Somewhere Vaguely Between Ancient Siberia and Ancient China, Some Vaguely Ancient Time
Just in case anyone had thought Gabrielle's life would be any less itinerant or eventful now that she was traveling with a pregnant woman (and no, they still had no idea how that had happened), it wasn't. Not when they had to constantly fight off bandits and mercenaries who thought now would be the best time to try and collect on any one of the dozens of bounties on Xena's head.
As if that hadn't been bad enough? Well. Gabrielle had no idea if or when she'd ever need what she'd learned from the crash course in shamanism courtesy of the Northern Amazon tribe, but it had to be useful for more than just crossing over into the spirit realm, getting her ass kicked by Xena's dead nemesis Alti -- yes, the same one they'd defeated in her next life -- and finding out that she was trying to bring herself back by possessing the baby.
Obviously that had to be dealt with: by digging up Alti's skeleton and sending Xena into the spirit realm to fight her, while Gabrielle and Amarice went to go find some magical liquid that was supposed to trap Alti's soul once they poured it over her bones. As you did. (For however much good that would do when they already knew she'd be back in her next life, except if that had happened before they came here to deal with her now did that mean it wasn't going to happen now? Gabrielle decided that was too confusing to think about.)
In the course of all that, they'd found out that Amarice had never really been an Amazon to begin with -- probably not a surprise, since nothing about the tribe she'd kept mentioning rang a bell. Because apparently at some point in all of Gabrielle's copious free time, she'd managed to network with all the other Amazon Queens. Gabrielle had offered her a place in her own tribe, but to be honest she was just fine with Amarice deciding to stay with Yakut's tribe instead.
She and Xena, on the other hand, were on the road again, heading east toward Chin -- under very different circumstances from the last time, thank the gods. She wouldn't be asking for any help from Ares to get her there this time, but she had convinced him that he owed her after the whole incident with Mavican, and proceeded to cash in on that favor.
. . . not that, in her universe, you really needed that much logic to explain how she now had a functioning cell phone long before the existence of both electricity and communications satellites, but there it was.
[OOC: Seriously, that was way more logic than I needed to establish that in the Very Special Xenaverse, but it works for an alumni post, right? SP until I get home, but open for calls.]
As if that hadn't been bad enough? Well. Gabrielle had no idea if or when she'd ever need what she'd learned from the crash course in shamanism courtesy of the Northern Amazon tribe, but it had to be useful for more than just crossing over into the spirit realm, getting her ass kicked by Xena's dead nemesis Alti -- yes, the same one they'd defeated in her next life -- and finding out that she was trying to bring herself back by possessing the baby.
Obviously that had to be dealt with: by digging up Alti's skeleton and sending Xena into the spirit realm to fight her, while Gabrielle and Amarice went to go find some magical liquid that was supposed to trap Alti's soul once they poured it over her bones. As you did. (For however much good that would do when they already knew she'd be back in her next life, except if that had happened before they came here to deal with her now did that mean it wasn't going to happen now? Gabrielle decided that was too confusing to think about.)
In the course of all that, they'd found out that Amarice had never really been an Amazon to begin with -- probably not a surprise, since nothing about the tribe she'd kept mentioning rang a bell. Because apparently at some point in all of Gabrielle's copious free time, she'd managed to network with all the other Amazon Queens. Gabrielle had offered her a place in her own tribe, but to be honest she was just fine with Amarice deciding to stay with Yakut's tribe instead.
She and Xena, on the other hand, were on the road again, heading east toward Chin -- under very different circumstances from the last time, thank the gods. She wouldn't be asking for any help from Ares to get her there this time, but she had convinced him that he owed her after the whole incident with Mavican, and proceeded to cash in on that favor.
. . . not that, in her universe, you really needed that much logic to explain how she now had a functioning cell phone long before the existence of both electricity and communications satellites, but there it was.
[OOC: Seriously, that was way more logic than I needed to establish that in the Very Special Xenaverse, but it works for an alumni post, right? SP until I get home, but open for calls.]