Glorious Home

[Nephrite]

"Yes, we plan on doing that eventually." Moore says. "We're both fighting the same fight, just in different ways. She has her role on Lifasa and I have mine here. I do plan on installing some way to keep in contact with her on a more regular basis, though."

[Anastasia]

"Congratulations," Jetina says warmly, "So those rumors about you and Afina were just rumors?"

[Nephrite]

Moore takes in a deep breath. "Afina would literally turn me into one of her golems if she ever found out someone even suggested something like that, I think."

[Anastasia]

A laugh at that and then from there, "Well, you need my help, then?"

[Nephrite]

"I can do some healing, but you were always much better at it." Moore says. "I... ..."

He trails off for a minute as some sobriety forms and he looks down at the floor.

"I got you killed once. Maybe even twice, because of my stupidity and foolishness." Moore says as he raises his face. "It's not going to happen again. I will not let it."

[Anastasia]

"Facing your mistakes?" Jetina asks, quieter. "I've had to do that. I'm sure I'll have to do it for my miscues in Water." A pause, a lull in the conversation. "You know why they say it's hard to reach Chronias? It's because self improvement hurts. Who wants to admit they're wrong?"

[Nephrite]

Moore laughs a bit at that. "I'm not sure I'm destined for Chronias, I've got too many objections to to just agreeing to abide by every rule that they have here. At the same time, bettering myself is a good thing to do and will help everyone else, so I'm willing to follow my gut on things for right now and worry about perfection later."

[Anastasia]

"I think you will if you're here, but...I'm in, Moore," Jetina decides. "And this I'm sure isn't a mistake."

[Nephrite]

Moore smiles and nods. "I don't expect that we're going to put the whole team back together -- I'm glad you're here, nonetheless. Thank you."

[Anastasia]

Jetina joins the party. *Dun dun duuuuun*

I'm going to level her up and add her to the node soon, but it'll probably be a day or two.

Next move now, bearing in mind I need to get her up before combat operations.

[Nephrite]

Next move will simply be us deciding as a group what exactly we want to accomplish in Salty Pier - i.e. are we going in to rescue all the slaves, etc.

[Anastasia]

We'll start with that tonight, since I'm trying to finish that combat in Air before work. Go ahead and post back so I don't forget to reply to it after work.

[Nephrite]

No worries, that's fine with me.

[Anastasia]

Thus everyone soon gathers in a meeting room and...

Go ahead and set up, Moore, I'll roll off how you start.

[Nephrite]

"So, I'd like to review our operation and decide on how we want to proceed from there." Moore explains.

"We're not going to dismantle Fire's slave operations by doing this -- we can still save many lives and help them. So I'd like to hear opinions. I was thinking we'd simply gate in and go after Azam the Firebearded, he's the local leader and slave trader. He should know where exactly the various slaves are coming from. From there, we can get several more leads on rescue operations, I'd think. We also will likely draw the attention of the Sultan and his ilk, though I have absolutely no reason to think any of us will find ourselves in any trouble."

He clears his throat. "With that in mind, we still need a plan of action -- are we going to just try and liberate every slave we can find in Salty Pier in addition to this? Where do we try and take them all to?" Moore asks the gathered individuals. "I don't have any issue with gating them back here and helping to sort it out afterwards, though I admit I don't know what the politics of doing something like that is."