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ossifragant) wrote2014-04-07 07:18 pm
ossifragant) wrote2014-04-07 07:18 pm
001 Thing Acquired - [video; actions]
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[When the feed clicks on, it's shaking slightly, and a man with strange eyes is staring at it from under his sunglasses like he's half-expecting it to explode.]
So this thing is visible to anyone who is connected, huh?
[Someone says something just off camera and he smirks.]
In that case, I just have one question.
Are there any bars in New Bark Town?
[Priorities.]
Action- New Bark Town
[And get an immediate answer or not, Geed is going to wander the town with the strange cat thing following close by. This feels much closer to the freedom he had been searching for in the first place, even if there is a nagging sensation in the back of his mind that something is extremely off.
Really, he can't be worried. He's escaped the bitch as far as he's concerned so he's going to be stopping every single person he runs into to ask about the town hoping he can learn something useful because he sure as hell can't blend in. He might as well stick out in the most obnoxious way possible.
At least it'll get him noticed.]
[When the feed clicks on, it's shaking slightly, and a man with strange eyes is staring at it from under his sunglasses like he's half-expecting it to explode.]
So this thing is visible to anyone who is connected, huh?
[Someone says something just off camera and he smirks.]
In that case, I just have one question.
Are there any bars in New Bark Town?
[Priorities.]
Action- New Bark Town
[And get an immediate answer or not, Geed is going to wander the town with the strange cat thing following close by. This feels much closer to the freedom he had been searching for in the first place, even if there is a nagging sensation in the back of his mind that something is extremely off.
Really, he can't be worried. He's escaped the bitch as far as he's concerned so he's going to be stopping every single person he runs into to ask about the town hoping he can learn something useful because he sure as hell can't blend in. He might as well stick out in the most obnoxious way possible.
At least it'll get him noticed.]
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Yeah. ...Does that mean you know Ed?
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[And compared to his reaction to Kimblee's name, he sounds surprisingly respectful.]
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I take that as a good thing, then.
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You could say that. He's a good kid.
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Of course he is. [Usually. Mostly, maybe.] Anyway, I guess I'd call you friends where I'm from, and your reaction seems really different from Envy's on hearing the name, so -- so it's all good.
[More like 'so it's not like he has more reasons to yell at me for talking with another homunculus'
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I could tell you why Envy's reaction was different, but then he'd be even more unhappy with me than he already is.
[Now that's interesting, hearing that he and Elric had been friends. This other Greed certainly sounds like an interesting guy.]
But Ed's not here, right? So thankfully we can avoid the ugly details.
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You can save me from the details, things might get less complicated that way.
[The less details on some things, the better. It's not like good guys from the military like Envy at all either, so uh... Or most people who she has met.]
Nope, He's not here. He comes and goes, and then he appears again and then he goea away again. [Shrug, it's like back in Amestris.] Then he also usually forgets that he's ever been here before -- it happens with everyone, though sometimes people remember being here before. I did, when I came back, but that's pretty rare.
[and shrug again. yes, let's save everyone from details and uh, you might be from that other Amestris anyway. Details? A lot more complicated than they'd be with just one Amestris around.
...oookay, enough about Ed. Too much about him maybe.]
So anyway! If you want to get to bigger cities faster, I could send you some help.
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Well, except once upon a time when he had been a man who was about to be married, and who nearly had a son, and...
No. He's not thinking about that. Not here, not now. He's not letting that bitterness show up on his face.]
Let me know when he shows up, right? And I'll give him hell for making his girl worry.
[He's a homunculus so that could actually be something of a very credible threat if it weren't for the fact that he's consciously trying to look non-threatening as he speaks.]
Thanks for the offer, but I think I'll be fine.
I've been idle long enough as it is; I don't mind walking. That, and the book says that there are Pokemon you can ride. I'll find one that can and then train it up so I can.
Seems reasonable enough to me.
[And he talks like this is the easiest thing in the world to him even though he's completely out of his comfort zone.]
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['...s arrival anyway.' because it's Ed and he is usually not quiet. Except when he is, and secretly just shows up if he's mature enough to not yell about alchemy not working and stuff to the network right after his arrival.
