Merriment 18 | Video

[mynameisallen]

[Allen had just finished training for the day. It wasn't like his usual workout as he was slowly working his way back to to that. He was still honestly tired after what happened even if he didn't do an awful lot beyond talking.

But to him talking can be just as exhausting and yet here he was with a smile on his face.]

Hello... So I don't normally talk on here much but I'm trying this new thing called... being open and it's been going well. Sort of.

[He has his moments.]

So I decided why don't we all try giving a fact or two about ourselves. They don't have to be super serious or anything. Just anything will do and we can talk.

I will go first with some facts:

One: Back home we had a situation where people became zombie like and so to deal with something... I hit on a male robot to get him to do it. It worked.
Two: I have a bone to pick with Cupid. They're an asshole and I don't like them.
Three: I've cheated pirates out of money. Like a lot of money.
And finally Four: I once stabbed myself with my own sword. I thought it wouldn't do anything... I was very very wrong.

[All rather odd facts about himself that he was comfortable with sharing. The smile till on his face.]

So whose going to be next if anyone.

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[eternalinquiry]

[ This Lan Wangji has never used this system before and it takes several attempts to make it work. ]
If you managed to mitigate the zombies, then whatever action you took was worth it. [ Maybe, not that he would ever try that himself. ]
I am curious as to how you thought stabbing yourself would not have consequences.

Facts in return;
One, I am convinced that most technology hates me.
Two, I live in a museum of which I am effectively an exhibit.
Three, I have suffered through four embellished accounts of my own life as classroom material.
Four, I have a file in the local government that is thicker than my wrist, however I am immune to any threat from them.

[mynameisallen]

Unfortunately, it wasn't. It literally took an outside party to actually fix the issue.
[Just... poor Bak having to deal with avoiding getting bitten while trying to create the antidote.]

For my sword its because of how my sword works. It's ability only is meant to affect those of a certain way. Think of it like being possessed and my sword can be used to exorcise. I thought I would be fine considering it's my own sword. But as I said I was wrong.

[He paused for a moment.]

Why do you think technology hates you?

[eternalinquiry]

That is distressing, we all can lose battles but it is frustrating when it occurs.
Was everything restored once the help arrived?

Mn, that is an interesting weapon. Does it rely on physical make up or a spiritual one to tell the difference between friend or foe?

[ At this point he's not sure why technology wouldn't hate him... ]

I think it is embarrassed that I have seen it in it's infancy. It malfunctions far too easily in my presence, without any input from me and with alarming results.

[mynameisallen]

Thankfully yes.

[Allen paused. He honestly didn't know. He knows his innocence pretty well and he understood it was something both he and the innocence wanted so...]

I can't say exactly.

[That...is certainly something.]

It really does seem like it isn't fond of you. I've never heard of things doing that before.

[eternalinquiry]

Are these incidents frequent in your line of work?

[ It sounded exhausting if they are, but perhaps one just gets used to it. ]
How did you obtain it?
[ Technology is very useful, he just wishes it was consistent. ]

Current technology is younger than me by several hundred years, and I am told it has no emotional state. I find that difficult to believe after the third time a printer exploded.

[mynameisallen]

Well we get into a lot of fights and the possibility of getting hurt is pretty much a given. So yes. Hurting ourselves is a lot less common.

[He soon tilted his head slightly.]

Do you mean how did I obtain my weapon?

I think you just have really bad luck when it comes to it, but yeah too many coincidences. At least the stuff here has been nicer... right?

[eternalinquiry]

...You have an interesting line of work. [It sounds busy and chaotic, but without malice.]

Yes, I am curious as to how it functions. There was a similar incident where I come from.

[ A small pause, with a hint of embarrassment. ]
The technology here has been kinder than most, yes. It did take me multiple attempts to connect with you over it, however.

[mynameisallen]

Interesting would be an understatement. Though I've had other work since then all pretty much involving fighting if it was needed, but much rarer.

[He soon held up his arm quietly.]

It functions like any normal weapon once I invoke it anyway.

[eternalinquiry]

It is paid work for fighting, but you are not a soldier? What are your typical duties?

[ A small blink at the arm, the visible difference is not overwhelming but it does raise more questions. ]

Does the arm function as normal before it is invoked? What form does the weapon take?

[mynameisallen]

No, the fighting jobs I did the title wasn't soldier. I did hunt certain creaters in one world, was part of a police force in the same world and dealt with pirates.

In another world though it was less fighting and more a Deputy guardian where if needed fighting was a thing, but not as common. But I also did a bit on the entertainment side for a change. Did that in the other world to when I got the time as it's always fun.

[Basically he works a lot and back then barely got a break through choice... in one case because a goat put him into debt.]

It does, I can write and stuff with it and the weapon form is a claw or sword depending on what I want to use.

[eternalinquiry]

Hunting creatures and pirates? Our worlds have more in common than I first thought, though that is vast range of duties.

