@etxrnaleclipse for the darker vibes meme
"Fix me." (Isabella to anyone you feel!)
"But I did." Valentine's soft voice cut deeper than his manic yelling. Previous encounters have engraved one message in every one who was lucky enough to escape, that his every portrayal of compassion must stem from a deeper rooted ulterior need to taunt. Whenever the monster was calm, the storm was just a heartbeat away from ripping through any delusion of safety. And indeed, the vampire's eyes narrowed abruptly, the mask of gentleness yielding apparent derogatoriness.
"I cured your mortality. What more fixing could you ask for?! Oh, you want me take back my gift, now, do you? How you must mourn your lost weakness." A sharp, brief laugh cut through his monologue and he approached Isabella, hand half cupping her jaw, cold fingertips resting against the side of her neck that he had sunken his teeth into before. "You couldn't fight back to stay with your husband when he needed you the most. Degraded to a pathetic little plaything in the hands of a brute mortal. Until I broke your chains, Belita. And didn't you like it when you finally were able to take control?"
Thumb brushing idly over her bottom lip, he let go of his vampire offspring at last, taking a step back and cocking his head. "Just as a butterfly cannot revert back to being a dirt-bound caterpillar, you cannot return to the pathetic filth you once were. You're better. You're mine now. You always will be."
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Koda: I am better than horse. I will carry you.
Katja: wmWhat. Did. You. Fucking. Say?
Koda: I am Better than Horse.
Rekha: Katja squares up.
Aabria/Antiope: I immediately grab Katja like 'nope, nope!'
Katja: let me take him don't you hold me back!
Antiope: Bear back up, back up! You don't want me to let her go.
Koda: okay.
Becca/Penny: I hug the bear. Just don't say, we know it's true, don't say it again.
Katja: what?!
Koda: oh yeah, what, what, what?
Antiope: Girl you wanna get let go?
Katja: Am I gonna fight a bear?
Antiope: go fucking get him! Aabria/Antiope: I let go and push her forward. Kill this bear!
Izzy/Ostentatia: can I cast enhance ability and give her beat shit?
Antiope: smoke this bear, Katja!
Brennan: I'm gonna pull up bear --
Becca/Penny: no, not Koda, please, I'll give my life for Koda!
Sam: Koda, I believe in you. And I give Koda bardic inspiration.
Katja: what! Against me?!
*overlapping chatter*
Brennan: okay, so you have enhanced ability, I'm gonna need an athletics check with advantage from you.
Sephie/Sam: my first time bardic inspiration!
Brennan: what did you roll?
Rekha/Katja: I rolled an 18, which plus my athletics is a 27.
Aabria: let's go
Becca/Penny: come on Koda
Brennan: I'm gonna roll.
Sephie/Sam: remember that bardic inspiration!
Brennan: yes, bardic inspiration.
*overlapping chatter*
Rekha/Katja: Absolutely psychotic
Aabria/Antiope: I want Hunter's Sense on this bear. What is his weakness?
Rekha/Katja: fuck yes
Antiope: I'm whispering in your ear like, 'go for his nuts.'
Becca/Penny: I get an acrobatics check as I spin the bear on my feet?
Rekha/Katja: this is unreal you created, and then brought back this bear.
Penny: Koda is a circus trained bear and I have acrobatics.
Brennan: so I'm gonna roll. Here's, here's Koda's athletics check.
*math happens* Katja: 27, Koda: 24
Erika/Yelle: before this resolves --
Katja: and it will never resolve!
Erika/Yelle: everyone hears a voice in the back of their heads that says: 'Everybody knock it off and grow the fuck up.'
Rekha: gasps
Penny: yeah, Koda
Yelle: you too Koda
Sam: especially Koda
Brennan: Katja you've got --
Ostentatia: who just fucking cursed at me?
Brennan: so you all -- so Danielle just communicated telepathically. You gently release Koda from the arm bar that you have Koda in.
Rekha/Katja: yea it was an arm bar and I was about to grab him like *gestures with a clenched fist* like this is his shirt and put him up against the --
Izzy: shirt?
Rekha/Katja: yea, but this is fur, against the thing. And go like a 'why I oughta!'
Becca/Penny: no Koda wears a tiny T-shirt, that's right.
Rekha: *something I can't catch* really small.
Izzy: is it Paddington?
*overlapping chatter and laughing*
Brennan: a talking Kodiak Bear with an enormous rain jacket and hat. Less cute that size. Cool. So, so Katja you were clearly about to tie this bear in a knot.
Aabria/Antiope: kick this bear's ass.
Brennan: and Danielle grabs everyone's attention. Zelda looks at Yelle and goes [as Zelda]: cool. Yeah, we need to head to the Baronies. We should go.
Katja: yeah, yeah. Are you cool, Koda? Are you fucking cool?
Koda: if you are cool, I am cool. We have no problem. Maybe next time we go there's no sucker punches, and we sort of, you know?
Yelle: okay, you know what. This is what we call, in the industry, bear baiting. And you're not going to fall for it.
Izzy: what industry?
Aabria/Antiope: we're getting baited by a bear that's fucked.
Katja: I am not falling for this
Penny: the nature industry
Katja: I am strong, I am strong, and you are weak
*overlapping chatter*
Brennan: uh, amazing. So it kicks off a little bit again, and you guys head off from here. Katja and Koda, the tension is palpable.
Rekha/Katja: and we're sitting next to each other!
Penny: I hope on Koda's back
Izzy: they're gonna fuck!
Penny: I'm whispering to Koda what a good boy he is, and how he's better than a horse.
Katja: I'm whispering to cinnamon "you know there's nothing on earth that's better than a horse, you know that right?
Cinnamon: I didn't let that bear get to me. I didn't let that bear get to me.
Brennan: so you all move along
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