Long overdue app for imperial_saga

[rydiaofmist]

#1

[Obligatory tavern post! Maybe you're passing through, or maybe you live in the town that her traveling party is visiting. Regardless, there is a little girl in front of the quest board standing on her toes so that she can see properly. She appears to be alone.]



#2

[Someone from the party has left for whatever reason, a friend of yours from the past.]

What do you think you're doing?! Aren't you going to go after him?! He could get hurt, you know!



#3

[The worst has happened. A party member has died. Rydia seemed to have been holding up all right, although she was fairly quiet the day. As the night falls and you settle into sleep, you feel something against your back, and a little whimper.

Seems like someone isn't taking it quite as well as you might have thought...]




#4

[It's been a while since you've seen the pint-sized summoner. Maybe you've even started to wonder just what she's been up to.]

Hey!

[A somewhat familiar-looking woman waves toward you, jogging toward you just a bit. She beams.]

Wow, you really don't look any different, do you? Long time no see! How have you been?

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[in_a_nest_of_vipers]

[Blank look]

...Do I know you?

[rydiaofmist]

[That almost got a laugh out of the summoner.]

Come on, Lady Kushana, it's me Rydia! Remember?

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[alittleblackmagic]

Those are for adventurers.

[A little boy helpfully supplies.]

Not little kids. You should leave this kinda thing up to people who know what they're doing.

[He can't be more than five or six himself.]

Man, I already ship it

[rydiaofmist]

[And guess what? She's TALL for her age.]

Hey! Look who's talking, pipsqueak! Why don't you go and play tag while the real adventurers like me do work!

Palom makes hateships with all the little FF girls

[alittleblackmagic]

Hah! That just means it's easier for monsters to bite your head off! You've got nothing on me and my sis!

[rydiaofmist]

What, so it takes two of you to do a job? Huh. One to get his head chewed on and the other to run home crying to Mommy?

[alittleblackmagic]

We're twins, stupid. We hafta stick together or else there's no point being twins. And that just means we'll get the job done twice as fast as you ever could.

...No, four times as fast, cause we're both twice as good!

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[nomen_est_numen]

Have a giant peacock in a silk robe looking at you a bit dubiously.

"Aren't human children a little... delicate for that sort of thing?" It's unclear whether he's actually asking Rydia this question or just musing to himself.

The most mature of fights

[rydiaofmist]

Yeah, well I'm a million times better than the both of you!

Look they are using complicated math

[alittleblackmagic]

I'm a million plus one times better than if there were a million of you!

[rydiaofmist]

Turning around, Rydia looked Shen up and down, a pout on her lips. A giant white pheasant really had no room to talk. "Just because I'm little doesn't mean I'm not strong."

[in_a_nest_of_vipers]

You can't-

[Actually, despite looking much older, she has that same tiny scar on her chin from when they were stuck fighting that giant octopus. That and a number of other small tells...]

By the gods...it is you!

[rydiaofmist]

A million plus a million times!

[alittleblackmagic]

That's still less than what I said!

...I think.

Wait, what's a million times a million? That's more than a million plus a million, right? I guess we're multiplying it by two, too.

I'm sure this never gets old for her

[rydiaofmist]

[Rydia grins.]

That's right! I just got back, so I thought I'd see how some of my friends are doing.

She would know. Gotta grind up Whyt's stats somehow!

[rydiaofmist]

[Someone's looking pretty full of herself.]

But you said a million plus one, and that's not as much as a million plus a million. Who's the stupid one now? Stupid.

She is still a little shit at heart

[in_a_nest_of_vipers]

But how did you escape from the kraken?

You don't grow out of that

[rydiaofmist]

Oh, Leviathan? He was just coming to get me. That's where I've been this entire time! ...Well, I guess it hasn't been as long for you as it has for me, huh? How long has it been, anyway?

[nomen_est_numen]

"Really?" One long, black brow quirks. "Is that why you're out here on your own?"

Holy crap. Rydia might have just stumbled across the one thing Shen can't bring himself to kill--neglected children.

[alittleblackmagic]

I said a million plus one times better than a million of you! I'm sure that's more than what you said!

[rydiaofmist]

Neglected and orphaned, in fact! Have fun with that, Shen. "That's right. It's really important that I get to the capital."

[in_a_nest_of_vipers]

No more than a month. I thought for sure you had drowned or been devoured. I barely escaped with my life myself.

[rydiaofmist]

Do you even know how to count? A million plus a million is two million. A million plus one is a million and one. So mine's bigger.

[alittleblackmagic]

Times a million cause there's a million of you!

[nomen_est_numen]

He's beginning to suspect as much.

"What d'you need in the capitol?"