tSo for about the first half hour that I was logged into the game, E's player and I talked about what to do next. Start Team 3.0? Well... no one seems to know who or what will be on Team 3.0, and some of those decisions hinge on what happens to Team Angst. A new team of alts would work, but we'd be abandoning the characters where they are now, and that just doesn't seem quite right.
We knew there was still going to be more fall out, so we decided to continue on, for now. E and Fyre would have spent most of the night talking and plotting and planning. Mission-wise, we did a couple of very profitable Carnie missions, with E sk'ed up to Fyre Hex's 50. Granted, it was only on Heroic, but it was nice and easy. Very easy. We'll have to remember to ratchet up the the difficulty maybe two clicks if we do that again.
Frost shows up, and out of character I head to Wentworth's to sell my loot, and E does the same. We run into Frost outside of Wentworths, and a second later, Frost says, "What took you so long, Jack?" Fyre turns around, and there's Masonry. We all thought that meant that Frost lead him there. E punches Masonry, and Fyre's auras go up as soon as she sees him. She was going to wait for Mason to make a wrong move, but she was more than willing to make sure he didn't make another.
They move into the Night-Watch's base and "Jack" begins to explain. Although he doesn't seem to like to "explain." Fyre is going do her best to make him spell everything out whenever they meet. Jack's already proven that he lies by omission, so she's going to ask for very complete explains. For example, when they asked him how he found them, and he said, "I'm a Pathfinder," that wasn't enough. It wasn't an answer. One thing didn't necessarily relate to the other.
Fyre doesn't exactly trust Jack, but she's able to recognize that he's not Nathan. When she, E, and Frost talk later, she's willing to accept him into the team. She also wants him around for if and when Nathan breaks back out. She figures he's going to be more angry than he was before Jack locked him up. She doesn't intend to kill him, but she plans to make sure that he's not able to hurt anyone, whatever that entails. Jack said that he would stay until E was well, and as long as Fyre needed his help. Fyre barely acknowledged the second part of that. No one else has tried to help her, in her mind, so why would Jack be the first?
Frost and E both agree to accept Jack, as well. Fyre feels bad for Frost, she really does. Mason broke his heart, and he doesn't even feel comfortable talking about it. She thinks, though, that if they draw attention to that, it will make Frost feel worse. She'll keep an eye out for him, but she won't be obvious about it.
If E had refused the replacement of Jack, Fyre probably would have gone along with it. She did remind him at one point when he was getting angry that Jack was standing there, and not Nathan, to try to curb any violent urges, but had E wanted him gone, she would have made sure he went. She resents that Mason has once again taken the focus off of E, when E's the one who really has the big problems, and is going to try to make up for that.
When Fyre sees Kit again, she's going to have a hard time not saying, "See?" Fyre thinks that Kit hung on to unreasonable ideals too long, and that's why she got hurt. She does, though, have sympathy for Kit, but she's glad that Kit didn't get hurt worse, by which she means physically hurt, which isn't something she'd put past Mason--uh, Nathan.
I'm really going to have to work to get the names straight in my head. Thankfully, Fyre has the same problem, so it won't seem odd when I type the wrong name, and she tries to correct herself.
Double XP weekend should be a good time to get Team Angst moving, if not start Team 3.0. Or at least earn some Influence for a nice, orange Devastation set.
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The idea with Jack is to get the drama off Mase and back onto E and Frosty, where it belongs. You're right that Jack doesn't explain, but he doesn't consider it lying. Fyre has it perfectly right that you need to ask the right questions to get the answers you want.
And don't worry about the names. Call him Mase, Mason, Hey You, Squid - he answers to anything. Yes, anything. ;)
Fyre's urge to go to Kit and say "See?" just tells me that it really was more important for Fyre to be right than anything else. Someone who'd rather be right than solve a problem really is a gigantic waste of Kit's energy because those people can't be argued or reasoned with.
Fyre has no credibility with Kit. Not because she was right about Masonry (which Kit sees, but has no regrets about her own viewpoint), but because Fyre's no better than Masonry. She says, "Get the hell away from me, I don't need help," and then says, "Wah. Nobody's helping me." It's her own fault, just like Masonry's situation is his own fault. She is the only one who can do anything to fix it, and she won't. And no matter how much Kit says, "I can help. How can I help? What do you need?" she gets shot down by Fyre.
And if Kit had to do it all over again? She would do the exact same thing because, in her mind, the good things she sees in other people are better markers of who they are than the bad things in them. And believing in that part of them is what motivates her to be honorable in her dealings with others. (Some days are more successful.) Gods help you if you ever break that trust (just ask Emerald Flight :D).
Sure, she's crushed (and devastated and heartbroken), but unlike Fyre, she's not afraid to admit it, or to admit that she has feelings. To her, weakness is being afraid of them. And, she's not afraid to turn to others for comfort (the main person being her boyfriend Thad, who came through for her with flying colors, but there are others as well.)
And FYI, Kit never had more than friendly feelings for Masonry, but I can see why Fyre would paint as negative a picture as possible of Kit. It's easier to think the worst of someone.
Fyre's insistence on being a "frigid bitch" all the time make's Kit think that Fyre is weak, afraid, or maybe just a bitch. Maybe a little of all of the above.
Kit has found that nobility comes in strange packages (see Thad Raynes). Maybe Kit'll see that Fyre actually has some nobility to her, but really, I hate to see Kit waste any more time and heartache to find out. Some people just want to be left alone, after all. Maybe Kit ought to learn that lesson.
--Kit
Well, wow. Okay, then.
Neither Fyre nor I realized how strong Kit's feelings were. It sounds like she's a much angrier person than she lets on.
I dont' think Fyre's ever said "Wah," or anything too similiar. In fact, Fyre doesn't really complain. But, if that's how Kit sees it, there's not a lot Fyre can do about it.
I don't think that Fyre was trying to "paint a negative picture" of Kit at all. Also, I don't think Kit knows Fyre well enough to call her a "frigid bitch," but there's not a lot that I, like Fyre, can do about it.
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