notabluesbro | 19th Confession [Action/Voice]

[Aaaall right, so it's been pretty eventful lately. With Amelia and Milly popping up, like most people, out of nowhere, Wolfwood's busied himself with being shell-shocked at the latter and humored at the former (it really is all true, Amelia, promise). With Knives and Legato still MIA (perhaps they'd left entirely? but he's not one to hope on that), not to mention, he's found himself just a little more relaxed than usual. And hey, the injury on his arm is just about healed up, to boot. Nothing much but a few stitches that were about ready to be removed. Of course he knew it was only a matter of time before something crazy happens again buuut... he'll take it one step at a time.

Firstly, he stops by the weapons shop to see if any ammo came in for his guns, because you can never have enough lengths of bullets for your machine-gun-cross. He also goes off to the forest to practice his fire in the forest, because he honestly hadn't done so in quite a while and heard the damn fire spirit's nagging voice every time he passed by the usual spot.]

Insult me all you want, it isn't going to get this fire any taller. Hell, I'll probably just make it smaller to bug you.

[And suddenly, a coat sleeve on fire. Whoop.]

Geez, geez, it was a joke! [patting it out, and then a beat] Fiery little bastard.

[He's been focused on just this one element for a while now, and the progress is felt in the explosion of fire he's able to make. When he was a kid, it was just a little fire at the end of a stick, but now--he's at least able to create fire as tall as he is.

And after that he'll go ahead and stop by the bar for a drink--even at Sanji's bar, maybe, despite the fact that curlybrow was going to give him A Look over the recent developments. It's overcast with murky clouds, but that hardly puts a damper on anything; Wolfwood rather likes the cool, muted look, himself. He also sights a little something at the item shop while he's out.]

[Voice]

So, Luceti. I've told a ton of people about my crappy little desert planet, but I'm curious--what's the landscape of your worlds like? The weather? Anything that you miss from it, or anything that you're glad you're not dealing with? It's been biting at me lately to ask.

By the way, welcome, new people. The name's Wolfwood, and I hope you have a fairly uneventful stay here--though, 'hope' is a very key word. But if there's anything you guys need, there's plenty of help around, myself included.

[after a beat--]

[Filtered to Milly]

Heeey, I think I found something of yours at the item shop.

[a big, violent gun-related thing. :|a]

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The cold and the snow. [Mihai grins.] I'm not sure if I miss it or not now that it's gone.

Where I'm from, you get all the seasons. And all the weather... Sun, snow, rain.

I'm more used to cities, though. It's been a long time since I lived anywhere this quiet.

Edited 2011-03-16 20:36 (UTC)

[She was still getting used to this...strange journal thing. But to know the other Users would help her understand things. Gathering information--what she did best]

I come from the Grid. Electric light, mixed with darkness. We do not have a sun, nor...a desert, whatever that is.

We do have a Sea. The Sea of Simulation. Long ago poisoned.

Edited 2011-03-16 21:49 (UTC)

[ his question, for some reason, gets a laugh. ] I still just like having sunlight.

Have there been a lot of new arrivals this time? I haven't managed to catch up with everything I missed yet.

Ohoooo, that's right. I was wondering where all the happy sunshine had gone recently—you weren't around; that explains it, huh?

[But teasing aside, he's gotta be serious for a sec.]

Are you doing alright?

[Wolfwood.

Sanji was giving you A Look before you walked in. And when you do enter the restaurant, he's practically leering in terrible delight.]

Yo, Wolfwood~! [I'm going to enjoy making your life hell from now on]

Ugh, don't even get me started on all this cold weather. I'll happy enough to do backflips when the temperatures actually start to pick up. [grin] I never thought I'd miss anything about the desert, but I guess once you're used to something for so long, there are some things you can't help but notice feel wrong.

[The lack of blinding suns and invasive sand he likes—the sudden 10 degree weather he was thrust into? Notsomuch.]

