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Moping Complete, 3/3 (Echo and Ross)

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  1. (3:33:19 PM) ***serpentLinguist timeports into the room, then regains her previous form
  2. (3:49:57 PM) ventricularPipefitter: [You're in Ross's, or at least, the dwelling spire's, bedroom. There are paperbacks and notebooks everywhere, a fine smattering of little brass and crystal bits, and a corkboard covered in pieces of paper and string. He's sitting cross-legged on the bed: laptop off to one side, open, the admin panel visible. A (probably alchemized) length of pipe with luminescent growths of quartz crystal is laid across his lap. He's in a wifebeater and shorts, and a conspicuous lack of dapper.]
  3. (3:33:42 PM) serpentLinguist: "Hey."
  4. (3:34:35 PM) ***ventricularPipefitter looks up from his book. "Hey."
  5. (3:35:22 PM) serpentLinguist: "So. What's up? You delegated a past and... probably future? self to go to the session meet.
  6. (3:37:05 PM) ***ventricularPipefitter shrugs. "Never hurts to know what's going on before it happens."
  7. (3:37:35 PM) serpentLinguist: "Absolutely not. But you weren't there. Instead, you're sitting at home, reading a book."
  8. (3:39:11 PM) ***ventricularPipefitter nods. "Uh-huh, and?"
  9. (3:39:40 PM) serpentLinguist: "And generally when time players delegate, they do it for a reason. Not to finish another chapter in..."
  10. (3:39:48 PM) ***serpentLinguist peers at the book title
  11. (3:43:16 PM) serpentLinguist: "...Fifty Shades of The Paladin of Shadows."
  12. (3:43:51 PM) ***serpentLinguist straightens and fixes him with a look
  13. (3:44:13 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "Have you ever tried alchemizing two books together, one you hate and one you like? Interesting results."
  14. (3:45:11 PM) serpentLinguist: "Uh-huh. I'm sure. But that doesn't answer my question."
  15. (3:53:42 PM) ***ventricularPipefitter flops onto his side, and stares past Echo at the wall. "I am not in a good state to play right now. Just...bad idea."
  16. (3:55:46 PM) ***serpentLinguist comes to sit on the floor, leaning back against the bed. "I see. Do you want to talk about what's wrong, or should I try to guess?"
  17. (3:56:49 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "I'm pretty transparent, apparently?"
  18. (3:56:54 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "Let's save you the trouble."
  19. (4:00:06 PM) ventricularPipefitter: A long pause.
  20. (4:00:06 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "Mornei."
  21. (4:00:13 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "And Skye."
  22. (4:01:03 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "Wait, you would'nt know. 'Spenih.'"
  23. (4:02:02 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "...this is the part where you say something."
  24. (4:03:03 PM) ***serpentLinguist nods. "Well, what is there to say? You don't like what they've got going on. Probably feels really sudden. Intrusive. And you're worried about whether she's going into this for the right reasons?"
  25. (4:03:49 PM) serpentLinguist: "Or, am I completely off here?"
  26. (4:09:50 PM) ganothere is now known as genesisArtificer
  27. (4:15:02 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "Yes? No?" He sighs again, face-palming. "You put it like that and suddenly I'm...some sort of jealous stereotype."
  28. (4:15:44 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "I -tried- to be reasonable."
  29. (4:15:55 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "Sitting on how I felt for a month didn't change it."
  30. (4:16:10 PM) serpentLinguist: "Generally it doesn't."
  31. (4:17:04 PM) serpentLinguist: "You're not a stereotype, and if it's true, then it's perfectly reasonable. She's Family to you, it's understandable that you worry about her."
  32. (4:19:24 PM) serpentLinguist: "So. You sat on it, nothing changed, it got worse, and now there's nothing you can do about it. You said something you should have bitten down on, or at least tried to phrase in a manner that /wouldn't/ be as hurtful, and then she stopped talking to you?"
  33. (4:20:51 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "I wasn't worried! I mean. Spenih doesn'--didn't do relationships. Who am I to stop them from being happy? But. She damn well bit my head off."
  34. (4:21:15 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "I can tell when I'm not wanted."
  35. (4:21:19 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "And I'm evidently not needed."
  36. (4:21:38 PM) ventricularPipefitter: [>Ross: Roll over, stare at ceiling.]
  37. (4:26:08 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "Probably should stay away, if I'm going to be saying things like that about someone so evidently important to her."
