Silverspear: Hey guys.
Mimicblade: Hi Elksia. How’s things in the murderous circle?
Silverspear: You the only guy online?
Mimicblade: I’m permanently online.
Mimicblade: Always busy sending instructions to my troops.
Silverspear: And you do all that on Wyvern?
Mimicblade: Yeah.
Silverspear: You don’t talk to them in person?
Mimicblade: I do sometimes but we don’t have a proper flagship or anything, we mostly live and work from our own personal ships and meet up at the pub afterwards. We’ve got meeting spots if we need them but we’re very loose-y goose-y.
Mimicblade: Plus I get all my requests and stuff through here as well. Keeps it all in one place, right?
Silverspear: I guess.
Mimicblade: What did you want to talk about?
Silverspear: I wanted to wait until everyone was here.
Mimicblade: Might be a while. It’s pub time right now. Retvik runs a pub. He’s probably busy.
Silverspear: Oh.
Silverspear: @everyone please come here when you get the chance.
Silverspear: I want to talk.
Mimicblade: You’re alright though, right?
Silverspear: Yeah. I’m mostly fine.
Mimicblade: You’re not fine.
Silverspear: I’m busy. I’m,a Justarian Lord, I’m always busy.
Mimicblade: Do you take actual breaks?
Silverspear: Sometimes.
Mimicblade: No, then.
Silverspear: I do, but they’re not breaks where I can go and do stuff away from my sub-sector.
Shieldbearer is now online.
Shieldbearer: hello
Shieldbearer: are u ok do u need me?
Silverspear: Hi, Retvik!
Shieldbearer: to be honest
Shieldbearer: I find it weird being called retvik now
Shieldbearer: I have been vick for a long time
Shieldbearer: the other retviks call me vick
Shieldbearer: I prefer that now
Mimicblade: Wow, what happened to you that you were willing to change your name?
Shieldbearer: losing my memories and being in the ventra and building a new life for myself
Shieldbearer: mortal life was dumb
Shieldbearer: I was dumb and grumpy
Shieldbearer: Im happy now
Shieldbearer: and the little kid I wanted to adopt is alive too
Shieldbearer: even if I lost the mortal stuff, I got a ton more
Mimicblade: Huh.
Mimicblade: I need to come and visit you in person.
Silverspear: That’s… kinda what I wanted to talk about.
Silverspear: I’m in no position to leave my duty or my work in the Justarian Circle.
Mimicblade: You can’t take holiday leave?
Silverspear: Yeah no I can’t.
Silverspear: The person in charge of organising that sort of stuff is dead, someone else is also dead and there’s been a bunch of murders and attempted murders and we’re trying to choose a new leader.
Silverspear: They want to pick me to lead the Northern Justarian Boundary Guardians.
Silverspear: I don’t know whether to accept or not.
Silverspear: It would be an honour to be in charge but also, like, someone did try to kill me recently.
Mimicblade: I suppose, if you accept, you can get more protection.
Silverspear: Yeah, of course. But also I’d be permanently stuck here in the Justarian Circle. Border Lords don’t get much time off and it’s seen as bad for morale for a Border Lord to leave the Justarian Circle.
Mimicblade: Do you not do any travelling or anything? What if you wanted to go to a Deathven Sector or something?
Silverspear: We’re told that there’s no reason to leave the Justarian Circle at all. We have everything we might need right here.
Shieldbearer: but what if u have family outside it?
Silverspear: It’s suggested you try and convince them to come to the Justarian Circle.
Mimicblade: And… you’re about to do that. Right now.
Silverspear: … Fuck.
Silverspear: I totally am.
Silverspear: Well, I ain’t going to try and convince you to come here and live here. You three have your own stuff going on.
Silverspear: And, like, Tenuk and Arkay are sect leaders, they literally can’t.
Mimicblade: What do you mean by that?
Silverspear: There’s a law saying that a sect leader can’t join the Justar.
Shieldbearer: oh so that is y the ventra lords stayed here
Shieldbearer: I wonder how they are doing right now
Mimicblade: You know the Ventra Gales, Vick?
Shieldbearer: I run a pub
Shieldbearer: lords thyel and kahlos like to drink
Shieldbearer: I dunno if zephyr likes drinking but she pops by to fly them home sometimes
Shieldbearer: but also now I think about it
Shieldbearer: isnt kahlos’s dad the big truthtalker leader guy?
Mimicblade: That…is probably the bigger reason.
Mimicblade: So, uh, Elksia, were you going to suggest that Vick, Arkay and I come and visit you?
Silverspear: Uh, basically, yes.
Silverspear: Me getting both time off work and permission to leave the Justarian Circle just isn’t happening right now.
Mimicblade: Is there not somewhere nearby we can meet?
Mimicblade: Because I don’t want to go to the Justarian Circle.
Silverspear: Why?
Mimicblade: They get funny with Beh’ens.
Mimicblade: I know I ain’t a Beh’en, and I ain’t a Retha either, but I’ve heard what they say about Beh’ens.
Silverspear: They’re not that bad.
Deathbringer is now online.
Deathbringer: What is not that bad?
Silverspear: Racism in the Justarian Circle.
Mimicblade: Hi, Arkay.
Mimicblade: Elksia says she can’t do the “four of us meet at Retvik’s bar” thing.
Deathbringer: Aw.
Deathbringer: Can we… not meet at a bar nearby or something?
Deathbringer: I have no idea where in the Justarian Circle Elksia is located.
Silverspear: On the south-eastern Goldtorn/Justarian border.
Deathbringer: Oh that’s where that mall is. The one where I get massive discounts.
Mimicblade: Which one? The Happy Blade one that gives discounts for Life Goddesses?
Deathbringer: They also give huuuuuge discounts for Higher Lords like me and my partners.
Silverspear: I suppose… it is… it’s easier for me to arrange a trip there than it would be to arrange a trip to the Ventra Expanse.
Silverspear: I can put it under “holiday time” for some of my staff as well.
Silverspear: It’s pretty far for you guys though.
Mimicblade: Eh, not really. A bit further than a trip to Arkay’s place, I think. About the same distance as Retvik’s bar.
Deathbringer: Vick, I can pick you up and bring you, if you want.
Shieldbearer: itd be a long trip though and I dunno if I want to leave letharus on his own for so long
Mimicblade: Who is Letharus?
Shieldbearer: my girlfriend
Mimicblade: You… have a girlfriend?
Deathbringer: It seems to be a multiversal law that anyone called Retvik has to have a Psion girlfriend.
Deathbringer: Although, speaking of which, I can just ask the Dessaron Kids and see if they’d be happy to watch over the bar for the duration of the trip.
Silverspear: Dessaron KIDS?
Deathbringer: Blame Kairos for that one.
Deathbringer: So yeah, how does that sound?
Silverspear: I’ll… work some things out, then let you know.
Silverspear: I gotta go now.
Deathbringer: Alright, Elksia. Keep safe.
Silverspear: I’ll try…
Silverspear is now offline.