Or, scratch that: You're walking somewhere in Etraya. To somewhere, possibly, like Kwik Trip or one of the cafes, or how about Bangsan Market? Etraya isn't empty of people, but the foot traffic is light, especially with the light snow covering around. There's nothing particularly suspicious around. And even if there was, would Chu Wenshan notice?
There just happens to be a person with his head down, some strange circular things over where his ears would be, dressed in a jacket and jeans.... and he's light-skinned. Definitely not a half-orc, as if that's anything anyone should pay attention for!!
But maybe Chu Wenshan should be paying attention in the world. Will he get lucky, and notice when this one particular person a ways away from him happens to take their hand out, and calls down a bolt of very small lightning to come down and zap him on his head? It's a weak one, again, we promise. Maybe comedy will save Chu Wenshan from his fate of bad hair.
Chu Wenshan: how does Luck smile upon you today? Does she? ]
[Chu Wenshan was absolutely on the way to Bangsan Market on some errand or other, and also maybe for snacks. The lack of any real action recently, plus the lack of green-skinned people in his field of view, definitely leaves him with his guard down...and so it is that a guy with a suddenly-sparky hairstyle looks around with a look of vague confusion on his face, having barely felt the zap itself.]
Did this strange guy that is definitely not Gorgug do a fist pump to himself? Yes. And now he's fiddling with the device he's got on his wrist to change his features...back to Gorgug Thistlespring!!! SIKE. It was him all along!!
Do you see him, Chu Wenshan. Are you looking his way. He needs to do the devil horns with his hands to show how cool he is. Please look at him. ]
[He sees!!! It's hard to miss the guy doing weird motions with his hands when the rest of the scant passersby are walking normally, like normal people. Missed the part where he changed his appearance, though...
Chu Wenshan attempts to copy the devil horn pose in response, because he has no idea what that means.]
How were you hiding? [He asks, loudly, without actually trying to get closer.]
[ He is answering back loudly, also without moving, because that's what they're doing here. Talking over a distance. Also, good devil horns, Chu Wenshan. ]
Do you feel okay? You don't feel funny?
[ Since Gorgug did zap him... even if he did so lightly! Also, he's still asking very loudly. And not moving. ]
[ begone, opposite Chu Wenshan!!! Because Gorgug has permission and he's going to walk on over.
Here he is! The big tall green boy! ]
Hi. [ Hi, Chu Wenshan. ] I thought I could get the sneak on you so you wouldn't think to dodge, but I don't know if that was fair. You're still new to dodging electricity.
Not really... it's just something I made a while ago. It's a prototype. I've never worn it before. [ He raises his wrist, looking at it, but isn't intentionally trying to show anything off. And there isn't much to be seen with his jacket arm hiding most of his skin, but there does seem to be a bracelet there, of leather and metal. ]
My friend's better at it. She can really get into character. [ Gorgug pauses for a second after saying that, refocusing on Chu Wenshan. ] By the way, can I talk to you about something? We can keep walking. And you can get whatever you were going to get.
[ It's a shy, humbled thanks. Gorgug is proud of his inventions, even if...he didn't really get that up close to Chu Wenshan, right? But he can still be happy! He'll have to work even harder to electrocute the guy in the future in thanks.
But for now: walking! ]
I wanna make some profiles on people I know. [ A pause, and... ] I'll tell the truth, that I want to give it to that woman. Tatianna?
Just what you want to give her. You can lie, too. She said she would tell us more about what's going on if we told her about everyone, but-- I'm not gonna sell people out without their permission. And they can sell themselves out.
[ Gorgug doesn't go in first since it's Chu Wenshan that's going to the store. So he stops when Chu Wenshan stops. ]
I don't care about telling you mine. My friends wanted me to have a fake one. [ And even wrote it.. because he's bad at lying, too. ] But I'm kind of curious what you would tell someone who wants to know about us. Without hearing mine, first.
[ What would a guy like Chu Wenshan come up with? ]
That's the same as what I put for my profile. Under twenty, I go to an adventuring school, and I'm studying two skill classes and I used to be in a band.
[Trying to imagine what kind of things you'd learn there...how to build a campfire? How not to eat that farmer's cow? Gorgug gets another nod though, regardless.]
I met my goal shortly before I arrived, so there was no reason for me to keep wandering.
