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@valravn

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@valravn

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Lord Felwinter

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???

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Felwinter Peak, Old Russia

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[warminded]

You won't take no for an answer, will you?

[Why is this his life now?]

[mrblueeyes]

yeah it was never actually a question

so choso wants somewhere nice and sunny and with a bit of a garden

do you have any requests about what kind of place we look for?

[warminded]

[Sunny with a garden... sounds nice.

Damnit.]

I don't care.

[A few seconds later:]

Somewhere near the library.

[mrblueeyes]

the one in sophia? we can do that.

[ He starts to suggest that Fel come house-hunting with them, then realizes that the discrimination against Fel means that it's smarter all around if he doesn't come with. ]

i'll let you know when we find someplace nice.

[warminded]

Did you use the same tactics on Choso?

[Now who's bringing Choso into this, Fel?]

[mrblueeyes]

no. i knew choso would choose me. i didn't need any tactics with him.

and i was entirely genuine to him when i asked him about you moving in with us. i would have respected his call if he'd said no.

but he liked the idea of you living with us.

[warminded]

Ah.

[How is he supposed to feel about this??]

I still don't like the idea of living in the city.

But I'll try it. For now.

[mrblueeyes]

i'm glad

i like having you around

(choso likes having you around, too. you're good for him.)

[warminded]

[...How does he even respond to that? He has no idea.

Sorry Gojo, you're getting left on read for a while.

Eventually, in reply:]

Good for him?

[mrblueeyes]

that's what i said. you find that hard to believe?

[warminded]

No.

I don't know.

It's a strange thing to say.

[mrblueeyes]

I don’t know, Fel, I’m not good at this stuff. And I’m even worse at trying to explain it.

The three of us are good together. Any two of us or all as a group. We make a good tactical team. We balance each other out.

[warminded]

I lost control of my shift.

[mrblueeyes]

[ Well that's a topic change. Gojo's surprised that Fel wants it to be over text, but maybe the distance is helpful. If Fel finds words difficult in person, and emotions difficult in general, then digging into those things is easier when it's just words on a screen.

Gojo gets that. He hates having to dig into his own feelings and be honest with himself. ]

What happened?

[warminded]

I don't know. I doesn't matter.

You said that Choso is strong. He's strong enough to deal with that, if should it happen again?

[mrblueeyes]

Yes. Without a doubt. He’s fast, which is more important. In pure firepower he can’t match you, but you’ll never land a hit. Don’t worry about hurting him.

[warminded]

That's good.

If I'm going to live with you, that means you two will be most at risk.

[And he knows he can't touch Gojo.]

It also means I'm counting on you to stop it.

I hurt people. Civilians. Another augmented.

[mrblueeyes]

that’s another good reason you should live with us, then. we can stop you from hurting us or anyone else. that’s not a problem.

[warminded]

Thank you.

Though I do still want to get back out of the city. Whatever we were looking for isn't in the marshlands.

[mrblueeyes]

Yeah I definitely want to continue exploring. I don’t think we need to take the lead on bridge repairs. Let someone else do that.

Any thoughts on where we look for this legendary location?

[warminded]

Of course you wouldn't want to do that.

[That's actual work!]

I think Patho-Gen wouldn't have sent so many people into the Asphodel Fields if they had something to hide there.

So north, instead. It would mean finding a way through the mountains, and there's nothing on the map within range that looks interesting.

Which would make it the perfect place to hide something "top secret."

[mrblueeyes]

okay uh quick logic sidebar here

seems to me that patho-gen has the resources and power to perfectly well hide a top secret laboratory right in the middle of the city

and if they needed a top secret thing outside of the city they really only need it to be like two miles out in order for it to be hidden from the residents of the city (since it was presumably predating our arrival)

70 miles out is unbelievably inconvenient, especially considering the precautions they have to take with traveling

i think that if there's something top secret 70 miles out it's more likely that it's because they found SOMETHING

so it makes more sense to search where they might find things

i think you just want to search the mountains for cool secret mountain hangout spots

[warminded]

I don't recall ever saying there was a lab.

The intel was that they were sending scientists and engineers to investigate "something" 70 miles out.

Though searching where they might look themselves does make sense.

[He's too used to his own method of searching for hidden things. He forgets that humans are significantly more limited and therefore need to conserve resources.]

[mrblueeyes]

something, then
i’ve reached out to brix to get clarification on the intel
[ he does not have permission to use this nickname, he’s just decided on it ]

but we can go scout the mountains for your potential cool clubhouse location in case you decide to abandon me and choso after all

[warminded]

Stop that.