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Ravi's teaching you, for real? How the hell did you swing that?

Man I bet he's adorable :( I wish I could see it.

I'm really glad to hear it sounds like he's doing well. Giving him some space sounds like a good idea.

a careful mix of honesty and sucking up, honestly. i dunno what he's up to these days that has him out of bastan, but i made it clear that his history as a paladin's always been really well looked on so if he wanted to stay on, he was free to.

plus i told him i have no fucking clue what i'm doing, so if he could help at all it'd be great. worked for him, which is great, because it's true. i'm trying to remember what he did show me but the switch happened just about then, so it's kind of hard to remember.

dude, he is so fucking adorable. if you think it's kind of cute when he's being shy as a dude, it's like ten times deadlier as a girl.

It's Alex, I'm pretty sure. I think he's smart enough to choose the paladins if something goes down, but keep an eye on him. Not a leash though, he doesn't react well when he feels like he's being forced or controlled.

Fuck, it kills me that I can't even ask you for a screenshot. ...Maybe I can get a look through Missie, she plays his sister.

I guess I should probably warn you about Akhilendra, too.

ugh, the last thing i want is to be even partly involved with alex, but i can't shy away from it i guess. and yeah, if he's got this other personality, a leash ain't gonna do much good anyway. and what if alex comes after him or something? so many things i don't wanna deal with if i don't have to.

dude, totally worth it. don't look for ras, though. poor guy. i think i hurt his feelings earlier. he looks like this... muscular, bodybuilding drag queen. vepha is not kind.

yeah, wanna fill me in a bit there? i mean, i can fake not knowing stuff, but i would rather... uhhh, know stuff than not.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure if Akhi starts fronting while Ravi's in Bastan, he'll just pick up and head for Alex, and Ravi will come back when he's fronting again. As long as you let that happen, I don't think there will be any problems.

Poor Rasmus. (Maybe I'll drop by Bastan and get a look anyway.)

Alright, so, Alex is a molavvas, basically vrylak-tainted? He is a lot older than he looks. His town got razed and he was turned molavvas during that, and his friend Akhilendra was the only other survivor. They latched onto each other pretty hard. But Akhi was killed, reincarnated as Ravi, and Alex found him and struck up a friendship because he wanted Akhi back. That's your backstory.

I never meant it to happen like this, but Ravi's pretty much got dissociative identity disorder with Akhi as his alter now. Switches happen, I don't know, anything that'll create a dissociative state probably.

Akhi seems well-adjusted and easy-going, but he is batfuck crazy, he's just subtle about it. He is also fiercely loyal to Alex and has no love lost for Bastan. If he ever shows up, treat him politely and allow him to leave, because I figure the first thing he's going to do every time is head back to Alex and as long as you don't try to stop him, I don't think he'll cause any trouble.

god damn you heimdall. like i don't have enough problems.

all right. i'll keep that all in mind. hopefully i can stay on their(?) good side.

also what are you doing on so early? jesus man isn't it morning over there? aren't you normally asleep or in class or something?

Trust me, I feel properly shitty about it myself. I'm sorry, man.

If you need advice or help with either of them, hit me up.

Classes got cancelled citywide. Indefinitely. I got shit else to do right now.

eh not much to be done about it now. i'll just keep you updated how i can. i think he's going back to wherever later today. i've been able to get most of the more believable info from rasmus, so i think i avoided suspicion that way. i think i got all i need for info for the time being. just gonna try to avoid overwhelming him for now.

ah, really? guess that means bekah and miri are out of school now, too... huh. sorry to hear that, man. if you ever wanna... er, hang out...? ah, maybe just keep it to dragon mails.

Sounds like a plan.

Yeah, I don't think anybody will take well to some random alch hanging out with the Spenta. Sorry, man.

Oh, I forgot to mention, my spellsword crossed over on Sunday. I introduced her to Nadir. They seemed to hit it off.

yeah i just thought of that myself. ah, i bumped into eileen btw, alison's friend with the larp gear shop? she's in bastan too. is anais there? apparently she's been missing since sunday or so.

ah what, marly was it? i never played with her, sorry, but other people liked to. how's she taking it? how's it having a spellsword?

[sob roommate] really? that's good. not that he's hard to get along with. he'll probably be happy for it to be another spellsword.

Oh fuck, I forgot about Anais. Nadir did mention running into her, said she got an offer from X-DAV about employment or something but he didn't know if she took it.

