Uh... let me look? [ He's going to get up, and there will be the sounds of his footsteps before that of a door creaking...
... ]
...there's a lot of buildings. I'm in that empty city with all the cats and buildings and nothing else.
[ He is so not near the monastery. And to doubly prove it, Gorgug sends a short video message that pans around the empty south side of Nova City, and then looks back on a white(-ish?)-bricked building.
A church is like a monastery, if you really think about it. ]
Ah, that's a church. [ It's a matter of scale and function really, in his view. ] The monastery has one inside of it, essentially... You'll see what I mean if you have a look at it.
[ That gives him a good idea of where the guy wound up. ]
In the meantime, I don't mind meeting you over there. It'll just take a while.
What's-- what's midway? Is there another building? I don't really wanna stay here.
[ It sucks and he fell through the floor and there's nothing around here, Yuri! Please, he will drive anywhere else (as long as he actually knows where it is this time). ]
The way the trolleys run, it's...a good ways off. I really should just ask Aurora about wyverns.
[ He'll put that on his mental to-do list. ]
Geographically, some place called "The Institute" is pretty much right in the middle. Thing is, you'd be taking the scenic route then. Think it'd be easier if we met somewhere around Alexandria's Wake.
[ Hold on, he's checking his map to see what Yuri means by scenic route, hmm... ]
I'll see if I can get across to the Institute? I know that place-- I knew the lady who took care of it. [ Not that he's been there for a while, but...! ] My van can swim. I'll see if there's a spot I can go over.
[ His van can do it all!!! Unless the ground is too high on both sides... ]
A van. [ Yuri thinks back on his time in Moorecroft. Wasn't that one of those metal vehicles that required no horse to pull it along...? ] I had no idea they could cross water.
[ Well, that certainly is rather useful, isn't it? ]
My parents modified it. They're tinkerers-- I've been thinking about adding floating, too.
[ Said in that tone of, oh, you know, they're just pretty rad and I'm also their son. But there's the sound of something, and then what can be identified as a door closing. ]
I'll look. And I'll message you if I get across or I can't.
Uh, well... ...I'll have to float along until I find somewhere to pull the van up. But that's why I'm going to try and find a good spot both sides, first-- it shouldn't take too long to check.
[ He hopes? Etraya isn't that big, and he's not checking too wide an area. ]
[ ... ] I'll ask Aurora for more bridges sometime.
[ But, for now!! He's going to work on getting across to the other side! Which doesn't take too long and fortunately, the two sections of land not having a massive difference in height from one another to cause an issue getting across. He was worried about cliffs!! ...maybe he shouldn't have been worried about cliffs, he's lived here long enough. But who ever said he paid attention to these things?
So Yuri will get a message after five minutes or so, because he just has to check: ]
got across. see you at the institute
[ Which Gorgug will probably arrive at first, as Yuri is wyvern-less. He hangs outside the building's premises with his cool ride, not wanting to wander on inside and have something happen to him a second time.
[ It does take Yuri longer, a reality that can't be helped. The man may be perfectly capable of keeping up on foot with mounted fighters on a battlefield, but that doesn't help him with water or other geographical quirks.
He does get there eventually though, and upon sighting the van, he veers in that direction. ]
[ Gorgug's got some company while waiting. He sits with the driver side door open, letting tunes play of the rock variety, the entity inside his van as chill as ever, being an ear whenever he finds some mindless chatter to talk about to pass the time.
Gorgug isn't sure if many people even come this way anymore. But when he does spot a figure, he watches, but waits for them to approach closer before he lets his dangling legs hit the ground--not a far off way, when his figure comes to 6'6" upon standing, and he rounds the open van door, green hand on its metal. Should he wait for them to come directly to the van? ...well, he decides to be a little nice, and to start walking to meet them, greet them, hands awkwardly balling into the pockets of his hoodie jacket as he calls out: ]
Yuri?
[ Please be Yuri. He should've asked for a photo...!! ]
[ Yuri gives him a mock-salute. Not an awkward bone in this man's body, not unless he talks about the dreaded Feelings. ]
Damn, you're about as tall as Balthus.
[ Little did Yuri suspect he'd be encountering a tree of his caliber in this place. Granted Balthus is also a broad wall of muscle, a mattress-shaped mass of a man, but Yuri seldom sees such height in the wild. ]
Best of both, huh? [ That's not exactly what Gorgug said, but if he's got something of both parents, it sounds like a good thing. ] Guy can't complain about that, yeah?
