[ OPEN ] August 2012 Introduction Log

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Characters: OPEN to new arrivals and NPCS.
Where: En route to Casualty Communal
Rating: Gen
Time: March 12 onwards
Description: Welcome to Death City!


It had been a little over a week since the sandstorm, and thus a little over a week since the last batch of newcomers. When the readings indicated that BREW was activating again so quickly, it was a bit of a scramble to get everything prepared. The last time it activated before then was early February, so this really was a small time frame. It had been some time since that happened.

But everyone dutifully prepared just in time for the first arrivals. It was also a relatively good day despite the past few rain showers. At least things were much calmer now.

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[sermonize]

[ so it's like that. this kid feels justified in his actions, but really it's more like two wigglers caught in a fight, blame shifting. ]

Well, wiggler. The way I see it you do have the option now to attempt to heal those bridges. It won't be easy and it will take time, but it is still there, if you wish to seek it.

I can help you with it. Otherwise, I can be around to lend an ear should you need it.

[nauticalnightmare]

[Eridan lets out a huff, trying to seem unimpressed but the subtle way he relaxes and inches just a bit closer speak volumes.]

The heiress wwas one a them. Fef dumped me cause I wwas too much for her an' had the fuckin' nerwe to run off wwith that-

[A bit of a stumble in his words, just barely stopping himself from the mustard blooded freak that wants to slip out on habit]

-wwith Sol. I don't think I killed him, didn't mean to at least, but her... She attacked me after I knocked him out an' I wwas just so fuckin' angry cause she couldn't see that I just wwanted to do wwhat wwas best for her an' then Kan came at me wwith that fuckin' chainsaww and wwhat wwas I supposed to do?

[They had deserved it. Joining up with Jack was the only option and they just wouldn't listen.]

...I didn't kill Kar if that's any better? He wwas in the room wwhen it happened, but he didn't do a fuckin' thin' but stand there so I just left.

[His voice drifts off to a grumble, angry and maybe still resentful even as he fists his shirt.]

An' Kan came back as a fuckin' rainbowwdrinker and I wwas so fuckin' freaked out I didn't hawe a chance wwith that chainsaww comin' at me like that.

[Never tell Eridan you're willing to listen to him, because then it's getting him to shut up that's the issue.]

And it wwasn't fuckin' fair.

[sermonize]

[ yeap. wiggler problems. wiggler problems and panicking. though once again it explains Karkat's demeanor. the Signless has to fight the urge to rub at his temples. this is exactly why the ideals of their society are so in the wrong. killing someone over such menial trifles ( though they are not so small in the eyes of a child ) gets no one anywhere. ]

You didn't kill Sollux, that's for certain. [ but now he knows why the kid is blind. ] He presently resides with my matesprit and myself...

[ the Signless takes a breath, patting Eridan's back so they can at least walk and talk. ]

Though just because you didn't kill him or Karkat does not make the situation any better. I'm sure you heard this before, but life isn't fair, young one. If we do not take the right courses of action, we have only ourselves to blame. Outside factors do not change the fact that the choice to act is yours and yours alone. Karkat could not make you flee nor Kanaya force you to attack her.

In this case? I believe no one is justified in ever taking the life of another. Not you. Not Kanaya. Not even myself.

[nauticalnightmare]

[Again he opens his mouth to protest, to tell him that he's wrong and of course he has a right when they treat him like such shit and even when he's just trying to help, but the pat on his back shuts him up before the rage can get out.

The anger fades into sulking, shoulders slumping along with it and his weak glare directed at the ground. Arguing with an adult really isn't a smart move, no matter how weird they may be.

He makes a small noise of protest though, just to show he's not happy with that answer, but he's fucked up to know not to bite at a hand that's willing to help.]

Name's Eridan Ampora.

[sermonize]

[ sometimes the truth is hard and people just simply need to face it and accept it before they can really move on. the Signless walks with Eridan, smiling faintly. ]

I'm glad to have run into you today, Eridan.

[nauticalnightmare]

[He can't help crack a bit of a smile at that, no matter how small and heavy it is.]

...Don't think I'we ewer heard those wwords in my life.

