Ginko glanced over as he saw a lone figure walking up to the beach. It wasn't unusual to see other lone travelers, of course, but he was curious to see who this one was.
It wasn't anyone he recognized, though the lack of a mark on his forehead and the general air that the otherworlders seemed to give off marked him as one. Maybe it was because so few of them seemed to really fit the setting of this world, being from a time far in the future or from other countries. And often they were both of those things.
He nodded to the other man, his gaze falling to the plants he held as he did. His steps slowed slightly, then stopped. He was just curious enough to ask the man what he was doing with those plants. "Excuse me..."
Ginko watched the man levelly for a moment. He wasn't sure, of course, but something about the way the man was holding himself made him wonder... never mind. The man was wary of him, he couldn't help that.
Tucking his hands into his pockets, he raised an eyebrow of his own at the gold-haired man. An unusual color, in his opinion, but then many of the people here didn't look like what he was expecting. Different hair colors, skin colors, subtle differences in their face and body shapes...
"Actually, I was wondering if maybe I could help you. Those plants you're carrying... do you know what they are?" He doubted it. From the glimpse he'd caught, the man had both helpful and harmful plants all together.
"I do." He moved a little closer as Niko fanned out the plants, forgetting his earlier suspicion of Niko. "Or at least, I know enough to tell you that this one," he pointed at the farthest-left of the leaves, "is poisonous. Pretty potent, too. Hmmm..."
He looked at the rest of the leaves carefully. "I don't know that one," his finger moved slightly, to indicate the one directly next to the poisonous one, "but the rest are good. These are medicinal," he indicated four of the leaves, "and the rest are generally used for cooking, according to the people I learned from."
...this is pure BS, whee~verdant_walkerSeptember 6 2011, 07:35:14 UTC
"Of course." It's something he's hoping to start doing to make enough money for him to eat, so he's studied those, and the medicines they can make carefully. "That one's good as a mild anesthetic, that one can help to clean a wound if you add it to the dressing. Those two... are useless alone, but if you add a few more things, it makes a potent sleeping drink."
He raises an eyebrow, and smiles slightly. "Does that answer your questions?"
With a slight, polite nod, Ginko stepped away slightly, giving them both a little space. "I'm Ginko."
He tucked his hands into his pockets, not leaving just yet even though the reason he'd stopped in the first place was no longer a topic. "Mmmm... have you been in Kannagara long?"
He wasn't sure why he was asking, just that this 'Niko' was an otherworlder just like he was, and he seemed interested in learning about this world. If the other man was a recent arrival, maybe he could help him a little.
[ooc: Oh dear... I'm terrible about switching tenses in the middle of things /)_(\ I sometimes manage to catch myself before I hit 'send' but obviously not this time. Let's just... ignore that, and I'll try to stay in past tense. Sorry!]
Ginko smiled faintly. "Time is a little... funny here. Days seem longer, though the seasons seem shorter." He shrugged. "I can't have been here longer than... oh, about two and a half months, but I arrived in late winter, and now it seems like summer's coming to a close." He'd noticed it getting cooler at night. He just hoped that it wouldn't get so cold he'd need to find a more permanent place to live.
"I don't know what it is, or how it really works, other than it's most likely something the Gods have decided should happen." Hell if he understood why, though.
Ginko looked off into the forest, away from Mizusato. "Nnnnn... hard to say. If this is the way it's always been, they're used to it. Maybe they'll act differently from the animals we know, but it's hard to say whether that's due to time being strange, or the fact that they are, as you call them, monsters."
Personally, he had yet to form any firm opinions about the habits of the creatures--in part because he hadn't been here a year yet, and partially because so many of them were strange to him.
/checks bestiary/ holy god, what the heck. Ginko needs to meet these things nowverdant_walkerSeptember 25 2011, 03:22:58 UTC
Ginko quirked an eyebrow slightly. "Basan...? Hmmm. I'm sure they do. The real question is, where do they go? Is this world big enough to have different climates in different areas?" He wasn't sure it was... but at least part of that was that it took so little time for him to wander from place to place that it was difficult to get a real sense of the size of Kannagara.
"Heh." He shifted his weight from foot to foot, smiling faintly. It would certainly help to have scrolls on the creatures. Like, say, a library...
He hoped Tanyuu was doing well, after her short stay in this place. "Well, it'll take time, but eventually I'll have notes about most of the creatures I know about." Which wasn't to say he'd know everything about the beings that inhabited Kannagara, but... he shrugged. "It'll be a start, at least."
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It wasn't anyone he recognized, though the lack of a mark on his forehead and the general air that the otherworlders seemed to give off marked him as one. Maybe it was because so few of them seemed to really fit the setting of this world, being from a time far in the future or from other countries. And often they were both of those things.
He nodded to the other man, his gaze falling to the plants he held as he did. His steps slowed slightly, then stopped. He was just curious enough to ask the man what he was doing with those plants. "Excuse me..."
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Tucking his hands into his pockets, he raised an eyebrow of his own at the gold-haired man. An unusual color, in his opinion, but then many of the people here didn't look like what he was expecting. Different hair colors, skin colors, subtle differences in their face and body shapes...
"Actually, I was wondering if maybe I could help you. Those plants you're carrying... do you know what they are?" He doubted it. From the glimpse he'd caught, the man had both helpful and harmful plants all together.
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He looked at the rest of the leaves carefully. "I don't know that one," his finger moved slightly, to indicate the one directly next to the poisonous one, "but the rest are good. These are medicinal," he indicated four of the leaves, "and the rest are generally used for cooking, according to the people I learned from."
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He raises an eyebrow, and smiles slightly. "Does that answer your questions?"
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He tucked his hands into his pockets, not leaving just yet even though the reason he'd stopped in the first place was no longer a topic. "Mmmm... have you been in Kannagara long?"
He wasn't sure why he was asking, just that this 'Niko' was an otherworlder just like he was, and he seemed interested in learning about this world. If the other man was a recent arrival, maybe he could help him a little.
[ooc: Oh dear... I'm terrible about switching tenses in the middle of things /)_(\ I sometimes manage to catch myself before I hit 'send' but obviously not this time. Let's just... ignore that, and I'll try to stay in past tense. Sorry!]
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"I don't know what it is, or how it really works, other than it's most likely something the Gods have decided should happen." Hell if he understood why, though.
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Personally, he had yet to form any firm opinions about the habits of the creatures--in part because he hadn't been here a year yet, and partially because so many of them were strange to him.
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"Heh." He shifted his weight from foot to foot, smiling faintly. It would certainly help to have scrolls on the creatures. Like, say, a library...
He hoped Tanyuu was doing well, after her short stay in this place. "Well, it'll take time, but eventually I'll have notes about most of the creatures I know about." Which wasn't to say he'd know everything about the beings that inhabited Kannagara, but... he shrugged. "It'll be a start, at least."
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