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@abel.navigator

[adsero]

Hello Xuanyu, I wanted to thank you for being so kind when I'd first arrived here. I was very distraught, and lucky you were so patient while I sorted myself out.

Also apparently all of my worrying was for nothing, so you were right on that point as well-- the Fighter I was talking about was here before I was, and we've since reconnected. So thank you for being encouraging in that regard, too. Let me know if there's anything I can do for you in return.

[laozu]

[ how cuuuuuute ]

Ah, mister Abel - I'm so glad you've been so lucky, it's a relief to hear! I realized after we parted I hadn't even asked for a name or description of your fellow, so that was a mistake on my behalf - who is he and is he relieved that you're safe with him as well? Maybe I've met him before!

@james.holden

[hoss]

Amos, where the hell are you?

[laozu]

[laozu]

[ he gets this back ]

[warfares]

[Bad username or site: kylo @ ren] has pinged you.

@wanyin.jiang

[sandu]

[ misfire? text #2849494 actually managing to not bounce back? what worst timing though.]

FUCK YOU

[laozu]

Wow! What is it I've done to wound your fragile ego this time, Jiang Cheng?!

@wangji.lan

[wangxian]

[ it is not the first attempt nor is it the last attempt. it is only that there is an insistence, a sort of persistence, a desperation that underlies it.

and it shows. there's no formality, no neatness. no precision. it is only this: ]

wei ying

[laozu]

Lan Zhan! There you are, I've been trying to reach you since everything went down!

Are you okay, you're not injured are you? [ don't think he didn't notice the way you texted ]

( later; massive influx of texts )

[sandu]

[sandu]

Where are you?

( later; @wangji.lan )

[wangxian]

[ these too, like wei wuxian's, come as though pieces. ]

[wangxian]

Wei Ying?

@prom.argentum, misfire

[mercurio]

bet you can't find something that rhymes with penis

[because of course this gets misfired]

omfg prompto

[laozu]

Venus. I win~!

Goodness though, look at you. Such a far cry from the young man barely able to look at some risque body harnesses!

@stephen.strange, nov 17

[rehandle]

[ it's a day later, he's fresh out of the medi unit and immediately - ]

Are you alright?

[ did they make it? did somebody at least get them out if they didn't? ]

[laozu]

Mister, you're okay!!!!!!!!

[ thankfully thought-to-text doesn't translate the sudden wail he releases ]

I made it out. Lan Zhan -- Lan Zhan was killed.

@kira.solo

[forcevisions]

Do you still want to help me out?

[ on the record, it's like 9 pm approaching sinterklaas eve. ]

[laozu]

Oh my! I would never deny you, maiden Kira.

[ best be safe, on these networks nowadays EVEN IF IT IS christmas sinterklaas some winter holiday he doesn't know ]

What are you up to that requires my assistance, then?

@wanyin.jiang

[sandu]

I need to talk to you.

[laozu]

[ jiang cheng gets back a selfie, taken in a mirror, of this expression exactly. ]

@wangji.lan ( you know what this is about. )

[wangxian]

When will you be home?

[ for reasons. ]

[laozu]

Hmmm? Are you missing me so badly that you can't bear it~~~~?

@riku.masterson | 1/2

[inherited]

[The first text starts like this:]

Two more people showed up from my world. One looks just like Roxas. Trust me. It's a long story.

[Riku will do storytelling time, but it's not his default and preferred state.]

I know we don't have enough room, but I'd like to figure out something so we can help them out. I can't leave them hanging, and I think they have even less experience with a city like this than we do.

[inherited]

[And then the second text is added on, like an afterthought of something he Forgot to Bring Up:]

By the way, before I forget.

Don't go around telling people you're a dad. You're gonna give them the wrong idea.

[For the record, he absolutely doesn't think Wei Wuxian was lying about that. He's just being a jerk. But also: the knowledge is something that needs to be Coped With in Some Way.]

@wanyin.jiang

[sandu]

You are going, aren't you?

[laozu]

Yes, I am.

And I want you to come too.

@tomoe.mikage

[jinshi]

There's been some interference. A group of humans have abducted several Displaced, myself included.
Did you make it to Mt. Everest?

