Just Guys Bein' Dudes

**Just Guys Bein' Dudes** is the ninth session in Season One of Wacky Ribbons.

***Outside the cave***

-Chenille is outside in the rain, everyone else is inside, Acacia, Ruby, Trongy, and Relovan are the only other people awake everyone else is already asleep

-Acacia goes outside and casts cure wounds on Chenille

-Acacia and Chenille rain conversation

-Acacia: Being alone, especially in the rain, is never fun

Chenille: I don’t really feel like I’ll be any less alone of I’m sitting inside.

-Chenille says she doesn’t understand why stealing the diary makes her the “bad guy” and Acacia responds that she doesn’t think like that, that Chenille’s just curious like a fox. Chenille says that isn’t the first time someone’s drawn that comparison.

-Acacia: You say that like being a fox is a bad thing.

Chenille: It depends on who you ask.

-Acacia: You’re like a fox but you only have the good traits of one, not the bad ways.

Chenille: Just because you haven’t seen my bad ways doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

-Chenille says she doesn’t trust Acacia’s judgement because she’s been generous and kind to Trongy (though she doesn’t say her name). Acacia laughs and says she understands it probably seems naive to someone so guarded.

-Acacia: You remind me a lot of a chestnut.

Chenille: I’m going to be real with you, Peach, I have no idea what a chestnut is. I’d never been in the woods before this week.

-Acacia explains the basic concept of chestnuts, how they sit in a nest of thistles but the inside is wonderful. Chenille snorts at her. I apologize on her behalf.

-Ruby comes outside, pees, and then noticed Acacia and Chenille and says “Ladies~ how’s your night?” (I love him)

-Everyone hears Relovan laugh and Chenille says “Well as least someone’s in a good mood.” Ruby comments that well, its Relovan, have they ever been in a bad mood? Chenille says she thinks it more complicated than that

-Chenille: I think I know the most about their relationship out of everyone here except for them and I still don’t understand it.

Ruby: Well I think they’re friends. They are an odd pair, though.

Chenille: They just don’t make sense together, because Relovan is... nice. And Trongy has this way about her that’s... almost impossible to describe but if I had to phrase it out loud I think it would be... “cold hearted bitch with no penchant for selfless acts once so ever.”

-Acacia said she had a friend once who said the same thing about Acacia and someone else

-Ruby wonders what side of Trongy Relovan sees because he clearly sees something in her that she doesn’t show to us

-Chenille shares what she found out about the contract (that we take the damage if we try and harm Trongy or Relovan)

-Relovan comes out and sees if everyone’s okay and sees Chenille lookin ROUGH

-Relovan offers to heal Chenille and she says she doesn’t want to ask that of them, implying she knows something about a consequence. They shrug it off and do it anyway.

-Chenille places a hand on their shoulder (nice! For! Once!) and goes back inside. She doesn’t say thanks. She’s rude I got nothin to tell ya

***Inside the cave***

-Chenille offers to tell Relovan’s fortune, she gets 20 performance so it’s flashy as shit. 4 of clubs: Mental Stability that may lead you to go on a great adventure. Chenille asks if they feel mentally stable for their big journey, Relovan says that’s a loaded question and asks to pass. 4 of spades: Stability will soon return to your workplace. Relovan says their house is sort of like an office. King of Clubs: A man of integrity whose a generous and loyal friend. Chenille says she thinks the card is perfect. Relovan says it must be about Song and Chenille clarifies she meant Relovan. They blush and say thanks like they don’t get a lot of compliments.

-Trongy opens her eyes just to glare at Chenille. She sarcastically asks if Trongy wants her to read her fortune too and Trongy says fuck no. Trongy says it’s all bullshit and Chenille shrugs her off.

-Chenille: You know I don’t believe in them just because I read them

Trongy: You don’t even believe in the shit you’re selling? That’s a little pathetic.

Chenille: Of course not. But you can learn the most about a person depending on what they get out if a reading, and how they react to it.

Trongy: It’s a load of shit regardless.

Chenille: Whatever you say.

-Acacia goes outside and strips and throws her clothes back in the cave, Relovan gets really nervous

-Relovan suggests they pull out First (Uno)

-Relovan: Oh I’ve played it at her house before! We should definitely play.

Chenille: I’m sorry when were you just at her house?

Relovan: We’re friends!

Chenille: When the hell did you tell us that?! We’ve seen her a thousand times and I don’t think you’ve ever spoken to her!

Relovan: Well you know—it’s almost like there’s a higher force out there who can’t handle that many threads of conversation at once—

-Chenille, pointedly at Trongy: Are ALL of us playing?

Ruby: She’s talking about *me*.

