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[hauntedsavior]

What's up.
Are we doing introductions now? I guess we're doing introductions.
Name's Anna. Professional city defender and mostly robot girl.
Coming here from a place called Recolle that I'm pretty sure no one here knows about, which is cool.

Never been much for stuff like this, so, like, I don't know.
Anyone needs a katana at their side, look me up. I'm pretty damn good at it.
I might not know what's going on here, but far as I'm concerned, this is where I live now and it makes sense for everyone if I actually try to keep it safe.

And since I'm in full spaghetti at the wall mode right now, lemme just throw out some words, see if it triggers anything for any of you guys.
Zee Carlisle. Clarence Vanderweele. Layers of reality. Retrospec.
The Geteilts.
Nothing?
Yeah, didn't think so.

Anyway, yeah, flag me down if you see me on the streets and need some protection or whatever. I'm five ten and I only have one eye. I'm hard to miss.

Comments

[vibing]

man monsters in your world sound smart
they arent so smart where im from, but they attack in packs. trying to taking out five quiettas at once damn near killed me
yeah they bleed a lot. heard theres a thing with blood pollution here. bet killing all these monsters is part of it

[hauntedsavior]

These were special monsters. They lived inside another layer of reality, or something.
Real dark shit just under the surface of what everyone else can see, as long as you take the time to look for it.
But ain't that the story of everywhere.
Hell, this place just looks like it made all the darkness front and center.
Maybe I shouldn't be so cavalier about cutting things up.

Eh.

[vibing]

sounds rough. at least the monsters i had to fight were reality monsters

[ look, he doesn't really get it, but whatever, he doesn't need to ]

yeah they seem to like the whole gloomy vibe
trying to figure out whats up with the blood pollution. has something to do with our blood too.

not like we should let monsters kill people, because thats other blood spilled
worlds better off with fewer monsters if you ask me

[hauntedsavior]

Oh, the blood I'm not supposed to have because I'm a robot?
That blood?
Yeah, I'd say there's some bigger mysteries going on there.
I'd be glad to thin out the monster herd while we try to figure out what the hell's happening with all this weird magic blood or whatever.
Just means I can bring back more samples of the stuff to study or whatever, you know?
I can just wring it out of my clothes.

[vibing]

oh yeah the robot thing
never would have guessed
so robots dont usually have blood?

yeah yeah good idea. there're some smart kids here would probably love a shot at that kind of stuff
no clue how to figure anything out with blood myself
just point me at the monsters and ill kill them

[hauntedsavior]

Motor oil, usually, as far as I know.
I just know this is weird because I was awake when my insides turned from blood to circuits.

God, dude.
I used to tell people that when it came to getting shit done, they could just point me in a direction and pull the trigger.
I knew we got each other.
Not a lot of time to think about the nuances when you're staring down a genocidal maniac, yeah?

[vibing]

huh
fought some robots once but none of them look like you
mostly like... insect like. hated those things
wait so you used to have blood and then you were a robot and now you have blood again?

[ He's trying to keep up ]

hey as long as im taking out the right guys, i dont care.
lines got pretty blurred there for a minute though

yeah pretty much. man theyre everywhere huh?

you know im itching to take out more monsters. want to join?

[hauntedsavior]

I barely understood it when it changed the first time, and now I definitely have real, human blood again.
At least this time it didn't feel like I was dying.
Had to get someone to literally look inside my chest last time to see what was happening and I don't think she's gonna show up anytime soon.

What I'm saying is that I would love to go kill some more monsters instead of focusing on whatever weird crap my body is doing to me.

[vibing]

that sounds rough
at least its human blood
i have no idea what my weird blue blood is. its not blood ive ever seen before

yep lets do that lets meet near the ache

man the names in this place

[hauntedsavior]

Oh, is blood not supposed to be blue?
Been a while. Forgot what normal blood looks like.
Well, whatever, it's probably fine. I'll see you at the Ache.
Then we can tour the Gouge, the Slice, and the Over 30s Back Pain.

[vibing]

mines always been red
who knows

ouch. sucks to be old
see you there

[ So rude, Yuri.

Down to leave them here, to continue their adventure in our event thread? ]