[EVENT] Phase II reunions!

[zenderael_mods]

Who: OPEN!
When: Week 32
Where: Bastan/Fall City/Underwood
Before/After: After the Phase II merge
Warnings: TBA

[Suddenly we have almost the entire cast of the game in the same place at the same time! What does that mean? REUNION THREADS!]

[Here is an open post for all your threading needs! This should make it easier to have mingling threads, open threads, random encounters, multiple participants, etc etc etc]

[Basically any characters you'd like to have meeting up in the new, merged Bastan may do so here. Stick a time in your subjectline and if you're doing it on a day other than Sunday (this post is good for all of week 32), add a date tag for it. Go wild!]

Comments

[firecracker_hopping]

Quiet is probably for the best, all things considered. I imagine you're relieved to, ah, have everything back?

[vallinar]

[Anais frowns. She knows she should be relieved and happy to be back, but she's not sure any more, starting the minute Tavan disappeared.]

It is good to be home, yes.

[Although that wasn't really what Lera was asking, was it?]

[firecracker_hopping]

[It wasn't and she notices. One eyebrow goes up and she tilts her head to the side, wondering about it. Time in Zenderael has changed her and where she might have let it slide, that increased confidence leaves her feeling more sure of asking.]

[Or maybe the word is 'meddling.']

Not quite what I meant... ah, I'll leave it alone if you'd prefer.

[vallinar]

[Anais frowns. She supposes lying to a guild leader is a bad thing, even if it isn't her own, but she really doesn't want to answer that question when she isn't sure of the answer.]

You are within your rights to ask, Miss Savinkov, but I am uncertain I can answer the question.

[firecracker_hopping]

[The use of the formal address is a little weird, Lera reflects. She's gotten used to being called 'Mazda' or 'Admiral Savinkov.' 'Miss Savinkov' feels strange, now, but she doesn't correct it. It reminds her of old days.]

Well... if you ever need to talk about it, I'll listen.

[vallinar]

[She does, Lera. Ohhh she does :( Anais isn't usually the most forthcoming about these kinds of things, but she has the feeling it's going to drive her crazy if she doesn't talk about it with someone.

She gives Lera a little nod.]

Would now be a bad time?

[firecracker_hopping]

Sure. Out in the hall or do you wanna move somewhere else?

[vallinar]

Somewhere else, I think.

[Aaand Anais just starts heading towards one of the empty classrooms. There is infinitely better than the hallway.]

[firecracker_hopping]

Sure.

[Lera follows along, then! And feels a little weird. She hasn't been in a classroom in ages.]

[vallinar]

[Once they're both inside and Anais has closed the door, she sighs and props her sword up against the wall, completely ignorant to the fact that Lera might feel weird about being in a classroom.

She's a little hesitant as she speaks again.]

There was someone who had been staying with me. Not Lynea, another. He left this morning. I knew it might happen eventually, but now that he is gone, I do not know how I should feel about being back.

[firecracker_hopping]

[Lera has Lynea and Anais's arrangement completely wrong. She assumes they're more like roommates stuck with each other. The idea she'd really have doubts about Lynea doesn't come to mind. This, though, makes sense.]

Ah... like you might have gotten attached to how things were for you on Earth? Do you wish it could stay the same?

[vallinar]

I do not know.

[That's the part that kills her, because, really, she wants to be happy she has the paladins around her again, but, at the same time, she's had a few months to adjust to not having them be there. And now that Tavan's gone, she imagines it's only a matter of time before Lynea leaves, too.

She feels like she should be happy about that, but she's not and she isn't sure why.]

Is it normal to feel that way?

[firecracker_hopping]

Well... yeah. You make friends with people and they leave. I think there's no way that'll feel all right.

[She frowns a little and looks to the side for a moment.]

I made a few friends [...and then some...] with the paladins who had been staying in the Nenakret. I'm glad that we retook Bastan, but I don't look forward to having to say goodbye. Given the circumstances, I wish I could have both -- have Bastan back and still have them around every day. I think it's natural that you feel that way.

[vallinar]

[Anais frowns a little.]

But you cannot have both, can you?

[firecracker_hopping]

[Lera hesitates at that, before she shakes her head. No, you have to be able to have both. The alternative isn't acceptable; it means being the Mazda and not only giving up Ezra, but her friends back here. Missie, Rasmus, Anais. Maybe even her family. Nope nope nope.]

It just takes some work, I think... making time to visit them and managing your work and all...

[vallinar]

[She shakes her head.]

Paladins would not be welcome where he is from.

[firecracker_hopping]

[...ah, that makes it harder.]

Maybe ask him to meet with you somewhere? Like Mianeh or in Safta...

[vallinar]

I suppose I will have to try that.

[Never mind that Anais isn't sure Tavan wants to see her again, considering he left without so much as a good-bye.]

[firecracker_hopping]

It's about all you can do, I think, unless you... don't want to be a paladin anymore, which would change things.

[vallinar]

[Anais hadn't even considered that to be a possibility, at least not until Lera said it. Could she really do that, though? Just leave the paladins like that?]

I... do not know what I would do if I were to leave my guild.

[firecracker_hopping]

If you could do anything you wished, what would it be?

[vallinar]

[Anais frowns.]

I do not know.

[But that's more because it's never come up before for her. There's only ever been Bastan and the guilds in it.]

I have never considered it before.

[firecracker_hopping]

It's worth thinking about. You have the freedom to choose.

[At least, she thinks so. But she wouldn't be the first one to seek a new career or path after all of the changes. Dallen comes to mind...]

[vallinar]

[Anais isn't so sure about that, but that's okay. Damn players.]

I will have to keep that in mind.

[firecracker_hopping]

I'd tell you to not make the decision lightly, but... ah, somehow I doubt you ever would.