THE SQUAD DOES AN INTRO: GROUP MEET UP - [modplot] [event] [free-for-all]

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THE SQUAD DOES AN INTRO: GROUP MEET UP
OOC POST
The Green's binding spell finally works out its kinks and the entire group is teleported into the same area in the center of the city, near the statues of the Tin Man, Cowardly Lion, and Scarecrow.

Everyone in the group feels a tingling sensation as the magic sets in place and binds them. Anyone that tries to leave will now find themselves being teleported back if they wander too far. The group will have to try to stay together when it moves now.

They have a little bit of time to figure things out.

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OOC INFO
✦ Post in actionspam format. Plots and mod-run events in the game are meant to be in actionspam format to keep a brisk pace.

✦ Free-for-all Post. This event will be in "free-for-all" format, meaning that threadhopping is encouraged and that threading should be treated in the same conversational way as network posts.

✦ By now, the language magic should be fully in place. By now, everyone should have magically learned Sylvaen so that everyone can speak it fluently and understand each other.

Comments

[therevanchist]

Hey. Is this seat taken?

[It's rhetorical. With a single smooth motion, Revan sits cross-legged on the ground facing Phos, or at least would be if they were sitting up.]

That was brave, what you did.

[shipoftheseus]

[At Revan's approach, Phos opens their eyes to peek at her and they lift an arm in a lazy wave. But they remain where they are, laying in the grass. They're not sure where she was about to take this conversation -- scolding them for that squabbling before, maybe -- so the compliment is a surprise. Not enough to shift them from their position, but they frown slightly, gaze shifting up to stare at the sky through the tree branches up above.]

Hm? Oh. Nah, not really.

[It's not a particularly enthusiastic response. Phos can't consider themself brave. Not after they just watched when the Amethysts got shattered. Not when Antarcticite was taken and they couldn't bring themself to move until it was too late. All they've done here is start a fuss over something that are apparently just weird human decorations.

Closing their eyes, Phos shrugs, trying to play it off nonchalantly.]

He wasn't scary. When he tried hitting me before he gave up really easily.

[therevanchist]

[Revan shakes her head, feeling Phos's ambivalence.]

I don't mean Dixon, or a physical fight.

[She waves that off. Come on, he's an absolute pushover and they both know it.]

I mean standing up for the helpless even though you were the only one doing it.

[Revan doesn't want to see that flame snuffed by discouragement or embarrassment. It doesn't matter if the statues turn out to be people or not. What matters is what Phos thought at the time.]

That was brave.

[shipoftheseus]

[Was it? Phos doesn't know if they agree. But making a big deal out of it by arguing the point seems like it'd just draw even more attention to it, so they just roll with it. They gesture grandly but tiredly in the air above them.]

Yeah, sure. I'm sooo brave. Glad you can recognize it.

[Once upon a time they would have loved this kind of praise. Now it just feels uncomfortable and wrong. So they turn their head to peer up at her, eager to change the subject.]

So...what are you? All of you, I guess.

[therevanchist]

[Riiiight. Phos, you are not doing anything to sway Revan from her belief that you're a teenager. She snorts softly and rolls with the subject change.]

I'm human, and so are most of the rest, it looks like. I don't know what species the smaller furry one or the talkative green one are.

[Revan uses "talkative" in place of less flattering adjectives because she can be very diplomatic when she puts her mind to it.]

As far as I can tell, you're the only inorganic species here. I can't sense any minds in the statues, but that doesn't prove anything.

[She's willing to entertain the "comatose rock people" theory. By her standards, it's only medium weird at best.]