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

[theundertaken]

[The Shuppet's not a battling Pokemon at all, given that Max lives on Earth and it can't really go outside too much, so it just kinda makes a ghostly chirping noise and floats closer to investigate.]

Hey.

[nojohnyouare]

[Bear-san makes confused bear noises with a few beeps.]

Ghost-san... New?

[theundertaken]

Oh...yeah. They use them as therapy Pokemon in Alola. Can turn invisible too, so that's good.

I thought about naming her Wilson II, but that seemed shitty on a few levels.

[nojohnyouare]

Cute.

...Have things been well. It's been nice at home. Though veterinary college... Difficult to get used to.

[theundertaken]

I guess they're okay. [They really have been? Sometimes. If today were a bad day he probably wouldn't have come at all, so.] You're doing vet stuff already? I thought they made you take just...regular math and English or whatever the first couple of years. [.....] Japanese for you, I guess.

[nojohnyouare]

They do. Pre-requirements. ...Not used to homework and studying again. But it's okay. What about you.

[theundertaken]

I...I mean, I dunno. Not like anyone expected me to be a productive member of society. [He laughs, a sound that gets the Shuppet looking back at him. And yeah, he's been to therapy, he knows he's not supposed to be talking about himself that way. But everyone else here has done so much in the past year, and he's just...the same.] I go to therapy. Helped out a little with the cafe once or twice, but that's not a real job. [Bolton paying him would be silly, they pretty much share all their expenses at this point]

[nojohnyouare]

It sounds nice.

[She pauses, nods. Bear-san kind of gently headbutts Max's leg.]

Home... Difficult. Being back. Remembering you are. But it's good, too.

[theundertaken]

You think so?

[...well, that's a dumb question. As loathe as Max was to leave the land of the dead, it probably is better out here. He didn't get left all alone, and the people he lives with can actually go out and have real lives.]

Yeah, I guess it is.

[nojohnyouare]

Mm. ...Sometimes it feels like we're back there. But then we're not.

[theundertaken]

Large feel.

[Between his home universe and the one he lives in now, Max has picked up some weird foreign meme culture.]

I dunno. I could just go become a Pokemon Champion, I guess. [He's joking, he wouldn't make it more than halfway down a single route.]

[nojohnyouare]

Large feel?

[somebody explain this to the girl from 1999 2001]

[theundertaken]

Yeah, like...I feel it. Largely.

[nojohnyouare]

Oh. ...I have a lot of those.

[theundertaken]

I don't so much? She's supposed to eat negative feelings - [He nods at the Shuppet.] - and I'm on this medication, so I don't know.

[He just kinda blows air out of his cheeks and mimes an explosion. He's got nothing. Sometimes he just stays in bed all day.]

[nojohnyouare]

...Difficult. Nothing?

cw: suicide mention

[theundertaken]

Sometimes. Yeah. I guess it's better than actively wanting to be dead again. [It's not that he wants to be alone again. But maybe if he died for real, he'd just not be anywhere.]

[nojohnyouare]

...mm.

[Mai gives a tiny nod and looks down. Bear-san's attempt to vacuum up ants is looking very interesting right now.]

Hard. When you never thought you'd live to now. I hadn't planned much.

[theundertaken]

You're doing good now, though. [Max looks away for a moment, quiet.] ...I'm pretty shit at parties.

[nojohnyouare]

...Difficult.

[You saw her. Even when she was hosting the parties.]

Sayuri is here somewhere. She's better at these things.

[theundertaken]

Who's that again?

[Honestly, he's so bad at shit, he wouldn't even be surprised if that's a Champion he just didn't run into because he was hiding then.]

[nojohnyouare]

Friend. From home. Good at being sociable.

[Y'know, unlike Mai.]

[theundertaken]

Oh. Yeah, those are good to bring to parties. Jamie and B are...somewhere.

[nojohnyouare]

Are they doing well?

[theundertaken]

Yeah, they're good. Cafe's good. Apparently Guy Fieri showed up there, kind of a weird time for everyone.