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[closed] i'll sing you songs until the darkness does recede
WHO: Noctis, Caleb, Wei Wuxian, and Harumasa aka the D&D gang
WHERE: their DM's place!
WHEN: uhhh sometime in early February?
WHAT: white boy beatdown go! or: Wei Wuxian and Caleb found out about a few key aspects of Noctis's past life he kept under wraps. Harumasa is about to find out.
WARNINGS: FFXV spoilers, mentions of canon major character death, very likely mentions of war and violence and parental death. will edit if there are more warnings that come up.
[The DM calls for a break, and steps outside to have a lunch somewhere nice. Noctis yawns, stretches his back, and looks over his character sheet with a critical eye and a sigh.]
Right, if we're headed out of the hell dimension after this rest, I should take Plane Shift...ah, how many charges is the sword again? [He rolls some dice, notes it down in his sheet with the slightest wince. Then he starts rolling dice again, and carefully puts the lower-rolling dice into a box labeled Dice Jail (do not touch unless you want cursed dice rolls).
You know, business as usual.]
So how're you finding the city? [absently addressing Harumasa.]
WHERE: their DM's place!
WHEN: uhhh sometime in early February?
WHAT: white boy beatdown go! or: Wei Wuxian and Caleb found out about a few key aspects of Noctis's past life he kept under wraps. Harumasa is about to find out.
WARNINGS: FFXV spoilers, mentions of canon major character death, very likely mentions of war and violence and parental death. will edit if there are more warnings that come up.
[The DM calls for a break, and steps outside to have a lunch somewhere nice. Noctis yawns, stretches his back, and looks over his character sheet with a critical eye and a sigh.]
Right, if we're headed out of the hell dimension after this rest, I should take Plane Shift...ah, how many charges is the sword again? [He rolls some dice, notes it down in his sheet with the slightest wince. Then he starts rolling dice again, and carefully puts the lower-rolling dice into a box labeled Dice Jail (do not touch unless you want cursed dice rolls).
You know, business as usual.]
So how're you finding the city? [absently addressing Harumasa.]
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What they said. I'm still gonna kick your ass over this, but maybe just in Mario Kart.
[He is not a wordy sort of person. His friends--he has those now--are much better at it, so he does what he does best. Physical affection.]
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[Noctis leans on Caleb as well, ruffling his hair and then just loosely hugging him.]
Yeah, I'll give you that free win, all things considered. [He never lets anybody else win at Mario Kart when he really gets going, so that's big.] Harumasa's not...wrong, that it was a dick move. But it made sense to me, at the time—everything in Lucis that made it so necessary to use the Arms and the Ring so often just...isn't the case here. And I didn't want you all to think I was living on a timer because of them—I'm not. That only happens with regular use. The Kings of Lucis wore the ring all the time to maintain the protection of the kingdom, I barely even break it out of its safe. The Arms...
[A breath.]
They're powerful. It's the sort of power you don't bring to bear against anything but the worst of threats. So unless another apocalypse hits the city, or someone else gets dragged into the Spirit Realm, they're not coming out of my closet, either. [That should be a fine compromise, right? How many times does somebody get yanked into the Spirit Realm by murderous Black Order members in a year anyway?
A pause.]
Oh, yeah—DM ran out of peach Coke literally three hours before the game, something about, uh, an old photographer buddy swinging by and grabbing all of it? Sounded annoyed about it. I thought I texted it into the group chat. [He did! He was also so sleepy it came out sounding like absolute nonsense.]
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He was also the prophesied Accursed, bringing the darkness with him. But before that—he was a good king, just...not the one Bahamut wanted. [Noctis speaks about Bahamut as neutrally as possible, because if he doesn't he's pretty sure he'll curse out the god himself, and he's not exactly about to invoke his wrath any time soon, so.]
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[D&D friends super don't need to know about how far he's willing to go to protect the people he cares about.]
So, your power from your past life will most likely kill you if you're not wise about how you use them. I'd settle for you never using them, but you may have your hand forced as you said. From the sounds of it, this city is good at that.
[Harumasa takes a swig of his coke before saying:]
You know what you need to do, right? Strengthen your own elemental power and rely on Caleb and Wuxian's strength to fill in the gaps?
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[Ardyn's got a bit of explaining to do as well. That'll be something to grill him about later.
For now, Wei Wuxian just let out a sigh again.]
There's plenty of places around to practice that more. We're gonna be in the wilderness a lot too to find Everstone and the like.
[...]
And Caleb's being nice about it, but I'm still gonna kick your ass.
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[He will interrupt your fishing trips for a month, sir.]
But yeah. I know I'm not your POKEGO mentor, but I'm a full member so...yeah. I dunno.
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[Which...huh, that was when Noctis himself had first gotten the app on his phone. Has it really been that long?]
...I do have—I don't know what they're called, one of those magic rock things? Not the one Sam has, or we'd be having a very different discussion. [And he pulls his Cryo Vision off his hip. It also glows a gentle blue, a different shade from Lucian magic.] I guess I could use that more.
[He thinks, suddenly, of what Cid had said, once. Those ain’t your bodyguards, they’re your brothers. Trust in ’em. Always. Even without the weight of his destiny or the crown on him, Noctis has always meant a lot to the people he loves, hasn't he. And he keeps fucking doing this to them. Gladio would be furious, by now, would be shaking some sense into him.
...well, least he's spared that, much as he misses the guy. He breathes out.]
Yeah, we can work on it in Hyrule and Kanto. And I know there's a fight club in the city.
[As for the ass-kicking, he just makes a face.]
Can we save the ass-kicking I'm gonna get for after we get that Everstone? [So at the very least Sam can also get in on it.]
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[No fucking thank you, dude. He's pretty sure even if he did choose the Crystal Tower to live in, his siblings would've made him move to literally anywhere else so that he wouldn't get caught up in the next Crystal Tower infestation. Given his condition, that might make it extremely dangerous for him.]
I dunno anything about those magic rocks, but if it's not dangerous to you then use it. We'll need every tool we can get to prepare for a flux in Spirit Realm activity. Plus, if it keeps you from needing to use the Royal Arms, then it's best to practice with it so you feel less need to go nuclear.
If we need to get some ranged target practice in, I can see what Wriothesley can spare.
[Harumasa grins and waves his hand when it comes to the last question.]
That's up to Wuxian! Give him one from me, won't you? I think I'd break my hand on his perfectly sculpted face.
[He's very much joking, though Noctis is very handsome. The man can cut glass with those cheekbones!]