This might absolutely change if someone comes to me with a cool thread idea because I am easy to convince.

But left to my own devices, she's getting to stay home.

She'll be at the festival for the first few days, but the level of gratitude being expressed to her for something she had barely heard about makes her feel weird and decides to stay home after a bit.

We have festivals at home.

She'll also try to find a way to help at the aftermath, but I dunno if I'll be top levelling in this log since it would be leaving out the Big Thing.

There's a related TDM coming tomorrow, so maybe topleveling would be better there?

(She was going to be using her knowledge of Abjuration/barriers to help people maintain some kind of safehouse to drag Dorchacht citizens to, but this turned out to be Very Intense.)

Yeah, that's the other reason I don't think I'm going to top level, as I want to at least see if the TDM has cool stuff on it.

Don't worry, Hubert, this time you won't have to protect a small child and limp home with her! She'll just be probably reading in her house and maybe looking vaguely in Dorchacht direction to see if any of the fireworks are visible this far away (I doubt it).

yeah the tdm is supposed to have the dreamwalking element to it

so you can always throw her into that

She'll absolutely be working on the dreamwalking thing!

that will be dangerous, but hopefully involve less murdering sleeping people

Especially since she is not going to be helping with the "search the Wilde for the big bad" part of the aftermath, haha, so she will feel a little useless.

hmmmmm

THAT'S THE HOPE I might come back here tomorrow and go "okay Leslie is just going to be looking after sleeping peoplein the real world" if it goes too Trauma Style.

would giving Leslie a project to do help with her feeling useless or nah? 🤔

Very likely!

because maybe it's time baby girl learns to summon her own sphinx kitten

Ooooh.

She might not be inclined to take the time to do so when there is still stuff to do at in cleanup of the aftermath, but I expect that there will quickly run out of jobs for small child and then she could use the distraction.

yeah, I think ozy would only offer it after

basically once she starts to seem frustrated or limited

That's great and I love the idea.

learn to summon the small and once she gets v good at that, summoning some of the sphinxes for the cafe can be one of her new responsibilities!

and once she gets good at that, can teach her to summon one of the big guys or gals

family secrets tho. don't tell anybody, Leslie

She will take the secret to her grave.

a good baby

good girl

And I'm being good to her in return (mainly because she did get chased by Nuckelavee and thus I will give her a break less than a month later than that).

aww that's a good break for Leslie

this sweet girl

Yeah, I was a bit mean to her last month, haha.

The mods got back to me and on one hand, Leslie could avoid a lot of the danger with the plans I initially had for her since the villainous gang are going for soft targets, but on the other hand, EVERYONE DIES INCLUDING THE KIDS so Leslie's going to just not be around for the last two days of the festival.

She'll be a little upset that she wasn't able to help, but she'd be much more traumatized by the other way around.

WE HEARD YOU PEOPLE WHO DID THE APPLE QUEST LIKED NIGHTMARES SO WE PUT NIGHTMARES IN YOUR NIGHTMARES SO YOU CAN NIGHTMARE WHILE YOU NIGHTMARE.

Leslie wants to help, but with all the warnings of HEY THIS IS DANGEROUS, she'll talk to some people about whether this is a good or bad idea for her to participate in. But even if she decides to leave it to other people, she's absolutely waking up in here anyway.

She wants to try to communicate with the presence, because the lack of attacking makes her wonder if the figure really is doing anything bad. I'm told this will mean a bad time but she's going to try it anyway.

At least in dreams you get to max witch powers so she can get out.

We'll see if I top level.

Her attempts to communicate mean that she's probably going to be massively unsuccessful in getting any dream crystals herself, but she'll try to help other people with their efforts.

I still want things with you sobs

ONE DAY OUR STARS WILL ALIGN AND I WON'T DISAPPEAR I've been doing pretty well this month so I think our next attempt will probably go better.

i too have not been around orz

We'll make it. One day.

...child stop traumatizing yourself

it's fine

can't stop, won't stop (would like to stop)

Hubert would be one of the people she'd ask an opinion on whether it would be reasonable for her to help in this task that has so many "We Don't Know How Dangerous It Will Be" qualifiers.

This one might get a "Have you asked your mother Lady Edelgard"

Edelgard is going to be the first one asked, so I'll have to message Ax at some point.

Also don't look now, Hubert, but you just did a very dad thing.

hey leslie why does aefenglom let you have 5+ parents?

I........hm

I don't think Edelgard would expressly forbid it if Leslie was set on it

but I think she would hem and haw over it, because she's a child

I think that if this happened without the whole incident with the Nuckelavee attack, she would have been set on it.

But with how recent that was, she would be more unsure, even though she'd feel guilty to not help.

Yeah. If she felt uncertain, Edie would definitely say "hey...it's okay to not. There are a lot of experienced volunteers, and you're still recovering."

That makes sense.

Especially after everything that happened at Dorchacht what with the pro-Morgana sorts not distinguishing between adults and children when killing sleeping people.

yeah

And Edelgard coming back covered in blood

YEAH THAT'S A THING.

Or at least it will be once I get back to tags tomorrow (I discovered something that I needed to get done today).

She'll feel bad about it, and worry about any of her friends who are going...and then wind up there anyway because I don't think she's missed a dream since her first one pre-arrival.