[OPEN] RV Park Party

[eirs]

WHO: Any and all OUTSIDER personnel that wants in and their respective campervan companions. Or maybe you wandered out away from your group and found this commune.
WHAT: The gang parking together at night to swap information about the things they've found in their investigations, night watches around a fire, ghost stories......? General tomfoolery in the desert where there's no one else for miles. Cooking their hunts in successes and mishaps?
WHERE: The Mojave Desert
WHEN: Mid to Late May
WARNINGS: Will be updated or tagged in the thread as needed!

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[seaurchin]

[ his questions will be boring and tame because he's a nice fella who respects boundaries. ]

Which tea is the best tea, in your opinion?

[frostfist]

[ Couldn't be anyone else at this table. ]

Hmmm.... [ That's actually a tough question when there are so many options. ] In terms of relative efficacy, chamomile can help with a number of minor health problems, including but not limited to headache and inability to sleep.

[ ... ]

But if you're simply asking about my favorite, then it's Earl Grey. [ me making up shit on the spot. ] The flavor profile is balanced, and it pairs well with a range of snacks.

[seaurchin]

[ Megumi is getting the whole tea lore, and he is nodding through it all, taking in the information. ]

I'm looking to buy some tea when we return to Neo Tokyo. That's good to know.

[ it's his first time playing this, so what comes next ... is it his turn now? ] I pick Truth.

[frostfist]

[ Congrats on receiving the Deep Tea Lore.... ]

I can go with you when we get back. [ Please, let him come along. (pleading) ] But alright, truth it is.

[ Let him think..... ]

How do you feel about Yuji now? [ sorry he is not as nice as Megumi is about not asking invasive questions.... ]

[seaurchin]

[ There's a nod. Fun tea times await with crosscanon dad when they return to Tokyo.

This question, though. Megumi sighs. ] I was going easy on you, you know.

[ He asked you about something you love talking about, wow. ]

[frostfist]

[ Doesn't Megumi love talking about Yuji???? But don't worry: ]

You don't have to answer if the question makes you uncomfortable. I won't even call the penalty on you.

[ He really does value Megumi's privacy... ]

[seaurchin]

[ He's happy to answer because he trusts Wriothesley u.u But first... ]

There's a penalty? [ Damn he's really never played this game before. ]

[frostfist]

Depends on who's running the game. I'm not actually sure what the one for this round is though.

[ And neither does Val....IC/OOC blurring....... He glances over at Tao, somewhere in the throng of people. ]

Would you like me to go ask?

[seaurchin]

It's fine. They'll probably make up something stupid. [ The way he does not have any trust or respect for anyone in this room. Now, back to the question. He lets out a sigh. ]

I -- told him how I felt.

[frostfist]

[ Oh. Oh. Wriothesley immediately straightens to attention, shifting so he can face Megumi and give the younger man all of his attention. ]

What did he say?

Phone tagging

[seaurchin]

He said I was his best friend and very important to him.

... Then, he started to cry.

[ it's pretty much a rejection there, and Megumi knows that, but what's the crying about? ]

join me in phone tagging land

[frostfist]

Cry?

[ What's going on there.... ]

Did he say why he was crying?

[seaurchin]

[ only yuji knows the jjk spoilers ]

No, but he's keeping it from me on purpose. He started to act like this ever since he came back from our world.

... I'll probably die the moment I go home.

[ but why does he not seem to give a shit ]

[frostfist]

[ WHY DID HE SAY THAT SO NORMALLY.....Megumi might not give a shit but Wriothesley is definitely out here with deep concern on his face. On the one hand, everyone seems to have died one way or another prior to arriving here, so the knowledge that he might go back just to die isn't so surprising.

On the other hand.... ]

You don't sound very worried about that.

[seaurchin]

[ Megumi doesn't hate living. There are things to look forward to between all the grief and danger - especially here, away from his own world. He wouldn't say he wants to die. At the same time, it's not something he's ever been afraid of or tried to run away from. He's always accepted that his time would come far sooner than most. Sorcerers die young after all, and his most powerful ability does come at the cost of his own life. ]

We're all going to die at some point. I don't think there's any point getting upset about it.

[frostfist]

[ Not wrong, but the way he says it only serves to deepen Wriotheseley's frown. No one that young should be thinking so readily about their demise, not if they've lived a happy and healthy enough childhood. (But how many of them have here, really?) ]

Perhaps not, but aren't there things you still want to do before you die?

[ Hang out with friends, eat delicious food, see all the sights the world has to offer? ]

[seaurchin]

[ There's a pause as that question catches him temporarily off guard, and then he frowns at Wriostheley. ]

You're always trying to make me think about things I don't normally think about. [ Like .... his happiness?? And personal aspirations???? Who thinks about those things? ]

[frostfist]

[ Wriothesley looks over at Megumi, eyebrows raised in wry humor. ]

You know those are things most people think about, right?

[ He's just teasing Megumi at this point, a gentle jab at his overly serious old man habits before he sobers up again, gazes traveling back out to the night sky. ]

Looking at the world through a different lens isn't so bad, every once in a while. Even for me. I wasn't always like this, you know.

[ Confident, gregarious, appreciative of life's smaller things. ]

[seaurchin]

[ He is not a normal 16-year-old boy, what can he say. ]

Alright. How were you like before, then? [ He will turn the tables on Wriosthesley. Even if he hasn't chosen the 'truth' option so far. ]

[frostfist]

[ It's fine, he trusts Megumi enough to offer up personal details free of charge. Megumi's opened up about himself, the least Wriothesley can do is return the favor to some degree. ]

Angry, mostly. At the world around me, and the laws that only protected a small fraction of people while ignoring the needs and wants of everyone else.

[ Technically he's still a little angry about that, but... ]

But anger can only get you so far, and it'll consume everything you are if you let it. I've learned to appreciate the rest of what life has to offer now that I've been given a new lease on life.

[seaurchin]

Anger can also inspire you to act, though. [ You don't have to be nice all the time. Sometimes you can go apeshit. ]

But problems like that seem to show up in every society.

[frostfist]

[ He did his time in the apeshit mines, thanks. ]

You're not wrong. [ Said with a sigh. ] Do you think it'll make a difference? What we do here?

[seaurchin]

We're saving people, so it isn't like we aren't doing anything. [And it isn't like they have any other choice. He can't exactly sleep peacefully knowing he's allowing monsters to run rampant and kill people without actually doing anything to help. ]

But a lot of the times, it does feel like we're just putting a band-aid on the problem. [ With how they seem to be cleaning up any Kaiju that appears, rather than working to stop them from appearing in the first place. ]