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kaisou2022-07-24 07:06 pm
goldenherd) wrote in kaisou2022-07-24 07:06 pm
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[002] Weight of days lost holding you down
WHO: Claude von Riegan, Aysun the wyvern, and you!!
WHERE: Outside the Zodiac apartments, Kami State Park, on the network so I don't have to doublepost
WHEN: July 24th (happy birthday Claude)
WHAT: Claude meets up with an old friend
WARNINGS: Talk about past animal death (she's fine now), property damage done to an NPC's car, more property damage to an IKEA, conversations about Christianity
1. Outside the Zodiac Apartments
WHERE: Outside the Zodiac apartments, Kami State Park, on the network so I don't have to doublepost
WHEN: July 24th (happy birthday Claude)
WHAT: Claude meets up with an old friend
WARNINGS: Talk about past animal death (she's fine now), property damage done to an NPC's car, more property damage to an IKEA, conversations about Christianity
1. Outside the Zodiac Apartments
- At exactly three in the morning, there's a loud roar from the street outside the Zodiac apartment building, accompanied by the sound of crunching metal and a car alarm going off. Anyone who looks to investigate will find a gigantic, white-scaled wyvern sitting on top of a now much flatter SUV - thankfully parked and empty - bellowing forlornly and craning her long neck to and fro, looking up and down the street in search of something or someone but unwilling to leave her new perch. How she got there is a bit of a mystery, despite the night owls surely on watch given the apartment's eccentric residents. All that's really clear is that one moment there were precisely no wyverns wandering the streets, and the next one had destroyed some poor townie's car.
Someone may want to do something about that? Probably.
[ Claude will wait patiently to reunite with his wyvern, but only for a tag or two. After that, he'll turn up in the thread. ]
- URGENT HELP NEEDED
Does anyone know where in the city one might find appropriate facilities for housing a wyvern? Even temporary arrangements would be fine at this point, but I'm honestly not too optimistic. I haven't seen any around or any sings of roosts even on the taller buildings here, so I'm assuming they might count as "supernatural" here if they existed in this world at all before now. But I'm getting sidetracked - what I need is a place that's sheltered from the wind, is larger than the space needed to comfortably stable a horse, and that stays very warm at night. Ideally it'd be someplace up high, but I don't think beggars can be choosers in this case. Thanks in advance.
- "Stop that! Aysun, you get out of there right now."
Despite his scolding tone, Claude manages to laugh as he wrestles his wyvern away from one of the bear-proof dumpsters at the campgrounds, arms around her neck and leaning hard against her. Aysun, being literally one ton of solid muscle and bone, could probably resist if she wanted to, but relents, snorting and backing away from the dumpster even as she eyes it with an intense curiosity. Once Claude is sure she's not about to lunge for it again, he turns and slams the lid as shut as it will go with a new set of wyvern bite-shaped dents in it. Shaking his head, he sighs.
"Just what am I going to do with you?" he asks, patting her shoulder. "Don't get me wrong. I'm glad to have you here with me. But it's looking like this could be quite a bit of fuss we've gotten ourselves into."
She grumbles, softly, and noses into his hair affectionately, resting her gigantic head against his.
"Yeah. I missed you too."
- With the question of where exactly he's going to live mostly settled, at least for now, Claude turns his attention to the question of employment. It's... honestly not something he's had to give a lot of thought to in a long time, between being recognized as a legitimate heir to two separate noble families when he was thirteen and seventeen respectively. While he's been far from idle in that time, eyes on the crown as soon as it became a viable option for him and knowing that earning that would take an incredible amount of discipline and skill, it does mean some of his skillsets other than war and politics have fallen by the wayside, and under the circumstances he's... very tired of both those things.
Archival and library work strikes him as an option first, but it seems like most of the entry-level positions in this world are volunteer work, and while under normal circumstances he wouldn't mind trading his time for the opportunity to really sink his teeth into the backlog of reading he wants to do about this place, he does have a literal ton of gigantic flying lizard to keep fed. So what else can he do? He's just considering it, walking around the city and taking note of the kinds of storefronts and merchants he sees, when one in particular catches his eye. It doesn't seem to specialize in anything in particular, boasting various curiosities and antiques, but it's the rack of dried herbs hanging over one of the displays that gets his attention.
A thought occurs to him. He enters the shop, hands in his pockets and idly glancing around the shelves as he waits for an opportunity to speak to the owner.
- IKEAs are a sensory overload for people at the best of times, but for Claude - a man who's previous experience with buildings even approaching the size of a normal IKEA (much less an infinite one) are all monasteries, castles, and libraries - the vast, warehouse-expanse of open space and fluorescent lighting is a little overwhelming. He boldly does not follow the arrows on the floor, not trusting them to do anything but lead him in circles, instead relying on his own sense of direction to try to navigate through the labyrinthine mess of brightly colored furniture.
