.001 ♒ chronicAugustus began pestering...? [TEXT]

[chronomancer]

i think this is a stupid thing to ask
but i cant think a any other wway to phrase it
so

wwhat are wwe evven Supposed To Do here?
just
not get culled by monsters at night an eat wwhatevver they feed us an just
survvivve





thats it?


[...someone is not taking well to being "aimless". Help? Also, if you want to run into him he's in the Network terminal closest to 1-10. I'm cool with action tags.]

Comments

[chronomancer]

wwhen wwould it be convvenient?

[tempustemporum]

The book is in dormitory room 1-12. I will return there right now; if the door is locked, it means that no one is in at the moment. Wait there until I arrive.

[And right after he posts that message, Ienzo logs off and returns to his room. He knows enough by now to know what to expect: a troll with a jade-green symbol on their shirt.]

[Action]

[chronomancer]

[1-12 is not that far away. Eridan sort of lurks by the doorway, not having tried the door yet. He's pretty much just what Ienzo expects: A troll with a jade-green Aquarius symbol on his shirt.]

[tempustemporum]

...hello.

[So it appears Eridan got there before he did. Turn around, pal; did you expect this compiler to be three or four sweeps old?]

[chronomancer]

[Not entirely, but given his experience... why should he have expected any different.]

Hi. Thank you fer lettin me look at your notes.

[tempustemporum]

you're welcome.

[Ienzo slips out a key and unlocks the door, leaving it open for Eridan to come in. Meanwhile, he immediately heads over to his corner of the room; it's practically unmissable, considering the massive stacks of books all sitting there. He shifts through them for a few minutes and finally comes up with a book, which he hands to Eridan.] ...be careful. i don't want it to tear.

[Contained within the book:

- Basic Tower information, including documentation of every expansion he's been here for and a few recorded monsters;
- Notes concerning the names and collar colors of several residents, a few also marked with how long they've been here; there's an awful lot of trolls on this list thanks to Romeo scoping them out;
- A footnote to the first bullet, focused around the opening of the research library; he notes that the history, psychology, technology, and astral projection sections of the library have been missing since day one

...so yeah, it's basically worthless OOC since all of this information is available in assorted mod posts. But hey, it's good for the characters!]

[chronomancer]

I'll be careful.

[Eridan pages through the notebook, eyes unconsciously widening at all the names he recognizes. But otherwise he's silent, letting out a soft "hm" here and there.]

You're vvery thorough.

[tempustemporum]

i have nothing else to do. [Ienzo was watching his face the entire time; he did pick up the surprise evident on Eridan's face, but is pleased that he's not getting overly excitable about it.]

[chronomancer]

Yeah, I can see that.

[He fingers the pages as he reads, pursing his lips somewhat.]

I think all that free time might be wworse, in the long run.

[tempustemporum]

[He nods, watching Eridan flip on through. To use slang terminology that he would have no way of knowing: "Well, that's a duh."]

[chronomancer]

[Eridan finishes the notes after a long moment, seemingly reading and rereading certain passages, before he carefully shuts the notebook.]

Thank you.

[Just as carefully, he offers the notebook back.]

[tempustemporum]

you're welcome. [He takes the book back and promptly sets it back in its place, somewhere in the mountain range of reading material behind him.] did you glean anything interesting?

[chronomancer]

Aside the fact wwe're fucked, you mean?

[Eridan smiles humorlessly.]

The fact I'm goin to go stir crazy vvery soon, it seems.

[tempustemporum]

...almost certainly.

[Holy shit. Was that an undertone of amusement in his voice, beneath the monotone? Holy shit. STOP THE PRESSES--]

[chronomancer]

...good thing I'm not prone to homicidal outbursts, I guess.

[He runs a hand through his hair, skillfully avoiding the horns.]

Damn.

[tempustemporum]

[Dayum. That takes skill. But, homicidal outbursts? Where did that come from?]

...are such outbursts a recurring problem in your society?

[chronomancer]

[Evasive.]

...maybe. You could say that.

[tempustemporum]

[So then they probably are. Somehow he is not surprised much by this.]

i see.

[chronomancer]

You'vve met a lot of trolls.

[He nodded in the general direction of the notebook and all those notes.]

Wwhat do you think?

[tempustemporum]

that part was a collaboration between myself and someone else, who specifically looked for the trolls.

...but yes, i've met a lot of them.

[What he thinks... um...]

[Ienzo is silent for a surprisingly long time.]

...it is surprising how similar to human beings you are... in terms of intelligence, anyhow. i would have thought that you would be less advanced, but it seems as if you are on the same level, if not higher.

[He's thinking of Kanaya... urk. Kanaya...]

[chronomancer]

[Honesty. How... surprising. Rude, but almost refreshing. Eridan snorts in reply and arches an eyebrow as he speaks, almost mocking.]

Ethnocentric much?

[tempustemporum]

possibly.

[He's not going to deny him that.]

but considering the distance between our worlds? you could have developed as a species very, very differently.

[chronomancer]

...wwell, it wworks both wways. im sorry but humans are wweird.

[tempustemporum]

well, of course. [So similar, and yet so different; it would make sense for members of each species to think that the other was 'weird'.]

[chronomancer]

[Eridan smiles faintly, trying to make light of the situation and joke a little.]

I think the wweirdest think about you is the lack of fashionable horns.