Muttonhawk

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

Alright, cool, bronze. Who's going to conceive farming?

Oh...

Oh, that gives me an idea. Unless Teknall beats me to the punch.

I think Toun will take this one on himself, Rtron. Could you set up a doc and set the scene for that ritual?

Edit: If other players want in, they can join in. I don't want to kick them out.

Edit 2: Well actually, Teknall will probably want to bring in metallurgy. I should be more worried about Vulamera or Logos getting in first to agriculture.

Mid/High Casual - Divinus: The Deity Roleplay Mk.II

Hmm...to engage with the praying Rovaik and pull Rtron into another collab before the battle royal?

Or...

Make scouts so Toun isn't so clueless anymore?

I guess it depends whether or not we're going into the bronze age now. Toun might just want to start his own cult perform some community engagement.

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

Gallus didn't immediately follow Ri'vashi's face up when she stood to her feet. He expected that she would storm out and punch a training dummy or something. Her following words seemed like belligerent insistence at first. He stood up to protest and stepped to regain his poor balance. The top of his head barely reached her chin.

"Ri'vashi, I couldn't do that to..." Gallus halted abruptly when he saw her face and actually processed her words. He wasn't expecting something like that. He was at first slightly confronted. However, the moon sugar did put everything under a certain desirable light. As well, his tipsy state wasn't exactly helping his critical decision making.

"I didn't know that was what you were looking for. Um..." Gallus paused to silently burp, "Are you sure?" he asked. He didn't appear particularly apprehensive, which was a surprise, even for himself.

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

Are you now? I can't wait to see it.

Edit: Oh goodness. This'll be interesting.

I wish I could reply now but I have to head off. G'night!

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

Good timing then, haha.

Poor Ri'vashi...

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

I'm heading to work. I might get another post in, but if not I'll be a while.

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

Gallus slowly lowered his hand from his chin and laid it flat on the table, staring at it with a sterile frown. He blinked once, then twice. "It's not just my failings, Ri'vashi. It's our responsibilities." Gallus could not bring himself to face her. "You can't abandon your clan and I can't tear my pack from their home on a whim. Even then, you don't know that I've changed."

Far from leaving it there, Gallus brought his hand up to Ri'vashi's hand on his shoulder and comfortingly rubbed it with his thumb. He turned to look into her eyes guiltily. "You have been a great friend. You...may not know it, but you are capable of finding other friends and even mates." Gallus looked down, "Me? I'm...I can't be anything more than temporary and hurtful. You have to understand that."

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

Gallus leaned to one side again while he listened, but instead of leaning on his palm, he propped up the side of his head with his fingers, looking more straight and attentive. Ri'vashi might have trailed off her own dialogue, but Gallus was having no trouble keeping up. However, he was a little too much under the influence to be tactful about it.

Ri'vashi's awkward pause was eventually replaced by a knowing chuckle through Gallus' nose. The chuckle turned into a laugh as Gallus' mouth opened. In his next breath, he settled his laughter and spoke without giving Ri'vashi compromise. "You do, don't you..." Gallus' eyes did not leave Ri'vashi's, even if she wasn't looking. "You're interested in someone now, aren't you? I can see it." Gallus turned to lean his chin on his palm, looking away and feigning contemplation with a small smile, "Now, with the few people you've been interacting with socially, who could possibly be on your mind?" Gallus tapped his index finger on his chin twice before his eyes went to Ri'vashi again, "If it's who I think it is, I should have hoped that you were wiser."

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

Gallus was in the middle of taking another drink when Ri'vashi reached the end of her answer. He already had thoughts in her head of stating that her likelihood of having a family was more closely tied to her personal initiative, but the last part surprised him. It surprised him just enough to inhale some wine and jerk forwards to cough a fit into his hand. He clacked the bottle back onto the table before taking a wheezing inhale and clearing the last out. Some of the deep red liquid had run down his hand, but he had no qualms in his state about wiping it off on his leggings.

"Never, you say?" Gallus croaked, "Did you mention that before? I can't remember. It's still...unexpected." He leaned back again with a raised brow, "Well, actually, knowing your history..." Gallus trailed off, not wanting to tease Ri'vashi about it. It was clear by her look that she was not proud of the fact. Gallus instead let Ri'vashi elaborate herself, driven by questions. "Did you ever want a family yourself?" Gallus turned his head while looking at her, "Did you ever want a mate?"

Call of the Hunt [EliteCommander and Muttonhawk]

Gallus held Ri'vashi's eyes for a moment, before glancing off and shrugging. "Depends. I guess I was never so sure about what path I've wanted to take. When I've thought about it, the best I could come up with was just...having less suffering in the world for Lycans. Fewer ferals, more help, maybe even improving impressions so we aren't seen as monsters." Gallus swept a hand over his face, "It's all been vague and unrealistic. Up until now I've been focussing on helping the Bruma clan and raising the boys. They're going to be grown up soon." Gallus drank and leaned more heavily on his elbow, "Sometimes I think I should try and settle to live simply. Just...get a partner, have my own kids, live satisfied, you know?" Gallus took a breath and exhaled through closed lips with exasperation. "With all these big events happening, though, and with my history of partners. Well...all that's seeming more unreasonable as well."

It was only then that Gallus realised that he should probably give Ri'vashi's question a straight answer. He ran a hand down his slowly numbing face to get out of the stupor momentarily. "For you, I cannot say." Gallus gestured to Ri'vashi and raised his voice to more than his previous ramble, "You're a clan leader. You're doing great things already. You've got all this skill and respect and...and cute mannerisms, whenever they're coaxed out of you. But there's always something next, right?" Gallus settled his voice, "Once you're done with leading a clan. Once you pass the torch on to the next leader, however many years that would be. What happens then? Where does Ri'vashi go? What does she do?" Gallus' hand gesture either side of them, "Does she have a family? Does she go travelling?" He shook his head, "Those are the questions I ask about myself."