001 — handwritten [scrap] & action.

[argents]

( HANDWRITTEN )

[ Banagher's found himself a little bit of free time at the library on Pierre-Simon, meaning he's taking a break from sorting through the insanity of the return bin to card through a few old books in search of some kind of meaning to assign to the words he can't seem to keep quiet in his head.

On the back of a forgotten, yellowing library punch card he finds tucked away in a book, he starts copying down things in no order, just to remember—first up is the sequence of numbers that's equally persistent. He'd never thought to put them down physically before, here or otherwise, by the virtue of the fact that he doesn't feel like he'll forget them anytime soon. Thusly: ]



[ Sorry, network denizens, for the nonsensical scraps of texts, notes, and printings you may receive as a result. Also the disconcerting doodles. ]

( ACTION )

[ It's early evening, the time when all the streetlamps begin to wink to life outside and natural sunlight is exchanged for halogen. He's currently seated in the lower level of the library at one of the broad cherry wood tables, chin in hand, mindlessly scribbling on the punch card. There's an assortment of papers spread across the table's corner, dotted with books and pens, suggesting he's been at this for a bit. While usually a diligent worker, he seems pretty distracted.

Don't happen to need a book or the use of a computer, do you? ]

(ooc. this is his first use of the network, but if you're going for action and your character is a frequent visitor to the library or a high school/uni student, you're welcome to assume cr!)

Comments

[shiromadoushi]

[[Adds to the doodle until the tapir is now playing video games in the house.]]

[argents]

[ MESSAGE RECEIVED ]

What kinds of games do you like??

[shiromadoushi]

[[Hey, he was just making it more accurate as his symbol! But he never turns down a chance to talk games]]

All kinds! Especially RPGs. You?

[argents]

[ Overactive nerd brain! He starts drawing a (lopsided) circle. ]

Puzzles, or arcade. I don't have any time to grind.

[shiromadoushi]

That's why I don't bother with MMOs.

[[Curious about that doodle start. He's going to start drawing a second tapir wearing a wizards hat in the meanwhile.]]

[argents]

Console RPGs?

[ Little grooves appear on a fourth of a circle, then a spike on the opposite side. ]

[shiromadoushi]

Mostly! Haven't found a group for pen and paper yet.

[[...Watching that circle now. While still drawing that wizard tapir.]]

[argents]

I can't remember the last time I heard about something like that.

[ Around the spike he weaves a spiral. ]

[shiromadoushi]

I don't think many people play that way.

[[and progression on his doodle picks up pace as the circle doodle stops looking like that nagging memory in Bakura's mind.]]

[argents]

[ Something like an animal starts to take shape within the circle. ]

Hey, do you go to the high school? You can always try there.

Icon = outfit reference for the doodle :)

[shiromadoushi]

Yeah, but most everyone here sucks.

[[On to the wizard hat on the tapir. It's very floppy, which fits the theme]]

[argents]

Is that something your character would look like?

[ He really can't say whether or not the school crowd is any good at tabletop. ]

[shiromadoushi]

Yeah. Though he's human, not a tapir. No stats in the handbook for tapir, after all.

[argents]

[ Meanwhile, Banagher's own circle could have been this if he was decent at drawing but it more looks like an indistinct, pudgy narwhal. He tried. ]

That's true.

[shiromadoushi]

[[Hard when your memory of something is still a bit fuzzy.

To be helpful, Bakura doodles a wizard hat ontop of the narwhal as well]]

You still in school? Or an adult?

[argents]

[ Definitely an improvement. ]

School! Senior, at Locke High.

[shiromadoushi]

I think that makes four of us now.

[argents]

Four...

It seems like a lot. But somehow, not that many at all.

[shiromadoushi]

There are more. Just not at the school.

[argents]

That's what I assumed, but... I wonder how many more there are that don't know. Like how I was.

[shiromadoushi]

I'm not sure. Enough of us, I'd hope. Though I'm not sure if I want it to be a large group, it's kinda neat, being a small group like this.

[[and it increases the chance of them getting mecha to fight with if there's not too many, right?]]

[argents]

[ This, always this. ]

It's easier to compare what we know like this, too. But the city is big.

[shiromadoushi]

[[Now to doodle a backdrop of vaguely familiar buildings behind the wizard tapir and narwal.]]

True. But as long as we're all together, we can take on anything, I'm sure of it.

[argents]

[ A shield appears by the narwhal, like a knight's. ]

I want to think that, too.

[shiromadoushi]

So think that way. The more you think it, the more it comes true, right?