042715 Suffer time memo

 CTT RIGHT NOW opened memo on board WORLDOFSUFFERING.

 CGT made TT an OP.

 CURRENT gracefulThaumaturge [CGT] RIGHT NOW responded to memo.

 CGT: Acenia knocks on Miloko's door.

 CTT: no one answers the door, but it seems to be unlocked

 CGT: Acenia looks at Merrow.

 CURRENT arcaneArtisan [CAA] RIGHT NOW responded to memo.

 CAA: Merrow shrugs. "Maybe she's not back yet. Or maybe she and Darmok reconciled."

 CGT: "She'll probably come around, right?"

 CAA: "Yeah. Maybe we can wait for her? I can't really remember what the etiquette is for going into your sister's room."

 CAA: Merrow jiggles the handle and tries coming in.

 CGT: "I feel like Erisio probably always walked right into mine? I don't know... its been so long..."

 CAA: "Yeah, I know what you mean. It's going to take some adjustment, re-acclimating. And do you remember clothes being this ITCHY?"

 CAA: Merrow opens the door.

 CGT: Acenia follows Merrow in. "Maybe you're dehydrated? Or wearing too much?"

 CTT: the inside of the room is dark, and everything seems to have been broken

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "I definitely feel like I'm wearing too much."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Whoa. What happened here?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Did she always keep it like this?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: "Miloko?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: no, answer, but a pile of clothes in the corner shifts a bit

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: Acenia steps close to the pile and lifts up a few articles of clothing. "Miloko?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: there's nothing that shallow under the pile, but some soft noises can be heard coming from near the center

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: "Merrow, you should help me dig? I hear it's the solution to everything."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Yeah, sure. Do you remember if Miloko had any pets?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: Merrow begins digging into the clothing pile.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: "I thought she had plants. I think Vyllen was a sunflower?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: Acenia stops and looks for the sunflower.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Vyllen?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: Acenia shrugs and resumes flinging clothes into another pile to lessen the current pile

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: buried near the center is a small troll girl curled up into a ball, her hair is short, one of her horns has gained a crack in it, and her face and arms seem to have numerous shallow cuts along them, her breathing is barely present

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: :(

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Oh no....Miloko. Can you hear me? Are you okay?" Merrow kneels down and attempts to wake her up.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: no response

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: her mouth seems oddly forced open though

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Oh cod. Do you remember who did the....medical stuff? On the team?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: "Uhm... I think the one that typed in the same color as you?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: Acenia wracks her brain. "Uh..."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Our mother?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: Acenia runs out of the room and knocks on the door she thinks is Rubis?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: but can't figure out what the name is.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: Merrow brushes Miloko's hair out of her face, and transfers her to the bed gently.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: he might notice that one shirts in the pile must've fallen into her agape mouth while she was asleep, given that a sleeve seems to be extending out the side of her mouth

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: Merrow tries to pull it out.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: Gently, again.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: (( would anyone object to adding rubi if she's available for healing? ))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: it's lodged in there fairly well, gonna take a strong tug to remove it

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: (( I'm fine with it. ))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: Merrow pulls at it.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: ((I guess it's fine))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CURRENT languidLachesis [CLL] RIGHT NOW responded to memo.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CLL: ((it's cool))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: Not with all his might, but harder than before.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: (( if you're not sure, TT, I won't press it. ))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: ((might be a good idea, for reasons besides healing))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: the shirt comes out with a wet pop

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: Miloko begins coughing

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CURRENT automatedContraption [CAC] RIGHT NOW responded to memo.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: ((what b this))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: Acenia bangs at what might be Rubi's door again. Ѽ ⋆:・ﾟ✧

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: After a few seconds Rubi opens her door. She looks really frazzled but at least she has her clothes on.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "mmnnm?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: "Miloko. Fix."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: A half-naked Acenia drags Rubi into Miloko's room.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi stumbles in rubbing her eyes "m'loko? what going on?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "I'm worried she might've done this to herself."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: Merrow puts away the soaking wet shirt he pulled out of her throat just a moment before, and motions to Rubi to do what she can to help Miloko.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "I uhh! What? Whats going on here??" Rubi rushes to Miloko's side

