Freedom, but now what?

Llyn was free again she was away from the Palace Lands too in a city controlled by other Adventurers, for the first time in a very long time the Undine could relax as she found herselfd wandering towards on to tthe near by taverns lured by the sounds of drink and Song. What could go wrong here for the blue haired and dusky woman.

Schneider is here drinking at the bar in Tolbana because ... well, it's close to his Flight School, and he can still come by for food, and Tri-Edge doesn't come though very often, so long as he doesn't use the Purifying Flames. But that's OK, there's enough regular fire to keep him happy.

Hisame has been gone for more than a while, mostly doing her own little thing to try and avoid a sense of ennui. It's largely worked, she's got a bag full of things she's doodled with ink, charcoal, whatever. Drinking sounds fun after such a long night..s of work. Which means she's sneaking towards the taverns herself! Maybe she should get back into brewing, that was fun when she'd tied herself down for a while- a quick shake of her head though and hse steps right on in and takes a look around. Her armor's still a mismatched mess.

Llyn can't help but notice and she'll pause at the seemingly missed matched armored Imp for a moment.

"Ahoy there didn't expect to see someone out, heading to an Tavern?"

Schneider is not quite so mismatched as Hisame, though it's not for lack of effort. His sense of style isn't so much demented as misplaced, and his sense of cool belongs in the 1700's. He's watched too many Adam Ant videos. Frock coat with thread-of-gold embroidery and silk lining on the wide lapels, skin tight leather pants, dragon-scale cape, knee-high boots, and super-fancy but starter sword, he's sending mostly mixed messages, but one thing comes through loud and clear: This fellow's not very experienced as a gamer and he's mostly winging it.

Hisame dresses this way because she thinks it's funny more than anything, it's best not to delve too deep into the mind of a mangaka though. They're a weird bunch. She tilts her head back, then spins on her heels to get a better look at Llyn, "Huh? Is it really that late?" she pauses, "Early? I dunno." She sounds happy enough. In a tired way.

Schneider's given a curious look, then a thumbs up. A fellow kindred spirit in weird! That's intentional right? Still, he's got that newbie vibe too. "Been gone a bit." she offers to Llyn, "I'm not in your way am I?"

    Along comes a June... well out of a tavern sways a June talking under her breath a bit, anyone paying more attention with their ears than to the translation that plays in their head will note she's speaking in a smooth lilting language, in this case Quenya. "Junie, you'll never unlock the root of Alvarian if you keep doing this..." she sighs "You'll end up drunk and laid or with some sweet girl asking her daddy to invent a shotgun for a wedding... but you'll still be stuck, everyone will know your every thought and your privacy will continue to be a joke. Alvarian is your salvation... you won't have to be drunk all the time so the Landers don't look at you like you're crazy and instead blame it on the booze..." she runs her fingers through her hair.

    While excentric or out of time isn't really her look... she's dressed like she escaped a Cymerian dinner party... or raiding party... hard to tell with Cymerian's really. But she herself looks like any auntie you'd see in a tea shop, or running a book store... a real middle age woman at a cosplay kind of vibe. She starts searching her inventory as she walks continuing to speak aloud to herself.

Llyn says "That's quite a way to think about that I guess oh I'm Captain Llyn...well formerly Captain. Can't be one without a ship, at least I'm free again and place controlled by people who can be trusted wait what in the seven seas..."

She just stares at Schneider for a moment with his fashion but hey it work and she waves.

"AHOY!"

Green eyes dart at June, one the looks , two the muttering. Oh dear the poor lady is drunk and she jut screams a japanese term she knows OFFICE LADY. She sighs.

"A moment."

She'll stride over to June, reachout out to steady her.

"HEy you okay?! You sound like you had too much to drink already..."

Schneider smiles to Hisame, teeth all but glinting. His look, overall, is intentional, the weird not so much intentional as driven by the look, which he considers 'classic wizard', though since he doesn't know much about wizards is basically just whatever flash and glitz looked cool to him at the moment. "Hey," he calls out in greeting, his long white hair blowing in wind that isn't there for anyone else. Llyn gets a wave also as she checks out his cool outfit. All the girls think he looks so suave. No really. Some of them, anyhow. Maybe?

