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

[gluttoning]

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]

Comments

[tablescraps]

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]

Because you two are close?

[tablescraps]

( 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.

[justonezero]

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]

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]

[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]

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. )

[justonezero]

Okay! Where should we go?

[tablescraps]

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]

[Mithrun are you going to pull wall to wall as a DPS...

Drawing his staff.]

Okay, ready!