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Be my shelter from the storm | October Catch-all
Characters: Pepper Potts, Devin Parker, and you!
Date: Throughout October
Location: Around Aifaran
Situation: Pepper is enjoying the festivities, while Devin is not
Warnings/Rating: Possible mention of murder, violence; will add in headers as needed.
A. [Pepper] Arts 2 | Open
Usually, Pepper is not a clumsy person, especially not with the level of physical training she's been doing since coming to this world. Her balance is better, her situational awareness is better - on every day but today, apparently. One moment, she's walking down the street taking in the decorations and wares of one of the pop-up fair. The next, she's stumbling to the ground as cake - and an ungodly amount of fondant - topples off its stand and onto her. The baker of said cake is now staring at her like she's an actual demon. At least one of the tiers survived?
"Sorry! Oh my god, I am so sorry," Pepper says in a rush, holding her hands up.
B. [Pepper] Sci-Tech 4 | Mid-late October | Open
Thanksgiving and Christmas may be some of Pepper's favorite holidays, but the whole city getting into a melting pot version of Halloween has her super excited, too. And she's gotten a ticket to a wicked cool haunted house that promises to be every bit as spooky (and hopefully not nearly as dangerous) as a Makluan temple. The free candy doesn't hurt either, so she's practically vibrating while she's waiting in line to go in, peering around every now and then to see if any of her friends are here, too.
C. [Devin] Academy Library | First week of October | Open
It was only a matter of time until Devin fell prey to the Dreaming sickness. He had been worried that it would be displays of one of his many hunting missions, or Bobby, or his family. He had been worried that all he would see was violence and not knowing the difference between dreams and reality, he would hurt someone. Privately, Devin had decided that the moment it started, he would go on a camping trip somewhere isolated and wait it out.
He turns down an aisle at the library and stops dead, nearly dropping the stack of books he's holding. Shock overtakes his features. Leaning against one of the shelves with a soft smile on his face is a young Asian man with shoulder-length hair pulled back into a tail. Devin barely manages a whisper: "...Sam?"
"And you said this wasn't a hobby," the dream needles.
D. [Devin] Commerce 4 | Open
Devin has a day job, but the owner of one of the bars he's taken a liking to is harried with preparations for the Night Parade. Since the whole idea of the Parade has him a little uneasy, Devin agrees to run an errand and retrieve a box of slow-burning red candles. Once he's made the purchase (and quite a few rhinn lighter, until the owner reimburses him), Devin considers them pensively. Red was meant to ward off the spirits, and he has a whole army of dead in his past that he would like not to meet again.
E. [Devin] Outside Aifaran | 2nd Week of October | Trahearne
This is an extraordinarily bad idea. Granted, it's a bad idea that could potentially resolve as many problems as it could create. Trahearne doesn't like him, and would probably continue to feel they have unfinished business until they got the chance to finish the fight they started. Or, Devin allows, until he has spent long enough proving he is not, in fact, like the undead Trahearne knows. It might take longer than either of them have here, or it might never happen. In any case, Devin has no intention of hurting the sylvari. The Fool is going to be angry with him enough just for sending the embossed invitation, much less getting into a real altercation.
Though he appears unarmed, Devin isn't stupid enough to leave all of his weapons at home and has daggers hidden on his person. He arrives at the field in the early morning. When Trahearne arrives, Devin is leaning against one of the sparse trees in the area, the picture of relaxation.
F. Wildcard!
Date: Throughout October
Location: Around Aifaran
Situation: Pepper is enjoying the festivities, while Devin is not
Warnings/Rating: Possible mention of murder, violence; will add in headers as needed.
A. [Pepper] Arts 2 | Open
Usually, Pepper is not a clumsy person, especially not with the level of physical training she's been doing since coming to this world. Her balance is better, her situational awareness is better - on every day but today, apparently. One moment, she's walking down the street taking in the decorations and wares of one of the pop-up fair. The next, she's stumbling to the ground as cake - and an ungodly amount of fondant - topples off its stand and onto her. The baker of said cake is now staring at her like she's an actual demon. At least one of the tiers survived?
"Sorry! Oh my god, I am so sorry," Pepper says in a rush, holding her hands up.
