[RE] Roleplay Recap: Week 12

Katja

Our resident firecatte met up with the necromancer’s construct, Litany, along with her friend Valeria Camena. They were hoping to interrogate the familiar on more details about Rihad and his background with the Vanguard, but Litany claimed to have told them all he knows. It was a curious conversation where they learned a little more about the enigmatic armored man.

After speaking to him for some time, the two young women decided that they would need to take things into their own hands, to try and find a way to circumvent Litany’s plans or somehow lessen the danger for the Vanguard as a whole. No one in the Company seemed to be thinking straight where Rihad was concerned, so it fell to them, they who knew little to nothing about Rihad to find the way forward that didn’t involve turning the Vanguard into criminals.

Toward the end of their conversation with the construct, Katja and Valeria had the thought that, perhaps, there was a person somewhere beneath Litany’s persona. They offered to help him find out his true identity, who he was, and where he was from.

Lafiel

In the aftermath of a performance in Ul’dah, Lafiel took a respite in the Gold Court for a while as she composed some new songs. As she did so, she was eventually joined by the enigmatic Saya Kiyohara and her quietly composed friend, Sorkhaghtani. The three of them held an introspective conversation, peppered with kindly flattery for the two au ri women from the silver-tongued elezen.

Mesa Kha came upon the songstress next, something Lafiel had not been prepared for. She’d been avoiding the desert city-state for sennights since she and the xaela exchanged some hurtful words. Chiefest among them, Mesa’s upset at Lafiel having taken up Koh’li Nbolo as her paramour. Mesa, it seemed, had an infatuation with Lafiel though such feelings had never been voiced. It mattered little, though, as Mesa told Lafiel of some other elezen woman she’d taken an interest in which was much to Lafiel’s relief. The two of them managed to patch up their tattered friendship, but it would remain to be seen just how close they stayed.

Once she’d had a chance to rest her legs for a bit after standing all evening, Koh’li arrived to sweep her away from Ul’dah and back to the cool comforts of the Shroud. Ensconced within their home, Koh’li treated her to a hot bath, foot rubs, and some honey lemon tea to soothe her voice. As always, the miqo’te took painstaking care of the minstrel, knowing that the whole of her livelihood resided within her ability to perform.

Gospel

Still criss-crossing the world to recruit her allies, both old and new, to help her friend, Zerey, in his fight against the Yakuza in Kugane, Gospel was making her way through Ul’dah to speak with a couple of former Maelstrom soldiers that had retired to the desert city. So focused was she on her mission, that she paid little heed to the crowds and people that littered the sandstone halls.

At least until she nearly ran head-long into Syrio Nessaire. It was the first encounter they’d had since she’d made the decision for them to part ways as lovers, her own inability to cope with his many changes since he abandoned her to go to Corvos creating a chasm between them that neither could hope to fill. Still, it was a pleasant enough visit with the young hyur-turned-viera.

She learned that he was taking up with a new Free Company after leaving the Seventh Chantry’s ranks, though he gave no name to the band. His assignment there would be as a trainer of new recruits, something that he hoped Gospel might help him with, given her extensive experience and expertise. Never one to refuse to help others, Gospel agreed to help him, he had but to name a time and place for her to be. It would make a welcome respite from all of the work she’d been doing helping to rebuild smaller villages and settlements in the wake of the Final Days.