June gets a puzzled look as he picks up just enough of her internal monologue to be really confused. But then Lynn is heading over to see if there's a problem.

Hisame looks to Llyn first, the unarmored, but gloved hand on her hip. "There's the ground pounder captains. Naval without a ship though-" she shrugs, "If I had any way to offer help, I would. I've been walking this whole time." She grins, "Good exercize though!"

Suave is probably not the right word from the imp dressed like she got dressed in the dark. She probably did. "You an artist too?" Hey let's just jump straight in! Still, she steps out of the doorway at least, both to make room should they want to go in, or in the case of June, leave.

"I don't think you ca... nevermind." she starts to say, speaking of June, but she's not too fussed, more an observation. "At least I never got chased with a shotgun with girls."

    June looks up and shakes her head patting Llyn on the butt "It's alright, I'm actually not drunk enough yet. Just enough not to be embarassed." this comes out in Japanese she snorts and switches to Queyna. "Junie you're always embarassed, you're just drunk enough to not freak out about it, just shut up and be nice to the lady. More drinks and hey look it's the guy who sets everything on fire." she nods her head to Schneider "Hey there." she offers again in Japanese. "OOh I'm June, good to meet you." she says her hand still resting somewhere it probably shouldn't but then she probably forgot she was in the process of groping a stranger since other thoughts joined in on what she was doing. Her head turns to Hisame's words and she smirks a little "Interns... their parents always get so touchy just because you kiss their daughter at the company holiday party." she shakes her head like it's just such a strange sad world

Schneider hrms at the mention of ships, and recalls, "We /do/ have a ship, actually. I'm not sure where Proph keeps it, though. We didn't sail it against the Palace Landers because they had a big naval advantage, but we do have it. Somewhere..." June gets a megawatt grin, he /is/ the guy who sets everything on fire. And that's a good thing to be. He beams proudly.

Llyn yelps as she gets a butt pat and she'll move fast. "Watch your hands." She's now eyeing the woman but she's not hostile. She notices the lanuages change and she says "Llyn." That's not an asian name at all it's bloody Welsh. She looks at her for a moment says firmly.

"Given the scandal that could cause..."

She looks to Hisame for a moment.

"The Palace Landers took my ship and the rescue team didn't have time to steal theirs."

She looks over to Schneider for a moment.

"Now you have someone who used to be in their Navy and was considered skilled enough to hunt down. I will be happy to tell anyone fighting everything I know."

Schneider nods to Llyn, "Let me find Proph. He'll know where our ship is...." And he will get up and head out and try to find the doc, slipping out of the tavern and into the night.

Hisame replies easily enough in Japanese, "You haven't even worked yourself to exhaustion, can you really appreciate stupid drunk?" Her tone's joking. She's got a bit of a drawl too. Still, mostly teasing. She switches back herself, "I... never kissed an intern. I think my publisher would have hit me. Also most were guys." She shrugs. Were they really interns? They got paid for it. Whatever.

A curious look to Schneider, "Wait that thing got built?" She's pretty sure she knows about it. That was one she helped with right? She pauses, finger on chin, scowling. "I... huh. Maybe." She shrugs. Nothing for it.

Llyn's jump gets another look to June instead, having a hunch. "Oh yeah. Hisame. That's what I go by. Yep." She nods. The weird tank! "You know if you ever want to steal it back, I enjoy a bit of adventure. Gives me stories to tell right?" Why not offer it to a stranger, she's in a strange land! "I was not a naval fan. Turns out lighting things on fire helps, but not if it spreads." Sage nod.

    June blinks and says in Japanese "If I watch my hands I'll get distracted." then in Queyan "Junie you'll get distracted anyway... wait she's a Palace Lander... with a Cymric name?" she switches to English "You were living in China or Korea? You from Wales or England? Maybe the US?" she asks peering intently, eyes nearly gimlet fine as she has her face far too close and breath smelling of too much beer. "You know... I've seen a ghost ship.. well the pirates are mostly skeletons... not sure how anyone would get it out of the cavern but that's one way to get a ship I guess." she addresses to both women, a hand lifted to wave at Schneider, her language and tone switching again to Queyan and lower volume "And there goes sets everything on fire boy... at least he knows how to dress the part." she says nodding to herself.

