[Game Thread] Lord Windos’ PokeRole Adventure 2: The Wild Lands

[Dragonstrike]

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That likewise receives a look™ from Bern. A stare, actually, as if he currently is looking to find proper words. An overly long stare, and yes he still chokes heavily on the tea upon Seddi dropping her name, and promptly pours himself a third cup.

"You did that? Hummm.... *pauses, glances around the room* Well, in that case... My sincere apologies, but THAT must have slipped my mind. Or not have reached me. Or got lost in all the recent events... Oh dear, oh well... Ugh...." Another heavy sigh escapes him, head hanged, and hand on forehead, looking defeated and utterly TIRED and EXHAUSTED. Spritzee promptly leans in for another nuzzle. "Do allow me to be honest, to give you a glimpse of my mood, but I am most certainly NOT feeling okay. So much things have happened the past few days that I never asked for, a man of MY rank and position is busy and occupied with a heavy workload indeed, but have Lady Luck, Father Fate and Miss Fortune ever asked me whether I'm okay with being treated like their favorite plaything? ...The blatant answer is 'No, they have not'."

That weird timeskip recently... ...That reminds me, you wanted to look into that, now didn't you?

Muse, my most important and trusted partner, being completely out and stuck in an unrestful sleep for a day. She's still not completely recovered, I fear....

Morgana having cancelled our latest... ...business meeting last minute, telling me something 'relevatory' came up.  I'm likely to see her later tonight tough, and I shall make sure to ask her about that Wandering Hurricane...

Me having caused issues and problems at the docks, and giving a member of the Water Fraction headaches. ...To think about it, I likely made THE WHOLE DOCKS anxious, just because I miiiiight not have wanted to get my own hands dirty just his time.

Black Magic, an utterly deadly spell I cast... I think I completely overloaded my Gauntlet, how foolish of me indeed...

A surge of loneliness, being left all alone at hospital after me and my trusted partners were close to death...

A much peculiar event at Main Street.... (no, Bernhard will refuse to elaborate on that)

That festival starting tomorrow, when I would much rather spend the day in peace and quiet...


...I'm TIRED, Seddi. MENTALLY tired. I don't have the energy anymore I had when I was your age.

Perhaps, or at least I do hope you, the upcoming voyage will help me find back my purpose, meaning, and place; and help me sort my thoughts. My wanderlust is itching me to go...

Uhm... Anway, next topic please. I'm utterly sorry that you have to listen to the rumblings of dear old me...  Why am I telling you this in the first place..."

Seddi's eyebrows shoot up for the briefest of moments when Bernhard mentions he cast Black Magic.  Well, that explains some things...

He just as quickly goes back to being cool as a cucumber though.  Not the time nor place for that yet!

He sidesteps the topic of Morgana.  No need to elaborate on that.  Not yet.

Due to Sylvia informing him about what happened on Main Street earlier, Seddi already knows about the 'Main Street Incident', so he'll sidestep that topic for now as well. It'll probably come up later though...

So, that leaves...

"Yeah, I'm still looking for hints of what might have caused that time skip.  Pretty certain I won't find anythin', since whatever caused it is likely extremely powerful.  I have found another individual who was affected by it though, and a lot more strongly than the rest of us to boot.  To put it simply, with everythin' I know about them so far, I'm pretty sure that individual's fate was changed entirely."

He sighs and shrugs.  "Honestly, it's all a bit much for me too.  I'm still truckin' on, though.  Sounds like you've had it much worse than I have the past two days, though.  Most of the problems I've run into have been small change by comparison."

He does not mind in the slightest that Bern is ranting a bit. It's refreshing to hear he's still human too.

...though it is undercut slightly by the infernal magic facilitating this oddly timed and displayed conversation.