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "We found her like this, under a pile of clothes. She was barely breathing, and had swallowed a....whatever you call those clothes you wear over your torso."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi puts an ear to Miloko's chest to see if she's got a heartbeat

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: it's present, a little faint, but it's clear she isn't dead yet

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: Like Acenia, Merrow is barely dressed, wearing little more than a light linen skirt. He's also taller than when you last saw him, and a little more filled out. He's still fairly androgynous, but he's lost the lankiness he had before, and has an ageless look to him.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi lets out a slight sigh tapping her face "Milly if you're in there wake up! Don't make me get the hot sauce"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: Miloko groans lightly and brushes the hand off her face, causing numerous cuts to start dribbling blood

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "Eep!" Rubi scurries about a foot back and looks towards Acenia and Merrow then back to Miloko. "Uhh... w-welcome back!"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Can you do something about her bleeding?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: one eye flutters open, "did it work." her voice is thick with weariness and hoarse

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "Y-yeah! Uhh... grab a few shirts. cleaner the better"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: "What work?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: upon recognising the voices, Miloko's one partially open eye shoots completely open "stay back."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: Acenia steps back.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: she rolls over with a pained groan off to the side of the bed away from the others

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: she gives a pained yelp as she hits the floor

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "Eep! Maybe we should get you to the infirmary"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi heads over to milly to help her up

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "no, get off." she swings her arm limply at Rubi

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi takes a half step back "I'm not even off you? I just want you to get to a bed with sides"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: *on not off

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Miloko. What happened?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Why are you in such a state?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "leave me alone. let me die in peace."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "Grr you're not going to die sis. Now come on let me help you get back on your bed at least"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "no." she pulls herself under her bed and then shoots out the other side, running for the open door

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "Stop her!"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: Acenia tries to grab Miloko.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "no, stop. don't touch me."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: Acenia frowns and tries to keep hold of Miloko. "Things are okay. You don't have to do this to yourself."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi shuts Miloko's door and puts a chair against it "What. Is. Going. On."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: Miloko goes limp and begins sobbing

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: punctuated by bursts of a hacking cough

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi looks towards merrow "Tall merrow stay by the door" Rubi heads over and rubs Miloko's back "shhh"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: Merrow obeys, looking on in concern.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: Miloko begins reaching out toward the door, only it seems like she's reaching more towards the top of the door frame than the actual door handle

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi paps her hand away and continues rubbing "just...take a few breaths..."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: as everyone's eyes acclimate to the darkness, it's clear she's reaching for some rope looped along some piping on the ceiling

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: Merrow gently blocks her from her objective.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: "Nope." Acenia stands in the way.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: (( or that ))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Miloko. Stop this. Why are you doing this?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi stays silent still papping "shhh... just... chill for a bit..."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "it's what I deserve."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: "Whoever said that is wrong. Even if it's you"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "SHUT UP! YOU'RE NOT EvEN REAL!"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: *EVEN

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: ((no secret hints in typing here))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi pets Miloko's hair "shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. They look real enough just... shhhhhh"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: "We were never dead..."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "NO! THIS IS JUST LIKE THE LAST TIME!"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "YOU'RE NOTHING BUT MY CONSCIENCE TRYING TO STOP ME!"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: Acenia looks at Merrow. Then Rubi. "Can you fix her?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "let go." she struggles against whoever it is is holding her, Acenia I think?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "I'm... not really a mind player... and shes not broken... and friggen take down that rope already its unsettling"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: Acenia lets go, but only if Merrow is still between Miloko and the rope.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "I don't know. The last time I had to deal with someone being angry was the last time we vascillated, and that was at least a hundred years ago."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: He is. And he's taking it down, as Rubi suggested.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "Hundred? You're like my age last I knew. Whats going on here?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "We've been away for a while. We're back now."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: Miloko squirms out and runs past the rope, knocking the already heavily damaged chair out of the way, throwing open the door, and stopping cold, screaming in pain

