[OPEN] RV Park Party

[eirs]

WHO: Any and all OUTSIDER personnel that wants in and their respective campervan companions. Or maybe you wandered out away from your group and found this commune.
WHAT: The gang parking together at night to swap information about the things they've found in their investigations, night watches around a fire, ghost stories......? General tomfoolery in the desert where there's no one else for miles. Cooking their hunts in successes and mishaps?
WHERE: The Mojave Desert
WHEN: Mid to Late May
WARNINGS: Will be updated or tagged in the thread as needed!

Comments

[seafloor]

[ Kaito snorts, but there's a smile amidst the derision. ]

Don't invite me to the party.

[ He takes a moment to consider the dare before looking down. ]

I'm a ghost haunting
the young man so alive still
in my photographs.

[ A beat. He chuckles, slowing down a bit to ad lib. ]

...That used to be true.
But life has gotten kinder.
Yet heartache lingers.

[ Kaito eventually glances up. ]

I'd be a shitty poet.

[immortalpoet]

...

[He nods at them both - maybe he can't empathize entirely with the ad-lib, but he feels it is sincere.]

No, I like them both, though.

[seafloor]

...

[ In a flash, Kaito's sitting next to the Fixer, leaning in with a smarmy smile that hasn't been present on his features in a few interactions. ]

Yeah, well, you're biased.

We're friends.

[immortalpoet]

[The move is sudden, and Vergilius leans a bit away, but he has the flummoxed frown of someone who clearly cares but is trying soooo hard not to.]

Yeah. Maybe.

[seafloor]

[ Rather than pursue the teasing, Kaito offers a warmer smile and returns to his original post—a little more relaxed. ]

Mark this night. Now that you've formally acknowledged our friendship, I'll be able to follow you across the stars.

Maybe.

Who's driving your van?

[immortalpoet]

You don't need to say it like that.

[Bro....that's so poetic..............]

[He huffs.]

We switch. Who's driving yours?

[seafloor]

Noted. I'll consistently say it like that.

[ Bro... ]

I'm the sole driver, sort of. With my doubles, I don't really have to rest.

[immortalpoet]

You're a menace.

[......He raises an eyebrow.]

Doubles? Your water clones?

[seafloor]

[ Winking: ] It's an Everlight thing, apparently.

[ Whole he replies, a clone peels off his form and rolls into a cross-legged seat next to The Original™. Kaito whaps him upside the head and he disperses. ]

Yeah. Each one can think and operate independently of me. It's how I keep so busy back in Tokyo.

[immortalpoet]

[Yeah, he remembers this little trick from when they fought in the labs.]

It doesn't tire you out?

[seafloor]

[ A chuckle. ]

Will this answer influence my threat level?

[ Half-joking. Maybe less than half. ]

[immortalpoet]

[...]

[His eyes are getting brighter........]

[seafloor]

[ That earns Verg a grin. ]

I tire out eventually, but it depends on what they're doing.

They can run for many days, undisturbed.

[immortalpoet]

[Stop grinning u LOON]

That's quite powerful. But they're just water, right? So they can dissipate easily...

[seafloor]

[ Fine, he'll NOD. ]

'Easily' is subjective, but otherwise correct. Unless I will it, they don't have nearly as much endurance as I do.

[immortalpoet]

Mm.

[A long pause.]

Don't push yourself to a breaking point, Kaito.

[seafloor]

[ Aw, man.

Kaito looks away. ]

'Again', you should add.

I'm well acquainted with the stench of my burnt out spirit. [ Flesh too, but that's not needed right now. ]

[immortalpoet]

Again, I will add.

[There he goes again. Really, every time he sees his own fallbacks in this guy, it makes him hate it all the more.]

No need for words like that. Go back to the stars thing instead. I'd prefer it.

[seafloor]

...I'm not so obnoxious as to compare myself to a dead star, no.

[ A little teasing. ]

Poetry was an interesting pick for a date. Is it something you like from back home?

[immortalpoet]

That's obnoxious even for me.

[A little nod.]

Yes. I like reading it, every now and then.

can you believe I never got the email for this skjsjdkc I should have just CHECKED THE THREAD

[seafloor]

What got you into the hobby? Do they have Shakespeare out in the City?

...Do you perhaps have a few verses penned under your name, hm?

[ Curious, very curious! ]

NOOOOOO

[immortalpoet]

Shakespeare....?

[And that makes him huff, almost amused.]

No. I don't write it. I simply came across some books sometime.