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WELCOME POTLUCK

Greetings, residents! Those more observant sorts among you may have noticed a large influx of very crowded ferries. In order to welcome our new residents en masse, Town Hall is holding a potluck in Town Square. Please bring a dish if you are able and make a new friend!

All of our newest arrivals need only bring themselves. We look forward to welcoming you all into our community, and may your lanterns always be lit.

This event is open to all! In light of our new influx of prospective players following the Great Sail Migration, we've decided to offer a small public event to tide everyone over until the TDM this weekend.

Comments

[300kgbackpack]

"Ain't there some mythology about Hades just bein' the bookkeeper of hell? Death n' taxes all subject to the same bureaucratic rig'marole. Guys like me fall through the cracks. Guess it applies to you all too."

[worstorganplayer]

"Couldn't prove it by me, pal. I ain't much into mythology," Snakes drawls. "But it sounds like how it'd probably be. I always fell through the cracks in life. Figures I would in death too."

[300kgbackpack]

Kind of nice, to have a grumbly sort of conversation with a guy that sounds like he's been in the same boat for a while. "What're you doin' out here anyway? Not much on the party gig?"

[worstorganplayer]

Snakes shrugs. "I'll be goin' back in a bit. Just wanted to patrol around, make sure nothing's going to ruin the party. But something probably will anyway, with our track record. Not much anyone can do to stop it."

[300kgbackpack]

"Wouldn't be surprised, after every other fuckin' thing," he mutters, casting a glance back toward the crowd around the tables. "Demons, earthquakes, people disappearing n' comin' back changed? How're we supposed to prep for it?"

[worstorganplayer]

"Darned if I know," Snakes says. "But there should be a way. We can't just go on like this forever!"

[300kgbackpack]

"Best we can do is make sure we look out for ourselves. Not like the local guard's all that inclined to help. You heard about what happened with the kid and the jersey devil out there? Apparently the cops didn't even bat an eye, said they'd just ask the guy when he came back. Had the dude that reported it to them in the first place mad as hell." Sam shakes his head. "This ain't tenable. Something's gotta give and I've been tired of being jerked around for a long damn time."

[worstorganplayer]

Snakes snarls in frustration. "That don't surprise me. The locals don't seem to bat an eye at all the deaths and they just expect everybody else to sit and take it too. I've been trying to change things, but I haven't had much success. That's why I patrol so much. Trying to do whatever I can to make it safer."

[300kgbackpack]

Sam's nose wrinkles and his lip curls. "Best I can do is what I've always done, make sure everyone's supplied, run messages when they need me to, and take care of my kid the best I can. If anything happens to her, I'll kill whatever did it and make sure it don't come back."

[worstorganplayer]

"Those are important things to do ... you've got a kid?" Snakes blinks.

[300kgbackpack]

"Yeah, name's Lou. I left 'er back at the party with one'a the people that watches her when I can't take 'er with me. Don't want 'er out here in the woods just lately," he explains.

[worstorganplayer]

So how'd a kid end up here?

[The obvious answer is that she died to get here, but he's wondering if it happened some other way. It's disturbing to think of kids being brought to this place....]

[300kgbackpack]

"Dunno," Sam admits quietly. "I ended up here alone, but...she came along a lil' while after, on the ferry like the rest of us. Best I can figure, it's because she's like me. Death ain't ever been simple for either of us."

[worstorganplayer]

"... I'm sorry," Snakes frowns. "That is just ..." He shakes his head. "How would she even be able to agree to the terms of coming here? Would she even be old enough?"

[300kgbackpack]

"It is what it is. But...no. Good as she is at makin' it known what she's thinkin', I don't think her bein' here was about consenting to it. Three months old, I think it was more a matter that she still needed someone, passed on through, and she was still attached to me through the chiral connection. Think maybe I mighta needed her, too."

[worstorganplayer]

"Three months?! ... Yeah, that's good of them to see that she wasn't left all alone back there." He sighs a bit. "It'd be nice to have a loved one from home here."

Of course, he's not sure he even has any such person back home.

[300kgbackpack]

"I know I'm one'a the real few that's gotten this lucky. Me, miss Sally from over at the apothecary, those folks from the shipwreck thing..."

[worstorganplayer]

Snakes nods. "... Downside to havin' loved ones here is that means they must've got into trouble back home to get here," he sighs.

[300kgbackpack]

"Between you n' me, this place is at least better for raisin' a kid than anything I had before. I'm countin' my lucky stars she ain't alone. Not a lot of options for people capable of caring for her, back home."

[worstorganplayer]

Snakes quirks an eyebrow. "I'm glad she ain't alone too, but your home must really be Hell, Pal, to find this place better even with all the monsters."

[300kgbackpack]

"Long story real short, terrorists killed people, the rain killed people, the dead killed people. Everyone was underground, n' too scared of everyone else to live around others. Wasn't any kinda place to raise a kid."

[worstorganplayer]

Snakes grimaces. "Okay, yeah, I can see how this place'd be preferable to that. It's pretty here, and it can be peaceful in between monster attacks."

[300kgbackpack]

Sam nods because...yeah. It's bad. "It'll be good to get to watch 'er grow up somewhere that people can look out for her safety, too. Got a few people that're real invested in her wellbeing besides me, so that's cool."

[worstorganplayer]

"That's great," Snakes says. "Yeah, the people seem pretty good about looking out for each other. That's ... a good change from my home too. I guess if you have the chance to decide where to live when it all gets sorted out, you'd rather stay here?"

[300kgbackpack]

"Depends on how it all goes when we're able to do what Mortanne wants. Might just, though. It's better'n anything we had back home even with the monsters n' shit. Ain't even died since I got here."