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[avatar_state]

Hi! You've reached Korra! Umm, I think this is recording? Maybe? If you can hear me you're supposed to...

[The sound of rustling paper, a note being picked up and read from.]

Leave a brief message after the beep. Wait, do I do the beep or does i-

BEEP

Comments

[royalfling]

Great!!!!! Can you come over? Mako got these AMAZING chandeliers but he's pretty sure they're haunted and I don't know if I want ghosts in the Raccoon Room? That isn't really the atmosphere I'm going for.

[avatar_state]

Sure!

Though maybe in future Mako should avoid a "possibly haunted" discount? :P

[royalfling]

...I don't know if he got a discount.

I hope he got a discount! We only have so many rocks!

[avatar_state]

[Humor. One day, Korra might actually master it. Maybe. In the distant future.]

I'm on my way. How's the work going, by the way? Need a hand? I'm not great at figuring out decorating, but I know how to use a hammer.

[royalfling]

[ You know, it's hard over text. And Wu actually thinks about money, now! ]

It's going good!!! It's a really old building, I think every building here is suuuuper old, but it's looking really good. There are some walls that Raleigh said need some work, I bet he'd love some help on them!!

Thank you Korra!!!!!

[avatar_state]

It sounds like it's working out. I'd be happy to lend a hand.

Um. Where is it, exactly?

[royalfling]

Thanks, Korra!! Your spirit sleuthing will be much appreciated!!!

In Cellar Door, the third left, and its the townhouse with the green door.

[avatar_state]

Gotcha! On the way!

text; late october

[entreats]

You have been invited for Ruby Rose's birthday party!

The party will be held at the house Ruby lives in over in the Gaze district. [ There's an address included, or just general directions, along with the time the party starts. ] Feel free to dress up or not - you know Ruby won't mind either way. You're also free to bring a present if you want to. If you want to bring one, but you're having trouble thinking of what to get her, you can ask me, I guess.

.. Or Oscar. Actually, ask Oscar.

[ Please don't make her talk to people. ]

Let's do our best to make it fun for Ruby. She's had a really crappy time around this time last year, and I know she would love to be surrounded by her friends.

( ooc: the log for the party can be found over here! )

un: trienemybest; text

[droptheious]

So hey. Do you remember me joking that if I ever suddenly got ice powers, you'd be the first person I came to about them?

Ha ha, guess what.

Re: un: trienemybest; text

[avatar_state]

You're kidding! When did this happen?

[droptheious]

I wish, but noooope.

It happened yesterday. I woke up and something weird had happened to Fern- it freaked me out enough that I froze our bed.

[avatar_state]

Oh, wow, ok. Do you need me to come over there?

[droptheious]

I'd appreciate it if you could.

...

Just to warn you I'm looking a little...weird. I'm having some problems but I'm trying to get control over it.

[He has no control over it at all.]

[avatar_state]

Varian, I guarantee you that I've seen worse.

I'll be there soon, text me the address.

[droptheious]

I don't know. I'm looking pretty weird.

But thank you, it's in Cassandra, got a Lamp on the front lawn.

[He'll tack on an address though! ]

[avatar_state]

Trust me, I've seen weirder. I'll be right over.

[droptheious]

I'm gonna hold you to that statement, Korra.

Thanks again. See you soon.

[avatar_state]

[Her movements are pretty quick. She at least knows where Varian is, and Naga is a great way to get there - she could use the lantern, but...well. Her level of trust for anything here that isn't a person she knows is at such a low level that she'd be apt to look both ways at a roundabout.]

[But she arrives quickly enough, dismounting and giving Naga a rub.]

Good girl.

[droptheious]

[Varian steps outside as he hears Korra arrive. As promised, he definitely doesn't look great. His skin has been replaced with a strange rock all over, his hands clawed, his teeth sharp. He's teetering on the edge of... something.

Despite this, he raises a hand to greet her, offering a tired smile. ]

Uh...hey. Thanks for coming.

[avatar_state]

[She rears back a bit when she sees that, in surprise.]

Woah. That's...that's not water bending.

[Which is what she'd hoped it was.]

Ok, tell me everything...

[droptheious]

[He winces a little, he knows he doesn't look...great and he doubts it's gonna get any easier watching people react to him. ]

It's not, this is...unrelated. It's corruption, I think.

[Which is a whole other mess. He starts inside, waving Korra to come inside.]

I um...something weird happened to Fern and it spooked me a whole lot. I kinda froze the bed? Like it just...shot out of my hand like a sheet of ice?

[avatar_state]

[Korra, who has been avoiding fighting and bloodshed, hasn't really encountered corruption much. She frowns.]

But it's...ice? I can...

[Help with that, if it's ice, but he's already moving and she's following. She's so behind the times, and it upsets her. She knows who Fern is - namely, someone she remembers not liking her much - but...]

Are they ok? Do they need healing?

[droptheious]

Oh yeah, he's...fine. It was some weird... virus thing, I don't know. He's better now. Himself again.

[He wouldn't be surprised if Fern got under anyone's skin- he tends to be volatile at the best of times. Which is why the change had startled him enough he somehow got his ice powers out of his system. He sounds so goddamn exhausted- fraying at the edges. That was an entire mess and he doesn't even know where to start figuring out his feelings for that mess. So he's focusing on something he can work through- namely the whole ice thing. ]

A-anyway, yeah. Ice powers now.

[He leads her through the kitchen down into his basement lab- a pretty creepy place, but it's one of the few places in the house he's afforded any privacy. He's cleared one of his desks, hesitating for a moment.]

I'm uh...not good at controlling it at all yet, so sorry if I accidentally freeze you or...anything.

[She's pretty damn tough, he's sure she can handle it- but still. ]

[avatar_state]

[She's honestly not sure where to start with all this.]

Don't worry about it - if it's made out of water, I can bend it. And I mean all of it.

[Because she has ideas about that corruption, really. But it has to be up to him what she tries and how.]