[ That answers that. And that's about what Gorgug was interested in, so! He'll answer Chu Wenshan's question in return: ]
Yeah, we have an adventuring academy where we have lessons on what class we want to be, and then lessons on actually going out and surviving in the world. I learn how to hit things hard with an axe, and how to make magic and gadgets work together.
[So it's like...a job? But wait, if he's not a wandering martial artist anymore, then-]
Is that still my class? If I'm not fighting. [But he can't for the life of him figure out what he'd be right now then. Does he even have a job? What's the closest he can think of?] .........Househusband?
[ Hmm-- ] I don't know if you're gonna get a job here, either.
[ Does Gorgug want anything from this shop before they leave? ... ]
Wait, I'm gonna get some of that- [ Hold on, Chu Wenshan!! He's going to pick up some ribs!!! Well, after he grabs a bag. A bag would help. Just stick the fresh ribs in a fresh bag, right... ]
[Ooh, ribs...Chu Wenshan hefts three huge sacks of rice onto his shoulder (it doesn't go bad, right? More is better, right?) and then attempts to also reach for some ribs himself, because those look tasty. Does he need a bag for that?]
I don't know...it seems like a job? You're right though, I can't be a husband if I'm not married.
...So I'm jobless after all.
[Isn't that generally considered a bad thing, though? But if nobody has a job, maybe that cancels it out? Also the main reason Chu Wenshan isn't getting a bag is because he grabbed the ribs with one hand and his other hand is full with rice and he doesn't have a third hand, so—]
You don't need to feel bad. We're all jobless here.
[ Not that Gorgug can read Chu Wenshan's mind, but the idea that he's jobless doesn't seem like it should be a big deal considering their circumstance. What would they even be doing? Pretending to work in a shop.
Gorgug does look at the exposed ribs, and you know what about that question before? ]
--do you want a bag for that?
[ He did it. He asked the question!! But only because carrying those rice bags and holding onto raw ribs might be a hassle... ]
[Asking him what he learned ten years ago, huh? Let's see, uhhhh—]
Reading, writing, math, hand-to-hand combat, one weapon of choice...manners? Maybe some poetry? [Extremely short pause.] I can't recite any poems though.
I'll ask him. He says he likes to read it for the...story.
[ Gorgug thinks. Something like that. ]
But you learned more fighting than people do, who don't go to adventuring school. There's some clubs in normal schools, but no one learns that at home unless their family has something to do with fighting. I think.
[ Said, like he didn't know that either.... poems are so multifaceted, apparently. ]
Yeah, that's-- that's how things are where I'm from, too. Most people wouldn't know how to fight, unless it's in their family. They work office jobs or working in towns or cities. [ ... ] But we have villagers, too. Really rural areas. With fields and farms?
They didn't go to the school I go to, but they can-- they can kick ass. They're tinkerers, so, they build weapons. They can make bombs--you know what bombs are.
[ Though he doesn't phrase it as a question, he does look at Chu Wenshan as, yes, no? Do people who don't know what cars are know what bombs are? ]
Like...prosthetic arms, poseable figurines, torture devices, some sort of giant mobile suit you could fight in, a machine that could shoot a bunch of wooden projectiles at you rapid-fire...things like that.
I got these two large logs, and tied them together with a rope. That way you can swing them around on the rope and hit the enemy with them. [A pause.] Normally they aren't log-sized though.
Wrist-thick... [ He repeats, and-- let him look at your wrist, Wenshan...!! ]
You have...nice-sized wrists. That's a normal-looking wrist.
[ ...
... let him hold up and show Chu Wenshan his wrist! On the side where he isn't carrying anything, His own wrist is rather thin...green.... very green... ]
[He tilts his head, expressionless but clearly questioning.]
I wouldn't recommend trying to cool yourself off with it, you might hit yourself. If you want to see what it looks like in use... [......] If I get my hands on one I can show you a bit.
[This misunderstanding....does not get noticed at all. He linefaces!
He has been linefacing this whole time so that was a redundant statement.]
Bigger isn't always better...it can definitely be intimidating to an average opponent, though. Is that what you usually use? [His gaze turns to Gorgug's skinny arms for definitely not the first time...]
Hitting boulders could be good. Where I'm from they usually go for trees or wooden targets, but if you're strong enough... destroying boulders would hurt less plant life, for sure.
