lucetilogs | And just how long is Luceti Fantasy? It never ends.

And just how long is Luceti Fantasy? It never ends.

Who: You and me and you and you and you and you. Also you, I guess.
What: The RPG event!
When: April 28th - May 2nd
Where: Errywhere.
Summary: Everyone wakes up to discover Luceti has turned into an RPG land! And they... are its characters!
Rating: G, PG, PG-13, I don't give a damn.

It's the same deal as always. Post! Tag around! React! Thread! ...Other stuff! Keep it clean. Take your naughty stuff elsewhere. But this is an RPG so things like that don't exist here anyway.

AND BE SURE TO TAG YOUR CHARACTER ON THE LIST.

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A better one than you, apparently.

[That was cruel, and she knows it. But at the moment she's really a touch too frustrated to bother.]

[He looks for a moment like he wants to say something, but it quickly fades. Bland smile.

Bland. Smile.

Blandest.]

...Merde.

[There was no reason to be so worried. Not for Luke, not really but- They'd spoken of a sith appearing, of Vader- and Anakin appeared. She knows their luck. It's poor. So these concerns were not entirely unfounded and with as frustrating as this place could be- it was better to know of the worst. To brace and prepare for it.

All of her fire lost Adele turns back to Ben- steps close and rests her hands on his shoulders. Looking into his face for some flicker of...something. Anything. Anything beyond the blandness.]

Ben- Please. I need your help with this- I don't understand everything I should to help him and I just- [She shakes her head.] I need you to help me.

[The bland smile seems to slip away, and he simply stares at her for a moment, brow furrowed as if in concentration.

After another long moment, he speaks- this time, not bland and dead, but quietly sincere.]

"... I'm sorry."

[That was a start. The first shard of her friend Ben, not the automaton, that she's seen since this conversation began.]

Don't be. [She sighs.] It's not your fault.

[The response is automatic. Kneejerk. A bit bitter.]

"It never is."

[... And at that he looks almost confused.]

[That was odd. And uncharacteristic. Or. At least it seemed out of place.]

Of course it isn't. How could it be?

[The neutrality seems to be slipping back into place, but he speaks.]

"I have been told before that things are not my fault. People I fail to protect. Fail to save. Fail to help. Qui-Gon. Anakin. Luke. You."

[He seems almost casually inquisitive when he asks the next question.]

"Does it not seem an odd coincidence?"

There was nothing that anyone could have done- we've spoken of this. You are not at fault for any of it-

[That last, though. That was surprising. And confounding.]

...when have you failed me Ben?

"I appear to be doing so right now."

[... No inflection. No emotion. He could be remarking upon the weather.

It has been unseasonably cool lately.]

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You're not Ben. I should know better than to ask such things of you while you are shifted.

[She shakes her head and lets her hands fall back to her sides.]

You've never failed me Ben. Not in any way.

"Debatable, I suppose. Still, there is always time."

Ben. I have...

[A beat, and she continues slowly, surprised at herself.]

I have faith. In you. Do not sell yourself so short.

[He smiles again, not blandly but a bit sadly.]

"So did Anakin."

I am not Anakin. I listen.

[His voice hardens a bit.]

"Everybody has weaknesses that might be used against them. What happened to Anakin was no fault of his."

Nor was it any fault of yours. The blame is Palpatine's. Guilt over what cannot be changed doesn't help you or Anakin.

"Perhaps not, but neither does allowing yourself to depend upon somebody who is inherently unreliable."

You are not unreliable Ben.

"Either my previous failures are my fault, in which case my poor decisions render me unreliable, or my previous failures are beyond my control, in which case I am unreliable by virtue of being powerless to help people, and so, as you rather aptly described me, useless."

[And still no inflection at all. It's like he's talking about a completely different person he doesn't even know.]

It was unkind of me to say that, and untrue. You are not useless Ben. Not to me or anyone else. What happened happened because it must. There was nothing to be changed because it could not be changed.

[The camera's still going. She's entirely forgotten to shut it off.]

And I will be damned before I let you blame yourself for it.

"It is not yours to decide for what I am or am not responsible, nor for what I do or do not blame myself."

So I am to stand by and watch you poison yourself slowly instead?

"I do not allow my failures to plague my thoughts as I did prior to Levarre's intervention. They do not poison me, they only provide me with a realistic assessment of my own value."

And what is your realistic assessment of your own value, Ben?

[If you like pina coladas- and getting caught in the raaain/Action]

[Raindrops keep fallin' on my head, but that doesn't mean my eyes will soon be turning red!/Action]

[But I set fiiiire to the rain, and I threw us into the flames. Where I felt someth'n die - /Action]

[I fell into a burning ring of fire! I went down, down, down, and the flames climbed higher!/Action]

[She's so hiiiiiiiiiiiiigh, high above me, she's so lovely-/Action]

[Can you take me higher, to a place where blind men see!/Action]

[She was Blinded by the light! Revved up like a deuce/Action]

[This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shiiiine!/Action]

[No light, no light, in your bright blue eyes. I never knew daylight could be so violent-/Action]

[No one knows what it's like to be the bad man, to be the sad man, behind blue eyes/Action]

[A falling star fell from your heart and landed in my eye. /Action]

[You aaaaare my lucky staaaar/Action]

[She's so lucky, she's a star but she cries cries cries with a loney heaaaaaaaart./Action]

[Nothing I can do, a total eclipse of the heart!/Action]

[There's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do. I bless the rains down in Africa-/Action]

[And I would walk five hundred miles, and I would walk five hundred more.../Action]

[Five. Five Dollar. Five Dollar FOOT LOOOONG!/Action]

[We've got a long way to go, and a short time to get there/Action]

[Hold my hand- Ooh baby it's a long way down to the bottom of the river/Action]

[I wanna hold your haaaaand, I wanna hold your hand/Action]

[I've got a hand for you, cuz I wanna run with you /Action]

[Tramps like us, baby, we were born to run~ /Action]

[The lady is a vamp, she's a vixen not a tramp, she's a da da da da da da daaaaa/Action]

[He's a tramp, he's a scoundrel, breaks a new heart every day/Action]

[You're a heartbreakter. Dream maker. Love taker don't you mess around with me-/Action]