Llyn looks at June for a moment and seems to listening clearly. Shje now gets a bit grin on her face and will as she speak switch from Japanese, to Korean, to English and even Welsh.

"Korean, went to school in Wales and you have? Proph? I'll not forget tht name and thank you."

She now turns back to Hisame and June.

"Lived on a small island off the coast always like being around the water. How could I say no to playing an Undine?" She looks to Hisame for a moment.

"Wait wait Hisame as in the one who did that group shot of the cast of An Adventurer's Tale?!"

Hisame taps her chin as she considers. That's been a while. "I don't think I worked on that manga." Then it clicks and she snaps her finger, "Oh oh, that one. Yeah. I did." She nods and grins. A sharp toothed one. She definitely leaned into the monster-y look. "It was a tossup between this one or a short critter and being funny about it. Who doesn't want a half-pint tank right?"

She looks to June again and says, "You uh... HR loved you I bet." She's not upset, she thinks it's funny. Mostly because Llyn isn't freaking out about it. Might have been different otherwise. "Ghost ship huh? I bet I could mix holy water." Or the alchemical equivalent. "Bone dust is useful too. You want help on that?" She's having fun. Still grinning the whole time.

Schneider's given a wave and she calls out, "Tell them I'm back when you're there. I want to know if they groan or if they have missions for me." She then gestures inside and says, "It's cold. I'm hungry. Let's do this sitting thing if we're talking."

There's a pause and she looks back to Llyn, "That was a while ago right? Didn't more work come out or was I mixing things up?"

    June nods her head "Oh I grew up in the US." she shrugs "But I was born in Japan and moved home after the economy went to hell." she says with a wry smile "I'm a Linguist, I studied all of Tolkien's Conlang work and have been working on encorporating Conlang and Conscript into games..." she licks her lips switching to Queyna "Well... till the flash... then you were just a problem for the company weren't you Junie? Just a big HR problem, just that crazy lady who made good game inserts." she says turning around to walk back inside, to an audible groan from the waitress. "Then they said you're not allowed to functions with the public, then the staff, then you weren't wanted in the office, then you were just left at home writing for them while they ignored you and just hoped you'd loose your shit and step off a balcony and save them the trouble of firing you didn't you." she then starts thumping the side of her head with her knuckles "Shut up Junie, shut up shut up shut up." This comes out in a much harsher language Khuzdul the Tolkien language of the dwarves.

Llyn says "It was a light novel series." She smirks a bit at tht mention of the half-pint. "Well then we should friend and talk later." She notes while she turns to June again and she might be behaving as she's in a city and hasn't had a chance to change what kingdom she's with after all. She may not want to make enemies of someone who could PK her and send be back into the clutches of a Genocidal Kingdom. Who knows?

"Ah Tolkien, I wish he'd still been alive in Whales. I'd have loved a chance to hear him speak in person. Most Western Fantasy today is built off in part his works and the likes of say Conan of which you seem to be fond."

She shakes her head.

"No it was more recent, we got turned into our Characters before I ever found you."

Hisame watches June quietly, listening. She doesn't really have the internal dialogue because she usually just talks anyway. At least she's not eating spiders yet. She did use a few in a potion a few times though...

The groan from the waitress gets an apologetic wave from the imp at least. She keeps her own strangeness to herself for the most part. Still, she pulls a seat and flops right on in and lounges like someone that has walked far too much, far too often all too recently. "Hey I had to deal with the otaku occasionally when my publisher demanded it. I used to keep incense lit because it was thematic and awesome and- you know. Kept the evil spirits away." She's joking. "And also hid that unique aroma." She doesn't hate her fans, but some of them WERE weird.

She taps her fingers a few times and says, "Were you in a publishing deal?" Curious if it was going to be converted. She knows she did work on it. Fan art admittedly, but it might have been one that had been pitched her way anyway. Her crew knew her habits. And preferred drinks. And how to wake her up safely.

