#// Syd just being like “Your dad was a jerk... wow.”

[sialiia]

• . ° .┊┊ SYDNEY'S BIRTHDAY;; malka-lisitsa asked: Katherine will take the day off work for Syds birthday so she doesnt have to see a VaMpIrE and ruin her day. (its a petty gift lmfao) *** Do not re.blog this post at all! or turn into a thread without asking first! ***

ㅤㅤ❝𝓞h uh.... thank you. You know you really didn't have to do that...❞Sydney still appreciates? it nonetheless- If that was the right word?- even if it was a bit of a stretch. Sarah already had them on different shifts. In her own defence, Sydney was scared of most creatures, beings, entities, anything that could cause harm, really! It didn't help that she could sense just how many people Katherine had killed over her time as a vampire- it was just a lot to process.

|| @malka-lisitsa

[everyonesomething]

Session 23d

Grim: "I'm gettin' real sick of your crap, Ozu."

Edith Runekill: "What kinda farm?"

Capridi turns to grim, "Hey, I didn't choose the circus life. The circus life chose me."

Pepper: "How do you move a movie theatre?" she puzzles at the sky.

Malkas: "Huh."

Pepper: "Is that why they call 'em movies."

Capridi: "Yeah, what pepper said"

Grim: "You chose a life've bullshit and shruggin' off consequences is what."

Capridi: "And is that really such a crime?"

Grim: "I don't take kindly to bein' lied to, an' I don't see as you've ever given us word one to trust."

Sydney Gaydos KNOWS. KNOWS but she'll be nice and nod along to the story.

In this session, it’s Cap’s turn in the spotlight.

The set-up: Three stories down, three to go!

The Game: With Syd’s story done, attention naturally shifts to the other dragonborn in the party.

Edith Runekill: "It's one thing to try to do good, it's another to be able to actually... navigate that."

Grim: "Tryin's more'n some ever get around to." Grim is looking at Cap again.

Sydney Gaydos: "Also that. Gaydos assumes she was "lucky" in getting some police officers who were rather.. small and a bit more easily swayed." She BEAMS at all the praise. "Gaydos thanks you for the kind words, and hopes her actions continue to speak for herself."

Capridi isn't paying attention to Grim, the fire is too captivating

Pepper: "Nancyyyyyyyyyyy, Grim's talking to yooooooooou."

Capridi forgot who the hell Nancy is

Pepper is more alcohol than elf at the moment.

Edith Runekill: "Nancy?"

"Oh, right."

Capridi: "who?"

Edith Runekill: "You introduced yourself as 'Nancy Drow' for some reason...?"

Hiram: "You doin' okay there, scruff?" Hiram eyes Cap

Capridi shrugs "probably"

Capridi looks up at Hiram "yer not lookin' so trim yourself"

Hiram cracks a grin

Hiram: "Ain't that the truth."

Grim lights a cigarette, staring at Cap

Grim: "How 'bout you tell us a li'l somethin' about yourself, now."

"Nancy."

"Reckon it ain't before time."

Pepper: "Don' make fun of Hiram, I like him," she frowns. This is clearly a convincing argument to her.

Capridi: "I was a traveling circus performer caught up in a pyramid scheme. Those were younger days. You do whatever you can to make money for the family back on the farm. The jerks on top decided to pin it all on me, me... being a dumb kid who didn't know shit. So I had to run from my job at the traveling movie theater and then I ended up in a library aaaaand then you guys found me. Pretty cut and dry."

Pepper, Mal, and Edith accept this at face value but Grim and Sydney aren’t fooled. Grim’s had enough.

Grim: "It's bullshit, Runekill, like everything out've this one's mouth."

Pepper starts to sense this conversation's taking a bit of a swerve. She looks up at Grim, very confused.

Capridi throws up her hands "What the hell do you want? My birth certificate?"

Edith Runekill: "We wouldn't have wound up here, doing this, if we didn't each and every one of us walk a strange path to get here."

Pepper: "I took a boat," Pepper adds, helpfully unhelpful.

Grim: "I want to know you ain't about to turn around and put everythin' to waste the day it suits you, Ozu."

Capridi is hardly what you call sober but she knows what Grim is wanting from her "Fiiiine, what do I gotta do to prove to you that I won't murder you in elaborate ways in your sleep like some sort of vaudeville bad guy?"

