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_{[ Jake turns off his communicator and sits there in a bit of thought, absolutely rattled with nerves. This is the first time— for him— to meet Roxy. He's done so well so far with meeting every one else so far, so what's the big deal with meeting Roxy? It shouldn't be difficult.

The walk to her rover seems longer than it actually is even if she's just a few rovers away. He bundles himself up and leaves his rover, taking deep breaths in the mean time.

When he arrives to the rover, he stands by it, then raps his knuckles on the side of it. He's not really knocking at the door; he's knocking on the rover and looking upward. ]}

Um!
Roxy? It's me, Jake!

_{[ looks like he's got some kind of beard beginning to form on his face too. He's one of those guys that didn't get a razor from the shopping channel. ]}

Jaaaaaaaake!

[She hops down and wraps her arms around him, grinning.]

Hey, buddy!

[Pause. Peer.]

You need a shave, dude.

_{[ hskjdh goodness roxy that is quite the hug.
Jake instantly stiffens up and freezes, but his arms eventually find their way around her. Awkward. ]}

Well, hot diggity, that's a greeting if I ever saw one.

_{[ oh.. right.. ]}

Erg. Sorry. I've been slacking off on that a bit.

Yeah, well, considering the shit that was going down when I saw you last...

[She looks away, then back.]

We should probably get you up to speed, actually. What's the last thing you remember?

Phew. Thank friggen' goodness. Dirk is being a big of a prick and not giving out much detail, I fret.

_{[ A big sigh of exasperation, then Jake thinks. ]}

There was this tragic red death about us and..

_{[ a beat. He looks a bit pained. ]}

Something awful happened to Jane! I was rescued, but.. I remember soaring through the air.. and hitting my noggin.

Fuck, that was before we got in the game. Shit. Okay, so Dirk had this really convoluted plan which basically involved you making out with his decapitated head to resurrect his dreamself? And then after, we were all in the game, and it was pretty much the best. I quit drinking right after, and you and Dirk started dating, only it wasn't really going that well? You used to keep venting to Jane, and she got really pissed off about it.

Then some really fucked up shit happened, I have no idea what, but we got turned into these bright candy-clothed motherfuckers called tricksters and we were super happy all the time and planned to get like quadruple married or some shit, it was really dumb, and then we woke up on our quest beds hella hung over.

Then we all got blown up and became God Tier, and also the kids from the previous session showed up. But Condy mind-controlled Jane and your grandma and kidnapped me and you, and zapped Dirk to fuckoff nowhere. We got put in Derse jail, but then this one spidertroll came back to life with a magic ring? And she fucked with your brain and your hope powers went way out of control, like, you were glowing white and shouting British things really loudly.

Anyway, Aranea put me the fuck to sleep right after, and then some troll douchebag in the bubbles got me to come here.

_{[ that's... a lot to take in.
Jake kind of listens at first, nodding, trying to piece everything together— convoluted plan... decapitated..head.. okay?? quit drinking.. started dating Dirk.. fucked up shit and—
wait.

waaaait. ]}

Dirk and I? Uhm....
Are you quite sure that happened?

_{[ jake... ]}

Abso-fuckin'-lutely, dude, it was an enormously big deal and one way or another, none of us ever fucking forgot it was a thing.

_{[ His cheeks tint lightly. Mind you, he was still in Dirk-senpai timeline where he was nervous to even bother the guy for requests, let alone romantically advance on him.

Everything else instantly becomes irrelevant. For now. ]}

Did.. he ask me out? And I said yes?
Was it romantic at all? Or.. was everything really disastrous?

I—actually, I dunno. I'm not too clear on the details.

But like, you vented to Jane a lot, which ended up being really awkward because she was tryna ask you out too, except Dirk got there first, and like, pretty much every time you brought it up she felt like you were throwing it in her face.

Our game session was a real goddamn disaster.

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