gluttoning: (104 [d])
Beelzebub ([personal profile] gluttoning) wrote in [community profile] altimit2023-10-06 03:51 pm

[Closed] misteaks' mistakes - the sequel (catchall)

Who: Mr_Misteaks and also some other people
What: In person catchall + dungeon runs
When: October thru November
Where: various, please note in headers
Content Warnings: nsfw, ED discussion Please cw in headers.

[overflow and log space for October and November]
justonezero: (There's you)

[personal profile] justonezero 2023-10-07 01:17 am (UTC)(link)
[He takes the potion without thinking, only stopping when he mentions Hector.]

-Eh? No one else is responding?

[He chalked up the lack of Harvest Clerics to simply not meeting many of the players yet.

The situation was that dire?
]

Well... I did a bunch of level grinding to meet the cap, but I only made it the day before it got raised again. I don't really want to stop, but I'll try to slow down a little.
tablescraps: (pic#16624557)

[personal profile] tablescraps 2023-10-07 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
Don't slow your pace. ( Given its imperative phrasing, this might? ring as an unintentional order, but who really knows. ) I need to reach the new level cap, too. I can run a dungeon with you now.

( Slowing down isn't in Mithrun's vocabulary, unless by force majeure. So he can't exactly support Nanashi taking it easy - especially considering: )

The potions I drank couldn't heal the serious injuries I just had. ( The broken shoulder et al. ) But serious injuries seem inevitable in this environment - these are monsters, and we can't predict the nature of the coming glitches.

( The strange Areas; whatever plans other parties have for them... )

If our healers go, or aren't leveled enough to keep up with the damage output, then we'll all hit zero, one by one. We don't have the luxury of taking it slow.
justonezero: (care about me)

1/2

[personal profile] justonezero 2023-10-07 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, let's do it!

[He responds, again, without thinking.]
justonezero: (And I realized even)

[personal profile] justonezero 2023-10-07 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
[And then Beel gives his advice and just... disappears.]

-Huh? He left?
tablescraps: (pic#16636797)

[personal profile] tablescraps 2023-10-07 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
( Mithrun knew Barrett wouldn't like the idea of him jumping back into a dungeon so quick, and while Mithrun would have suggested joining Nanashi to level regardless, he was, in some way, motivated by frustration when he made his remark; though, he isn't sure if he wanted to goad Barrett into joining them out of worry, or if he wanted Barrett to know he was leaving them to their fate.

He would have found some response to Barrett's plea, an unhappy frown crossing his lips when Barrett makes it, but then— he's gone. And not in any normal way. His startled expression is pain; and then, a tense displeasure. )


You can't leave that way. The only way to teleport out is by Chaos Gate.

( He shoots off a message to Barrett. He's never seen Barrett do that before, and he can't be sure he didn't glitch out of existence, even if his status still says he's online. Mithrun's own status said he was offline and he still rose from the dead, so who even knows anymore! )

If he doesn't answer and he's fine, I'll kill him myself.
Edited 2023-10-07 09:27 (UTC)
justonezero: (the town from)

[personal profile] justonezero 2023-10-07 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
So it was a glitch? But it was perfectly timed, too...
tablescraps: (pic#16624558)

[personal profile] tablescraps 2023-10-07 09:31 am (UTC)(link)
It's worse if he's had some way to do that and he's kept it secret from me.

( He seems a little sore about this. )
justonezero: (to hurt others)

[personal profile] justonezero 2023-10-07 09:32 am (UTC)(link)
Because you two are close?
tablescraps: (pic#16643693)

[personal profile] tablescraps 2023-10-07 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
( He has to think about this for reasons that aren't totally clear - even to him. )

I guess. I've trusted him, but he won't tell me everything. Half the people in this game are keeping secrets, and our fragmented knowledge base is exactly why we never know what's going to happen to us.

( He winds his shoulder to test it, exceptionally belated given the healing happened several comments ago, when he talks of trust.

Honestly, his issue with secrets is that he doesn't know them - he's not arguing against the idea of secrets on any ethical principle, or even on the basis of any greater good. )


... He's difficult, too. He doesn't think he deserves any better, he takes all his mistakes personally, he puts himself in danger for other people, and he's bad at asking for help. He's the last person who should be made to keep secrets. It's going to kill him.
Edited 2023-10-07 09:42 (UTC)
justonezero: (the town from)

[personal profile] justonezero 2023-10-07 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
But he's so nice...

[Pot, kettle, etc.]

I'll try to look out for him too! ...Probably won't be any help talking, though.
tablescraps: (pic#16643694)

[personal profile] tablescraps 2023-10-08 09:00 am (UTC)(link)
Nice people die quickly.

( Watch out, Nanashi........... )

... I don't know what will help him.

( He has ideas, but he doesn't have the emotional vocabulary to even begin describing it - he runs on experience and instinct when trying to express himself or get through to Barrett, and he's not always right the first few times. )

But don't leave him alone, I guess. Maybe I should have chained him down.

( Though, if Barrett can just phase out of existence, that's not going to do much... but it's the thought that counts. )
justonezero: (memories never go away)

[personal profile] justonezero 2023-10-09 07:51 am (UTC)(link)
[It shouldn't really matter if he dies - is his first thought, before he remembers once again that this conversation is about how valuable he is as a healer.

...
]

I'll try talking to him later.
tablescraps: (pic#16688085)

[personal profile] tablescraps 2023-10-09 08:16 am (UTC)(link)
Good.

( That has his approval, at least.

At that moment he pauses, like he just heard something - it was the slight ding a user gets when they get a message. A pause as he reads the message on his end, and he clicks his tongue. )


... He's not dead.

( Which means he does in fact have some secret power he didn't talk about and he got Mithrun wondering if he was glitched for no reason!! He's gonna throw Barrett into a wall even if it's not his """fault."""

He begins to push himself up. )


We're running an Area.

( He needs stress relief (this is safe and normal) and they need to train up the healer. )
Edited 2023-10-09 08:17 (UTC)
justonezero: (Even so)

[personal profile] justonezero 2023-10-10 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
Okay! Where should we go?
tablescraps: (pic#16637716)

[personal profile] tablescraps 2023-10-12 09:42 am (UTC)(link)
Follow me.

( Thank god they're Literally at the Chaos Gate or there'd be a whole interlude about getting lost... Flipping through keywords quickly, Mithrun sets them up for △ Overjoyed Season's Cathedral, and leads them into the idyllic rolling fields and blue, blue skies, a towering... tower just up ahead - the dungeon proper.

He unsheathes his massive stupid big sword with both hands. )


Ready? We'll be quick.
justonezero: (and nobody gives a)

[personal profile] justonezero 2023-10-12 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mithrun are you going to pull wall to wall as a DPS...

Drawing his staff.
]

Okay, ready!