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[parodeity]

DAVE STRIDER | RED | #E00707
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[windeity]

[Which I still need to tag re: bonfire but anyway...]

there are a lot of them here. people with quirks. izuku told me about how they work and stuff.
what did you even need an ice shack for...?
i mean i guess yeah. i have been trying to talk to people and do stuff because it's still weird that everything is quiet.
you could come with me if you want? or i can come hang out or something.

[How do you hang out with your best bro when you have no idea where the fuck he's living, a novel by John Egbert.]

[parodeity]

i have met
four of them i think
izuku momo shouto ochako
sounds about right
anyway yeah ill come along
do the backup thing
in case you poke your nose into something dagerous

[windeity]

four for me too but swap out shouto for tenya (he is one of my housemates!)
when have i ever poked my nose into something dangerous?
sounds fake.
you sure?

[parodeity]

havent met him
hows the constant slumber party going anyway
i assume youre having fun
and yeah unless you would like
prefer not
in which case i can continue my interior decorating shenanigans

[windeity]

i guess it's fine.
they're nice at least.
it has been days what the fuck are you still decorating?

[parodeity]

the walls mainly
where do you want me to meet you bro

[windeity]

the well is probably easiest.
see you in ten minutes maybe?

[parodeity]

see you in ten minutes egbert
try not to fall into the well if you get there first
although i find that unlikely at best

[windeity]

hehe. even if i did we could just fly back out. that's not the hard part.
see you in ten!

[And off he goes to wait for Dave.]

[parodeity]

[ is it waiting if dave's already perched on the edge of the well? ]

[windeity]

[Probably not. He looks a little surprised that Dave's already there, grinning before he flies closer and picks up speed a little.]

What happened to ten minutes?

[parodeity]

I allotted them to you, slowpoke.

[windeity]

Wow, thanks a lot. I could have been here way sooner than ten minutes! [No he couldn't have.] You weren't waiting that long were you?

[parodeity]

Ages. You owe me a soda.

[windeity]

Sure, I will get right on that. [He folds his arms over his chest, glancing around the town again.]

So question. What do you think the chances of our houses and laptops being bugged are?

[parodeity]

The houses ain't bugged. At least, the place I'm stayin' at isn't. [ he checked. three times. ] ...Well, they aren't unless it's using something magical I can't detect, so...? The laptops, who the fuck knows. It doesn't effectively matter when they post mostly to a public forum or you can do, I guess, private messages on that - it's safe to say that moderators can see those...? Whoever that is.

[ so like. ]

I think basically don't worry about it but assume whoever the fuck is in charge knows whatever. Why?

[windeity]

Keith. [Like that's somehow an answer and in a way it is.] Convinced we're being monitored, wanted to find a place we could have group meetings and share information that might not be tracked by whoever's watching us. It sounded like an okay idea, so that is why we are scouting.

[parodeity]

We you and me or we you and him? [ but that makes sense; keith is potentially more paranoid a motherfucker than dave. ] I personally do not find it likely we can find a place that isn't being "monitored" in whatever methodology would be used here, but like, if it keeps the dude happy. It'd be nice if it helped him relax a little.

[windeity]

We as in you and me. We are doing the scouting. I guess maybe Keith is going out and doing it on his own but I don't know. It's more for the effort than the actual effect, I think.

[You eventually just get used to being monitored, actually.]

[parodeity]

Ehhh. Not everyone is used to that kind of thing. [ does he mean the trolls or something else? who knows. ] But I think he does better when he's bein' proactive, anyway, so scouting it is. May want to avoid the town if he don't trust a sweep of a building, though. So...outer edges?

[windeity]

I'll suggest that to him next time I talk to him. He seems like the kind of guy who needs stuff to do and I cannot say I blame him that much. He's pretty busy back where he's from based on what I understand. [Onward to scouting anyway? It beats just sitting around, really.] It would be good to check what these buildings are anyway. We know there are some stores but there might be other stuff, too.

[parodeity]

Yeah, from what he's said I ain't that surprised. [ but he frowns a little because he's...minorly concerned about some keith things but whatever. ] Lead the way, dude. I'll have your back, as always. Some...better medical supplies would be good. It ain't fun and games stitchin' people up with sewing thread.

[windeity]

Medical supplies would be good. Especially if people keep wandering to explore and stuff? The forest is pretty big. And with houses this old they might really start falling apart and people could get hurt.

[...] I didn't know you knew how to stitch wounds closed. [Conversationally. But onward! They'll head toward what looks like a larger open building first.]

[parodeity]

It's a useful skill to have. [ people get stabbed a lot.

dave. dave is people, who gets stabbed a lot. ]

[windeity]

If I ever get stabbed again and need to be sewed up you will be the first person to know. Does rubbing alcohol ever go bad, you think? [His brain's everywhere and also he's not sure he wants to linger on stabbing.]