spellbinders | whoops

Who: Geir, Vern & you!
Where: Shehui (various)
When: Day 196 (backdated to just before the telepathic fail hijinks)
Open/Closed: Mostly open!

i. setting it up (closed to geir)

[this is it. they've spent days discreetly smuggling a small heap of Palai bones one by one to a public park in a less-busy area of the city. with traffic drawn away from it by the festival, and minimal risk of anyone actually getting hurt, it's time to finish up their plan and place the final bones. one to be the trigger, one as bait for the monitors...

they peer down the street.]

...I think we can go.

ii. kaboom (open)

[and if you're in that sector of the city today, you're likely to hear a thunderclap of noise and see a brilliant flash of light coming from said park. Shehui citizens and visitors around you exclaim and turn to look, and you may see monitors making their way through the streets to the source...

Vern speaks telepathically through the entire coven's signets before the dust of the explosion's even settled, voice clipped and abrupt]

Vern and Geir here. If you're walking the city today, don't go near-- [he names the neighbourhood of the park.] If you're already near it, don't actually go to the park; make sure there are eyewitnesses that you weren't there at this time. You don't know anything about this, you weren't involved. All right?

iii. in the aftermath (open)

[Geir and Vern don't actually get themselves arrested; they're on the ground floor of the coven house as usual that evening, if you want to ask them questions face to face in a reasonably private space. they look kind of pleased with themselves...? mission success?]

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N-no, I don't think we need to tear any buildings up if it can be avoided. And we can definitely avoid it in this scenario! Just because we don't like it here doesn't mean we have to make it annoying for everyone else.

If this was a situation where they were actually hurting us I'd go for it, but you're right, they're mostly just doing their jobs.

[sighs]

I hate big cities. I hope we go to a desert next.

[she nods along until he says "desert"]

Why a desert? A forest with no people would be better. Finding a water source big enough for the whole coven and Geir in a desert would be terrible.

Obviously I'm thinking of an ideal desert where we have sufficient water. I'll take a forest, though? But just...somewhere that isn't an enclosed bowl of people.

Just say that, then! There are plenty of places without people. Where I'm from sometimes it seems like there's more wilderness than there are villages. It seems more surprising to me that there are places like this in the world, just full of people.

Got get annoyed with me when I say I don't like people!

[:T]

...most of our cities are near the coastline. But they're smaller than this.

I'm slowly learning to accept that part of you! Don't make me change my mind.

[huffs!!!]

...The capital and the palace are big where I'm from, and so are a lot of the port cities along the coast that might be as big as this. But otherwise most villages are very small. That's probably similar to your cities, so I can see why it would get overwhelming if you're not used to it.

[*you get annoyed, my typing ability is incredible

also ew are we bonding]

...it's not like I haven't stayed in cities before. But not this long, and the combination of being on a payment system to stay and not knowing where you go when you leave is just...ugh.

[does agreeing about something count as bonding]

I'd rather just leave. Nobody wants us here, and I don't particularly want to be here! The hub was preferable, even if it is just an island floating in space.

[it could]

...yeah, I'd rather just stay on the hub. But as long as our fearless kidnapper needs to be fed magic...

She can't be fed magic if she's in hiding! Or kidnapped.

[it would serve her right to be kidnapped, actually]

...It's not the most charitable thought, but if the government has kidnapped her caravan I hope it makes her reflect upon her actions at least a little bit. So far she hasn't done much except inconvenience us and inconvenience the worlds that she throws us on. There's got to be a better way to get the magic that she's looking for.

I don't actually mind the time away for myself and Geir, but our circumstances are pretty unique.

I wonder how long we have to wait to have that actual conversation with her.

She made it seem like she'd speak to us as soon as she could. Since she could say that much it shouldn't be long.

...What kind of a unique situation makes it so that you don't care if you're at home or not?

It's really more Geir's story to tell than mine, but basically we were hiding out at home anyway.

[she could make commentary about how they're both hiding out in their home countries and reluctantly concede that maybe they have something in common

but, instead of that,]

If you're hiding out I bet it's because of something that you did, not Geir. So it's just as much your story to tell.

[just gives her a look]

What I did was summon Geir.

Oh.

That's not as bad as I was expecting, really.

[sure he's supposed to destroy the world or something, but she likes Geir]

[shrugging]

It's better for him. I wouldn't take it back. It's just, it's hard to hide from his family.

And I guess talking to them isn't an option either. They don't sound like reasonable people.

[she hasn't heard everything, but she has heard that much]

Hiding on another world for a while probably isn't the worst option you could have.

No, not really. It's a favor, in a way...? Too bad Qri hasn't given me any direct reason to trust her.

I'm doing my best to withhold any judgement on her and her motivations until I speak to her in person. But...I would like that time to come sooner rather than later.

What did you do on your world when you weren't hiding from Geir's family?

Wander.

[look that's the boring answer but he really don't want to get into it]

Also, good luck. She said she'd 'talk to us next time' . . . months ago, now.

[give her the juicy details!!! she frowns, not happy with his response, but she does stop probing about his life on his world. she does at least sympathize that it might be hard to talk about.]

Well...it'll happen eventually! In this case it might not be all her fault that she hasn't spoken to us, if she's been kidnapped.

'If' is the question there, though . . . we really don't know if she just floated off on her own.

That would be definitive enough of her character on her own, so I'm hoping that isn't the case.

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