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[aldebaranshit]

(April 20th)

So....that was a bust. Some people are coming back after going home while others are waking from their dreams. Night is falling, so you better catch up with the vagabonds that stayed behind and get all who's come back together once again. There's plenty of shelter around, so just pick a building. Have a reunion.

[Mission:Regroup and camp up]

Comments

[recurred]

Excuse you. We're every bit as capable. [ no we aren't]

[risebeyond]

[ looks at her, head to toe, and laughs. he's very rude ]

You take me for a fool? [ gestures at the camp ] A lesser man than I could take all and you would fall dead to sand. How long have you been here?

[recurred]

[dont challenge her. she's way more willing to mud wrestle you than she should be]

A month roughly. It's no walk in the park either. I assure you, you need more than muscle to survive a place like this.

[risebeyond]

[ she'd

she'd fly. ]

A month? [ he laughs a little again and tilts his head, smiling amusedly ] And yet you walk on such little legs. Tell me, what does this place have that could pose challenge to a gladiator?

[recurred]

[leans forward to rest her arms across her knees]

All sorts of nasty things. Creatures from the underworld. Gods that test you. We've yet to have a gladiator, so I guess we'll see how much better than us you are when the time comes. It's not a competition, we just want to go home.

[risebeyond]

[ ur gon give him a boner

smiles widely at the notion of fighting off nasty things ] Not a competition? [ u know nothing jon snow ] Life is a competition. If you do not aim to become the champion, it is not worth to live.

[ he takes in a deep breath and looks around ]

Who leads these men into quest?

[recurred]

[well that question kills her sass. he's not...we dont have our leader anymore. he's off boning angels or whatever.]

Usually it's the mapholder, and they are currently scouting.

[risebeyond]

That is a poor decision to make one a leader.

[ you guys are really useless. this is the bunch the gods chose? preposterous! ]

[recurred]

It made sense at the time, considering they know where we need to go next. It used to be more than that, but...things have changed.

[risebeyond]

They know where to go next? Do they not share this map with the others? [ this is insulting. what kind of brotherhood is this! ] I shall have word with this mapholder.

[armedarchaeologist]

So I sealed off the room as best I could and left a note on the door in English and Sumerian because those are the only written languages I've holy God uh.

[rounds the corner expositing sadly and then looks up at new guy. and further up. apparently he's down a stair. or crouching. or something.]

Uh. New friend?

[please be a friend.]

[recurred]

Daniel, this is Crixus. Crixus, this is Daniel.

[lets not tell him you have the map, he might wipe your face with the floor]

[risebeyond]

[ squints eyes

what the fuck is that in your face. ]

[armedarchaeologist]

Hi Crixus.

[you look... oily. did the romans shake hands? he's pretty sure they did the xena handshake. holds out a hand, although. obviously he's armed. it's the thought that counts.]

I'm Daniel Jackson, I'm an explorer from the planet Earth. Colorado. America. 2007.

[wow is he kind of naked.]

...AD.

[recurred]

I don't think he'd understand those last four.

[just sayin. and dont call him a roman for the love of the maker]

[risebeyond]

[ looks at his hand and sniffs thru his nose. no shakey for you. ]

You speak words, but they do no make sense. [ what's america and what's colorado. looks at clara ] I have not heard of those lands. Is there yet untouched soil by Roman filth?

[armedarchaeologist]

[wow is he glad he didn't go with the full "anno domini." pulls his hand back in and adjusts his glasses.]

Yep, there sure is, a whole lot of it, though with the spread of European colonialism in the 19th century... You know what, that's not really an answer, I'll just hope you're around for the 400s.

[sizes him up. sort of like checking him out but with more squinting and less leaning. academic interest. sucks in air through his teeth.]

Probably not. But trust me, they'll, they'll be on their way out in no time. Eventually. Did you— Did you just get here?

[recurred]

[oh my god don't confuse him he's big]

[smiles and nods]

Just about. You find anyone else?

[risebeyond]

[ looks at him like he's the dumbest shit in the arena and then looks at clara. she talks fast but at least he understands her. this man, he's just fucking. something. he even talks with a funny accent ]

Your words would mean shit, little man. [ rests his hand on the hilt of the gladius ] You search for more of your men?

[armedarchaeologist]

No, but I wasn't really looking. Did you?

[visibly restraining himself from asking crixus questions. lots of questions. that are not helpful. flicks his eyebrows up at "little man" and does not mention the fact that he's pretty sure he's at least a few inches taller than this guy.]

Uh, yes, we search for more of our men. And women. There were kind of a lot of us, but then some of us went home and came back and... Yes, we're looking for more people. I think there's nobody else in the city, so we shouldn't be that hard to track down.

[recurred]

A few of us who stayed behind still need to be found, but they could be anywhere at this point.

[also not really important to drag them back, since we're still on the road home and they clearly arent]

[risebeyond]

[ he's like an inch taller and anyway he's not talking about heights. y'all scrawny modern men. you need to eat more grain and kill more men. ]

[ looks at him for a moment before turning to clara ] Does he often speak like this? Like a prophet vomiting? [ back to him ] Come, then, let us find the soldiers and offer blood to the ground from beasts of the underworld.

[ picks up the shield from the floor ]

You should leave no man behind.

[armedarchaeologist]

I dunno, do you—

[stops. just. stops. because he might not be as weedy as he once was (or as weedy as crixus thinks he is) but he's still not about to go about sassing the big oily professional sport-killer. at least until he's seen the p90 at work.]

Well, that much we can agree on, unless of course they ask to be left behind. I'm not really sure how to find them, though, or even how long it's been since we parted ways.

[recurred]

[nods a little. yeah he's always like that.]

You said it couldn't be more than a couple days. [with being asleep and not dead and all]

[risebeyond]

If but days passed, we can find them. We walk absent rest within their tracks.

[ they must be big steps tho with ur tiny legs ]

But first, the mapholder. I will have words. Leadership should not be met by mere acquisition of item without challenge. It is unfit.