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the Iron Bull ([personal profile] theirondragon) wrote in [community profile] driftfleet2018-08-06 10:46 pm

VIDEO; I want to play a game

Who: the Iron Bull and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: If you wanna find him in the gym on the Iskaulit, sure!
When: Late Monday night, because when you can't sleep, but it's just because you're thinking of home, you do shitposts in the middle of the night.

[ It's pretty clear from the sheen of sweat across the Bull's considerable shoulders, he's been working out even if it weren't obvious he was in the gym of the Iskaulit at the time. He takes a seat on a bench as the feed turns on and he smiles amicably at the fleet. ]

Hey! So, back home, me and the boys used to play a game when we were on the road. It's not easy to carry around a table around for cards just to have somebody get pissed and knock it over. [ He shakes his head. ] Anyway, here's how you play: you figure out the weirdest, most badass monster you and think of, right, and then you pit it against somebody else's, and you figure out who would win in a fight. Then, the loser has to come up with something that could beat the winner, or somebody else does. Whatever works. Sometimes there's fights.

[ He rolls his shoulders in a shrug. ]

That's the fun part, anyway. Okay, I'll go first: How about...a... [ He looks thoughtful. He's not going for the dragon first off. That's sort of like cheating. ] ...a wyvern, but with wings that let it fly in short bursts sort of like a chicken...and, uh...a gaze that can turn things to stone if its held too long.

[ This is a come at 'em thing! Feel free to post your own, threadjack with rebuttals, arguments, your own "games". Have fun! ]
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[personal profile] ginger_firebird 2018-10-06 02:42 pm (UTC)(link)
When I say it as it was, it doesn't even sound real. After all the time I have spent here, it feels like a fever dream that lasted a long time.
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[personal profile] ginger_firebird 2018-10-08 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
A year, I think. I thought it was a final hallucination at first while my brain shut down. When it hit me this was all real, my focus turned to figuring out all the aliens and new worlds.
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[personal profile] ginger_firebird 2018-10-11 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
There are all kinds of people from my planet, but no one who actually comes from the version I grew up on. I haven't met anyone who recognizes my name or the people I mention when talking about what my life has been like.
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[personal profile] ginger_firebird 2018-10-14 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
It's more than that. Organizations and figures that are known globally and among people who work in my exact field don't know who I'm talking about and they mention historical events and organizations I've never heard of with functions that simply don't exist outside of fiction. At best, we might come from the same planet, but in different points in time. If not, we come from different versions of the same planet with vastly different histories.
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[personal profile] ginger_firebird 2018-10-18 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
Not off the top of my head, but I wouldn't doubt there are a few humans here who would be able to say about the same thing. I find it hard to believe there are people who never heard of names like Big Boss and older figures like Voyevoda.
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[personal profile] ginger_firebird 2018-10-25 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
Then we have a similar issue when it comes to authority figures.

A part of me is unconvinced Voyevoda ever existed, but I know she did. We have written and digital records now that talk about how intelligent and skilled she was. Men of all make and backgrounds fell to their knees before her.
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[personal profile] ginger_firebird 2018-11-13 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
No one. If anyone here is from my version of my world, I haven't met them yet.
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[personal profile] ginger_firebird 2018-11-18 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
Technically, no, but it would be nice to meet someone from my specific Earth. I don't think I would mind who it was at this point. Ocelot would be a welcome face after all this time.
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[personal profile] ginger_firebird 2018-11-21 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
[He shrugs.] I think Ocelot would have found it funny that I'd be willing to put up with him if it meant seeing a familiar face. He's God's gift to to being a spy.
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[personal profile] ginger_firebird 2018-11-24 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
We have trickster gods and spirits at home who would fit that description. Their stories are about how they fool everyone and usually wind up free of any trouble for their actions.

I think...Anansi would fit. The clever spider. He was especially fond of word games.
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[personal profile] ginger_firebird 2018-12-01 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
Anansi isn't creepy. He's a clever older man looking out for himself and his sons.

Fen'harel. Fen...harel... [He mutters it a couple of more times under his breath.] Interesting combination of sounds. What kind of people are the elves to have a trickster god?
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[personal profile] ginger_firebird 2018-12-12 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
Maybe a god of war? We have them for the bloodshed and the strategies depending on where you go.

[He makes a thoughtful noise.] All the pride in the world still turns to dust after the flesh and bone give in. If more people had learned that in my life, I might have lived to see old age.