B. [Pepper] Sci-Tech 4 | Mid-late October | Open
Thanksgiving and Christmas may be some of Pepper's favorite holidays, but the whole city getting into a melting pot version of Halloween has her super excited, too. And she's gotten a ticket to a wicked cool haunted house that promises to be every bit as spooky (and hopefully not nearly as dangerous) as a Makluan temple. The free candy doesn't hurt either, so she's practically vibrating while she's waiting in line to go in, peering around every now and then to see if any of her friends are here, too.
C. [Devin] Academy Library | First week of October | Open
It was only a matter of time until Devin fell prey to the Dreaming sickness. He had been worried that it would be displays of one of his many hunting missions, or Bobby, or his family. He had been worried that all he would see was violence and not knowing the difference between dreams and reality, he would hurt someone. Privately, Devin had decided that the moment it started, he would go on a camping trip somewhere isolated and wait it out.
He turns down an aisle at the library and stops dead, nearly dropping the stack of books he's holding. Shock overtakes his features. Leaning against one of the shelves with a soft smile on his face is a young Asian man with shoulder-length hair pulled back into a tail. Devin barely manages a whisper: "...Sam?"
"And you said this wasn't a hobby," the dream needles.
D. [Devin] Commerce 4 | Open
Devin has a day job, but the owner of one of the bars he's taken a liking to is harried with preparations for the Night Parade. Since the whole idea of the Parade has him a little uneasy, Devin agrees to run an errand and retrieve a box of slow-burning red candles. Once he's made the purchase (and quite a few rhinn lighter, until the owner reimburses him), Devin considers them pensively. Red was meant to ward off the spirits, and he has a whole army of dead in his past that he would like not to meet again.
E. [Devin] Outside Aifaran | 2nd Week of October | Trahearne
This is an extraordinarily bad idea. Granted, it's a bad idea that could potentially resolve as many problems as it could create. Trahearne doesn't like him, and would probably continue to feel they have unfinished business until they got the chance to finish the fight they started. Or, Devin allows, until he has spent long enough proving he is not, in fact, like the undead Trahearne knows. It might take longer than either of them have here, or it might never happen. In any case, Devin has no intention of hurting the sylvari. The Fool is going to be angry with him enough just for sending the embossed invitation, much less getting into a real altercation.
Though he appears unarmed, Devin isn't stupid enough to leave all of his weapons at home and has daggers hidden on his person. He arrives at the field in the early morning. When Trahearne arrives, Devin is leaning against one of the sparse trees in the area, the picture of relaxation.
F. Wildcard!
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"Planes breaching isn't fun for anyone, and Samhain is, at least back home, the time where the Veil is thinnest and most prone to being torn up by someone who has a mind to." She pronounces the Gaelic word Sow-in, and again, she tries to be casual about it. It's clear that she's not looking at the red candles just for fun, though.
"And even if the Dreaming is different and more resilient - which I'm not confident about, given the Shunts and the instability from last year--" Well, sort of last year. "--just before we left, I mean - I'm not about to take any chances."
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"If something like that starts happening inside the barrier, I don't think colored candles will have much effect." The Dreaming still plays up in their protected bubble, but they do escape the worst of it. "It is odd that this happens as regularly as it does, but I think there is reassurance to take from that as well," Devin tells her. "Divergence from that consistency is unlikely. I wouldn't worry too much about planar breaches."
He raises the box of candles he's purchased. "All the same, I intend to spend that evening with my head down." For other reasons than the planes going to hell.
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When he tells her not to worry, she snorts. "Worrying is how I've stayed alive and usually in one piece." The scar around her neck itches at that. She ignores it. "And I'm going to stay out of trouble, too. A first for me, really." She's not going to go out in search of trouble, but if it happens to find her...well.
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The similarities between himself and Aly continue to be source of some consternation. "Think you can manage it for a night?" Devin needles in lieu of more philosophical conversation. They've had enough of those for a while. "You'll probably have to find somewhere that isn't a bar, unless the Bridge makes a point to sequester itself for the residents. That might not be the worst plan, actually."
The Dreaming had a type, after all.
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She grins. "The worst place I'll be might be on a roof. I don't know if the ghosts look up."