He's got his bow and a quiver of arrows with him, slung over his shoulder and at his hip respectively, though he doesn't really expect to have to use them. All of this sounds like a pretty standard if oddly organized case of banditry to him, and he doesn't think he's going to need to shoot anyone over that, probably. The intimidation factor will probably help, though, and honestly he just doesn't feel all that comfortable with the notion of leaving Failnaught lying around. So he's here, pacing the display floor and keeping an eye out for anyone who looks like they're trying to steal an entire table or something, he guesses!
- "So, run this by me again," says Claude, glancing over at the masked man who continues to refuse to give him a name as they walk along the sidewalk. "Turning water into wine has religious connotations here - at least for one specific faith - and we've got some kind of mage out here doing just that for the spiritual clout. Do I have that right?"
He's left his bow behind this time, locked carefully in a safe in his apartment. His figuring is that that his last outing went so middling-to-poorly in part because of over-reliance on the thing, and also that this sounds like a problem he'll have a better chance of talking his way through if he isn't holding a weapon. After all, it doesn't sound like this mage is trying to hurt anyone, so much as just doing some kind of glory-seeking.
"Now, obvious problems with messing with the civic water supply aside, let me play demon's advocate here for a second. What's to say he's not just who he says he is? Is there a concrete way to tell when power comes from a divine source here, as opposed to a magical one?"
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[ On top of someone's car. Which is fine. That's probably fine. ]
She's a little fussy, but if you know how to handle her she's a sweetheart. I had no idea there were dragons in the park, though. That's certainly something. I don't imagine they'd be all that willing to open their homes to a mere mortal like my friend here, though.
The zoo's that place that's sort of a cross between a public park and a menagerie, right? I guess they would have the resources to look after an animal as large as a wyvern, at least temporarily while I figure out what we're doing here. It's just a question of whether they have the space to loan out and the willingness to do so, I imagine.
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Yeah, that's the zoo! Mm, yeah, I guess all you can do is ask. Otherwise maybe somewhere in the Kanto Region? They have these things called Pokemon there and from what I hear some of them are pretty big, though some people keep them in balls instead of a place like you're looking for...
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Anyway, Kanto's through one of the stable gates, right? I'm not sure what I follow what you're saying about keeping Pokemon in balls, but that does sound fairly promising. I'll see about taking a look if the zoo doesn't pan out.
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Oh!! Oh are you an Isekai?
[Maybe he shouldn't assume that. This person could be from this world, it's not like Yoosung knows every religion on Earth, after all. Maybe there is one with a Goddess and a Divine Dragon!
But... That does sound a little more like his favorite fantasy anime series rather than a religion...]
Yeah, the Kanto Region is through a gate in Blue Fish Park! That's the park with the zoo in it, too.
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I'm not sure what that means exactly, but one of the message boards I can see on this thing is called the Isekai Group Chat, so it might be safe to assume I am. Is that the word for people who wound up here from other worlds?
[ Seems like a safe bet, from context. ]
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That's cool though, that you have a religion with dragons in it like that! The dragons here only showed up a little while ago, I think...
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Yeah, that's the story I've been hearing from a lot of people I've talked to who are from this world. Personal question, but did you start having weird dreams or memories from a different life at around that time, too? Because that also seems to be pretty common here.
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ah not that you were asking for that information lol sorry
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I dunno how it all connects, but I still don't know a lot about the Spirit Realm stuff either, and it's gotta be all connected to that, right?
I haven't really been looking into any of it though, I think it might be a little beyond me
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[ Questions of nature versus nurture and the human personality as written in stone or a blank slate can wait for when there are less practical things to be curious about, as far as he's concerned. ]
Really, though? I guess it is all pretty confusing. Personally I find it fascinating, but I can see wanting to just go about your business given the way it was probably sort of sprung on you out of nowhere.
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but haven't really found anything so...
I guess that's about as much as I've done
it's interesting but yeah I have got other stuff on my mind too
there's a lot going on that's all brand new to me, you know?
whoops sorry for the delay
Anyway, that makes sense. It does seem like it'd be a lot to deal with at once. I've only got one lifetime's worth of memories in my head, and I'm still struggling to keep up with all of what's going on here.
no worries~
Mm, yeah... And I'm not the best person to answer questions about everything, but I do like to help, so if you're struggling with anything else and there's something I can do, you can let me know!
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Anyway, I'll definitely keep that offer in mind, though you may come to regret it. Right now there's just so much to learn that even just trying to figure out what I want to know first is sort of overwhelming. If any specific questions come up, though, I'll send for you.