ON3- First Level

[smellyoudie]

[There's a skinny, short girl wandering around the city with a cane, not quite tapping it around her but definitely holding it in a way that suggests she's using it to search everything out without any particular sense of potential danger. She explores each and every building thoroughly, feeling in the corners with the tip of her cane, climbing the

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[makaracles]

[Oh, hey, look, it's a familiar tall, slouchy troll strolling up. Well, not look, smell.] Hey, my mightyfine justice sis! Have you got your smell on for my horn pile? I can't find it ...

[smellyoudie]

[Smell! His pants smell like delicious grapes and his face is vanilla which is kind of boring but still tasty.]

Hey Gamzee! [Not her favorite person she'd like to be seeing? But it's really nice to see him.] I haven't seen it yet. I was looking for something a little more alive, to be honest. Like you.

[makaracles]

[breaks into a broad grin ... the fact that someone was looking for him? Just about makes his day.] I'm aliviest as they come. [proudly] All up in that lifeliness!

[smellyoudie]

So I see! [And more coherent than she'd have expected him to be. She'd never admit it, but it's a relief to find out she's not the only one, even if her only company ever is Gamzee.] How long have you been all lifeliness here, Gamzee?

[makaracles]

[Yeah, he's sorely in need of some sopor slime. MIGHT WANT TO NOT BRING UP DAVE, TEREZI.] Oh, shit ... uh, since I came? I guess I slept a couple of times since then, and met some of the pink monkey fuckers, and I ate some shit I found on the ground ...

[smellyoudie]

[She can tell he's not quite as loopy as he used to be! That's surprisingly coherent. He didn't try to tell her about bitchtittyness or anything like that.] You mean this is a human city? [HMMMM.]

[makaracles]

... uh, I think it's a buildings and roads and shit city. [scratching his head] I think someone told me what it was called ... fuck if I can remember. My thinkpan's all got rusty little holes in it ... [trails off, staring at nothing uncomfortably]

[smellyoudie]

[Watching that very intently.]

When did it starting getting holes, Gamzee?

[makaracles]

Long time ago ... [his voice has gotten very quiet, now, almost a whisper] Motherfuckin' eating holes all up in there, holes you can see through-

[He shakes his head, and suddenly his voice is his normal, lilting volume again.] Hey, chica, so where the motherfuck is everyone else?

[smellyoudie]

[They are not done talking about those holes, Gamzee! But. Later. She can see that if she pushes now she won't get him to tell her anything.]

I don't know! I was looking for them when I stopped to punish Inspector Berrybreath. But maybe we should start looking together.

[Because after that she wants to keep an eye on him.]

[makaracles]

[grins at her happily] Oh, hells yes, my sister! Lets get our togetherness-looking shit on!

[smellyoudie]

[Prods him lightly with her cane to get him going.] Well come on, Gamzee, we don't have all night. What have you been doing before I got here?

[Sooo casual.]

[makaracles]

[shrugs, and will start ambling along beside her] I dunno. Put my stuff in a pile, uh ... looking for slime? I always forget where the hell it is. I been all up and interfacing with them pink star monkeys, too! They are some weird motherfuckers. All crazy colors and shit!

[smellyoudie]

[Oooh, colors, this sounds interesting. Actually this all sounds interesting.]

Forget where your pile is, or forget where the slime is? It's so difficult to tell what you're trying to say sometimes.

[makaracles]

Yeah. That. [agrees, because yes, he's forgotten where both are, though he'll have an easier time getting to the pile than the slime] It's all these motherfuckin' holes. [sheepishly, smiling at her] Sorry, sis.

[smellyoudie]

It's okay, Gamzee, I didn't expect you to remember. [Doesn't look particularly perturbed.] We'll find it again. Maybe when the holes go away?

[Would really like him to start talking about those holes a little bit.]