Well well well, it seems that time in the house is not moving! Look outside? It’s storm and perpetual midnight o dear!
In the midst of this external midnight, Orev wakes from a restless sleep, having dreamed over and over of the scene with Jack, and feels a deep sense of loss. In the dream, there was a bit more detail: He saw Jack smiling, looking down at his feet while they danced, as though Orev were teaching him; Orev also remembered being very happy.
Now awake, Orev wants that rabbit foot back ffs Jack?? Tries to get it back; commands Jack to give him the foot, and has a strong feeling that this has happened before, intuiting that Jack does this when he gets petulant and pouts. As well, Orev feels/knows there’s a way to get Jack over it, but can’t remember what it is. When Jack returns the foot, Orev offers—
Orev: “Good lad.”
Orev, having put Blood Bolt into a small pen, tries to give the item to Calamus. Jack sees the mark on the pen and tells her nope no no no do noT take that! He’s clearly, clearly fixed on the mark on the object. Orev gives it to Walt instead, okay finE. Jack meanwhile explains to Calamus that she ought not to take items bearing that particular mark. And Jack gives the pearl of power - stolen from Orev, by the way!! - to Calamus; Orev feels very tired, very sad. As Cala and Walt start down the hall, Jack puts a hand on Orev’s chest—
Jack: “I don’t have your focus anymore. But I have your name.” Orev: “I’m not sure it’s my name anymore.” Jack: “Oh, no. It’s mine now.”
Orev casts Detect Thoughts. He receives impressions: A lot of surface hurt, and Jack isn’t thinking Orev’s other name. At the forefront, Jack is thinking about stealing the focus for the first time, and the feeling that he doesn’t have anything else to remember birdman by. Orev is hit by a wave of hurt, feeling thoughts of ’I had nothing from you’ and ’I couldn’t even follow you.’ For all that Jack seems like he’s playing right now, this is definitely coming from a place of revenge. There’s also a sense of deep satisfaction that Orev is paying attention to him.
Orev: “When was it that I taught you to dance?”
With the question, Orev probes deeper with Detect Thoughts. Jack thinks of a party, where everyone has long gone home, and it’s just the two of them. Jack is so startled by Orev’s question that he doesn’t immediately answer aloud, and there’s a panic in his thoughts, aH!!
Jack: “What are you talking about?” Orev: “I’d like to know your true name.” Jack (picking up on the Detect Thoughts cast): “It doesn’t matter. You won’t remember it.”
Jack thinks: Why would he remember teaching me to dance? Why not anything else? The more Jack thinks about it, the sadder he looks, and the sadder his thoughts become.
Orev: “I suspect it matters to me.” Jack: “You’ve had your memory for a week. Where were you for nine months before that? It doesn’t matter.” Orev (unintentionally dropping Detect Thoughts): “I have no idea.”
Jack takes this as approval; as meaning that yes Orev’s previous name is his, all his to keep. And Jack will be smirking any time Orev looks over (little! brat!!!).
Into the childrens’ bedroom the party proceeds! With Walt leading, and finding an animate doll who asks him to check for monsters. He does check under the bed for monsters, and he sure does find a horrific one. Orev follows Walt into the room as the battle’s beginning, and is grappled by The Lurker. Jack, hearing this happens, shouts ‘Orev!,’ starts running, and crits on that Lurker goddamn?? (That is HIS bird >:O!!! Only hE may bully!) Jack shoots, and shoots, and shoots the Lurker until it’s mostly a hole-ridden, torn-up and largely unrecognizable corpse. When the battle ends, the mysterious animate doll settles to inanimation, and Walt takes the doll.
In the closet of this bedroom, Orev finds… H u h. That sure is a satchel with a moving eye on it: The Bag (ooOoOoo)! As soon as he touches the bag - part bag of holding; part holder of a Lurker that may fight and allllso might sneak out to cause some shit - it attunes itself to him. He, uh. Waits until the rest of the party has vacated the room to follow after, preferring not to mention or explain this bag.
Now! To the bathroom! Into which Walt leads them because this is what they’re doing, opening and entering every door! This turns out to be a mistake, because the bathroom begins to fill up with blood and weasels until Jack unlocks the door and party members and remaining weasels alike slide from the room in a rush of blood. Walt packs a bunch of weasels into a sack for a snacky snack. Jack does not like being coated in blood very much, and discards the feather he stole from Orev because it too is covered in blood. Orev finds a— Are you kidding, Orev finds a figurine of wondrous power, and though this kind would typically be a raven, this particular figure is a duck. Orev thinks the house maybe has it out for him.