Did you have a good forest around? Some of the other classes used the woods, so, like, I think it was easier, somehow? To bring giant boulders into a classroom.
Mn, many parts of China are full of forests and mountains. Very steep, forested mountains. So it was probably easier to make wooden targets than to find boulders, when you put it that way...
...Are there good boulders to use around here? Or a training facility maybe.
I don't know... there's been posts about people offering training, but I don't know where they were, or if they're still around? I haven't looked for any boulders. [ Well. ] There are mountains.
[ And they're adult boulders, so there has to be boulders around, maybe? ]
Uh, she told us to deal with them. When I asked what that meant, she just repeated 'deal with them', so.. I guess she wanted us to do with them what we wanted?
Some people killed them, but some wanted to move them. I was gonna help with that since, I didn't really care? But then someone moved them in secret? I don't know why.
[ Pretty weird!! Always made him go ???, honestly. ]
Yeah. I thought, if we just killed them, then-- that was a test. If someone tells you to deal with something and your decision is to kill it, then, that's gotta say something about you, right? When you're being judged already to save your universe.
[ And that judgment might be bad??? It might be bad. Worse than snake meat. ]
If someone stabs me in the back, I'll beat them up. If they're stabbing me literally, I might need to get bandaged up afterwards, but it won't affect my beating them up. I might have suggested turning them in to the police, but I'm not so sure about them right now, so beating them up will have to do.
[ Gorgug's making a face like he's trying to think about it, buuuuuuuut... ]
I don't know, I guess-- I guess I could try and knock more people out. But it's hard if you're in the middle of a fight and there's other people attacking you? And I use an axe. So swiping at them--
[ He semi-makes a swiping motion, since he's carrying his ribs. ]
Plus, I'm usually pretty mad. [ ... ] Does that sound like an excuse?
I certainly miss seeing you and hope the days have been treating you well. Take care and may whatever horrors that the train has brought be but a memory.
I merely felt it would be a good idea to send them. After all, I feel like I slacked off a little on my training and ended up paying for it while on the train.
It's true that training won't be effective if you don't keep it up regularly. Did you want to run with me again? You can also try the horse stance for an hour or two, if you prefer not to move so much.
[Should he ask about the train...does he know about the train...either way, his answer doesn't change.]
Hey, that's not a good attitude to take. We have to eat every day, don't we? And if you stop talking to people, you might forget how to speak. Staying fit is no different.
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Date: 2025-01-09 01:08 pm (UTC)Or, scratch that: You're walking somewhere in Etraya. To somewhere, possibly, like Kwik Trip or one of the cafes, or how about Bangsan Market? Etraya isn't empty of people, but the foot traffic is light, especially with the light snow covering around. There's nothing particularly suspicious around. And even if there was, would Chu Wenshan notice?
There just happens to be a person with his head down, some strange circular things over where his ears would be, dressed in a jacket and jeans.... and he's light-skinned. Definitely not a half-orc, as if that's anything anyone should pay attention for!!
But maybe Chu Wenshan should be paying attention in the world. Will he get lucky, and notice when this one particular person a ways away from him happens to take their hand out, and calls down a bolt of very small lightning to come down and zap him on his head? It's a weak one, again, we promise. Maybe comedy will save Chu Wenshan from his fate of bad hair.
Chu Wenshan: how does Luck smile upon you today? Does she? ]
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Date: 2025-01-09 01:51 pm (UTC)?
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Date: 2025-01-09 05:00 pm (UTC)Did this strange guy that is definitely not Gorgug do a fist pump to himself? Yes. And now he's fiddling with the device he's got on his wrist to change his features...back to Gorgug Thistlespring!!! SIKE. It was him all along!!
Do you see him, Chu Wenshan. Are you looking his way. He needs to do the devil horns with his hands to show how cool he is. Please look at him. ]
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Date: 2025-01-09 07:20 pm (UTC)Chu Wenshan attempts to copy the devil horn pose in response, because he has no idea what that means.]
How were you hiding? [He asks, loudly, without actually trying to get closer.]
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Date: 2025-01-10 09:59 am (UTC)[ He is answering back loudly, also without moving, because that's what they're doing here. Talking over a distance. Also, good devil horns, Chu Wenshan. ]
Do you feel okay? You don't feel funny?
[ Since Gorgug did zap him... even if he did so lightly! Also, he's still asking very loudly. And not moving. ]
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Date: 2025-01-10 01:41 pm (UTC)I felt a little tingly?
