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[curseshit]

You broke the curse! Or well, the weird spanish guy doing magic is on that right now, finishing it up, but the group should be fine. Or fine and fine.

The townsfolk is as confused as you are. Some of them have been under the spell for years. The guards are giving up their weapons as they realize they don't want to fight for this guy. It was all for the money. He used them. If you want to question him while he's still alive you better keep him safe inside the church.

[ mission: deal with the post-traumatic stress. ]

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[noshoes]

No, no. The [ points at him vaguely ] Tari?

[armedarchaeologist]

The— No, the Ta'uri are the, the humans from Earth. Like me, and, and Dean, and Hel. As opposed to Morrigan, who's human but not from Earth, or Bo, who's from Earth but isn't human. And you, not from Earth and not human.

[throws her a quick smile over his shoulder to show that this is a fact not an accusation.]

It refers to a people, not a place. Well it can refer to the place too but not, not usually. I meant the people.

[noshoes]

[ she listens to him speak and then nods, understanding what he's saying (she thinks, at least), smiling back at him ]

Have you been to many planets?

[armedarchaeologist]

Yep.

[so many. three movies and nine seasons if you don't count the one where he was dead.]

This, though, this is one of the weirder ones. Possibly the weirdest. Except for Earth, I mean, but that's kind of a given.

[looks around the room and makes a mental tally of the pcs drowning their sorrows and/or affairs in anything not derived from apples.]

[noshoes]

[ tilts her head. earth isn't weirder than this place, she thinks, but then again she spent a lot of her time in there so she probably just got used to it ]

What happens to people? They go?

[armedarchaeologist]

[has a weird mental disconnect for a second where he thinks neri just asked him about the afterlife. no that's probably not what she means.]

What do you mean, what people?

[noshoes]

[ definitely not what she means ]

[ gestures at the sad npcs. their lives were all destroyed. their town. she feels bad for them and wants to help ]

[armedarchaeologist]

Oh. Well that's up to them I guess, as long as their leader stops with the kidnapping and the brainwashing. If they want they could probably come with us, only I'm not so sure that would be a good idea from anybody's point of view.

[oh right the villagers. frowns at guard #4 and guard #9 drinking sadly at a corner table.]

I mean there has to be some kind of industry here aside from cursed apples, or... I don't know, it's not my decision to make.

[noshoes]

[ tilts her head at the guards, watching them. they're so sad, it breaks her disney heart ]

Is it our fault?

[armedarchaeologist]

No.

[that one he's pretty sure of. drapes an arm over neri's shoulders and gives her a quick side-hug. then drops his arm because he's. not actually either her father or that physically demonstrative.]

This is definitely the fault of the guy who thought it was a good idea to brainwash a bunch of borderline psychotic explorers into the bastard brainchild of Normal Rockwell and the Brothers Grimm.

[noshoes]

[


did not understand a lick of that, but smiles a little at the hug before nodding. back to people searching. ]

[armedarchaeologist]

[aw.]

Okay, so I guess that's Daryl accounted for, at least.

[there are probably a few more sorrow-drowners. probably.]

We could try looking for the others at the houses we got assigned? Only it seemed in retrospect like, no, those are probably the last places most of the others want to be right now.

[his home situation could have been worse, it's the bakery he feels like avoiding.]

[noshoes]

[ so that's killian, dean, cas and daryl. nick's over there with his face in his hands and a big mug of beer ]

Maybe went to get old things? [ it's as good as any clue at this point anyway ]

[armedarchaeologist]

Maybe. The pawn shop? Or did they actually manage to sell all our stuff?

[so wrapped up in La drama familia that he didn't even really notice marge's Problem.]

[noshoes]

[ shrugs ]

The lady took a lot. [ covers her eyes for a second. the blind lady. she met a blind girl once and she was really nice, gave her something she was looking for. maybe if they talk to her she'll give back everything too ]