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voidtreckernet2021-06-01 06:06 pm
blitzcheer) wrote in voidtreckernet2021-06-01 06:06 pm
llama 16, video + action
[ Hello, ICP video. There's a Tidus sitting on the computer chair in the standard coach when the image pops up, waving up a hand to the screen. ]
Hey, 'sup everyone! I got some stuff from the last mission with Inigo and Dennis that we wanna share with the rest of the train. Some computer tablets, VR glasses, goggles - hey Seto! You can do somethin' with those, right? - and some clothes and whatever else we could get our hands on.
Nothin' like books or music or food. Sorry! But if you like lamps or fans, we got those. [ Ahahaha. ] Oh yeah, and some first aid kits too, if any of the teams want 'em for supplies. And speaking of, Jane told me about these bacta bandages thingies they use where she's from. Like some kind of healing...gel you can sit over wounds? Uh, I got a book on it for an easier time understanding the stuff.
Annnyway, [ moving alooong, ] there's something I wanted to talk about with the last mission and those illusions. I know there's people who know how to work with tech or magic, usually one or the other... well, I don't know anything about making things, but I know there's a lot you can do with the right tools and know-how. And there was some magic and gear that could push back on the illusions. Like a bracer I have, and one of the spells on the manadrives!
I was talkin' with Q'uila - she's a blacksmith that works with enchanting. And I know there's this big chunky book on magic and magitek in the library. Uhh, I've never read it [ because NO THANKS ] but I didn't know if we could... do something? To help with these missions? Create some kinda...I don't know, big barriers when we turn them on, that don't need magic folk casting them! Put our heads and resources together and make somethin' cool!
[ Cool magitek science junk!! ]
A-anyway! [ Because he realises he's really reaching here-! ] If anyone's interested, I'm fine if you wanna check out the bracer that helped with the illusions - even if you need to take it apart. And I know Senku's been checking out the manadrives - that has a magic barrier spell too, and Light got manuals on the things. And I got some other gems and protection gear from my world too! If it'll help. Never know, right?
'kay, well - see you!
[ ACTION: standard coach ]
[ And for those of you who come into the standard coach, either because of the message or just because you were passing through, Tidus has taken up a table with a bunch of...everything on the table. Tablets, pens, folded clothes in different sizes, cute toys and ...cubes?.
And Tidus is sat taking up an entire booth couch, legs folded and playing a handheld game.
Let's play shop. ]
Hey, 'sup everyone! I got some stuff from the last mission with Inigo and Dennis that we wanna share with the rest of the train. Some computer tablets, VR glasses, goggles - hey Seto! You can do somethin' with those, right? - and some clothes and whatever else we could get our hands on.
Nothin' like books or music or food. Sorry! But if you like lamps or fans, we got those. [ Ahahaha. ] Oh yeah, and some first aid kits too, if any of the teams want 'em for supplies. And speaking of, Jane told me about these bacta bandages thingies they use where she's from. Like some kind of healing...gel you can sit over wounds? Uh, I got a book on it for an easier time understanding the stuff.
Annnyway, [ moving alooong, ] there's something I wanted to talk about with the last mission and those illusions. I know there's people who know how to work with tech or magic, usually one or the other... well, I don't know anything about making things, but I know there's a lot you can do with the right tools and know-how. And there was some magic and gear that could push back on the illusions. Like a bracer I have, and one of the spells on the manadrives!
I was talkin' with Q'uila - she's a blacksmith that works with enchanting. And I know there's this big chunky book on magic and magitek in the library. Uhh, I've never read it [ because NO THANKS ] but I didn't know if we could... do something? To help with these missions? Create some kinda...I don't know, big barriers when we turn them on, that don't need magic folk casting them! Put our heads and resources together and make somethin' cool!
[ Cool magitek science junk!! ]
A-anyway! [ Because he realises he's really reaching here-! ] If anyone's interested, I'm fine if you wanna check out the bracer that helped with the illusions - even if you need to take it apart. And I know Senku's been checking out the manadrives - that has a magic barrier spell too, and Light got manuals on the things. And I got some other gems and protection gear from my world too! If it'll help. Never know, right?
'kay, well - see you!
[ ACTION: standard coach ]
[ And for those of you who come into the standard coach, either because of the message or just because you were passing through, Tidus has taken up a table with a bunch of...everything on the table. Tablets, pens, folded clothes in different sizes, cute toys and ...cubes?.
And Tidus is sat taking up an entire booth couch, legs folded and playing a handheld game.
Let's play shop. ]
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Oh shit- [Dennis laughs a little.] Yeah, looks just like my uniform.
