spellbinders | [HUB ISLAND

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.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[hey what's up doc, your patient clearly has no idea who you are]

Oh. Lucky. I don't like cats, but they're useful sometimes. If they're good. I'm still better.

[than...cats...]

[ what's up lalli, last time jude saw you you were unconscious! ]

You're still...

[ what is he even talking about? jude squints in confusion before something clicks. ]

Wait, you're Lalli, aren't you?

[STILL BETTER THAN CATS]

Mrh? [That catches him off guard until he remembers that this is a meet and greet. He obviously already heard his name! That's all. Ha ha. Yeah.] ...Yes. I am.

[why...]

I'm Jude. I treated you once— you were unconscious, and your friend Emil was worried sick. That's how I met him, actually.

[ congrats, he made a new friend thanks to your pain and suffering! ]

[Stares...until it clicks. Aha, that time. He thinks he remembers Emil saying something about a doctor... Kind of figured he'd be older. Oh well, doesn't matter.]

He's like that a lot. It's fine. [...er] I didn't need to be treated.

[ jude just grins. this is more or less what he expected. ]

Pretty sure he said you'd say something like that, too.

Emil seems to really care about you a lot, you know. He's a good friend.

[He stills, because that's easier than squirming.]

I know. You don't have to...teach me.

[Since this is obviously some weird lecture.]

Teach you?

[ jude puzzles over this. ]

I'm not trying to...

...Then I don't understand why you're telling me.

[hoo boy.]

Well... wouldn't anyone be happy to hear that somebody treasures them so much? I know I would be.

[staaaaares.]

[ stares....... ]

Hello... ?

[stares for a couple more seconds, then blinks out of it.]

Mrh.

[It was weird to hear, which has surprised him, but it wasn't exactly wrong either, which surprised him even more.]

Saying things like that...feels weird. But I guess I never had to before. [Is he supposed to now...?]

How is it weird? I'm not sure I understand.

I mean... maybe you've never had to because it just goes without saying. A bond like that is special.

[suppresses a sigh at the fact that his verbal tic is coming back to haunt him so much here]

Um. Weird to me because it's different.

[This may or may not be the context for weird the next time he says it. It's an easily accessible word for him.]

I've never had to because it's never happened before. He's...the only one.

[ jude mulls over the weight of those words. ]

Then he must be even more special to you than I could come to understand.

And the opposite is true, too.

[Well, Lalli certainly doesn't understand it, so this description checks out.]

The opposite...?

I should have been more clear. What I mean is that... it's a great thing to be just as important to someone as they are to you. A rare and precious thing.

Oh. [...] Yes, I guess so.

[His mind is still kind of in a state of constant ?????? when it comes to this topic.]

...I think if I tell him that, he'll think I'm sick again. And I don't really want to.

Hmm?

[ jude tilts his head, a little baffled by the idea of emil not taking lalli seriously. ]

But... why would he think that?

Because last time I said and did weird stuff that I don't do, I got really warm or something. I thought I was poisoned.

[Because that makes the most sense.]

... I think you might have been having a different reaction altogether.

[ a wry smile as jude shakes his head. these two... ]

[He narrows his eyes a little, like studying Jude closely will let him skip asking to get all the information he needs. Really, though...]

I'm just glad it hasn't happened again. It's too weird.

Well, weird or not, I can assure you that you don't have to worry about being poisoned by feelings.

[He makes...some kind of noise at that. It's a little hard to distinguish, but it's probably sort of a disdainful scoff-grumble?]

I didn't worry about emotions poisoning me. I thought I was poisoned into feeling them, and doing weird stuff. Because it wasn't normal.

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