"I'm fine with that" she states simply enough, leaning forward to rest her chin on her hands. "I read some of Conan once. Also the weird bondage series. I put that one away, that one was uh... awkward." She shakes one hand back and forth. "I liked a few series from out that way. Never could get into some of the contemporary stuff from home though. Book-wise. Lots of manga though." She nods. She's an otaku herself, or close to it. At least she worked hard!

    June drops into her previously abandoned seat "Shochu, the good stuff from ninetails... or something really hard made by the dragon girl's place." she says to the waitress and rubs her face with her hands. "Hmmm... and something to eat." she says then thumps her head on the table and sits back eyes closed. "Tolkien was a genius in linguistics, and his theories about language being an expression of cultural growth and any language lacking that is hollow just feels right." she licks her lips "One of these days I will unlock the language of the Alvs, I don't care if it is SUDO and I don't even care if it violates the Laws of Alba and Triedge comes to murder me into oblivion... I need to know it." she rubs her fingers on the table breathing slowly.

    Switching to Queyan she says "Junie keep it together, they're not knights, they don't know you, they probably can't take you sober much less drunk... just keep it to talk about linguistics or the shit you've found in the world." she licks her lips runs her fingers through her hair. "Ooh Gor? Conan is better has more lovecraftian horror, better women, and besides the Hyborian age is just a better place to be than a planet on the other side of the sun."

Llyn says "Yes, with Cyberconnect." She smirks a bit for a moment and pauses. "I recall the one with the alien wizard, who helped Conan in exchange for being mercy killed. It seemed a Wizard has been torting him for power for centuries. I am sad the west does not turn out much in the style of Conan and other pulp." She grins a bit ore. "As you know Tolking the myths of the Briish isle were wild. I was not expecting cyberentics of fishmen when I started taking it as a side class. I'm just happy to be free honestly, I got to admit. I didn't expect Conan to be as smart as he was ... ripped."

Hisame wriggles her fingers at the mention of Gor, "Only good thing to come out of that were comedians talking over one of the movies." She then leans back, legs crossed and stretching. Then she gets herself cozy and holds a hand up, "Rum. We'll start with the rum." She nods. Slowly. Rum. June's once again given a sideeye. Should she say something? She's harmless seeming... enough. Kind of. "I liked the Black Company and the one about the executioner with the funny mercury sword too."

As for Llyn, "There's a few still doing it, it's just rarer or... less mainstream? You should hear the complaints about anime and manga over there. And the weirdness too." She shrugs.

"Big buff guys hitting big buff guys with beautiful buff women hitting buff guys. What's not to love?"

    June nods "He was a wise and just king, a mighty thewed warrior, and a thief nible of body and swift of hand. His only failing was magic and that was a strength of it's own when facing creatures from beyond space and wizards of many stripes."

    June seems to be really working to just exist in the moment going with the flow because not having to think means not having to deal with how people react to her talking to herself. "You'd probably like the Misenchanted Sword." she says "Really quite good, about a guy who in the middle of a war was given an enchanted sword that made him a master swords man and made it so he couldn't die..." she smiles "It follows his life AFTER the war... and true to the name the sword doesn't exactly do what it said on the tin."

Hisame leans to one side, waiting on her drink and listening to the two talk books. Sure she's interested, but they're wrapped up in it! Still, with the quote done, she adds, "I liked the movie one honestly." The quote. That is.

She nods listening to the book recommendation and starts to say she'll write it down out of habit, then sighs and makes a quiet shooing motion before adding, "I'll uh. Try to remember it when we get out. If this isn't a coworker induced coma so I finally slept for reasonable amounts of time." Still have to joke about that sort of thing.

Still, there's a nod, then she holds a finger up, "Garrett PI was like that. Post war Marine in a fantasy setting getting work doing other things and poking at ideas of both war and postwar societies and problems."

    June nods "Mmmhmmm, it's really good. I especially like the GDP and Lenore." she says with a smile. Weirdo who likes the swearing parrot and the dead lady stuck in a prophetic painting. "Lots of good works dance around that divide, Tolkien said he wasn't be alogorical but it's clear how much the wars struck him and forged his understanding of what suffering, good, and evil are."

