[muffled spooky scary skeletons playing in the distance]

[geonomy]

Who: You! Me! Everybody!
Broadcast: idk but we've sure got a pretty broad cast of folks eh, eh
Action: HECK YEAH PLANET MINGLE
When: 10/7 until plot update or recaptcha

It's a deep, deep forest filled to the brim with fungi, mysterious life forms, and pitch black darkness. Explore if you dare and discover all these things and more! Just don't get lost...

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[universal_charm]

Sadly, dismemberment is not one of the things I can survive - and I have survived quite a few things.

_{[ He brushed some foliage off himself, shaking it off and straightening his survival suit. ]}

Why are you hacking away at the forest anyways?

[witheringlotus]

[Kanda can, in fact, survive dismemberment-- but he's not going to volunteer that information.]

I'm looking for food to bring back.

[He'll take anything that doesn't come out of a machine at this rate.]

[universal_charm]

Okay, well, you might find more if the reflection of your katana is not getting in the way.

_{[ He glanced at the weapon and back at Kanda. ]}

Are you more interested in hunting for something or foraging? Because, again, hacking doesn't make the hunting part easier.

[witheringlotus]

I'm not hunting. [Was that a dig at Mugen? Mugen is fucking beautiful, you uneducated American.] I'm looking for edible plants and stuff like that.

[universal_charm]

_{[ You're swinging it around like a machete, Kanda. ]}

Right, well, I think there's some not to far off I saw a bit back. If you put the sword away, I'll show you.

[witheringlotus]

[So? It's still beautiful.

Kanda is occasionally reasonable, or at least he doesn't just cut people open for no reason (wanting to see if they have human guts is a totally legitimate reason). Anyway, he sheathes his sword and looks at Kirk expectantly.]

[universal_charm]

_{[ Kirk looked back at him and took the ensuing silence for acceptance. Geeze, another one of these... ]}

My name's Kirk, by the way. Jim Kirk.

_{[ He turned to follow a slim path further into the wood behind him. ]}

[witheringlotus]

[Welcome to anime hell.]

Kanda.

[At least he gave his name? He's following Kirk, though not close enough to invade his personal space.]

[universal_charm]

Kanda. Right. Good to meet you.

_{[ He looked back at him for a second. ]}

Are you new? I haven't seen you around the Fleet before.

[witheringlotus]

[Kirk sounds very sincere compared to Kanda, who just grunts in response.]

Yeah. [And because it keeps coming up:] I'm from Allen's world. He seems to know everyone in this place.

[universal_charm]

Allen? The white-haired guy?

_{[ At least he didn't say kid, but he hadn't spoken with Allen all that much. ]}

[witheringlotus]

Yeah, with the scar.

[There are apparently multiple white-haired kids here, though he hasn't met the other one.]

We're Exorcists.

[universal_charm]

What, like from a church?

_{[ Allen had never actually said what he did, and Kirk had never asked the few times they had spoken to each other. It just never came up, and he always found that question awkward anyways. ]}

[witheringlotus]

Yeah. The Catholic church, if that means anything to you. [Not that there's much religion involved. It's just a job, for him.] We fight demons.

[universal_charm]

We still have Catholicism in my time, it's just far less prominent than in the past.

_{[ Said dismissively. ]}

Demons, huh? Suppose that kind of explains the sword.

[witheringlotus]

So you're from the future or something?

[He's not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.]

Holy weapons take a lot of forms. Some of them aren't as obvious as mine. [If he closes his eyes, he can remember feathers-- a bow. He ignores the urge to fixate on it.]

[universal_charm]

The year 2263, Earth Standard Time.

_{[ He thinks it's a good thing, but then his world hadn't fallen all to bits. ]}

What's Allen's? I don't think I've ever seen him with a weapon before.

[witheringlotus]

... Ah. [That's. Quite a bit in the future.] ... 1899. [A pause.] AD.

[How to talk about Allen's weapon without sounding crazy. Kanda can totally do this.]

His arm turns into a sword sometimes.

[nailed it]

[universal_charm]

_{[ So nailed it, Kanda. He pauses to give the other a look, because you nailed it just that hard, but you know what the Fleet has taught him? Roll with it. Because you will see stranger shit than that. ]}

That's one hell of a party trick.