But forget that, she's going all red and flailing a bit. ...Goddammit, Winry, will you ever get used to that?]
HE'S NOT ... We're not ... I ---- uh... [Winry, please.]
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She's going to just sigh, act like nothing like that red face and other stuff ever happened.]
Walking is not so bad either, at least at first. But yes, there are quite many of those, that you can ride on. Like this -- [and she turns her gear to show her Arcanine, who is just chilling there in the background mostly.] -- Arcanine. They are little puppies called Growlithe at first, need a lot of training but then they can become a fast giant like him. But that's just one, fiercely loyal, option.
The offer is always open though, if you ever need to get anywhere fast.
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He wants one.]
I was thinking of getting one of those.... what are they called again?
Rapid Dash? Something like that? The horse that's on fire. I mean, I'd be getting the baby form first so I couldn't ride it, but that's what I was thinking of.
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Rapidash! They're great, and even faster runners than my dog there... I think. It's pretty easy to grow one from a pony to a horse, when you just keep training it for a few weeks. So a good plan, I'd say.
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[He looks oddly nostalgic about it.
And that's probably revealing way too much because, you know, homunculus.]
.... sobbing at the first line of this. Winry please
Umm, why a long time ago? I mean, sure I guess I see them more often than most people in Amestris because I'm from Resembool, but -- if you miss it [that much?!?] then couldn't you have, you know, get a horse and ride it?
[Sorry to say, she doesn't get your logic at all right now!]
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The last time I road a horse was 300 years ago, or so. Could have been a bit longer.
World's changed a lot since then. People prefer cars to horses now.
[Greed.]
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... umm... ]
That sure was a long time ago, but I guess it's not something you'd easily forget. [You still know how to ride, right? Or it will come back to you if you don't, probably, since he's learned it once.]
Well, you'd just need to go to places where they don't prefer cars to horses. It's really noisy in the big cities.
[No, it's okay. Being what most would probably call a country girl from Resembool and all that? Cars, pfffffft! She'd choose animal rides any day. She still thinks trains are uncomfortable in Amestris and she's not used to cars all that much.]
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No, of course not. I used to work on a ra-
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What the hell is wrong with him? When was the last time he thought about himself that way-- thought about that dead man he was created to replace that way?
He's not quite able to hide the horror in his expression fast enough.]
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...that horror is obvious from his face too. Don't make a worrier worry, Greed.
ummmmmmmm]
... And we could leave it at that, if you don't want to talk about it.
[Hey, she's not going to ask about people's (esp newcomer's) personal businesses too much. Well, she does that when it's Ed and Al in question but even then she usually only asks from them.]
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Sometimes I forget myself. My apologies.
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So instead she'll be trying to go to her happy face here.]
Don't worry about it! Besides, I guess all kinds of thoughts come to mind when you suddenly wake up here.
[yup, just trying to jump from that subject to something else or you know, something. Whatever makes others feel better.]
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Something like that.
[And something occurs to him, though he isn't really sure he wants to know the answer.]
You mentioned the name "Ling" before. Who is that?
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... ooops, she did mention that name earlier.]
Ling Yao, one of the many current princes of Xing, aiming to be its emperor.
[and she's really not sure how much more she can tell, ooops.]
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He's not sure he's ever heard of that country before. It could be that he knew about it at one point and his memory just never returned and Dante saw no reason to tell him about the rest of the world outside of Amestris.]
What does he have to do with me?
[Sorry, Winry, but he's going to push this line of questions.]
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He came to my home with Ed and some others, but looked like something had changed from the last time I saw him. Then he said he's Greed, but I heard that there's also Ling in that body somehow and don't ask how, I'm just a mechanic and not an alchemy freak.
A-Anyway, Ed is good friends with Ling - and it's not like me and Al are in bad terms with him either, so it's not like he'd just let that Greed guy, who looks like his friend, go wherever he wants to... Even if he says that Ed and the others are working for him.
[PFFFFFT, yeah right. Or they might be but Ed and friendships, they're always weird. And even if she knew even more details about how Ling and Greed even went to the same body, she is so not going to tell. Because really, she is just a mechanic and that stuff is for alchemists anyway.]
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