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Nov. 6th, 2009 11:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkstheboundsJamie ought to be getting back to the Bounds soon - but it's been a long year, and he thinks he's entitled to a day or two of taking it easy somewhere familiar before he plunges himself back into trying to learn a new world and new customs.
Fortunately, he's got a standing offer of a place to stay. He's never taken Laini up on it before - it's easy enough to get his own room - but now he's broke(r than usual), and tired, and it seems the easiest option.
He gives a perfunctory knock, and then pushes the door open.
Fortunately, he's got a standing offer of a place to stay. He's never taken Laini up on it before - it's easy enough to get his own room - but now he's broke(r than usual), and tired, and it seems the easiest option.
He gives a perfunctory knock, and then pushes the door open.
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Date: 2009-11-07 04:57 am (UTC)Duo cuts himself off as he looks up from the workbench. His face is oddly distorted from the magnifying glasses he's wearing, and there's a bright attached to it as well.
"Got the wrong room, kid?"
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Date: 2009-11-07 05:06 am (UTC)"- and then again, maybe I've just got bad timing." (At least Duo doesn't seem to be wearing a towel. Or pajamas. Or anything that would indicate that a sock on the door would have been helpful.) "Ah - isn't this Laini's room?"
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Date: 2009-11-07 05:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-07 05:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-07 05:23 am (UTC)"If you don't mind me cluttering up the place, come on in." It's hardly cluttered, really. Duo has a set of tiny tools laid out neatly on the desk, with Laini's projects stacked (with great care) to one side.
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Date: 2009-11-07 05:30 am (UTC)"I reckon I'm another, then. Stray, that is. I'm Jamie." He waits to hold out his hand until he sees if Duo is going to stick out his - you never know what the customs are.
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Date: 2009-11-07 05:34 am (UTC)His hand is calloused and scarred, obviously someone who has plenty of experience with machinery. (And guns, but that's harder to tell.)
He's currently working with a tangle of wires and a dissected circuit board.
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Date: 2009-11-07 05:58 am (UTC)Jamie shakes the hand - his own is reasonably unmarked; he hasn't been doing anything that would build up callouses lately - and then rests an elbow on the table.
"I hope you're not building a booby-trap for the room," he comments, with a grin. "As a guest on sufferance I'd probably feel obliged to tell Laini. That would start us out on the wrong foot."
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Date: 2009-11-08 06:27 am (UTC)Beat.
"After she killed us both, anyway."
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Date: 2009-11-08 06:34 am (UTC)"I'd take you up on it, but my immortality ticket's been revoked. Unless you've got an extra life you'd like to lend me?"
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Date: 2009-11-11 04:54 am (UTC)Duo checks his pockets and shrugs. "Sorry, fresh out." He tilts his head and eyes Jamie.
"I know where we could get some, though."
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Date: 2009-11-11 04:59 am (UTC). . . is he serious? You never do know, in Milliways.
"All right, I'll bite - where?"
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Date: 2009-11-11 05:15 am (UTC)"No, no, man! You have to jump on their heads twice! Or they just walk around like killer accordions."
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Date: 2009-11-11 05:20 am (UTC)"Bloody little dinosaur gits, what'd I ever do to - wait, where am I now? Why am I underground? Am I meant to be underground?"
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Date: 2009-11-11 05:23 am (UTC)Duo fidgets with the other controller. "Yeah, underground is fine, sometimes it's a shortcut, or there's hidden bonuses and crap."
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Date: 2009-11-11 05:32 am (UTC)Jamie scowls after another tiny dinosaur that has, presumably, stompled the head of his tiny man.
"Dinosaurs," he complains. "What mad creator ever thought they were a brilliant idea? Extinction serves them right!"
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Date: 2009-11-11 05:39 am (UTC)His green hatted-and-overalled plumber crushes the dinosaurs and giant bullets in revenge for the death of his brother.
And then he gets fireballs. Muhuahaha.
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Date: 2009-11-12 02:28 am (UTC)"- wait, now there's numbers! I'm not meant to have to do anything about the numbers, am I? They're not sneakily trying to teach us maths?"
Jamie does not approve of games that sneakily turn into schoolwork!
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Date: 2009-11-12 07:24 am (UTC)Was that a challenge? Yes. Yes it was.
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Date: 2009-11-13 03:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-13 04:00 am (UTC)"Besides, I think we're done with the dinosaurs. It's on to weird turtle-things. And the occasional rugby player who also turns into a frog."
Look, he didn't make this game. Don't ask him to explain it.
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Date: 2009-11-13 04:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-13 04:18 am (UTC)Then, Mario hatches a strange egg on the screen. Up pops Yoshi.
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Date: 2009-11-13 04:19 am (UTC)"- wait, now we're forcing the dinosaur young into labor? No wonder they're not fond of us."
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Date: 2009-11-13 04:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-13 04:34 am (UTC)"It was great, actually. Really easy to make money as a babysitter."
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Date: 2009-11-13 04:36 am (UTC)"Yeah? Where was that?"
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Date: 2009-11-13 04:46 am (UTC)"I don't remember what it was called. They spoke something a bit like French, though, I remember that."
(He remembers it because frogs lay eggs. Political correctness for the win!)
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Date: 2009-11-13 04:48 am (UTC)Duo pauses.
"But then again, if I try and speak something else, like Japanese, it comes out sounding right to me. And a couple other people have heard it like that too."
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Date: 2009-11-13 04:50 am (UTC)"Wait, let's see - try the Japanese."
(Jamie's fairly sure he knows it, though he's not really sure which of his languages it is.)
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Date: 2009-11-13 05:02 am (UTC)"壁に耳あり、障子に目あり," he says.
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Date: 2009-11-13 05:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-13 05:21 am (UTC)He picks up his controller and immediately heads off to the Yellow Switch Palace for an easy extra life or two.
"I'm guessing you heard that the way you were supposed to."
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Date: 2009-11-13 05:24 am (UTC)He eyes the screen narrowly, until Luigi pops back up again.
"All right, you're not getting me dead so easily again!"
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Date: 2009-11-13 05:27 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-11-13 05:32 am (UTC)He tosses his controller down and climbs up off the couch as Mario reappears for his turn. "Want anything to drink?"
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Date: 2009-11-13 05:34 am (UTC)Jamie wants his reflexes top-notch for videogaming!
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Date: 2009-11-13 05:39 am (UTC)"Iced coffee, water, soda, toxically colored sports drink?"
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Date: 2009-11-13 05:42 am (UTC)What? It's a challenge.
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Date: 2009-11-13 05:56 am (UTC)He gets himself a can of coffee and sits back down.
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Date: 2009-11-13 05:57 am (UTC)"- full sensory experience, all right. I'd reckon those mushrooms don't taste too far off this."
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Date: 2009-11-13 06:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-13 06:06 am (UTC)"Maybe he's getting moral points."
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Date: 2009-11-13 06:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-13 06:11 am (UTC)Your 'logic' cannot defeat Jamie!
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Date: 2009-11-13 06:12 am (UTC)no subject
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