❦ 6th Record

[iattractmushi]

Great, these things really do eat anything. Guard your pockets, everyone... I just lost half my coins.

[Pause]

How long has everyone been living here?

Comments

[feathered_earth]

It didn't make them sick, did it?

And I've been here for a little over a year.

[iattractmushi]

I think it did... the ones I took out of my coin pouch [pause] don't look very good.

[Longer pause] Thanks.

[feathered_earth]

Oh... I wonder what's in the coins that makes them so bad for things.

Howcome you're asking?

[iattractmushi]

Oh, do other creatures get sick if they eat the coins, too?

I'm curious.

[reckless_rebel]

Next September'll be two years.

[iattractmushi]

[Pause. Two years? Gods.] Thanks.

Who's this?

[reckless_rebel]

No problem.

Name's Dash, you? When'd you get here? I've been kinda... not paying attention to journals. Stay here long enouhg, you'll get the same. Maybe. Or just nutty. Nutty's a favorite pasttime of long-timers.

[iattractmushi]

Cloud. I've been here about a month and a half, joined the Adventurers a few weeks ago.

Nutty, huh? Sounds real fun.

[bloody_pens]

I've been here for... 5 months already. Wow. Feels like I've been in this place forever.

[iattractmushi]

Thanks. [Pause] Forever's a long time.

I don't think I ever did catch your name; mine's Cloud.

[bloody_pens]

Derrick.

Forever certainly is a long time, especially when your brother insists on bringing Tribbles home.

[iattractmushi]

[Pause for laughter]

They are kind of cute, when they're not trying to eat everything I own, but I'm not sure they'd make very good pets.

[unevoked]

Since Mid-November. [Hobo don't feel like counting.]

Thing ate your coins? Fuck.

[iattractmushi]

[And it's mid-April now, so...] About five months?

Yeah. They're damned annoying little critters.

[unevoked]

Sounds 'bout right, yeah.

...I dunno, just keep 'em away from your stuff and they ain't that bad. [Their noises are cute. :< ]

[iattractmushi]

[Some hobos are good at math, Castor.]

The ones I've got seem to be very good at getting into my coat pockets undetected and then chewing on everything I keep in them. [He will never admit that he kind of likes the noise.]