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Quark ([personal profile] latinumsbetter) wrote in [community profile] letsplayamurder2025-08-16 10:34 pm
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Afterparty

[The earth once more closes up and all of that disappears, Quark remains on the ground for a long moment, holding Cerejeira. Finally, he raises his voice, still keeping her tucked against him. His tone is all business, brooking no argument.]

Bar'll open in ten minutes. Go get washed up, and then be there.

[He turns his head to look at Astarion, eyes narrowing.]

You. After those ten minutes, you're going to explain to everyone what you did. And then you're going to get out of my bar. Got it?

[and, not waiting for a reply, he's turning his attention to Cerejeira and Leb. He frowns, for a moment, because he knows he can't carry either of them, and normally he might have asked Fe Lu Om Ranma or Vanity but, well.]

...someone who can carry people help me with Leb and Jeira.

[So......the bar downstairs is once again open. Quark is not behind the bar. Instead, he's pushed some tables together and put some bottles of wine on the table. He's replicated some bar snacks and they're there too. There's something replicated for Riful also, in a separate bowl, which he'll give to her personally.

Fritz sitting near the entrance to the back counter where he's working and Critwo is in a nest of blankets in a corner just behind the counter. There’s been several of the extra togas gathered and folded to be used as blankets.

Leb is still asleep on one of the couches with one of the spare togas tucked around her as a blanket. Cerejeira is seated next to her, also with a spare toga tucked around her.

Once everyone is down there, Quark pushes to his feet and clears his throat.

Once the situation has been made clear, then the rest of the evening can proceed as usual for their afterparties.

Those four drinks that Quark usually makes (Athena, Alex, Misane, Aglaea) are once again sitting at the far edge of the counter. There are no new additions.]
sweetsynergy: (J)

[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-08-17 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
[okay he replicated a bunch of snacks, what is there for everyone else]

[...yeah she's here, she stopped at the kitchen for another small armful of fresh produce. She might share if you ask, but she's just kind of inhaling as Astarion speaks.]
raisethemoon: ([and yet I keep on waiting])

[personal profile] raisethemoon 2025-08-17 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ Luna stands silently, still without taking any food, and watches Astarion. ]
murchada: (048)

[personal profile] murchada 2025-08-17 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
[error 409. please stand by.]
pariunt: (pic#17954924)

1/?

[personal profile] pariunt 2025-08-17 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
[It doesn't take much for Astarion to talk. With both Ferdinand and Omega dead, he's no longer under any obligation to keep his silence.]

A day or so after Snow White's death, Omega approached me telling me he had a plan, one that required my assistance. I listened to a meeting between him and Ferdinand where Omega spoke of his intention to take a shot at Typhon, in an attempt to kill him. The only way for him to get close would be if he committed a murder and was made to be judged. Ferdinand agreed.

And then he told me he needed my help in constructing the weapon you saw him use today.

Those prints Aoi found... I'm not sure if they were mine or Ferdinand's. They may have been both.
yourheroine: (✦ with my so-called girlfriend)

Bartending with Aoi

[personal profile] yourheroine 2025-08-17 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
[Because what else is she gonna do?

Though whether you ask for it or not, Aoi might hand you a warm glass of milk.]


It's supposed to be good for your bones, right? Aoi put a little honey in there too.

[The look Aoi gives is...well, not cheery because who would be after all of that, but she seems different. Like she's seeing the world through different eyes.

She'll be polishing a glass absentmindedly when she's alone, thinking about Ferdinand and Omega. In particular the last moments of the latter.]


He's with the others now, right? Omega. He's just as real as everybody else.

catsgothistongue: (>) :P)

[personal profile] catsgothistongue 2025-08-17 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
[He's here of course, with a scooby-doo food stack on his plate he is absolutely wolfing down with all the grace and poise of a shonen protagonist.]
yourheroine: (✦ i'm not a part of your system)

[personal profile] yourheroine 2025-08-17 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
...

[Aoi wants to know the answers too, but she can't help thinking they'll make everybody sad.]
pariunt: (pic#17954942)

2/?