[He pauses to feel at his hair, which is still staticky.]
...Still tingly.
[Will either of them ever close this distance-]
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Date: 2025-01-10 01:42 pm (UTC)...
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Can I come over?
[ Speaking of closing the distance- ]
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Date: 2025-01-10 01:46 pm (UTC)Yes.
[And because Gorgug asked first, Chu Wenshan will wait right here for him to approach!]
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Date: 2025-01-10 01:48 pm (UTC)Here he is! The big tall green boy! ]
Hi. [ Hi, Chu Wenshan. ] I thought I could get the sneak on you so you wouldn't think to dodge, but I don't know if that was fair. You're still new to dodging electricity.
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Date: 2025-01-10 01:56 pm (UTC)[Though does he really need to learn how to dodge electricity? ...No idea, but hey, the upped awareness might help prevent more krampusnappings.]
You're pretty good at disguises.
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Date: 2025-01-10 02:02 pm (UTC)My friend's better at it. She can really get into character. [ Gorgug pauses for a second after saying that, refocusing on Chu Wenshan. ] By the way, can I talk to you about something? We can keep walking. And you can get whatever you were going to get.
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Date: 2025-01-10 09:24 pm (UTC)This is followed by a blink and a nod.]
Okay. What did you want to talk about? [He starts walking again, headed for the market. For rice!]
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Date: 2025-01-11 12:51 pm (UTC)[ It's a shy, humbled thanks. Gorgug is proud of his inventions, even if...he didn't really get that up close to Chu Wenshan, right? But he can still be happy! He'll have to work even harder to electrocute the guy in the future in thanks.
But for now: walking! ]
I wanna make some profiles on people I know. [ A pause, and... ] I'll tell the truth, that I want to give it to that woman. Tatianna?
[ Do you know who that is, Chu Wenshan.... ]
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Date: 2025-01-13 05:23 pm (UTC)[He does not...]
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Date: 2025-01-13 05:42 pm (UTC)[ Does that spark a memory?? ]
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Date: 2025-01-13 07:05 pm (UTC)[Memory sparked!!]
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Date: 2025-01-13 07:07 pm (UTC)[ She sent everyone a voice message, Chu Wenshan! If you ever bothered to check those.... ]
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Date: 2025-01-13 07:12 pm (UTC)So you're going to give her our information?
[This isn't said in a judging tone or anything. Though maybe that's hard to tell with Chu Wenshan?]
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Date: 2025-01-13 07:16 pm (UTC)[ But, Gorgug looks at Chu Wenshan. ]
I'll show you my profile, too. My real one.
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Date: 2025-01-13 07:21 pm (UTC)I'm bad at lying.
[Followed by a short pause as they approach the store.] Do you want to show your profile? I can tell you about me regardless.
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Date: 2025-01-13 07:26 pm (UTC)I don't care about telling you mine. My friends wanted me to have a fake one. [ And even wrote it.. because he's bad at lying, too. ] But I'm kind of curious what you would tell someone who wants to know about us. Without hearing mine, first.
[ What would a guy like Chu Wenshan come up with? ]
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Date: 2025-01-13 09:02 pm (UTC)I'm a martial artist, currently in my twenties, no longer wandering. I'm good at physical labor. [uhhh] ...I...have relatives?
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Date: 2025-01-13 09:04 pm (UTC)Have you met them?
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Date: 2025-01-13 09:06 pm (UTC)I haven't visited my parents in a while, but my brother's here with me.
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Date: 2025-01-13 09:09 pm (UTC)[ As much as anything else. Gorgug nods. ]
That's the same as what I put for my profile. Under twenty, I go to an adventuring school, and I'm studying two skill classes and I used to be in a band.
[ Though... ]
Did you stop wandering before you came here?
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Date: 2025-01-13 09:13 pm (UTC)[Trying to imagine what kind of things you'd learn there...how to build a campfire? How not to eat that farmer's cow? Gorgug gets another nod though, regardless.]
I met my goal shortly before I arrived, so there was no reason for me to keep wandering.
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Date: 2025-01-13 09:18 pm (UTC)[ That answers that. And that's about what Gorgug was interested in, so! He'll answer Chu Wenshan's question in return: ]
Yeah, we have an adventuring academy where we have lessons on what class we want to be, and then lessons on actually going out and surviving in the world. I learn how to hit things hard with an axe, and how to make magic and gadgets work together.
