[EVENT] Phase II reunions!

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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

[vallinar]

[If Anais had been the sort to hug, Ravi would be getting a big one right now. As she's not, she simply slows once she gets closer to him.]

Apparently, we have made it back.

[And now she's eyeing the hell out of you, Ravi.]

Savarna, what in Xumurdad's name are you wearing?

[paladont]

Apparently. [There's a hint of exasperated amusement to the reply. He missed that particular way Anais has of stating the obvious.]

[but then she points out his armour and he folds his arms, glancing away, looking slightly embarrassed.]

The berserkers outfitted us, when we were displaced from Bastan.

[vallinar]

And you are still wearing it?

[Oh for Xumurdad's sake, Ravi, that's so not regulation WHY ARE YOU WEARING IT?]

It was kind of them to do so, but that does not look particularly comfortable.

[paladont]

I don't...have anything else...

[omg Anais stop making him feel self-conscious about this!!!! he is not the only paladin walking around in berserker plate! hell, there are more paladins in spellsword plate right now than paladin plate.]

It's not bad, actually... [he's used to it by now :(a ]

[vallinar]

[You're a paladin, damn it, not a berserker. :| Nope. It's still weird.]

I suppose. I would most certainly prefer my armor, of course, but if you had no other choice...

[paladont]

It was stolen. [just sharp enough to signify that she is being insensitive. Good for you, Anais, preferring your own armour, that you actually have access to and have not irrecoverably lost!]

[vallinar]

Oh.

[Anais is so far out of the paladin loop right now, Ravi, that it's ridiculous and she would have no way of knowing his armor got stolen, but at least now she feels like crap?]

I'm sorry.

[Why does that not feel adequate?]

[paladont]

[GOOD >:( MISSION ACCOMPLISHED]

The rogues raided the barracks.

Anything valuable you kept there is gone, too.

[vallinar]

[Well, she did have a ring that belonged to her father in her room. Chances are very good that's gone, though, along with any gold she kept in there. Ah, well.

She frowns nonetheless.]

Did you lose much else?

[paladont]

Yes. [he doesn't really want to say much more than that. He lost a lot.]

[awkward pause. He looks back up to Anais.] Are you going to report in?

[vallinar]

[It seriously takes her a minute before she remembers that's probably a thing she should do. Clearly, she's been away for too long if that never even occurred to her.]

Yes. Of course.

[Not that she was even walking in that direction...]

I was going to head there shortly.

[paladont]

I'm on my way to the infirmary. [gestures with his cigarette in the appropriate direction] You can ask there where to go?

[vallinar]

You do not mind if I accompany you?

[It'd be nice, especially since she wants to talk to him, but, at the same time, she doesn't want to intrude if he'd rather be alone.]

[paladont]

Of course not. [sort-of-friends, right?]

[vallinar]

Excellent.

[Yes! :D Besides, she's always considered Ravi and Rasmus to be friends, anyway.]

How have you been faring while I have been away?

[paladont]

[he starts to answer, but he's just going to say 'fine']

[he has not been fine at all.]

[instead, he starts walking, motioning for her to come with. it's a pretty relaxed pace, he's not in a hurry. still has to finish his cigarette before he gets there, anyway.]

There was a war.

[that should speak for itself, he thinks]

[vallinar]

[Yup. That's Ravi, all right, and she allows herself a little smile. She's gotten better about this!]

So I gathered, but my question asked about you specifically.

[paladont]

[his eyes stay firmly fixed to the ground]

[he inhales the smoke and lets it out slowly, wondering if he should bother answering honestly]

[but everyone keeps asking him to be more honest, so.]

I nearly died. The Spenta healed me.

Rogues raided my room in the barracks and took everything they could sell.

My boyfriend was killed by his player.

[he doesn't look up at her. it's a lot of bad news. he delivers it with a bland kind of melancholy, all of it just dull ache by now]

[he could add in that his player is apparently the vahishta, but he hasn't really processed this yet.]

[vallinar]

[Anais' face falls a bit. Now he has even MORE reason to hate players, if a player killed their own character who was apparently Ravi's boyfriend. Not that she knew he even had a boyfriend, really...

Damn, Anais has missed a lot. Of course, Ravi probably wouldn't have told her even if he had. They weren't exactly the closest of people, but... STILL! This felt like it should have been something she should know.]

Ah.

[Anais is not a hugger and she doesn't think Ravi would like that much invasion in his personal space, anyway, so there will be no hugs here from her. Rasmus would have hugged him, she's sure. Though it's strange to her that "hugging" was the first physical response that came to her mind.]

I am glad you are not dead, but I am sorry to hear about the rest. You must miss him terribly.

[paladont]

[it's okay, Anais. there aren't a lot of people he did tell. he's actually talking about it more freely now that Alex is dead because no one can find out about what he was anymore]

Mm. [quiet affirmation. that's really all he can manage.]

How have you been?

[vallinar]

Well enough. I have been instructing Earth students in swordplay. Some of them are much better at it than I anticipated they would be.

[She should probably bring up Lynea, shouldn't she? Knowing Lynea, if she sticks around, it'll come out that she was staying with Anais sooner or later. But if she brings up Lynea, does that mean she has to bring up the fact that she kissed her and that Anais still isn't sure what that meant, if anything? She sighs.]

I acquired a roommate. [No, wait, can't forget Tavan if we're being all full disclosure here.] Well, two. One was less irritating than the other.

[paladont]

Ah, really? [he looks up, flashing her a curious look] So we're both instructors now.

[and they have both been instructing the other's player, not that they know that]

[Anais with roommates is difficult to picture. He's not sure what to even say to that, so he just prompts her to continue] Hm?

[vallinar]

So we are. [Though Anais took it up to attempt to afford her apartment... Still, she kinds of likes it now. Not that she'll admit it, really.

She hesitates a little before continuing] I do not imagine either will be staying much longer, however. They are not native to Bastan.

[paladont]

Will you move back into the barracks?

[vallinar]

[Huh. Anais honestly hadn't thought about that, and she frowns a little. She honestly thought she'd have to move back to the barracks. The idea of having choices is a strange concept.]

I was unaware we had a choice in the matter.