Congratulations, cuddlers! You've survived your first month here in Cadelle, and with only (cough) minimal catastrophe. The city administration is beyond grateful for all of your help in the rebuilding efforts, and cannot thank you enough for all your hard work.
Well, maybe that's not entirely fair. After bribing visitors to move out, meeting the seemingly endless caloric needs of hungry superheroes, and funding the reconstruction efforts, the city's coffers are starting to feel a little light... which leads us to today.
The festivities kick off with a time-honored Cadelle tradition: the skills fair! In keeping with local customs, Cadellians traditionally volunteer to host a booth and teach a skill of their choice for the day, a good deed that helps to refill the city's energy stores after the busy summer season. This year, the city has graciously agreed to let anyone interested sign up to host, and has set aside a small number of booths for the exclusive use of their newest visiting citizens... and while money isn't on the table (sorry, y'all, but they did say they were a little tight on the wallet), teaching out of the goodness of your heart still counts as a good deed done.
Whether you choose to host a booth and teach a skill of your own, or to wander the fair and learn something new, be sure to take time to appreciate the day's other offerings. Like any good late-summer fair, there's plenty of delicious food and drink from some of the city's best loved vendors to sample, upbeat music in the air to dance courtesy of the local top 40 radio station, and lots of opportunities to escape the heat thanks to special seminars hosted by the city's own university. Yes, seminars — there's one every hour, with topics ranging from underwater basket weaving to particle physics to the careful art of walking more than one dog on the same leash. Classes are free, seats are plentiful, and hey, what else do you really have to do? You don't have a job yet, do you?
Speaking of jobs... after the fun in the sun of the skills fair is over, it's time for the main event on day two: the job fair! Yes, that's right, a job fair, because it's time for all you freeloaders to start paying your own way.
That might be a little harsh.
In any case, Flora and Cornelius are glad to welcome to you to Cadelle's first annual Employment Extravaganza, complete with brightly colored booths, friendly vendor representatives, and plenty of applications to go around. Come say hi, shake some hands, and maybe even get hired on the spot!
In addition to the city's many and varied culinary venues, there are a wide variety of cultural institutions, learning centers, recreation spots, and shopping destinations to appease even the most restless of visitors. (Hint, hint: there's even a DIRECTORY.)
While the sky's the metaphorical limit, be sure to check out the sponsored booths currently hiring:
▸ Barred is currently hiring for dance instructors! From classic ballet to interpretative dance or hip-hop, any style is welcomed. Please note: all classes are fully-clothed. (If you prefer to dance in your birthday suit, we suggest a more personal arrangement.)
▸ Blue Springs Pool is looking for qualified lifeguards to supervise the annual 'Learn To Swim' and 'Mommy and Me' programs this fall. While being able to breathe underwater is preferred, it's not required.
▸ Chop Shop has an opening for an even-tempered (... or not) culinary instructor for their evening cooking classes. Exceptional candidates may even be considered for the chef's academy, where they will be tasked with training Cadelle's next great generation of professional chefs!
▸ Crunches is eagerly hoping to fill a variety of positions, from gym staff to personal trainers and fitness instructors. If you've got a passion for fitness and want to get paid to join a multi-level marketing company sweat, come on down!
In case meeting and greeting with desperate to hire vendors doesn't sound like a great time, or if you need a little practice with the concept of having conversations with real people, Flora and Cornelius have graciously agreed to host a speed networking event. Much like your beloved speed dating events, this special event is intended to help you quickly and easily meet a variety of hot singles in your area professional colleagues and friends, and to potentially find a new career if you're lucky! (Plus, it's air-conditioned. How can you go wrong?)
Be sure to visit the welcome table to sign in and pick up your name tag. You'll be pleased to note that the name tags have been prefilled for your convenience, so just find the one with your name on it and slap it on. Don't mind the descriptions underneath...
Or do. While the city administration had graciously agreed to loan an intern to Flora and Cornelius for this event, they didn't exactly send their best and brightest. Grumpy intern Monty Montague has decided to have a little fun with his boring assignment — instead of the requested polite descriptions, Monty's opted to fill in the blank with more... well, colorful phrases. Things like:
▸ Hello, my name is Inigo. I am a revenge-obsessed swordsman with daddy issues.
▸ Hello, my name is Marshall. I am what? who? chicka chicka Slim Shady.
▸ Hello, my name is Moana. I am MOAAANAAAAAAAA.
What will your name tag say? Do you agree to stay and wear it? While you may seek out blank nametags (or even just an extra marker to scribble out the offending message), you'll be sorely disappointed to find them all conveniently missing. Tearing it in two won't work, either — there's no penny-pinching on supplies here, and that thick plastic sticker won't rip for anything.
Oh, well. It could be worse, right? At least there's a snack bar, and everyone's suffering together... right?
Pull up a chair, find your next match, and try to avoid the enormous elephant in the room. Or don't. Whatever floats your boat, cuddlers!
In conjunction with this event, the mod team is glad to announce the launch of our official JOBS DIRECTORY! Should your character find honest employment at the jobs fair or even on their own, please be sure to let us know!
Helpful Hint: As a reminder, players are always welcome to suggest a location that may be missing from our directory, and characters are also welcome to open up their own venues with help from the city administration! For help with this, or to make a suggestion, please drop us a line at our GENERAL INBOX (or SCREENED INBOX, if you prefer).
