[Her two cents sucks? Okay one of her two cents sucks but you know he's going to go with it.]
Okay, ew, excuse me? You have no idea how top quality this furball is, clearly. Hang on a sec, I think I can fix that. [Oh look that sure is a picture of a ball of fluff covered in dust and leaves and who even knows what is tied up in there that he sends over.] So that's what I'm working with. And I'm comparing that to hunting. See what a tough call this is?
[VERY TOUGH IT'S TEARING HIM APART enough for him to want to share this dilemma with someone else, unintentionally or otherwise it seems.]
[And he showed her an image of it anyways. Nice. That sure is a dirty ball of fluff covered with... stuff. She doesn't want to ask what those other things stuck to it.]
No? How are the two comparable?! [How is this a dilemma he's having???] One is much more fun and productive than the other, at least to me it is. You get to hunt monsters and hone your skills. If I were to make the call, I'd choose hunting no doubt. It's something I always do in my free time.
[Though it was normally virtual monsters, granted! But, she'd hunted some monsters here as well. She has credits.]
The furball still looks like crap though... Maybe it's because I'm not a wolf. [Oops, her inner Karen's thoughts are accidentally leaking, sounding completely different than dear young LLENN here. A voice clearly belongs to a young woman in their early 20s.]
Okay you can't give me a good opinion at all. Guess there really is no accounting for taste, especially when it comes to human taste some days.
[SIGH. He wants to explain all the goodness and good things that come from building up a furball, seeing it flourish, wanting the best for it-- But that clearly isn't going to happen.
There's a little mental grumbling for a moment or two before he decides to drop the furball idea altogether.]
Yeah? Of course I do, I've been there lots of times!
[There's a flash of uncertainty that spreads through the connection, like a bunch of question marks just suddenly start dancing in LLENN's mind. Ignore those.]
It's more like I'm wondering if you know how to get there! Maybe you should tell me the easiest way to it, just to show you've got this down. [Smooth.]
[Boy. Even without the uncertainty dancing in her head, she could still tell. Couldn't even be more obvious.
Fortunately for Keaton, LLENN is a nice little kid, so she'll answer, acting oblivious.]
Oh sure. You know the clock tower in the marketplace? The one with the tree twisted into it. It's hard to miss it. I always go there first and from there, I-.
[And here LLENN begins to give out helpful directions from the tree to the task board. Which shouldn't be a far walk away since those two are in the city's square, anyway. Good luck!]
[It was smooth and subtle and just let him have this okay.]
Yeah... Yeah I know that place! Okay so it's just from there, and then... Right, yeah!
[He'll give an occasional "mm" and "yuh-huh" as she goes through those directions to show he fully understands! 100%! And once she's done he sets off...
Does LLENN like waiting because hoo boy she might be waiting a good few minutes until Keaton eventually shows up to the board from a completely different direction than her instructions would have lead him in.]
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Okay, ew, excuse me? You have no idea how top quality this furball is, clearly. Hang on a sec, I think I can fix that. [Oh look that sure is a picture of a ball of fluff covered in dust and leaves and who even knows what is tied up in there that he sends over.] So that's what I'm working with. And I'm comparing that to hunting. See what a tough call this is?
[VERY TOUGH IT'S TEARING HIM APART enough for him to want to share this dilemma with someone else, unintentionally or otherwise it seems.]
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[And he showed her an image of it anyways. Nice. That sure is a dirty ball of fluff covered with... stuff. She doesn't want to ask what those other things stuck to it.]
No? How are the two comparable?! [How is this a dilemma he's having???] One is much more fun and productive than the other, at least to me it is. You get to hunt monsters and hone your skills. If I were to make the call, I'd choose hunting no doubt. It's something I always do in my free time.
[Though it was normally virtual monsters, granted! But, she'd hunted some monsters here as well. She has credits.]
The furball still looks like crap though... Maybe it's because I'm not a wolf. [Oops, her inner Karen's thoughts are accidentally leaking, sounding completely different than dear young LLENN here. A voice clearly belongs to a young woman in their early 20s.]
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[SIGH. He wants to explain all the goodness and good things that come from building up a furball, seeing it flourish, wanting the best for it-- But that clearly isn't going to happen.
There's a little mental grumbling for a moment or two before he decides to drop the furball idea altogether.]
Okay, you win. Let's go hunting together. [Yup.]
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Huh?
[That caught her offguard. But she's quick to take the offer.]
Um, yeah, s-sure. What are we hunting? [She's going to bring her gun with her. It's the only reliable weapon she has.]
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[Hunting is a sacred kind of thing you see. Can't just go killing for fun, it has to be for a good reason.]
Like... I dunno, there's that board with stuff on that people want hunted yeah? We could go after one of those!
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Well I haven't had lunch yet. But I never hunted a wildlife animal before... I guess we could go after the monsters on the taskboard instead!
[She'll use the reward money to buy herself lunch. Keaton can, like, munch on the monster's raw meat or whatever.]
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Okay, that works. We go find ourselves a monster, do our thing and work up an appetite for lunch at the same time. Sounds good to me.
[He won't just eat some random monster come on! ... Nah okay he'll try anything once. So long as it has some good meat on it then that's fine.]
So I guess I'll meet you at that taskboard! Which is... Somewhere. Lots of people go. And very easy to find. [... Yup.]
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Um... do you know where the taskboard is?
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[There's a flash of uncertainty that spreads through the connection, like a bunch of question marks just suddenly start dancing in LLENN's mind. Ignore those.]
It's more like I'm wondering if you know how to get there! Maybe you should tell me the easiest way to it, just to show you've got this down. [Smooth.]
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Fortunately for Keaton, LLENN is a nice little kid, so she'll answer, acting oblivious.]
Oh sure. You know the clock tower in the marketplace? The one with the tree twisted into it. It's hard to miss it. I always go there first and from there, I-.
[And here LLENN begins to give out helpful directions from the tree to the task board. Which shouldn't be a far walk away since those two are in the city's square, anyway. Good luck!]
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Yeah... Yeah I know that place! Okay so it's just from there, and then... Right, yeah!
[He'll give an occasional "mm" and "yuh-huh" as she goes through those directions to show he fully understands! 100%! And once she's done he sets off...
Does LLENN like waiting because hoo boy she might be waiting a good few minutes until Keaton eventually shows up to the board from a completely different direction than her instructions would have lead him in.]