Arrives late with ice cream and coffee

[okanetendo]

Hey.

This is Nabiki. I'm back.

And I've missed a hell of a lot, between the Mars timeskip and... bailing out somewhere around the yokai college.

So this is the last one, huh? Could someone fill me in?

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[okanetendo]

...okay, so I got the order wrong! I may have been Christina Waverly! Not my finest hour. At least I managed to get my sister and her... main squeeze enough cash to flee for less star-studded hills.

Literal Purgatory, wow. I think I did pirates once, it was... vague. I understood half of the reference and that was the Gundam part, what, was that also a Christian thing?

...I have no idea how to feel about our ability to kill and say psyche about killing Arcana. At least I know why they've been so goddamn chipper.

Wheeler sounded real happy to send us off, and she's losing. How much must she be raking in on side bets?

[breakaleginhalf]

Right, yeah - she did a runner during that one, didn't she? Good job.

I mean, from what I've heard they were two completely independent expeditions, but that's about all I know for sure. All the cards seem very happy to have their hope back. Must be easier for Fortune to play on people's biases if they're optimistic again.

[okanetendo]

Someone got shot. I don't like my schemes getting that messy. Might have a bit to do with my spending some time on Walkabout.

...you call that a Dungeon now. Right.

I mean, fair. Having their hope back must feel nice, one supposes.

[breakaleginhalf]

Good to hear you're consistently a blatant schemer. I was wondering after Mars, seemed like a very pertinent character trait.

Wouldn't know. [But there's a very wry tone to his words.] I've always been under the impression being clever's more important.

[okanetendo]

What can I say? Had to hustle since Dad checked out of his job, not that I entirely blame him. I roll my own luck, and you can put that in your pipe and smoke it.

I think that's part of why Wheeler likes me. That, and my straight-up asking for a job with her.

[breakaleginhalf]

Hey, I'm not faulting you for making your way like that, doll. Props on knowing exactly what you need to do to get by.

I arrived here after they stopped asking nicely. Magician got her bedazzled hands on me without any input on my part.

[okanetendo]

Oh, I wasn't exactly handed a golden ticket and invited onto this train, but I take your meaning. I had the luxury of choosing my tattoo artist. That's a memory I have clear as day. And aren't we the charmer?

I suppose things could be worse. Five bucks says the old pervert would have gotten snapped up by Old Scratch - and my sister and her fiance by the warhorse.

[breakaleginhalf]

Oh, don't get me wrong - I just like making sure my own hustling's up to par. I'm very much spoken for.

[Hey, might as well be honest.]

Huh. I never really thought about what my own back-home friends might get chosen for.

[okanetendo]

Sad to say that just makes you safe to practice on, Gil-baby.

Who said mine were back home?

[breakaleginhalf]

Well, I played myself. Fair's fair.

That's what we call an assumption - I only had a small circle before I got here, and the only one who ever showed up was in a weird alternate universe version.

okay Xian P'u is me furiously headcanoning a name that makes any sense at all

[okanetendo]

At least it's a nice ass of you and me that assumption made.

You should feel lucky none of them got caught up in this bullshit, but I wouldn't go so far as to make a donation to Benten unless it's to raid Wheeler's soft drink gatca machine. Most of who I knew back home got caught up in this mess. Most went Walkabout, the old kind, the Dungeon kind.

...Big Sis would have been Mei's favorite, I think. Lil' Sis one of Strength's, and Ranma would have hated Emperor; here's to Chariot for... them... instead.

Xian P'u deserves Abbadon's tender mercies. Or Satan's. Either way.

[breakaleginhalf]

Hah. Sounds like there's no love lost between you and Xian P'u. I don't have many people I'd wish on the Devil.

[okanetendo]

Bitch tried to brainwash and kill my sister.

Tower doesn't deserve her, but the Devil sure does.