PC: Gideon

[hardrocklife]

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[cavaliered]

Nah. What are they going to do, kill me? Send me to jail?

[hardrocklife]

[A shrug. Fair point. He'll come over a little closer to see what's up.]

Is there even anything worth stealing here?

[cavaliered]

It depends on if you're stealing because you want something or if you're stealing because stealing. I, for instance, am doing the second one.

[she waves a grimy plush dog at him.]

[hardrocklife]

I see...

I suppose I don't see the appeal.

[Of stealing, or of that plush dog? Yes.]

[cavaliered]

You don't see the appeal in flipping the bird to whatever runs this place?

[hardrocklife]

Is that what that is? I doubt anyone's going to miss those ratty-looking dolls.

[cavaliered]

That's not the point. The point is not following the rules. [chaos]

[hardrocklife]

Do we even have rules here?

[cavaliered]

[a long pause]

Again! Not the point! Just fuck up a thing with me!

[hardrocklife]

Why should I...

Oh, all right. [It's almost like he's used to getting roped into dumb antics, and has long given up on arguing.

He climbs over the counter to join her.]

[cavaliered]

[YESSSSS victory. she fist pumps.

she throws him a small ugly plush. it looks like one of the demons, but the sewing is so fucked up it's comical.]

[hardrocklife]

[he takes it and looks at it. hm.]

Everything here really is in the worst taste, isn't it...

[cavaliered]

Food's pretty okay. But yeah, everything else sucks. Nature of the - uh, devil.

[a beat.] What's it like where you're from?

[hardrocklife]

Compared to this? I suppose we're farther behind in technology...

[He pokes at some rubber ducks they've got stashed back here, giving one an experimental squeeze. It squeaks.]

I don't spend much time in cities, though... Most days, I'm out wandering in the wilderness. Through forests, valleys, deserts and mountain paths... Compared to that, these islands feel quite small and confining. Though that's surely the point.

[cavaliered]

[she's going to come look at the ducks also because they're hysterical, what's the point of this]

Probably. [...] So you have trees and stuff?

[hardrocklife]

Well, yeah.

... Do you not?

[cavaliered]

Nope. It's all rocks and bones and concerning bodily fluids.

[hardrocklife]

It's... what?

[???]

[cavaliered]

Which part did you not get?

[hardrocklife]

The... bones and the bodily fluids, mostly. What kind of environment is that...?

[cavaliered]

A dead one. The Ninth is drillshafts and tombs.

[hardrocklife]

And the Ninth is... your nation? Your world?

[He's trying to understand the scale of these deadlands.]

[cavaliered]

Planet. Nation, sort of? Mostly planet. We're the only ones there.

[hardrocklife]

[...]

How long has it been like that?

[cavaliered]

Longer than I've been alive. Think centuries.