OTA - Just some random time around now - These Thins Aren't Quite as Nice as Cell Phones

[want_to_belong]

Hey, anyone feel like talking into a rock is the start of some sort of prank?

[OOC: Just assume this is posted at a convenient time around event stuff.]

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[yourattention]

I don't know. Is your refrigerator running?

[What else are you supposed to say when the mysterious rock in your backpack asks if something is the start of a prank???]

[want_to_belong]

Wish I had one right now. Could really god for some peppery daggerquill rice.

[A soft laugh.]

Or really, more stuff that's not seafood.

[yourattention]

You're ruining my joke. [Connor, it was a shitty joke to begin with.] Also, this is why we should have all voted for anything but - literally I can't even pronounce it. Hell Island: People Edition. As opposed to Hell Island: Sun Edition or Hell Island: The Duality Of Man Edition.

[want_to_belong]

Hey, I wanted food island!

[Someone is thinking with his stomach.]

Think of all the ingredients we could have gathered. After some of our last encounters with civilization, I just... wasn't looking to meet new people.

[yourattention]

That's because it's a truth universally acknowledged that people suck, especially people with sticks up their asses about rules. [A beat, wherein he realises the irony of saying this over social geological media.] . . . Is it racist to say that about the people on the new island? It's probably racist.

My bad.

[want_to_belong]

People are okay. There's lots of cool people on this island.

It's just dealing with other civilizations right now... What are we supposed to do if we meet a hostile city with an army?

[yourattention]

We fight up close, seize the moment and stay in it. It’s either that or meet the business end of a bayonet.

[The code word is "Rochambeau," dig me?]

[want_to_belong]

Not sure we have enough resources for that. Probably better just to lay low for now.

[yourattention]

Oh. I thought you were talking in general. It's not like I'm Alexander Hamilton out here like "I wish there was a war" or anything. I'd rather just practice underwater basket weaving.

[want_to_belong]

No prob, man.

Who's Alexander Hamilton?

[yourattention]

[Don't do it. Don't do it, don't do it -]

The ten dollar founding father. Of America. Which is the place I'm from.

[want_to_belong]

Oh, so he's your founder king? Cool.

...Was he not very good? I don't know how much a dollar is, but if it's anything like gil then 10 dollars doesn't sound like very much.

[yourattention]

Nah, he was never king - he was like. The guy that fought by the king's side and shit? But he wasn't royal enough to be king. That's why he's only 10 dollars.

[want_to_belong]

Ah, so one of the retainers? [Like Iggy.] I get it. Retainers can be pretty cool. At least he got recognized!

[yourattention]

Yeah, that! I guess he was, like, Washington's #1 guy or whatever? I dunno - history is not my best subject. It's really boring? And there's a lot of it.

[want_to_belong]

So Washington was the king? Weird name.

I feel you on the history, though. You can only learn about so many kings before you fall asleep in class. Sooooo much politics.

[The queens? Not so much. They were more interesting!]