Season Finale

[travelagency]

Who: Anyone who wants to be involved
What: The official pre-reboot/season end post
When: The spawner activation
Where: At the resort
Notes & Warnings: If anyone wants to play out any rescue scenarios involving the skeleton archers, there's a thread available for that/accounting for what happened as well. Violence as a general warning and whatever other warnings are mentioned.

EDIT: It can be noted that, once exposed to sunlight, the skeleton archers start to deteriorate. This can be discovered in the course of the threads.


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[what_ho_jeeves]

Bertie's eyes widen in fright at the idea of confronted Aunt Agatha.

"Aunt Agatha is very set on her ideas. She is firm in the belief that she possesses a monopoly on sense, and no others may produce it for consumption. Thus, no amount of argument will convince her, unless there were some significant and unavoidable threat to her monopoly. Say, a letter from the Prime Minister might convince her, if he wrote to her with a 'What ho, Aunt Agatha.' --not that the Prime Minister would call her Aunt Agatha. She's not his aunt, a fact for which he is probably most grateful. 'What ho, Lady Worpleston. Lay off the nagging of your nephew Bertie. He's a good chap, a preux chevalier, and does not require a wife at this point in time. Sincerely, the Prime Minister.' That and that alone might convince her, but ought else would."

[folkscallmewander]

That's a very long-winded and complex description for Wander to keep track of what Bertie was trying to get across. But he gets the gist of it.

"But if you and all your cousins stand up to her, that'd work to, right?" Very rarely, in his experience, can one lone person stand up to a powerful one. It takes a whole group to do so, often encouraged by the first. "If she's like this to everyone, surely they'd listen to you!"

[what_ho_jeeves]

"Claude and Eustace never heed my excellent advice. And they've been shipped off to South Africa. That was another of Aunt Agatha's ideas. And cousin Thos is Aunt Agatha's son. She dotes on the boy, thinks the little menace can do no wrong, so he has no cause to rise up and fight the oppression."

[folkscallmewander]

That's worse than he imagined. His first instinct is to tell Bertie to leave his home for a place far away from Agatha and travel the world with Jeeves, but he reminds himself that running away from your problems isn't always the best solution.

But without anyone to support him, how can Bertie's family rise up against the terror that is their Aunt?

"Didja ever think of visitin' your cousins? Maybe they like livin' there!"

[what_ho_jeeves]

"In South Africa? I shouldn't think so. They are required to work there."

Not that South Africa, the nation, makes them work, but they were shipped off there to learn Responsibility and Discipline by taking employment in another family members' business there.

It all sounds dreadful to Bertie.

[folkscallmewander]

"Nothin' wrong with doin' a lil bit of work!" He's sure that all they have to do is help out at a shop like he does here. Besides, he's pretty sure they aren't forced to do manual labor for nothing.

"Um, sorry, but what kinda work are your cousins doin' there?"

[what_ho_jeeves]

"I really don't know. Probably banking. It's always banking these days, it seems."

[folkscallmewander]

"Banking, huh?" Honestly, that sounds kind of boring to Wander.

"That doesn't sound too bad! Besides, at least you'll be with your cousins, so that's a plus."

[what_ho_jeeves]

Bertie's mouth turns down in a wince.

"Not when your cousins are Claude and Eustace. They aren't bad-hearted chaps, but they're the sort of fellows who draw in trouble and chaos in their wake and then dump it all on some other poor fellow--often me--and then flutter away without a care."

[folkscallmewander]

"Ah..." What's the right thing to say here? Both options, staying where he is now and going to South Africa, will make Bertie unhappy.

"Well, uh," he scratches his head, "maybe you can go somewhere else! You don't even have to live there forever, just travelin' for a while's gonna make you feel better. It works for him, so why not for other people?

[what_ho_jeeves]

Bertie nods idly at the suggestion. It's not the first time he's heard similar.

"Jeeves would approve of that idea. There is a Viking strain in his blood, you see. Never a day goes by but that he thrusts travel pamphlets at the young master and espouses the mental, physical, and spiritual benefits of seeing the world.

"Well, who am I to dismiss the opinion of such wise eggs as you and Jeeves? Perhaps it is worth a try."

[folkscallmewander]

"Yeah! You'll see, travelin's one of the greatest things to ever been invented! I'm sure Jeeves is thinkin' of your best interests when he wants you to go out."

And considering how close he and Bertie apparently are, any vacation is going to be three times, no, ten times as fun.

"You can do a bit of visitin' other places near you while you're home, right?"