[log] IT'S A MONSTER PARTY [closed]

[devoutish]

Characters: Alfie Solomons, Ecks, Fiona, Francel de Haillenarte, Haurchefant Greystone, John Watson, Tifa Lockhart, Royce Melborn
Location around U4/V4, and then in various houses
Date: evening of 138 through morning of 139
Summary: various merry traveling bands are set upon and scattered by a RUDE AS FUCK anomaly
Warnings: n/a; will edit if anything comes up

Catch-all for EVERYTHING - running from the anomaly, settling in various houses, etc. Top-level and tag as you see fit.

Comments

[plundering]

This place pushes people together, though.

[devoutish]

[His eyes flicker down to their hands for a moment, because haha, yeah.]

Sure. I'm as close to Duster now as I am with people I've known for years.

[plundering]

What is he, your partner in crime now?

[She's teasing, mostly just to lighten the mood a bit.]

[devoutish]

Ally. Friend.

We know about hardship bringing people together, where I come from. My people aren't well-liked.

[plundering]

What do you mean?

[devoutish]

[This is something he hasn't actually admitted to a lot of people who don't already know - Tifa knows some, and Royce knows more, but that's it. People from other worlds know he's Jewish, but they don't know what that means. He tells them about the good, and neglects to mention the bad.]

It's not just a religion, yeah? It's a people, a race. And one other people like to do bad things to - drive us out of their lands, or worse.

[plundering]

Oh. Shit.

[Well, that sucks. It seems weird to say something like "sorry", because she doesn't want him to feel like she's pitying him.]

Are you convenient scapegoats or something?

[devoutish]

Yeah, we are. There's not an ill in the world we haven't been blamed for.

Not many people here know this.

[He doesn't really think she'd go out and blab, but he wants to make the significance clear, just in case.]

Not the people from other worlds. Just the ones from my world, from my future.

[plundering]

[She nods. She gets it.]

I won't bring it up.

[devoutish]

Thanks. No one here's awful about it, so far. House makes his Jew jokes, but--

[plundering]

Trying to get a reaction out of you. He'll use pretty much anything he can.

[devoutish]

Yeah, I've noticed. I'm familiar.

[He winks.]

Doesn't much work on me.

[plundering]

[She grins.]

Me neither. He doesn't seem to dislike me much for some reason.

[devoutish]

We threatened him once, Duster and I. He hasn't liked me much since then.

[No regrets, though.]

And you - is your partner in crime Watson, or Rhys? Or the both of them?

[plundering]

[She considers this for a moment.]

Neither, I guess. Watson isn't really one for "crime".

[And Angel and Rhys are pretty much officially partners in crime.]

Why did you threaten him?

[devoutish]

["Watson isn't one for crime". Uh-huh. But he doesn't say anything.]

Oh, more of what you'd expect. Yeah. He was running off that mouth of his. But it's passed.

[plundering]

I was wondering how long that would take to get him into trouble.

[A beat.]

More trouble, after the Rhys thing.

[devoutish]

I had a theory that he wasn't like this before coming here, but that's not the story his friend Wilson tells.

[plundering]

What did Wilson say?

[devoutish]

That how he is now is neither unusual, nor a surprise.

[plundering]

Huh. I'm surprised he's lasted this long.

[Surprisingly, Fiona doesn't really dislike House, but still.]

[devoutish]

I'm glad he came back. He's useful here. Perceptive, intelligent, good at gathering information.

[plundering]

Yeah, he is. He isn't bad if you don't let him piss you off.

[devoutish]

Or don't show it if he does, eh?

[plundering]

Exactly.

[Alfie gets her.]

You seem pretty good at that.