Event Log: A Hope for the Future

[hadrielmods]

Who: All characters participating in the event
What: The event log for the A Hope for the Future event
Where: All over the city!
When: April 15th-April 19th
Warnings: Stealth Rock

It's finally time to reap the rewards you've earned from all that hard work collecting and returning the Hope orbs! Be careful walking the streets during the small earthquakes, but feel free to admire the scenery as your beautiful city reassembles its way back into its former glory.

There are new houses where the destroyed buildings once were, and they're perfect for a single person or pair of lovebirds. In addition, you'll find that the electricity to these new houses, and all other homes and shops in the city is restored. The food is better, the monsters are gone- hey, this city might be livable again!

To cap it all off, we've got a feast waiting for you on the 19th! Come one, come all, and enjoy all of your favorite foods, drinks, and party games. It's been awhile since we've all gotten together to celebrate something good, so get your party on and toss all your troubles away!

► This log covers April 14th-April 19th.
► Feel free to make your own logs as well!
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► If you get hit by levitating rubble or eat a food that wasn't meant for you, please let us know here.

Comments

[claritatis]

You claim that your obligations are to more than yourself but I have heard nothing but a self-driven desire for revenge. Make excuses as you will, frame it as vengeance well-earned as indeed it was, but you thought nothing of potentially placing everyone here in danger to sate your need for retribution.

[There's a sharp challenge in his eyes, chin tilted slightly upwards.]

You are only fortunate that those I care for came to no harm because of you. I don't fault your actions, do not misunderstand. I fault your lack of foresight and due consideration for the people you could have caused to come to harm because of them. Were you happy for the weight of that to be on your conscience? Did you think of it, over the given consent of your lords to shed more blood than was already spilled? A simple yes or no will suffice.

[bythewaves]

If you do you are not listening to me any more than you say I listen to you. I am obligated to Margaery, Ignis. I do not expect you to understand, and I seek no one's approval nor permission save the only two here who have any right to gainsay me.

I did no more than I have always done in the defence of those under my care, and much less, in many ways. If the song bends towards tragedy, then it bends, and those sins are on my hands. But I will not break my own duty for anything less than my king's word.

[claritatis]

Did you think of it, or did you not care to? Yes, or no.

[He can do this all day.]

I don't need your reasons. What's done is done. I need to know if you spared a single thought for those you could have harmed.

[bythewaves]

[ He sighs in frustration - Ignis is still not listening ]

Of course I considered it. It's what I'm trained to do Ignis. It's what being a prince and lord means. I just consider it below the needs of those immediately beholden to me.

[claritatis]

[Oh, he's listening. He needed to hear it said plainly, not dressed up in pretty words and convoluted explanations bound up in 'duty'. That he understands the elf's position has already been made quite clear by him. What one feels they should do can often be tangled so closely with what duty demands that they feel one and the same.

At least now, he's quite aware of where he stands. He huffs out a soft breath through his nose.]

You are a frustrating elf, Maglor.

[bythewaves]

I never said I wasn't, Ignis.