Level 14

[whats_a_paladin]

[Strange sounds can be heard in parts of White Chalice. Following them reveals Raynor, sitting behind a (borrowed) electronic keyboard, and practicing music... If it can be called that. He's trying to play Amazing Grace, but is a complete amateur about it... Or rather, amateur would be a big step up. At best the music is awkward and stiffled, with half of the notes missing or wrong, at worst it's a horrible, ear-rending cacophony. And he seems to be completely aware of that.]

Damnit... Is it because of my robotic arm? No, I wasn't any good at it before either...

I must try to honor their memory! Again!

[Horrible sounds from the tortured instrument continue.]

Comments

[paladin_robot]

Yeah well... I need to learn on how to actually make things better for my own allies first...

[whats_a_paladin]

You did it for at least one of them already.

[Raynor knocks on his metallic arm with his normal one.]

[paladin_robot]

...Thanks.

[First smile Richard has had for a small while, actually.]

Don't suppose you'd have any advice for like... cheering up women though? Assuming that whatever has them upset can't just be fixed by giving them a new arm?

[whats_a_paladin]

Different people require different things. Who is this about?

[paladin_robot]

Joanne and Felicita...

One's lost her teammamtes and she blames herself. The other has just lost her mother and doesn't know what to do with her life. I... made that one worse by revealing just what her mother's work had been doing to her...

[whats_a_paladin]

Hmmm...

Comfort with small, everyday things. But other than that, sometimes the best thing to do when someone is grieving is to let them cope with it on their own.