[ 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]

[ 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.

[nauticalnightmare]

But I suck.

[Not something he usually admits lightly to anyone, but there's no point in holding up defenses around this guy.]

[sermonize]

[ just shrugs with a smile. ]

If I'm going to be frank, then where has being this ancestor of yours gotten you? True insanity is trying something over and over again, getting the same result, but not rethinking about a different approach. Why keep on trying something that is destined to not work?

[nauticalnightmare]

[He can't deny he's got a point there, but he's really not sure what to even say to that.]

Tryin' isn't ewer good enough for me. It's hard bein' alone an' growin' up an' no one understands. I couldn't ewen keep any a my quadrants, they all left me. Thinkin' one day I could be as unforgettable as Dualscar wwas my only motiwation.

[sermonize]

Oh I wouldn't say no one understands.

Once again, I drive the point that you are here now. The expectations that Alternia had for you are now rendered moot. Any expectations of the Game are now invalid. Becoming your ancestor is not the only feasible motivation now.

You can find something else. You now have the time.