Fernweh

WHO: Emma Swan and YOU
WHEN: 6-25 onward
WHAT: Emma being Emma and moving on with her life
WHERE: All over
WARNINGS: None that I know of other than Merlin went home and she is processing.

Emma sighed as she pulled her jacket closer around her body. She really should be used to losing people by now, but losing Merlin had hit her like a punch to the stomach. They can never seem to stay in the same place for long, but Emma had a feeling they would meet again. A month had passed and Emma was feeling more like herself. She felt like she could see people and talk without losing her shit on someone.

She spends the morning walking around looking at various items in the shops and then in the afternoon, she stops by the tavern. She really needs something to occupy her time.

WHO: Wen Qing + OPEN
WHEN: late June
WHAT: Moping at the tavern, also catch-all for your wildcard options
WHERE: Gazin tavern

As a rule, Wen Qing doesn't like Gazin's taverns much. They are far rowdier than the ones she is used to and you can't even get a bowl of decent rice wine.

Yet these days, she can often be found going to the tavern when her work at the apothecary is done, sitting at some out-of-the way table and taking in the background noises while she nurses a cheap ale which she barely touches over the course of the evening.

She looks quite lonely sitting there all by herself in the nice red woolen dress Xue Yang gifted her, never trying to involve herself in conversation and politely refusing when someone offers her a drink.

The only thing that gets her animated is when one of her patients from the apothecary seeks her out asking for advice or complaining about her illnesses, then she will listen patiently no matter how long-winded or oversharing the diatribes become.

One night, there's something of a stir all of a sudden as she leaps to her feet, holding the wrist of a boy who had been reaching for her bag of coins. "Now what was that?" she asks sternly, "I'm not drunk. You will have to try harder if you want to steal from me."

WHO: Renfri + OPEN
WHEN: 2nd half of June
WHAT: Buying a horse. Also general poking around town, feel free to wildcard
WHERE: Gazin

After several weeks in Gazin, Renfri has pretty much convinced herself that the town is no elaborate illusion of Stregobor's. Even for him, keeping up such a large-scale illusion for weeks on end seems like too much. If nothing else, he should have tired of toying with her by now and gone for the kill.

So it looks like she has really been saved by the bell. Or something of the sort, not that she thinks she had needed saving, strictly, she'd had a plan and it would have worked just fine if everyone else played along.

Life is coming along quite nicely, while she hasn't found reliable work yet she is doing well enough by selling out her sword hand for a day here and there - she's never had much luck returning to any kind of settled, orderly life anyway, not since it was first taken from her. There's always someone needing a sword to accompany them into the forest or an innkeeper needing an extra bouncer on the busier nights, or just some hunting to be done.

She may be found poking around town, trying to learn more about the lay of the land in various taverns or talking to the merchants asking for another transport which she could escort - she wouldn't mind going back to robbing them, either, but that needs a reliable crew.

Or she can be found by the stables, getting into an ever more heated argument right there on the street with the man who had introduced himself as the town's best horse breeder and trying not to stab him.

"That's a joke, right?!" she demands, getting distinctly louder now. "Do you think I've got money to waste? That horse isn't even worth half of what you want for her!"

Who: Geralt and Jon Snow; CLOSED
What: Boys be fighting
When: 06-07
Where: Tavern/Inn
Warnings: Physical violence, blood, all that comes from a bar fight


Without even paying much attention, Geralt felt an intensity in the room when he walked into it. He was there, as usual, to grab a bite and a cup of ale before saddling Roach up and heading out to deal with a "pest" problem at a farm near the northern tip of Vasari. After that, he planned to head south and hopefully explore things out that way.

Only it seems fate has other plans for the Witcher on that specific evening.

Murmuring his thanks after food is brought to him, Geralt tries his best to mind his own business while things start to unravel with a group of men over... who knows. What the Witcher does know is that things are about to get ugly. Fast.

And there goes a chair across the room.

WHO: Daenerys Targaryen thebrideoffire and OPEN
WHEN: June
WHAT: Exploring and settling
WHERE: Mostly the town and the forest
WARNINGS: None so far

( Dragons plant no trees. Remember that. )

WHO: Cassandra de Rolo (ofwovenstone) and OPEN
WHEN: June!
WHAT: Stuff! Things! Horseback riding and getting into trouble.
WHERE: All over the place in and around Gazin; venturing further out
WARNINGS: None to start, probably. Save maybe the usual warnings that naturally come with a de Rolo. Because nightmares.
NOTES: Any prompts involving the use of her powers are reserved for her existing CR. Other than that, feel free to find her just about anywhere, exploring and observing and drawing and getting into trouble (attacked by bandits, creatures, go wild!).

