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Zanthe likes to consider herself a reasonable person. When she kills people, it's for a reason; Alaine's mom needs fed, she needs some cash, she's bored that day. If someone offers criticism, she gives it all due consideration before stabbing them. She's perfectly happy to cooperate with others, even, as long as they follow all of her commands to the letter and don't question her or have an annoying face or something.
(To be fair, by Alternian standards this puts her somewhere just below Troll Mahatma Gandhi.)
At the moment, however, she is feeling decidedly unreasonable. Leo blew off her perfectly good advice to leave the goddamn sliding puzzle alone and kill himself into immortality, and what's worse, Alaine backed him up. She's used to him agreeing with her ruthless play style, but for some reason he felt like the pointless sidequests would be useful, and "it's not like we're in some kind of hurry, right?"
So, like the reasonable person she is, she stormed out of the computer room and went off to explore the meteor and steal people's stuff from the chests. So far she's found Sky's lacy underthings, a handful of boonbucks, Ari's lacy underthings (which she files away for later perusal), and more weapons than anyone could reasonably need, all of which have gone straight into her inventory.
She opens another door. It leads-
to a refreshmentblock?
She draws a heavily alchemized dagger and advances slowly toward the beveragetable. "If Troll Ashton Kutcher shows up, I'm stabbing him in the face," she warns the empty room.
girls-just-wanna
not-only
"Well," he says reasonably, "what is a God Tier outfit?"
He follows her to the bar, hanging back just barely within conversational distance; his footsteps make absolutely no sound.
He follows her to the bar, hanging back just barely within conversational distance; his footsteps make absolutely no sound.
girls-just-wanna
"If you're playing the Game - sorry, let me start over. There's a video game. Playing it ends the world, but you're destined to play it, so the world is ending anyway, so playing the game is more just sort of coexistent with the end of the world, but it also ends the world itself in a lot of ways? So, if you play it you go into this fucked-up alternate dimension, and in that dimension there are these special rocks? Like, this big slab of rock. And if you die on the rock you become immortal, sort of. And get super awesome powers based on your destined Role. And wings. And bitchin' pajamas."
She imbibes some of her vile beverage. "Pretty basic shit, really."
She imbibes some of her vile beverage. "Pretty basic shit, really."
not-only
"That doesn't sound very much like how I got this," he says. "So maybe the resemblance is just a coincidence."
girls-just-wanna
"How'd you get it, then?"
After a moment's thought, a pair of glasses appears on her face, and she blinks decisively at his clothes. A card appears in midair; she stabs it, and it vanishes into her inventory. She crushes the glasses in her fist, and they, too, disappear. "I'm alchemizing myself some of that bullshit magic fabric in red," she "explains".
girls-just-wanna
"Alchemizing. It's... I'm going to make myself clothes out of that stuff. With weird magic."
not-only
"I wonder if that will work," he says. "To answer your earlier question, I got it by physically entering the Fade, which is supposed to be impossible. And there do seem to be interesting powers and a destined role attached."
girls-just-wanna
"If it doesn't work I'll bully Ari's human kid into doing it for me," she shrugs. "And that sounds about right, actually. Guess you're playing the Game. Let me know if you've figured out the Ultimate Riddle, I've got a bet going with Alaine that it's actually just a knock-knock joke."
girls-just-wanna
"Eh. It's bullshit anyway. You're well rid of it."
She finishes her soda. "That's strong, man. Could I get a chaser?" A bottle of eye-wateringly powerful alcohol appears, and she swigs some. "Ta."
girls-just-wanna
She shrugs. "Suit yourself."
After a moment, she asks "What's your world like? I'm nosy and our humans are all boring. D'you have trolls?"
not-only
"I don't think so," he says. "We have humans, dwarves, elves, qunari, spirits, demons, and darkspawn. And maybe other things that I don't know about or am forgetting."
girls-just-wanna
Zan sniffs disapprovingly. "That right there is entirely too many species. Two should be enough for any reasonable world to be getting on with."
girls-just-wanna
Zan sighs. "Well, not that this hasn't been a lovely collection of awkward silences, but I'll be going now."
She spends a while shopping at the bar and smashing her purchases into thin air, then gets a flask of Faygo and strolls out the door.
She spends a while shopping at the bar and smashing her purchases into thin air, then gets a flask of Faygo and strolls out the door.
not-only
What an odd person.
Sefton waits until she has gone and then peeks out the door. Katrin and Stalas seem to be... just in the process of coming over to investigate.
"I would've expected you to follow faster than that," he observes.
Sefton waits until she has gone and then peeks out the door. Katrin and Stalas seem to be... just in the process of coming over to investigate.
"I would've expected you to follow faster than that," he observes.
first-loyalty
"Well, what did you find?" asks Katrin, stepping through the door.
She stops and looks around, clasping gauntleted hands in front of her.
"I don't believe this place is in the Fade," she says slowly.
She stops and looks around, clasping gauntleted hands in front of her.
"I don't believe this place is in the Fade," she says slowly.
first-and-final
Stalas follows her in.
"Funny, that didn't look like a rift. What new and exciting way to break reality have we discovered this time?"
"Funny, that didn't look like a rift. What new and exciting way to break reality have we discovered this time?"