*end of first half*
EarthScorpion: Huh, that was... well, not much got done despite starting early. 5XP.
Aleph: Yeah. We could continue it tomorrow, I guess?
EarthScorpion: Maybe, yeah.
EarthScorpion: And now Keris has an IC reason for the artificial island plan.
*end of second half*
EarthScorpion: End of session.
EarthScorpion: Another 5XP, for being a loooooong overall session. So a total of 10XP. And... hmm. Another 5XP for the end of an arc.
EarthScorpion: holy crap 15XP for you for this session
Aleph: *goes mad with power*
EarthScorpion: Just think of what you can use it for for the next mission thing. Like getting your island-making stuff.
Aleph: wheee~
...
EarthScorpion: Oh, Echo. Being forced to concentrate on something for a whole month, I decided, made her grow up. She's now notably older than her siblings.
Aleph: Heh.
EarthScorpion: ... oh gods. If Keris found another suit of superheavy plate. Echo "occupying" it.
EarthScorpion: Sigh, also, oh Keris. You're going to be confused by how early all your various children go through puberty, because you were a malnourished feral kid.
EarthScorpion: But none of them have ever gone hungry.
EarthScorpion: ... well, more than peckish, at least. Her war machine akuma-babies have gone hungry, but that's because they went through growing phases where they literally couldn't eat fast enough.
Aleph: Echo also occasionally goes hungry. Mostly when she's busy EXPLORING and ignores it because she'll have time for that later.
...
EarthScorpion: Hmm. If we were using Appearance, what would the Appearance ratings of Keris' soul hierarchy be?
Aleph: I don't know about numbers, but, hmm.
Rathan and Calesco tied at the top.
Zanra just below them, along with maybe Haneyl.
Echo, possibly Dulmea.
Vali is scarred and imposing.
No idea about the snake.
EarthScorpion: It is a very pretty snake.
EarthScorpion: Sigh. Keris, even Vali is handsome in a scarred, tough sort of way.
EarthScorpion: That's something interesting to say. I guess... huh. Yeah, at a fundamental level Keris
does consider herself beautiful. After all, look at what the Infernalisation process fixed up.
EarthScorpion: She might look towards getting an Appearance-y Presence style. She has the self-confidence and she believes she's beautiful.
Aleph: I have been thinking about learning either Exotic Beauty Style or Firebrand Demagogue Style.
...
Aleph: Heh. I'm thinking that the iconic image of the bow in Creation - since it'll be the Realm's favourite - might actually be something more similar to the
yumi than the english longbow.
Aleph: The most well known one, though not the most common. A lot of people use shortbows because they're easier to transport, but the yumi is the "default" thing that people think of when they hear "bow".
EarthScorpion: Well, the most common style will just be a self bow or something short. A hunting bow, not a war bow.
Aleph: Yeah. I do want some yumi love, though. Heh. Calesco's will totally be a yumi. Long and elegant and a vicious staff in melee.
...
Aleph: Just to be clear, one of the possibilities for where this Keris-Testolagh argument scene might end up is Keris TLAing him, yeah? I... currently have no fucking idea where else it might go, tbh, though "angry brawl" is probably not likely.
EarthScorpion: Honestly, this is just coming off the cuff mostly. I have no idea where this is going because it just sort of came out and among other things he was wanting to have this talk but now he's angry because he's angry when she just more than entirely held up her end of the deal and that anger at his own anger is making him more angry
Aleph: Heh. This is why more people should have FLG. Or high-rated coadjutors who can go "calm down".
Aleph: But it's touching on several of Keris's buttons as well, which is making for good RP.
...
EarthScorpion: Oh, Keris. You really do seem to be over your initial crush on Lilunu. In... a weird way.
EarthScorpion: And... hmm, I notice we didn't wind up resolving the Testolagh situation. Maybe exposure to him is reducing her dreams of a threesome-marriage-thing where she sometimes gets to go off with him and beat things up rather than having to do it on her own because Sasi isn't interested in that.
Aleph: Well, that's still possible. What I was mostly waiting for - which the scene sort of turned away from because he isn't ready for it yet - is him... not exactly making the first move, but showing himself open to it in more than a "tolerate one another because we both love Sasi" sort of way.
Aleph: ... heh. Honestly, if it happens, it may well be if they do get into a fight alongside each other.
EarthScorpion: BEFRIENDING
Aleph: Sasi: "So the two of you only ever tolerated one another until you went out and committed acts of enormous violence in concert, after which you became best friends and occasional lovers."
Keris: "Pretty much yes."
Testolagh: "It was a bit more nuanced than that."
Keris: "I basically got over any lingering resentment when you grabbed that giant dude made of crabs, teleported fifty metres straight up, and then suplexed him through his own ship."
Testolagh: *sigh* "Okay, maybe it wasn't."
Keris: "PS: I want a hellstrider now."
...
EarthScorpion: Oh. Haneyl. She's such a brat, but she really is adorable sometimes. Especially when she's trying to get on with Calesco.
Aleph: She is a sneaky little thing. : D And joy, Calesco now has a powerbow, and Haneyl a tumbaga sword that she's glommed.
Aleph: ... man. Seven-Lotus Crown, High Queen's robes, tumbaga sword.
Aleph: SO MUCH GOLD BLING
EarthScorpion: Haneyl, why are you passing as a Solar?
EarthScorpion: So, hmm. Haneyl is pale, but has bright green eyes and likes green and gold.
Aleph: Grey is also acceptable.
EarthScorpion: Calesco is dark, and likes black and purple.
EarthScorpion: Echo is red and white.
EarthScorpion: Rathan is... hmm, deep reds, pinks and soft pastel shades? He doesn't really seem to associate much with his ocean compared to his moon.