Capridi: "I mean, if I wanted to murder all of you, I'd be more willing to tag along. Instead I got a gun pointed to my face if I don't take up the job."

Grim: "You can start by cuttin' the horseshit. If you got nothin' honest to say, say nothin'."

Edith Runekill looks unsure of this. "Cap's saved our lives a whole bunch of times by now..."

Malkas: "Cap, if you tell us like, a truthful story, I'll give ya... Forty gold."

Hey, that’s a good deal. Everyone else was doing it for free.

Edith does her best to defend Cap, pointing out all the times she’s healed up the group. Grim says they still don’t even know who she is beyond a few healing spells and she doesn’t like the idea of owing anything to a criminal who’s done nothing but lie to them.

Capridi is getting annoyed, "bitch, we all gotta do what we need to survive. In this case, I gotta survive a gun toting lunatic with a hair trigger. Who knows what'll set you off? Crime or no crime."

Grim: "Or 'less you'll do just about anything to stay alive."

Pepper: "Hey don't. C'mon now. Don't." She's trying to sit up. "This isn' about Grim." It's not clear who she's talking to.

Grim: "Go fuck yourself, lamb chop."

Capridi: "Wow, sheep joke. Haven't heard that one before, hillbilly."

Edith Runekill: "Grim..."

Hiram: "Girl." Hiram looks at Grim and grabs her arm as she lurches to her feet.

Edith Runekill looks Worried

Hiram: "Get on down and clean up the pans. And cool your head down in the creek if you got half the sense."

Grim glowers at Cap, then at Hiram, then growls and snatches up the pan to go do as she's told

Capridi: "yeah, listen to your dad."

Hiram looks at Capridi

Hiram: "You. Tread careful."

Sydney Gaydos carefully moves Pepper Away from the fire as she's sitting up.

Capridi is deadpan, slow sarcastic jazz hands

Hiram guesses correctly that Cap and Grim haven’t gotten along the whole trip. Cap tells him that no, they didn’t, she finds it hard to move on from being shot. He tells her it probably wasn’t anything personal, but it’s hard not to take being shot personally. She relents, though, and tells a story.

Capridi sighs "If you guys want a story, I'll give you one. But don't cry to me if you get bored."

Sydney Gaydos claps her hands together. "Gaydos will listen with rapt attention!"

Pepper WON'T. She folds her arms and looks away down to where Grim went.

Capridi: "I'm more or less a drifter. I stopped in one town, brightlake, or something. I stepped into a bar, a kinda seedier part of town. After a few comments about livestock, one guy needed a prescription for a five finger sandwich."

"Haha, get it, i punched a dude"

"Anyway, these drama queens had to start a bar fight. Next thing I know the paddy wagon is heading our way and I duck out the back through the window in the rest room. Well, more like the wall? Those windows are small even for you humans. Hardly accommodating but I guess that keeps people from skipping out on their tabs."

"I lost the feds and stumbled into the brush. Next thing I know, I'm locked in a library for like two weeks. The books that weren't magic traps full of dragons or whatever weren't even that interesting to read."

"I built a fort, carved my name into a bookshelf, you know, stave off boredom."

"And then you guys show up, there's a dragon, and Grim shoots me."

Edith Runekill: "I'm... I'm sure you could'a found something interesting to read in Candlekeep."

"They got a lot there."

Capridi: "what, reference books? Cookbooks? Academic texts? Yeah, real fun"

Pepper: "[Elvish] Fort Asshole," she says, a bit late.

Pepper is mumbling mostly to herself.

Edith Runekill: "The length and breadth of world culture and knowledge! The cumulative scholarship of an age! Lost texts unknown to the outside world on every shelf!"

Capridi: "THERE WEREN'T EVEN ANY PICTURES"

Hiram: "Books is overrated."

Capridi: "Right?"

Hiram puffs on his pipe

Edith Runekill looks bummed about that.

Hiram: "Burn too easy for holdin' real important stuff."

Edith Runekill: "I was real careful! I didn't prepare any fire spells the day we went in."

Malkas passes two twenty-gold notes to Capridi.

Capridi pockets the notes.

Capridi sinks against the log, and stares into the fire once more.

Look at that, progress and profit. What a good evening everyone's having.