Of New Technologies. [Active, Open]

[layerofdirt]

Characters: Toph Bei Fong and whoever wants to run in to her.
Time: About a day after The Hunt.
Location: St. Peter's Church and the surrounding area.
Content: Toph is bored, and she goes out exploring to find a phone. Actually, this is mostly to get some CR with her and get her more involved in the game. *Fail*
Format: Prose
Warnings: Perhaps

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[nowhere_winry]

Winry tugged the jacket more tightly around her body. The wind blowing in off the water was cold, and while she'd spent time up in the Briggs Mountains, the humidity here in Chicago made the wind even colder than the dry snow in Briggs.

She really needed to find more metal. Gold, steel - she needed it for Ed's automail. Silver or copper wiring would do if she couldn't get gold. Winry didn't want to take the metal from Mrs. Carpenter's projects. And she still needed to make those weapon prototypes she'd promised Harry.

...and find Ed a coat. Or at least something he could transmute into a coat.

Sighing, Winry turned down a street, spotting someone in clothes that weren't exactly the normal for the residents of Chicago. She wondered if the girl might be one of the new people she hadn't met yet. "Hey! Hey!"

[layerofdirt]

Toph could feel the person walk down the street, but as she seemed preoccupied with her won thoughts, she ignored her. Well, that is until she felt the person face her and call out.

She turned towards the girl. She seemed a little ditrassed, and although Toph would normally keep such people away, but then again, she kind of needed help as well, and she was also curious about the object that she had put in her pocket. Toph didn't respond right away, but walked up to the girl, trying to ignore the cold wind that the buildings had been shielding her from before. "What's goin' on?"

[nowhere_winry]

"Uh," Winry shifted her weight. "Um...are you from...somewhere else? Not Chicago?" She winced at that question.

[layerofdirt]

Toph quirked an eyebrow. Really? Was it that hard to see she wasn't from around here? She was told that her clothes looked different from everyone else, and she also lacked the proper clothing to keep the cold wind off of her.

She sighed. "I'm from the Earth Kingdom, genius." Toph might not have been the sharpest knife in the drawer, but so far, she was smarter than this chick. "Where are you from?"

[123_geese]

Chauvelin was once again walking. In the past few months, he'd walked around all of the accessible parts of the city at least twice, sometimes more, searching for any clues that might lead to an escape. But without any real belief in the magical aspects of the world he now inhabited, any hints likely passed him by, unnoticed.

Still, he did spot one familiar-- or, rather, recognizable --thing on his walk. The young lady he'd met at the party was coming his way.

He bowed, polite, "Good evening."

[layerofdirt]

Toph recognized the voice immediately. It was Mr. Fancypants from that lame party! She stopped in her place on the steps of the church. "Hi."

The earthbender didn't quite know what to say to this guy. She had hardly talked to him at the party before stealing a cookie and leaving. "Did you have fun at that party-thing?"

[123_geese]

"I admit that I left shortly after you did," he said, putting on an air of geniality, "but not before something you said made an impression."

"You said that I wouldn't find what I was seeking there, and indeed, I did not. As a matter of fact, I find myself hard-pressed to find any sort of answer in this place." He paused a moment to take a pinch of snuff from a small, silver box. "Have you? Found any answers here?" Although the question seemed innocent and only mildly curious, there was a tenseness to his whole body that said the answer was important.

[layerofdirt]

Damn, this guy talked a lot like the people she had to put up with back at home. Well, at least this guy wasn't keeping her from being herself or trying to tell her she was too helpless to do anything.

"Nah. I haven't found a thing. Well, nothing to get me back where I need to be anyway." Toph raised an eyebrow at the man. She could feel how tense he was, but the thing that bugger her the most was the fact that he was sniffing some sort of powder up his nose. She pointed to the snuff box, not knowing what it was. "Are you trying to make yourself sneeze or somethin'? What is that anyway?"

[ocarinahero]

Link was lucky enough to not have been caught up in the Wild Hunt when it had ran through, but after the boy heard of what happened that day he wanted to go out and see if there was anything interesting he could find in the aftermath. In his, admittedly rather fruitless, search, he came across a girl about his age wearing a green outfit that, to Link, wasn't really all that odd. Even if it was, he wasn't one to talk.

"Hey," he said, running up to her, "Did you just get here?"

[theblackstaff]

The Hunt had been unexpected, to say the least, and even after it was over Ebenezar didn't relax. He'd left a note with Charity Carpenter explaining he would be leaving the hotel unattended for a few hours and left to take stock of the rest of Chicago.

Nothing in particular stood out to Ebenezar as he made his way down city block after city block; the Wild Hunt seemed to have left little physical evidence of its passage, and he wasn't fool enough to use his Sight to see its magical trail. As he neared St. Peter's Church, however, he did notice something different. Two children, one of whom he recognized, talking to each other. He quickened his steps, staff clacking against the pavement as he walked, and asked as he approached, "I ain't suppose you got parents or somebody walking around here with you?"

[layerofdirt]

Toph had still been fiddling with the damned...whatever it was when the boy approached, but could still feel him coming towards her. She turned her head towards him, though her eyes didn't meet his, and they were mostly covered from her long bangs. "I've been here for a few days, but I guess I'm still new."

She had barely finished her sentence before she felt and heard an older man coming their way. She focused her attention away from the boy and to the old guy. "What's it to you, grandpa?" Toph didn't need parents to take care of her. As she had said before, she could carry her own weight.

[ocarinahero]

Link looked up into the girl's clouded over eyes, "Have you found--" Link was cut off by the old man's question, he turned his attention to the man and frowned at him. Link didn't like that the man though that he needed someone to watch over him.

"I don't have any parents," Link replied in a matter of fact sort of way, "And I can take care of myself, sir."