[ Yuri's got no idea who his father is, but his looks are all his mom, so hey. ]
Sorry about the wait, no handy vans where I come from.
[ Oh, he can stop trying to figure out what parts of him he got from which parent? P-phew! He's never met this kind of cultural greeting before... ]
I-it's okay. I got my van before the islands moved around, and my place ended up really far from everywhere... uh, but this is why I wanted to see you. This--
[ He interrupts himself to dig into his jean pocket on one side, and then switching to the other to-- aha. He pulls out a slim card, and holds it out to Yuri to take. ]
Do you know-- not to be rude, but do you know about electrical elevators? Elevator-- locks?
[ He-- kinda wants to ask about the magical touch, but one thing at a time, right? He lets Yuri have the card. ]
That bypasses the security on the elevator Aurora put up. She wants you to have it-- in case anything happens again. Like an emergency. [ He pauses, and he knows Yuri knows, but: ] It wouldn't be the first time something's managed to get into Aurora's system.
[ This would be useful in a somewhat different situation, but nevertheless, the potential issue is there. But Gorgug knows that Yuri's one of the few people who have seen Aurora as she actually is, and the thought is at the front of his mind, a curiosity that's reignited. ]
[ Yuri accepts the card and promptly tucks it somewhere in that close-fitted ensemble of his. If he can conceal far too many knives in there, he can manage a key-card. ]
Don't I know it; I've not forgotten that business with whatever that evil muck was.
[ Yuri knows there's some proper name for that entity and its infectious influence, but he won't dignify it with that. He remembers how he and Claude had to knock out Dimitri with...creative means to save the man from doing something he'd regret.
Then there was delving deep into that building to help Aurora. It's all an exhausting blur now. ]
The way I hear it, we've had a more recent incident too.
[ He nods. ] She let them walk right in. She said she's shutting down access now, so-- there isn't many of us with this access. And I guess... if she trusts you with this, if you wanna try and set up any extra security? She'll listen. If you've got any ideas with that-- I've been talking with her about it.
[ He nods outwards, not at any particular immediate structure, but: ]
The-- Solmara's people watched us from outside the barrier first. So she set up security around it.
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[ Nooooo...!! ]
I don't know where you are.
[ He must admit defeat... ]
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[ He says as much just for reference but he doesn't expect the poor guy to go roving. ]
What other landmarks are near you?
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Uh... let me look? [ He's going to get up, and there will be the sounds of his footsteps before that of a door creaking...
... ]
...there's a lot of buildings. I'm in that empty city with all the cats and buildings and nothing else.
[ He is so not near the monastery. And to doubly prove it, Gorgug sends a short video message that pans around the empty south side of Nova City, and then looks back on a white(-ish?)-bricked building.
A church is like a monastery, if you really think about it. ]
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Ah, that's a church. [ It's a matter of scale and function really, in his view. ] The monastery has one inside of it, essentially... You'll see what I mean if you have a look at it.
[ That gives him a good idea of where the guy wound up. ]
In the meantime, I don't mind meeting you over there. It'll just take a while.
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[ It sucks and he fell through the floor and there's nothing around here, Yuri! Please, he will drive anywhere else (as long as he actually knows where it is this time). ]
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[ He'll put that on his mental to-do list. ]
Geographically, some place called "The Institute" is pretty much right in the middle. Thing is, you'd be taking the scenic route then. Think it'd be easier if we met somewhere around Alexandria's Wake.
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I'll see if I can get across to the Institute? I know that place-- I knew the lady who took care of it. [ Not that he's been there for a while, but...! ] My van can swim. I'll see if there's a spot I can go over.
[ His van can do it all!!! Unless the ground is too high on both sides... ]
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[ Well, that certainly is rather useful, isn't it? ]
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[ Said in that tone of, oh, you know, they're just pretty rad and I'm also their son. But there's the sound of something, and then what can be identified as a door closing. ]
I'll look. And I'll message you if I get across or I can't.
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"If"? What happens if you get stuck?
