For a Good Time Don't See Avante

[calmthefoxdown]

Who: Avante + Visitors
Where: Avante Dorms
When: Day 195, Post-Game

[ For when wayward Avantes finally make their way back to the dorms. ]

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[calmthefoxdown]

[ What do you do when you realize your team got swept away for a game? ]

[ You stress bake like crazy. So Avante will come back home to homemade lasagna and multiple little cakes. ]

[ And a mildly anxious Gold. ]

[softlyfalling]

Ah—you already took care of it...

[gigadevilbreaker]

[A severed arm's being plopped on the kitchen counter. It's very rude!! And not sanitary. But also, Griffin is too fucked up to care right now. His voice shakes and cracks when he speaks.]

Need this on ice...

[unbr8kable]

[Mildly covered in blood but pausing on her way to the showers]

...What's all this?

[claestrophe]

[ A WILD KESTREL appears!


... But she seems to lack her usual verve. Actually... she hasn't been out of her room much lately in general. ]

Big brother Gold? You made dinner?

[ isn't that mom's job though

hard to remember... past the headache... ]

[softlyfalling]

[ at some point a passel of in-very-bad-shape avantes come rolling in. shrike, for her part, is... uninjured? but her hands are shaky in a way she can't completely hide, and she looks generally shaken.

she is, however, pulling out the box of leftover alcheme sleeping potions and just leaving them on the dining table. ]

[claestrophe]

[ Kestrel hasn't gotten out of her jammies in days. In fact, she's barely been out of her room except to get her rations. The sounds of everyone coming back were enough to wake her up. She has a really bad headache--but she's more concerned about everyone else. ]

... Mom? Are you okay?

[deicider]

[Cardigan is a restless presence in avante. They trail in about fifteen minutes after everyone else, and once they are inside they are continuously in motion, flitting from one activity to the other. There's blood on their uniform but not other sign of injury.

You can find them: a) in the bathroom, stripping down to the nude to look at themself in the mirror, observing the pattern of their own scars b) sitting down and conjuring a variety of sharp weapons. c) walking on the ceiling d) in their room, going through their stuff e) walking off the balcony.]

[claestrophe]

[ Listen her head's pounding again so she thought she was awake

but

Granny's on the ceiling. Maybe she's still asleep after all? ]

... Granny.... what are you doing?

[ How are you doing it? ]

[softlyfalling]

[ guess it's just a constant that someone's gotta be gremlining around on the ceillings ]

...are you doing all right?

[unbr8kable]

[Mildly]

The bathroom's over there if you need to pee or something. Since you keep wandering around.

[calmthefoxdown]

[ B option seems safe, surely. ]

Ah... hey.

[gigadevilbreaker]

[...Well. Griffin gets the privilege to walk in on them in the bathroom.

He immediately screams and slams the door. Anger explodes from him without warning, from outside:]

WHAT THE FUCK!! The hell are you doing?!

[worthathousand]

[ a little later in the evening, there's a knock at the door—
hey it's your amnesiac mom's gf, a bundle of lavender sticking out of her leather bag

please let her in, ]

[softlyfalling]

[ looking thoroughly unsurprised. ]

Ah—come on in.

[calmthefoxdown]

[ Poking his head out of the kitchen once Amaranth is let in, damnit Shrike please rest. ]

Hello.

[gigadevilbreaker]

[hi, we're all rough here]

...Those Camellia's lavenders?

[deicider]

[When Amaranth looks up, Cardigan is watching her with that neutral, interested expression.]

[hissterics]

[ BANG BANG BANG BANG

... Followed by scratching. A lot of it. ]

[softlyfalling]

[ wh

this is not her cat???? ]

[calmthefoxdown]

[ ... Watching this exchange happen from the kitchen I guess. ]

Assume this happens really shortly after Griffin's arm is reattached

[nihilmancy]

[A little bit after the game, Sekhmet shows up to do the heal that... already happened. Hi! She is knocking politely but with some urgency.]

[calmthefoxdown]

[ HAH BEATING SHRIKE TO THE DOOR shrike please rest. ]

Ah, hey, it's you. Come on in.

[gigadevilbreaker]

[When he comes back out of his room,

wait he has an arm already. Time is an illusion. Griffin blinks,]

Oh, you're here already.

smash cut to griffin's room

[gigadevilbreaker]

[Anyway, at some vague time Griffin's got his arm reattached. But the nerve endings are still adjusting, and he needs to switch out of his grappling claw... everything is just so much.

At least in the privacy of his room he can admit to himself how badly he needs love and reassurance right now.]

Re: smash cut to griffin's room

[mind_blown]

[he’s stuck around, despite the awkwardness of staying so far from BEDE for so long. But... he figures Griffin needs him there more than Silk.

So, you know, he’s to hover close-ish]