[personal profile] pariunt 2025-08-17 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[As he speaks, he grows more distant. Like he's going through the motions. Like he's used to ratting out people to save his own pathetic skin.]

I could not speak a word of this. Typhon couldn't possibly know.

Last week, when Zvei...

[His fists clenched.]

The weapon wasn't ready yet. We couldn't act. Omega told me there was only a 30% chance it would work at all. The chances were against us, but I have been up against odds that are even worse.
literarybehemoth: he looks as though he's been told a very bad joke and is the opposite of amused. (something something mondays)

[personal profile] literarybehemoth 2025-08-17 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[...he shouldn't be here. but he'll try and hold it together a little longer for the Explanation.]
sweetsynergy: (J)

[personal profile] sweetsynergy 2025-08-17 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[fukken mood, bro]
pariunt: (pic#17954974)

3/?

[personal profile] pariunt 2025-08-17 12:37 am (UTC)(link)
[His voice wavers as he continues to talk.]

Ferdinand agreed to this. All I did was build the weapon. All I was good for was keeping my damn mouth shut so Typhon wouldn't catch wind.

He and I spoke. About what it would mean. We both knew he was going to die, and he never wavered. He's a better man than I am.
pariunt: (pic#17954978)

4/?

[personal profile] pariunt 2025-08-17 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
...I have letters from Ferdinand. A few... I think they're called holograms? I'm not certain what they are, from Omega. They entrusted them to me. I believe they contain the conversations the two of them hand.

[He pulls out the letters from Ferdinand, to give them up. They have been left unopened.

As for Omega's holograms, they're handed over, too. Importantly, the first one cuts out before the conversation with Astarion begins.]
pariunt: (pic#17998721)

5/?

[personal profile] pariunt 2025-08-17 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
[And then he looks to Velvet.]

I'm sorry. I'm so, so sorry. I've known for over a tenday your love would die, and I could say nothing.

I can't ask for your forgiveness. If this had happened in my court, I would show no mercy.
fillets: (pic#18000758)

[personal profile] fillets 2025-08-17 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ she's just like

compacted into a corner if I'm being honest ]
pariunt: (pic#17998735)

6/6

[personal profile] pariunt 2025-08-17 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
[And then he breaks down into noisy sobs.]

What have I done?
pariunt: (pic#17954924)

[personal profile] pariunt 2025-08-17 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
[He gets up and leaves without another word.]
murchada: (016)

[personal profile] murchada 2025-08-17 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
[...after not reacting or speaking or really moving at all after what happened to Omega, Cerejeira finally acts. standing up from where Quark puts her down. walking towards Astarion.

and uh







yeah she's just going to slap him.]
yourheroine: (✦ i'm sad again)

[personal profile] yourheroine 2025-08-17 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
Astarion...

[Aoi's voice is small, even though Quark is quick to reject him, Aoi can't bring herself to.]

If Aoi could guarantee a happy ending back home, even if it meant I disappeared, I might have taken it. So...Aoi knows how you all must have felt. Ferdinand and Omega shouldn't have had to die for it, but...they wanted to help.

Don't give up, okay?
pariunt: (pic#17954957)

[personal profile] pariunt 2025-08-17 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, he deserves that.]
murchada: (035)

[personal profile] murchada 2025-08-17 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
[and then, she's just gonna turn around and walk back to Leb.]
murchada: (045)

[personal profile] murchada 2025-08-17 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
[it's been... a while. a good while. she's

not functional, but.]


...Real as you and I, right?
literarybehemoth: he's looking at a bug. (oh sidor we're in it now)

[personal profile] literarybehemoth 2025-08-17 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
...

Surprised Ferdinand managed to keep that under wraps so long. Anyway I will probably return when I feel less bad.

[he's going to head off for [SICK CAT NOISES] for now.]
yourheroine: (✦ now i just fall down)

[personal profile] yourheroine 2025-08-17 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Mmhmm. So...

[Aoi pushes that glass of milk to Cerejeira.]

Aoi doesn't think Cerejeira did anything wrong. If it means that Omega won't disappear for good.

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