a ding dang mingle

[endsjustified]

WHO: anyone
WHERE: anywhere
WHEN: Day 9, morning through to late afternoon

[well there's still new landmarks to explore, new teammates (and new ragged individuals) to meet. occasional gunfire's been resounding through the woods sometimes, scaring birds up into the air and sending wandering pygmidillos in the meadow askitter.

what are you up to this fine day?]

Comments

[mykidisthebest]

I'll take what I can get. Thank you.

Any idea where we can get some protein around here?

[ohlord]

[just. looks at the sheep.]

[mykidisthebest]

I'm not gonna eat the sheep. Besides, they aren't even mine. They belong to you guys.

[ohlord]

Fish in the lake.

[mykidisthebest]

...Can I borrow a fishing pole?

[ohlord]

Don't got one.

Probably someone else on Lily might have one.

[mykidisthebest]

Do you have a name for a specific Lily that I should ask, or do I have to ask Charon?

[ohlord]

Nyx knows how to fish so he probably knows how fishin' poles work.

But askin' Charon's fine.

[mykidisthebest]

[asking questions is surely not taboo]

Do you know how to fish?

[ohlord]

[. . . this look of knowing this is getting truthful info from him WHICH IS ANNOYING but he's at least putting his gun back in its holster, even if he doesn't take his hand off it.]

Don't got any water on a desert planet, let alone fish.

[mykidisthebest]

[he already got like 5 other truths he doesn't need your stinky truths anymore!!]

Two fishing poles, then. What do you drink if there's no fresh water on the planet?

[ohlord]

There's no water on the planet naturally. Technology's needed for it.

Technology breaks down, ya don't drink anythin'.

Alcohol's cheaper, too.

[mykidisthebest]

Don't you need water to make alcohol... Is there really a technology that can make water from nothing?

[ohlord]

... I say "technology" to make it easier to understand, but it's not machinery.

Humans created a thing called a "plant" that can do that. Not like the plants here--not grass or trees or whatever.

Thing is that humans probably didn't understand what they created. In fact, gonna say they definitely didn't, 'cause we can't recreate them. They die out, we die out. That's how it works on that planet.

[mykidisthebest]

[lets that sink in a sec]

...Humans bio-engineered a new life form that could produce water in order to sustain life and then forgot how. Do you have "dungeons" on your world? Or monsters?

[ohlord]

Define "monsters". But no dungeons, just old ships from the Big Fall that stranded us there in the first place.

[mykidisthebest]

[he cannot define monsters because he's very focused on the spaceships sorry]

--Ships as in spaceships? From outer space?

[ohlord]

... yeah. Some kinda colonizin' thing that ended up going to hell for one reason or another.

[we are not talking about Knives because fuck that. fuck him.]

'Bout a century and a half ago.

[mykidisthebest]

[spaceships and a desert planet...its like Star Wars]

A century and a half isn't too long ago, all things considered. The information to create more plants would probably be on one of the ships somewhere...but I'm sure everyone already knows that. I hope it works out?

[ohlord]

[the way he goes back to just smoking like it's giving him oxygen to live for a minute there probably gives away how bad it is.]

... dunno if y'know how much damage can happen to a ship crashin' through atmosphere it's not prepared for--I sure as hell don't.

They say someone managed to put the fleet on an emergency course, but who knows. Maybe they all just got lucky to get away with their lives and some plants instead of burnin' up. Most ships and tech too damaged and used for scrap. Some even just became settlements.

But plants die. Populations scatter. Overburden plants of other places... it's been the way of it since.

[mykidisthebest]

[it does. it does tell him how bad it is, a bit.]

...Yeah. When resources are limited, that's how it ends up. You might almost be better off with dungeons, even with the monsters.

[ohlord]

Either way, only reason I'm sayin' anythin' is 'cause it can get annoyin' when Earth or Earth-like folk expect me to know things I can't possibly know.

[mykidisthebest]

Does that happen a lot? It's only been a week.

[ohlord]

Literally surrounded by things I've never seen before.

So yeah. It happens a lot.

[YOU THINK WE GOT GRASS ON GUNSMOKE??? HA.]

[mykidisthebest]

Maybe you can just tell them you're an alien and they'll get it.