⇨ THE EPILOGUE

[ringleaders]

Who: Everyone!
When: Day 61
Where: The Carnival
What: After all the rescues team return, it will be matter of tending to the wounded and getting the hell out of dodge. The Ringmaster can handle the fleeing part, but someone will need to look after those in the medical tent. Or, maybe, you just want to show up and ask what the hell happened.
Warnings: Some messed up consequences of faerie fuckery.

IN REPAIR↴ As the minutes tick past, all four rescue groups will eventually return. Everyone in the carnival is encouraged to help out, ensuring that the rescues and victims both are taken care of after the fact. You can tag in here as rescuers taking care of business around the carnival, victims recovering, or other workers checking in to see what's going on. This log is for general aftermath threads, made by anyone.

Comments

[whattaprick]

“If there was, I would have killed you.” Lambert says that super casually. Though Childermass has an egg like Strange does now, well. Lambert would still prefer he didn’t get to use it.

“But since it didn’t ... good job. If you hadn’t knocked him out, we’d have one more person to rescue. Or worse.”

[worldlyafflictions]

"Wow," point, "not cute, considering...!" what he's heard Lambert's team's whole expedition... But the jab is mostly grumbled because he did just pay him a compliment.

"Ya sure are serious about him though." He'd definitely noticed Childermass hovering around all the previous day too. "Ya have some weird old man Thing going on, huh."

[whattaprick]

If Childermass had been taken by the Rose Queen, suffice to say, Lambert would have tried a lot harder than he did to commit a murder, and damn the consequences. But since that never happened, well, there probably wasn't much point to it...

The observation makes him frown. He'd been aware enough of Childermass being present -- almost every time he woke up, really, to be that obvious, but ... he never got a chance to ask about it, really. What he's said, what he wants Lambert to say. But it's not in him to deny it, either.

"Yeah," he says, simply. Which part of that he's agreeing with, he doesn't specify.

[worldlyafflictions]

Squints and wrinkles his nose, letting this information sink in. He's not sure if he really wanted to know or not, but he asked, and now he does. It's not like it's not useful to know how people relate to each other here, but.. old men, geh.

A terrible thought occurs to him.

"Strange isn't involved too, is he?"

[whattaprick]

There's a pause.

"You know that's like me asking if you like getting bugs poured into your pants, right?"

Look, you inflict one terrible mental image to contemplate on him, he's going to inflict one right back.

[worldlyafflictions]

"What, obviously I didn't know that!! I was just going off everybody's weird tension!" He just got here, he isn't following it that closely! Though, he admits it could have been many kinds of weird tension--he just assumed it was the close relationship kind, since killing a person to rescue them or keep them out of enemy hands seems like a generally charged thing to do, likely to require all kinds of trust and squashy intense feelings probably.

Look, he knows people like this, it's not his fault if it also seems like a Thing when adjacent to a confirmed Thing.

[whattaprick]

Lambert's completely baffled look says enough, he has no idea what tension you're talking about here, Shima.

"No. Strange isn't involved." His face scrunches up like he's just bitten into a lemon at the thought. No, just no. He can even imagine it: Strange wouldn't shut up, ever. And he'd be so whiny.

"He's my best friend. You've heard of those before, right?" Is he implying Shima's a friendless loser, he sure is.