EarthScorpion: Vali is... blacks and golds.
Aleph: Well, hmm. Do we have a blue? Vali might be crackling blue electricity.
EarthScorpion: Zanra is probably blues as part of his colours as he's also Kimmy.
Aleph: Oh, true.
EarthScorpion: Oh, and what are Dulmea and the snake?
Aleph: The snake is silver and white. And, heh. Dulmea is oilslick colours and bioluminescence.
...
Aleph: Hee hee. Oh Dulmea. Asks Keris to summon her Gale when Sasi's onboard (and also move a tea set out).
EarthScorpion: Sasi: "... are you having me meet your mother?"
Aleph: Keris: "... maybe?"
EarthScorpion: Sasi: "... your coadjutor, I mean."
Aleph: Keris: "... no, you were right the first time."
EarthScorpion: Sasi: "But didn't you have plans at some point to go find your real mother?"
Aleph: Keris: "... yes. And now I have a home to bring her back to. Which is why I've been working on Gales."
EarthScorpion: Sigh. Yeah, I suspect that if Keris does find her birth mother, Calesco will shift her appearance to look even more like her.
Aleph: Oh, Calesco.
EarthScorpion: Meanwhile, in her head Keris is carefully drawing up plans for all the very imaginative and kinky things she'll do to Sasi when she meets back up with her. They have an entire ship to 'bless'. And Keris can now make bimbo-hers.
Calesco: "You know, she has a baby. What if it starts crying midway through?"
Keris: "Argh! Get out of my head and away from these thoughts! You're too young to know about them!"
Calesco: "I could be older if I wanted to."
Keris: "Don't do that, young lady!"
Keris: "... do you think I could coax Sasi into learning to make Splintered Gales?"
Keris: "I could tell her they're for multi-tasking. And having loyal minions."
Echo gestures that there's only one way to be sure!
EarthScorpion: Calesco: "Oh, yes, I'm sure she'd be impressed by a loyal minion who screams and falls over as soon as they're made."
Aleph: Keris: "You weren't even born when that happened! And Lilunu says most of them don't do that!"
...
Aleph: Oh goddammit Haneyl. She is a
very annoying demon to deal with as a circle, because she keeps trying to play you off against each other.
EarthScorpion: But on the other hand, sigh. Her siblings have taught her the concept of a worthy adversary.
Aleph: Heh. Yes.
EarthScorpion: When she's just playing, rather than playing to win, she doesn't play unlimited war. She'll... sigh. Retreat if you surprise her or interest her. Especially if you use sevens to do so.
Aleph: Oh, Haneyl. If any of Keris's souls could understand kismesissitude, it would be you. Rathan, amusingly enough, wouldn't comprehend the concept at all.
EarthScorpion: Just as well. Otherwise, Keris would have to break out the hoses to stop her children boning.
Aleph: Heh. But yeah, part of it involves mutual respect as well as hatred, and Rathan's hate is absolute and uncompromising. The idea of
respecting someone you don't like is foreign to him.
EarthScorpion: Sigh. And it all ties into her fire ecosystem thing, as well. Someone beating you means you grow back with new life. Sometimes you have to lose to release nutrients. It makes intuitive sense to her.
Aleph: Hee She's taken Malfeas and Metagaos and turned them into something sort of new.
EarthScorpion: Honestly, something healthier than either. She could probably have some very interesting conversations as an adult with Sextes Jylis and Heshiesh.
Aleph: ... hopefully not the latter, since, uh, that would involve waking him up.
EarthScorpion: Haneyl: "Moooooother. Find me a way to talk to him in his dreams!"
Haneyl: "Preferably that doesn't involve Calesco."
Keris: "What part of 'low profile' did you not understand? Stop talking to the Immaculate Dragons! They're what the Immaculate Faith is based on!"
Keris: "You know, the people who want to kill us!"
Keris: "... how did you even get the idea to- please do not tell me you've already spoken."
Keris: "Have your souls been meeting his souls?"
Haneyl: "No!"
*pause*
Haneyl: "... not directly."
EarthScorpion: Heh. How much of Haneyl's unusual attitude to things is her own, and how much is from her being Keris self improvement and so Keris feels the same things, though in a more complicated way because she's also got the bits of her that are Rathan in her what wouldn't understand losing as anything other than a calamity?
Aleph: Hmm. Keris certainly knows about losing sometimes. Hates it with another part of her, but knows about it.
EarthScorpion: Heh. Yes, of course such a relatively complicated viewpoint is Haneyl's to express. As Keris well knows, you need to be somewhat comfortable to take a defeat calmly. When you have nothing to spare, everything is life and death. Keris is clearly getting soft in her old age now that she's rich and comfortable, certainly compared to the feral thing she was a few years ago.
Aleph: Heh. Watching her interact with her just-Exalted self would be interesting, tbh.
EarthScorpion: Sigh. Echo also is okay with losing, as long as it happens in an interesting way. From Echo's POV, that's really just winning. Calesco... hmm. How sore a loser is she?
Aleph: Hmm. Depends how emotionally invested she was in the outcome - remember she's where TLA lives, but she can't
stop caring about things like Echo can. If she really cared about whatever the stakes were, it's likely to kick off a bitter depressive episode.
EarthScorpion: Sigh. When spited or beaten at something she cares about, she starts getting self righteously sadistic. She's just hurting you for your own good. If you weren't so horrible, she wouldn't have to show you all the ways that you are horrible.
Aleph: Zanra doesn't really mind losing, since that's just another inspiration, and Vali is mostly chill unless it traps him somehow. But... amusingly enough, I'm pretty sure the last poor loser among Keris's souls is Dulmea. Who tends to want things to go
according to plan.
EarthScorpion: You missed one. The snake gets super mad.
Aleph: Well, yes.
