Settling In Whilst Unsettled (June Catch-all)

[xiaoxiuya]

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Who: Shen Yuan and anyone else who'd like to jump in, unless otherwise noted.
What: Xiu Ya's intro, dealing with June nightmare event, trying to make blessedwithlove house more liveable
When: June, after the TDM
Where: Furthest Shore and Lumenwood, more tbd

Content Warnings: Nightmares will include depictions of torture and dismemberment.

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[xiaoxiuya]

"Is that so?" Shen Yuan asks, interested but half-distracted as he takes his sash off and wraps it around Xiu Ya's blade in a very makeshift scabbard that he can hold in his arms without cutting himself. He doesn't need a sword nagging at him to cover it up in public, thanks! Good thing his black robe closes in the front, so he's still just as covered up as he was with the sash on.

That done he turns his full attention back to Wei Wuxian. "Master Wei seems to be speaking with the voice of experience," he says, with all necessary courtesy but a great deal of curiosity behind it. "This one cannot help but be envious; this is his second time being dragged into another realm without advance notice, and the first time he was not permitted to bring any personal items with him at all, nor were his belongings restored to him in all the years he spent in the second world."

Some might argue that being plunked into the body of a fully developed peak lord would make up the deficit, but those people probably weren't internet addicts. And that wasn't even going into genuinely personal stuff that Shen Yuan himself preferred not to spend a lot of time thinking about, like not having any keepsakes of his family. The System might have technically saved his life, but it still screwed him over on multiple levels.

[chenqing_player]

"Ah..another world traveler? This is also my second time being pulled away from home. I haven't been home in two years." He sighs unhappily but waves it off with his hand. He has long since accepted that he is in this for the long haul. It's obvious that he has work to do in this place and won't be allowed to escape it until it is over. Even if he isn't fully sure what it is he is supposed to be doing...

"My home from the world before this was brought into this world, and items from home where given to me on the previous world whenever I happened to succeed in doing what the world wanted." It wasn't often but it did happen. The fact that his sword is here is proof as well as the fact that he has a supply of Emperor's Smile that doesn't ever seem to diminish.

"There are many powers at work, but very few answers to how." But since he is definitely the senior member of this world, he will be happy to answer any questions that SHen Yuan happens to have about it. At least as best that he can...even he doesn't know everything despite his efforts to find out as much as he can. The more he knows, the more chances he'll have to be able to get home.

"Be careful of some of the quests this world will give you to get those items though. They aren't easy."

[xiaoxiuya]

"So Master Wei got to transmigrate along with his entire house?" Shen Yuan asks, not quite able to keep his surprise and less diplomatic emotions off his face. He sighs, easily shifting Xiu Ya into the crook of one arm and pulling his fan out of his sleeve with his hand. "Fate has ever been unsubtle about displaying its favorites," he quips, but with half his face decently hidden behind the fan it's easier to play it off, even to himself, as a wry jab at the heavens instead of an expression of actual envy. What was the point of feeling such things, much less expressing them in Wei Wuxian's direction? It wasn't like Master Wei had been the one to give him food poisoning!

"Could Master Wei explain what he means by quests?" he asks. "Were these missions given to him by someone in authority, or perhaps a more esoteric entity? Perhaps something like an invisible voice...? This one has experience with such things, and would appreciate forewarning if he must face them again." If there's a System here after all he's going to cry. Or scream. Something like that.

[chenqing_player]

"I still came from the water like everyone else but when I went hunting for housing...I didn't have to look very hard. It honestly was a surprise." He thought if something or someone would come with him it would have been his husband. The fact that the house arrived but nothing relating to the man he married in Deerington did...it hurt a lot. But he has had almost a year to deal with that. Now he just continues the work that they were doing there and he does his best to help people anyway that he can.

"Maybe it was payment for enduring the world before this." He says this more to himself despite the fact it was aloud. It is his first time really considering his fortune. Lil' Apple, his horse and the rabbits...all of it just like it was in the other world. He wonders how many others were actually that lucky.

He snaps back to the question asked of him. "I would say it is the world itself that makes the decisions but that hardly seems to make sense. It's just that sometimes you will find yourself in a different place, or you will encounter something that will change you until you manage to figure out something about yourself that you don't like to admit."

[xiaoxiuya]

Concerning! Dangerous beasts or environmental hazards are one thing, but the emphasis on personal growth is giving Shen Yuan a horrid suspicion that he's left a world that ran on novel logic only to find himself in one that runs on video game, or something similar. An entire world determined to make him face his inner demons and grow as a person, like the System writ large. He finds himself breaking out in a cold sweat at the thought.

"Thanking Master Wei for his advice," he says respectfully. "Although this one isn't sure he fully and accurately understands, this one suspects that may be a result of this world's dangers and complexity, not any failing on Master Wei's part. Sometimes the esoteric must be experienced for one's self before enlightenment can be achieved, is it not so?" At least Xiu Ya seems excited. Although why it would be so gung-ho to see Shen Yuan face some heart demons when Shen Qingqiu had been riddled with them, Shen Yuan had no idea. Maybe it just really wants to fight something.

"In truth it would probably take much more unpleasant news to kill this one's enthusiasm over meeting another cultivator, let alone one of such clear and obvious skill," Shen Yuan adds, with a humble little cough. "This one heard Master Wei's flute-playing as he approached; it was truly impressive. Are we the only cultivators here, or does Master Wei perhaps know of others?"

[chenqing_player]

"I'm sure you will experience it sooner rather then later. But...I admit I understood this place a lot more after going through some of the trials myself." He doesn't wish those trials on anyone but unfortunately they don't really have a choice in the matter. Considering he had been randomly tossed into a jungle that wanted to kill them a month ago...and had to play a game in order to get out...It was a lot to try and explain.

But he does smile at the fact that it is true...it is good to meet another cultivator in a place like this. It has been quite some time since he has conversed with someone who knows at least slightly what cultivation is and understands what it is that they do. It gets exhausting having to explain it to everyone he meets. Especially since he is hardly a model example of a cultivator...

"As far as I know we are the only ones. You are the first I've encountered since being here." And he has been here for a long time... "A few from my world came to the last world I was on but this one doesn't seem to have the same desires to draw them in." Or else he is simply being put to the test to see how he can fare without familiar faces. One can never be sure with these places.