charmoffensive: (23)
ʟᴏxʟᴇʏ ( ᴄʜɪᴠᴀʟʀʏ ). ([personal profile] charmoffensive) wrote in [community profile] therookery2023-06-19 04:04 pm

crystal.


FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Loxley
RECIPIENT: All
NOTES: Time to be snad (snake sad)


So,

[ very casual, for that one beat. ]

I'm not sure how things are done around here per rifter vanishments. Ceremonially speaking. Thus far it's sort of been a bit of hearsay, a few raised glasses. Somewhere between a resignation and a sudden death, on the spectrum of our understanding. I imagine it depends on your sense of cosmology.

[ That's enough stalling. ]

Richard Dickerson is gone, I think. The Head Healer. So we'll be short a few miracles going forwards.

Anyway,

[ does sound like the start of more talking, but it ends there. ]
elegiaque: (027)

[personal profile] elegiaque 2023-06-19 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
( gwenaëlle had wanted to bring it up with dickerson, eventually, what she'd seen,

it feels strange to know something about him, and have him be gone. now doesn't seem like the time to broach it with loxley.
)

Do you want to have a drink about it?
elegiaque: (053)

[personal profile] elegiaque 2023-06-19 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
Standing offer.

I'm sorry.
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[personal profile] elegiaque 2023-06-19 04:28 am (UTC)(link)
( that makes a sort of sense. it seems like that should be how it works, but thranduil had been in thedas for years after his son, so maybe the fade disagrees. )

It doesn't seem to work any way that'd be fair, generally.
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[personal profile] elegiaque 2023-06-20 03:00 am (UTC)(link)
I'm glad every day that you're still here.
elegiaque: (050)

[personal profile] elegiaque 2023-06-27 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
( it is a terrible thing, to be left behind. a terrible thing, differently, to prefer the staying. )

More than there are of you now, I suppose. Well, I paid some more mind than others.

( it occurred to her, not long ago, that she doesn't know when exactly her ex-husband departed from thedas — cannot think of anyone to ask, or anyone that she should tell. it's a strange feeling to sit with, so mostly she hasn't. )
heirring: ([137])

[personal profile] heirring 2023-06-19 04:15 am (UTC)(link)
[An abrupt scoff.]

I doubt that. More likely he has simply taken a brief leave from the island without informing anyone.
heirring: ([134])

[personal profile] heirring 2023-06-19 04:32 am (UTC)(link)
Perhaps he wished to make us all think so in order to do something some people might disapprove of.

[Hypothetically.]
heirring: ([136])

[personal profile] heirring 2023-06-19 01:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Please do. Obviously it would be inappropriate to speculate as to a man's character in a place where anyone, including the man himself might overhear, however—

[Oh, but what if Mister Dickerson has left his crystal behind as well? Would that be strange? Would that be uncommonly strange?]

—However, [she starts again.] it would seem to me to be far more productive to simply scold him for not leaving a note or at the very least offering a more ready excuse than disappearance to his friends than to hold it against him more broadly.

[The man has a certain sensitivity.]
heirring: ([134])

[personal profile] heirring 2023-07-04 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wysteria, having never met a delicate feeling that she wouldn't first attempt to trample:]

Well, you must reserve that feeling. It doesn't do to be so pessimistic, sir. But I wish you all the best, I hope you cheer up soon. We will all laugh about this when Mister Dickerson returns.

[(In a few days—no, weeks, when it seems very likely that there can be no alternative—maybe she will feel poorly about having said so. But not today.]
armd: (a good listener)

[personal profile] armd 2023-06-19 05:14 am (UTC)(link)
(With some disappointment,) Oh.

... You good?
armd: (you're not listening)

[personal profile] armd 2023-06-20 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
Knowing him, his elfroot would probably be extra fucked up. (It's kind of a joke, because Abby did not really know him.

She suggests,)
Don't do it alone?
armd: (ppfpfpbpbpt)

[personal profile] armd 2023-06-28 11:11 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah.

We don't really acknowledge it very much, huh. When people leave.
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[personal profile] grindset 2023-06-19 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Less casual, less anyway,]

You think?
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[personal profile] grindset 2023-06-20 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, but... you think? Or you're certain?
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[personal profile] grindset 2023-06-27 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
[After a significantly longer pause, quietly spoken:]

Then you have my condolences.
youwonscience: (Hearts have colors)

[personal profile] youwonscience 2023-06-19 08:05 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry to hear it.

Look, I know we're not ... if you want to do something, when you're ready. A wake or a ceremony or something. I've lost some people that way and it was kind of rough not to have anything to mark it, for me, so. Happy to show some rifter solidarity if it would be helpful.
youwonscience: (I am so infinitesimal)

[personal profile] youwonscience 2023-06-19 11:52 pm (UTC)(link)
That's true. A gap of about two years, Thedas time.

[It's not impossible. But she knows so many more rifters who haven't come back, at least so far, that there's a note of caution in her voice.]
youwonscience: (They say it came out of a small thing)

[personal profile] youwonscience 2023-06-19 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's a small smile in her tone, coaxed by hearing his.]

Touched, I think, but not everyone's alike.

[A pause in which she considers whether to add this:]

I was engaged, the first time I was here. To a native Thedosian. It fell apart when I came back. I think most people with any sense realize that the world doesn't stop revolving when they leave it, for good or bad.
youwonscience: (out of concaves)

[personal profile] youwonscience 2023-06-20 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
I've been thinking about the same thing. A way to say goodbye, even if we don't know if it's goodbye for now or something more permanent.

Do you have any traditions that could be adapted? I've got a few ideas, but I think something informed by a variety of experiences probably makes most sense.
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[personal profile] youwonscience 2023-06-20 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
I think ... I was never religious, myself, but the two things that I think of when I think of saying goodbye are practices that remind you of the fact that goodbyes suck just generally and things that make you think of the good times you had with the person who left. Category one is like ... lighting candles, sad music, maybe burning some incense, that kind of thing. Category two is more like people sharing stories about the person or doing a thing the person liked in their honor.

Obviously, it depends on the person we're recognizing, but I think maybe some sort of ceremony or practice with both part might be good?
youwonscience: (take a ladder to the shadows)

[personal profile] youwonscience 2023-06-28 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Totally. Ritual significance, I'm into it.

Even though I didn't know him much, if you do decide to do something, I'll show. I think it might be good to start some traditions.
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[personal profile] hornswoggle 2023-06-21 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)
We're losing healers at quite the clip.

[ but also— ]

I'm sorry your friend has gone.
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[personal profile] hornswoggle 2023-06-27 03:48 am (UTC)(link)
Would you like me to request one or two of my acquaintances to keep an eye out?
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[personal profile] thereneverwas 2023-06-22 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh.


I'm... sorry to hear that.

[Spoken with sincerity; he may not have loved the guy, but nobody deserves to just vanish. or go wherever it is Rifters go when they're no longer here.]
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