Kiran and Arden get to know each-other

[7:03 PM] Kiran: After visiting a few people camping out in the memoryworld, Kiran would have descended from the stairs, waving goodbye to Libra, and cast around too see who's around and doing what.
[7:03 PM] Kiran: What might Arden be doing at this time?
[7:04 PM] Arden: Arden probably just sitting down at the moment, thumbing through a book.
[7:05 PM] Kiran: has begun walking purposefully in one direction, abruptly pivoting on his heel as he spots Arden - and more slowly walking toward him.
[7:06 PM] Kiran: "Uh- excuse me, mister? Arden?"
[7:06 PM] Arden: "Eh? Oh, what's on your mind, Kiran?" Closes the book and changes his attention over to Kiran.
[7:07 PM] Kiran: (Kiran, for clarity, is a fairly youthful-looking brown-skinned man with an optimistic smile and scar running from one cheek down half of his neck. There may be some soot on his clothes.)
[7:07 PM] Arden: (Gotcha.)
[7:09 PM] Kiran: "Well. I was thinking about how you're probably one of the few people alive who remembers what actually happened in this world, and that... I honestly have no idea where to even start asking you questions."
[7:10 PM] Arden: "Sure, I only know so much of what went on after I left, but I'll do my best to answer anything you got. Shoot 'em all."
[7:11 PM] Kiran: "Well. I-"
[7:11 PM] Kiran: glances around, and then carefully takes a seat, watching Arden's face before relaxing slightly.
[7:11 PM] Kiran: "Um. Where are you from originally?"
[7:13 PM] Arden: "Like my hometown? Burdnt."
[7:13 PM] Arden: "Though Snowtown is more where I'd say I spent my best days at."
[7:13 PM] Kiran: "Oh, was that at the manor?"
[7:16 PM] Arden: "Manor? If you mean the Adventure's Guild, yep that's where me and my friends all lived."
[7:16 PM] Arden: "Guess that ol' shack Arco had built got a little bit bigger last I was there."
[7:17 PM] Arden: Gives a little grin.
[7:18 PM] Kiran: "Huh! Yeah, we made it to the Guild - Snowtown was overrun with the Void, though. And Adalet- ...Boswell's manor is really nice. I had just assumed it was somewhere he owned from back when he was alive."
[7:20 PM] Arden: "Left the Guild in his hands, good to know it got so big."
[7:20 PM] Kiran: "Who is Arco?"
[7:21 PM] Arden: "Hmm... An old friend of sorts. Guild was his idea... Just not the best at running it."
[7:24 PM] Kiran: "We managed to save a ledger from there when we passed through. I'm not sure if it'd help with rebuilding, but it's the sort of thing I think we can't really do without."
[7:25 PM] Arden: "A ledger?"
[7:25 PM] Kiran: "Yeah. It was a record book of members."
[7:25 PM] Kiran: "I think Ad- Boswell has it."
[7:26 PM] Arden: "Interesting, glad it survived the whole ordeal."
[7:28 PM] Arden: "Was rebuilding the Guild something you wanted to do?"
[7:28 PM] Kiran: "Oh, right."
[7:28 PM] Kiran: chuckles quietly.
[7:29 PM] Kiran: "I'm a craftsman. I've been gathering information and identifying resources for the last few months that I think will help us undo the destruction of our world, once we've beaten back the Void."
[7:30 PM] Arden: Nods his head.
[7:30 PM] Kiran: "I think that an Adventurers' Guild, encouraging people to go out and explore the world..."
[7:30 PM] Kiran: "When everything's been broken, and changed, and torn apart, the world is probably going to look nothing like it used to. Once upon a time, Adventurers helped us fill in the blank spaces on the map."
[7:30 PM] Kiran: "We're going to need them again."
[7:32 PM] Arden: "An admirable goal that I agree with wholeheartedly. I'd assume old Boswell would be on board as well."
[7:33 PM] Arden: "I'd be more then willing to help in anyway I can, though I am unsure myself how much I can do aside from giving my blessing and all."
[7:34 PM] Kiran: "Considering the sort of things it sounds like you've done for the world, your blessing means a lot."
[7:35 PM] Kiran: "How did you wind up involved in the business with..." he gestures toward Avo "fighting dragons?"
