welp

[stars_struck]

[Look around. This is the world your world could be, if inhabited by moeblob warriors: somehow, the DR's turned from a happy town into a checkerboard and blasted landscape of improbable ruined architecture and the remnants of destroyed buildings and structures. The skies are dark and cloudy, the atmosphere bleak and windy

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... p-placeholder until I finish Matagi's fight icons

[phonedgunblade]

[Matagi knows this place and acts accordingly. They don't play chess on this checkerboard.]

Twelve tiles, six black...

[She's measuring her gunblade on the floor of this checkerboard. It helps judge distances for her problems with depth perception.]

Mind my taggin'?

[idkmybffpingas]

[approaching footseps!]

...So I guess this is where you came from.

Not at all

[phonedgunblade]

[Nearly cuts Saul but arcs up at the last instant]

... Yes.

[She lowers the gunblade but keeps it out in case it's needed]

Thanks. ^_^

[idkmybffpingas]

[whoa, whoa, jumping back from that one! his hands lower when her weapon does.]

...

Dangerous place, huh?

[phonedgunblade]

[nodding]

Yes. This is a battleground.

[As if all the ruined landscape around them didn't clue him in enough.]

[idkmybffpingas]

[Well, it was something of a rhetorical question. Nevertheless...Matagi's obviously on alert, so it'd probably be a good idea for him to keep his senses open too.

No immediate response from this one.]

[phonedgunblade]

We should find cover.

[Matagi starts running fast in one direction. Can Saul keep up?]

[idkmybffpingas]

[He'll try! ...and to his own astonishment, he'll fall behind a little in this place, eventually needing to pause for breath. It's not as easy as he expected.]

[phonedgunblade]

[Matagi doubles back eventually and gets beside Saul.]

I could carry you.

[idkmybffpingas]

[c-c-c-carry, what
no, no, wait a second. we don't want this lady thinkin' we're weak or unreliabe or some shit like that]

Naw, naw, it's fine! It's fine...I don't needja to go through the trouble; just havin' trouble with my groove today, that's all...

[but he's still gripping his knees and panting.]

[phonedgunblade]

[Matagi spies a small opening to inside a building about 300 feet up.]

We can hide there. It's closer.

[idkmybffpingas]

Where? [looking up now, and...aw, hell.]

...on second thought, I don't think I can make it up there today. You go on ahead.

[phonedgunblade]

You look like one of us. [They've had this conversation before.] You'll get attacked.

[idkmybffpingas]

Chance I gotta take. A friend of mine could be alone out here...and I don't plan to leave 'er like that if she is.

[Or any other friends he runs across, for that matter.]

[phonedgunblade]

I see.

[Matagi thinks on this for a moment.]

I'll help you then.

[idkmybffpingas]

[headshake] Ain't necessary. I appreciate the offer an' all, I really right-genuine do, but I just can't let a lady put 'erself in danger for me. I'll handle this.