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Guy Crood ([personal profile] acroodawakening) wrote in [community profile] piper902020-12-30 09:43 pm

Yabba Dabba Nooo [video] [locked to New Hires but accidentally opted Kokichi in to this one post]

[cw: mention of death arenas, and a little blood.]

[He briefly got an explanation on what the little lock thing means. In a little while it'll make him hopeful because ongoing locked communication is a great thing if you want to rebel. Right now he's bristling with too much annoyance to find anything heartening.]

[He turns the comm on and spends a good half hour with it first, figuring out the interface. It's not as intuitive for him as it might have been for some others, but he gets there. The hover mode is neat. That's a new one. Again, when he is less pissed off, he'll be excited and want to know how it works.]

[Right now he needs to vent somewhere and if the Rig staff can't see the locked posts, only other people trapped here like him will see it. If the other New Hires sell him out and tell the staff he's faking the stupidity thing, they're all doomed from a lack of cooperation anyway.]

Hi.

[The young man on the screen is noticeably small, compared to the bunk he's sitting on. In his world? He's taller than his some of his family, lanky but muscular. In other worlds, where people are absolute giants, he's small and wiry in comparison. Guy is only 5'4" and his entire frame matches that. It isn't like he's a teen or an adult with stunted growth, he's just a tiny fully grown adult, complete with muscles that make the top part of his coveralls fit a little tightly.]

[They didn't give him back his hair tie, so he's using an extra bootlace for that and tying a little ponytail on the top of his head as he speaks. His hair is on the coarse end and otherwise it just sticks up all over.]

I'm Guy. Guy Crood. [Really, it was official, the last name.] I'm sure this Jorgmund is just super, I really am. I am just so happy to be here. Because I got kidnapped from my perfectly nice world with stunning natural wonders, and my family, and a farm with all the food I could eat, to a broken nightmare city where they made us repeatedly fight to the death and brought us back to life, as a way to terrorize and control their slaves with a show of power.

And then! And then I had the stunningly good fortune to get away from that world because of a bunch of magic dust, and then I wound up here! In a rolling tin can. [He knows what cans are. A lot of arena food came in cans.] With lightning in my stomach they can trigger any time to make me do what they want.

Not only did I not magically get sucked back home instead - to my family and my beautiful, wonderful mate, who all probably think I got dragged off and eaten by a predator - I also got pulled away from all my friends who are trying to survive in said gruesome death matches in the other nightmare future place.

[He holds up a finger.]

Actually, excuse me for a second.

[He is visibly shaking with anger over his circumstances and he starts exorcising those feelings by standing up and repeatedly kicking his locker in, denting it.]

[In between kicks, he keeps talking, his voice halfway between annoyed and conversational.]

I'm sure you're all very nice people! I look forward to getting to know you!

[He finishes his little attack by punching the locker so hard he splits his knuckles open. Then he sits down again, just letting them bleed.]

So, first question: Do they make us kill each other here?

Second question: If not, then who do they make us kill, because you don't put electricity in people's stomachs unless you want them to do something horrible.

[He adds brightly.]

...that they probably excuse as some kind of unfortunate, sad necessity because the modern world is just so complicated after you blow it up, how could someone from prehistoric times possibly understand? Look how evolved they are, they've probably got penicillin and everything!
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[personal profile] trialbyliar 2020-12-31 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
"Make us kill each other"? What?! That's so scary!! Who could even think of something like that?

[ bruh ]
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[personal profile] 71lines 2020-12-31 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
I mean. The Village of the Bloody Mist. The first Chunin exam I was in. I hear things about the Village Hidden in the Rain. I heard something about some deep sect ANBU folks...

It's pretty common. Are you sheltered or something?
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[personal profile] walkingballpit 2020-12-31 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
Hi yourself.

[ There’s a lot to unpack, but Robbie is incredibly curious because not a lot of New Hires talk about multiple worlds and time travel. This is something like familiar ground. ]

Question one is definitely no. They don’t make us kill each other, and I think we’d all object to that even if they zap us.