[7:36 PM] Arden: "Oh? Hmm..."
[7:37 PM] Arden: "Well I suppose it came down to Erialorb's machinations. He sent the world to strife, and led groups of would be heroes to conquer it. "
[7:37 PM] Arden: "Avo was just one of many poor souls created to be nothing more than a villain to defeat."
[7:38 PM] Kiran: "It still seems so strange to me that he would specifically encourage heroism and adventure. I thought that was more Brolaire's domain."
[7:38 PM] Arden: "Hmm... Wouldn't say so much wanting to encourage it more..."
[7:39 PM] Arden: "He just enjoys watching people play his games. A bored man with nothing else better to do then cause havoc."
[7:40 PM] Arden: "Win or lose he had his fun."
[7:41 PM] Kiran: "He sounds like a dick."
[7:41 PM] Arden: "The biggest of dicks."
[7:41 PM] Arden: "And not in the way that makes one's lady happy." He chuckles.
[7:42 PM] Kiran: looks a little blankly at him.
[7:42 PM] Kiran: "I... guess?"
[7:42 PM] Arden: "Any who, enough of that tyrant. Anything else you wanted to know?"
[7:43 PM] Kiran: "But anyway, I had meant more like... how did you, specifically, wind up getting involved? Were you a fighter before that?"
[7:43 PM] Arden: "Just a guard who stood up on a wall for 8 hours a day."
[7:44 PM] Arden: "Dragon came and attacked Burndt, and well burnt it down."
[7:44 PM] Arden: "I believe it was..."
[7:45 PM] Arden: "Broccubus, Clerica, and few others who didn't stick around too long were the only survivors."
[7:45 PM] Arden: "We were mostly drifters for a while."
[7:46 PM] Kiran: "Broccubus... I thought broccubus was a race."
[7:47 PM] Kiran: "But then again, I've only ever met the one."
[7:47 PM] Kiran: shrugs.
[7:47 PM] Arden: "Aye, but that is how she referred to herself."
[7:47 PM] Arden: Has a bit of a sad expression.
[7:48 PM] Arden: "Heard from Boswell that she is still around, hopefully one day we can make amends. I do miss her."
[7:48 PM] Kiran: frowns.
[7:48 PM] Kiran: "Wait. Lady Arianne?"
[7:49 PM] Arden: "Oh?"
[7:49 PM] Kiran: "Gods, everything keeps becoming more and more interconnected."
[7:50 PM] Arden: "Wears a big hat with a feather on it?"
[7:50 PM] Arden: "Long black hair?"
[7:51 PM] Kiran: "That sounds like her. She lives in Newshire."
[7:52 PM] Kiran: "She has sort of an affinity for setting things on fire."
[7:52 PM] Arden: "Sounds like her."
[7:52 PM] Arden: "Tried touching you in the wrong places? Hopefully she got that under control at least."
[7:53 PM] Kiran: "Uh- not that I noticed. She tried to take Damien fishing, though."
[7:53 PM] Arden: "Oof, still up to her tricks then."
[7:54 PM] Kiran: "I like her."
[7:54 PM] Arden: "Keep a good eye on that boy."
[7:54 PM] Kiran: turns to look at whatever Damien is doing.
[7:54 PM] Kiran: "We always do."
[7:56 PM] Kiran: turns back to Arden, looking slightly thoughtful.
[7:56 PM] Arden: "So... what else is on your mind, lad?"
[7:56 PM] Kiran: "What are you?"
[7:56 PM] Arden: Blinks at the question.
[7:57 PM] Arden: "Oh... you mean my current state?"
[7:57 PM] Kiran: "Avo said he's a... soul-outsider or similar. But I don't know whether you're a living being or not."
[7:57 PM] Kiran: tilts his head.
[7:58 PM] Kiran: "At least... in the traditional sense. Not that I'm judging!"
[7:58 PM] Arden: "I'm of a somewhat similar situation, but I still have a physical form."
[8:01 PM] Arden: "Erialorb would put my soul into a new body with every new world he sent me to, and when he discovered  the Void he tried to bring me in to fight it but..."
[8:01 PM] Arden: "When he got consumed by it, I was just left here to wander until Avo and I's Benefactor took me in."
[8:02 PM] Arden: "But suffice to say I am here and will be here for as long as I can."