  38. (4:27:28 PM) serpentLinguist: "Ross. I can almost guarantee she was upset because of something you /said/. You probably hurt her, and she needed her space. I can't think of any reason why /one/ argument would make it so that she would want to cut you out /completely/."
  39. (4:30:10 PM) serpentLinguist: "And just because she's angry with you now doesn't mean you can't apologize to her anyways."
  40. (4:32:12 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "I'd said that she was, that she was being intimate with him just as a tool to help him with his problems."
  41. (4:32:33 PM) serpentLinguist: "I see."
  42. (4:32:37 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "That giving herself away like that made less of what we and the others shared."
  43. (4:32:55 PM) serpentLinguist: "And did she say anything back?"
  44. (4:32:57 PM) ***ventricularPipefitter continues to stare at the ceiling.
  45. (4:35:03 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "Fuck you."
  46. (4:35:08 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "Fuck you and the meteor you rode in on."
  47. (4:35:41 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "And then some."
  48. (4:35:50 PM) serpentLinguist: "Okay, and what was the then some?"
  49. (4:37:27 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "That I didn't understand a thing about what was going on and why. And that if I felt that way, I could go to hell."
  50. (4:37:56 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "And if you need the rest of the sordid details ask Lucid or something, she's got the logs."
  51. (4:38:13 PM) serpentLinguist: "Oh."
  52. (4:38:19 PM) serpentLinguist: "Let's just see..."
  53. (4:40:00 PM) ***serpentLinguist pulls her laptop from her Sylladex and accesses her files, looking for the ones with password locks
  54. (4:40:48 PM) ***serpentLinguist starts typing in "Lucid" into the files until one opens
  55. (4:40:52 PM) serpentLinguist: "Okay, let's see."
  56. (4:42:24 PM) ventricularPipefitter: ((Lucid, of course, is lucidCthonia, a former player and friend of Ross's.))
  57. (4:43:06 PM) serpentLinguist: ((Yep~. And she'll get that detail from him later, talk to LC, get the logs, go back, and put them into a locked file for her to access later.))
  58. (4:43:57 PM) serpentLinguist: "Well."
  59. (4:44:06 PM) ventricularPipefitter: ((...time shenanigans.))
  60. (4:44:15 PM) serpentLinguist: ((Yep~.))
  61. (4:44:16 PM) ventricularPipefitter: ((She's doing a pretty good billl-and-ted there.))
  62. (4:45:18 PM) serpentLinguist: ((That reference is probably a bit before my time.))
  63. (4:46:35 PM) ventricularPipefitter: (( Ah, you've never seen Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure? ))
  64. (4:46:45 PM) ventricularPipefitter: (( Suffice it to say, it involves time travel. ))
  65. (4:47:47 PM) serpentLinguist: "She definitely explained where you hurt her here. She empathized with him because he's in a situation so similar to hers... Did you see it that way?"
  66. (4:53:46 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "It's...one month, three weeks, five days, and I'll-spare-you-the-hours-and-minutes ago, I walk in, and she's...talking him down from a black bleeding fit. By name."
  67. (4:54:09 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "By /name/."
  68. (4:54:38 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "I could have figured if I was paying attention, probably.'
  69. (4:55:05 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "Thought he was just going to be one of another voidkid she mentored."
  70. (4:56:36 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "So."
  71. (4:56:45 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "No. I didn't get it."
  72. (4:57:22 PM) serpentLinguist: "Tell her you didn't consider things in that light. That you didn't mean to infer that, that you would never call her caring wrong."
  73. (4:57:35 PM) serpentLinguist: "That you are sorry for hurting her and that's not what you intended to do."
  74. (4:59:03 PM) ***ventricularPipefitter sits up and gives Echo a -look-
  75. (4:59:08 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "Are you telling me how to apologize?"
  76. (4:59:15 PM) serpentLinguist: "Yes."
  77. (4:59:35 PM) serpentLinguist: "You were an ass, you need to apologize."
  78. (4:59:53 PM) serpentLinguist: "But just saying sorry or simply taking everything back is /not/ going to fly after something like that."
  79. (5:00:04 PM) serpentLinguist: "She told you where you hurt her. Address that."
  80. (5:04:50 PM) ***ventricularPipefitter folds his knees up in front, wraps his arms around. "I still feel...augh. It's so goddamn stupid."
