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ain't no party like a wei party

WHO: ALL OF YOU.
WHAT: Cao Cao's throwing a hugeass party at camp. Mingle, get to know each other and remember who paid for that booze! Create your own threads, threadjump and have fun.
WHERE: The metaspace that is the camp area.
WARNING(S): Beyond typical party shenanigans, not much.

[What is there not to like about a party? Especially if it's hosted by someone like Cao Cao. Never let it be said that Cao Cao didn't know how to party.

The camp was festooned with dark blue banners with the crest of the Kingdom of Wei on them. Whether you like it or not, it's a reminder of who put this on in the first place - but it seems like tonight is not to be a night for hostilities. (any attempt to change the decor, and cao cao will sic his bodyguards on you.)

There was an abundance of food and drink, ranging from small dainty snacks that could be picked up with your hands to a variety of spit roasted animals to satisfy that craving for meat. Drinks ranged from the mildest teas to the hardest forms of alcohol from both Japan and China, for the bravest amongst the warriors. and Needless to say, everything in-between was provided.

So, relax. Enjoy the party. The snakes can be dealt with later.]

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[Considering that most of the people in attendance were already from Wei, or were at least Wei's allies in this strange new world, none of them particularly stood out to Jia Xu at the moment. After speaking with Cao Cao he weaved his way through the crowds, watching others enjoy the festivities. As much as he didn't mind drinking, he rarely stayed sober for long- the likes of Wang Yi and Guo Jia could easily drink him under the table, and he was trying to avoid that if possible.

Though of all the people present, it was one in particular that drew his attention, sitting surrounded by others but seemingly not partaking in the festivities. Why he was drawn to this man in particular he didn't know, but Jia Xu had always been a man that followed his instincts, and so he went to take a seat next to him.]

What is it that you seek?

[After all, he kept looking around- perhaps in the hopes of finding something interesting, just like him.]

[This, too, he'd expected to see happen sooner or later during the evening - someone deciding to be upfront about the interest that everyone here had in everyone else. Watching only got you so far, and Jia Xu welcomed the more direct approach. He casually sipped his drink as he turned his attention to the man: a little strange-looking but weren't they all, older than him, in the colors of the other world's Lord Cao. And clever-looking, he could tell that much - yes, very.]

Haha, I think I've found it, [he said pleasantly enough, raising his cup to the other man.] Someone who'll ask me, rather than stare and hope I will or won't notice.

Most are more concerned about the alcohol, as opposed to what people are actually doing.

[Which was typical of any of Lord Cao Cao's parties - he knew that more than most. After so many years by his side, it had become common. So for a man such as himself who preferred to lay off drinking when he could, it could be rather a nuisance. Or perhaps he simply found his amusement in another fashion, such as this one.]

As for myself, I have no such qualms. I find prying into the lives of Lord Cao Cao's visitors much more fascinating.

[Whether he was serious, it was hard to tell, but finally he chuckled.] Far be it from me to turn down an opportunity for intelligent conversation.

The people worth watching for are interested in each other, [Jia Xu replied with a knowing grin. Like knew like. The rank and file warriors and the generals who were drinking in earnest were worth taking in, a true genius underestimated no one, but that was a standard exercise. This was a little spicier.

He gestured widely out with the cup at the men and women around them.] Lord Cao does have a talent for gathering unusual men, [he mused.] Whichever Lord Cao we're talking about. [That was something that fascinated the young strategist. The man so alike in so different places: what could it be, but Heaven's sign?]

The circumstances don't lend themselves to it. But I doubt that any of them are really fools.

Ahaha, yes. Unusual is certainly a good word for it. But he would rather put emphasis on the fact that they are men of talent themselves.

[After all, he was one such man that Lord Cao Cao had seen fit to take under his wing, even despite what had happened and how they had come to know one another to begin with. Killing a man's most trusted officer didn't tend to win many the favour of one of the most important men in the land, but Jia Xu had been... lucky, he supposed.]

So the one that you are acquainted with is similar in that regard, then? [He shook his head, amused by the idea.] You sound as though you have many a tale to tell.

To gather talented men is the greatest talent there is. The world is taken with able men. [Jia Xu spoke with conviction, and with sincere admiration. Lord Cao had won his enduring loyalty - which was perhaps no great thing, as Jia Xu's loyalty had always been the enduring kind. But his classmates were something else again. It wasn't just any man who could tame Xun Yu... never mind Guo Jia.

He gave a nod, and a faint smirk.] Lord Cao is exceptional. It doesn't surprise me that he still is who he is. In Puyang... [he trailed off, then tipped his head slightly.] I don't know how much you know.

[There was something about the way that he spoke about Cao Cao which piqued Jia Xu's curiosity, although he wasn't entirely sure what in particular caught his attention. Many spoke of him in this way, or in a completely opposite fashion, but... Suddenly he wanted to know even more than before, if it was possible.]

While I have been with Lord Cao Cao for many years now, I am sure that there is much I do not know. To presume that I have all of the facts tends to be a disastrous assumption, after all. On the other hand, you seem as though you know quite a bit about my lord.

Haha, you talk like a historian. [His tone, while not mocking, conveyed the less than stellar opinion he had of that profession. Or like a military advisor, he thought privately. Who was this man?]

I meant more, what year you are from. What has already happened. Has your lord fought at Puyang yet? At Xiapi? Don't tell me what happens next, after Xiapi. I know what my calculations are, but it's wrong to try and steal secrets out of Heaven's hands like that. [And of course there was the little matter of Guo Jia's waning life. He didn't want to know.]

[The historian comment earns a raised eyebrow from Jia Xu, but there's something of an amused look on his face.]

A historian? No, I wouldn't go quite that far. Though perhaps I have been hanging around a particular one for too long. [Not that he thought it a bad thing.]

If you don't wish to know what happens after Xiapi, then I will not tell you. But I remember more than you do, it seems. It has been thirteen years since the battle at Xiapi, at least from what I remember last before I was brought into this world.

[Jia Xu leaned his head against one hand, gesturing vaguely with the other.] Historians are bad company. What can they tell you that you should care about? They'll only be useful when you're already dead. [The fact that this kind of thinking was what got him out of Water Mirror's house only made him more adamant in it.

But interest that he couldn't quite conceal flickered in his eyes at the other's words. Thirteen years - he was still young enough for that to sound like a lifetime.] That is a while, [he said finally, a little slowly.] I was in Xiapi when what happened, happened, watching my lord take Lü Bu's head. [His curiousity overcame him then, and he conceded, with a polite salute.]

My surname is Jia, my given name Xu, styled Wenhe, out of Gozang in Wuwei.

[On any other day, Jia Xu might have been willing to argue with him about that - or at very least debate the point that not all historians were terrible company, considering that he'd managed to meet one that was tolerable (if not a little too similar to an overeager puppy, at times).

But he had never managed to meet another version of himself before. Oh, he'd heard tales, certainly - that there was a female Oda Nobunaga and Guan Yu walking around Orochi's world somewhere, but he hadn't thought that he'd ever be faced with a double of his own.]

Ahaha, what an interesting situation we find ourselves in. [His lips twisted into a smirk, and he watched the other man, pausing for effect before continuing onwards.]

I never thought that I, of all people, would meet a version of myself from another world here. What magic the serpent king must have conjured up, to make this a possibility.

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