[...ugh, he called it. He totally called it. He even foresaw that icon, right there.]

Geeee, I wonder what that [~~tilde~~] happy hello was for.

[Just gonna. Take a seat right here at this bar.]

Having a nice day despite the dreary clouds, huh?

Oh, yeah? I admit, it's pretty quite where I'm from. Most of the time. Unless you get a group of people trying to ruffle feathers, but other than that, just the sound of the wind.

[And my motorcycle. ;~;

I wish that thing could maneuver here.]

I do appreciate the animal sounds around here, though. Pretty relaxing, personally.

The Grid...? Simulation?

I don't think I've ever heard of something like that. But how do you keep yourselves alive without any sun?

[Wait a sec, let him think on this--]

... or are you not from a planet?

Tch, takes more than clouds to fuck up a day. [Never mind Sanji's been stuck on dreary mode for the better part of the week, what with Naoki's departure. But that's neither here or there, is it?

Still grinning wide, he asks] So. What'll it be? [You're allowed a drink before the interrogating starts.]

No, I am not.

[Oh a quick learner]

I am a Program. Created by a User. The Grid...is a large computer system.

But it is a world, just the same.

Tao comes from the Kaka Village at the bottom of Kana...Kagu...zuchi!

The sun used to shine on us every day until the big metal plate covered him up, meow.

[... Interrogating, huh. It's like he knows those brackets are going on right at this moment.]

Surprise me.

A program.

Like one in a computer.

...

I gotta' say, that's new to me.

[Alas, Wolfwood will never be a technology person, so everything falls into the line of How does this work how does this work.]

The big metal plate?

[That's two things he wasn't expecting to hear in response to his question. You guys are throwing him for a loop today.]

[The brackets are practically written on Sanji's expression.

And have a rum and coke, priest. Only a smidgen on the heavy side today; you have a lady to get back to, after all. Can't send you off piss-drunk]

Surprise.

[A pause. He waits for Wolfwood to take a sip before that innocent first question]

And how's Milly-chan settling in?

[I DIDN'T SEE THIS QUESTION COMING AT ALL.

He grins a little, glass just at his mouth.]

Well enough. Vash even got to have his mattress back, after so graciously donating it for a few days.

[WAHAHAHAHAHAHA—golden.]

But otherwise, she's gotten over the initial surprise of this place.

[... all the initial surprises.]

[Sanji offers a snort of not!surprise, imagining how the Broom Head probably strolled into that situation.]

Good. she sounds like a tough lady.

[Another grin, aimed at a glass he's cleaning] And lucky how she's got her family here to help her.

[... all her family]

I spent most of my life in a town underground, which...was good and bad. I would have liked to have seen the sun, but I also miss the lack of winter.

Mmm...it can be beautiful. I'd actually like to spend more time outside, now that it's a little less on the cold side.

I do miss the music, though. Back home, if you wanted to listen, you could find performers almost anywhere. Bars, concerts...street corners, even. I haven't seen too much of that, here.

[He can't stop the wistful, unsure smile crossing his features. He was happy to see her, but it was probably easy to read that he didn't like that she was dragged into a place like this.

... and he would be a liar if he said he wanted her to see him again. Because it just seemed awful to do. If you'd heard what she'd told him when he first found her in the forest, it's clear why.

"I'm going to stop dreaming about you one day, but can you please, please keep coming to see me until it stops hurting?"

His smile fades.]

... Yeah. At least we're all here together. That's what counts, right now...

[Right?]

[One of the curses of Luceti - do you celebrate or lament the arrival of a friend, or a lover? It's an riddle no one's yet figured out]

Right. [His voice, low though it is, is firm on that subject] I wouldn't want her to be alone. [Even if it meant seeing you again, and shouldering all the pain that comes with it.]

The weather is generally normal. My mansion is situated on the edge of a lake, which is mostly surrounded by a forest. Is that descriptive enough?

That would depend on what era of time you wish to know about...

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