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DAVE STRIDER | RED | #E00707
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[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.]

[parodeity]

It'll evaporate if left open, but otherwise nah. [ he frowns, gaze skating sideways. ] ...Try not to need my services? Sewin' up one friend is maybe enough for a year. But yeah, if you do. I want to know first off.

[windeity]

Trust me, I would rather all four of us not have to deal with fatal injuries ever again. I was just wondering. I still don't know how I feel about this place. But of course I'll tell you. I tell you everything first anyway.

[...usually.]

[parodeity]

What, really? [ when they were thirteen he knew that'd been a thing but he...

is not really exactly entirely secure in where he stands with john when he's vaguely aware of some plan to, you know. change everything. john is and is not really his when the timeline has given him up and is trading in for a newer model, and there are better people to tell everything to, maybe. they haven't talked about a lot of things and dave...isn't unaware of that.

he doesn't explain, though. ]

Anyway, I think it is maybe an upgrade from wandering around dream bubbles indefinitely. I can only take so much troll at one time.

[windeity]

Well yeah? You're my best friend, who else would I tell stuff to? [Other people especially when he's not sure where they stand? But whatever.]

I think anything would be an upgrade from that, personally. [He makes a face.] I think this is definitely an upgrade from the ship, too. It's nice being able to go out and do stuff. [And into the large building they go to explore.

It looks like kind of like a giant storage shed, mostly.]

[parodeity]

I don't know. Whoever. I just miss you, I guess.

[ but he doesn't want to explain that so he just speeds on ahead to go explore. ]

[windeity]

[He opens his mouth to reply but then Dave's jetting away and he moves to keep up.]

There is a reason I asked you to come with me, idiot. [Dave's his best friend and he's missed hanging out with him. It's even better now that it's in person. But he pushes the door open a little wider to let some light in.]

...this looks like it might be an okay space for storing supplies we're finding.

[parodeity]

You don't have to. [ pretend, or whatever. it's not pretending, dave knows that, but he's not sure how to explain himself. they can't talk about the whole dying thing, john has very clearly avoided that, so he can't broach that topic. and he can't explain how weird it is that john's here and dave just misses the fucking internet, when he could text john and there'd be responses eventually and constantly; there was a reason to be glued to a computer screen aside from one shitty forum that doesn't really warrant it.

it kind of reminds him of how he felt about rose, sometimes. it was so much better being online friends than having someone right there and only seeing them once every so often. it was why he ended up bonding with karkat, eventually. he was there. and that mattered more in the long run than actual personality compatibility.

...but he can't actually talk about 90% of the issue so he opts to drop it again, trying to locate the windows to draw back the curtains. ]

I think Momo marked off some places for supply drops, but we can tell her about this one, maybe, too...? Backups are never a bad thing. Redundancy makes the world go 'round.