Moku
Senior-most, and never let anyone forget it. Claimed the left half of any open keyboard as sovereign territory, no negotiation, mid-sentence or not. Approval looked like being pointedly ignored — the highest honor he handed out.
ClassGuardian
The Menagerie
Four cats, gone now, still supervising everything I build.
Cimol
Chaotic good, emphasis on chaotic. Found every laptop fan vent in the house within a week of moving in and treated closed doors as a personal insult worth protesting until 3am.
ClassTrickster
Leonidas
Named for a king, lived like a retired one. Found the single sunniest square meter in any room with unnerving precision and defended it — loosely, from a fully reclined position.
ClassSentinel
Meng
Youngest, loudest, arrived with opinions already filed. Narrated dinner prep from the doorway like a disappointed food critic — and somehow always won the argument.
ClassBard
Quest Log
Backlog quests, logged honestly. Completion is optional; the attachment isn't.
- ✓Started Persona 5 Royal. Fell for a Confidant by hour six and rearranged the whole week around it.
- ✓Abandoned Xenoblade Chronicles 3 forty hours in for Octopath Traveler II. Zero regrets, several orphaned side quests.
- ✓Replayed Chrono Trigger for the fourth time. Cried at the same scene as the first three.
- ✓Defended, unprompted, that the Advent Children haircut was the correct choice all along.
- □Finish the backlog. (47 titles deep and still growing — failure achieved as designed)
The Brew & The Bard
Coffee I take more seriously than I should, and a playlist that refuses to be finished.
The Brew
V60, hand-ground, bloomed thirty seconds before the real pour starts. Beans rotate — Gayo when the morning needs weight, Toraja when it needs brightness. Phone stays face-down for the ten minutes it takes.
The Bard's Playlist
A running mix of city pop, JRPG soundtracks on loop, and whatever survives a 2am debugging session. Renamed "quiet hours" six times so far. Never finishing is the point.
Guestbook
The old kind, where you sign before you leave.
just_passing_through: found this by accident, staying for the dragons
moku (posthumously, via medium): he forgot to mention I was in charge
cimol (also posthumously, disputing the above): he wasn't
you, right now: _