[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

[vallinar]

[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.

[bulldozer]

[ 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!

[paladont]

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?

[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?

[bulldozer]

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 ]

[paladont]

[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.

[vallinar]

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.

[bulldozer]

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. ]

[paladont]

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.]

[vallinar]

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?

[bulldozer]

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

[paladont]

[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]

[vallinar]

["Shacking up?" Wait a second, does Ravindra honestly think she and Lynea were sleeping together?]

Oh, for-- I was most certainly not "shacking up" with her! She just kissed me, and even then, I am fairly certain she only did it in an attempt to irritate me!

[She just won't mention the part where she enjoyed the kiss a little. That won't help her any.]

Even if I did feel something for her [which she doesn't. At least she thinks she doesn't. HOW DO YOU DO FEELINGS ANYWAY?], I am not so foolish to think anything could come of it. I helped her, but that is where my relationship with her ends, especially now that we are back here.

[bulldozer]

[ LOUD NOISES

wow this is really awkward ]

Ah...

[ are they even listening? does he want to be involved in this anymore? nope. nope nope nope.

nope. ]

Then... both things have passed and everything is well again. Yes?...

[paladont]

[he stops and turns back, glaring at Anais]

[glance @ Ras as he speaks]

No! Everything is not well.

[folds his arms, back to glaring at Anais]

If it wasn't important, why even mention it?

[vallinar]

You did say I never tell you anything. I was trying to fix that.

[There's nothing particularly malicious in how she says that, though.

She sighs. Rasmus clearly wants this to be over, and she supposes she should try for him, at least. She's not entirely sure she can fix it, but she's making an attempt? That counts, right?]

You two are my friends, and you are the last people I should be keeping things from.

[bulldozer]

[ he's conflicted, because it's not really something you go around telling people, either one of those things, is it? you don't go around saying you punched the spenta, you don't got around saying you're living with an assassin- really, rasmus could have done without hearing about either one of those things.

and just when was anais going to tell them without their dragging it out?

well, he didn't know the answers to things like this. he just stood there, arms crossed, shoulders slumped, looking between the two of them wordlessly, wondering if he'd have to break anything up ]

[paladont]

If you think it's important to tell us, then it meant something to you.

[vallinar]

[Probably never, Rasmus. >>]

Well, how am I supposed to know if it did?

[She's kind of hesitant about all of this, and it takes her a minute or two before she finally manages to get out:] No one ever kissed me like that before.

[bulldozer]

[ this is really awkward.

has he mentioned that.

secrets... relationship advice... rasmus is not in his element here. ]

I... I have nothing to say to all of this...

[ have some honesty?... ]

[paladont]

[wow even he can tell that Rasmus is feeling hella awk abt all this]

[sympathy for you, bro.]

[Ravi sets a hand on his back--can't reach his shoulder--in a friendly reassurance.]

The captain is down the street that way. [points] He would appreciate your help, I think.

[you have now been offered an out, Ras. Ravi can handle Anais's dumb ass himself.]

[vallinar]

[asdfkjklj Rasmus she's sorry :(]

It is all right, Rasmus. I am sorry for this.

[Really, no obligation to stay if you don't want to. :( No one here is going to be offended.]

[bulldozer]

Ah... ah? Is that so? Ah, then perhaps I had... I had better go see if he has need of me.

Ah! But it is good to see you two again. [ there's some forced cheer in his voice, but the smile that settles on his face is genuine enough the longer he looks down at them. he salutes to both ] Do take care, Anais, Ravindra. The Spenta has made mention of new patrol routes... ah, perhaps we will hear something soon about that...

[ still feeling awkward, he backs off and heads down the way ravindra pointed him, not quite hiding the sigh of relief as he walks away ]

[paladont]

[Ravi gives a return salute and a half-forced/polite smile of his own in farewell]

[once Ras is gone he turns to Anais again, his expression instantly darkening]

[warning tone] It meant nothing, Vallinar.

[vallinar]

[Anais manages a little smile and salute for Rasmus as he heads off before turning back to Ravi.

There's a part of her that wants to protest, to insist that Ravi wouldn't be telling her that if the other person in question wasn't an assassin, but she knows that definitely wouldn't help anything.]

You have nothing to worry about, Savarna. It clearly meant nothing to her, and nothing would come of it even if it did.

[She's just not entirely sure she believes that. Anais is bad at this whole "feelings" thing.]

I only dwell on it because, as I said, no one ever kissed me like that. Apparently, my player felt that was not something I required.