2019-07-15: Ten Percent Debuff to Extra

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  • Log: Ten Percent Debuff to Extra
  • Cast: Lydia Seren, Lunata Croze
  • Where: Mi'ihen Highroad
  • Date: 15th July 2019
  • Summary: In search of the fabled cool, Lunata chats with Lydia on the Highroad. Will she be able to finish a scene in as extra a manner?


<Pose Tracker> Lydia Seren has posed.

Working hard is important but sometimes feeling good is important too and so Lydia lays down on the side of Mi'ihen Highroad because she is too shy to burrito up right now and instead has just flopped over on the side of the road because s ometimes that's just plain easier and more convenient.

Honestly part of her is glad that Ivan has been kind of tough to pin down because it has given her something to occupy her mind with besides freaking out about Krelian's presence on Lunar, something Lydia STILL hasn't talked to anybody about.

Even though she wants to.

She just /can't/.

But she can lie around and think about nicer things. Like Ivan. Who may be frustrating at times but is certainly not Krelian and with one puzzle before her she can readily focus on that rather than the one that does not seem to have any solution.

Still, there is one aspect of that 'puzzle' Lydia had mentioned herself that she's wondering about. Would she be willing to stay on Lunar? Or would she go back home for someone who probably does like her back, yes, but might never actually be willing to accept that.

But in the end, it's just nicer problems to think about which is why when Lydia lays on the floor at the side of the road, she can still smile up at the sky.

<Pose Tracker> Lunata Croze has posed.

"... ... ... are you just taking a nap on this side of the road?"

The voice is familiar, the seemingly perpetually put-upon voice of one Lunata Croze, the teenage lich who really wants to be cool but in thinking she wants to be cool only manages to be something like an adorkable dork. She's still in her Yevon getup, with the Yggdrasil Alliance jacket ontop as she looms over and peers down towards Lydia.

"... I kinda feel like it too, heart to heart," as she goes and flomphs right next to Lydia, putting her hands behind her head.

She looks like she's seen better days. It's like that one time in Meribia where she started to unravel a bit, and it's visible on her face slightly.

<Pose Tracker> Lydia Seren has posed.

"Well I'm not /napping/." Lydia says. "Eyes are open! But it could become a nap...at any moment!"

She does not get up to greet Lunata because that would defeat the whole point of this exercise but she does smile at Lunata because she's happy to see the girl all the same. Even if she's seen better days and honestly can be kind of a downer sometimes lately.

"Fair." Lydia tells Lunata. "Right now this side of the road is the lie on the floor and do whatever you want area. It's open air and anybody can join. Though right now it's just us."

She looks over to Lunata. It does occur to her that at this moment, this is a lady who is apparently working with the dude who fucked her up and probably doesn't know it but, again, she doesn't mention it. Not yet, at least.

Instead she says, "Do you want to talk or just lay around and stare at clouds and shit?" because it's important to lay donw the ground rules of lay on the floor and do whatever you want area.

<Pose Tracker> Lunata Croze has posed.

Lunata knows a lot about being a downer, Lydia. Just ask her this one weird trick she uses to sabotage herself! Her superego HATES it!

"Well, Shalune's probably just down the road if she's done haggling with Rin," Lunata grumbles as she peers towards the Travel Agency down the road. Then looks back towards her.

She exhales for a moment to mumble, "I'm just real tired. I got real messed up by some Veruni lady with a beam spear in Luca.... then Lunie dragged me up to the Thunder Plains to try to scuttle some Iron Giants but I just wound up doing a lot of laundry to pay my room."

She rubs at her nose and inadvertently makes things worse. "Want to just go scoot with Lunie and Krelly again on the Dipper."

<Pose Tracker> Lydia Seren has posed.

Lydia says, "Haggling with Rin, man. That's a rough game but he's the sanest dude I know on this island chain so it works out alright 'tween us."

She looks over to Lunata as she mentions a Veruni lady and sweats a little but not just because of the heat. Also because it's sort of, uh, she has a sneaking suspicion she knows who that Veruni lady is. "It wasn't Amaterasu was it?"

Ther is a cringe from Lydia when Lunata uses a CUTE NICKNAME for KRELLY. KRELLY. SHE CALLED HIM KRELLY.

