zenderael_rl | [EVENT] Phase II reunions!

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[EVENT] Phase II reunions!

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!]

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[yes breathing, that is good, he is good with this]

[but omg ras!!!!!!!! he has been in just the worst mood these past few days and now he feels AMAZING because RASMUS]

[he looks up at Ras, setting a hand on his arm. another hug feels just a little too awkward, but that'll do. he's grinning. not broadly, but the fact that he's grinning AT ALL is pretty indicative of just how happy he is at the moment]

[(makes it pretty easy to see the gap in his teeth that wasn't there the last time Anais saw him, too)]

Rasmus! I missed you!

Yelling at my other friends isn't the same.

Thank you, Rasmus.

[He gets a little awkward pat on the arm as a reward.

Anais is about to scold Ravi about how she's pretty sure that isn't exactly how friendship is supposed to work, but then she notices the gap and what the hell?]

Savarna, what happened to your mouth?

Edited 2013-06-05 23:08 (UTC)

Ahhh, no one has yelled at me much since last I saw you! Well... not in the way of friends yelling at me. [ huge difference!

he blinks at Anais' outburst and looks at ravi again. he can't really see it from up where he is, so he has no idea what she's talking about.

he leans in a little to whisper to Anais ]

He is smiling, Anais. That is a smile.

[he's joking anais jeeeez]

[AND WOW TACTLESS. that smile is gone in a puff of smoke, poof, vanished. he JUST got used to it being a thing and enough people having already seen it that he doesn't have to address it anymore AND HERE WE GO AGAIN]

[he averts his gaze, awkwardly bringing a hand to his mouth, knuckles pressing against the spot where the gap is]

[but before he can say anything rasmus interjects]

[he's not sure whether to be more angry at anais for bringing it up in the first place, or at rasmus for pointing out how infrequently he smiles. he opts for just glaring at them both]

She means the tooth your player knocked out, Rasmus. [ >:( conveniently addressing both issues at once! ANGRILY.]

[Anais is a tactless queen, Ravi. :| You should know this.

Still, her eyes widen a bit as what he snaps at them both. Given what she knows of Ravi's dislike for players, there's really only one conclusion she can come to here and it isn't a particularly good one.]

Savarna, please tell me you did not get into a fight with the Spenta.

[ ;_; why would you yell at rasmus he is just trying to help ]

Do you want me to tell her for you?

[look their friendship is back to normal already!]

[he folds his arms, glaring at the ground]

I had kitchen duty for a month. [grumbled admission of guilt]

[oh Xumurdad help them all, Ravi got into a fight with the Spenta

Wait, did this happen around the same time she wrote to him and was treating all players as this monolith thing? Still. NO EXCUSE, RAVI.]

Why would you do that? He could have removed you from the guard.

[Even with her tone being it's usual "you're an idiot" sort of thing, Anais is seriously concerned about this. Ravi fighting with the Spenta is kind of a serious offense. :(]

Ahh, Anais, this is quite an uncomfortable subject... [ particularly because this is his player you are talking about here ]

[he snaps Anais a glare. he knows that ok!! it was stupid and he has no excuse and he doesn't want to have his dumb decisions shoved in his face]

[rasmus speaks up before he can make it worse. ty rasmus you're a bro. ravi relents and just seethes in anais's general direction]

[And she knows that, okay? But you're her friend, Ravi, and some of the stuff you've been doing worries her, not that she's ever admitted it before, but she's been trying to get a bit better about stuff like that.]

I understand that, but he is our friend, Rasmus. You cannot tell me it would not have upset you greatly if we had returned and he was not here.

[This is the first time Anais has ever used that word to refer to Rasmus or Ravindra, so... have fun with that, guys.]

[ there's some waffling done by rasmus, some hemming and hawing as he considers this, because it would have ]

It is... It is a thing... [ and he's mumbling now, just barely audible, even to the two of them, his voice more of a rumble than a boom ] Difficult to say, what is deserved... a light sentence, for the strength of Ravindra's punch... it is over, and should be glad of it, I suppose... [ mumble mumble ]

[omg rasmus you are not helping at all]

[he is just even more irritated now]

It happened months ago, Vallinar! Not yesterday!