[He'll flip through some pages.]
See here, they're thick and made of fire-retardant material. So we don't catch on fire as easy.
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It get hot in those? [ ...wait. ] You know - they look thick! Better than catching on fire for sure. But you run into burning buildings in those? Help get people out?
[ That's a thing firefighters do, right. ]
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.. can you even run in that stuff?
[ That's Inigo's main thought here. He can understand how it'd protect someone against fire, but it also looks pretty heavy! ]
I know my friend Kjelle from back home sometimes has trouble running in her heavy armour.
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Gets really hot. [He nods at Tidus.] Yeah, burning buildings or lotta times there will be gas leaks and stuff. We go in trying to get everyone out before shit goes up.
[Dennis laughs a little at Inigo.]
Feels like you've got a whole other person or two on ya when you're running. Lotta times the adrenaline helps you not notice till later.
[Hours later when everything is sore and you want to sleep forever.]
Can only imagine running in armor, maybe sorta the same. Got a helmet with my uniform too.
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Huh. ...now you're both reminding me of the helmeted guys I had to deal with crashing a wedding who used flamethrowers to try and stop us. [ Thanks, Yevon. ]
Not that they were well-armoured, or the kind of firefighters you want to meet. [ ...but then he realises, probably because of Inigo (and it's him he looks to first), he mimics holding an object at his side. ] It was a weapon that spewed out fire. You ever heard of them?
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[ But what Tidus is talking about doesn't sound quite as magical? Maybe? Also, bro, what kind of wedding crash flamethrower adventure did you have??
He thinks of what Dennis was saying too though, and since there's just so many questions in his head about everything going on here, he first settles on saying with an arm gesturing at Dennis: ]
But I'm pretty sure Dennis' job isn't bringing more fire to the fire! [ That sounds like the opposite of helping to put out a fire. ]
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No, no you definitely don't bring more fire to a fire. That's the last thing you want.
[He considers what Tidus explains and his nose scrunches a little in thought.]
Flamethrower sounds right, not sure what else you'd call something that does that. Sounds like a really crazy wedding you crashed.
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Yeah, it was a crazy wedding. Some guy tried marrying my- [ he has to pause, think- a second or so taken before he settles on- ] --my friend, Yuna. I was a guardian for her! Don't know if I told you... anyway, I hardly remember what the big idea was. Politics, or something? Those guys aren't in power anymore, so good riddance to them!
[ He looks at Inigo. ] You know, I think I rarely saw magic people when we went up against the leaders. They just used machina-- machines. But maybe I'm just forgetting a few... we tried to keep out of their hair most of the time.
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[ He shakes his head though. No, this isn't the important part here. He wants to highlight Tidus here a bit more, but he does notice the way the other stumbles around talking about Yuna, so he doesn't want to draw too much attention to that either considering how much of a sore subject she can be..
So it's time to make this more of a general thing. ]
But look, Dennis! I told you, Tidus is a real hero too. He was out there fighting the power!
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Don't think you mentioned the guardian thing before, but sounds like you had a lot going on in that Spira place.
[Wild shit, lot crazier than being a fire fighter.]
Sounds like the both of ya are knights in shining armor. I'm uh... mines less shiny, but guess I got armor too.
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It was a temporary job for me. I'd rather go back to playing sports again! Speaking of- [ speaking of!! ], Dennnis, what's a big sports where you're from? Rugby? Football? Roland's a rugby guy. And Inigo's idea of fun is pulling draogn tails.
[ Or, close enough. ]
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Well, excuse my world for having other things going on!
[ Granted, he's keeping that vague on purpose, so it can sound like 'other forms of entertainment' rather than 'no time for sports when everyone is dying, okay'.
He'll be good otherwise though and pipe down so Dennis can actually answer. ]
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[Sounds like a way to lose your fingers, hands, arms ... your whole body.]
Y'got it pretty much right. Rugby and football are real popular on my side of the pond. Never really got into any of it myself, but can be fun to watch with a drink with your mates.
ree told me to go first :(
This is a custom Inigo clearly doesn't understand and can't comment on, but he's just huffy enough over here to say: ]
They're wyverns! [ PLEASE, TIDUS, THERE IS A DIFFERENCE. Don't poison Dennis' mind with the wrong dragon terminology! ] And they've regular wyvern sized. I mean, you do know how big those are, right?
i'm naggy
I've sat around watching games with pals than palling around with wyverns. [ Actually... ] Does your world have wyverns? Inigo makes them sound like things that you need a sword around.
