[Logbook / Auberon / The Troupe]

[simplyashe]

I will not be stolen away from my home so easily.

You must send me back. What is it you want from me in return? Money? Treasure? Power?

Comments

[featheredcharm]

No, no, it's cool, we're not bad people. We're good guys! Actors, actually. And the best part is, now you get to be an actor too!

Actress. Sorry. Anyway, it's gonna be great. Welcome aboard, miss. I'm Bartz Klauser, nice to meet you.

[simplyashe]

Do you intend to tell me I was kidnapped to perform in plays?

[featheredcharm]

Well, you weren't...it wasn't like, an actual kidnapping I think. I was brought here too from my own world, but these guys are all really nice. You'll like 'em!

[simplyashe]

It was not an actual kidnapping. It was only that I was taken away from my home without any explanation or any means of return.

[ageniusbutajerk]

Yes, I tried that too. It doesn't work.

[simplyashe]

You were taken too? To act, of all things.

[ageniusbutajerk]

To be fair, they--

Ah, nevermind. There is no "to be fair" here. You'll just have to deal with it.

[simplyashe]

I hope you do not expect me to skip down the streets.

[smoothexecutive]

Now now, take it easy there. What seems to be the problem?

[simplyashe]

Are you daft? I was stolen away from my home for this ridiculous reason. To make matters worse, no one is offering a means of return.

[smoothexecutive]

Sorry for my ignorance. I don't really know much about summoning and all that jazz, so I have nothing to offer to calm you down. If there was a way to return you back, I'd gladly do that for you if you're really unhappy here.

[simplyashe]

There was an important matter, one that needed my intervention, in my home. Now I see that there are others. Did it not occur to anyone that they, too, may have been needed where they were?

[son_rejected]

Unfortunately, there isn't any way to send you back, but you can think of this as your new home. You're Ashe, right? The one that Aura recently summoned?

I'm Quintan, and I apologize that this is no longer the home you knew, but I promise to do my best to make you feel at home here. Welcome to The Traveling Thespian Troupe.

[simplyashe]

Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca, but Ashe will suffice. Yes.

Why am I here? Tell me why she sent me here, knowing I wouldn't be able to return.

[son_rejected]

This is just a part of the way of life here in Avito. We summon. Who we summon is not an exact science, but the summoning targets those with talents that befit the guild to which they are being summoned. Many of The Branded, people like you, find a life here a welcome change, and others, like yourself, wish to go back home.

I honestly wish there was a way for us to send you home, but please try to make the best of this.

[simplyashe]

Pray tell, would you be amenable if I were the one who called you away from your home, your people? I don't remember what, exactly, it is I left behind; yet it must have been important, or it would not trouble me so.

[summonklutz]

I (pause)

Ashe, it's Aura here. I'm so sorry.

[ageniusbutajerk]

I never got an apology.

[summonklutz]

No you didn't. I've been trying to be friends with you, so that's an apology in itself!

[ageniusbutajerk]

I think I'll be happy with the basic apology package.