I'm not planning to do it again!

[Strongly resisting the urge to throw her hands up in the air in frustration here, but she looks a little distraught, which is more than what anybody would usually get with her]

I do not know that, do I? For all I know, you still consider players to be this monolith because you do not tell anybody anything.

[Because Rasmus was clearly in on this, too, since he knew.]

Between the two of you, I am beginning to think I preferred the company of the assassin, if only because she was infinitely more open than either one of you.

Edited 2013-06-11 03:05 (UTC)

[ somewhere between startled and hurt ]

You were in the company of an a- an- one of them?? Why did you not say anything of the sort! Anais! [ talk about terrible secrets! he looks a little betrayed himself! quite dismayed, actually ] Anais, you cannot be angry with Ravindra if you are to keep close-lipped about such things yourself! That is simply too much!

You hypocrite!

[he steps forward to give her shoulder an angry shove, confronting her]

I could have been kicked out of the guard--you could be executed!

And when do you ever tell anybody anything, Vallinar?

[...yeah, she deserved that shove. She doesn't like it, but she knows she deserves it.]

You want me to tell you something?

[She really didn't want to do this in front of Rasmus, but since she kind of feels like she's backed into a corner now...]

Fine, then. In the interest of full disclosure, she helped me several times, never once tried to kill me, and she kissed me. Is that better?

Who else has she tried to kill?

[ he's serious now, anxiously so ]

Because she does not kill one person does not mean she does not kill others. Oh, Anais. [ and a kiss, too? they like each other? that's fine, but when a core value such as murdering people comes into play, well, that seems difficult to reconcile

unless anais doesn't care

which is terrible enough to consider as is ]

[okay, he knows this is hypocritical because his sister is an assassin, but he grew up with her. he can say with certainty what kind of person she is.]

[he doubts anais has similar grounds for trusting this assassin.]

It's not better! How do you know she's not using you?

Rasmus is right, because she's not dangerous to you doesn't mean she's not dangerous to us.

Of course she was using me! She needed somewhere to stay and I was one of the few people who would not turn her away.

[Well, technically Lynea broke into her apartment and refused to leave, but why bring that up when they'd only use that as further ammunition against her?]

What was I supposed to do? Abandon her on an unfamiliar street corner and insist she fend for herself? Even you would not have been that heartless, Savarna, if you wound up in Fall City in my place.

Ah... do you think that to be true...?

[ voice low again, he looks between the two of them, unsettled, wishing one or the other would make this situation go away ]

Ah, but- that is to say, it is not as though I did not have help either, but it did not function quite so radically different that it would have been impossible...

[ especially for an assassin. they can sneak into places. and kill people. and sleep in their beds.

assassins. ]

Yes! That's not heartless, it's smart. Is she a child or a grown woman?

[because if we're talking a 14 year old assassin girl who was desperate for help, then yeah, he would take her in--but someone his own age? Hell yes he would make her fend for herself, she's capable.]

I was fortunate enough to associate with a group who provided me with the apartment I had. She was not. I would have taken you in, as well, Rasmus, if you had not already been provided for.

[Rasmus gets a little smile. Ravi, however, gets nothing.]

Earth is a different place, Savarna. We all had to adjust, all under the assumption we might never see Zenderael again. I had nowhere to go. X-DAV provided for me, and there is little doubt in my mind there were assassins in their employ at the time I was there. Would you execute me for doing what I had to in order to survive, then?

I... think there are large differences between working under the same command and kissing. [ insert smallest ras voice ever ]

[Anais you are turning this in a really uncomfortable direction. why would he WANT you executed?? that isn't even what he's mad about!]

[folds his arms, glance @ Rasmus]

Very large differences. [muttered agreement]

I'm the idiot for fighting with the Spenta, but you're completely justified for shacking up with an assassin.

At least I admit what I did was stupid.

[bam, done, he's turning to leave, you can just fuck right off Anais]

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