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eyes closed, head first, can't lose ([personal profile] skysteal) wrote2020-12-05 05:43 pm

[ open rp post ]



open post for ffxiv rp shenans. wol/non-wol flexible, 5.4 compliant!
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[personal profile] patisseruin 2020-12-06 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she's.. really not cut out for this, is she?

it was in a fit of uncharacteristic impulsiveness that lucienne took on the request to clear out a recently unearthed temple in the heart of dry, dusty thanalan. well, maybe it wasn't so uncharacteristic. not anymore. all her life luci has tried to be.. good, to be calm, and rational, and obedient, a good daughter, because her familial experience sure is a whirlwind - someone has to be the level-headed one, right? every one of her siblings is a handful in one way or another, and she had never wanted to rock the boat any further. she had never wanted to cause trouble, or inconvenience her already busy parents, or risk speaking up and saying something stupid and feeling foolish about it after the fact.

but now.. lately..

lately she's begun to change, and she doesn't entirely know why, nor does she particularly like it. her temper feels like it's growing shorter by the day, things that once did not bother her now find their way under her skin. well.. maybe those things always did bother her. maybe she was just too much of a coward to give voice to it, or even acknowledge it to herself. regardless, something is changing, and that's a little scary. a few years ago she never would have accepted a job like this, she never would have thought that she could be capable of adventuring, no matter how it runs in her blood. just because her parents are, and her siblings seem to be eagerly following in their footsteps, doesn't mean she has it in her too, right? that isn't how it works. she's just the odd duck in her family, and she thought she had been content with that.

but clearly she isn't. now she's here, staring down the ruins of an ancient temple that looks completely unsafe, and she barely survived the trip to the doors unscathed, past the golems guarding the area without. what hope does she have of making it through the temple itself? lucienne stands stiffly, dressed for the occasion, both hands clutching her grimoire to her chest, while selene flutters about her head, tugging playfully at her dark hair, trying to distract her, loosen her up, but it isn't working. her heart is thumping in her throat while she waits. she's supposed to be waiting on someone, but.. what if they don't show?

maybe that would be for the best. ]
Edited 2020-12-07 05:34 (UTC)
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[personal profile] patisseruin 2020-12-13 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ she sure did keep her waiting long!! long enough that lucienne was beginning to worry that just maybe she was at the wrong place.. thanalan must be chock full of old ruins, right?? maybe she was mistaken, maybe she read the note wrong, maybe she should just.. go home.

she is beginning to think that she should perhaps do just that when someone arrives, a miqo'te trotting up the path toward her, past the slain golems. thanks for your help with that, peony!! just kidding, luci doesn't seem angry at all that her partner is late, though she's definitely almost a little.. disappointed that she even showed up at all. now they have to go into that place. ugh. what was she thinking? one moment of rebellious pride was all it took to land herself here. ]


Oh, um.. Luci is fine..

[ it's not as if she's not accustomed to people having trouble with her name. she looks to peony's hand for a moment, before extending her own in an awkward handshake. she doesn't really know how to give a handshake. ]

And you're.. um?

[ had they given her a name?? ]
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[personal profile] patisseruin 2021-01-15 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ .. everyone else does?? what a weird way to give your name. but peony.. that sounds like a nice name. and it sounds a little familiar. maybe she's come through the bakery? but maybe that was another peony.. a lot of faces come through on any given day, or week, or month, many people in revenant's toll are only passing through. ]

S-so it would seem..

[ she hadn't really been thinking about it like that!! but uh, she sure is the one keeping them alive in there. don't let them die, luci, no pressure. her grasp on her tome tightens, and she glances up toward the crumbling gates. ]

.. shall we?

[ better to get it over with.. right? ]
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[personal profile] patisseruin 2021-01-20 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh my GOD she's one of those tanks who just sprints right at the beginning without waiting for their shield!! lucienne gasps in surprise, frozen still for a moment, before - ]

W-wait!

[ and she's quick to dash off after her a few moments later, quickly opening her tome in her hands, while selene flutters behind her, trying to keep pace with them both. ]

Be careful!
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[personal profile] patisseruin 2021-02-01 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ GOD, THE WORST TANKS!! peony is gonna have to LEARN.

thankfully, lucienne's instincts are sharp and her reflexes are even sharper; the moment she hears that telltale whish of flying darts, the spell is out of her hands before she even thinks to cast it - tendrils of golden aether lash forth like a whip, curling around peony's body and yanking her forcefully back, all the way to luci's side.

she sure did use rescue on her 5 seconds into the dungeon!! luci does her best not to look entirely, deathly panicked, but mostly fails. ]


Of that! Hidden traps aside, these walls are crumbling - one misstep and you'll fall through the floor, or the ceiling will crash down onto your head!

[ ANYTHING COULD HAPPEN, PEONY!! with a frown, lucienne cracks open her grimoire. its worn pages are littered with notes and scrawlings, and many, many drawings, drawings of geometric shapes and grids of all shape and form. aether gathers around the tips of her fingers, pulling the image from the page, and in a glittering burst it leaps toward peony, reforming into a shining, aetheric shield around her body. neat. ]
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[personal profile] patisseruin 2021-02-18 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ oh no she doesn't!! lucienne has enough siblings to know exactly what will happen the moment peony is able to run - she will run again, and so luci is PREPARED. with the reflexes of a soccer mom she snags the back of peony's collar, hopefully clotheslining her a little in the process. ]

Oh no you don't!

[ SPRINT ISN'T A COOLDOWN, PEONY!! luci snaps her tome shut with her free hand and tucks it beneath her arm, before carefully.. releasing peony's collar and beginning to move. ]

Let's keep it to.. a brisk jog.

[ that's a fair compromise to the snail like crawl she would prefer, OKAY!! ]
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[personal profile] patisseruin 2021-03-24 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
Did you.. did you just shoot fire out of that gun?

[ she's never seen her dad do that.. but also he's kind of protective, and does not often allow her to get into combat, even if her mother does not necessarily agree.

anyway, bats and a bee.. that can't be too bad, right?? they're not even that big.. but peony sure does just engage them immediately! lucienne gasps and draws back for a moment, but they're in the shit now, so she has to do what she has to do. at least she isn't sprinting out of sight anymore, because rescue has a cooldown. ]


Bee careful..!

[ thanks for that great joke, dad!! lucienne is quick to snap her tome open again, drawing forth the geometric patterns on the pages and releasing them, applying biolysis to the bats and bee alike, before conjuring a swift physick onto peony, whom the critters are scratching and biting at. they don't yet seem to have noticed lucienne.. which she's fine with, thanks. ]