19 - [Video] (In which Japan is mysteriously naked off-screen)

[fierybluebird]

[Look everyone! It's a Marco. And boy does he look confused. At least for Marco. And since he appears to be hiding in some bushes... that'd be a good assessment.]Hey so we're a week out of the city now... Is anyone acting strangely? Or maybe getting attacked with some of those weird word fish? One of them causes hallucinations right? Maybe?

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[Video]

[kungfublackfrog]

I haven't noticed anything in Dissimulo.

[...]

Word fish? What are those?

[Heard of them but has no idea what they even do.]

[Video]

[kungfublackfrog]

Heh, at least you're not refusing. [He can think of one who thinks he's absolutely bonkers.]

When I was a teenager, I fought space aliens while wearing color-coded spandex and drove big robots. Still do actually.

[So deadpan right now.]

[Video]

[fierybluebird]

Awesome. Why spandex?

[Always deadpan.]

[Video]

[kungfublackfrog]

[Someone believes him no questions asked? Then again, he reminds himself of the conversation at the observatory and it relaxes him.]

We called it spandex but it was something different: it was light armor that protected us pretty well. Our mentor didn't explain what it was so we didn't ask really.

[Back to the current conversation so no one thinks the guy is focusing on himself...]

So why did you ask about if anyone was acting odd?

[Video]

[fierybluebird]

Understood. [The dude wears a sash and unbuttoned shirt. Armor is armor.]

Eh, because if it's just me or just my friend then I need to worry more.

[Video]

[kungfublackfrog]

How bad are they acting? [Sounding a little worried now.]

[Video]

[fierybluebird]

Not bad. Just unusual. Very very strange for them.

[Video]

[kungfublackfrog]

Like running-around-in-their-birthday-suit-and-doing-a-rain-dance sort of thing or something else entirely?

[Oh you know it could happen knowing this place.]

Er, how do they usually act?

[Video]

[fierybluebird]

Yes. The first one. Although not so much the rain dance. I think he's reading a newspaper. Or whatever the comm equivalent is here.

Normally he's the most reserved guy I know. He even said being reserved or shy is part of his code.

[Video]

[kungfublackfrog]

Wait, he really IS naked?! I thought I was joking with that!

[Not freaking out at all, just really really stunned.]

...part of a code? [Getting confused now.]

[Video]

[fierybluebird]

I'm joking too. [DEADPAN BUT NO, he is not joking for once. Lying about lying? OTL]

Aye. Warrior code. Like a swordsman or bushido.

[Video] That face...it's staring into my souull...

[kungfublackfrog]

Warrior code? [Forgetting the nekkid friend for a second.] That's something I haven't heard about in a long time.

[Video] :O What's it saying? because all I hear is "I want to eat a muffin"

[fierybluebird]

He's kind of dedicated to a different era, eh?

[Video] More like 'I'm gonna eat YOU.'

[kungfublackfrog]

Where honor mattered? I honestly wish I could see that more back home.

[Remember that coin he was playing with earlier? He is now putting it off to the side where a small notebook is.]

Who is he? I might've met him before.

[Video] Are you a muffin?? Also don't look at the "I will fuck you up" icon then

[fierybluebird]

All depends on what your idea of honor is I suppose. Or your world, since maybe that has fallen out of use.

Ahhhh I can't give away his name at this time. Especially if he's just feverish or something, eh?

[Video]...don't think so. And you know I'm gonna look. >.>

[kungfublackfrog]

Protecting a friend then? [Sighs.] It's alright, I'm not gonna pressure you. I hope he feels better if he is sick.