and we'll raise a glass to ass in a final goodbye

[airlockedmods]

On behalf of the Empress Kristen of New Earth, you and a guest are cordially invited to attend a party in your honor.
The party will be held on the Thirteenth day in Fourthmonth, 6975, at New Earth's Sexbang Park.
It will be our esteemed privilege to see you again.


The invitations arrived through space and time. Some arrived months ahead, some only weeks. But the victims of Airlocked all receive an invitation marked with the royal seal of New Earth.

The same section of the park has been set aside to provide privacy. There's with every kind of food imaginable, including a food truck that purports to serve Authentic Vegetarian Flavortown Cuisine. The man running it certainly looks like he wouldn't be out of place among the colorful population of Flavortown.

The statue is still there, standing tall and proud over the fountain. The forests have grown even more lush and the gardens even more verdant in the year since you last found yourselves hosted here.

Prince Daniel, now nearly five, is eager to do his princely duty and to greet every newcomer as they arrive. His mother, beautiful as always, follows behind to supervise her son and to make sure that her guests feel at home.

Welcome back to New Earth, Champions. Enjoy your stay.

((Welcome to the one year anniversary log! Here is the OOC post with the rules, but to sum up, this log is for former players of Airlocked to dust off their beloved characters and reunite with old CR. While each character's invitation includes a +1, you're free to NPC this person or to not choose one, if the character you would choose was played by a non-Airlocked player during the endgame log.

In your toplevel, feel free to include as much or as little as you'd like about what your character has been doing over the past year! We ask that you leave all CRAUs from other games at the door, even though we are blown away by just how many of you loved your character development enough to take them with you into other games.))

Comments

[nojohnyouare]

Wow... Sayuri's really impressed.

...Maybe we are. I hadn't considered.

Oh, have you all been here often? It's not exactly the sort of place Sayuri imagined!

[This is an extremely polite way of saying "what's with the dick fountain."]

[tenimuho]

This is the second time. It's hard to get used to.

[don't even ask about the dick fountain.]

[nojohnyouare]

Ahaha... These people must be very interesting.

Difficult. [pause] Their culture.

Sayuri supposes. But they've been kind enough to invite everybody, either way.

[tenimuho]

They feel bad about what happened.

[Which, given all that happened, they probably should.]

[sayurisays]

Even so, to reach out instead of try to have nothing to do with it is a kind gesture. But Sayuri won't dwell on that. It's a party, after all.

[tenimuho]

Mm. It's nice to see everyone again. It feels like it's been a long time...

[But also, not that long?]

[nojohnyouare]

...

[This is probably agreement. Sayuri bows politely.]

It's good to hear everyone is getting along. And so many of you are friends even now.

[tenimuho]

[Oda bows too! Politeness, it's great.]

We went through a lot together, so... it's natural.

[sayurisays]

Sayuri is very sorry. She hasn't heard much about it, but it's terrible.

[tenimuho]

There isn't much good to say about it. You're better off not hearing much.

[sayurisays]

You're probably right... All this about alternate universes is amazing, though! It's just a theory back home. Mai told me about it. Didn't you?

...mm. Just what I've heard.

Right, there was famous research that was lost. It's a really sad story, isn't it?

[tenimuho]

I don't remember a lot of the backstory.

[A lot of everything happened and it's above his technical knowledge.]

[nojohnyouare]

A lot happened. [Awkward pause.] Thank you again. For coming today.

[tenimuho]

Thank you for coming. I wanted to see you.

[He wanted to see everyone, more or less, but Mai for sure.]

[nojohnyouare]

...me?

Wow, Mai really is popular! Sayuri's happy to hear it.

[tenimuho]

More popular than you realize.

[They're the same way, again.]

[sayurisays]

[Mai stares wordlessly, puzzling through this. Looks like it's up to Sayuri again, who gives another polite smile.]

No wonder Mai cares about all of you. Sayuri's very glad to be able to meet so many kind people.

[tenimuho]

I'm glad to meet you too.

[Even if he's as awkward as Mai.]