  81. (5:05:30 PM) ***serpentLinguist sits on the bed and wraps her arms around him
  82. (5:05:51 PM) serpentLinguist: "Feelings aren't stupid."
  83. (5:06:48 PM) ***ventricularPipefitter snorts. "Smith of /Heart/. You don't have to tell me."
  84. (5:07:13 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "I don't want to apologize if it isn't completely sincere."
  85. (5:07:28 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "She deserves that much."
  86. (5:07:35 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "And,"
  87. (5:07:49 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "And I still feel threatened by the whole stupid thing."
  88. (5:07:50 PM) serpentLinguist: "And?"
  89. (5:08:01 PM) ***serpentLinguist hugs him a bit tighter
  90. (5:08:26 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "And if we're such failures of friends and family."
  91. (5:08:45 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "Then maybe she's just better off with her moirail."
  92. (5:09:43 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "Observe my knack for stabbing people with knives made of words."
  93. (5:10:14 PM) serpentLinguist: "..."
  94. (5:10:31 PM) serpentLinguist: "You /do/ realize it's her call to make whether she wants you around or not, right?"
  95. (5:12:22 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "Not feeling particularly /wanted/, right now," Ross sulks.
  96. (5:13:20 PM) ***serpentLinguist leans into him and tightens the hug a little more. "Hey, I get it."
  97. (5:14:10 PM) ***ventricularPipefitter relaxes, some. "Yeah?"
  98. (5:14:36 PM) ***serpentLinguist smiles a little. "Yeah."
  99. (5:15:29 PM) serpentLinguist: "Just... try to apologize where you /can/ be sincere. And tell her that you're working on figuring out the rest. And then you can work on figuring out the rest. I'll help with what I can, if you want, or if you need. And I'm sure that... Lucid, was it? Will help you sort things out if you need it, too."
  100. (5:18:19 PM) ***ventricularPipefitter unknots a bit more, letting his legs slide forward and leaning against Echo. "She already sorted me out. Told me to stop being so butthurt."
  101. (5:19:35 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "She is -such- a Mind player."
  102. (5:19:52 PM) serpentLinguist: "I like her already."
  103. (5:20:50 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "We had a hell of a UU in that session. Knight of Heart, Dame of Doom."
  104. (5:20:55 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "All of the ass was kicked."
  105. (5:21:35 PM) ***serpentLinguist smiles "Sounds like it."
  106. (5:26:32 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "I'll try and talk to her."
  107. (5:26:55 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "Skye, that is."
  108. (5:28:44 PM) serpentLinguist: "That's good."
  109. (5:28:48 PM) ***serpentLinguist pauses, then grins.
  110. (5:28:53 PM) serpentLinguist: "...I didn't even need to pull out the bribe cake."
  111. (5:31:15 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "You had cake?"
  112. (5:32:07 PM) ***serpentLinguist pulls out a piece of red velvet and hands it over to him
  113. (5:35:34 PM) ***ventricularPipefitter 's eyes flick down from the cakeand then back up to Echo. "When did I tell you my favorite?"
  114. (5:36:11 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "Also, you make amazing cake."
  115. (5:36:37 PM) ***serpentLinguist smiles, satisfied. "I try."
  116. (5:38:35 PM) ventricularPipefitter: This one is eaten with more restraint, but evident relish.
  117. (5:39:21 PM) serpentLinguist: "I've cut it into pieces. If you've got room and a cooperative sylladex, you can have most of them."
  118. (5:39:34 PM) ***serpentLinguist pulls one out for herself
  119. (5:40:41 PM) ***ventricularPipefitter retrieves his Wallet and fans out the empty cards.
  120. (5:41:16 PM) ***serpentLinguist starts pulling them out, one at a time
  121. (5:41:41 PM) ventricularPipefitter: -alogue!-
  122. (5:42:23 PM) ***serpentLinguist smiles
  123. (5:42:33 PM) serpentLinguist: "There. All but one."
  124. (5:45:42 PM) serpentLinguist: "Raki gets the last one."
  125. (5:52:29 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "He can have it."
  126. (5:52:45 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "Oh! Oh! Reminds me."
  127. (5:52:56 PM) ***ventricularPipefitter slithers out of arms and off the bed.
  128. (5:53:25 PM) ventricularPipefitter: "To the alchemiter. I want to show you how to flip the protein structure so he can eat Non-Doom food..."
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