( Teach me to speak with their voices, show me the way and I'll try again )

WHO: Aella Tabris (fangoffenharel) and OPEN
WHEN: June!
WHAT: Stuff! Things! Aella is settled in and getting into trouble.
WHERE: All over the place in and around Gazin; venturing further out
WARNINGS: None to start, probably. Besides Aella swearing like a sailor but that doesn’t really need a warning.
NOTES: feel free to find her anywhere. Catch her in a bar fight, getting into trouble in the forest. Catch her drinking in a tavern. Choose the unspoken (unwritten?) WILDCARD! option.

( darkspawn blood out of a chalice doesn’t taste any less like darkspawn blood )

WHO: Merlan O'Keefe & YOU
WHEN: The Rest of June - Beginning of July
WHAT: Doing shit and making things
WHERE: Gazin, The Forest, Merlan's Forge
WARNINGS: Cussing? Monster fighting.

WHO: Sephiroth & OTA
WHEN: May 27th (from Morning to Evening)
WHAT: Sephiroth arrives and gets his bearings
WHERE: Gazin Outskirts and all over Gazin, especially in the Marketplace & an Inn/Tavern
WARNINGS: A Sephiroth of questionable sanity is a warning in itself, but as long as no fights are picked, people should be fine.
NOTE: Please let me know where you're hitting him up in the subject! Timeframe is apt to be Morning/late morning for the outskirts leading into late morning through early evening for wandering and early evening/evening for the inn/tavern area.

( Arrival at Gazin's Outskirts )
( Some time later in Gazin )
( Inn & Tavern )

WHO: Claire Temple; Open
WHEN: May 26th to June 1st
WHAT: A little of this and a little of that
WHERE: Around town
WARNINGS: Will update


Claire has been taking things day by day and doing a pretty good job at it. She knows it's from being at the settlement for a year, but there's a part of her that decided after arriving in Gazin that she wasn't in any hurry to leave. No one from her world (directly) was there and she was fine with that. And yet, it seems with every new face that comes in, the nurse is constantly looking for one that she knows.

Each new week that starts, Claire is either treating someone medically or learning of which herb replaces the more standard pain killers that she knows of and uses. When she isn't doing that, she's helping civilian mothers bring their babies into the world. Keeping busy wasn't a problem.

More often than not, the gal from Hell's Kitchen can be found grabbing a bite at the inn, shopping at the market or wandering the paths outside the town limits if she feels safe enough to do so.

But, on one evening, in particular, while on her way back to the inn, Claire found herself in the middle of a situation that saw her severely outnumbered by a group of travelling bandits who eyed her like a piece of food. She was in trouble.

In a very scary way.

WHO: Merlan O'Keefe & YOU
WHEN: The Rest of May - Beginning of June
WHAT: Doing shit and making things
WHERE: Gazin, The Forest, Merlan's Forge
WARNINGS: Cussing? Monster fighting.

WHO: Xue Yang, Song Lan, Xiao Xingchen, and possibly Wen Qing
WHEN: May 22nd
WHAT: Xue Yang got a little more hurt than usual oops?
WHERE: Gazin
WARNINGS: Blood, violence possible, and possible mention of past trauma

( Not every plan goes right )

WHO: Herbert West
WHEN: May 4th
WHAT: Herbert has found a rhythm in this world
WHERE: Around, anywhere really.
WARNINGS: Will update

The first week had been spent mostly wandering around, speaking to people and filling his little notebook, and smoking through his cache of cigarettes. The second week he started his job at the apothecary. Life was more quiet then, he had found someone who was willing to launder his clothes, which helped, only now it meant he had to have some clothes in the style of this world. He tried to keep it as close to his suit as he could, realizing he was going to need to make more money to get his wardrobe the way he would like. Which means working more and freelance work.

Ideas in mind, nothing in practice.

Of course, since he ran out of his main vice he was a bit more moody, he missed coffee, missed his life back home. Well, mostly.

