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letsplayamurder2025-08-24 06:24 pm
brokenhabit) wrote in letsplayamurder2025-08-24 06:24 pm
Afterparty
[ After the reunions have been had Lebkuchen finds a moment to compose herself, clearing her throat to get everyone's attention. ]
I think we ought to leave this place before our pathetic excuse of a Titan rears his ugly head once more. We can recuperate and mourn our losses... but also celebrate our win, [ She gives Aoi another squeeze to make it clear who she means ] before we move on to whatever happens next.
Give me a little time and I'll prepare something in the eatery for everyone.
[ It feels weird to have one of these not in the bar (even though her ass was almost always somewhere else after these ordeals) but she's certain it would feel even worse to be in the bar with Quark not there (even without her knowing that's where their bodies were found).
And so true to her word the eatery is eventually full of the usual spread of homemade treats Lebkuchen has been know for. Some of them were made the day before she poofed but are still perfectly good, however eventually some fresh ones do appear as well. Some of them have some leaves stuck to them though... probably because the kitchen is full of Lebkuchen's vines hard at work making everything for her. Oh well, it's extra nutrients!
She's also brought up several bottles from the bar because dunno about you but she's going to drink. ]
I think we ought to leave this place before our pathetic excuse of a Titan rears his ugly head once more. We can recuperate and mourn our losses... but also celebrate our win, [ She gives Aoi another squeeze to make it clear who she means ] before we move on to whatever happens next.
Give me a little time and I'll prepare something in the eatery for everyone.
[ It feels weird to have one of these not in the bar (even though her ass was almost always somewhere else after these ordeals) but she's certain it would feel even worse to be in the bar with Quark not there (even without her knowing that's where their bodies were found).
And so true to her word the eatery is eventually full of the usual spread of homemade treats Lebkuchen has been know for. Some of them were made the day before she poofed but are still perfectly good, however eventually some fresh ones do appear as well. Some of them have some leaves stuck to them though... probably because the kitchen is full of Lebkuchen's vines hard at work making everything for her. Oh well, it's extra nutrients!
She's also brought up several bottles from the bar because dunno about you but she's going to drink. ]
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[also yeah, she is absolutely gonna keep hating Seymour]
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I do not know his full story, but I know he was hated in his own world. Of course, that doesn't justify vicious murder.
As I said, I didn't go through with it, when I was given the chance.
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[What would she know about being influenced so heavily about the people around you, and what isolation and loneliness might do to someone.]
[haha]
[Those are thoughts for never, if she has a choice.]
I can't really care about the why. He killed Quark, he killed Aoi, he tried to kill me and everyone else here. You didn't.
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I've... thought about it.
What would happen if I ascended. What if I became the Ascendant, and Tav left me?
I would likely be motivated to do the same as Seymour. And I wouldn't regret it at all.
It isn't a thought I would have had at all, had I not come here.
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[She doesn't sound argumentative- well, certainly less so than she had at trial, for however low a bar that might be.]
What if I'd been at the bar last night.
[That one sounds a little bitter. Or a lot.]
You gonna obsess about stuff like that just as much? Sooner or later it's just- staring into the water and sticking your head in to get closer to the reflection.
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Point taken.
I... offered to bring Seymour to my world. As an undead, he would have been quite at home within the fortress.
It's a shame. A shame he fell for Typhon's poisonous words.
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[Just. Just.]
I- it sure fuckin' SOUNDS LIKE he had someone and decided to be a nihilistic asshole anyway.
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He'd been in league with Typhon before Zvei decided to kill several people and leave him completely alone.
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So he had, at separate points, two people in his corner and never rip-corded out of the deal with the guy that was almost definitely gonna backstab him sooner or later.
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He looked... peaceful, when he died.
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...are you blaming yourself for him going nuts? For not being ENOUGH of that person he needed or whatever?
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I'm saying there was never a chance any of us could have helped him. It was probably too late long before he came here.
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[She had been, as has been pointed out this very day, pretty darn alone before coming here too.]
[That's another thought that's going into the vault for now. Kerploop.]
Well. Whatever the reasons. I still think you're different from him. Different enough, at least. I've fi- I do have some people, here, and he's the one that tried taking all of it away.
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But in the grand scheme of things I've done far, far worse than killing two people. Even two people I have spent two months with.
So I can't hate him.
[At least, not without hating himself even more than he already does.]
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[It got her suspected of murdering her dad and best friend recently, it was a thing.]
Like- neither you nor him are alone in doing a bunch of stuff people would probably call "evil".
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If we find a way, would you be willing to save him? To save Zvei?
We know it's possible, now.
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[Like. She would really rather not.]
Not just because of the odds of them stabbing us all in the back again. But, you know. It's not gonna be just my fucking vote.
[There's. Just a half-second's glance in Aoi's direction. Towards the bar where Quark would be, where he'd stood mixing drinks at those first afterparties.]
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After all, his experience with Quark is.... quite different. He'd been the messenger for two self-sacrificing idiots and Quark had taken it out on Astarion.
He understands Quark was important to the others, but had no real relationship with the man.]
...if there's a way, I will do it. Even if I'm the only one.
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[That's about as close as she can come to saying yeah, she'll work to bring everyone back, as she can. Cause otherwise it wouldn't be a Good End, apparently.]
Not promising I won't punch their faces off again, but. They can live, I GUESS.
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Oh, I didn't say anything about not being angry when they come back.
[Go for it! He just wants those two in particular to live once more.]
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[She is one year old and so full of emotion it's flipped around into tired emptiness. Like Ghandi getting so pacifist he decides to nuke the world.]