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

[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...

[stoogesofsanfran]

Yeah, I...wouldn't recommend becoming a Dark Chi Warrior.

[His feathers fluff in an avian shudder.]



Whaddya mean by bein' more of a tree, though?

[sakatree]

Made a deal with someone-I stick with them as long as they live, they don't cause hell. Works out pretty well right?

[He squints.] ...Not sure how that's gonna go with me here...

[ahem.] Don't tell anyone I said that though.

[stoogesofsanfran]

My lips are sealed. Not like we ain't got a bunch of stuff we've gotta keep to ourselves already, anyway.



Yeah, you'd be surprised how much three guys can run into that most people'd think they're crazy for talkin' about.

[sakatree]

Maybe we should trade stories some time, use the other as a vent board, [he jokes, snorting.] Combine our experiences and you'd probably have a book.

[stoogesofsanfran]

More like a book series. Five different bad guys, man.



Wait, don't Shendu's brothers an' sisters count? I mean, wasn't we kinda workin' for him workin' for them when we was lookin' for those demon portals?

[sakatree]

If it's a series of five you might as well make that an anime.

Whether or not they count would probably depend on how much crap they pulled on you I'd say.