[ Or he hopes everyone else would object as strongly. It’s not just naïveté or idealism. Robbie hopes everyone’s smart enough to realize that playing executioner for Jorgmund probably wouldn’t make them less expendable. ]

Question zero that you didn’t ask but I’m answering anyway - your fam might not know you’re gone. Mine didn’t, when I got pulled to the world I was in before this one. There’s no reason to think time moves any differently in this part of the multiverse.
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[personal profile] 71lines 2020-12-31 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
[She just hasn't been approached with a lucrative enough contract yet.]
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[personal profile] trialbyliar 2020-12-31 06:25 am (UTC)(link)
Huh.

[The shocked expression quickly falls away, like maybe he was just playing up that reaction. He doesn't really care enough to keep up the bit; he's actually crazy curious about this.]

So like, what kind of death game are we talking about? What happened?
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[personal profile] trialbyliar 2020-12-31 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, you're talking to me now?

[Hey there, buddy.]
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[personal profile] 71lines 2020-12-31 06:30 am (UTC)(link)
Well, I understand you've already gotten yourself 'corrected'. If you're gonna be a snot, I'll just go right back to ignoring you, but second chances do exist.
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[personal profile] walkingballpit 2020-12-31 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I get it. It’s easier to breathe when you know they’re the same as you left them. Even if it’s not good, it’s not worse.

[ It definitely helps to know that no one is off fighting Eternals without him, stopping an invasion with their face, or building nuclear powered automated hover-strollers without supervision. He’s not sure what kind of predator Guy’s worried about, but it seems like a comparable relief. ]

All the things they’re too cowardly to do themselves with less gear than they’d give themselves. Because they’re evil and wishy washy. Be careful to only say that where it’s locked, and even then... the locks are only as strong as we are.
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[personal profile] trialbyliar 2020-12-31 06:47 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah, Stacia gave me a biiiig hug and I felt a lot better! I guess the girls here are way nicer than the ones back home!
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[personal profile] trialbyliar 2020-12-31 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
I see.

[It's a pretty understated reaction to "deathmatch arena", all things considered. But his brain is working a mile a minute. It's not the same as what he experienced, but how can he not consider the possibility that there's something deeper going on here?

After a few seconds, he suddenly grins.]


But you survived all that, huh? Wowww, you must be super tough!
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[personal profile] 71lines 2020-12-31 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sure she did.

[Too bad Tenten knows she can count on Stacia.]
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[personal profile] trialbyliar 2020-12-31 07:01 am (UTC)(link)
[She really did, but. Y'know. Boy who cried wolf and all that.]

But man, ninjas where you come from sound super scary. How can you even trust people like that?
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[personal profile] trialbyliar 2020-12-31 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Well. That also feels a lil too familiar. The smile remains, but it feels a hair colder. He's too distracted with thinking to put much effort into it.]

You died, huh? But that's crazy. How does that even work?
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[personal profile] 71lines 2020-12-31 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
You just have to trust that they're professional enough to do what they're paid.
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[personal profile] trialbyliar 2020-12-31 07:08 am (UTC)(link)
That's even scarier! I mean, what happens if someone pays you to kill one of your friends, huh? If you can put a price on one life, how can anyone be sure another one is safe?
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[personal profile] 71lines 2020-12-31 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
Well, by definition, we wouldn't be friends if I accepted that kind of mission. Besides, who'd be dumb enough to walk into a ninja village to offer a contract on someone who lived there?
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[personal profile] trialbyliar 2020-12-31 07:12 am (UTC)(link)
[The sarcasm helps snap him out of it, at least. He seems to focus more suddenly, grin widening.]

Woah, are you getting sassy with me?
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[personal profile] trialbyliar 2020-12-31 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
You really think no one in the world – in any world – would kill someone they called their friend? You're pretty naive for a ruthless murderer.
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[personal profile] 71lines 2020-12-31 07:22 am (UTC)(link)
Mmm.

I could guess situations that would lead to it, but as far as I'm concerned, if you're trying to fight, you're just enemies. Not friends.

[Her entire tone has been reasonable, possibly even bored a little. Almost like she's trying to see if being all reasonable will get him to slip up. Probably not, but it's not like she has anything better to do.]

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