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

[huaaaaagh]

Well... yeah. But fighting can be fun too, right?

[Which isn't very ladylike, but screw it, he has never claimed to be one. It's not his fault that people make assumptions. (It is a little bit his fault.)]

[curiositykilledthecats]

Against a worthy foe, or to spar with a friend, certainly. But to common bandits, it rarely is.

[huaaaaagh]

I think I'd just enjoy the exercise.

[It's not like they can grind for EXP here, but literal combat experience is never worthless to him, and there's something ridiculously satisfying about beating a weak opponent into the dirt. He's tried to keep his ego in check when it comes to that kind of thing, but he can't deny that it's a great feeling.]

[curiositykilledthecats]

One may exercise without danger.

[huaaaaagh]

But danger makes it fun.

[Kirito you are in no shape to be so happy about the prospect of a good fight.]

[curiositykilledthecats]

Danger should not be sought so freely.

[huaaaaagh]

Haha, I guess you've got a point. I'm just tired of the guys around here bothering me, so it'd be nice to knock a few heads together.

[curiositykilledthecats]

With your size and stature, it may do you better to take up magic instead.

[Miah you're 4'11 and anime skinny girl, you have no fucking room to talk there. At least it's harder to tell through the armor...]

[huaaaaagh]

[well

she's not wrong.]

I don't think I'm physically capable of doing magic. I'm just a normal human.

[curiositykilledthecats]

... Why would that bar you from magic?

[huaaaaagh]

Why would it not?

[He does not understand how her reality works.]

[curiositykilledthecats]

Almost any are capable of learning.

[huaaaaagh]

I've never heard of anything like that. Is is because of the augment, or is that standard for your world?

[curiositykilledthecats]

It is normal. All life has aether, and magic is but manipulation of that aether.

[huaaaaagh]

No one from my world has ever been able to use magic.

[curiositykilledthecats]

You cannot use aether?

[huaaaaagh]

I've never heard of it before today.

[Back in ALO - the only RP he's ever played that allowed it - magic was just magic, and spells were spells.]

[curiositykilledthecats]

... How is that possible?

[But things are starting to add up in the worst way. A planet without aether, a desert...

The only conclusion she can come to is that somehow, her homeland is dead. All the aether- all the life, sucked from the land by something like a Primal...]

[huaaaaagh]

Well... different worlds, you know? My world could be nothing like what you're used to. Instead of magic, people fight with knives and guns. Anything else is just a fantasy.

[curiositykilledthecats]

[You might even say that it's a... final fantasy.




Well, I thought it was funny.]

Anything with life should have aether.

[huaaaaagh]

Maybe it's some sort of lost art. But I don't think my world's ever had the capacity for magic. It's not something that's been recorded in history books.

[curiositykilledthecats]

It may do you well to attempt to learn. Unfortunately, I lack the knack for teaching, but perhaps another...

[huaaaaagh]

I... will leave it in your hands. Good luck with the impossible.

[It would be pretty cool, but he has serious doubts about it being possible.]

[curiositykilledthecats]

Perhaps Marhi could teach. Her mind is sharper than any I know, and she is an experienced arcanist.

[huaaaaagh]

[Aha... that name is familiar. Is that the other one he met?]

Friend of yours?