Day 309 [Open]

[dontyoujustwish]

Who: Anya, Ibuki, Patchouli, and anyone else!
Open: Open! Mostly.
When: Day 309
Where: All over the Bastion
What: SNOW!
Format: I'll match
Warnings: It's Anya.

[For Ibuki and Patchouli]
[Sometime after lunch, Anya takes off to look for two of her best lady friends with a spellbook under her arm and some key ingredients in her pockets.

She's quite cheerful about it, a little oblivious to whatever else might have been going on lately. Cheerful, and insistent. She will track you down.]


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[Later in the day, Bastionites may be surprised to look up and notice that... it's snowing. Not only that, but the temperature has dropped.

At least in the more southerly parts of the Bastion. The farmlands might get a few sporadic flurries, but it isn't cold enough there to stick.

So if you've been missing snowmen or snowball fights or any of those activities that require winter to happen, now's your chance. It's probably not going to last very long.]

((OOC: And feel free to just use this post for mingling!]

Comments

[four_quarts]

Demon? No my dear, this is a Gorgon; while certainly dangerous, it's a perfectly normal bit of wildlife. My niece was rather fond of them.

[It's the little things that serve as a reminder that beyond looking passably like an elf, he's kinda sorta technically a space alien.]

[dontyoujustwish]

Gorgons are demons where I come from, but they don't look like that.

[four_quarts]

Hm. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. [And now he's adding flippers to the thing.] Different places will inevitably have the same name for very different things.

What are your gorgons like?

[dontyoujustwish]

I never did meet one in person, and you know it's mostly hear-say since looking at them turns you to stone, but they're generally agreed to be women with snakes for hair.

No flippers.

[four_quarts]

Minus the snakes, that sounds a bit like Xenobia. She had to make a conscious effort to turn others to stone, but she was rather fond of making statues of those that displeased her.

...In hindsight, I'm not sure if the fact that they were still alive during the entire ordeal made that little habit better or worse.

[In some cases it was definitely for the better, but still.]

[dontyoujustwish]

Oh, that sounds delightful. Frozen in stone forever but still alive and aware? It would drive most men insane.

[Yeah she's. thinking about her vengeance days.]

[four_quarts]

Not precisely forever given that it was tied to her lifeforce, but easily long enough to drive anyone mad. It was part of why she commanded such respect and fear as a leader.

[...Come to think of it, he can't entirely remember if he'd actually mentioned that his people are largely matriarchal before. Ah well.]

[dontyoujustwish]

I think I would have liked her.

[four_quarts]

[His smile slowly turns a little strained (and perhaps even slightly nervous?) at the thought of the two meeting.]

Under different circumstances, I'm sure she would have felt the same. As it is, I fear the chance of that meeting ending the way things ended for Latona far to high for my comfort.

[Everything in his tone and body language says that the event he was referring to was preeeetty bad.]

[dontyoujustwish]

Who's Latona and what happened to them?

[Details, man. Anya can handle "pretty bad." Especially since it's not actually happening to her.]

[four_quarts]

Latona was something of an older sister to me, though what she really wanted was to be my sister-in-law. Since my brother died without ever acknowledging her affections, and this, combined with an inability to accept that we were remnants of a bygone era, slowly drove her mad.

To spare you the details, the Guildmistress was eventually forced to immolate Latona in self defense. Not a fun thing to witness before you've even hit puberty.

...I'm sure you can see how this relates to Xenobia.

[dontyoujustwish]

Actually I'm not really sure since you skipped the details, but is this an uncomfortable topic for you? Would you prefer not to talk about it?

[Look how sensitive she's being.]

[four_quarts]

[You are a gem, Anya. This is why you are his favorite currently living person.]

Yes, I think we should change topics. It's much too nice a day to be thinking about all the people I've managed to outlive after a fashion.

[He claps his hands together and goes back to smiling.]

So, how did you go about creating a temporary change in the weather?

[dontyoujustwish]

I am a witch, you know. Even if I haven't been a regularly practicing one in some time.

[four_quarts]

Oh no, I'm quite aware of that, my dear; what I wanted to know was what specifically you did to achieve this since I'm sure it's rather different than what I might have done.

[dontyoujustwish]

It wasn't terribly complicated. Form a circle, light a candle, do a little incantation.

Maybe you should join us next time.