Event: Day 343 [open]

[bastionpc]

Who: everyone, and some NPCs
Open: Open
When: Day 343
Where: The bastion, the lagoon, and the ura camp
What: the pieces are starting to fall together
Format: action
Warnings: none

See individual threads within the post for scene starters.

Comments

[scary_music]

[Ibuki's not exactly the best liar, either]

Ibuki's not hearing any better ideas, and she can't think of anything better!

[bastionpc]

A drink's not a bad idea, it might help him relax a bit. Bein' around a pretty lady wouldn't hurt either.

[fuckthemancers]

Then I suppose it's decided. Anya, if you would do the honors...?

[Go get Nate drunk for a good cause.]

[dontyoujustwish]

[She points a finger at Zahi.]

You- are very sweet.

[And now she's gonna bang her bottle down before she gets up to go.]

Let's do this.

[scary_music]

Ibuki will be cheering for you, Anyan-chan!

[bastionpc]

[Zahi winks at Anya.

Then he indicates to Zulf and Ibuki.]

You two stay here and let her work her magic. We'll be waiting for a report back.

[scary_music]

Aw, Ibuki wanted to inconspicuously watch...

[dontyoujustwish]

Oh, no.

If I have to seduce him, I don't want an audience.

But thank you for your support.

[She gives Ibuki a stiff pat on the shoulder, takes her booze and... wait, goes back to grab another bottle. Then takes her booze and heads out.]

[scary_music]

Don't forget the condoms!!

[...]

[fuckthemancers]

Ibuki thank you now stop.

[bastionpc]

[Zahi is still cracking up, though he winces because laughing makes his eye hurt.]

She's not going to actually do anything, Ibuki. Just get him drunk, and get him to talk.

[Or so he thinks

By the way Nathaniel is by the monument, looking pissy and angrily working on coding something.]

[dontyoujustwish]

[Don't worry, Ibuki. Anya always has condoms.

She observes Nathaniel from a short distance before approaching to offer him the unopened bottle.]

Here. You look like you could use a drink.

[Pissy angry people can definitely stand to relax.]

[bastionpc]

[Normally he would say no, because drinking and working are not a good combination, but today he makes an exception and takes the bottle.]

Thanks. It's good to know at least SOMEONE around here isn't an ass.

[He's not mad at you Anya, he's mad at other people. Like Zahi.]

[dontyoujustwish]

No, I just possess an exceptionally fine one.

[You can look, she won't stop you.]

So what happened? No one broke the monument, did they?

[bastionpc]

No, that's fine, it's just...

[He sighs and deflates a bit.]

I work my ass off to keep everything going here. Would it kill someone to maybe say 'thank you' instead of 'what you made is crap, fix it'?

[dontyoujustwish]

The people who do the most for a community are often unappreciated. People feel entitled to things like living, and not falling out of the sky, and if you even bring up material compensation, it's considered immoral.

It must be very frustrating for you.

[bastionpc]

Just a little bit, yeah.

[He's going to down a huge drink of that booze.]

...I didn't mean to hit him.

[Anya didn't say anything about it, but with the bottles from the distillery, he can guess how she even knew to come over here in the first place.]

[dontyoujustwish]

Who, Zahi?

He probably deserved it. [Let's face it, he's a man. You all deserve to be punched for something.] What did he say anyway?

[bastionpc]

He DID deserve it. But I shouldn't be punching people just because they're jerks.

He was giving me grief about the amulets again! Telling me to fix this, fix that, why aren't things translating right, that sort of thing. And he got really annoying about it, and I've been so busy with altering the land function, I just lost it and punched him.

[dontyoujustwish]

That seems reasonable. So what if the amulets aren't translating perfectly? People could just put in a little effort to learn the local language and then we wouldn't even need them, would we?

[bastionpc]

It wouldn't even have to be the local language, if we could all just agree on one to focus on. But he kept focusing on that 'first son' business. I told him, you just have to look at the context clues. But he wouldn't believe me when I said that I thought it was 'Pyth' that was being mistranslated.

[dontyoujustwish]

I'd say going by a god's name was conceited, but we are talking about a man.

Have you ever spoken to him yourself?

[bastionpc]

Who, Zahi? Yeah, we talk pretty frequently. Usually about stuff to keep the Bastion running. What needs to be done, how many resources we need, stuff like that. As annoying as he can get, he's actually pretty good at micromanaging people.

[dontyoujustwish]

[...Nate, we were just talking about your conversation with Zahi.]

No, no, I mean the boy who calls here sometimes talking about "First Son."

[bastionpc]

[The stress and booze is affecting his brain ok.]

Oh. ...no, I don't think I ever did.