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Date: 2025-01-14 02:12 pm (UTC)You can be a class?
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Date: 2025-01-14 02:28 pm (UTC)[ Time to explain classes!! Or try!! ]
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Date: 2025-01-14 05:13 pm (UTC)[So it's like...a job? But wait, if he's not a wandering martial artist anymore, then-]
Is that still my class? If I'm not fighting. [But he can't for the life of him figure out what he'd be right now then. Does he even have a job? What's the closest he can think of?] .........Househusband?
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Date: 2025-01-14 05:17 pm (UTC)[ That's not relevant, but also? He is?? He has a partner and kids??? ]
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Date: 2025-01-14 05:19 pm (UTC)[This is somehow equivalent?]
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Date: 2025-01-14 05:30 pm (UTC)[ Right? Right?? ]
You just sound out of a job right now.
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Date: 2025-01-14 07:08 pm (UTC)I wasn't employed before, either.
[He's just gonna start moving again now that he's more or less done thinking.]
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Date: 2025-01-15 01:08 pm (UTC)[ Does Gorgug want anything from this shop before they leave? ... ]
Wait, I'm gonna get some of that- [ Hold on, Chu Wenshan!! He's going to pick up some ribs!!! Well, after he grabs a bag. A bag would help. Just stick the fresh ribs in a fresh bag, right... ]
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Date: 2025-01-15 01:25 pm (UTC)[Ooh, ribs...Chu Wenshan hefts three huge sacks of rice onto his shoulder (it doesn't go bad, right? More is better, right?) and then attempts to also reach for some ribs himself, because those look tasty. Does he need a bag for that?]
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Date: 2025-01-15 03:16 pm (UTC)[ The real question is, Chu Wenshan: Do you want to put it in a bag? Do you think Gorgug is going to stop you from going bagless? ]
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Date: 2025-01-15 05:21 pm (UTC)...So I'm jobless after all.
[Isn't that generally considered a bad thing, though? But if nobody has a job, maybe that cancels it out? Also the main reason Chu Wenshan isn't getting a bag is because he grabbed the ribs with one hand and his other hand is full with rice and he doesn't have a third hand, so—]
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Date: 2025-01-16 05:40 pm (UTC)[ Not that Gorgug can read Chu Wenshan's mind, but the idea that he's jobless doesn't seem like it should be a big deal considering their circumstance. What would they even be doing? Pretending to work in a shop.
Gorgug does look at the exposed ribs, and you know what about that question before? ]
--do you want a bag for that?
[ He did it. He asked the question!! But only because carrying those rice bags and holding onto raw ribs might be a hassle... ]
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Date: 2025-01-16 07:23 pm (UTC)[Was he sad? He doesn't think he was sad...anyway he looks at his ribs, then at Gorgug, then back at the ribs again.]
A bag would be good.
[And then, completely off-topic:] Did you go to two schools? [One for adventuring, one for reading and stuff...?]
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Date: 2025-01-17 04:59 pm (UTC)No? I just go to one school.
[ He comes back to Chu Wenshan, holding the bag open. ] Did you go to two schools?
[ Why ask otherwise, right?? ]
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Date: 2025-01-18 11:11 pm (UTC)I didn't go to school.
[This is...technically accurate.....]
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Date: 2025-01-20 01:28 pm (UTC)You didn't? What did you do?
[ Something else?? ]
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Date: 2025-01-21 04:47 pm (UTC)[ You know, it might be different! And Gorgug's interested, sometimes, about the difference between people and where they come from...
Even if they all can enjoy some delicious ribs! ]
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Date: 2025-01-21 07:17 pm (UTC)Reading, writing, math, hand-to-hand combat, one weapon of choice...manners? Maybe some poetry? [Extremely short pause.] I can't recite any poems though.
[In other words, please don't ask.]
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Date: 2025-01-23 02:08 pm (UTC)Do you want to? I know a guy. He reads poetry. [ Ah- ] Here.
[ In Etraya. Do you want to meet his poetry guy? ]
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Date: 2025-01-23 02:19 pm (UTC)I'm not much of a poetry person...I don't mind listening though, if he wants to read to someone.
[He can't do uplifting poetry, but he could lift up Gorgug?]
