[Jaunt Week 1] Check-In Time...

[helborn]

Casper here. Check in if you're yourself, now.

[His tone is uncharacteristically clipped and short.]

Comments

[thornsofmalkav]

Oh Jesus. I guess you've got that going on again, huh.

[leftbehindagain]

Sure do, but given the circumstances here it's not that much of a surprise.

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah.



I still don't know why--it's not like it's anything I have experience with as myself.

[leftbehindagain]

Who knows. [It could be something that she wants on some level, but that's speculation better left for one of her actual partners.]

At least it won't be a surprise if I'm skeptical about the reincarnation theory, because she sure hasn't come back.

[thornsofmalkav]

[It's such a living thing, the begetting of new life. Maybe it's only that.]

Yeah. I guess there's that. [Not really something to be happy about.]

[leftbehindagain]

['Happy' is an overstatement, for sure, but built-in doubts will make it easier to get in on tearing this thing down while being a known quantity in the community.]

For actual bright spots, I should have some rice wine and hard cider by now. I doubt anything made here is going to be alcoholic enough to hurt a fetus, but if you don't want to chance it that's understandable.

Either way, find me after this mess if you need a drink. I expect most of us will.

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah, I'm gonna be careful about that, sorry. Once I'm myself, though, I'll def take you up on it.

[leftbehindagain]

That's fair. It's a fraught enough prospect without bringing fetal alcohol syndrome into things.

[thornsofmalkav]

Seriously.

[leftbehindagain]

[After the conversation about the midges:]

What's a Truman show?

[thornsofmalkav]

It's a movie about a man whose entire life was filmed as a television show--and he doesn't know it. Starring Jim Carrey--he's actually pretty good at dramatic roles.

[leftbehindagain]

My first thought was more Dr. Moreau.

The two together isn't exactly a pleasant combination to consider.

[thornsofmalkav]

Nope.

[leftbehindagain]

Either by itself would be a real mess to untangle, so I'm still hoping it's not both together. [He doesn't have much hope, though, not as this bears enough resemblance to Moebius for the oldest veterans to be Concerned.]

We're going to need one hell of a plan to tear this down.

[helborn]

I'm in, whatever it is. I want this place to freeze.

[thornsofmalkav]

Me too--but, like, I think we're gonna have to be careful about this shit. It's, like, common knowledge here that the gods can pretty much send down fucking cataclysms if we anger them too much. We're going to have to be smart and we're gonna have to coordinate this shit as much as we can over the network, because we don't want the gods to know we know.

[helborn]

[Thorne you're asking a Norse demigod to calm the fuck down.]

... I'll. Try. I don't do subtle very well.

[thornsofmalkav]

[Dryly,] I've noticed.

[helborn]

Not exactly part of my inherited skillset, unfortunately. I swear I used to be better at this.

[thornsofmalkav]

I believe you, dude. Just... be careful, okay?

[helborn]

Like I said... I'll try.

[leftbehindagain]

Either we take the time to get this right, or everyone's dead except the ones we want to suffer.

[helborn]

I know. I know, okay? It's... complicated. Fighting urges that are hard to suppress and all.

But I promise I'll try.

[leftbehindagain]

Thank you.

I think we can safely say the responsible parties aren't anywhere nearby, in any case. Someone would have encountered them before.

[helborn]

There's lights on top of the tower on the Gods' Isle. I couldn't get up there myself, but I helped someone else get a boost.