[sermonize]

Why? I don't believe you're someone that needs avoided. You are still only six sweeps. No one should write you off simply because of your actions, at least if you feel some degree of regret towards them.

It's not a bad thing to need to feel wanted, Eridan. The execution of how to fill that gap is what needs to be remedied.

I still believe that everything that transpires for you and your friends has purpose. There is no doubt in my mind that you all will succeed in the end.

[nauticalnightmare]

[Eridan doesn't even know how to react to that, almost tripping over his own feet in his distraction. Because, seriously?]

There's no fuckin' wway you can be real. You're too nice an' that's not howw the uniwerse wworks.

[He uses that as an excuse to drop the hand from his stomach to hold onto a bit of the other's cloak, liking making sure he won't just vanish and be some kind of weird fucked up illusion made of loneliness and desperation for someone to just listen.]

An' wwhatewer the others hawe left to do back home, I'm not part a it anymore. Only thin' I had to look forwward to wwas those fuckin' bubbles a nothin' but bad memories.

[sermonize]

[ oh the Signless has to laugh at the first statement. not at Eridan, but rather an amused tone. ]

I believe that the human saying of "if I had a nickel for every time someone has said that, I'd be rich" would be entirely accurate in this case. At least this time it isn't with a death threat behind it.

[ he takes notice of the way that Eridan starts to latch on and doesn't bother to remove it. the kid is just lonely and the adult can understand it. ]

Dreambubbles?

[nauticalnightmare]

Yeah. I don't really fuckin' fully understand howw they wwork so I can't answwer anythin' about them. Just knoww that that's where dead and sleepin' get to spend their fuckin' misery in the game.

An' most a my memories are shit I really don't wwanna deal wwith reliwin'.

[sermonize]

Hmmm. Perhaps this is one of those times where you shouldn't put it down if you have yet to really experience them to their fullest potential.

[nauticalnightmare]

If you say so. Doesn't mean I'm in any fuckin' hurry to be dead again, that's for fuckin' shore.

[sermonize]

Does it seem like I am in any hurry to rush back into the irons?

[nauticalnightmare]

...Point.

[There's so many things wrong with it, Dualscar would cull him for sure if he ever showed up and found out about this, but... Fuck it. It's worth it to have even a semblance of a friend here.]

...An' thanks for puttin' up wwith me an' bein'.... wwell, you. Wwhatewer the fuck you're supposed to be cause it sure as fuck isn't a normal troll. But that doesn't seem to be too bad a thing.

[sermonize]

[ he chuckles again, giving Eridan a bit of a ruffle. not messing up the hair too much. ]

I'll tell you the same thing that I have told the others: In the end, I believe that we should be trying to support you in whatever capacity we can. You children are our future, after all.

[nauticalnightmare]

[Just because it's Signless, he doesn't make much of a fuss about his hair getting messed up.]

...Don't think my ancestor wwould hawe quite the same opinion on the matter. I'm a huge fuckin' failure to him.

[sermonize]

Are you trying to become him?

[nauticalnightmare]

...I tried my wwhole life. I looked up to him, an' all the stories I found about him. Wwanted to be strong like he wwas, be a legend that no one wwould ewer forget.

[sermonize]

[ he walks in silence, mulling that one over. ]

So... You would try to lose what makes you unique just to live up to his aspirations and title?

[nauticalnightmare]

Nothin' ewer made me unique. I wwas a stupid fuckin' wiggler wwho liked nothin' but fake as fuck magic an' wwizards an may hawe had a bit a interest in killin' all land dwwellers an' flarpin'. Wwhich is howw I found out about him in the first place, an' howw I found his wweapon an' took it as my owwn as wwas my right. But... I could newer be as good as him.

[sermonize]

Killing all land dwellers...

[nauticalnightmare]

...Wwell, it seemed like a good idea at the time.

[Might be a bit of awkward shifting there.]

[sermonize]

Eridan, I do believe you might need to learn the virtue of patience...

[nauticalnightmare]

Newer been a strong point for me.

[sermonize]

Something else to work on while you're here.

Though, Eridan, you are not your ancestor. You were never meant to be, just like Karkat can never be me and Kanaya can never be Dolorosa. Instead of trying to be someone you clearly are not, maybe something else to reflect on is how to just simply... Be you.