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[ He hopes? Etraya isn't that big, and he's not checking too wide an area. ]
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[ He really should ask Aurora about wyverns, he decides. ]
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[ But, for now!! He's going to work on getting across to the other side! Which doesn't take too long and fortunately, the two sections of land not having a massive difference in height from one another to cause an issue getting across. He was worried about cliffs!! ...maybe he shouldn't have been worried about cliffs, he's lived here long enough. But who ever said he paid attention to these things?
So Yuri will get a message after five minutes or so, because he just has to check: ]
got across. see you at the institute
[ Which Gorgug will probably arrive at first, as Yuri is wyvern-less. He hangs outside the building's premises with his cool ride, not wanting to wander on inside and have something happen to him a second time.
He made that mistake once! Never again! ]
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[ It does take Yuri longer, a reality that can't be helped. The man may be perfectly capable of keeping up on foot with mounted fighters on a battlefield, but that doesn't help him with water or other geographical quirks.
He does get there eventually though, and upon sighting the van, he veers in that direction. ]
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Gorgug isn't sure if many people even come this way anymore. But when he does spot a figure, he watches, but waits for them to approach closer before he lets his dangling legs hit the ground--not a far off way, when his figure comes to 6'6" upon standing, and he rounds the open van door, green hand on its metal. Should he wait for them to come directly to the van? ...well, he decides to be a little nice, and to start walking to meet them, greet them, hands awkwardly balling into the pockets of his hoodie jacket as he calls out: ]
Yuri?
[ Please be Yuri. He should've asked for a photo...!! ]
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[ Yuri gives him a mock-salute. Not an awkward bone in this man's body, not unless he talks about the dreaded Feelings. ]
Damn, you're about as tall as Balthus.
[ Little did Yuri suspect he'd be encountering a tree of his caliber in this place. Granted Balthus is also a broad wall of muscle, a mattress-shaped mass of a man, but Yuri seldom sees such height in the wild. ]
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You're maybe as tall as Kristen. [ He thinks. Maybe. It's been as while. He tilts his head, white pupils looking at Yuri. ] ...Softer face.
[ A pretty boy........ ]
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[ He says as much with an easy smile and a measure of pride. Yuri loves his mama and he's not at all coy about it.
Pretty boy and quite happy with the fact. ]
You've got a fine complexion yourself.
[ Gorgug would be the first green guy Yuri has met, but it's a nice shade of green? ]
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I got it from my dad? [ Uhh. ] But I guess my face is more like my mom. My dad's got a more... stronger face.
More round. [ More creases. ]
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[ Yuri's got no idea who his father is, but his looks are all his mom, so hey. ]
Sorry about the wait, no handy vans where I come from.
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I-it's okay. I got my van before the islands moved around, and my place ended up really far from everywhere... uh, but this is why I wanted to see you. This--
[ He interrupts himself to dig into his jean pocket on one side, and then switching to the other to-- aha. He pulls out a slim card, and holds it out to Yuri to take. ]
Do you know-- not to be rude, but do you know about electrical elevators? Elevator-- locks?
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What Yuri doesn't know won't kill him, but he only has a moment to eye the key-card before he's presented with the question. ]
Oh yes, the ones my magic touch doesn't work on.
[ Yuri lifts a gloved hand, wiggling his fingers. Electrical locks have proven immune to his charms, unlike what he's accustomed to back home. ]
I'm acquainted.
[ Well, somewhat. ]
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That bypasses the security on the elevator Aurora put up. She wants you to have it-- in case anything happens again. Like an emergency. [ He pauses, and he knows Yuri knows, but: ] It wouldn't be the first time something's managed to get into Aurora's system.
[ This would be useful in a somewhat different situation, but nevertheless, the potential issue is there. But Gorgug knows that Yuri's one of the few people who have seen Aurora as she actually is, and the thought is at the front of his mind, a curiosity that's reignited. ]
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Don't I know it; I've not forgotten that business with whatever that evil muck was.
[ Yuri knows there's some proper name for that entity and its infectious influence, but he won't dignify it with that. He remembers how he and Claude had to knock out Dimitri with...creative means to save the man from doing something he'd regret.
Then there was delving deep into that building to help Aurora. It's all an exhausting blur now. ]
The way I hear it, we've had a more recent incident too.
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[ He nods outwards, not at any particular immediate structure, but: ]
The-- Solmara's people watched us from outside the barrier first. So she set up security around it.
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