[8:04 PM] Kiran: "I'm glad to hear it. This is... the way my dad would've described it it is an 'everyone problem'."
[8:04 PM] Arden: "That it is."
[8:05 PM] Arden: "I've faced many horrors of Erialorb's imagination and they all pale in comparison to this beast."
[8:06 PM] Kiran: considers this for a moment, then shrugs slightly.
[8:06 PM] Kiran: "As long as we're on our feet, we keep going."
[8:07 PM] Arden: "I like it, a good way to see thing."
[8:08 PM] Kiran: "What about me? Any questions I can answer?"
[8:08 PM] Arden: "Hmm..."
[8:08 PM] Arden: "Were things peaceful before the Void?"
[8:09 PM] Kiran: smiles slightly.
[8:09 PM] Kiran: "We had about a hundred years of prosperity since the Nexuses were beaten."
[8:10 PM] Arden: "Nexuses?"
[8:10 PM] Arden: "But, I am happy to hear."
[8:10 PM] Kiran: "The gigantic elementals. Colossi?"
[8:10 PM] Arden: "Hmm..."
[8:11 PM] Kiran: "Avo said they were an Erialorb machination, so I thought they might be familiar."
[8:11 PM] Arden: "Ah! Yes now I remember."
[8:11 PM] Arden: "I had faced a mighty fire elemental once like you had described."
[8:12 PM] Arden: "I even used its spear for a while."
[8:12 PM] Kiran: "Wow."
[8:12 PM] Arden: "Was magically infused with fire, useful thing it was."
[8:14 PM] Kiran: "I imagine it would've been. When was that?"
[8:13 PM] Arden: "Speaking of spears, wonder if that old thing I left stabbed into the ground is still somewhere. I called it Dragonslayer."
[8:15 PM] Kiran: "It might be. I'm afraid I've never seen it myself."
[8:15 PM] Arden: "The day we had thought we'd put things to an end, and the day I left."
[8:16 PM] Kiran: nods.
[8:17 PM] Arden: "Dilonia if I remember right."
[8:17 PM] Kiran: "So they last appeared a hundred years past. Then they were awoken by th-"
[8:17 PM] Kiran: "... in the colosseum?"
[8:18 PM] Arden: "Colosseum..."
[8:19 PM] Arden: "Hmm... not sure if I'm aware of it."
[8:19 PM] Arden: "No memories of one."
[8:20 PM] Arden: "Well, one of this world."
[8:20 PM] Kiran: "Hm. Nevermind then. I might be mistaken too."
[8:21 PM] Kiran: "At any rate - after the Nexuses were defeated, we had peace until the Void arrived. It revived three of the Nexuses - water, air, and fire. The Nexus of earth's body was cannibalised to fortify Snowtown further."
[8:22 PM] Arden: "Hope they were defeated for good at the least."
[8:22 PM] Kiran: "Who can say? I certainly wouldn't want to fight the Nexus of water again, personally."
[8:23 PM] Arden: "At the least it seems Erialorb's Wild magic left with him."
[8:24 PM] Arden: "It really did make things inconvenient for day to day life."
[8:25 PM] Kiran: "I'm sure I can't imagine. I like it when the world works in a way it's possible to comprehend."
[8:26 PM] Arden: "Well... let's see what else..."
[8:27 PM] Kiran: "It's nice to speak with someone new who already knows about what's happening in the multiverse."
[8:29 PM] Arden: "I'd imagine, I'm glad just to see people. Been a few months now since Avo and I came here."
[8:30 PM] Kiran: "Heh. Quite a few new people to meet, for sure."
[8:31 PM] Arden: Smiles while nodding. "Indeed."
[8:31 PM] Kiran: "Right. I'm going to leave you to your book. I still haven't tracked Adalet down, and I want to make sure he's doing okay with... all of this."
[8:32 PM] Arden: "Of course, I enjoyed and appreciate the conversation."
[8:32 PM] Kiran: "I'd love to hear more about your adventures when we've got some more time. But for now, I'll talk to you later."
[8:33 PM] Arden: "Anytime."
[8:33 PM] Kiran: smiles and gets to his feet, giving a slight wave.
[8:33 PM] Arden: Gives him a nod as he departs.