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15strangers2017-06-24 04:26 pm
strangerpeople) wrote in 15strangers2017-06-24 04:26 pm
...THE BEGINNING
[Fifteen strangers were brought into the Depths to end the world, and they survived, with extra strangers along for the ride. Though the old world ended, creation itself has been preserved, and a new world has been born, shaped by the survivors. Portals to new worlds have been opened, and memories are slowly, but surely, returning.
And what better way is there to celebrate the beginning of a world, but with a spaghetti dinner?
Well, there was plenty of spaghetti, but some people thought that maybe there should be more than spaghetti. The Dragonborn did their best to make non-spaghetti food based on their memories of Tamrielic cuisine - being a cook themselves and cooking their own meals, even as an Emperor.
Spiced coffee with moon sugar and sweetmeat pasties in the shape of the moons, from Elweyr.
Imperial-style spiced sausage, braised in wine, and a tomato-flavored rye bread.
From Iliac Bay, a paprika-spiced rice dish with chicken and roasted peppers and a spiced banana mash in the style of Hammerfell.
From the Alik'r Deserts of Hammerfell, scorpion braised with venom sauce - which Alexis seems to like. It doesn't seem to be poisoned.
From Daggerfall, beet hummus, and stuffed dormice wrapped in bread like sandwiches.
From High Rock, Potage le Magnifique, with Alexis' special, not-lethal secret ingredient, and rock trout, along with fruit dumplings.
Lamb's bone broth with potato dumplings and vegetables, just like in the strongholds of the Orcs - with a dash of rice - and a dessert of carmelized beetroot.
Saltrice flatbreads and Telvanni-style mushroom medley with frost salts, from Morrowind.
Black Marsh King Yellow slug, served raw with some seasoning and wrapped in nut leaf. They are delicious, really.
Of course there is Skyrim's honey mead and blue cheese with honeyed oatcakes, along with horker and ash yam stew from Solstheim.
For now, it's time to relax, and celebrate the end - and beginning. Work can be done tomorrow. Questions can be answered later, if any are left. For now, eat, and enjoy. Bring your friends from home. Be happy, and remember.
There were 15 strangers.
But they are not strangers anymore.]
((OOC: Congratulations on ending Round 1 with the Golden End! For this feast, characters may bring people from their own canons to mingle with other players! Assume that portals have been opened for everyone by this time to go back and forth from their home worlds.
While you're here, please feel free to hit up the HMD, and we'll see you all when Round 2 happens!))
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We are still not ourselves, I deem, so... perhaps, and perhaps not.
[ To Eric he only shakes his head a little ]
There is no need of apologies. You feared for your beloved - who amongst us can say with certainty that they would not have been tempted to do the same under similar constraints? I have known what it is to be compelled, and I do not begrudge you the actions you took in your despair.
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You've - huh?
[Eric pauses, not sure if he should ask if what Maglor was compelled towards was really comparable enough to this or if he's just being exceedingly generous. It doesn't matter. He's grateful for it, this feeling that maybe it wouldn't matter to him what he had to do.]
... All right. Thank you. [He'll just leave it at that.] Us not being ourselves, though - I don't think we're going to change or anything. Do you?
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[So her husband has thanked the guy and that's all there is to it. That self business - Mira shrugs. It's important, but she isn't directly involved, her mature unchanged by this whole situation.]
You guys have all your memories back, don't you...? And I thought the powers were here to stay. Isn't it better that way? What drawbacks are there?
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[ Loss chases itself over his face, a grief old and terrible, there and gone ]
I am not myself, Lady. The world is too quiet. I would give up everything they gave me unwilling to have again that which they have stolen from me.
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It's not something that you can re-make?
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That sounds terrible... I'm sorry.
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Huh. I don't know much about souls, I guess you'd have to talk to Papyrus if you wanted someone that had an opinion on em'. But whatever you're missing, it didn't seem to stop you that much. And you have a new family who've always known you like this.
[Even if it's the brats. He seems to be happy with them.]
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[You can practically see question marks over her head at the word family. The fifteen strangers are family, she guesses? Wait, maybe it was the boys who - whatever, yeah, Eric didn't include himself in the family so she isn't related by marriage either.]
I have an opinion or two about souls myself, but they're not "very literal" in our world, so I'm afraid that Eric and I really can't offer much more than educated guesses... [Siiiiiiigh!] So I'll just say, good luck with that. To me it looks like there's nothing you Mantled can't do when you put your minds to it. [No wonder Eric sees Mira as an angel of hope, huh?]
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Killua is a good lad. [ he agrees ] He has already adapted, I think. But Junior struggles with it to a little, I think.
[ to Mira he adds ]
I suppose if one does not know for certain, it would be difficult to have an opinion! But it is not so for my people. And I suspect that what they gave us is meant to replace what they took and so...I do not know.