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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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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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