But it's brief. Instead she says, "Who'se Krelly? What's his deal?" carefully. Some ways of approaching this topic are easier than others. "I've mostly been bothering cute assassins."

"Well one cute assassin, I guess, for the most part."

<Pose Tracker> Lunata Croze has posed.

"He's cool. I'm kind of stupid with languages though so Shalune has the leg up on me, and also on the machine-tinkering front," Lunata admits.

"... er-- actually, yeah, it was. How'd you know? I threw everything I had with her until my limbs started feeling like they'd fall apart and she still got the upper hand on me and then the ship we were fighting on capsized so we called it a draw."

A pause, and 'Krelly' comes up.

"Oh, that's Maester Seymour's assistant. He's OK, I guess? We scooted once, I think he likes the Little Dipper."

<Pose Tracker> Lydia Seren has posed.

"uhhh because I met her a few times and she's fucking nuts." Lydia says. "And she uses a spear so. I mean. I have never met anybody as extra as her in my life and it's kind of amazing to be totally honest. I bet she is pretty inspirational to her peeps just because of how bonkers she is."

She pauses and looks around to make sure Amaterasu isn't secretly listening behind a tree or something or hiding behind a mountain ready to throw it at her or something. She's honestly kind of ready to expect anything out of her.

"Well even if she had the upper hand, a 'draw' against someone like her is probably still really good so don't feel too bad."

She pauses a bit and adds, "Oh uh. Seymour's assitant huh?" Again how the heck did he end up Seymour's assistant?? "Doesn't he...denounce it as machina or something? It's pretty machina, I gotta say."

She sits up a little. This is so the wrong way to go about this but she isn't sure how else to talk about this guy. "What's he like though?"

Then she frowns and lays back down. That's the proper way to do this and she ought to stick to it.

She wonders if Lunata is a proper person to talk relationship shit with. She might be the best or she might be in fact the absolute worst and she's not sure there is much middle ground between those two possibilities. One or the other! Final Destination!

But she still kind of wants to talk about it anyway. Hmm.

<Pose Tracker> Lunata Croze has posed.

i've never met anybody as extra as her in my life

Lunata's face droops a little like 'don't I count? I /try/ to be extra, you know. to be, like, cool. no? no? ... baww' is written all over her face.

"Lunie, uh, met someone who used to be. Big Shal's owner or something. Sounded really dodgy. I trust Big Shal and all but I guess you never know someone's full history, especially when they're a really old ancient robot....."

Lydia says it's probably still really good they came to a draw. "... mmm. Felt useless, I guess. I wanted to use the Rephaim against those Golems, but it doesn't have the juice to fly across to the moon."

But on the topic of Krelian...

She looks to Lydia as she sits up. "... like, 'OK' I guess? He's polite and doesn't get in your way and does his job. Milquetoast? Why, you know him?"

Lunata... you have no idea how hung up on words Krelian gets... just ask Lacan.

Maybe don't ask Lacan that'll end with power dunks.

<Pose Tracker> Lydia Seren has posed.

Lydia doesn't seem to think Lunata is as extra as Amaterasu because Lunata has yet to pick Lydia up and run up walls simply to avoid a crowd. Besides, once someone is a friend that's sort of a debuff to seeing them as extra because 'extra' is actually kind of offputting, at least for Lydia.%rI'm uh... gonna guess that person wasn't human because--yeah. Veruni too?" She supposes she can ask about that.

She senses like there's some sort of running theme going on about gears trying to get to the moon and failing. It's a little weird that it happened to a GHOST robot, admittedly, but perhaps even specters have limits. Or wait is it a ghost robot or is it just a haunted robot???

Lydia goes a bit crosseyed thinking about this.

Lydia frowns a little. She shouldn't lead her on too much about Master Krelian even if she can get away with speaking directly about the situation with her. Instead she shakes her head.

"Not really." It's not even a lie, really. "Just be careful, alright? We don't know much about that crowd." That seems to be what she's able to muster on that topic.

"To be honest it's mostly about the cute assassins with me lately." That's somehow easier. [OOC] Lydia Seren says, "i feel like that's the creepiest pose i ever did somehow"

<Pose Tracker> Lunata Croze has posed.

