riverviewlogs | (open) i made a sucker's prayer

who: lucretia & you
what: tdm prompt + catch-all
when: late march/early april
where: oot n aboot
warnings: warnings for violence re: monster fights

01 everybody was monster fightin' (ota)

(Lucretia has always fought better in pairs than alone.

Its to do with her defensive capabilities; she's extraordinarily good at buff magic, at covering those with more destructive power, keeping them safe as they dive in head first. She can at least hold her own when she needs to but it's trickier. It isn't as fun, either! She likes being in a team.

Regardless, she's grouping creatures together with lightning spells and the odd fireball, trying to keep an eye out for other fighters or innocents about to be caught in the line of fire, anybody who needs a hand or a quick shield. Her elemental magic isn't at the same level as her abjuration work; eventually she falls back, starts to conserve her higher level spell slots.

Anybody who has just found themselves in a sticky situation or just looks like they need an extra hand will suddenly find a neat shield of faith being cast about them.)

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[ It's nosy friends 2k18. Poe gets like that sometimes. Not too often. Usually with a lot more impulsive curiosity than anything. ]

Just the Resistance. [ You know. Those dudes, apparently. Does she know? It's always a toss-up. ] I'm gonna stick with them once I get back. You know. Finish the war out and everything.

[ He has no fucking idea what he's supposed to do in that mythical "not in a war or waiting to go back to a war" state of being. ]

(Hey, having nosy friends is important. Somebody has to push conversation.)

The 'Resistance'? (Psych, it's the first time she's heard of them! So Finn is fighting on the 'good guy' side, realistically.) And what exactly are you resisting?

Oh. [ When you're so used to your CR and your CR's CR crossing footpaths that you're not even 100% about whether or not your friend knows stuff about the wars in the stars. idk what he expected realistically when he's a cagey dumbass all the time, honestly, the fact that he's a dumbass is why he's even surprised.

Like, oh how do you not know about the War! Says local man who never mentioned the war to his friend? Is he some obnoxious dudebro looking at vinyls in a used bookstore? No, so he has to rectify this. ]

The First Order. Bigger army. Better funding. [ Not that it's hard to get there when the Resistance is like 15 people in the last rebellion's favorite beat-up scooby doo van. Finn is very turn down for what for freedom but he's not delusional. ] They go on a lot about how the galaxy is negligent and chaotic. How they're gonna "restore order". Order looks a lot like killing anyone who doesn't do what you want.

[ Or who, in some cases, haven't done anything at all. ]

(In all honesty, when so much of the CR has War going on in their life it's hard to tell who is fighting what and for whom and also where? Lucretia tries to write all of these things down to keep track but sometimes even she gets mixed up. Thankfully, what Finn is saying about the First Order is blissfully unfamiliar to her. This is brand new information!)

Ah, (she says,) that kind of 'order'.

(Sometimes the big bad isn't as comically evil as a monstrous entity trying to swallow entire planets whole. Sometimes the big bad is just a bunch of people with really terrible ideals and better weapons than you.)

How... is the fight coming along?

[ He pulls a face. It might be a near thing that he doesn't do the hand-teetering ehhhhh gesture about it. ]

Well. We're down to one ship and maybe fifteen people. But we're alive and we're pretty stubborn. [ Arguably the most stubborn collection of people he's ever fathomed, which is saying something. ] I've liked my odds a lot less for things that didn't end up killing me. I think we're gonna make it.

Well, if every else is as tenacious and hopeful as you are, I don't doubt that you'll pull through.

(She isn't saying this to be kind. Lucretia knows all too well what a small handful of people can pull off with the right skills, the right energy.)

[ Lucretia is so... Good. She's just good and smart and kind and wonderful, as a person. That's the whole truth on that. Finn knows it. Case closed. ]

I appreciate it. I've been trying to work on my hopefulness. [ Somewhere in the city, Poe stops what he's doing and is proud of Finn for doing an optimism. ]

(Hey can she get that in writing? It's for a friend.)

It's hard to nail, huh. I don't think I'm quite there yet myself.

[ In exchange for an ornately decorated 'fuckwit' plate, yes. ]

Good to have good company in the meantime. Be a little easier once this flooding settles down, maybe.

(Done and done.

Lucretia gives him a good natured elbow.)

Uh, yeah. Fingers crossed.

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