Close, Marlene. She's adjusting pretty well, but she's always been adaptable. It's weird as fuck, man. Amazing to see her in action, though.

ah, so she is there? okay, eileen will be happy to know that. i'll let her know. she's hanging out by the church these days. i mean, i figured that's what had happened but there's no real way to be sure.

and hey, we just got a primer on anais before i left from eileen herself, so he should have been prepared to deal with her being. her.

yeah, it's crazy right? i mean you feel bad but you're also just like, shit, dude, i created them, and they're real now, and they're like

perfect. idk.

i know you guys aren't the best of buds but can you keep an eye on him? i kind of worry. i'm guessing he stopped hunting at night since rhys and i left?

Fuck, I know. She's everything I ever pictured about her. She sounds exactly how I always heard her in my head. She's even got all those little tics I wrote in. It's fucking surreal.

Yeah, he did. We've been talking about starting up again with him and Marlene.

I'll keep you posted on how he's doing.

wish i could see her. nadir's never really interacted with other spellswords, not since he was in his twenties at least... he's usually been around... well, his merc group. don't see a reason they shouldn't get along despite that.

feels weird trying to worry about it now. i mean, even being able to communicate like this probably won't last long at the rate things are going.

shit. i just keep hoping nothing bad happens. i almost don't want him to get along with marlene, i've never met a dude with worse luck in losing people, and ... very little of it isn't my fault.

Like I said, they seemed to hit it off.

(He's also the type of guy she's naturally attracted to. Not sure how I feel about that.)

I know what you mean. That guilt is pretty hard to deal with. I fucked Ravi up so badly and I can't even make it up to him.

But listen, there's nothing you can do about it, you know? I'll take care of Nadir for you, and you take care of Ravi for me. It's the best we can do.

yeah, really? i... hm, i dunno what to think about that. he's still pretty hung up on marianne... that was my fault, though.

[pause to think about this aspect of Nadir, actually starts to get a bad feeling about it]

you know i never really went over it with him, but i kind of wonder how much he actually remembers of his league and marianne. i did switch him over from another server, and didn't go much into his backstory on everea, so there's mentions but... with the way it's been working, i wonder how much of his own backstory he knows.

[... that... is not going to make Nadir happy... but he must have realized it by now, right? Unless he's been avoiding thinking about it, too...]

yeah, not much to be done about it. i'll watch out for ravi.

I'll come visit Bastan.

dude

dude

ravindra is adorable

just thought you should know.

Guess I'll see him, too.

I'd offer to bring Virelai, but she's a little depressed. She doesn't look any different. ... Probably the problem.

When she saw me she nearly fainted. I let her put an eye patch on me.

That seemed to cheer her up for some reason...?

oh man, that's too bad. i was kind of looking forward to seeing her again. next time maybe.

man i bet she's adorable too. probably best she didn't come then, i don't wanna hurt her feelings saying that to her face.

uuuh, well, okay. if it makes her happy.

glad ras didn't try anything like that on me. he's mostly just sulking and sticking to his rooms.

I'll see. Maybe escorting the Ahura somewhere would improve her mood. [Still feeling weird about that tbh]

Hey, I'm sure Rasmus is, ah, beautiful in his own way?.

well, no sense pushing it too much. we'll make sure there are other times she can come visit.

just been talking with heim about ravindra. this is shit, man. i gotta tread carefully, looks like alexander's involved. and ravi's alternate personality, according to heim, is fucking crazy and super dedicated to him.

one more fucking problem. tell me you got to pakerion all right? where are you settling in? i don't know much about the berserker side of things...

I was trying to help with Rayu on that before, but I guess now he's on his own... He does earnestly care for Ravindra. I don't know if that's enough.

Yeah. I've kept near the Undertow for now. No buildings. Just trees. Most berserkers seem content to keep to themselves and the wilds nearby if they aren't hiring themselves out as mercenaries. Sometimes it feels more like a wolf pack than a guild. They always struck me as lawless, but I think I understand why losing the Ahura upset the berserkers as much as it did.

The king's another story. And the other guilds. I've never been great with politics. I plan on visiting the druids and telling the Vohu what little I know. If that goes well, perhaps the Vairya and the Armaiti. Not looking forward to those two. I imagine what shreds of civilization Pakerion has comes with more assassin and rogue influence.

Another thing: the greycloaks are keeping an eye you and me, I think. Be careful.

well remember what that berserker told us, not to trust the king or the queen. but because they don't know anything? i haven't been able to figure that one out.

i haven't really had a chance to talk to the vahishta. he's gone off to safta to talk to the asha about the sinkhole in the southeast corner. can't say i'm happy about it but i'll have to trust he gets back okay. should i take any of the other leaders? i'm not sure how many like the idea of being talked at by the spenta. the mazda maybe. sounds like the old one was kind of an ass.

not that i'd go wishing that fate on anyone, but

yeah, i'm not surprised. i'd be more surprised if they weren't around. you need anything, let me know. even if it's me, even if i can't come, let me know.

