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EVENT | LANDFALL | VALISHAERA

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Date: JULY 13-26
Location: Valishaera
Situation: Tu Vishan has made landfall on Siaxhi, to explore the Dreaming Watch City of Valishaera.
Warnings/Rating: Please indicate content warnings in subject headers as applicable.

As Tu Vishan draws near, the heavy jungle visible even from miles out quickly identifies the landmass as Siaxhi, one of the westernmost continents in Konryu and one that has been largely untouched insofar as the kedan themselves have gone. There is a natural inlet along the southeast shore on the continent and Tu Vishan makes for that, though he fills nearly all of it.

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[Gene had sounded almost happy for a second there, but now he looks dejected again.] Oh. Um, sorry. [Tony takes another sip of almost-cocoa to hide his confusion and discomfort. Now he doesn't know what to talk about.]

...Do you like the hot chocolate? [he asks nervously.]

[Gene shrugs. Crap as it is, he's used to it now, sort of.] It's okay. Maybe he'll come back.

Uh... [OH RIGHT IT'S FOR DRINKING NOT STARING INTO IT WISTFULLY. He picks up the mug and has a sip.

Holy shit where has this stuff been hiding all his life.] Yeah! It's really good. [He will punch bears for this.]

Right, [Tony agrees, with somewhat forced optimism. People do come back sometimes, he knows. He just doesn't know how common it is. But hey, maybe with things heating up with Malicant, they'll start pulling back in the old recruits.

And the hot chocolate is a success!] I do wish we had real chocolate, though, [he says wistfully.] But the marshmallows are great. I just... learned a lot more than I wanted to know about how marshmallows are made. [Finding a kedan confectioner who could make him marshmallows was a very... informative adventure. Did you know that marshmallows are made with gelatin? And did you know that gelatin is made from leftover animal parts? Yum.]

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[What, you don't like learning about the abattoir in your chocolaty drink, Tony?] Do me a favor and don't go into details, [Gene says lightly, and eats one.]

Real chocolate would be nice, [he says, sounding wistful.] And real pizza. [The other Stark - one of them, the one he actually liked - had made a game attempt, but it just hadn't been the same.]

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I promise, I'll keep the marshmallow secrets secret. [He doesn't want to think about it any more than necessary anyway.]

Real coffee, [Tony says with feeling, adding to Gene's list of Earth delicacies. How is he supposed to power through marathon lab sessions without coffee? Alien tea just doesn't cut it.]

Real coffee, [Gene agrees. Amelia had come up trumps with something that was almost, but not entirely, quite unlike coffee. But it was the closest they'd found.

He takes another long sip of his hot chocolate-ish and sets his mug back down.]

Thank you, [he says, quietly.]

Yeah, sure, [Tony mumbles, maintaining long, intense eye-contact with his marshmallows.] Don't mention it.

[Like, seriously, don't. Things are awkward enough as it is. Tony's already had to cope with Actually-Not-Trying-To-Murder-Him Gene and Crying Gene tonight, both of which were - to put it mildly - unexpected. He really wouldn't know what to do with Grateful Gene.]

[And just like that, he's back to tsun. Baka.] Okay, then I won't.

[A joke? A bad joke? Wooowww. Wow.] So, anything else you miss from home? Maybe I can point you at a reasonable substitute. [Helpful Gene is probably not usual either. Oops.]

[Ugh, Fine, Gene, be that way. Tony's too tired to even be annoyed by that mildly passive-aggressive barb. Instead of reacting, he finishes off his hot chocolate and thinks about Gene's question.

He sets the empty mug aside and flops down on the table, chin resting on his crossed arms.] My music, [he finally decides.] I have my pod, but two-thirds of my stuff was on the cloud, [he says mournfully.

A moment of silence for all his lab playlists, now lost in the void between dimensions.]

[This is why you shouldn't trust the cloud, Tony! ~~That, and you get your personal pictures leaked to 4chan.~~

Gene drinks some more of his hot chocolate while Tony thinks.] Well, maybe you'll find your laptop or something somewhere, [he says, not unkindly.] Things from home have a way of...turning up. Like you probably noticed.

[HA. HA HA. JOKE. FUNNY JOKE. CHRIST. JUST KILL HIM.]

[~~Are you kidding? Roberta would burn 4chan to the ground. Not even 4chan could withstand the legal fury of Roberta Rhodes.~~]

That would be... weird. [Amelia found the Legacy and Gene found the tenth ring, but both were of great personal significance to their owners as well as powerful artifacts in their own right. Finding his laptop would seem rather... mundane. Anticlimactic, even.]

...What if I wish really, really hard for the Large Hadron Collider?

[~~"Tits or GTF-OHSHIT--"~~

Gene dares to smile, a little bit.] Stranger things have happened. [Like, oh, say, all of tonight.]

[Tony actually manages a small chuckle.] Cool. Well, keep an eye out for it, in case it shows up. It's a big underground tunnel, circular, about seventeen miles long. Lots of magnets. You can't miss it.

Pretty sure we'll notice that if it shows up here, [Gene says with a grin, and finishes his hot chocolate. Dawn is properly beginning to break outside, and ~~little chirpy bastards~~ birds are chirping away.]

[Tony's reply is interrupted by a huge yawn, and he has to blink vigorously to keep his eyes from sliding closed. Nothing like a warm chocolatey drink and staying up till dawn to make you sleepy. He's about to fall asleep right here at the kitchen table.]

[Gene seems to realize what time it is, and stands, ready to take his mug to the sink.] Shit, it's...early. I'd better go.

...Right. I guess so. [Tony sits up, yawning again, and looks out the window. Welp. That sure is some sunlight out there.]

Good...night? Good morning? [Bye, glad you liked the hot chocolate, thanks for not going mad with power and murdering me? Does anybody have a book of etiquette for mending bridges with your ex-supervillain-archnemesis that he can borrow?]

[Tony, the proper etiquette for this is to invite him to sleep over. Clearly.]

Yeah, uh. Thanks for the hot chocolate. See you later, I guess, [Gene mumbles, and makes for the door. He's not sure what he'd been expecting from this, but this is awkward now and he's not here for it. He just wants to go back to his suite and sleep until this whole thing has blown over.

Tony's got time enough to say one more thing, if he wants.]

Sure. Um. See you around.

[He has a weird urge to ask if Gene wants to crash here, but that's stupid. It's not like he has a long walk home or anything: he can teleport. Anyway, Gene never took him up on that offer in high school, so Tony can't see why he would now. Since they're kind-of-enemies now, instead of kind-of-dating.

...Not that he'd be suggesting it for the same reasons, of course. Obviously a sleepover would have had very different connotations in high school, when he'd still had a huge crush on Gene and hadn't known that he was a freakin' supervillain. Now it would just be, like, you know, letting him nap on the couch for a couple hours instead of making him walk home in the middle of the night - er, morning - after an intense and exhausting argument. Which he doesn't have to do anyway. Because he can teleport. So, kind of pointless, really.

...Oh my god, why is he still thinking about this? Clearly the sleep deprivation has addled his brain. Shut up, brain.

He manages to keep himself from blurting out anything idiotic, and shuffles awkwardly after Gene, following him to the foyer to see him off.]

[Gene looks like he's going to say something else, pausing at the doorframe - but then he seems to think better of it, and, with a wave, he leaves.

Walking.

The whole way back.]

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EVENT | LANDFALL | VALISHAERA

but sonic attacks are so awesome (also YOU MADE IT SAD AGAIN)

IT KEEPS HAPPENING

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hot chocltey milk

thank you

don't mention it

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