Now that the storm's cleared...

[helborn]

[... So he's pretty sure the senior LeBlanc is gone... it's safe to make this post now.]

... So I just want to apologize to anyone who ran into my dad while there were a lot of new people around. He's awful and I hope he didn't hurt anyone too much.

And I know people are going to say 'you don't have to apologize for him' - I know. But he's awful enough that I wanted to.

... Yep.

[That's. That's it.]

Comments

[forcechanic]

Evil family members are complicated.

[helborn]

[Gods, she would know.]

Yeah... yeah. I mean... it's not like how - hm. How much Earth history do you know?

[forcechanic]

Uh... Rome? A bit of the eighties and nineties?

[Okay not much]

[helborn]

... Yeah, okay. I'll have to explain some things to you but... basically he was a mad scientist for a regime that makes the Empire look friendly.

The details aren't a conversation for the network, I think.

[forcechanic]

I can come by, if you want to go into it.

[His choice, of course]

[helborn]

... Might as well. It'll... it gives a lot of context for some stuff you might run into in worlds like mine.

I'll make hot chocolate, you might need it after this.

[otomechapilot]

Thank you. You really don’t have to apologize for him but...

I’m just glad you’re safe, is all.

[helborn]

I know there were people fighting him... so he probably hurt you. And I'm sorry he did.

... It's hard to injure me permanently these days.

[Casper that's not what she means -]

Private and Double Protected

[otomechapilot]

Physically. He still messed you up really bad.

[She pauses.]

I hope - uh - I hope KC was also able to help. With his present.

I've got Thankdawn if you need it, now that I think about it. [Her literally magical hangover cure from Yensid, she means; looks and tastes like real swamp, but it was named for what people said after drinking it.]

[helborn]

... I mean... I survived. And I'm not an awful person, so I call that a win.

I... I'm okay. Are you... okay, too? I don't really know what he can do. I mean, you're alive, but... I'm around if you need to decompress.

[otomechapilot]

I'll live. And I know he misses me and wants me to come back. That's more than most Travellers get.

...but I should come and test stuff for Episode Poutine, huh.

[canbebrave]

The Arcana seem to love bringing awful people from our past.

Is he gone?

[helborn]

... I think so. Guess I should be glad they didn't bring in the guy who killed me, too.

[canbebrave]

The guy who-- [Oh Gods, what?/small>]

[helborn]

Oh. Uh. Yeah, I died. I got brought back, obviously, but it was a member of my traveling group who did it.

[canbebrave]

Oh. I'm so sorry. It's... terrible, to be deceived like that by someone you trust.

[unapologeticallyaffected]

He was hot, so you've got that, at least.

[helborn]

Excuse me?

[That's the thing he focuses on?]

[unapologeticallyaffected]

Well, I don't expect you to think so, unless your family is even weirder than it already appears to be. But he definitely had that "gentleman in the streets, freak in the sheets" look to him.

[He miiiiiight be fucking with you, Casper. You did threaten his boyfriend at one point, after all.]

[helborn]

[He does get the feeling he's being fucked with, yes.]

I mean he did have two kids with a half-rotting goddess... but he's also violently homophobic, so yeah.

[naturaltwohands]

I'm just glad you're safe.

[helborn]

... I'm glad you're safe, too.

[naturaltwohands]

I was never in any danger.

[Also he just realized he can walk down the hall and knock on your door if you're there.]

[helborn]

[He's there, so he opens the door. It's a lot neater than it was right after the Jaunt, at least.]

Hey. What's up?

[naturaltwohands]

Nothing much--I just thought it would make sense to be in the same place as we talk since we're literally doors away.

[I mean, literally.]