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: "Oh for the love of fire, Heal the poor thing!"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "Fuck it why not!"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: Miloko collapses and starts slowly trying to crawl out into the hall

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: Merrow comes out into the hall, and kneels down beside Miloko.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi rushes after Milly and holds her down "Give me a second I'm gonna try something"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Miloko. Have you really been hallucinating? Isn't there some way I can convince you we're real?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: ((gonna need a roll for this?))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "LEAVE ME ALONE! LEAVE ME ALONE!" Miloko screaches, her one good eye wide with fear

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: in the light it's easy to see her other eye seems swollen and discolored

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "What happened to your eye, Miloko?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "Did someone fight with you?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "yes. I did."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "and I almost had my revenge."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Revenge?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "yes. my tomb." she seems to be indicating the clothes pile she was found in

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Revenge for what?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "I need to die."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Why?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "I'm a bad person."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "I admit it's been a while, but I'm pretty sure I remember you being pretty great."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: "Is this one of those situations where we can't really do anything to convince you otherwise because your mind is already made up and that's all that matters?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "no coward. useless. liability."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "that is what I am."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Heck, you and Darmok were just about the only things I really truly missed while we were away."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "stop that."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "don't remind me."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "...thaaanks..." Rubi stays on Miloko "Can we please get you to the infirmary?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "I'm sorry....Sapphire? Emerald? It's just been a long time."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: Miloko screams in anger

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "...Try the last pokemon game loser"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "NO!"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi holds her down tightly "Can we go there to talk at least?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "I've already felt enough fucking remorse for what I did. stop torturing me." she seems to be addressing no one in particular

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "What did you do that's got you in so much remorse?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "I fucked up. should have been me."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "What, you mean with Pele? No! Of course it shouldn't have!"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "I failed."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi is looking more and more confused as this conversation continues

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: "We came back as quickly as possible so you wouldn't feel like this."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: Acenia frowns.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "I let someone else tell me what to do again."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "If you had swapped with her, you would still be down there. And I would never get to see my older....well, I guess not older anymore....well anyway I would've never gotten to see my sister again.""

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: "That doesn't mean you hurt yourself and live in tomb of fabrics."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "I'm not even a real person." she sighs

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "just a pet for someone else to show off and do tricks for their amusement."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: Acenia shrugs at Rubi.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi looks to Acenia... Is acenia older or is it just merrow?

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: They're both a bit older.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "You both look good for being 100 years old or something..."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: Miloko begins throwing her head back against the ground

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: (( LL can I do a few rolls to heal Miloko? ))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "Milly! STOP THAT! You're being a butt"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi puts her hand against Miloko's forehead to keep it pressed down instead of bopping the floor

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: Miloko just frowns

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "why."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Milly, you're a kid still trying to learn to be a grown-up. Of course you're going to make mistakes and get lead around sometimes. Personally I think you made the right choice, but if you feel like you made a mistake, did you at least learn from it?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: "Self-destruction isn't learning. Just so we're clear." Acenia chimes in.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: Merrow nods.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "NO! SHUT UP!"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "I HATE YOU!"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Well that hurts a little."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "But not as much as seeing you like this does."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: "This is a bad time for confessions."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "Can we at least get out of the hallway? I don't think you want others to see you like this..."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: Miloko gives up the last of her struggling, "you think I enjoy seeing you like this. all I feel when I see you is remorse."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: Acenia nods to Merrow. "You clean up your sister. I'm going to try to remember the other people we need to find."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "Sure have fun. Message me later if you can ok?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Okay. Good luck." He kisses Acenia on the cheek.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CGT: Acenia disappears down the hallway.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "there had to have been another way."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Miloko, if seeing me makes you feel remorse, then I'll leave you alone. But not until I can be sure you're not going to hurt yourself."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "I'll stay with her. but were going to the infirmary now."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "you want to see me stop hurting. get me about fifty painkillers."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Okay. Do you want me to help you carry her? I can leave you two alone once you've got her there, if I'm just making her more upset."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "Sure that would be great mr. muscle. Come on Milly lets go"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "You'll have to get one side. I've still only got one arm."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "I don't think I deserve that name anymore." she chuckles