You have travelled through worlds before this journey? How does the experience relate to this one?

[a goat got him in debt... Now that I need to hear.]

Fascinating. Is sensation dulled or heightened? Would you say it is more convenient than having to draw a sword instead?

[mynameisallen]

Your world had creatures to fight too?

[With his he knew he was at least helping in two ways. At least he liked to think that anyway.]

As for travelling for one I prefer the first place I went to in terms of travel mostly because you can actually go back if needs be and you have control over where you go. So this type is very unnerving because of it. Travelling though can be fun and enjoyable.

[The goat was an asshole and forged his signature for loans... How did a goat manage to do that. The world will never knew, but Allen will never forget.]

It can still hurt depending on what you hit it with. Won't if it's for example a normal weapon. But if it is heightened or not I don't know and definitely more convenient because it's instant that it forms.

[eternalinquiry]

Mn. Most started as people, then their death influenced what they became next. Some without souls, some souls without bodies and the occasional monster or animated plant.

That kind of travel does sound preferable. I have not been here long enough to know if the train ever returns to places it has been. I agree, this train is a little discomforting, with the lack of forewarning. Travelling with those you love can be wonderful, no matter the journey but this is... extreme.

Hm, that is interesting. I would have said it was more convenient to have your weapon always with you; but as one of my own is playing an instrument I would need it to still be as dexterous and sensitive. That is why I ask.

[mynameisallen]

That... kinda sounds awful. Sounds like people aren't able to rest if that happens.

As for the train. So far it hasn't returned to any worlds we have been on. It's always been new places. AT least from when I arrived and I haven't been here the whole time. I think the numbers that have aren't that high either. But travelling with those you care about I agree is wonderful and nice.

Intruments can be used as weapons to? I mean... always possible with the kinds I know of back home, so not that surprised. But it's interesting.

[eternalinquiry]

Yes, a cultivator's job is to cultivate but I believe it matter that you use the skills you gain to help everyone in need. That includes the dead.

Always new? Well, it is just as well I wished to travel. Even if this is not precisely how I meant to do so. Have you been on the train long? People have mentioned some long serving members such as the spider.

Hm, it is not often the instruments themselves that do the damage, but the energy put into the playing. Wei Wuxian uses his flute from a distance, my son has been known to actually beat fierce corpses with his Guqin. It is most frequent in my family, not across the world in general.

[mynameisallen]

I've been aboard for six plus months at this point. But there have been those who have been around much longer than I have.

Question...What is a Guqin?

[eternalinquiry]

Six months? That is shorter than I expected for how competent you are at travel. Your previous world helped you gain experience?

[ An amused pause. ] A guqin is a stringed instument, made in china. It has a large wooden body and a varying number of strings held tight across the top.

[mynameisallen]

That's because I travelled before I found myself on the train. Over all I would say that I've been travelling for around two years now at this point.

[He listened to the explanation before nodding slightly.]

AH, I think I saw one of those once but didn't know what it was. [Didn't really travel to CHina all that much in his travels.]

[eternalinquiry]

It must be tough to be so far from home, for so long. Unless you prefer a life on the road?

They were an instrument of the gentry, far less common now in modern day living.

[mynameisallen]

I personally have always been use to travelling way before here back home; When I was younger I travelled with a travelling performer and then my master which wasn't as fun. So it was kinda normal until I was 15, then while I still travelled for jobs at my new work I pretty much had a home. Which was a new thing for me.

Is it really? How moden for you would be modern?

[eternalinquiry]

Ah, then perhaps the road is more to your liking than staying still... in some cases. You did not like your master? I came to travelling late in my life and it is still not quite in my nature. I am more used to going out from one centre of operations and returning there occasionally.

Hm, modern for me includes cars and mobile phones that I still do not understand. The world has a connected web that holds vast amount of information, some of it about me and very personal. Yourself?

[mynameisallen]

I did not enjoy my time with master. It was the worst. It's not fun having to pay off one guys debts.

[He had many a debt to pay off that it can cause nightmares, thankfully those have lessened over time thanks to not being at home to worry about paying them off.]

All of that would have been modern to me as well. AT least until the last world I was in where those things existed. So that was a whole new thing.

[eternalinquiry]

[ A silence a series of blinks display as much incredulity as possible. ]
Your master... left you with his debts? How old were you at the time?

It must have been jarring to witness the sudden changes in technology when you arrived in that world. I saw it in increments and it still caused me enough issues. How advanced was the world you landed in?

[mynameisallen]

It started when I was 10 maybe 11 and the last lot was at 15.

[So he's been left paying stuff off for a while.]

As for the other world. It depended on which city I was in. Someone were vastly more advanced than others.

[eternalinquiry]

[ There is a long silence. ] Exactly what did your master think he was teaching you while this was happening? That seems remarkably cruel.

So the level of technology changed from city to city? Was it like this place, with missions or tasks to fulfil?