ossifragant | 009 Things Acquired

You know, there's something to be said about this place.

I get here in April and things are strange as a newcomer. It takes some getting used to, but it's not all bad. Then there's May and that's when things get screwy. The weird hail during an otherwise sunny week, and then that weekend when everything went to hell with the crystals and people popping up who aren't normally here. I only wish I could remember more of it clearly.

Then, in June, it snowed that one day. Actually snowed! In the middle of summer! What the hell are the chances of that? It melted the next day naturally so whatever caused it fixed itself.

July gave us a hurricane with sharks flying through the air and then August was suspiciously normal when it comes to weather.

Now, here we are, three days into September, and we've already had dogs and cats falling from the sky like someone up there is taking a metaphor a little too literally.

I'm disappointed we didn't get snakes raining from the sky today. Or porcupines.

I've been here just about five months now and I must admit this place has its ways of keeping a person entertained.

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Marcoh...?

[wait what

hold on we're getting derailed here because what]

What do you know about Dr. Marcoh?

[Woah, that was not quite the reaction he had been expecting.]

He was a State Alchemist during the uprising. He helped develop the incomplete stones under watch from the other homunculi. Since this was ten years ago, he must have been working with a young Lust and Envy. I doubt Pride would compromise his position, though it would be obvious he knew about it.

He fled at some point during the war and wasn't heard from again. Tucker took over Marcoh's work after they staged his execution.

[None of this happened in your world at all, did it? Goddamn.]

...You have my apologies, I just wasn't expecting to hear that name again, much less here...

Dr. Marcoh is the reason I'm out of prison.

[?????]

Were you sent after him?

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Yes.

The specifics of that actually were left vague for me, but the Homunculi made it very plain that Dr. Marcoh was their property. Someone had absconded with it; it was my job to get it back. That was one of the things I was released from prison to go settle.

That much matches up then, at least in a vague enough way. I could probably ask the others what happened to him in my world, but I imagine they weren't happy to have him run away.

Forbidden knowledge and all of that.

...Scar was the one who dragged him off somewhere in mine.

[At that he nearly drops the 'Gear.

It's a good thing this is text because he wouldn't be be able to hide his surprise otherwise.]

I couldn't tell you what happened to the version in my world, but I imagine if anyone could it would be Alphonse Elric.

Scar is a serial killer who targets State Alchemists, isn't he? I imagine he would try to kill Marcoh.

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I won't claim to know exactly what he was doing with Marcoh, but "killing him" apparently wasn't in the game plan. I doubt it was for a reason like "he gave up killing," either, since he seemed rather willing to engage me in repeatedly attempting to kill one another until someone either retreated or died. Marcoh was still alive several months after the fact.

I see.

I get the feeling Marcoh didn't survive when it comes to my world but I can't tell you that for a fact as my information comes entirely from a rather unreliable source.

I was completely outside of that part of the conflict the entire time. Your counterpart had very little to say about the man, and I never heard anything about Scar from him.

[...this is going to get really ugly really fast, isn't it.]

I know about what happened between them, you know. My counterpart and Scar.

[Yees it is. Greed's been fairly careful to try and keep the hornet nest that is his feelings about people he's close to covered, but there is the whole Kimbley thing.

He also firmly believes that Kimbley deserved whatever happened to him.]

So they have encountered each other more than once.

[Hold on here, give him a moment. He's putting the pieces together.]

Alphonse said something to me that made me realize if Kimbley wasn't already dying by the time it happened, he was going to be dead very shortly.

He's dead, yes. It took me quite some time to get that information out of Archer, but it is what it is.

I've known he's dead for a while. I just didn't know what killed him.

[Archer tells him these things and he really doesn't know why.]

He died doing something stupid, but that won't surprise you, I'm sure.

I have no doubt he earned whatever happened to him, let's put it that way.

I had a bit of a difficult time telling Archer that I ended up the same way, albeit not...quite so stupidly; needless to say, he didn't take it well.

[Archer, buddy, you should probably get therapy or something.]

I can't imagine he would.

Admittedly, my timing was a bit unfortunate with regards to when I told him; either way, it's not something that we should concern ourselves with too much.

[Because clearly that's the entire reason Archer was upset, the unfortunate timing of it all; logically speaking it's not like there should be any other reasons.]

[It's not like Greed is nearly as close to Archer as Kimblee is, but from what Archer has told him, Kimblee is his only friend. Basically those freaky cats of his are at the very least him if not actually the both of you.]

It's not like it's any of my business.

Which reminds me. This is something I should have mentioned earlier. Be careful how you approach Alphonse if you choose to do so. Your counterpart nearly succeeded in killing him so I imagine your name might make things awkward to say the least.

I have several devices that are registered to aliases of mine; he knows me as Konrad Brandt, and I intend to keep it that way whenever I approach him.

To be honest, that's probably for the best.

I have enough difficulty dealing with my own world and what happened there; I would really prefer to not get involved with yours any more than I have to.

That stance hasn't changed since we embarked on this little adventure, and it isn't about to change now.

I can appreciate that strategy.

[You're so much better off.]

I'd rather let things that happened there stay there than have them brought up here in any case.

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