Ardent Dawn

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Seras nodded in grudging assent towards Wells. "We might need to fight Germaines if he's actively threatening people, but I'd rather talk him down than escalate the situation through combat. You've already seen how he'll respond to violence," she noted, glancing pointedly towards Porygon-Z, "but he hasn't harmed anyone unless already provoked."

Such as by you, she mused. As much as she'd like to hold that against him, everyone had been utterly terrified by Germaines, herself included. It was hard to blame anyone's response under those sort of circumstances - he'd put himself on the line for the crowd, just in that headache-inducing manner that seemed to come naturally to him. "Let's try not to assume that Germaines is dangerous from here on - just don't press his buttons and be prepared if someone else starts to goad him. He deserves the change for a new beginning." I can comprehend that much about him, at least.

She glanced towards the hotel, painfully aware of the state of her clothes. The upper half of her dress was drenched with sweat after the confrontation - given the option, she wouldn't wait a minute longer before changing into something clean. And her stomach wasn't much inclined towards waiting either. "Food sounds great," she smiled ruefully. "I'll swing by my hotel room, then join all of you for a meal."

Given the day's event, the dinner conversation would probably end with a food fight across the main foyer.

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Anybody here?

@Leos Klien

Still here :)

I think a lot of the casual conversations ended up moving to the TitanPad document due to the live chat feature, but I'm just as invested as ever :)

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Seras let out a shuddering breath as Germaines departed, heart pounding frantically against her chest. I'm too young to have my life flashing before my eyes. It felt as though she'd run a marathon - worn ragged, high on adrenaline and sore in places that had no right to be aching - but the feeling of triumph was empowering. Reaffirming. Testament to a movement of violence that never came to pass. Is this how trainers feel when competing?

She shook those thoughts loose. That had no right to go so well, but at this point, I'll take a miracle.

As though a storm had passed, the crowd slowly began to mutter among themselves, voices rising and melding into a background hum. Arceus knows what they were talking about. Relief flooding her system, she offered a weary smile towards the remaining avatars and met David's gaze.

"Thank you for your kindness," she said warmly, accepting David's handshake. His grip was strong but restrained, obviously holding both strength and habits in check. "My name is Seras Bancroft, representing Diancie, but just Seras would be preferable."

The formalities left a slightly bitter taste in her mouth - too many hollow words and so little meant - but the evident sincerity behind his words made them heartwarming regardless. Some people just meant what they said. "I'm grateful that you think so highly of me, but I'm sure you that would have protected everyone if Germaines hadn't come around. Bravery means different things for everyone - we both fought to help others in the best way that we could. You have my respect as well."

She turned her attention towards the blue-haired boy, gaze wandering idly to the markings on his shoulders. Even without his support in the recent disaster, it would have been embarrassingly obvious from his appearance that he was an avatar as well. No, she chastised herself. That's a horrible way to think. You should know better. Peeling her gaze from his runes with slight embarrassment, she met his eyes and offered a gentle, heartfelt smile. The boy's tears didn't matter - despite David's strength of character, he wasn't the one who had stood beside her in the eye of the storm. "You helped us enormously as well. If you hadn't stood up for everyone and if Germaines hadn't backed down when he did, then I would have been caught in the middle of everything."

And the only difference between you and me is how we respond to stress.

She offered an open hand to the boy - he deserved to be treated with equal respect as herself, formalities or not.

"Thank you," she said sincerely. "I owe you gratitude for your courage and your help."

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Just arrived back at uni - the internet at the flat is dead (some problem at the provider's end), but I still have mobile data and a 24/7 library. Neither rain nor snow shall stop these RPers about their duty :P

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<Snipped quote by Ardent Dawn>
TitanPad can do the same: Saved Revisions and Time Slider allow you to access about any version that's existed at any given time.

@Rethel34

That sounds fine, then :)

I've thrown some IC conversation starters onto the document to get the ball rolling - I won't be around until much later to discuss them, but I'm interested to hear what people think :)

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Right, I've organised the TitanPad and made a back-up on Google Drive in case anything happens to the current document (since I've never used TitanPad before) - TitanPad has a much better integrated chat system than Google Drive does, so it's probably worth sticking to the current document :)

Edit: The link to the back-up would be helpful. One of the nice features about Google Drive is that it saves the full edit history for any documents that you make, so it doesn't matter whether any accidents occur with the back-up - you can just roll back to a previous version. Everyone can edit the Google Doc, so feel free to copy/paste back-ups over whenever anyone feels like it.

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Darn it, now I don't even know if you're keeping any secrets! D:

I'll be busy today, but I might browse through when I can.

@Zanavy

That's no problem - everyone has different commitments today, so we're basically testing things out and getting a feeling for how we're going to use this :)

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Not really mysterious. The TitanPad is public; everyone's using the one I made, so if you want to look at Dawn's massive wall of brainstorm, it's available XD

EDIT: Ninja'd

@Rethel34

Don't let him know about the other one ;)

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@Zanavy

Will PM you now ^_^ You should have received a link to the collab document via PM - could you hop in so we can brainstorm some ideas? :)

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@EclipseDragon Jolly good!
I want to involve Diance in this as she struck a cord with Germaine, and is a character most likely here to bring out his good side; plus he wants to make amends.

By the way man, that post was fantastic!

@Leos Klien

Thank you! ^_^

Sorry for disappearing from the collab post at an awkward time - I'm heading back to uni tomorrow, so I've been watching one last episode of Spice and Wolf with them before they sleep. Shouldn't be as much of a problem once I'm working by my own schedule again :)