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In the midst of this external midnight, Orev wakes from a restless sleep, having dreamed over and over of the scene with Jack, and feels a deep sense of loss. In the dream, there was a bit more detail: He saw Jack smiling, looking down at his feet while they danced, as though Orev were teaching him; Orev also remembered being very happy.
Now awake, Orev wants that rabbit foot back ffs Jack?? Tries to get it back; commands Jack to give him the foot, and has a strong feeling that this has happened before, intuiting that Jack does this when he gets petulant and pouts. As well, Orev feels/knows there’s a way to get Jack over it, but can’t remember what it is. When Jack returns the foot, Orev offers—
Orev: “Good lad.”
Orev, having put Blood Bolt into a small pen, tries to give the item to Calamus. Jack sees the mark on the pen and tells her nope no no no do noT take that! He’s clearly, clearly fixed on the mark on the object. Orev gives it to Walt instead, okay finE. Jack meanwhile explains to Calamus that she ought not to take items bearing that particular mark. And Jack gives the pearl of power - stolen from Orev, by the way!! - to Calamus; Orev feels very tired, very sad. As Cala and Walt start down the hall, Jack puts a hand on Orev’s chest—
Jack: “I don’t have your focus anymore. But I have your name.”
Orev: “I’m not sure it’s my name anymore.”
Jack: “Oh, no. It’s mine now.”
Orev casts Detect Thoughts. He receives impressions: A lot of surface hurt, and Jack isn’t thinking Orev’s other name. At the forefront, Jack is thinking about stealing the focus for the first time, and the feeling that he doesn’t have anything else to remember birdman by. Orev is hit by a wave of hurt, feeling thoughts of ’I had nothing from you’ and ’I couldn’t even follow you.’ For all that Jack seems like he’s playing right now, this is definitely coming from a place of revenge. There’s also a sense of deep satisfaction that Orev is paying attention to him.
Orev: “When was it that I taught you to dance?”
With the question, Orev probes deeper with Detect Thoughts. Jack thinks of a party, where everyone has long gone home, and it’s just the two of them. Jack is so startled by Orev’s question that he doesn’t immediately answer aloud, and there’s a panic in his thoughts, aH!!
Jack: “What are you talking about?”
Orev: “I’d like to know your true name.”
Jack (picking up on the Detect Thoughts cast): “It doesn’t matter. You won’t remember it.”
Jack thinks: Why would he remember teaching me to dance? Why not anything else? The more Jack thinks about it, the sadder he looks, and the sadder his thoughts become.
Orev: “I suspect it matters to me.”
Jack: “You’ve had your memory for a week. Where were you for nine months before that? It doesn’t matter.”
Orev (unintentionally dropping Detect Thoughts): “I have no idea.”
Jack takes this as approval; as meaning that yes Orev’s previous name is his, all his to keep. And Jack will be smirking any time Orev looks over (little! brat!!!).
Into the childrens’ bedroom the party proceeds! With Walt leading, and finding an animate doll who asks him to check for monsters. He does check under the bed for monsters, and he sure does find a horrific one. Orev follows Walt into the room as the battle’s beginning, and is grappled by The Lurker. Jack, hearing this happens, shouts ‘Orev!,’ starts running, and crits on that Lurker goddamn?? (That is HIS bird >:O!!! Only hE may bully!) Jack shoots, and shoots, and shoots the Lurker until it’s mostly a hole-ridden, torn-up and largely unrecognizable corpse. When the battle ends, the mysterious animate doll settles to inanimation, and Walt takes the doll.
In the closet of this bedroom, Orev finds… H u h. That sure is a satchel with a moving eye on it: The Bag (ooOoOoo)! As soon as he touches the bag - part bag of holding; part holder of a Lurker that may fight and allllso might sneak out to cause some shit - it attunes itself to him. He, uh. Waits until the rest of the party has vacated the room to follow after, preferring not to mention or explain this bag.
Now! To the bathroom! Into which Walt leads them because this is what they’re doing, opening and entering every door! This turns out to be a mistake, because the bathroom begins to fill up with blood and weasels until Jack unlocks the door and party members and remaining weasels alike slide from the room in a rush of blood. Walt packs a bunch of weasels into a sack for a snacky snack. Jack does not like being coated in blood very much, and discards the feather he stole from Orev because it too is covered in blood. Orev finds a— Are you kidding, Orev finds a figurine of wondrous power, and though this kind would typically be a raven, this particular figure is a duck. Orev thinks the house maybe has it out for him.