Neither have I. I'm guessing he means take their advice with a fist full of salt.

If Bastan's settled enough, the Mazda does seem like a safe one to approach. We have to watch ourselves, too. I'm trying to take this slow, relatively speaking.

Yeah, I'll keep you informed. It goes both ways, if you ever need a hand. You're one thing here I can be sure of. Maybe the only thing.

done and done. i just wonder what kind of trouble that could mean. without knowing the truth of what's going on, they could be manipulated pretty easy. but i don't want to start too much of a crazy bandwagon, either. i don't even know what to tell my own guard.

but i've got cuthbert on my side to continue teaching me how to use the sword (sorry, i know you don't like him but dude's as bad/good as nadir with the discipline and a demon with a sword and shield) and i may have ravi teaching me healing. so if it all goes well i'll have some more useful training under my belt.

should read those fucking tie in novels though.

yeah. there's just so much to get done here, i don't know what would be a good time to approach the mazda about this, especially considering i need to talk to the vahishta too. the only real proof all this is happening is that... well, i'm the spenta. i don't even know how to breach the "other world" thing.

yeah. yeah, same here.

kinda wish it'd been someone else that had crossed over. being the spenta is... limiting.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Always trying to find evidence for conspiracies... But I am worried. If nothing else, warning them about the deaths of the previous guild leaders might help them later, even if they believe nothing about other worlds.

As long as he isn't giving you any trouble.
Virelai is a bit on the timid side for teaching, but I'll keep trying. I've been trying to take "lessons" from the monsters around here in the meantime. Figured that'd at least be berserker-like.

Sorry. That this happened. That you didn't get time or a choice. That I couldn't defeat that thing without you.

Don't overdo it, Ezra.

yeah. i'm just hoping i don't end up with a dead vahishta on my hands. this place swears by his word. the spenta's just the hand that guides his law, feels like. i don't know if that's any better, but i don't want to risk upsetting the balance too much. i'm still too new to get too involved that way anyway. i need to find my own place in here first.

no, he's not too bad. i feel kinda bad for him. they have a pretty strict method of choosing the spenta, so having it come out like this isn't something they were at all prepared for. with a bit of sucking up he's actually pretty easy to get along with. once this switch is over (oh god, i hope it'll be over, i am distracting to myself) i'll be able to get back to getting my armour fitted and everything.

best of luck. if you ever want a rematch, let me know. [but not too soon.]

[bit of a pause before he goes about answering this part]

it's done, rhys. don't worry about it anymore. you've got your own stuff. don't let what happened distract you.

and i won't the minute you don't, goddamn hypocrit!

Maybe once he hears from the Asha, he'll be more willing to accept something is wrong with Zenderael. I don't think anyone wants to start another guild war over these details, anyway... We're not even sure what started the last one. Greycloaks? Assassins?

I heard something about Vepha with this switch. Hope that means it's over soon... I can't sleep at all. At least it's an excuse to visit.

Ha. We'll see. ["Never" works for him tbh.]

Okay, okay. I hear you. I'll see you in a bit. It's a walk to the nearest warp mage.

i dunno how up to date or even how interested the asha is in shit but i can't do much more than wait. it's pretty clear people are disappearing and showing up. we're getting reports every day of this stuff from the posts around the city. it's not something that you can just ignore, though they're gonna try with that huge fucking sinkhole taking up their attention.

shit man. yeah, ravi said it was probably vepha. some of the older guards are saying she did this like fifty someodd years ago, so i'm betting vepha.

hey, anytime man. even if there isn't anything going on, you can crash on the couch and just chill. guess i got used to nadir just kind of being there.

[...yeah, never. never sounds good, he can do never.]

uh, and sorry, in advance. for ras.

I spoke to Alison. She's here, too. Safe in Nenakret, she said. Mentioned Irena can teleport between here and Earth. That may be something worth looking into, if more mages are disappearing.

I might have to take you up on that offer. I'm not used to sleeping in a hammock just yet.

Like I said, I'm sure he's fine in his own way. But I'll see for myself.

teleporting between here and earth? is that even

well tell me more about it when you get up here. i think the guards are a little uhhh loathe to let me wander around while shit's fucked up like this. can't blame 'em. i think i only stopped laughing so i could sleep.

I'll tell you what I know. Everything else is speculation.

See you soon. For real this time.
[Bracing to be laughed at sigh sigh.]

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