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[iop_brain]

I know you're boring, but -

Oh! You're bored! So that means I get to have some fun, right, right?! There's all of these awesome new unexplored places here on 'DreamLand'! Hey! Do you think I'll get to fight something? There's gotta be someone holdin' out for a hero around here that needs me to get rid of some monsters!

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[coolportaljumper]

...there's plenty of things to fight around here, Pinpin! If we ask around, I'm sure we'll find a lot of people who need a hero too!

[iop_brain]

Really Yugo?

Ahhh, I can't wait! Do you know where to start?!

[coolportaljumper]

Why don't we start right here in dear_mun? There is a lot of different kinds of people here--maybe they can show us?

[iop_brain]

I hadn't thought of that! This place is a little confusing though... My usual strategy of, 'head in the direction you want to go and you'll eventually end of somewhere good' isn't quite working.

[coolportaljumper]

Maybe you ran off in the wrong direction?

[iop_brain]

Ah! I bet that was it! You're a genius, Yugo!

[curses4sale]

...So noisy...

How are you so... excited? Is that right?

[iop_brain]

Huh? Should I not be excited? I finally get to do something!

[curses4sale]

Mm.

...I don't really understand.

Everyone else seems... unhappy about being here.

But not you.

[iop_brain]

Really? Well that's no good, maybe they should lighten up! It's a world of new opportu - oppor - ...Chances!

There's an old Iop saying that goes, 'Any day you can do something new...' Uh. I don't remember how it ends, but the point still stands!

[curses4sale]

...

[Blink.]

...Okay.

[She deadpans. LOOK HOW ENTHUSIASTIC SHE IS.]

If you say so.

[iop_brain]

Yeah, see? Iop wisdom wins again!

So what about you, grumpy? You look like the adventuring type too!

[curses4sale]

...Do I come across as upset? Sorry, I don't mean to. I'm not upset. [She's just... repressed.]

I don't... adventure... I think.

...

...What does 'adventure' mean?

[iop_brain]

Now that you mention it, you're actually just kind of. Quiet. Uh, not that there's anything wrong with that!

Anyway, yeah, adventure! You know! Raiding dungeons, fighting monsters, righting wrongs, finding treasure, saving princesses, that kind of thing!

[curses4sale]

[She's silent for a few seconds while she thinks about it.]

Monsters kind of... kill each other. When I'm around. Sometimes themselves, instead. Sometimes it happens to people, too.

[iop_brain]

...Huh? Why would they do that? You're quiet, sure, but it's not like you're annoying! Let alone so annoying I'd kill myself...

Oh, do you sing really poorly?

[curses4sale]

Because I tell them to.

...But people tell me it's bad, and I shouldn't do it.

It makes them go away, though. I like the quiet when they're gone.

[iop_brain]

Wow, you must be really persuasive! If you stick with monsters or bad guys then it should be okay!

Uh, you do only do it to monsters and bad guys, right?

[curses4sale]

I guess...

...Humans aren't good or bad. They're just humans.

[iop_brain]

Not by default, but anyone can be nice or mean! It's not right to kill nice people!

[curses4sale]

Even 'nice' people can be cruel sometimes. Even 'mean' people can be kind sometimes.

There's no difference. People are people... just like monsters are monsters. We do what we must to survive, and shun that which we cannot understand.

There is no 'good' or 'evil' in the world. The world just is. People are the same way.

[iop_brain]

I, uh...

I don't really get it.

[curses4sale]

...Don't worry about it.

It's not really important...

[iop_brain]

Great!

So if you're not an adventurer, then what do you do? Besides talk to monsters which is kind of weird.

[curses4sale]

I eat... and sleep... I survive.

Sometimes people buy curses from me... when I need money.

[iop_brain]

You can buy curses? How's that work?

[curses4sale]

They pay me... And I make the curse for them.

Usually, it's putting poison on a weapon... or making someone fall asleep.

...little things like that.

oh lawd it's yogurt-for-brains <3

[reforgedsoul]

There are always places that need defenders and warriors on Dreamwidth. I'm just relieved that my community is going to be fighting for a good cause.

[iop_brain]

A good cause, you say? Where is that exactly?!

[reforgedsoul]

On the spaceport named Senburu-Trati'salan. From what I understand, we're to fight a war against an Empire with ambitions of ruling 'all that could be.'

[iop_brain]

Psh, you can't rule everything, that would just be silly! But leave it to a bad guy to think like that...

[reforgedsoul]

It's a casual abuse of what my people call the Second True Magic. I'm just relieved it isn't something selfish and foolish my mun is sending me to, like my last war.

What is your fighting style like, if you don't mind my asking? One swordsman to another.

[iop_brain]

Well generally I try to hit the other guy harder, faster, and more often and hope he falls down first!

[He nods sagely, as if this is the best possible answer anyone could have given.]