Lunata reels for a moment as she looks at her Debuff List:

Friend Zone Effect: Ten percent penalty to Extra. Lasts: Until Dispelled

"... I guess? Big Shal was a Veruni construction golem, so it'd make more sense if the lady who knew her before was also a Veruni," Lunata muses, but she doesn't really know the details any further. "I told her to be careful, but it's not like I want to tell her what to do or what not to do."

Lunata raises an eyebrow with Lydia as well, before saying, "... I guess, but like-- the Maester's done right by us so far. ... I guess it wouldn't be the first time people had ulterior motives, though. Metal Demons, the Veruni, the Guard..." A pause. "Still, they're helping me kill myself, so I can't hate on that too much."

She slumps her shoulders. Wow, that came out awkward.

"So uh. Tell me about cute assassins," she mumbles awkwardly.

<Pose Tracker> Lydia Seren has posed.

"Oh. I guess so. Yeah. I mean. To be honest. I just sorta saw Big Shal as a member of the Caravan. I guess I didn't really think about their mysterious past." She was more trying to tell Lunata to run away from Krelian as fast as she could but weirdly isn't just going to say it like that. Besides, he was described as milquetoast. While that strangely feels accurate it also feels very not?

But her eyebrows shoot up like WOAH when Lunata says she's trying to kill herself.

"Uh well... I mean I guess I believe folks should get to decide that for themselves, but... we do love you, you know? And we'd be sad about it. And if there's something we can do to help you feel like you don't want to do that anymore, we would, you know?"

She pauses for a moment and then looks away. Should she ask Ivan to kill Lunata because she wants to die???? She'd really rather not, real talk.

But then Lunata DOES ask about cute assassins so Lydia says, "Well I mean I guess I've been hanging around Talia too and I guess she still qualifies, sort of? Ex-assassin? But uh--you probably know about Ivan."

Pause.

Pause.

"I am pretty sure I like him. And uh. It's awkward."

She pauses. "I guess you probably don't want to talk about that sorta thing, but um. I'm not sure it's...just a crush or anything either." Her cheeks silver a little.

<Pose Tracker> Lunata Croze has posed.

"... a member of the Caravan, huh," Lunata mumbles quietly. Oh, still a sore point? Hmm.

She pauses for a moment and furrows her brow, thinking that it's not usual that Lydia dwells on something for too long but it's also not really her business?

"There something up? You're not usually the kind to let something fester on your mind, but..."

She rubs at her nose for a moment. She hopes her nose doesn't come off clean.

"... ... I know. It's hard and weird and thinking about it more just makes it suck more," Lunata admits. "And it doubly sucks knowing Shalune's putting on a brave face staying with me even though I'm still trying to look for that end. It sucks that I can't do more for her other than 'not'."

She slides her head to one side.

"Sometimes I wonder if I'm extra salty because I /am/ religious? Because I worshipped Zeldukes all my life and then Ge Ramtos just had to bump his bony butt in because I fell into the wrong cockpit in the wrong ruin at the wrong time. Like... I don't know, what if some other /rude/ Guardian hipchecked you the moment you were about to really achieve something with Rigdobrite? 'Move over Riggy I'm Dan Dairam!' I think about that kinda thing."

She groans, but listens about cute assassins. "I don't... know who Ivan is. Or Talia? I don't think... I'm not sure, no. It's kinda hazy sometimes."

But she says she likes him.

"Oh... ... you said it to him yet? Give him a big fat sloppy one on the lips?" Lunata suggests as if she's teasing, but since it's Lunata, she also adds:

"Or d'you do it like me and never say anything then say it at the worst possible moment and then get your friends telling you Jay's still crying or something."

<Pose Tracker> Lydia Seren has posed.

"Oh I mean. I know you left, but I guess--ehh.. It still hasn't really hit me I guess."

Lydia's cheeks silver as Lunata calls her out on not being one to let something stew in her head. That's not strictly true but usually Lydia spews it out whether or not she means to by now. It feels weird to her that she hasn't yet but also perfectly natural. This is THE thing after all and it's possible, she reasons, that telling her friends about it could just put them in more danger.

It's okay Lydia brought glue.

