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15strangers2019-11-17 10:04 pm
strangerpeople) wrote in 15strangers2019-11-17 10:04 pm
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YOU MAY BE A LOVER BUT YOU AIN'T NO DANCER
[Well, Champions, it certainly does look like you're trapped here.
There's limited food and limited supplies... and while there's a limited number of you, there's certainly too many of you for what you've got on hand. Never mind the whole deal that you've been kidnapped and shoved into someone else's house. Like, who even does that?
And all to "send a message," besides. Whatever that even means.
Regardless, things aren't going to change by just sitting and moping around. You're here until your captor decides he's done with you, so while there's no guarantee that acting won't just make things worse, it's got to be at least a little better than this.
Right?]
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What sort of attack be this constant running stream, then?
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Oh, umm. It's not an attack.
It's running water. So you can use it to wash yourself and get clean. You can turn it off, too.
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The mortals of this realm hath mastered such magic? How may it be ceased? And what creature made the previous roar?
[Toilet. He means the toilet.]
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You know the thing you turned that got the water running? Just turn it back the other way. That'll stop it, probably.
[It takes a couple of sleepy blinks for Nanaki to figure out the "roar."]
...Oh. Did you flush the toilet?
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Toi... let?
[He points to it.]
This item?
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You sit upon it and deposit your waste, then when you press the lever it all gets flushed away.
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[Or rather he doesn't, because magic. Clearly.]
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...Although I suppose that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic, hmm...?
[...You got the nerd going, Fou-Lu. Great job.]
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[He looks caught between confused and horrified.]
Thou must come from quite a strange world indeed.
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[He seems surprisingly nonchalant about this. He's smiling, even.]
My world is such that most of humanity has died off and birds are now the dominant intelligent species, as well. That's usually the part that gets people.
I was a bird before I woke up here, actually.
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[...He's. He's having fun confusing Fou-Lu like this, isn't he.]
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Winged humanoids, hm... gods aren't really much of a thing in my world, either, although some choose to believe. Still, I wonder what our political parties would think of a winged humanoid.
[...]
I don't suppose they'd last long.
[And like he's just discussing the weather and not hypothetical genocide, he turns his attention to Fou-Lu.]
Oh, umm. It occurs to me, I don't think I know your name.
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[He spits it like it's a swear word. But he hesitates.]
Thou art not of our world, so it be safe enough to speak our name. We art Fou-Lu, first Emperor of the Fou Empire. We art also known as the Yorae Dragon.
[Or, well. He was. It's still hard to divest that identity from himself.]
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[Nanaki, after all, has little reason to care about the parties one way or the other, at this point.]
Nanaki Kazuaki. [Japanese order. That's his native language, after all.] Just a simple mathematics teacher at St. Pigeonation's Institute. A pleasure to meet you, Your Majesty. I can't say I've ever met a dragon before.
[He's polite enough for a weird narcoleptic bird, at least?]
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Not many hath met a god before, it be true. They wilt never have a chance to do so again. And... we art no longer the emperor. There hath been twelve since us, though there art a... current opening of the position. We hath no interest in filling that role again.
Ah, a scholar and a tutor. We hath had little opportunity to interact with many after our initial appearance. So thy field of study be the physical realm, since thou hast said magic be missing from thy world?
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How should I address you, then? "Mr. Lu" seems a bit too loose.
[As for the question, he nods.]
Numbers. Solving equations, putting things in logical order to try to make sense of how our world works.
Of course, there are some things you can't deduce no matter how many calculations you run. But it's always sort of soothing to try.
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[He considers asking for 'Ryong', but no. That's special.]
... True. Though pursuit of such things in our world hath led many down a very dark path.
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[He's adaptable.
But what Fou-Lu is suggesting actually seems to amuse him, if anything.]
Is that so? I guess it's true for some in my own world, too. For me... I'd say it's probably the one lit path I walk.
[He's forcing himself to his feet, now. It's a bit unsteady, which, given that this is a whole new body with a whole new balance, is kind of forgivable.]
Haha, still. I should maybe find somewhere else to go take a nap...
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[... Ah. Well.]
There art cushions in the larger room, though it hath many people gathering in it.
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I don't particularly need a cushion or anything, though. [He WAS just sleeping in the bathroom, so that tracks.] Perhaps I'll try one of the closets...
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