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Date: 2025-01-23 06:00 pm (UTC)I'll ask him. He says he likes to read it for the...story.
[ Gorgug thinks. Something like that. ]
But you learned more fighting than people do, who don't go to adventuring school. There's some clubs in normal schools, but no one learns that at home unless their family has something to do with fighting. I think.
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Date: 2025-01-23 07:23 pm (UTC)Poems have stories?
[Fushigi mystery...he nods though.]
Mn, since my family ran a prominent martial sect, everyone there knew how to fight. Probably. A normal villager wouldn't need to know these things.
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Date: 2025-01-27 03:02 pm (UTC)[ Said, like he didn't know that either.... poems are so multifaceted, apparently. ]
Yeah, that's-- that's how things are where I'm from, too. Most people wouldn't know how to fight, unless it's in their family. They work office jobs or working in towns or cities. [ ... ] But we have villagers, too. Really rural areas. With fields and farms?
[ Just like Chu Wenshan knows them?! ]
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Date: 2025-01-27 07:22 pm (UTC)[Or maybe those are just gardens? Vegetable patches?]
Did your whole family go to adventure school?
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Date: 2025-01-29 02:19 pm (UTC)They didn't go to the school I go to, but they can-- they can kick ass. They're tinkerers, so, they build weapons. They can make bombs--you know what bombs are.
[ Though he doesn't phrase it as a question, he does look at Chu Wenshan as, yes, no? Do people who don't know what cars are know what bombs are? ]
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Date: 2025-01-29 07:18 pm (UTC)They must be talented then. I don't personally know anyone who makes bombs, though I did meet a man who could make all sorts of things out of wood.
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Date: 2025-02-01 11:47 am (UTC)Like chairs?
[ Maybe he should be thinking bigger.... ]
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Date: 2025-02-01 02:01 pm (UTC)[Definitely should've thought bigger.]
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Date: 2025-02-03 09:38 pm (UTC)I want to see a giant mobile suit made out of wood. How big are we talking?
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Date: 2025-02-04 02:46 am (UTC)About...two, three times my height? I remember making a nunchaku on the spot to fight it with.
[Like so.]
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Date: 2025-02-06 06:42 pm (UTC)How well did the nunchaku work? [ ... ] And what's a nunchaku?
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Date: 2025-02-06 07:09 pm (UTC)[And hmm, how to describe nunchaku...]
I got these two large logs, and tied them together with a rope. That way you can swing them around on the rope and hit the enemy with them. [A pause.] Normally they aren't log-sized though.
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Date: 2025-02-08 05:13 pm (UTC)What size are they? Smaller? Thinner?
[ maybe thinner? ]
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Date: 2025-02-09 09:15 pm (UTC)[He'd be doing gestures, but his hands are full.]
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Date: 2025-02-11 02:05 pm (UTC)You have...nice-sized wrists. That's a normal-looking wrist.
[ ...
... let him hold up and show Chu Wenshan his wrist! On the side where he isn't carrying anything, His own wrist is rather thin...green.... very green... ]
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Date: 2025-02-13 01:14 pm (UTC)Maybe somewhere between both our wrist sizes.
[That seems good, right? A nice average number? He hasn't seen a proper nunchaku in a while actually.]
Are you interested in trying one?
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Date: 2025-02-16 04:32 pm (UTC)...does it feel cool when you use it? ... does it look cool?
[ Very important question. ]
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Date: 2025-02-16 11:08 pm (UTC)I wouldn't recommend trying to cool yourself off with it, you might hit yourself. If you want to see what it looks like in use... [......] If I get my hands on one I can show you a bit.
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Date: 2025-02-18 03:34 pm (UTC)Okay. [ ... ] You can look cool pretty easy with an axe. You just hold an axe. It's cool-- because it has a big blade.
[ See how easy it is to be cool with an axe, Chu Wenshan?? ]
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Date: 2025-02-18 07:58 pm (UTC)He has been linefacing this whole time so that was a redundant statement.]
Bigger isn't always better...it can definitely be intimidating to an average opponent, though. Is that what you usually use? [His gaze turns to Gorgug's skinny arms for definitely not the first time...]
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Date: 2025-02-19 03:19 pm (UTC)Yeah. It's big-- all my axes are big. And better. I hit things real hard.
[ And for this he sounds very proud! He'll even mimic holding an axe with two hands (while minding his bag of ribs): ]
Wind it back-- [ He's winding back that invisible axe...! ] --and slam!