Hisame is happy when her drink arrives, because who isn't at a pub. Tavern. Place. She sniffs at her drink and takes a sip before she says, "I did like the painting. That was my favorite book of the series, though there are some really good ones later on." and then a wry look, "And some... questionable ones too."

Still, she nods with regards to the Tolkein talk, which gets something of a, "The same could be said of the same series we were just mentioning. Both writers let their experience talk for them." She holds a hand out and says, "I'm clearly experienced and worldly." and a bad liar, not that hse's trying here. There's a sigh, "Partially why I went for a long walk. Learned things that way."

    June shrugs a bit and takes a swallow of her own harsh liqour "I'm just a linguist, I've lived in a few places... got an education, still ended up living with my folks, not fitting into the Japanese mold." she shrugs "Around here, well the other Sleeping knights know me... understand my fucked upness and just accept that I'm the best scribe around and an ass kicker on raids." she says and sighs "But hey, I'll get drunk and I'll wake up somewhere, and some days it's even someplace I wanna be."

Hisame nods as she listens, settling in, getting cozy, cradling her mug of rum between both hands. Don't worry about how she's getting home, she doesn't know either. "I definitely didn't fit in with the typical mold-" she pauses and adds, "I guess I did work myself to death a lot, but you have to to stay ahead in comics. You lapse and it gets harder to stay behind, so you stay ahead instead." She nods. Slowly. Then takes a drink. "Sucks I'll probably never get to finish my first publish." She looks to June and asks, "Shouldn't lean that far into the despair sort of thing. Even if we don't go back or wake up or whatever, could make this a better place."

    June snorts "Nah, not like that, it isn't a dispair thing." she says "I just...if I don't talk it out I can't really do much but go with the flow." she runs her fingers through her hair and shakes the shaggy affair "I drink so I feel relaxed enough to just let myself go... and when I do that well." she shrugs "I'll end up waking up with that guy." she points to a handsome enough younger Imp "Or maybe her." she points to the waitress "She get's pissy about it though..." she blows the woman a kiss and gets scowl in return. "Or I'll wake up under the table, or even in my own bed." she shrugs "When you let the horse go where it wills... you might end up at the stable but you might end up in a medow... who really knows what the horse wants until it gets it?"

Hisame raises an eyebrow and says, "You've got more in you than I do. I don't think I've ever called myself a horse and I'm weird." she's laughing as she says it though. Trying to soften the blow, it really is just amusing to her. "I'm a bit pickier too, to be fair. I had a really nice girlfriend and I haven't been able to see her for a while and I don't know what's going to happen if, or when we go back." she twirls her finger, "But I improvise and play by ear, what else can you do? I'm thinking it's long term at this point, regardless..."

    June snerks "It's been two years, long term is a given at this point." she says "Even if we go back tomorrow." she shrugs "But I always fit in better here anyway, spend my time with the Knights and just be the best and kick as much ass as I can." she shrugs "And now I'm just keeping on that same path, keep working to be the best and kicking ass." she says as she makes a fist, a metal cestus flickering into place, glowing script written across it's bell like cover. "No one programed this... I did this... no way someone took th etime to program an unknown form of enchanting based on an unknown form of spell casting, that some crazy word lady could tease out and be awesome with..." she smiles as the cestus flickers back into her inventory. "So I think finding out how to access the SUDO commands is going to be the only way we make any real progress."

Hisame shrugs and says flatly, "Long term to me means we're just... here. Find new connections, find a real bit of work. That sort of thing." That is, stop improvising the whole thing. "I mean I agree with doing your best regardless, but that's how I've always been. Even when I wasn't." She's human, she can say she's doing her best while half-arsing it. As for making progress, she does look at the bell... punchy... thing. She knows the word, but it's slipping her mind at the moment and it's funny, which gets a laugh from her. "I had that hunch a while ago. We found... stuff. Holes. Gaps you know?"

    June nods "There have been the travelers, and others like us from other places, and there's been some stuff that just cries out coding... if the language of the Alv is access to the root language then it will be the way to go."

