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[godmaker]

WHO: Neuvillette and You (TM)
WHERE: The Libra App
WHEN: End of November
WHAT: Local judge seeks the advice of an impartial forum (Asking for a friend. Who is definitely not him). Please be gentle.
WARNINGS: Some swearing

( aita for being reasonable :-( )

[ -- //Closed Threads ]

[lowestclass]

WHO: Jinwoo + some of his friends/coworkers
WHERE: Several Places in Kaisou
WHEN: the first two are backdated to november, the third is mid-december
WHAT: A well-needed talk, a sidequest, and a christmas gift gone wrong
WARNINGS: probably some heavy talk about past lives in the one with Lapis+Jusis

//__- a well needed talk (Closed to Lapis + Jinwoo + Jusis )||

[ there's something uniquely uncomfortable about being here--doing this. Long time ago; he'd settled himself with the idea that the Black Order was his home; he had nowhere else because he didn't have anyone else. The contract he'd signed took away his family, his life--and he'd started to just let the idea that this was his life now sink into his bones.

It's amazing how those sorts of feelings can be shaken when you create new bonds with people; after convincing yourself that, much like your past life, you were always destined to Go Solo.
Which is why he'd asked for this meeting. Standing in front of Jusis' desk, part of him wanting to sink back and disappear into the shadows to avoid any sort of difficult talk.

He wasn't built for this. And yet. It was a conversation that needed to be done. ]

...Have you gone yourself, Jusis-nim? To the Library of Alexandria? [ he'll start here, he supposes. ] Reading a book on your own past life. ...I think it was a bad idea, but.

Lapis and I did it anyway. And we've started to ... suspect some things about our contracts with the order.
I suppose this whole thing...

I want to discuss our worries. Given the recent events, and the talks I've had with Zhongli-nim.

I think it's very dangerous for Lapis and I to continue our lives in the Order. In the future.

//__- a misadventure in mint (Closed to Lapis + Jinwoo )||

[ The most plant life he's ever taken care of in his life is his Bonsai tree. It was a quiet delicate thing--and he'd worried it would have died on his way over from florida, but it was flourishing.

But nearly not as much as all this mint was flourishing. Good fucking god. This is the third house they've been to, and the little tiny sprigs that have been very quietly poked into corners of several gardens on this street have already started to spread and grow into bigger, bushier little plants that were absolutely at risk of starting to spread into a full lawn.

Fortunately, the cold weather was making it so they weren't flourishing SO quickly. Thank god for that.

Equipped with a small spade, he's going to start to dig up the third plant since they started--waving lapis over to bring one of the little terracotta pots they'd brought to re-home the things. ]

If these had been planted during the summer...

I think they might be out of control by now.

//__- calculating risks (Closed to Ritsuka + Jinwoo )||

[ it's odd, getting used to life in the city again after spending nearly two months out to sea, and it's especially rough when you've come home to. A goddamn mess of a city that was definitely not this Fucked Up when you left.

He knows part of the issue had been dropping that giant dragon they'd been aiming to go rescue in the middle of the city--but it wasn't the only part of the city that'd been messed the hell up.

Maybe that's part of why he'd asked Ritsuka to meet up--he wanted to ask one of his few friends outside of the order what happened, as well as deliver a gift to her--some chocolate he'd bought in Denmark, and a gift meant to be saved until Christmas.

Both items are carefully packed away in a little bag he carries, and he stands outside one of the few cafes that wasn't goddamned destroyed during the demon's rampage through the city, waiting for his red-headed friend to arrive.

...Little does he know that the gift he brought comes with another, less desirable gift. ]

[treasure 5] instructions unclear, am standing in a field mildly on fire

[throwmoreswords]

WHO: Gilgamesh, the network, you?
WHERE: a network post and the Hyrule stable gate
WHEN: handwavey early December for the post, throughout the month of December for the hiking adventures
WHAT: sometimes you're the CEO of a lot of different shit and your secretary was really good at her job so you didn't realize exactly how much work you got to ignore because she did the sorting for you and it's only a matter of time before someone calls a coup and also your happy place is out in the wilderness for totally legitimate reasons not even slightly related to wandering around with your dead best friend from a former life. really.
WARNINGS: none off the top of my head

un; AUO, voice post; on the network itself

As Ms. Takamaki has decided to focus on her studies, I find myself wholly reminded of exactly how invaluable a competent secretary truly is; therefore--

[ he sounds terribly put upon, with a long-suffering drawl that it is incredibly certain of how important it is and within a few seconds of it anyone familiar with Vergil Vittore will hear him in the background, cutting in with a 'get to the point, Gilgamesh'.

the silence drags for a moment, as if it means to coalesce and launch itself at the secondary participant's head. then Gilgamesh sucks in a breath, sucks his teeth, and speaks again. ]

I'm hiring. Must be eighteen or older, send over any references or previous experience secretarial work. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to ask employment advice from the man who just hired employees for the first time this year, since he clearly knows everything about successful staffing and I simply must pick his brain for the soundest of advice.

[ somebody's gonna wish he'd simply insulted how Gilgamesh was dressed again. ]

in Hyrule; because sometimes you want to touch grass and harass the locals

[ legally distinct from Hallmark movies and dear friends who refuse to let you duck out of your responsibilities are temporary, but nature is forever. Gilgamesh likes nature, and he's got a habit of finding his way out to the Hyrule stable gate to do nature things--running, jumping, climbing trees, looking for weird leaf children while he's up there. any other roamers are perfectly fine to find the king out and about--carrying rocks around, or standing on piles of logs, or crunching through an apple as he considers a line of statues and their current offering situation, or if they're truly fortunate, they might find the king by a fire, putting some actual decent cooking skills to use?

and if they're even luckier, they might find the king... seeing the other side of his luck, for what has Luck EX must also experience the back half of being the man ahead of the bell curve.

climbing through hills and plains and trees and the like have their consequences, but usually Gilgamesh is too solitary to let other people see them--but if you time it right, you might catch him dangled from a tree, or going ass over end down a hill, doing an okay doggy-paddle in the river, or having made the dumb decision to venture into a cave and ending up stuck like some of my spicier fanfics.

'tis the season for the king and the pauper to be equals, after all; karma is magnanimous, meticulous, and malicious. ]