-Alex struggles to find uno online

-Ruby: We could do group meditation.

Chenille: Ruby I swear to god if you suggest breathing, meditation, or the rejuvenating properties of yoga to me you will wake up without hands.

Ruby: I don’t do yoga.

Chenille: I don’t care.

Ruby: Well maybe if we focus and try to calm down a little bit this whole process will be—

Chenille: I am PERFECTLY fucking calm!

Everyone snickers at Chenille

-Chenille tells Ruby to mind his business, Trongy rightfully shares her about not practicing what she preaches

***Uno Time***

-Acacia comes back in and she’s got her shirt draped around her neck and undies on but THATS IT

-She went out to take a shower and everyone talks about how they don’t know the last time they bathed, Chenille is disgusted by all of them

-All of us realize we don’t remember how to play uno so Alex in character explains the rules of Uno to the party as Relovan

-Relovan: What’s a website?

Acacia: Oh, I know that! It’s when a bunch of spiders get together and have a soirée.

-Chenille takes too long and Trongy drags her so she puts down a free card and glares at her.

-Everyone either skips or gives Chenille draw 4 and draw 2 cards for like 7 turns

-Trongy offers to form an alliance with Acacia and she slides her cards to her, Chenille calls them out for cahooting and Ruby agrees. Alliance cancelled.

-Acacia is naked sandwiched between Trongy and Chenille playing Uno.

-Relovan screws over Chenille and Trongy laughs. Fuck you.

-Relovan: Friendly bonding!

Chenille: well I’m not feeling very friendly feelings towards you right now

Relovan: It’s just cards! I thought you liked cards

Chenille: I like winning

Ruby: Don’t you never really feel any friendly feelings towards anyone?

-Acacia screws over Trongy and Trongy pretends to be betrayed and Acacia looks heartbroken

-Trongy screws over Acacia and very seriously tells Acacia she hopes she’ll rethinks how she acts, makes acacia cry

-Trongy lays down her card and says “Hey guess what. First.” And wins uno.

-Trongy, to Chenille: Guess you’re not very good at winning either, huh?

Chenille: Fuck you

Trongy: it’s just a card game ;^)

Chenille: It’s a game of CHANCE

Trongy: Guess it’s just not your lucky day

Chenille: Not my lucky week, actually

-Ruby talks about their life before the contract. Apparently they were picked up at a very young age by gnomes at a monastery after losing their clan. They only left the monastery for the first time 5 months ago.

-Everyone asks if Chenille’s been to any parties before and she says that yeah, of course, it’s part of her job. Trongy under her breath says “job of being a huge bitch” in infernal. Acacia and Relovan look at her disapprovingly and Relovan in infernal says she should be nicer. Trongy shrugs and smiles. (Chenille: I know she said something mean and I don’t want to hear it and I won’t respond to it.) Acacia says Chenille’s very beautiful.

-Acacia asks Chenille if she’s ever been to a party as fancy as Trongy’s before and she says yes, but in different ways. Trongy’s was more fun based and Chenille’s used to thinking about parties as networking opportunities.

-Relovan says that shrimp is one of their favorite snacks and asks everyone if they’ve had surf and turf. Everyone says no. Acacia says she lived on a farm and the cows were too nice so she felt guilty.

-Chenille asks if there’s anywhere along the way to their surprise destination where she can get a replacement blouse.

-Acacia says the grizzled adventurer look is working out on Chenille. Acacia offers Chenille her shirt but she says maybe she should keep the few clothes she has on. Trongy says she’s cool with it and Chenille says while she’s enjoying the view, their company might be a little nervous

-Trongy in infernal leans over to Acacia: You can do whatever you want I’M not going to judge you (FUCKING SABOTAGE)

-Chenille takes the shirt reluctantly. Acacia is now naked, hair the only thing between tiddies and the air

-Chenille in sylvan tells Acacia she should ask Trongy what she bought from the merchant. Acacia asks if they should be worried and Chenille says she has no idea that’s why she should ask.

-She does and Trongy feeds her a bad pickup line instead and she’s too embarrassed to report back to Chenille.

-Chenille tries to figure out where they’re going and Relovan doesn’t spill the beans because Trongy persuades them not to. She pushes, but it doesn’t work, but Relovan assures all of them that that it’s fun and hints that there’s a lot of flowers. Acacia figures out where they’re going from the hint and tells Chenille in Sylvan where she thinks they’re going.

-Acacia asks Chenille how she knows sylvan and acacia says she’s trained in a lot of things in common. Trongy says in infernal: like being a huge bitch.

-Chenille: If you’re going to talk about me every time I finish a sentence you could at least do it in a language I understand.

