[backdated March 4] Sup Ya'll? (Closed to Vox Machina & Co)

[st_illsinging]

The day after talking to Pike, Scanlan decided it was probably time to actually talk to everyone else. He had mixed feelings considering he knew a whole bunch more than literally everyone else. And also some of them were going to be pissed at him. Again.

Several days of rest had done the Gnome good and he moved to sit down in the lobby. A public place was probably good in case there was a huge fight, right? Settling down on one of the couches, Scanlan spoke into his earring.

Hey, so, you all probably heard I'm here already, but here's my official hello and I'm in the lobby if you want to say hi.

Then he picked up his lute and started playing a little, but he was mostly tuning and fixing - it was as if being in a big battle against a god could damage your instruments or something.

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[st_abby]

Vax had decided to let the gnome do this in his own way and time. He knew Vex was still pissed, and from the sound of it, so was Pike. Percy hadn't said much of anything about Scanlan, but that might be well-mannered condemnation too. He didn't know what to think if anything so far as Kashaw and the tieflings went.

For what it was worth, he wasn't angry. He was grateful really, for how Scanlan had leapt in without hesitation to help him with Stephanie, without digging his heels in and demanding explanations. But he was also confused and half-informed compared to the others. What he really wanted was to get all of their shit out in the open, so they could make sense of it and hopefully, maybe, they'd then have Scanlan back in with their merry band of fuck-ups here the way he always had been, to Vax'ildan's memory.

"If you're taking requests," Vax had dressed for the occasion, in familiar black armor and cloak. "They've a ballad here called 'Free Bird' - don't suppose you've heard of it?"

[st_ubby]

Vex had been in the boutique when Scanlan's voice came over the earrings. She didn't answer, going quiet while she tried to decide if she was going to see him or if she should check in on Percy first. She'd told Percy in her first days here, of course she had, how Scanlan had left them, but he'd really gotten angry at Winter's Crest, when he saw firsthand how badly Scanlan had hurt Pike.

Better to see when Scanlan was from, first. Since it had been different for each of them, and those who'd arrived after Vex all seemed to be from much later. It wasn't easy blending in, when all around was a riot of pinks and reds and oversized florals, but Vex was very very good at being stealthy, and frankly, Scanlan deserved to be snuck up on. She might as well have suddenly appeared beside the couch where he sat, dressed not in the armor she'd been wearing the last time she saw him, but more modern jeans and a grey pullover she'd found comfortable, flattering, and practical if she ever did need to fight. Her arms were crossed, and she had a dangerously amused glint in her usually warm dark eyes.

"Scanlan," she began, sounding a little like Gilmore, or Scanlan himself when he wanted something from someone who wouldn't want to give it. "Let's start with you explaining why I should try to convince Percy not to shoot you in the knee."

[st_ockandbarrel]

Percy heard the call over the earring and deliberately ignored it in favor of finalizing a blueprint for an attachment to his independently mobile device liberated from the space station. He had had a long time to consider his response to Scanlan's actions, and somewhat less time to re-examine his feelings following the bard's appearance here.

They had not appreciably changed.

Finally, an hour or more later, he hadn't been keeping track, Percy put on his coat and holstered Animus, then walked down to the lobby. Inside, he spotted Scanlan immediately. He walked over and with barely a pause said, "Come with me."

Lillith & Scanlan

[st_rangepalette]

During one of their afternoon teatimes, Pike had told Lillith about her issues with Scanlan. So when Scanlan arrived, Lillith was not certain how to feel. He had been one of those who saved her, but his words to Pike had been despicable.

She still hadn't decided when she ran into him in the lobby. "Scanlan," she said tightly, her arms crossed over her chest.