"Well... I am a shaman. I can try to, you know, intermediary between the two of you." Lydia offers. "Maybe he'll give you a quest and then you have to go and do that quest and then voila! You can be mortal again. Or whatever. Happy."

She rubs the back of her neck. "I mean... I can't imagine he did this to you just to be an asshole. Not /just/ to be an asshole. So maybe there's something he wants you to do. Maybe you can...get everything you want. Or close enough to it?"

She shrugs both shoudlers and adds, "Shalune's a cool person. No lie there."

She smiles a little when Lunata reveals hse too worshipped the Guardians. "I gotta admit I worried about that too when I was a kid. What if the medium I picked up wasn't Rigdobrite."

She looks down at her medium. "...He's always been there for me. Even when I didn't have anybody. Don't get me wrong I like the other Guardians fine, it's just...he was there for me."

"...So even though it didn't happen, I get it. You know I'll help you in any way I can. I know that might not be much at this particular moment but you've got all of us."

She considers what she's dwelling on. "I just... don't think I can talk about it just yet. It's not you or anything, I just...can't."

She looks back to Lunata. "Oh uh. Anyway. Dan Dairam is pretty cool too I mean I don't think I could complain about Dan Dairam though I mean they're no Rigdobrite."

Her face goes even MORE silver when Lunata actually asks her about SMOOCHING. Dear god she hasn't even thought of that possibility because she was pretty sure kissing Ivan would basically murder him and she edoesn't want to murder Ivan! Not even if it means getting smooch on!!

But more too the point, she never expected LUNATA of all people to start going in on her about it.

"Ah well... Yeah. But he's like... got his own issues. Maybe it's not even really right to approach him about a relationship any more than I have until uh... until he maybe believes in himself a little more? Maybe I'm taking advantage of him."

She frowns at the idea of it but she honestly can't tell if she's just finding a way to talk herself out of a situation she more or less enjoys because of her own self doubt and anxieties.

Her eyes get a little teary-eyed here because now she's spiraling into self doubt. "Maybe he is just being nice and doesn't actually like me? but is too insecure to tell me? MAybe I'm just reading too much into what he said? I was so certain but..maybe I just wanted him to like me back?"

She covers her eyes and groans because this is definitely not what lay around on the floor aroud Mi'ihen time is for.

"Am I awful for wanting it?" Lydia asks in a small voice.

Lunata brings up her own situation and Lydia has to pause on that. That IS pretty much the worst what Lunata is describing and she pretty sure the situation with Ivan isn't that bad. It couldn't possibly.

"Nah. We usually just run away when things get too cute." She says, rubbing at her eyes.

<Pose Tracker> Lunata Croze has posed.

"... between me and Zeldukes, or with Ge Ramtos? Either way I..." Lunata stirs for a moment, glancing up towards the skies and squinting as she realises, wow, the sun is kinda bright. Don't stare into the sun, Lunata. Even if you wanna walk into the sun.

"I don't think he wanted to be an asshole to /me/. I just... happened to walk into it. It's an ugly snarl of ancient history and I guess we happened to just unearth it wrongfully."

Shalune is a cool person, she thinks. Too cool.

"... yeah, okay," Lunata responds on the topic of what Lydia's dwelling on. "Don't rush it. But uh-- I guess, if you want someone who's... y'know, not /as/ around the Carakin. Or whatever. Someone who's a bit more detached from your day to day."

Lydia blushes silver. That's so cool, Lunata thinks, I want to blush silver or blue or any other colour but red but mostly what I want is to just be able to blush period because liches don't blush despite Ge Ramda being able to with cheating /////// lines, once.

"Lydia, what I'm about to say--" Lunata pauses. "Y'know, what you were saying about what if he's just being nice, all that. Look at me in the face and you're gonna see yourself cause boy don't I hear that and hear an echo??"

She slumps and says, "'I don't deserve Jay, she's amazing and patient and kind and some kind of hero the world doesn't need and all that other stuff that honestly I'm kind of creeped out of putting her on that pedestal.'"

She draws her legs up and wraps her arms around her knees. "But it all came back to the fact that I hate me. I don't believe a single good thing can come out of me. And obviously if I hate me, how could anyone else like me? On and on and on and ugh."