As always, we're here for you, cuddlers, to make this game a success! We couldn't do it without you! |
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"The bus driver." He doesn't explain himself beyond that. Short of the night he was bitten, that's the biggest issue he's had to deal with as of late. Knowing that he was a threat to others, that he may have killed the driver-- It's his reason for being here.
"Look, whatever you're doing right now. Can you just stop? I get that we're not friends or anything, but you're just making this whole thing worse." Which, it's only after he's said it he realizes that maybe that's exactly what Derek wants. Maybe he's trying to claim this city as his and get rid of people like him. That's what werewolves do, right?
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At least, he thinks so, until Scott says that.
"Th—I'm sorry, the bus driver? As in, back when you were first turned and couldn't figure out if you were the one running around hurting people? That bus driver?" he asks, incredulous because...that was forever ago. "It wasn't you, by the way, if that's the case. I..."
That explains the hostility. Back then, Scott was still convinced Derek had turned him into a werewolf. Back then, Derek didn't know how to express how badly he wanted to be in a pack again without trying to bully Peter's unwilling beta into it with him. Back then...Derek was still raw with the pain of Laura's murder. Which Scott and Stiles got him arrested for.
Before they found out it was Peter. Before Derek was an Alpha. Before he found Cora. Before Lydia became a banshee. Before Liam. ...before Allison died. That'll be a pleasant conversation...
"Look...I know this is hard for you to believe. It would be for me, too, but I'm telling you...that was a long time ago for me. Years ago, Scott. I've left Beacon Hills twice since then. We've mended fences. We're friends. All of us."
Well. Not all. He never could say he was friends with the girls, really, although he gives points to Kira for trying. He and Lydia have saved one another's lives a couple of times, but they never really connected at all and Allison, however civilly things ended between the two of them before she died, was always going to be an Argent and he was always going to be a Hale. It was what it was. But he got on pretty well with Stiles and Scott. And Malia. He's not sure that counts...
"I'm not the one who turned you, Scott. I never would've done that. I never bit anyone who didn't give me permission and when you were turned, I wasn't even capable or turning a human," he says in a quieter voice, knowing Scott will be able to hear it and hoping no one else will. "You don't have to be my friend here, I don't...do what you want, but I'm not here to hurt you. I never did. I'm not going to. And I'm telling you the truth about the time travel thing; ask around. What reason would I have to lie? As a matter of fact, listen to my heartbeat. You know I'm not. You'd hear it change if I was. But it's steady."
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But in those few, brief meetings that he and Derek have had, he's had absolutely no reason to trust him. Not when he's the reason that his life has changed so much. Not when Derek Hale is the one who bit him. Who turned him in to the monster he is now.
Except--
"...okay, say I believed you. Who did it? Who bit me?" Who ruined his life?
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Derek has to make a conscious effort not to slide down that path while Scott is processing, because he doesn't want to regress back to that bitterness he'd held against Scott and Stiles; they've all outgrown it.
He lifts his eyebrows at the question, having nearly forgotten that Scott and Stiles had been convinced that Derek had been the one who turned him. The surprise shows on his face for a second before the memory pops back into the forefront of his mind and he frowns.
"Peter Hale," he says in a low voice. The frown deepens. "My uncle. My uncle who I would rather not discuss, if it's all the same to you, but I didn't bite you Scott. I turned people when I had the spark, but never, ever without their permission and never without letting them know the risks and rewards beforehand. Biting some innocent kid in the woods without asking, that's fucked up and I'm sorry that you're still in a place in your life where you're upset about that, but you? Scott, you're going to grow into it and you're going to be kind of amazing. You're going to be a great leader someday, when the time is right."
And however mad he is at Derek for thinking Derek turned him into a werewolf, eventually he'll be on the receiving end of that briefly when he bites Liam. Full circle. He'll understand all of it someday, but that day is not today and Derek needs to try to be patient. So...he's trying.
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"Once I'm finished here, I won't be a wolf anymore. They can fix me." It's only once the word are out that he realizes that this might not be the right person to make that admission to. Scott may consider the bite a curse, but Derek's a real werewolf. It's literally something he was born with. To Scott, being a werewolf may be tantamount to being a monster, but he knows that Derek doesn't feel the same way.
"It may be alright for you, but I don't want it. I don't want any of this. I just want to go back to being a regular highschool kid. I just want to have to worry about passing my classes, not whether or not I'm going to kill somebody." He has to get that, right? Scott wasn't given a choice in being turned. If he hadn't been in the preserve in the first place, then none of this would've ever happened. He would've stayed oblivious to the supernatural world. Life would've been so much simpler.
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"I'm not wrong, at least about the Scott in my time," he replies calmly, "but if you don't want it and you can get rid of it, then do what you have to do. You don't need the wolf to be a good leader," he points out. The truth is, the Alpha spark never made Derek a leader, nor Peter. It was never about the spark and it won't be for Scott, either. It was about the fact that Scott was just good at rallying his troops and fighting the good fight. Derek might not have always agreed with the decisions Scott made, but in the end, they'd always ended up being the right ones. Even Derek can admit that.
Derek nods a little and looks down, shrugging. "Well...for what it's worth, in the mean time, I can teach you how to control it so that you don't have to worry about hurting anyone while you're waiting for this place to take it away. If you want. If you don't, that's okay," he says. "It's your decision."