[ And Dennis's world wasn't big on swords, apparently. Just like his own Zanarkand. ]
I don't know what to do with the both of you gosh
Uhh they're smaller than dragons, yeah? I think?
[Asked at Inigo.]
We ain't got real dragons and stuff, just stories. Not real where I'm from.
love us forever?
[ Cue Inigo giving Tidus a 'see?' kind of look. Some people have appropriate ideas about creatures even if they might not necessarily exist in their worlds! This is such a big point in Dennis' favour right here. ]
They're everywhere where I'm from. My world wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for dragons.
agreed
Oh yeah, his people worship a dragon called Naga. And maybe my world had dragons and wyverns once! [ Hands going up! ] But the closest I've seen was, it was a....thing. [ A thing. Mainly, he's going for that because he's sure he's never explained Fayth to Dennis, and remembering his own life in Zanarkand and how closer to that than outside it Dennis seems? He doesn't want to confuse the guy. ]
We used to have stories about sea fiends. No dragons for us.
I suppose this is possible
Yeah? Did some dragon god make your world or something?
[Look it sounds like a guess he's pulling out of his ass, but a boy has played video games and watched movies and shit like that happens. People from his world think a man in the sky created his in seven days so, not so crazy sounding really.]
Think the closest we have to dragons and such on Earth are uh... er, well had, was dinosaurs? Bunch of really big lizards, some had wings. Some were big as buildings and shit. Crazy stuff, we only have their skeletons and bones left now, they're all dead.
[He considers what Tidus has said. Not exactly specific about anything, but sounds like maybe it's kind of the same as Earth. One point there could have been stuff like that, but things go extinct for whatever reason alas. Though probably for the better when it comes to dinosaurs when it comes to humans.]
Fiends? So like giant sea creatures? Whales? Sharks?
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[ Does that sound a little culty? Perhaps. But Inigo smiles so happily as he says it anyway, as if something about that thought just brings joy and relief to his heart.
He seems to move on from it though, considering Dennis' dinosaurs for a moment before taking his chance to pipe up at that last part. ]
Everything in Tidus's world is a sea creature. [ Now that's a gross oversimplification on Inigo's part, but look, this whole animal thing has been going on for a long time now. ] But fiends are.. uh, more like monsters from his world. From what I've seen, anyway.
[ Thanks, weird one-eyeball-flying-thing from the last mission. ]
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[ Wait, he realises how that sounds. ]
Like the dead energy. If you don't move on peacefully, you leave a lot of bad stuff in the air, and that gets turned into fiends. So our monsters aren't like, you know- sticking around?
[ He tilts a hand, really just a conversational habit thing than really visually anything. But monsters apparently are things that are just around, soo. ]
But a lot of them are always the same thing, and they look and sound like half the stuff people talk about. Some of them look like lizards, or big things with wings.
[ He shifts against his seat, cocking his head in Inigo's direction. ]
Where I lived was surrounded by sea, so that's what Inigo's talking about. I didn't see a lot of land animals! Not my fault. [ But! ] But we had whales and sharks too. And dolphins!
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For the most part he just nods and 'ooooh's silently at the both of them explaining things.]
Whoa so your monsters are pissed off ghosts?
[Wait is that disrespectful?]
Does killing them uh like help them cross over?
[And nice it seemed like even though they were from different worlds there were still some things that were the same. That's kind of cool actually.]
You ever gotten to like, swim with them or anything? I know people do that on Earth, dunno if I could ever get in the water with sharks though.
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This is the point where Inigo realises just how much he's shot himself in the foot - because now the conversation sure is moving on to sea creatures because of him bringing that up, and that's exactly the thing he knows next to nothing about. Look, Ylisstol didn't exactly sit right next to sea, okay! ]
Why do people swim with animals?
[ Might as well ask that, since he's sure either Tidus or Dennis could give him an answer to that. Or maybe they'd each give a different answer, since there could still be differences between Zanarkand and this Earth place.
Seriously, why though. Is there some secret appeal? ]
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[ By dancing, Inigo!! Don't let those ears perk up.
But as for swimming with animals, he has to take a second to think. A second Inigo takes to ask his own question, which Tidus just tips his head with in place of a shrug. ]
Just something fun to do. I've never done it, but I've heard of people going down and petting octopus and dolphins. You get an oxygen mask and some gear if you're not trained to swim that far deep.
[ Not that Tidus can go far far down, buut. ]
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[There's definitely been and still are people in the world who've done stuff like that. Whether you believe that it works is another thing.]
Yeah, that's one reason. Some people do it for research or even a kind of therapy too. Never done it myself, I'm too much of a filthy land lubber.
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