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Which would be fine, except I suspect she's going to fight me."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi nods and helps Miloko on one side "Well its not like i'm going to call you any other nickname"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "nope. I'll come quietly. cross my heart and hope to die." the last few words almost seem whistful

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "This is not exactly how I pictured our reunion, you know."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "just... stay nearby 'old timer' I don't want her darting off"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "I'll add this to my list of times I've disappointed someone."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "it's a long list."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "You're not disappointing me, Miloko. I'm disappointed with myself for not guessing this might happen."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi leads Miloko to the infirmary and tries plopping her onto the bed

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "I should've known you would need help dealing with making The Choice . I should've aimed for earlier, so I could be there for you right afterward.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "But I'm out of practice with Time, and my aim was off. So you've had time to stew on it."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: Miloko doesn't help, but she doesn't fight what's being done to her

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "I shouldn't have let her beat me."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Who?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CLL ceased responding to memo.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "she couldn't have had all the cards."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Pele?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: Miloko grunts

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "doesn't even give a shit about me or my quest. shows what a hero I was."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "She absolutely did care about you and your quest, Miloko."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Trust me. I've come to know her....intimately."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi raises a brow "So... the deal happened with you then?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "oh, how so." she looks up in interest

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "and by that I mean, the caring thing."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "I don't know if I want to tell you while you're like this, Miloko."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "But....have you looked outside your window?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "I don't remember honestly."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Well, suffice to say, LOEAD is lost to us."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "what."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Sealed off forever, to prevent the Silence from ever striking it."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi repeats Miloko in exactly the same tone "What."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "I failed my quest then."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "I'm not sure. The situation is different for us than it usually is for most players, I think."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "if I can't go back. I must've failed."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Your decision has saved the people of your world from the Silence."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "I'm still not sure what the Silence is, but it would not be hard to interpret saving the people of your world as success."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "well, fat lot of that good that does me."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "I'd chaulk that up to success!" Rubi beams a smile

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "I don't feel I learned anything. or did anything worthwhile as a leader."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: she begins scratching 'failure' into the skin on her arm

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi paps it away

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "Stopthat."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "why."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "I'm useless. why does it matter what I do."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "Cause you're starting to freak me out is why. You made the best choice you could do. If you chose anyone else it sounds like we wouldnt see them for a literal 100 years or something"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "Instead of a mostly fake 100 years... no offense Merrow"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "It was at least a thousand years. And no, I agree. Acenia and I enjoyed our time with Pele, and I was the only one who could return to the team afterward."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "I got cheated out of my quest."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Yeah. You kind of did. But if you had completed your quest, found your true denizen, your world would almost certainly have fallen under the Silence."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "true denizen."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "WHAT!"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "I WAS TRICKED AGAIN!"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "We all were, Miloko."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "GOOD JOB ME! A+ WORK!"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi grumbles and sits next to Miloko "If the planet is blocked off does that mean its not connected to the base? Can we still fly to it?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "fuck that. I don't give a shit about the people of my world. I need to go back. I need to prove to everyone."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "The volcano went off. Miloko's room is buried in rock. Maybe you could fly there? But I wouldn't know how to get there."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "Oh... hope the plant guys survived... they can really dance"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "FUCK!"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "the veterans."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "they must have a way."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "Could just drill through the rock. just give it time for now. you need rest"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "no."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "I have work to do."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "You have rest to do. Now lay down and sleep.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "Merrow. maybe you could go back in time. before the volcano went off. then return to now, see how bad it is on the other side."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Um....I don't know. It's kind of been a thousand years since I used time powers, and even before those thousand years, I had never really used it for proper TIME TRAVEL. I could try, but I don't know how well I'll be able to pull it off without Pele backing me up."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "I give up."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Don't give up, Miloko. If you want to try to get back to LOEAD, I'll help. I'm just not sure if it will be easy or not."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "And I'm not sure if it's the right decision. But I'll help you if it's what you want to do."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "I've got to look out for my little sister, right?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "don't patronize me."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "and I'm not your sister anymore. she's dead."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi pokes Miloko "Nope she's alive"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "I mean metaphorically."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Well, I'm not giving up on her, either way."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "fine, but for now, please call me..." she looks around the room before looking at the cuts on her arms, "Dagger."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "D-d...dagger?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "yeah. you got a problem with that."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "Prefer shield myself but if thats what you want thats fine. But promise you're gonna have to help me on my land ok?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "I can't make any promises. I make far too many mistakes."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "Will you at least try?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "if I'm still alive at that point."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "And you'll try to stay alive?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "no promises. I'm an untrained Muse of Rage. I'm liable to hurt much more that I could ever help."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "I have seen firsthand how....delightful a Muse of Rage is capable of being, Miloko."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: Merrow smiles a little.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "oh barf."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Hehehe."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi snickers and puts her hands to her face

