catchall daan

[residentmerc]

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[recession]

Yep. So others also said.

Maybe I'll try north of the river, if I can avoid being hounded by leeches.

[residentmerc]

Thought they were mostly in the swamp?

[recession]

They're in the river.

Had the displeasure of finding out the hard way yesterday.

[ Holds up a hand that has teeny leech bites. Yaaay. ]

[residentmerc]

...Leeches, fish, and rats. Not much wildlife diversity.

[recession]

...Fish is maybe nice? Could add a bit of variety to our diet.

Not sure if the bland slop in the refectory is nutritionally balanced.

[residentmerc]

... Guess we could roast some over the pyre...?

[ he doesn't have a lot of food opinions ]

[recession]

Probably. Might be a good activity to keep people from going stir-crazy too.

[ Introducing to scawwy: fishing mini game. ]

[residentmerc]

You think fishing will help people not go stir-crazy?

[ people get so impatient while fishing... not me i will play all the fishing mini games ]

[recession]

It's an activity to do to distract the brain, anyway.

Better than sitting around listening to the noises.

[residentmerc]

It's either that or card games.

[ wow. socializing is also an option ]

[recession]

...Soldiers on the field make do. I'm sure we'll all find a way.

[ Doesn't even bother suggesting socialising. ]

[residentmerc]

[ soldier boys make do... ]

Not everyone here's a soldier. [ he. is. but that's neither here nor there ] Might be harder for some of 'em.

[recession]

I'd say every man and woman for the last two decades is adjacent to a soldier, but it looks like we're dealing with pretty broad horizons...

[ More than he can frankly comprehend, but sometimes you know when to take the L and just give up on that front. ]

[residentmerc]

That true where you're from?

[ what kinda war were you in ..... damn boy... ]

[recession]

[ He's older than you wow. ]

It is. The Great War... and then the second. Everyone has an idea of how war goes.

[residentmerc]

[ maybe i am the one who is calling him a boy ]

The "great" war? [ what's so great about war type of voice ]

[recession]

[ Fair... ]

That's what they call it. Probably because it involved so many nations.

[residentmerc]

So everyone got dragged into it. [ that makes sense. all the wars back home involve shinra but he doesn't say that out loud ] I can't say I've seen wars that involved that many people.

[ he hasn't seen a single fucking war he was 14 when the last one ended ]

[recession]

[ My understanding of the FF7 lore is so funny. ]

Yeah. The Kingdom of Rondon got involved a little late, but involved nonetheless.

[residentmerc]

[ i just love to give you bits of lore and no context so it makes less and less sense as it goes ]

Rondon? That where you're from?

[ i truly read that as rodon and was like damn whta a coincidence ]

[recession]

[ Me like wow war happened a lot longer ago in FF7 than I thought it would given the whole soldiering trauma thing or whatever is going on over here. ]

...Sure.

Closest thing I'll call to a home, yeah.

[residentmerc]

[ don't worry about it ♥ ]

Mm. [ he gets that feeling, so he doesn't push. ] Never heard of it. The guess flying around is people here might be from different worlds entirely.

[recession]

Seems to be the case. Thought it was shocking that there were people who somehow didn't know about the war, but it cleared itself up pretty quickly as to why and how.

You're from the same place as Ms. Gainsborough and Miss Kisaragi, right?

[residentmerc]

[ oh. well, that makes things easier; ]

Yeah. We'd been traveling together a while before we got here.

[recession]

It must be nice to have a familiar face around.

Leaves things less unsettling and disorienting than it could've been.

How long's "a while"?