[HUB ISLAND | ICE BREAKERS]

[spellheal]

Who: Coven Members
Where: Coven Base Camp
When: Day 90
Open/Closed: OTA

You're not doing anything right now, right? Good. Genette's using some of the resources taken from Aimintas to create a little get together. Even if you do have something going on, she's not averse to using a little force to make the evening magical. In fact, the magic is exactly how she's pulling this off. Genette is offering you to a little get together at the base camp, which may be all it takes for you to follow her. If not? Your hand is tethered (or some other part of you) quickly and you're led to the camp anyway. This is important, darn it! What's so important? A little "party" of sorts. There's an assortment of foods, some of which have been hastily made since some groups have gone harvesting for new resources, and a large water basin that's acting as a punch bowl. The true purpose of this little activity is a 'get to know you' exercise of sorts. Genette's got a glass container of a large quantity of Elto bones that can short-circuit the tethers, but the caveat is that you have to participate in a little, tethered sharing circle. (It's honestly a good idea to know who you're stuck within your little makeshift coven, but Genette is the pushy sort when she sets her mind to something.) The way to be released from your Elto shackles? Tell everyone your name, where you're from, your magic (seemingly left a little ambiguous) and something else about yourself. Discussions are encouraged! The more people know, the better! After you're done sharing with the class, food and drink is yours to have -- or you can just run off, that's fine too. OOC: Characters who would have absolutely nothing to do with this can of course escape, whether fleeing in the first place or using Elto bones of their own to circuit out their tether. A ▢ This is it -- your character can breathe deeply, unlock their knees and get this little activity over with. All they have to do is share the criteria and they're free to go! B ▢ Afterwards, their free to stick around the area and mingle. There IS food and also drinks. They may also want to have a more private conversation about something they learned tonight.

Comments

[splinten]

I'm aware of the muscle movements required for smiling.

[But at her next thing there's the—smallest? hint of confusion?]

What? No. That's the actual linguistic history of those words according to my research. You said 'dude' sounded like faeces to you so it made sense that that would be an association that informed how you used it.

[drizzle]

Have you tried it yet?

[There may be a moment of silence as Nike tilts her head, offering him her own confused look, since...]

Yeah, but you could've explained the actual definition from your world, couldn't you? Just because a word sounds one way, it doesn't mean it is the actual definition or proper way to use the word. I rather use the words correctly, then to tarnish their beautiful meaning.

[Nike can't help wonder the reason he didn't try to correct her or explain. He was okay with the idea of being called "dude", feces, whenever he did something wrong when the actual words' definition meant "a person that is just existing" which makes her wonder.]

...I hope I'm wrong, but... [She may as well say it.] Do you have an inferiority complex?

[splinten]

This is pretty difficult to believe, I know. But I've smiled.

[Any further sass is interrupted, however.]

What? Holy shit, no. I thought I'd explained that it wasn't how the word was used. I just believe that language should be used as the speakers see fit.

[he's a descriptivist not a prescriptivist, Nike!!]

[drizzle]

........could you send a picture message of that occurrence as evidence into my mind?

[Because she doesn't believe him otherwise. Unless she was interacting with him wrong, she hasn't seen much emotion other than deadpan, deadpan sass, and a laugh. Now she just needs a smile to fill her Dirk-expression collection.]

Did you? [Give her a moment to look through her memories for that.] ...if it was in the Palai world, then I may have missed it. [Since she can connect with planets to hear and feel their emotions and attitudes and makes assumptions of the personality of the world's natives too. It can get quite loud and she does lose her concentration on paying attention to people when a world wants to overwhelm her mind and body with information.] Huh. I guess I learned something new about you: you don't have a single strict bone in your body, huh?