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "never speak of that again. that's an order."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "I'm older than you. I'll do what I want."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "fine. I'll just kill myself then."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi summons Tiny placing him on the opposite side of Miloko

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: Merrow frowns.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "and honestly, if I ever see that asshole again, I'm going to strangle her with my own two hands."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "or die trying."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "alright. enough... Merrow can we please let her sleep for a bit? I'm gonna need some prepwork on healing her wounds"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Fine. But leave Pele alone. She's special to Acenia and me."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "she was the asshole I was referring to."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "and I don't give a shit how you feel."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "And that's why I'm saying leave her alone. I'm not going to help you get back if you're going to hurt her."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "you think I care."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "I hate seeing you like this, Miloko."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "good. because I think hatred suits me."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Careful, or I'm going to think you're propositioning me."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Insert Rubi's Look of disapproval here

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "please, even now you couldn't impress me enough."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "maybe you should just go back."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Don't underestimate the things I've learned" his voice turns silky. "I could get Acenia to help."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: "I DO NOT NEED TO HEAR THIS LALALALALA" Rubi puts her fingers in her ears

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "you try, I scream that you forced yourself on me."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "You're the one who started blackflirting."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "...I think. Honestly it's been so long since I've thought about quadrants that I'm a little out of practice."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "how typical of you to overinflate your ego by assuming I was flirting."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi is now locking herself into tiny she is not seeing this nopenopenope.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Eh. Whatever. Just don't hurt yourself, okay?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "gotta get used to not wanting your two whores on your bulge all day long, ehh."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: ((fuck, that was a mess, redo))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "gotta get used to girls who aren't your two whores, wanting to ride on your bulge all day long ehh."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: ((that is better))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "It's taking some adjustment. And don't think I don't see you trying to antagonize me by calling them that."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "what. the truth."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "seriously though, if you enjoyed it so much. why not go back."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "forever perhaps."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "I wanted to see my sister and brother again. And help my comrades."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "And we thought it would be better to leave while we would all miss one another rather than after we had all become sick of one another."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "well, I'm already sick of you."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "That hurts more than you know, Miloko."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Just tell me you're not going to hurt yourself and I'll leave you alone."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "I'm not going to lie."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "but I guess I'll try. got my revenge to get after all."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: "Fine. Have a good night, 'Dagger.'"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "have fun, dude."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: ((are we done?))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: Merrow leaves, muttering something about "Teenagers" under his breath.

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAA: (( Yeah ))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: Dagger flips him the bird as he leaves

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: Rubi hops out of Tiny then closes his hatch again "If you hurt yourself tiny will sound an alarm. just sleep for a bit while i get my stuff done k?"

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: "whatever."

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CTT: Dagger groans as she rolls over and falls asleep

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"> CAC: ((scene))

<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;"><span style="color:rgb(161,80,0);">CTT: ((I can post))