[ he'd been going with them, up until this sudden kidnapping. ]

[laozu]

"Interference"?! What a pack of fools. Clearly we're still not being taken seriously by whomever is moving pieces around.

Are you okay? You're not hurt, are you? Do I need to sing for the humans that are with you, I could make them treat you like a proper deity and everything. They just have to hear me!

[ uh ]

@angela.roberts - Sorry, meant to do this sooner but got sidetracked

[unlucky7]

for the safety of the Everest expedition, I'm going to have to back out. I got injured and I don't want to put the group at risk.

[laozu]

Never mind the expedition! Miss Angela, are you okay?

What happened to bring you harm?

@stephen.strange

[rehandle]

[ In swans Mr Dr with the world's latest follow up to a text wwx sent approximately 2+ weeks ago after he'd opening up the conversation window to send something entirely unrelated - ]

Any more signs of cause for concern over the gates now they're open?

[ Sorry, he'd been overcome by drunk people at a critical moment. ]

Hello, by the way.

[laozu]

Nothing yet. But I didn't like that upon activating them, they dumped us into the caves under the city. An innocuous detail, but a disconcerting one for me.

[ because: bad memories!!! also listen, when you're busy, you're BUSY ]

I'm still puzzling over their origins and what ties they may have to our dreaming state, in my spare time.

But! Hello, mister Doctor Strange! Have you been able to balance your workload?

action

[forcevisions]

[ rey's dirty and sweaty and exhausted and frankly frayed beyond the edge of her nerves, breathing hard when she knocks on the door. all her stuff from everest has been packed up and hangs off her shoulders. she hasn't showered in more than a week. and presently? she's at least 40% convinced that she just stumbled upon the aftermath of kylo and daenerys' new friends with benefits arrangement.

it's too much. coming back was a mistake.

but riku had promised she could come stay with him, in his place with wei and sora and everyone. so she's here, on the doorstep, seizing control of her breathing to push down all the overwheming emotions because —

well because she can't go back to everest after she promised riku she'd try. and she needs somewhere to sleep. ]

dotter......

[laozu]

[ their apartment is located at the tippy top of one of the modest high rises, with roof access and uniquely-sized rooms that make for a slightly too-communal nature. there's a lot of men (and teens) in there, yet it manages to be clean, tidy and fresh. when he opens the door, there's plants nearly tumbling out from above the doorframe, ivy collapsing from the pot as if to greet her.

wei wuxian's face maneuvers itself from overjoyed exuberance to concern, softening at every corner and edge as he reaches a hand out towards rey's shoulder. resting his fingers there before he closes them into the material of her clothes and gives her a soft tug, inviting and demanding in the same motion. ]

Don't worry, miss Rey. [ he speaks, soothingly: ] You're very much welcome here.

( @wangji.lan )

[wangxian]

I received a message earlier.

[ he sends along two attachments, the same two he received after a pause. a small one, but notable enough for him. like from the beginning, what information he might give wei wuxian is his. it is theirs. theirs, to unravel as they can. ]

There is no sender.

[laozu]

Lan Zhan! Have you been looking into the dark underbelly of this world, how sexy!

[ he's putting his brain (and information from the network posts) together, give him a moment ]

( @wangji.lan )

[wangxian]

[ ostensibly, he is always out on a supply run. here in new shanghai, there is much that is familiar. it comes in the form of foods, of items scented in ways that bring some comfort. while all is dead air over new amsterdam, he finds himself wondering what it is he can do. what it is he can assist with. what it is that he can investigate, bring forward what is good and what is right.

but, sometimes— what is small too is progress. ]

There was a response.

[ it's a spot of good news. ]

[laozu]

He's okay? He's not hurt or in trouble, is he?

[ like always, he pours himself into the relief efforts. he throws himself into action, because any state of inaction - even if it is rest - eats away at him until he is nerves and distress. such a state is one that plagued him and his boundless energy in his last life, pushing him to dangerous acts of self-centeredness. of wrath and paranoia. now, he lacks both. what he does not lack, is a sense of responsibility. in this, even wei wuxian has grown. ]

@kira.solo

[forcevisions]

Can I ask you about something?

[laozu]

Of course you can, Miss Rey.

Would you like me to be there in person to answer, or is the written word fine?