[March Catch-All] | Open

[cryptsleeper]

Who: Alucard + ???
When: March
Where: Not Nocwich, the Horizon, Aqulia
What: Making frowny faces at the closed portal to Nocwich, braving the Horizon, and watching the storms roll in
Warnings: Added as needed

Comments

[thedreamer]

Yes, I think we're veering farther from the path of good times ahead. If that's even possible.

[ The degree and manner of the danger awaiting them is, of course, the big awful unknown in all of this. He's at least semi-comforted knowing that no one else is any less distressed or anxious just waiting for it all to happen. ]

What did you make of what happened when we passed through the portals leaving Ikorr? Those words, you are awaited. Lovely if it means we're invited to a fancy dinner party with games and dancing, but it's obviously anything but.

[cryptsleeper]

Oh, it's always possible. So long as we don't repeat the cult situation...

[Enough said.]

I have to wonder if awaited means our presence here in Abraxas more generally, rather than a specific event. But there's too many unknowns, and only one person in Solvunn could even find a name for this Herald.

[thedreamer]

Do you feel yourself going a bit mad at all, wondering at the possibilities? My mind never really stops, you know, imagining what's to come, what's happened, what will be, what can't be. While we wait, we can only just fill in the gaps, but that long pause is its own madness.

[ It's not that they don't want to be able to do more, he imagines that's true for almost everyone here. It's only that so much is, again, out of their control. ]

I only want to be sure everyone's safe on the other side of this. And yes, very glad not to repeat any cult situations.

aim to start wrapping bc event?

[cryptsleeper]

If I thought about the infinite possibilities at all times, yes. But that doesn't help me, so I try to avoid it.

[Alucard lifts a single eyebrow, not quite side-eying the statement but very much trying to ask are you okay with all that in your head? without having to do it outwardly.]

Having to attend to buildings, clients, commissions, and design keep me grounded. Joke not intended.

[Safe though. The dhampire shakes his head.]

I don't really think that's possible. Being safe on the other side of this, I mean. Going through something catastrophic and stupid is never safe, and you're never unchanged from it.

for sure - good to wrap on yours if that works!

[thedreamer]

My mind rather...doesn't let me avoid it, but I take your point.

[ Though this world has affected certain abilities, the way his thoughts run amuck, the shifts and turns of the world itself — all of that lives in there in his head. He's not quite okay, but okay enough! ]

Suppose you're right, of course, it's only the hope I have of wishing to keep the worst of what's to come away from everyone. Which — yes, isn't possible, either, at least not here. But my life before this, it was, or I tried and I helped! Never as much as I would have liked. Here, it's — well, the waiting, like we said. Dealing with whatever comes.

[ He shrugs a little and stuffs his hands in his pockets. ]

Attending to your buildings and clients and commissions — do be careful out there, eh?