SPACE COAST: PRIVATE CONVO: LOVELACE

[murdergate]

[ who's driving the car? ]

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w2; monday

[murdergate]

[ at the padlock, nodd leans over the railing, watching the e.l.c.s and their riders become attuned to one another.

his normally shoulder-length (on the one side) hair has grown to floor length overnight,he has it braided and tucked into the collar of the long blue peacoat he wears. ]

What do you think? Will you give it a shot?

[thematics]

[ long hair... I Am Looking. lovelace barely takes notice, but, i, ]

Ohh, no way. That's a death trap.

[murdergate]

What? No. Look. They're all... alive.

[ none of the riders in the padDock (how did I mispell that) have been completely bucked off their mounts. one is hanging on by a whisker, but. ]

It looks fun.

[thematics]

And they probably have more experience than I would.

[ she has never even ridden a horse!!! aaaa!!! ]

[murdergate]

[ sidelong look. oh. is she an earth human? do they not ride anything there? weeks later, he has not memorized key info from profiles. ]

If you wanted to try, we could ask if they have any tamer ones for visitors.

[ is there a horsegirl in there... somewhere? ]

[thematics]

[ a pause, because she is considering it... but... ]

... They look heavy...

[murdergate]

You'll be fine! One moment. Wait here.

[ nodd vaults the railing and looks for someone who really, truly knows what they're doing. not long after, he'll return with an e.l.c he's been assured is quite gentle and meant for the skittish, foreign rider. mods said i could ]

They said we can borrow this guy for a while.

week 3: thursday

[thematics]

[ hello are you in the medbay. she is here to check in on him!! ]

... How are you doing?

[murdergate]

[ yes, although it's to check on those in the pods. nodd has turned away any patching up of his own wounds. unnecessary. focus on those with gut wounds and whatnot, thanks.

he gives lovelace a fleeting smile. ]

I've been better, but I've also been much worse.

[thematics]

[ terrible thank you. she does not return the smile. ]

Well, good news. You can be a little better than this. [ >:( use the pods!!! ]

[murdergate]

I'm abstaining for religious reasons.

[ ...... his charisma isn't great... his lies are not... great ]

[thematics]

I'm going to need you to get over those.

[ rude

also for the record this is ic strong-arming but not ooc strong-arming. if he gives in she'll be satisfied if he spends like half an hour in the pods which is barely enough to do anything so you could keep any injuries you want etc.

(but also obvi he doesn't have to give in. etc.) SORRY SHE'S PUSHY ]

[murdergate]

[ oh yeah i know. they are at a impasse. perhaps she can get him to go in there for like, fifteen minutes. he calls it a glass coffin the whole time. no thank you. ugggggh. he so prefers magic for this. FROWNING THE WHOLE TIME. comes out and looks like a cat post-ice water dunking ]

I promise, I won't be dying from anything but a bonafide murder tonight, okay?

w4, wednesday

[thematics]

[ OKAY WELL THAT WAS ALL A LOT, but shortly after mini-event she is just. shuddering. ]

God, I hate virtual reality.

[murdergate]

I thought it was fun. Bad past experience or did you get hosed down during paintball?

[ prying, but not rudely this time. he knows she's from magicless, techfull world. call him curious. ]

[thematics]

Bad past experience.

I did... fine in paintball. [ this is true she did perfectly average. very boring. ]

[murdergate]

[ nodd distantly recalls. if she'd started doing bad, he might have felt like he should go offer a hand. since she didn't, he was free. yaaay lazy. ]

What happened? Got stuck in the digital world?

[thematics]

For a day, yeah. Had to go through a maze and a gameshow and friggin' quiz section. Not a fond memory.

[murdergate]

Sounds exhausting. We won, though. Cause for some material plane celebration? Want to grab a drink at Titan's Call before hightailing it out of here for curfew?

[ nodd waaaaants to push, but he is being good! ]

week 5 ; monday

[murdergate]

[ remember when we rode the e.l.c.s and thought maybe this journey wouldn't be a complete shitshow??? nodd does. that's why he's in the forest level biome, feeding the deer-type critters. elf-ass, he definitely looks like he belongs here. come join. ]

[thematics]

[ no she has always believed this journey would be a nightmare. the paranoia.

but sure! she's pretty into the biomes that have cute animals to look at! ]

Okay, this place doesn't belong on a ship either, but I'm not complaining this time.

[murdergate]

[ wise. ]

Kinda concerned what's gonna happen to all of them when we arrive at the end. Guess we can take care of them until then.

[thematics]

Unfortunately, we're really not in a position to be playing conservationist with more lives than our own. But ideally we fix whatever's going on and they get to stay here. Get taken care of by...

[ actually this thought is occurring to her for the first time. ]

By whoever runs this place when we're all gone.

[murdergate]

Lot of what-ifs right now. Tomorrow's gonna be a wallop--you saw Viktor came back from the dead?

[ nodd isn't a super gossip so he leaves off that he and lucien are definitely doing some gay shit but meta text wants to make all aware. ]

[thematics]

Oh. Yeah. Crazy, right?

But pretty promising with the implications.