letsplayamurder | 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. ]

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[Vanity debates for a moment whether to actually approach. Giving everyone some space is probably the smarter choice, especially anyone knocking it back and hanging away from the crowd. But why start doing the smart thing now?]

Does that still do anything to you? Figured maybe alicorn immortality or whatever came with toxin immunity.

...it does. Perhaps I simply would not die from drinking too much.

[ Really, she's never eaten anything poisonous enough to find out. Luna...doesn't really know why Vanity is approaching her at all, but she supposes that is...fine? ]

Mm. Honestly, not sure if I can even get drunk.

[She's never tested it, and she's not sure she wants to start now.]

[She's quiet for a minute.]

...I was. Really fucking mad, today. At a lot of people.

Naturally.

[ Why wouldn't she be? Luna would ordinarily have been furious. She was, deep down, but in the moment of arguing during yet another trial...she was just tired. ]

[Why. Why does she want to do this when she's so bad at it. Can't she just get publicly dressed down or something, it would be less painful.]

I'm. Not good at much besides hurting people. It's what I was made for.

[Mmmmmmmmmnnnnn-]

I should have been more careful about who was in the way. I guess.

...I know a bit of what that is like, I suppose.

[ She is the Moon. She was made to be in the shadows. ]

Think nothing of it.

Thanks. But I'm probably gonna anyway.

[Which is a new thing she's not sure she likes, feeling regret.]

...are you?

[ No offense, but like. Unexpected! ]

Feels like it.

[She shrugs uncomfortably, folding her arms and looking away.]

...I am not angry with you, Vanity. You were quite right to be upset.

[ And not entirely incorrect to direct some of it at Luna - who certainly did not do a single thing to save Quark in spite of their entire fight about it just last week. ]

...I knew that.

[She did not.]

But I still accused basically everyone of murder except the actual piece of debris that did it.

I suppose he meant to avoid notice by staying quiet.

[ Luna's upset with herself for not having thought of it, too - but then, she hadn't been willing to just lob accusations without clear grounding. ]

Foolish. I cannot believe I tried to shield him from Zvei!

Fucking coward wanted to kill us all and couldn't be assed to do it himself until we caught him.

[Had he been hoping for a misvote, for the mass execution Typhon had promised? Or just for Vanity and the others to do exactly as she'd done and let discord do the work for him.]

Completely without honor! He ought to have faced us all properly and not - [ She breaks off, voice choked. ] They - they were two of the most defenseless here!

[ She understands on a logical level how that makes sense, of course. Why risk facing another combatant, when he could theoretically pick off some easier targets and then let the strong ones just die by trial? But it is simply so cowardly! ]

At least Ferdinand had the decency to make a proper fight of it!

VonAegir set the bar in the fucking ground and that shitstick still dug under it.

[Ferdinand. Omega, who claimed they were so alike. And maybe he actually wasn't wrong, with how both their best efforts had hurt the people around them.]

Aoi's convinced we can get him back. All of them. And- I mean, of course she is. I dunno. You?

[ Luna snorts at the comment, and then goes contemplative. ]

...such things are not possible in my world. But speaking to ghosts as we have done here is not, either - and we did get Aoi back. I suppose it is possible...?

[ But she sounds hesitant. Luna would be delighted if it could happen, of course! She just...hates to get her own hopes up, much less anyone else's. ]

We did, yeah.

[That at least gets a faint, second's smile before her mouth hardens again.]

At home people could recover from a lot, if treatment was fast enough. If the doctors knew what they were doing, if the right things were left undamaged-

[If if if-]

What we're dealing with here- well, it's more possible than it would be back home. But it kind of feels like a one percent chance versus zero. Still not great odds. ...Maybe five, I guess.

[ Luna nods. She agrees with all of that, really. ]

It is certainly worth attempting. It would always be worth attempting. But now, especially, what have we to lose? Typhon has clearly tired of his games.

[ He failed to kill them with Seymour, but he has other monsters at his disposal. If he returns, he'll likely just try it again. ]

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