Finding a House in this Market is... HARD....

[sakatree]

WHO: Hatsu, and YOU
WHAT: Hatsu's carving his room outta the ice! ...Probably.
WHEN: ONE DAY A CALENDAR...WILL EXIST.
WHERE: Sealeo Inn
WARNINGS: Noneeeeexcept for Hatsu's mild cursing. Bad tree.

This way mister, end of the hall is over here!

[Finding the Inn in Illumina wasn't especially difficult. Outside, it was an enormous building carved right from the ice, with strings of lights moving directly up to it. Inside, it was also rather simple. There was a dining hall, a number of rooms available for rent, an office...

...And plenty of space for more, or so he was told. Sealeo had sent their daughter as guide when Hatsu came in, and he was now following a rather eager little one that was literally rolling around with a torch in her mouth.]

Ahaha...you might want to calm down kid, that fire is kind of...

Yeah make sure you don't touch it mister, you're grass type!

Gr- [There were types?! Before he can so much as ask he's shown a wall, the torch somehow slipped into a hook at the side.]

Here you are mister! Just carve yourself a room and it's all yours!

Er...carve..?

Yep! Good luck~!

AUHHHeY HEY WAIT! [Hatsu's shouts fall on deaf ears-or rather, no ears at all, as the spheal has long since rolled off back down the hall by the time the phantump can start protesting. In her absence, he's left turning back to sigh at the wall.] ...Right...let's get started I guess...

[..........................

....About a few hours later, cursing can be heard from the hall.]

COME ON BARELY A CHIP!?

[Along with the sounds of something hitting the ice.] AUUGH I'm giving it everything I've got just. CRACK. BREAK. SOMETHING, I need a room!

[....]

Come onnnnnnn...

[.....]

OOOOHhhhh this would be SO much easier with my guns..!

[This is not going very well, as one can see.]

Comments

hatsu deserves more jailtime than they got tbh :[

[sakatree]

Well first...that'd imply I care~ [WE'RE ALL EX-CONS HERE he just didn't get caught]

For that matter, why bother with the clip? [he chuckles, grinning.]

Well...technically their original sentence was fifty years, before they talked to Captain Black :D

[stoogesofsanfran]

[Whew. It's so inconvenient to trying to live normal lives when law abiding citizens find out they're ex-cons.]



You'd be amazed to find out how many conclusions people can jump to when they know you've got a bad history with the law, alright? Don't need a neighbor hovering around waiting for us to put a to outta line.

ohymgod

[sakatree]

Well if it cleans the slate I'm probably about as neck deep as you guys...

[He's making big assumptions but he's got good reason.]

Fair enough though-I'd figure talking to someone considering open fire to carve a room out would give me away as less the sort though..!

I have NO clue what kind of strings he pulled to get that reduced when he put them on parole...

[stoogesofsanfran]

Eh, not really. Plenty of people hang on to guns for whatever reason back home.



Includin' law enforcement.

[sakatree]

Seriously, that-

[OH. OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.] ...Oh shit you two are from the States huh?

...Guess the time barrier wasn't the only thing this place broke.

You're more likely to get shot by a beanbag in my country...or a paint gun.

[stoogesofsanfran]

Yeah, based in San Fran...usually. But man, what kinda sissy cops you got over there?



Would be nice if our good guys were that reluctant to use force...

[sakatree]

Kind that don't have to worry about guns?

I mean I'll be straight there are cops who use the things, but your average traffic guy isn't going to be dealing with that kind of stuff in Japan...not exactly open carry over there.

[Also they have hand-to-hand.]

[stoogesofsanfran]

[He waves a wing dismissively.]

Yeah, and I shouldn't have been able to get a gun after my first stint in lockup at Hollowlands. Unless the crime rate's really that much lower over there...



Maybe it is. I mean, we had Tohru over in America instead'a Japan...did the Dark Hand even have guys in Japan?

[sakatree]

That's even assuming we're from the same time as is~

So what year are you lot from?

[stoogesofsanfran]

True...we already know Big V's from like two years before us. Two and a half? Ugh, hard to keep track.



It was 2005 last we knew, though.

[sakatree]

[WOW. He's so surprised by that gap that he can't even joke.] T-

You're that far back?!

Really?!

[stoogesofsanfran]

Whaddya mean that far back? What year are you from, then?

[sakatree]

Add a few hundred and you'd be in the right ballpark, put it that way.

[stoogesofsanfran]

Woah.



Ugh, man...I hate time travel! And I thought dealing with Dragonface Jr. from fifteen or whatever years in the future made my head hurt...

[sakatree]

Word of advice, don't think about it~ Makes everything way easier, [he laughs, the sound echoing in his mask.]

[stoogesofsanfran]

Yeah yeah. But no spoilers, alright?



Livin' through times we already heard about is kinda disorientin'.

[sakatree]

Hey, no problems there-I already have someone else from my past to hide that kind of stuff from, a few extra isn't a huge deal.

[stoogesofsanfran]

You too, huh? Man, I'm startin' to think we're lucky the three of us are all from the same time...



Here's hopin' they don't start askin' questions you don't wanna answer, huh?

[sakatree]

Eugh, too late. I have work-arounds, but I never thought I'd actually need them for this...

[stoogesofsanfran]

Ugh, same here. 'Cept fer havin' workarounds...



And whose fault is that, huh Ratso? But, uh...we're open for suggestions.

[sakatree]

I'll say this much, as long as no one died between then and now, you should be safe.

[Hatsu no-]

[stoogesofsanfran]

Uhhh...nope, no deaths.



Not permanent ones, nohow...

[sakatree]

What, did you guys play around with necromancy or something...?

[stoogesofsanfran]

Naw, nothin' like that. ...Well, 'cept fer Daolon Wong revivin' Shendu, but that wasn't our idea!



Let's just say there are forms of immortality that only stop you from dying completely.

[sakatree]

[..............It takes a second.]

...Euuugh... ...suddenly glad I'm more of a tree at home...