Event 1: Gods and Monsters

[letsplayamod]

[Time is a bit difficult to measure in this place. The storms that rage beyond your safe barrier, overtaking the horizon with their shifting lights and shadows, aren't doing it any favors. If you were to ask Athena, she'd say it's been about a week since your arrival. And since then... there's been scant signs of things improving.

Today, you wake up to quiet. No drone of distant winds. Not even birdsong breaches your bedrooms. Like a inhaled breath, the world seems to have paused.

And then, it exhales. The ground under your feet trembles and shakes. Dirt flies. Rocks shower down from the direction of the cliffs.

There, like an open wound stabbed into the earth, was a large crack where there wasn't before, spilling out an oppressive red light. Stranger still, some larger rocks are floating over the opening itself.

...Investigate?]

Comments

[murchada]

Yeah. That's fair.

We're all going to have to work together, but it's not like we all have to be besties to do that. And plenty of us around to provide a buffer.

[...]

I can help keep some space between you two, if you want.

[latinumsbetter]

[Quark eyes her]

As long as it doesn't get you pulled into the middle of all that again, yeah, that'd be good. He can't seem to wrap his head around that I DON'T WANT HIM NEAR ME!

[yeah he sure did raise his voice at that, pointedly, at the entrance to the bar. And then he sits back down in his seat, grumbling]

[murchada]

[buddy.]

Mm... Subtle.

[she's pretty sure Omega would've heard the first time, too.]

But, yeah, it's no problem. I turned out fine, anyway.

[latinumsbetter]

I'd be more subtle if subtle worked at all on a rustbucket like him.

[he's hoping Omega will hear it every time, but he's glancing back at her at that]

...how so.

[what does that mean exactly girl]

[murchada]

I mean, things got a little scary there, but I got out of all of that [you know, the robot kidnapping] without a scratch.

I'm not too worried, that's all.

[latinumsbetter]

[and he's just gonna stare at her for a moment hold on]

You're not too worried, even though we nearly got stuck under a pile of idiot robot and evil skeletons?

[murchada]

Yeah? I mean, I don't wanna deal with something like that again, but it's... fine.

[latinumsbetter]

How is that fine? Our lives were in danger!

[murchada]

[yeah but only one of those is important Quark]

Yeah, that part sucked.

[latinumsbetter]

I'd say it more than sucked!

[g i r l what. He's leaning across the bar to peer at her more closely.]

What about that are you fine with?!

[murchada]

[she's just kind of peering into her glass, now.]

Huh? The part where it was me, obviously.

[latinumsbetter]

[...]

2/2

[latinumsbetter]

So...what? It's fine if someone's in danger, as long as it's you?

[murchada]

I mean, yeah. Kinda.

1/2

[latinumsbetter]

[.....]

2/2

[latinumsbetter]

[He scoffs, picking up his drink and downing most of the rest of it.]

That explains why you thought it was such a good idea to pick a fight with that robot freak. You and Ferdinand could be best friends.

[he sounds bitter about it, pushing to his feet]

I gotta get back to work.

1/2

[murchada]

I don't know. He's a little too chipper for--

[...huh? wait, weren't they just...]

2/3 actually

[murchada]

[oh. she made it weird.

damn it.]

Oh, um... Yeah. Sorry.

3/3

[murchada]

[god--]

--damn it... I did it again.

[it's quiet, and someone without ferengi hearing would probably miss it, as she's muttering to herself before downing the rest of her glass.

stupid. she ruined the mood by being herself about it.]