When We're Rollin Through the Wild Wild West

[geonomy]

Who: Everyone! EVERYONE!
Broadcast: IF YOU WANNA
Action: Everywhere! EVERYWHERE!
When: Mid-September - Mid-October

[How's your ship doing, pardners? Is it still pretty damaged? Is it glitching out hardcore? Well, there is one place to land to take care of all that, and that's on a dusty old moon in front of a planet that no one wants to go to. On this moon, you'll find a civilization that looks a lot like one's stepped into a wild west movie, hardened cowpolk and mutant horses and all. Will you become a vigilante, hunting bounties and stopping gangs from doing their dirty work? Will you go exploring planetside, with a cowboy hat and a stalk of wheat in your mouth to complete the look? Good luck with that; there is no wheat. This town ain't big enough for all you flooters, but make it so! For the ratings!

In other words, it's a planet mingle! Get 'er done!]

[September Planet info here]

Comments

B

[radiantwingedone]

[ Duke always takes the time, when there's planets, to wander about as far and wide as he can. Habits from when he was, as he told Tek, a hermit. Just more of a mobile one than people usually think of with that word.

He is only... barely surprised to wander and find a sleeping dragon. He remembers arguments forming on the communicators involving a fight and a dragon, so he knows one is about. Maybe he's just a little surprised at how this one looks - the dragons of his world are... more colorful.

Well, either way, the dragon's napping and Duke sort of wants to talk, because... he does miss his more-obviously-not-human friends, so he sits what he feels like is far enough away to not get a surprised tail-smack, and .. eats his lunch. ]

[heresyandlace]

[most of the dragons on Tek's world also tend to be more colorful and... living-looking. it's only the members of Tek's bloodline that look all gnarled and cadaverous--lucky him. goes to show why he spends so much time in a much prettier form.

he's enjoying his true form now, however, stretched out in the sun. it's a little while before either the feeling of another presence nearby, or the smell of lunch, pulls him out of his dozing.

and then Duke has a large waking dragon rumbling a deep growl of warning before his head is even up with eyes open.]

[radiantwingedone]

[ Sorry, Duke's BFF was some odd combination of beasts that looked vaguely draconic and was as long as the trunk of a tree that sheltered a major city.

Duke's sense of fear-for-self is... lacking. ]

Hello. [ And back to eating his lazy sandwich. He is half facing the dragon, buttt... yeah there's the lack of fear. ]

[heresyandlace]

[yeah, there's a blink of surprise when he realizes that he recognizes the intruder sitting there, and then a deep, rumbling huff that is probably some kind of scoff. and that is probably over the obvious lack of fear displayed there.

shifting his great weight, he rolls up onto his feet and gives his hide a big shake, waking up properly now.]

[radiantwingedone]

[ Duke pauses in eating to absently watch him get up. ]

Must have taken most of the fleet, to actually manage to bring you down. [ It... is an assumption. This is a big dragon, there was something of a fight mentioned about a fleetmate being a dragon and Jove having organised the killing of said dragon, a while ago. ]

I'm a little surprised that so many managed to cooperate long enough to do so.

[ Duke please think about what you're bringing up to the dragon's face. Have a sense of self-preservation- ]

[heresyandlace]

[lack of self-preservation indeed. even though the comments are somewhat complimentary, bringing up the topic at all-- especially with such nonchalance --visibly rankles the dragon. the spines covering his neck prickle up, slowly standing on end as an irritated breath seethes between his teeth. and behind him, his tail begins to lash like a giant feline's.

this is not a happy start to the conversation.]

[radiantwingedone]

[ That's pretty obvious body language there. Duke blinks once, and does that thing where he tilts his head and it looks like he's smiling a bit more than he actually is.

He's smiling because he's aware he did a dumb, okay. ]

... Terrible conversation topic. However, it was the first thing I could think of beyond "nice weather if you don't have to worry about sunburns", and I did want to make sure this was the same one. [ Is he chattier now that he's talking to someone who is obviously not human? Eehhh.. ]

[heresyandlace]

[a booming growl rolls from the dragon's chest and down through the earth, curling with a wet hiss and several close-throated catches of voice. and, by the sarcasm in his ferocious voice, he's not actually expecting to be understood.]

Well, now you know. Good for you.

[radiantwingedone]

[ It does take him a moment, where he tilts his head as if he heard something that didn't quite get. Spoilers, he didn't quite pick up on the sarcasm. ]

Sometimes there isn't just one, all the time. Of course, that might have something to do with the magic castle, rather than people arriving.

[heresyandlace]

[he doesn't have ears to prick forward in interest, but the spines on his neck flare a little bit, like a bird ruffling its feathers.

he can't tell if he was actually understood, or if the man's answer is coincidental. maybe he's just a good guesser.]

...What?

[radiantwingedone]

[ Duke stays with his little thinking-frown, because there's a lot of ways to answer that. ]

.... Do I need to repeat myself? You seemed to understand me just fine before.... [ That was one option, but the second seemed more likely. ]

Or is it rather odd for someone to understand you?

[ Third option was a 'wait, what do you mean some people burn more easily than others', but Duke didn't think that was particularly likely. ]

[heresyandlace]

It is not exactly common, no.

[he huffs, curling his tails up against his side like an indignant cat.]

How could you possibly know my language?

[radiantwingedone]

I am fairly sure that I don't know your language.

[ Duke shrugs slightly. ]

It's.. something else to me, I would say. I've been able to understand the words, or just meanings and intentions, of beings that aren't humans or humanoids for some time.