Welcome Committee

[sumarusfinest]

There's been so many fresh faces to the Nexus recently, and more than a few of them have been children. Questions about finding a way home, about trying to decide if they want to go home. People wondering what to do now...

There are a few tables set out this morning in the Plaza in front of a small cafe loaded with several caraffes of coffee, breakfast pastries from more than a few different worlds and cultures, and a large pan of eggs and sausage kept warm over a chafing dish. On either end of the table are disposable plates, cups, and cutlery as well as a few welcome pamphlets in a small container. Along the front of the tables is a hand made banner.

"Meet and Greet"

Manning the tables is Katsuya Suou, red apron on and a cup of coffee in hand. He looks far too cheerful for how early in the morning it is.

"Right then, is anyone hungry? Have any questions about the nexus?"


((OOC: Feel free to mingle and threadjump in this thread. I'm trying to get people who have yet to meet to interact, so do not feel obligated to only reply to me!))

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[rosco_coltrane]

Rosco nods.

"I'm glad of that. This place is strange enough and hard to adjust to. The fear of violence could turn it into a powder keg."

[drehnifusbahi]

"And unfortunately, I can think of a few folk I've seen around here who might not be averse to... ah, fanning the flames." He's thinking primarily of Nekomata and her ilk (he hasn't forgotten the horde she brought through when the anti-violence field was temporarily brought down).

[rosco_coltrane]

"Well, those types are everywhere. Most places, at least," Rosco grumbles. Fortunately, those types are rare in Hazzard. Even the criminal elements there don't tolerate actual violence. "Still, even without violence, people will find ways to be rotten to each other. That's why we need law in place."

He's really a firm believer in law and order, despite his own shady dealings in Hazzard.

[drehnifusbahi]

Those words -people will find ways to be rotten to each other- strike a chord in him. He doesn't share Rosco's firm belief in law and order, offered to join his fledgling peace-keeping squad because it's become a reflex by now to help wherever it's needed. But that...

"Yes, that's very true."

[rosco_coltrane]

"Yeah. Kinda sad really. I mean, of course, not everyone can get along, but you'd think as communities, we could do better by each other."

[drehnifusbahi]

"You would, wouldn't you?" He can't help but think of the war, the damage still being wrought because neither side can bring themselves to agree with the other.

"But in my experience, even when being better to others would be in their own best interests, some people just... won't."

[rosco_coltrane]

Rosco thinks of Boss Hogg and gives a reluctant sigh. He refuses to consider how this conversation applies to himself.

"Yeah, that's true all over the place, I guess."

[drehnifusbahi]

Vanyel tries his best, but the Divines know there are a few people he wouldn't piss on if they were on fire. In most of those cases, he likes to think it's a justifiable reaction to extreme provocation.

"I suppose people aren't so different no matter what world they come from."

[rosco_coltrane]

"I suppose not," Rosco agrees. "Well, at least that means there's generally good around, as well as bad."

Rosco doesn't have any enemies that deserve that. His most constant enemies are the Dukes and it'd break his heart, if anything truly bad happened to them.

[drehnifusbahi]

He considers that for a moment, then nods. "That it does."

Not so surprising, perhaps; Vanyel's enemies tend to be along the lines of world-devouring dragon gods and mad vampire lords.

[rosco_coltrane]

"You must like the Nexus, though, since you keep coming back," Rosco speculates. "What kinda things to do you do for fun here?"

[drehnifusbahi]

He nods, conceding the point. "I've made friends here that I visit with, and I do a fair amount of exploring as well. There's a great deal to see, alchemy ingredients and spell tomes I wouldn't have access to back home."

[rosco_coltrane]

"Dang. There's a lot of magic folks here," Rosco said. "I'm glad you and Stratos know this stuff. I ain't used to magic being used in crimes."

[drehnifusbahi]

"Yours is a world without magic, then?" Even after all this time spent in the Nexus, the concept still seems so strange to him, and he can't help but be curious.

[rosco_coltrane]

"Well, uh, I think so," Rosco says. "Some people claim otherwise, but I've never seen any done."

[drehnifusbahi]

"There probably isn't, then - I don't imagine it could be hidden completely, if it were there." (No, he hasn't ever read Harry Potter, why do you ask?)

[rosco_coltrane]

"Well, there are people who claim to do magic," Rosco explains further. "And odd stuff does happen sometimes. It's just most folk don't believe in it and explain it off as something else."

[drehnifusbahi]

"Oh?" His brows twitch up, but his expression is one of curiosity, rather than disbelief. "Well that's interesting. Maybe, then..." He still isn't quite sure what would make all the mages hide away, but... it might be interesting to try to find out, someday.

[rosco_coltrane]

Rosco shrugs.

"I never really believed in magic," Rosco says, not being completely honest, even with himself. "I always thought is was just something for kids, but since being here. Well, the concept had to have come from something, right?"

[drehnifusbahi]

There is, admittedly, a part of him that bristles at the notion that magic is for children - but he doesn't act on it or let it show. It's an ingrained reaction from his time in Skyrim, where the locals tend to distrust magic and mages, to denounce it as trickery and something only the weak resort to- but he knows that isn't what Rosco meant by his comment.

"Yes, I suppose it does."

[rosco_coltrane]

"So, probably there is at least a bit of magic there," Rosco concludes. "There's certainly plenty of stories and traditions about it."

[drehnifusbahi]

"It's entirely possible," he agrees. Though he can't help but think the concept is a bit sad - a world in which that's all that remains of magic.

[rosco_coltrane]

"I suppose it doesn't matter," Rosco says, with a sigh. "Magic or not, things are as they are."

[drehnifusbahi]

"I suppose you're right," he replies, taking a long, slow sip of his coffee.

[rosco_coltrane]

"I don't suppose a place like the Nexus would work without magic."