notabluesbro | 1st Confession [Voice]

[Waking up dazed and confused in a desert with wings on your back... after thinking you're dead... never really helps a situation. Last he checked he was inking out his last bit of life on a church floor. And now he's in a shitty pile of sand with black wings on his shoulders. He was either alive and tripping back home in Gunsmoke, or he was on the road to a less than impressive Hell. But... that's a forest in the distance? He must've been seeing things. Worth a shot, at least?

So he staggers for an hour like a confused drunk and finally makes it to this green, wondrous land, were he just... collapses near the closest stream and drinks until his poor lungs feel a little better. Of course, after taking a short nap under a tree, he wakes up to a fat drop of rain smacking him in the forehead.]

Wha...?

[Is that... rain? Really? That's... sort of a miracle. Lots of miracles lately, eh? The journal falls open and voices trickle out of it. So after staring at it for a few minutes, he... speaks at it. After all, looking crazy is better than sitting out in a rainstorm--

He can't believe he's actually in rain. Real rain, none of that feigned sprinkler crap. And the desert's so goddamn tiny...]

Hello...?

Why in God's name am I talking to a book...

Can anyone tell me where the heck this place is? I'd also be really grateful if anyone could point me to the nearest food stand... Mainly if it has a nice, sturdy roof and something either warm or alcoholic to drink...

[A thoughtful pause. His back did feel too light...]

...And, uh... if you've seen a giant cross sitting around, let me know, huh?

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... Is there a catch to this whole 'free' thing?

[If there's one thing Wolfwood knows, it's nothing in life is free. Even death comes with a price.]

Well...being here is the catch, I guess. The Malnosso keep us trapped, but they provide everything to us.

And we're here... to just be experimented on and be used in some 'war'?

[Yeah, he got the low-down, but it's still surprising.]

Yeah...but honestly? It's hard to tell what the Malnosso are really after, in the end. I mean, they send people home, too.

Oh, I see...

[Whelp, I'm screwed either way, might as well be here.]

How do you know they send 'em home?

...all of their possessions go missing. Where they lived--it's like they were never there to begin with.

And if you try to direct a message across the journals to them specifically, it goes weird and doesn't really work.

Interesting... No one ever sees them leave or get their stuff taken, either?

Not that I've ever heard of, no.

[He pauses briefly.] Oh yeah. My name's Naoki, by the way.

And I'm Wolfwood. Nice meeting you, Naoki. Lots of supernatural stuff happens pretty damn often, I take it?

It's nice to meet you too, Wolfwood. And yeah. You get used to it, though, if you aren't from the sort of world where it's already common.

Well... My world certainly had its weird perks. Like, ah, lack of rain and desert land as faaaaar as the eye could see. This is all pretty shocking for someone like me.

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Luceti must be quite the difference, then...considering there's a rainstorm right now and everything.

[ACHOO!! B|]

Yeaaaah, I'm pretty... new to this 'cold' thing. There's actually no water on top of my planet, period. So, uh, even the idea of a river is pretty new. At least there's less sand here.

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...ah, are you outside in that? Is anyone coming to get you? I don't think you wanna get sick the first week here...

Ha, don't worry about me! I'm already on it. My dopey spikey-haired friend is coming to find me anyway.

Dopey spiky-haired friend?

[Hmm. He wonders.] Does he wear a red coat?

[To that he can't help but laugh. Vash was an unmistakable type of guy, it was clear.]

Yeah, that guy--Vash the Stampede, the goofiest outlaw I've ever ran into. We were friends back home; kinda' traveled together with some close pals. You know Meryl, too?

[It was a lengthy little tale, but that was the short of it...]

[Naoki grins.] I can't say I've met Meryl, but Vash's really nice, if goofy. I bet he's happy you're here.

I'll bet so, too. Let's hope he doesn't embarrass me too much. He's a little too emotional for his own good.

[God, he can already imagine the water works.]

[Naoki begins to chuckle.] Well, it's probably been a while for him, so might not be able to avoid that embarrassment...

Please, he cries if he drops a doughnut.

...But I appreciate the warm welcome, anyway. That's one thing he's pretty good at, I'll give him that much.

Well, he does seem very fond of them...

[Naoki grins at that.] Having a friend makes it easier to adjust being here, I think.

Yeah, even though I've been kidnapped, it's not so bad. We're all alive and relatively well, at least. And hell, we have people to hang out with to keep ourselves sane.

...

Relatively sane, anyway.

[Snicker.]

Relatively is about the most you can ask for here, I think. It's not that bad, though.

Nah, it's not bad so far. I mean, I haven't gotten to the worst of it, yet, I figure, but I can already see some of the upsides! Kind of surprising, considering I'm normally the pessimist of the group.