She scratches her head like wow did I just screw up this conversation something fierce. Big Shal please flatten me right now.

But in the end, there's that one question.

"... no. You're not awful for wanting it. You wouldn't call me awful... for wanting what I want with Jay either, right?"

Her head lulls down.

"It's just so hard to keep your own darn voice down."

<Pose Tracker> Lydia Seren has posed.

"Yeah I mean like. I wasn't trying to say that. I just figure... There's gotta be a reason. Normally he'd /want/ to let you pass, least 'ccording to our teachings."

Lydia would like to blush red though honestly it is pretty cool to blush silver it's just also kind of embarrassing because it's a reminder of a time terrible things were done to her against her will. In a way that's the worst part of it. It WOULD be pretty awesome if she was just asked. Or it could be. Being able to design her own body honestly would be quite the fantasy fulfilled for her. Instead someone else did.

OH and they sometimes use it to bother her friends/try to kill them. So there's that.

"Okay. When I'm ready, I'll talk to you about it." Lydia smiles ove to Lunata, managing that much at least.

Sits sits up a bit when Lunata asks her to look into her face because it sounds like Lunata is about to drop some real hot takes here. What she gets is Lunata admitting her own anxieties and she says, "Well, Jay is pretty amazing," Lydia admits. She could think of some critiques but they wouldn't strictly be faults in personality so much as Lydia's ideal person being different.

And maybe it isn't great that Lunata is suffering like this, but sometimes feeling pain means you can understand the pain of others and Lydia finds herself smiling brightly at Lunata. Maybe even as bright as that sun Lunata is thinking of walking into. If Lydia has anything that she can be unambiguously proud of, it's just how big and open and earnest her smiles can get like the one she is offering Lunata right now.

"I wouldn't!" She tells Lunata. "You're not awful! You and Jay go together like rocket fuel and fire. It's great!"

Maybe not the best metaphor but she means well okay?

And then somehow that smile gets bigger and she adds, "And I don't know how but I like you too!"

She turns and lays back down on the floor.

"But you're right. It's hard. I used to take stuff for that but it never really went away." She still would but her pharmacist decided to join a terrorist organization so now she just has to deal and hope she doesn't need it as much as she used to.

<Pose Tracker> Lunata Croze has posed.

"... yeah ... I do too. No reason Ge Ramtos wants to sabotage what should be his own domain," Lunata murmurs very quietly, lowering her head further until it's just about resting against her arms.

She scratches her head just a bit further. Jay is a pretty amazing person. But maybe, as Marivel put it, the light upon which Jay's sun is shining really was too bright for her. Wow, why am I just thinking in vampire analogies ever since I met Marivel, Lunata thinks. Trying to be more cool and goth and extra, is probably why, you poser, Lunata concludes.

"... kinda did go like rocket fuel and fire, huh?" Lunata chuckles very quietly. Then her face falls.

"I like you too, Lydia," Lunata manages to answer with a mostly gay face because nothing about her is straight. "And I don't need to not know how."

She doesn't mention it, but she's silently wondering there's stuff you can take when your brain goes bad?? She's just used to Jay making potions for everything...

...even when she's undead...

<Pose Tracker> Lydia Seren has posed.

Lydia has nothing to say about that vamp! She clearly can't be trusted.

Maybe there is something that can help a sad zombie out. And Jay probably would be the right person to ask about that! But honestly, Lydia isn't even sure what she took was doing anything once she uh, ended up really more machine than person which seemed to just sort of happen gradually somehow? So really she's definitely not going to say one way or the other about Lunata. Best to not get hopes up on something like that. Especially since Lunata didn't mention it so, well, it feels kinda pushy to comment even if you are kind of wondering about whether Jay can help too.

She does laugh at Lunata's crack because she gets it.

"Me neither." Lydia offers Lunata a fist to bump. "Buds."

<Pose Tracker> Lunata Croze has posed.

Lunata manages a pretty calm smile for once as she looks towards Lydia and her laugh, and her fist when she holds it out.

"Buds," she responds in turn as she meets their knuckles into a bump.

ok end the scene there end it there end it there before--

"... I'm-- I hope my fingers aren't melting or anything??" Lunata stares down at her own hand.

too late