Today, he made his way into the apothecary his mass of hair was tied back as best he could with a bit of twine, wearing a white baggy shirt, tied at the front, with a blue vest, and blue pants to match the vest, his oxford shoes stood out with the old world outfit. He had worked quietly for a few hours before he started looking through inventory.

"Come on, I know you're here." He grumbled under his breath as he shifted through items.

Later, once he was done working, he made his way to the inn, stopping long enough to eye the bullition board before moving on to take his normal, well favored, seat in the inn to return to people watching and drinking. Just like being back in college.

WHO: Song Lan/Song Zichen & Xue Yang (Open to Xiao Xingchen too.)
WHEN: Several weeks after he learns of the wedding.
WHAT: He needs to test Xue Yang in order to understand him.
WHERE: Gazin
WARNINGS: TBD

( Let me see your soul. )

WHO: Morrigan & YOU
WHEN: Early April
WHAT: Early days in Gazin
WHERE: Gazin, her home in Vasari Forest
WARNINGS: None yet

at the herbarium

"'Tis got to be a joke!" Morrigan huffs, standing in the bank and glowering at the very unimpressed druid Bhalris. "You can't tell me this place doesn't have lyrium dust!"

The druid squints at her. "As I keep telling you, Miss," he says, sounding bored, "it might exist but I don't sell it in my store. This is a common herbarium, no store for exotic goods from other worlds. I'll look into it." His tone of voice clearly says that he has no intention to look into it.

She snatches up the coins she had already put on the counter and turns around on her heel, ready to storm out of the herbarium in frustration.


Vasari Forest

The Vasari Forest is a place of magic, home to Tree Folk and wyvern and other magical creatures, and now also home to a certain swamp witch.

Morrigan has grown up in the forests and swamps of the Koncari Wilds and living in the forest strikes her as far more appealing than paying through the nose for a bedbug-infested room at one of Gazin's inns.

She has found a nice cavern in comfortable walking distance to town, it is dry and located just above a bend in the river which serves perfectly as her personal pool. Now that winter is giving way to spring, the forest is coming alive around her and she has little doubt she will soon be able to live off the land. If she sells her magic in town, here in this place where mages don't have to hide their powers, she should be able to live comfortably.

There is a merry fire crackling in front of the cave which may attract attention of people passing by, or you could run into Morrigan while she is collecting firewood or setting up snares.


wild card

WHO: Bucky Barnes & You
WHEN: 1 April
WHAT: Arriving
WHERE: Edge of the forest, Gazin
WARNINGS: An Intro thread, which is its own warning.

( *** )

WHO: Xue Yang, Xiao Xingchen, Song Zichen
WHEN: Soon after Zichen arrives
WHAT: Wedding plans and intrusions
WHERE: Marketplace
WARNINGS: Usual cast warnings (violence, trauma, etc)

( Shenanigans )

WHO: Song Lan/Song Zichen & OPEN
WHEN: On the day of his arrival.
WHAT: He is trying to find his equilibrium.
WHERE: Gazin
WARNINGS: Grief and there might be some gore depending on how things go (mainly having to do with eyes); I will update as necessary.

( I saw you rising above the dust. )

WHO: The Dragonborn and YOU
WHEN: First week of April
WHAT: arrival, settling into a new life
WHERE: Gazin, Gazin outskirts, Inn/Tavern
WARNINGS: alcohol, mentions of (healed) injuries from a dragon fight, probably curse words??

Return now to Nirn, with this rich boon from Shor, my lord: a Shout to bring a hero from Sovngarde in your hour of need.

Nahl... DAAL VUS—

The thunderous force of Tsun's shout had been deafening; even as the Dragonborn knelt before the god of trials, the words had knocked her back and knocked her out. Her last thoughts had melded into the sensation of being swept away and yet she recalled what they entailed: she did not want to go back. She did not want to return to Skyrim, nor did she want to face Paarthurnax or any of His remaining siblings. Their world would be safe from Alduin - for now, she suspected - but all she felt as he'd faded away was horror. Dovahkiin, hin kah fen kos bonaar - your pride will be humbled, he had warned and for the first time in a long, long time, Bryn had felt just that. Yet she couldn't remain in Sovngarde - the Nordic afterlife - simply put because she it wasn't her time. She wasn't dead yet and Tsun had spoken.

When everything faded to black, so did her thoughts fade into nothingness.

( arrival - gazin outskirts )

( gazin - day three )

( the inn )