[ And he's swinging it forward!! ]
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Date: 2025-02-19 07:14 pm (UTC)Hitting hard is good. How hard can you hit with your fists? Training your fistwork could help increase your axe power.
[For an even bigger slam!!!]
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Date: 2025-02-21 01:10 pm (UTC)Our teacher used to make us hit boulders with our weapons and our fists. But I haven't done it in a long time. Not since I got here.
[ He hasn't been looking for boulders!! ]
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Date: 2025-02-21 05:30 pm (UTC)Hitting boulders could be good. Where I'm from they usually go for trees or wooden targets, but if you're strong enough... destroying boulders would hurt less plant life, for sure.
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Date: 2025-02-24 12:40 pm (UTC)[ This makes sense. ]
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Date: 2025-02-24 05:43 pm (UTC)...Are there good boulders to use around here? Or a training facility maybe.
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Date: 2025-02-26 11:10 am (UTC)[ And they're adult boulders, so there has to be boulders around, maybe? ]
You could ask-- on the network?
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Date: 2025-02-26 07:23 pm (UTC)If there's mountains, there should be boulders...there's probably a few around Leafless Valley, actually, I just haven't thought to look.
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Date: 2025-02-28 07:24 pm (UTC)[ Does Chu Wenshan have hobbies! ]
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Date: 2025-03-01 04:10 pm (UTC)Training, chores, exploring...I found an island full of snakes the other day. They're pretty tasty.
[Maybe he needs a new hobby?]
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Date: 2025-03-02 02:14 pm (UTC)[ Is that a hobby? People do that?? ]
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Date: 2025-03-03 02:15 pm (UTC)[And if snakes attack...!]
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Date: 2025-03-04 06:51 pm (UTC)They used to live in the city section. The empty part with all the big buildings? Until Aurora wanted us to do something with them.
Someone moved them over to that island.
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Date: 2025-03-05 05:59 am (UTC)[Wait...] Why did she want you to move them? Too many getting in the houses?
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Date: 2025-03-10 01:03 pm (UTC)Some people killed them, but some wanted to move them. I was gonna help with that since, I didn't really care? But then someone moved them in secret? I don't know why.
[ Pretty weird!! Always made him go ???, honestly. ]
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Date: 2025-03-12 11:42 am (UTC)Having them all on one island does make things convenient though. A good way to deal with the situation.
[Snake meat might not be the best meat, but—]
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Date: 2025-03-15 07:16 pm (UTC)[ And that judgment might be bad??? It might be bad. Worse than snake meat. ]
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Date: 2025-03-17 08:33 pm (UTC)That makes sense. It's better not to kill more than necessary - I think Buddhist monks say something like that too.
[That's...not exactly right...but close enough?]
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Date: 2025-03-20 11:48 am (UTC)They sound like wise killers. [ Pause. ] I usually just kill people trying to kill me.
[ That's his way in life! ]
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Date: 2025-03-24 04:04 pm (UTC)That's probably the best way to go about it. Self-defense is justified. [A pause.] Though I don't usually kill them then, either.
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Date: 2025-03-28 11:44 am (UTC)[ Gorgug remembers many people stabbing him in the back! ...okay, so maybe one time. ]
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Date: 2025-03-29 09:49 pm (UTC)[He's a swordsman...]
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Date: 2025-04-01 09:31 pm (UTC)I don't know, I guess-- I guess I could try and knock more people out. But it's hard if you're in the middle of a fight and there's other people attacking you? And I use an axe. So swiping at them--
[ He semi-makes a swiping motion, since he's carrying his ribs. ]
Plus, I'm usually pretty mad. [ ... ] Does that sound like an excuse?
[ He wonders.... ]
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Date: 2025-04-02 04:10 pm (UTC)Maybe try meditation?
[For the anger!]
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Date: 2025-04-05 01:39 pm (UTC)[ To have better, quick thinking and reflexes in the midst of battle!? ]
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Date: 2025-04-08 06:03 pm (UTC)[Murder is a-okay! In specific circumstances!]
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Date: 2025-04-12 09:08 am (UTC)You've never heard of an angry, violent fighting style?
[ Apparently. ]
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Date: 2025-04-14 10:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-04-17 03:51 pm (UTC)[ And fighting?? ]
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Date: 2025-04-23 03:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-04-26 02:20 pm (UTC)You're a teetotaller?