Llyn seems to be thinking for a moment. "I'm looking for a family memeber here ... in this world he escaped the yoke I fell to. I have to find him.... as for that or things that would be able to size control of the very player's minds...if the North or worse got ahold of technology like that..."

Hisame looks to June and sighs as she slumps back at the mention that not much has really progressed. "I think you're right, but I don't know enough to be able to do anything about it." She gestures around, "I'm doing my best here either way. I think this place is real... ish."

For Llyn though, she does at least sit up to listen. "That's... yeah probably something to worry about. Have you reported it to anyone on a broader scale? I've been out of the loop for a while and I'd be surprised if anyone was happy to see me, or if I held any kind of position whatsoever anymore."

    June sips her drink and taps her fingers on the table "Well, regardless were all just living as best we can, if I find a way back I'll probably take it... or not... I mean maybe I'll find some nice Lander to marry and settle down with or maybe I'll just revel in being a god among men." she smiles and shrugs "Hell if I know... but I think I could be at least half as good a god as Conan was king."

Hisame shakes her head and says, "You couldn't bribe me to be someone's god. That's too much work even for me. I'm happy just doing my art and having fans really. I'm sad I don't get to see the fan mail or anything else either." She pauses. Then scowls, "Oh.. I really hope they don't have a picture of me in a hospital bed or something." Or dead. Dead's an option. "Maybe you'd just be the inn keep. Harrassing travelers and talking about the old times." A teasing tone there. Trying to stay upbeat. "Or we'll just take our own territory and try not to ruin things. Either or."

    June reaches over and ruffles Hisame's hair "Immortality and godlike strength is a bit overwhelming... guess that's what happend to the Travelers probably..." she says letting her hand drop, now THAT is a thought that just rattles around her head... she's laid awake going full Smegol over it before.

Hisame looks up at her ruffled hair then reaches up and tries to smooth it out between her horns. "I don't know if it's overwhelming so much as being expected to take care of everything and everyone udner you. I'd rather not." Arms crossed, nope nope. Still, she drops her hands to the tables. "That's the rub isn't it."

    June shrugs "I duno really, I mean this world was constructed... they've talked to some of the constructors in places that look like home from what I understand... and the Travelers come from somewhere... maybe in the end we'll be the gods or Travelers in some other world... hell maybe that's what we'll be if we go back."

Hisame uncrosses and recrosses her legs, rubbing her cheek with a hand as she thinks on what she's hearing. "Looked like home in that it was an office building or more like... the real world?" Other world? Who knows. Maybe they've found more out since she was out and away. "Leave as some half forgotten memory and myth huh?"

    June shrugs a bit "Looked like home I guess." she says "But we might find out that we are a power to be bargained with going back... or not... or we never go home and we find some other world and we are the mighty gods and protectors there in the end." she smiles "I could handle being the Maiar."

Hisame nods and sighs, head slumping back against her seat. At least she's stopped hitting her horns. "I don't think I want to ruin these people's lives any more than I want to stay. I'm not a leader." Not that kind anyway. Sure she does.. did raid leads, sure she took point, but- Not her thing right? "It's not me I think. Too much. Far too much." She shakes her hand limply back and forth

    June smiles "I doubt all of us will end up in any one place, or any one power set... too many of us poking in too many directions." she sighs and rests her head back on the chair looking up at the ceiling

Hisame swirls her drink around before taking a sip of it. A long one. Because she's been gone and she comes back to some bleakness! Not... really a problem, just. There. "I think it'd devolve into clan battles. Someone will end up in charge and where it goes from there isn't doing anyone, but themselves favors probably."

    June shrugs a bit, the short woman just finishing her drink and letting her brain sit in neutral. It's quite posible she's hit her limit for liqour.

Hisame tilts her head and checks that glassy eyed stare and sighs. "Do you have a place to stay that you won't fall and hit your head?"

    June smiles "Uhm... there're inns and stuff." she says "And I've been here with you chatting so I doubt I'm going home with anyone." she snorts and gets to her feet with the too slow too steady way of the experienced drunk.