yourattention: (but i should tell you that)
Connor Murphy ([personal profile] yourattention) wrote in [community profile] lifeaftr2018-04-20 05:42 am

take a one way ticket to the bacchanal

Who: Connor and the Jormun and y'all.
What: It's a weed party.
When: Weed Day
Where: The Monkey Compound.
Warnings: I mean. Drugs. There's drugs in this post and a disappointing lack of Alan Cumming dressed as a goat.


Connor kind of only means to invite the Jormun over because it's 4/20. He can't, like, not do anything for 4/20? Then it kind of occurs to him that after the utter disaster of the last island and the, uh. Questionable? Findings? On the new island, people might actually want to have a party.

So he scribbles a invitation somewhere on the rock:

Party on 4/20
Monkey Compound
Be there or be square

The party itself is kind of - there's a fire? And something is roasting over it? There's a couple tables, none of which are remotely the same shape or size because they're all that kind of wooden table. You know, the kind that rich people get to look rustic. There's also some chairs and benches, but let's be real: this was a party put together by a dumpster fire of a human being. Aside from the baskets on the center of each table that contains some fruit and a bunch of assorted bowls made out of coconuts - some of which contain suspiciously blue milk - there's not a whole lot of decoration. It basically looks like the kind of party that might show up if you searched "sad birthday parties" on a stock website.

He tried, okay? There was a serious attempt, given that realistically Connor actually was just gonna hang out with the Jormun and get high until he decided that other people might actually. Want to hang out or whatever?

Besides, we all know you're here for weed jokes anyway so it doesn't really matter what the actual party is like. Pretend like this is playing in the background or something.
encircling: (leave me alone.)

[personal profile] encircling 2018-04-22 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm. That is fair.

[ She pushes a bit of hair out of her face. ]

Yet, I would wager a guess that old self of yours resurfaces, at times. Such as... in the crystal caverns, so long ago?
scourgingstars: (i was broken from a young age)

[personal profile] scourgingstars 2018-04-22 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
So? Even the moon is prone to eclipses now and again.
encircling: (think of you.)

[personal profile] encircling 2018-04-22 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
You had no reason to show me mercy, Ardyn.

[ Her voice is soft, and she doesn't quite look at him. ]

That is all I meant. That kindness I saw in the desert, that was not a fluke, even if you would like to pass it off as such.
scourgingstars: (over and in last call for sin)

[personal profile] scourgingstars 2018-04-22 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe I just felt like killing something. I was having a rather difficult day, you know.
encircling: (head is not my home.)

[personal profile] encircling 2018-04-22 05:19 am (UTC)(link)
Yet you chose a dying girl, in pain and suffering, as opposed to one of the crystal creatures.
scourgingstars: (don't turn up when you need)

[personal profile] scourgingstars 2018-04-22 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, like I could really fight one of those things in that condition? I'm immortal, not undefeatable.
encircling: (think of you.)

[personal profile] encircling 2018-04-22 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ She chuckles quietly, wrapping her arms around herself. ]

Still... I am grateful to you for it, no matter your motivation.
scourgingstars: (all a fire needs is a single spark)

[personal profile] scourgingstars 2018-04-22 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
Can none of you just let these occurrences pass unremarked upon and forgotten? You're liable to make me think I as I am now prove naught but an obstacle to whatever you chase after.

It's enough to give one a terrible inferiority complex.
encircling: (leave me alone.)

[personal profile] encircling 2018-04-27 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
I assure you, that is far from my intention. Can I not thank someone for helping me in my time of need?
scourgingstars: (over and in last call for sin)

[personal profile] scourgingstars 2018-04-27 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
You want to thank me for stabbing you.
encircling: (this isn't control.)

[personal profile] encircling 2018-04-27 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh my god. ]

No, Ardyn, that was terribly unpleasant. I want to thank you for granting me a swift death instead of turning into a crystal abomination.
scourgingstars: (over and in last call for sin)

[personal profile] scourgingstars 2018-04-27 04:52 am (UTC)(link)
...That's weird. You're weird.

[ardyn are you okay.]

Are all humans this ridiculous?
encircling: (fantasy.)

[personal profile] encircling 2018-04-27 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ no no this is good ]

Well, I cannot say I've been called that before.

[ A quiet laugh. ]

We all are, in different ways. You are quite weird, too.
scourgingstars: (don't turn up when you need)

[personal profile] scourgingstars 2018-04-27 05:01 am (UTC)(link)
I have an excuse. Two thousand of them, in fact.
encircling: (pieces.)

[personal profile] encircling 2018-04-27 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I was hardly criticizing you. I was only making an observation.

[ But she's smiling. ]

What is the weirdest thing you've done in your very long lifetime?
scourgingstars: (if i look hard enough)

[personal profile] scourgingstars 2018-04-27 05:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Ardyn frowned, but he appeared to be giving the question some thought as he adjusted his hat slightly.]

Once, somewhere around...a thousand years ago, perhaps? There was the formation of what one might call a cult, a small sect of pious followers of a goddess calling herself the Scion of Leviathan. She appeared in the form of a serpent jeweled in ornate gold and sapphires, claiming to speak for the Hydraean herself. Eventually those devoted to her began to become corrupt as humans so often do; they gradually descended into greed and fanaticism. And one day, the whole sect fell apart in rather explosive fashion when their very deity was revealed for a fraud right before their eyes.

...If the puppet hadn't popped a stitch and had her head fall off in the middle of blessing the faithful, I could have kept that going for at least another decade.
encircling: (fantasy.)

[personal profile] encircling 2018-04-27 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
[ She listens, and at the end, her eyes widen before she starts laughing. ]

That is absolutely horrible. Did you make the puppet yourself?
scourgingstars: (over and in last call for sin)

[personal profile] scourgingstars 2018-04-27 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
I had quite a lot of spare time.

[yes]
encircling: (painted.)

[personal profile] encircling 2018-04-27 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
Clearly. You know, that is far weirder than anything I could even think of.

I wonder, how terribly did they lose their minds?
scourgingstars: (don't turn up when you need)

[personal profile] scourgingstars 2018-04-27 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, it was quite an impressive riot. I'm surprised no one pitched themselves into the waters of Altissia out of sheer despair.