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Date: 2025-04-28 02:16 am (UTC)I'm a human.
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Date: 2025-05-03 02:59 pm (UTC)I meant you don't drink alcohol.
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Date: 2025-05-05 08:00 pm (UTC)I do drink alcohol though.
[He never said he didn't??]
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Date: 2025-05-06 02:39 pm (UTC)[ Why!! ]
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Date: 2025-05-06 09:44 pm (UTC)[Obviously!!]
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Date: 2025-05-14 02:12 pm (UTC)... ]
Do you wanna get drunk to punch drunk?
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Date: 2025-05-15 04:31 am (UTC)...Do you want to punch drunk?
14th february, un: gorgug, text
Date: 2025-02-17 02:00 pm (UTC)if you were dating a guy, what kind of present would you like from them?
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Date: 2025-02-17 11:12 pm (UTC)Food
Maybe new clothes
Uncompensated medical aid
Just spending time together might be nice
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Date: 2025-02-18 05:54 pm (UTC)[ That is to say, Gorgug supports these answers. ]
how about flowers?
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Date: 2025-02-18 11:29 pm (UTC)Are you courting someone
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Date: 2025-02-19 03:35 pm (UTC)he likes sports and being popular and rich and opinionated
i don't know if he would like flowers
[ ... ]
are you cool back home?
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Date: 2025-02-19 07:23 pm (UTC)I am very well known and often used to have people coming to challenge me
Is that cool
If he is rich maybe you could give him something money can't buy?
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Date: 2025-02-21 01:07 pm (UTC)... ]
i think fabian would find that cool
[ Maybe?? Maybe Chu Wenshan is cool... ]
what can't money buy?
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Date: 2025-02-21 05:28 pm (UTC)Something homemade? Your company? A challenge to battle?
Maybe not the challenge
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Date: 2025-02-23 06:40 pm (UTC)i'll see what i can think of. something special and priceless
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Date: 2025-02-24 05:36 pm (UTC)Maybe cook him a meal
Can't go wrong with food
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Date: 2025-02-25 05:29 pm (UTC)i know what food he likes
rice and fish
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Date: 2025-02-25 07:28 pm (UTC)Can you make west lake vinegar fish
Maybe he'll like that
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Date: 2025-03-04 05:51 pm (UTC)i don't know
maybe?
it's got to be possible somewhere
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Date: 2025-03-05 05:56 am (UTC)Create your own fish
I don't know how but you seem pretty smart
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Date: 2025-03-10 01:04 pm (UTC)i guess i've had to study biology
i can see if it comes up in any of my books
i can do that?
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Date: 2025-03-12 11:43 am (UTC)Do what your heart tells you
I believe in you
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Date: 2025-03-15 07:17 pm (UTC)i'll let you know what my heart tells me
when i have some time
i have to be a good boyfriend today
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Date: 2025-03-18 05:51 pm (UTC)Be the best boy friend you can
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Date: 2025-03-20 11:52 am (UTC)yeah
i will
thanks
a week or so after he died; sending/pending messages while in etraya
Date: 2025-02-18 09:50 pm (UTC)Or something.
Whatever.
voice, after he returns
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Date: 2025-02-19 02:28 pm (UTC)I merely felt it would be a good idea to send them. After all, I feel like I slacked off a little on my training and ended up paying for it while on the train.
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Date: 2025-02-19 07:09 pm (UTC)[Should he ask about the train...does he know about the train...either way, his answer doesn't change.]
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Date: 2025-02-21 01:28 pm (UTC).......
..............I can show you in person?
[He can't figure out how to video this...]
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Date: 2025-02-26 03:51 pm (UTC)And at what point can one be considered fit enough that they don't have to do training?
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Date: 2025-02-26 07:31 pm (UTC)You could retire, maybe.
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Date: 2025-02-26 07:45 pm (UTC)There is no end to it!
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Date: 2025-02-27 01:52 pm (UTC)[Man up, bro!]
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Date: 2025-02-28 07:17 pm (UTC)[You're talking to a musclehead, how is exercising different from breathing...]
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Date: 2025-03-04 03:32 pm (UTC)I suppose that you're right on that point...
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Date: 2025-03-04 07:19 pm (UTC)[He's such a logical guy, is Chu Wenshan.]