Group Intro

[oi_theoi]

Who: New kids
When: Day 37, Still morning
Where: Shrine apt
What: =Dbb!

[A new day, another batch of traumatized/angry/none of the above strangers]

[Terry!Batman | Kida | Celty | Simi | Tyki]

Comments

[hydralize]

[nnnot sure he likes the faces Tyki's making]

Is that good or bad?

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

A good thing.

[Can't really tack a 'trust me' to the end of that, can he?]

[hydralize]

. . . Right.

Did anyone warn you about the food yet?

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

Don't eat it unless it has been blessed by the gods.

Have you also been going out and taming the wilds?

[hydralize]

More like destroying it.

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

Does it actually go anywhere? The areas after you've cleared them.

[hydralize]

Just other areas of this same building. There hasn't been anything interesting found yet.

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

That sounds rather dull.

[hydralize]

It is, but it's less dull than staying confined to the one floor we've managed to clear so far.

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

You have a point.

So there are two floors now available? No wonder these gods need all the help they can get.

[hydralize]

This floor, and just part of the floor above us are the only cleared areas. When I got here, there were only a couple of rooms cleared, total.

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

My condolences for your suffering.

[And there is some sincerity in it. He's a guy that likes to wander from town to town and having no towns, well, is not favorable.]

At least it seems you keep busy even if it is rather mundane.

[hydralize]

Yeah . . . I don't know about everyone else, but I just want to finish with this building as soon as we can so we can move on already.

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

Do you know what's beyond this building or is that all kept secret?

Or actually why this place was overgrown to begin with?

[hydralize]

Just rainforest as far as we've been able to explore yet. And . . . [shrugs] Some kind of apocalypse where nature flipped it's shit and destroyed the natives completely.

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

This place seems merrier and merrier as the details unfold.

[hydralize]

[dryly] It's a fucking party.

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

Quite.

Do you have a cigarette?

[hydralize]

. . . [pulls a pack out of his pocket and holds it up so Tyki can take one]

A couple of the gods offer them in exchange for animal parts.

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

[You are his new bestest friend!]

So I've heard. I was warned about the god of gambling.

[hydralize]

The woman? I haven't dealt with her much . . . What warning did you get?

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

No I believe it was a he. Something about betting too high was the warning.

[hydralize]

He's the one I get my cigarettes from though . . . He'll make you put a fair value on them yourself—for me it's the brain or hands of a monkey per pack. He's no trouble when it comes to that.

[fortuneforyourdisaster]

Brains of a monkey for a pack of cigarettes?

[Okay. He hadn't actually gotten as far to see the trade sheet.]

[hydralize]

You're gonna end up paying for most things like that. Sacrificing animal parts to them is pretty standard.