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VERTILINE [ 1 ]

Jan 20, 2011 18:42

Hello? Hellooooo?

[A fitting way to begin a post on ArtichokeNet. It's amazing Lily even found the right buttons. There's a whoosh of air when Lily shakes the communicator. That's obviously going to help! One can hear sniffles in the background. Lily just finished crying with joy (for now).]

Um, is anybody there? My name is Lily. [… Not Unit 67. ( Read more... )

sure is awesome around here, intro, the dog days are over, oh no

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bellator_lucis January 20 2011, 23:55:48 UTC

[The Warrior is out of his pod as soon as he hears this post. Chronic Hero Syndrome go! And after hearing about the creature in the fog from Zack, he's doubly reluctant to walk away from anyone in need of help.

His voice is calm, though.]

This is a world called Vertiline. We have been brought here in the hopes that we can defend the local inhabitants from the monsters that are attacking them. If you see fog, stay away from it. Dangerous creatures lurk within it.

The creature that is following you is called a capybara. They have been provided to us as pack animals, and they are not dangerous.

[The other stuff can wait.]

What do you look like, Lily?

[The Warrior is coming to find you.]

lilyground January 21 2011, 00:14:34 UTC

[WOAH A RESPONSE]

Monsters? Oh. ... Monsters. Okay.

[Right. This is so a dream. Still, Lily's pretty wary about giving out her physical description. It reeks of a bad idea. She quickly looks back at the capybara. It's fucking adorable.]

What do you look like? [Lily asks as she pulls herself up in a nearby tree. Weird - it seems more difficult than it should be. Probably her imagination.] Because. You know. I guess.

bellator_lucis January 21 2011, 00:22:42 UTC

[He doesn't, actually. Before he came here there was his side and the other side and it was pretty clear who was fighting for whom. But even if he doesn't understand the reason for the caution, he has to approve of its presence. Caution is good.]

I am wearing blue armor. You will see me coming.

[Because it is shiny and shows up well against the forest green. He's searching along the edge of the tree near the pods, hoping that Lily hasn't gone too far in.]

lilyground January 21 2011, 00:30:08 UTC

[Oh, she SEES that armor. It's so shiny. It reminds her of the machines back home.

Can she even call that awful place home?

Whatever. Bottom line, this guy doesn't look like a threat. At all. Even with his shiny metal stuff (armor?), she can easily take him down if she has to (or so she thinks). Lily drops out of a tree a little ways away and approaches with extreme caution.]

... Hi.

bellator_lucis January 21 2011, 00:36:40 UTC

[It's even shinier than usual because the Warrior has been at a bit of a loose end here. So he's been polishing it a lot. That and practicing with his new sword.

He will not come too close to Lily, because he knows this concept of 'personal space'.]

Hello, Lily. I am the Warrior of Light. Have you just arrived?

[Strange how all the new people arrive in groups.]

lilyground January 21 2011, 00:46:06 UTC

A little bit ago. I was, um... I was picking flowers.

[Oh, right. Lily rubs her muddy, bloody hands on her jumpsuit. This actually makes her look less presentable.]

Um, this is the outside, right?

bellator_lucis January 21 2011, 00:49:40 UTC

[The Warrior's eyes zero in on that blood.]

Are you hurt? There is a healing hall in the temple.

[Also, that is a strange question, but...]

We are outside, yes.

lilyground January 21 2011, 00:57:59 UTC

What? No! I mean, it's not blood or anything - well, I mean, it - but it's not... mine.

[What a lame finish. That whole sentence fills her with dread. Way to remind yourself you killed your entire makeshift family, Lily. She swallows her sadness and tries (fails) to look nonchalant. Emotions have to wait.]

bellator_lucis January 21 2011, 02:47:43 UTC

[That is...a little concerning, actually. But if it's not hers...]

That is good.

[See the Warrior fumble. How does small-talk go.]

Are you hungry?

lilyground January 21 2011, 02:56:59 UTC

[Now that you mention it...]

Way.

bellator_lucis January 21 2011, 03:04:27 UTC

[Conversation gambit is successful! Huzzah! The Warrior gestures off towards them temple.]

I can show you where to get something to eat.

[Glancing at her jumpsuit.]

And where you may obtain a change of clothes.

lilyground January 21 2011, 03:25:06 UTC

Yeah. Yeah, that would be good.

[Lily is trying to emotionally detach herself. None of this feel real. The massacre doesn't, and Vertiline doesn't. It's probably better that way.]

So, um, are you just "the Warrior of Light"? Or do you have a real name? [Pause. WAIT.] I mean! Not that that can't be a name! Because it can!

bellator_lucis January 21 2011, 03:28:18 UTC

If I have another name, I do not remember it. Much of my past is hidden from me. Others that I have met here call me 'Warrior'.

[He's been giving that little speech a lot lately.

Off towards the temple! He's not making full use of the length of his legs, though, so Lily should be able to catch up fairly easily.]

lilyground January 21 2011, 03:48:14 UTC

[Wow. Even Lily has a name. That's crazy. Lily jogs up beside him.]

Warrior. Okay. That's cool, I guess. Where do you come from?

[This is how normal people make conversation, right?]

bellator_lucis January 21 2011, 03:53:45 UTC

[It doesn't bother him much. 'Warrior of Light' is an identity he's comfortable with.]

Prior to this, I was on a world made of the fragments of many others. It was a battleground for a war between gods.

[This is another speech he's been giving a lot lately.]

lilyground January 21 2011, 03:58:34 UTC

Really?

[Surprisingly, Lily knows what all of those words mean. Well, she only knows "god" in a vague sense. But still.]

That sounds... bad. I think.

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