ain't seen the light since we started this band ( open )

[willrevile]

Who: Jim Kirk (willrevile) & others
What: Plot + adjacent stuff. My plotting comment is over here if you'd like to do something specific, otherwise I have a general open starter.
When: March!
Where: Mostly Wyver, probably.
Warning(s): TBA.


that cut was a fakeout sry.

Comments

[willrevile]

I feel you.

[ Fighting against it, if not living in it. The bartender is finally giving him a bit of a look, and Jim raises a hand, nods. Alright, alright, he'll have a beer. He looks over at his companion, eyebrows up. Want a drink?

Once that's settled-- ] Jim Kirk, by the way. Nice to meet you.

[maipokerface]

Another one.

[Mai slides her cup over and... it's tea. Green tea.]

Mai.

[willrevile]

[ Another green tea it is. Jim smiles. It takes all kinds; probably, he should ease up on drinking intoxicants in Wyver anyway, but eh, it's a bar, and he'll go ahead and earn his keep (and points with the proprietor). ]

Mai. [ He nods. ] So - whether they end up with one group or the other, are you thinking about joining up with the effort to look for the shamans who ducked out?

[maipokerface]

[Mai takes a moment to think about the question.]

Maybe. I'll be honest, I've kept my hands out of most of this - well, beyond doing a little drinking during the celebrations.

[And fighting a little, you know how it is.]

It's not been my place since I'm a refugee and all. And I have other things I care about more than what the masses want to do to each other around here.

[Her sleeping family and all of her close friends on the space station. They matter far more to her than any petty squabbles between populaces down here ever could.]

How about you?

[willrevile]

Supposedly this is our home now, [ Jim points out. ] We're not just transient guests. Whatever upstairs might think about it [ how do you code word the Natha? jeez ] we do have to live here, and we aren't free from being impacted. It's definitely our business.

[ Neutrality is really only achievable by becoming a mediator, in Jim's opinion. Otherwise it's just inaction wearing the guise of neutrality, which causes a whole host of problems. ]

I'm giving it a go. It's not right that they just get to bail, after everything that happened.

[maipokerface]

[Our home. There's a twist of guilt in her heart at that idea. Rows and rows, pods and pods of sleeping people and yet it's her that wakes up, only her. And she gets a new home, does she?

Mai easily enough leaves her thoughts as just that, her expression mild and just slightly annoyed.]

No kidding. Whether they're the ones definitely at fault or not, it's only right they be caught and questioned about it at the very least.

[willrevile]

[ Jim understands that particular unspoken sentiment very well. ]

Yeah. And I hope they do get questioned - I guess that's something worth thinking about, what faction would be the most likely to leave them alive for further investigation.

[ Wyver is ... awfully cool with excessive violence. ]

[maipokerface]

Olympia. Definitely Olympia.

[She doesn't hesitate in saying that, very bluntly, because she very bluntly agrees with him.]

Well, maybe. They aren't exactly friendly if they don't like you.