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you couldn't afford me ([personal profile] for8000amonth) wrote in [community profile] crescentview2022-12-10 01:58 am

| you put a fever inside me

WHO: Adelis and you!
WHAT: December open/Catch-all
WHEN: Until January
WHERE: All over
WARNINGS: TBA


≫ The Hands-on Approach

[ he was hoping he'd be able to put off dealing with it for longer, but life is never kind, as he's come to learn the hard way. he's put a decent effort into the fields thus far, but as the days went on, it became harder to stand outside for long periods of time...especially under the blasted sun, which still made his eyes throb in pain. even it's warmth can't chase off the ice cold beneath his skin, which drains the color from adelis' features and leaving him pale as a ghost.

finally, he can't take it anymore. his pride be damned, he can't stand being nearly utterly useless. so he shoves that stupid card in his pocket, laces up his heels and attempts to make himself look presentable, and locks the door behind him on the way out.

maybe you're a neighbour, who's farm happens to be not too far. maybe you're passing by on errands, to and from town. or maybe you run into him in town itself, gaze latching onto the first tolerable(?) person to pass his vision. ]


...Pardon me.

[ he looks, well...not good. he's abnormally pale, circles dark under his eyes. while adelis holds himself up high, back straight and gaze sharp, there's an exhaustion clinging to his limbs that's easy to note. ]

I require your...assistance with something, if you've a moment to spare.

[ he's trying really hard to make it look like this isn't paining him to ask. ]

≫ Overdue

[ while not the sort you'd think to frequent the library, should you enter one day, you'll happen to see him with a rather tidy stack right next to him. the titles vary, all from various genres and tip sections, but judging by the scowl on his face, he's not having a particularly swell time.

there's an exasperated noise as he drops the one he was currently holding beside him, closed, with a soft thunk. ]


Useless. [ he isn't shouting it, but he isn't particularly keeping quiet, either, as he grumbles to himself. ] This would be far easier if I could parse half the bloody words they were using. 'Simple' my arse.

[ maybe he needs a dictionary. ]

≫ Wildcard

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feralheart: (32)

[personal profile] feralheart 2023-01-13 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Luckily for them both, the only form of sympathy M-21 is conversant in is anger, and he's not drunk enough for that either. ]

You mean like you just did?

[ What a smooth way to call him out without actually starting it? M-21 takes another drink pointedly, this time much longer. Has he actually tested how fast he metabolizes alcohol as a werewolf? Does he know if he was a lightweight as a human? No, but he's going to find out now. Argumentative people bring out the best in him. ]

Sounds pretty convenient when you put it like that. [ Except, isn't Adelis going to melt while farming? Hm. ] She probably could've gotten the people she needed just by asking. ...Or not. If a strange woman with a sickle showed up and promised to take you to another world and give you a house, I don't know anyone who'd jump at that.

[ ...It's not actually that much weirder than his own rescue, when he says it aloud. But he's going to ignore that, too. ]
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[personal profile] feralheart 2023-01-16 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's fine. M-21 is tall; what's the worst that can happen with some whiskey? Other than being inevitably conned in the near future into explaining "VCR and chill".

He gives a little grunt of acknowledgment for that assessment, frowning into his glass. Is it weird that vampires have the same traits between worlds? Probably no weirder than humans being the same between both, if he really thinks about it. ]


At least the goddess doesn't do that. Probably wouldn't bother, when she's as strong as she is.

[ He hopes?? Soothing thoughts to get drunk to. Lulled by the fuzzy-warm whiskey feeling settling in to his stomach, he thinks with some sympathy of his own hard-won paycheck. ]

Yeah. That part's still annoying. ...And playing games with us with these stupid bingo cards. And the crappy leaky houses. [ Actually, he could go on listing his grievances for a while if he gets started. Instead he redirects his thoughts to something else Adelis said. ] So what'd you do in your world anyway?

[ What kind of jobs does a sunless vampire dystopia have? Maybe the same as anywhere else, for all he knows. You still need taverns, apparently. So there's probably still grocery stores and ordinary things. ]
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[personal profile] feralheart 2023-01-23 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
[ M-21 waves one hand, half in concession and half in disagreement. Yeah, Adelis' world sounds terrible. But also, the goddess maybe owes them something for kidnapping them in the first place? Some measure of preparation for them?

He's not looking to get a cow dropped on him as they sit here drinking, so he lets it slide again. ]


Those your only options? Information broker or manual labor?

[ It sounds pretty crime syndicate to him anyway, but he's just biased due to knowing mostly shady organizations and hackers. Probably someone, somewhere deals in information for non-sinister reasons. Someone who would also say they're good at "siphoning information," thanks for the sinister points there, buddy. ]

Hah. That's a change, to farming. She really did pick at random. [ Well, ] Maybe she was looking for people who knew how to adapt.

[ This guy (who, M-21, a cad, still has not gotten the name of) definitely seems like the type to land on his feet. ]
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[personal profile] feralheart 2023-01-31 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It's not like any of those industries have vanished in the modern world M-21 is used to — well, except adventuring, which still sounds like a video game or a cheesy webnovel to him. But he's not saying that and inviting the need to explain more modern headaches. ]

Risks and rewards. If everything is that dangerous, I'd pick something where I could at least fight, too.

[ But the way Adelis talks about it still paints about as bleak a picture as possible. With reason, obviously enough; darkness and monsters and scraping to survive. M-21 takes a long drink, expression flat for a moment. "Adapt or die" hits too much of a nerve with him. ]

This is how normal people live in a world like this. Nothing's hunting them. They might be worried about their rent, or their job making them work too much, their friends not answering their messages. Not whether they're going to live one day to the next.

[ His tone is thoughtful, the same sort of offhand delivery he'd used earlier to explain the technology. Maybe he idealizes "normal" life a little too much. But from everything he's seen here since arriving, he doesn't think he's misjudged it. ]