never met this guy before?]

[They swap over to video though - text is their default, but even they can figure out it's hard to type with your hands full of pupper.]

He's so cute! Hey, Snowy! I'm Hermes!

And uh - hi Snowy's person!

[August has his head in one hand, holding up the Tower, Upright.]

I hate this card. I hate this card so much.

Fuuuuuuuuuuck, dude.

I know it's a bad card, one of the worst to get. But isn't it even worse if it's upside-down, too?

No card is strictly bad, just bad news. But yeah, worse news if it's reversed.

This month, I've written down a quote from the memoir of Pat Conroy, The Death of Santini:

"I’ve never attended a family reunion where I was not warned of a Venus flytrap holding court among the older women, or a pitcher plant glistening with drops of sweet poison trying to sell his version of the family maelstrom to his young male cousins."

Whether you're being warned to avoid family reunions or carnivorous plants is up to your interpretation.

i dont think im in danger of any family reunions and im surrounded by plants so now im suddenly vry nervous LOL

im gonna make sure there arent any new plants growing in the garden ...

Edited 2026-01-25 23:05 (UTC)

A wise precaution, in this place. Do let us know if you find anything alarming.

im deffo gonna go check right now
if i find anything u will b the 1st to know

ill take some photos

...

its a pretty big garden tho itll be a sec lol

Your warning is noted, Phainon. It sounds like the fates have something in store for us.

While it's not necessarily a prophecy, the seas have 'moods' as well. They have been quite still this month, but I'll be sure to note for any differences if they decide to become more turbulent.

[He pauses, his gaze turning out to the sea. It's clear he's at the top of the lighthouse on his shift.]

You are grown up now, but I will say it either way: take care of yourself.

Wait - So you're all saying divination is real? You believe this?

[He barely finishes that last word before he hears himself. There is a heavy, heavy sigh.]

Never mind, I take that back.

So - something bad is on the horizon, that's what I'm hearing. No one has any idea how to prepare for it? These... cards just tell you it's coming, but not how to brace yourselves?

Obnoxious, isn't it?

[Says one of the seers.]

Every month, I go into a trance, pick up a random book from somewhere, and write down something off the first page I open it to. And every month, what I wrote down turns out to be relevant to something about to happen. It's positively absurd, but collecting all the signs and symbols from everyone with these sort of abilities can occasionally provide a few useful hints as to what's in motion around us.

So the only way to figure it out is to piece together a bunch of seemingly random information from... cards, books, smells and -

[Hold on, he's scanning the post.]

Vids.

What are our leads so far? Someone angling to hit a hospital in town?

It's in my sinuses.

[ lingering, aching. cold. sometimes the Echo gives him a headache but it clears up after the static, after the movie, after everything plays out

but this just. stays. the center of his face is a nexus of discomfort. he's got his phone screen on low light and is laying in his room, burrowed under blankets. ]

It's cold and antiseptics and cleaning products and the ghost of people-smell--like God's second shittiest hospital. Stale coffee and stinging amounts of clean.

At least it doesn't smell like blood?

[ he... thinks? the cold is so cloying and heavy in his face he's losing the nuance of it all ]

Not smelling like blood is a positive.

But there's definitely something deeply upsetting about having visions of a cold place with a too-clean scent to it. Like a ... laboratory.
Was it just that? Somewhere cold and uncomfortably sterile? Or were there other details?

It felt... lonely. Isolated. Like I'm alone in a hospital ward with nothing but the scent of too clean and sickly. And it's cold.

...that doesn't fill me with any good feelings.
We'll keep an eye on everyone in the next few days. A vision like that... people being in a hospital?

Hm. Well, now I feel uneasy.
Thank you for bringing this to light, Ghilley. I'll have my ears up.

Like not to say it felt like a horror video game hospital, but hospitals are this weird liminal space between kindness and austerity and

vibes were bad, man
teeth ghost doesn't like it

There's something very important to be said when it comes to the idiom of 'trust your instincts'.

I think in this case, given what other things I'm reading from this post...

I don't like it either. Your ... brain ghost is likely not paranoid for no reason.

[ scratched up cocktail napkins litter the surface in front of Wolfwood--rows and rows of chairs; some lined up neat, some tipped and scattered and broken down, some pinned together like a makeshift pew. a detailed sketch of a chair. a shitty three line collection of the symbol for chairs.

chairs, chairs, chairs, chairs, chairs. ]

So many places to sit, but ain't nobody at the function. Empty chairs all the way down. Unsure about what the status of the tables is.

...

That seems lonely.
If there's a function there should be more people.

That's a pretty sad one, Nick.

[Semmelweis’ face comes into view as it looks like she has propped up her phone against something. The room she is in is very bare except for a cork board behind her.]

Okay I think I am doing this right. I am unsure if this means anything, your moon could just be strange and triggering my usual hallucinations. However when I look up at the moon tonight I got some flashes, I seen some visions of meeting up with someone whom I don’t particularly like thinking about. Which was weird, then the visions got shall we say bloody which is normal. So it could be your moon triggering my hallucinations or it may be something else hinting at what is to come.

Edited 2026-01-26 19:37 (UTC)

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

video; un: snowy

Not Here?

private!

private forever!

forever and ever......

un: kesitakame

video: un: bar_cat75

voice; un: snowy

no subject

no subject

no subject

video; un: lycaon

no subject

no subject

no subject

video; un: lightkeeper

no subject

un: shadowsword; video

video | un: lynya

video; un: lightkeeper

video: un: lycaon

not here

voice; un: eve

text; un: doordasher

un: shadowsword; text

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

video | un: blackbirdtarot

voice; un: noxxed

no subject

text; un: absolutenumber

text: un: ♡☮STAMPEDE

no subject

no subject

video; un: lightkeeper

voice; un: archangel

un: absolutenumber

no subject

text; un: DOINK!!!

text: un: theDuke

no subject

no subject

no subject

no subject

video; un: ndwolfwood

video: un: ♡☮STAMPEDE

Video; UN; Semmelweis