Trongy(in infernal): no

Trongy (in elvish): If you’re gonna act like I was put on this earth just to annoy you I might as well get full use out of it.

Chenille (in elvish): I haven’t said or done anything since entering the cave to give you cause to be an asshole to me!

-Acacia scoots over and pulls something out of her bag that’s covered in thorns and tries to give it to Chenille. She explains it’s a chestnut. She says she told her she knew how to crack a chestnut

-Chenille: That was unbelievably cheesy

Relovan: You could say it was nutty

-Chenille complains about puns but accepts the chestnut. Not without rolling her eyes.

-Chenille asks if they’re going anywhere where they’ll be able to shower or bath. Relovan says yes and that it’s a public bath house scenario and then clams up realizing they’ll all be naked together and goes bright ass red.

-Acacia gets really close to Relovan and almost gives them a panic attack and Chenille goes over and pulls her back saying she’s horrifying them. Acacia starts crying. Chenille tried to put Acacia’s shirt back on her and failed an athletics check.

-Trongy throws an old blouse of hers at acacia

-Chenille tries to explain herself but. Badly. Then she apologizes. The second time of the campaign. Once per fireside chat.

-Relovan curls up to “sleep” (elves don’t sleep)

-Acacia says she thinks they’re going to the Feywilds and Trongy doesn’t respond. Chenille says she’s read about it and it could be fun. Acacia says there was a lot of talk about it where she used to live and that it’s part of why she set out on adventures to begin with, Trongy just says “you’ll see”

-Acacia pulls out a journal and says that when she first set out she didn’t bing much with her but she just walked and walked until she came upon a flower and it was her dream come true. She kept a natural record of her findings

-A man named Reginald who she called Reggie came back to the village and told them all about the natural wonders he’d seen and it inspired Acacia to set out on her own

-Ruby says the gnomes found him when he was in a bad place and took him in. Acacia says she had someone very much like that in her life too. Chenille sighs.

-Acacia asks Chenille if she has a dream and she says no. Acacia says that’s really sad and that she’ll help her find a dream on the way. Chenille gets uncomfortable and prickly and says she doesn’t think they’ll have the time. Acacia says there’s always time for that. Chenille laughs.

-Acacia lays a hand on hers and asks why she seems so lonely. Fffffffff Alex starts singing lonely road

-Flowers are growing along to wall that Acacia made bloom and Trongy’s using them as a pillow

-Chenille: I’m not lonely. I have a job and I’m successful.

Trongy: snorts

-Acacia cites what she said outside about being lonely in the cave and Chenille tries to wave it off as being false because of emotional distress, but Ruby and Acacia and tell she’s lying

-Alex makes a joke about both hands being marked because of the tattoo hand and the ribbon hand

-Acacia tells Chenille that no matter what she cares about her and that hearing that she has no dreams makes her worried about her. She says that Chenille’s shown her kindness even if she doesn’t know it (LMAO WHEN BABE) and Chenille freezes up (Honey made herself cry, rp too strong, she gets inspiration for it)

-Chenille: You’re doing that thing again. You don’t know anything about me and you’re convinced you want to help me, but you don’t know that I need help and you don’t know what my situation is and you don’t know if you should be helping me.

Trongy: nods in agreement.

-Ruby puts his hand on top of Acacia’s that’s on top of Chenille’s and looks into her eyes and says “You need help.” Everyone loses their mind ooc and Trongy laughs ic

-Ruby: trust me. I’ve seen a lot in my life. You need the help.

Chenille: Maybe I’m just like this!

Ruby: Even if you’re just (air quotes)”like this” that doesn’t mean that you don’t need help, everybody deserves happiness

Chenille: I never said I wasn’t happy!

Ruby: I mean... (makes a face)

-Acacia turns to Trongy and Chenille and tells them they’re like budding flowers to her. They both cackle. Acacia glares at them

-Acacia: I see between both of you in a budding flower, no past, only future.

Trongy: I don’t really think ‘flower’s’ in the cards for me sweetheart

-Acacia: You know why I wear sunflowers? They’re always turning to the sun. A brighter future a better tomorrow.

Chenille: You are so... cheesy.

Ruby: This. This is why you need help

-Acacia keeps telling everyone she doesn’t care about their past and she believes in them. Chenille says it’s definitely not that simple.

-Trongy (in infernal): As much as you can try to change the future it still doesn’t change what you’ve done and who you are. And that’s fine.

-The hold eye contact for a long time.

-Trongy curls up to sleep next to Relovan, Acacia collects Typha and curls up with Song, Ruby finds a nice soft corner, Chenille sits by the entrance away from everyone and pulls out a book. She also goes and grabs acacia’s personal book from her bag and reads it after everyone’s asleep.