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[insubordination]

[ the weather is . . . insane, at the moment, given the sudden shift in every single quadrant of the temple making it spring, summer, winter, and fall simultaneously. roy has steadily been ignoring it, focused instead on collecting information, and preparing for the inevitable next world jump.

that being said: ]

I hope this place picks one season, soon.

[ tiredly, as he shakes the snow out of his hair. someone has recently been through the snowy abyss that is the winter section of the temple. it looks like, from the background, that roy is in the kitchen area. the fire-brick oven is just behind him. ]

At any rate, we've recently lost a slew of members, and we need to regroup, and calculate who is missing, and who is still here. We had a successful trip, for the most part. [ ilde's meltdown excluded. ] Hopefully our good luck continues. I think we've all come to the agreement by now that this place can turn on a dime.

[ roy pauses, again, before his face settles into something a bit more somber. having been here since the very start, roy is used to this song and dance by now. it's only a matter of time before people are sent home, and he runs a hand through his hair, shaking out the last of the snow. ]

So. Who have we lost? And who is still here? And does anyone have any bets on what is coming next?

[ at the very least, roy is here to listen. ]

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[Video]

[elegant_and_proud]

I wonder if this seasonal chaos is due to Astoria overextending herself to bring us gifts from home.

[Video]

[insubordination]

The Temple does seem to react to how she is feeling or what she's experiencing, if past experiences mean anything in this place.

[ it has to count for something, anyway. ]

People also showed up in Faerun outside of our own crew... who knows whether or not that was her, or a product of the world we were in, or both.

[Video]

[elegant_and_proud]

Whereas the place where we searched for Alcina reacted quite adversely to any use of Astoria granted power.

[To say that the experienced sucked would be an immense understatement.]

Astoria is not the only being in existence to have the power to pluck people from their own worlds. I was not in my own world when she brought me here. Perhaps such a being existed in Mirabar.

[Video]

[insubordination]

I wasn't home, either.

[ it's said a bit... tiredly. the acceptance and acknowledgment that there seems to be a slew of super-powerful lunatics running the universe has always been a bit hard to swallow, but here we are. ]

There's never enough time to properly investigate anything in this place. We're here, and then whisked off somewhere else. You almost have to wonder why.

[ what is being hidden here, and why are these specific worlds the ones being selected? ]

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[alto_saotome]

[ Alto wasn't the most social person, but he knew what it was like to lose friends and colleagues. He had lost many of his own ... including the only person he could call a bestfriend.]

I am sorry to hear about your members.

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[insubordination]

It's an unfortunate by-product of being trapped in a place like this.
People eventually return home.

It's bittersweet, at best. Hopefully they're safer there than they are here.

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[alto_saotome]

You're more optimistic about this than I thought. How sure are you they went back?

[Video]

[clickclickbloom]

[Look she's already moped to him about a certain missing someone. She wasn't going to keep up that act.

So instead she's looking on the bright side.]

Don't be like that! It's the perfect weather for a beach day snowball fight with leaf forts.

You have to admit that's a combination that doesn't come by too often.

[Video]

[insubordination]

Ah, so the key is to be more optimistic.

[ warmly enough; ruby looks to be in brighter spirits, which is always a good thing. and once roy is done shaking the rest of the snow out of his hair . . . ]

I guess I'm just not the biggest fan of being cold. I could do without the blizzard, but the beach day is a welcome change of pace.

[Video]

[clickclickbloom]

It's always helped me get through a dim day.

[She's doing what she can to stay positive. Which for her means to keep moving forward.]

That's fair, the cold can be pretty darn chilly. It actually might be a neat idea to try and organize up a beach day with everyone in the circle. Set up some games, go swimming, ...Do you think the servants know how to barbecue?

[Video]

[spaceforged]

...we lost quite a few. Two from my world this timE. [He sighs and looks out at the summer he’s standing in. It was a good place to be for a little while.]

I was going to go check the tree for our full numbers. As for what’s coming next...not sure. Maybe pirate world?

[Video]

[insubordination]

I haven't been out there yet, but it would be good to know if it's been updated.

[ the tree, that is. but at the mention of the pirate world, roy looks suitably amused. ]

Any rhyme or reason to the guess, or just a secret want?

[ do you wanna be a pirate, shiro. ]

[Video]

[spaceforged]

[He snorts. Amusement dances in his grey eyes.] No wants for it here. I just guessed. Our first world was low tech in a desert. The second was high tech. Lower tech again for Akvos.

If it’s a pattern then we’ll see. If it isn’t we can expect anything. [He glances in the direction of the tree. No time like the present. He walks that direction.] I’d have to ask her to be sure.

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[mollymocked]

[Molly holds up his hand in a kind of sardonic salute.] That was an unfortunate amount of people we just lost all of a sudden, wasn't it? D'you think the witch is picking favorites?

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[insubordination]

She's said in the past that she has stronger holds on some people, versus others, and when she "loses touch" with us is when we return home.

Who knows whether or not that's actually true, but it seems to hold fast with each passing world.

[mollymocked]

I'm trying to decide whether I'm flattered or not. I feel like I shouldn't be, but I don't really know where I'd be if I wasn't here, so it's Astoria or bust, I guess.

[brodakota]

It does seem like a lot, yeah. But I'm still here.

[insubordination]

I would say "good" but . . . bittersweet may be the more accurate term on finding familiar faces.

[brodakota]

Seems to be the case right now, yeah. Do you know what we're at right now? Numbers wise?

[video]

[dadandgone]

You noticed that too, huh? Maybe Astoria really is over-exerting herself if we've lost that many people.

[Hey Roy, guess who is still here and you are not getting rid of so easily. But, you already probably knew that.]

No clue what might be in store at this point. Guess I should get to work then...

[video]

[insubordination]

She seems the same to me.

[ shortly enough; astoria has never had a large fan, in roy mustang, but it is a good theory. ]

It'd be a decent project. Keeping track of who is here and who isn't. Riza and I made it.

[ obviously, because if riza were missing, this would be a very different post. ]

The dog did, too.

[ please include black hayate in your census. ]

[video]

[dadandgone]

You would probably know better than me.

[Seeing as Roy has been along for this ride longer, although now that he's been here for awhile he's definitely picked up on a few things.]

So that's four. [Maes counting himself, obviously.]

I'll start going through the network in a bit and trying to compare with what we had in the office.

[rougerebelle]

What? Not a fan of snow?

It seems like this place wants us to pick which season we like for ourselves for a change. That doesn't seem so bad.

...

A little strange maybe, but nothing finding a jacket wouldn't fix.

[insubordination]

I typically only wind up in the dead of blistering winter when I've gotten into a severe amount of trouble.

[ who voluntarily goes to briggs, for crying out loud. ]

I'm a fan of temperate weather without a large amount of cold or wet. Fall suits me just fine.

[rougerebelle]

And how often does that happen?

[Because it sounds often enough to where he would want to actively avoid winter and had experienced this before.]

Really. I would have pegged you as a Spring, guy myself. But I guess if you don't like the rain then spring wouldn't be your season, huh.