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Gyles 🎲 ([personal profile] lavenfallen) wrote in [community profile] shardbond2025-02-09 01:52 pm

THE (SHARD)BEACH EPISODE 🌊🛹

After a grueling two weeks filled to the brim with pain and suffering, a break is more than deserved. So while Gyles is far from a planner of activities, he'll make sure everyone (even the NPCs. stares directly at Redd.) knows about a world he accidentally stumbled upon. As far as he knows, it doesn't have a name, but do the details really matter???? Absolutely not.

What matters is that this is a beautiful beach by the ocean. The sun's shining, the water's warm enough to swim in, and there's plenty of critters and shells to find among the tide pools and beneath the waves. If you're brave enough, you could even take a boat out on the water! ... but maybe don't do that alone?

Don't have a swimsuit? No problem! There's a beach shack with all the swimwear and beach-goer attire you could possibly want, along with things like sunscreen, fishing gear, inflatable beach toys, and snorkels. Basically if you want it, it's there, I'm sure as hell not gonna stop you. The shack also sells whatever cold treats and snacks your heart desires.

There's also a fire pit, perfect for late night s'mores and stories around a bonfire, and a charcoal barbeque for the cooks among the group. The nearby convenience store doesn't have as wide a selection as W*lmart, but there's a decent selection of meats, veggies, and drinks to choose from.

If you're not one for the sand, then a very short walk away from the shore is surely the biggest skate park anyone's ever seen. If you didn't bring your skateboard or hoverboard with you, that's a-okay because there are plenty that're free to borrow. There's also some rollerskates, if that's more your style.

Relax, unwind, and enjoy the (shard)beach episode, Shardbearers.
divinevoid: (🟨 ✨)

[personal profile] divinevoid 2025-02-09 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Anyways, Void Archives is here. On the beach, when they're hanging around and not going anywhere near the water just yet, they're in a white shirt and shorts, with some kind of fruity drink. In an atmosphere like this? No one is safe from them. ]

What a nice change of pace, isn't it?

[ When they're in the water, swimming around, or spraying water at people, they're wearing something stupid like this in terms of swimwear. They can also be caught just coming out of the water, looking amused. ]

So, are you actually getting something out of this stay?
is2g: (pic#17535352)

[personal profile] is2g 2025-02-11 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
[ presenting wolfwood, while not in his normal suit (that he more or less had to abandon anyway for his injuries), is still not exactly properly dressed for a beach. mainly how does one dress for a beach when one has never experienced a beach before in their life? wolfwood wore a suit while he traversed an entire desert planet, why would anyone expect more or less of him??

anyway, cue wolfwood here also wearing a shirt and some shorts. his chest covered to hide some of his lingering injuries, however, and unfortunately for all parties involved, his busted arm still wrapped up and in a sling and the couple of plasters covering a few wounds (new and old) on his "good" arm and legs will be on display. but we're not here to talk about wolfwood's injuries. we're here to have him look at void archives with a disapproving stare as they kick around in the water.

...none of it coming in contact with him (or his bandages) due to some well timed side-stepping.
]

Someone's clearly enjoyin' themselves.
divinevoid: (🟨 SELF-SATISFACTION)

[personal profile] divinevoid 2025-02-11 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's time to get out and enjoy the beach fun, Wolfwood.

In retrospect, maybe Void Archives shouldn't be spraying or kicking water about at everyone because getting that medical dressing wet is probably not going to be good for recovery and all that. But, it's too late, and he has proven that he can dodge really well even when injured, so all is well? ]


Yes, I am. Isn't it grand?

...But, before I get too into that, I do have to wonder why you haven't seen to a healer yourself already. I can surmise that would be necessary, considering you don't appear to have used your healing ability on yourself? Or rather, it is that it hasn't been effective?
is2g: (pic#17535350)

[personal profile] is2g 2025-02-11 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Try not to get yerself into any trouble.

[ yes, because that is what wolfwood is worried about. rather, ""worried"". though trust the cube to be the one to finally call wolfwood out on how he has been sporting injuries for the past few weeks and hardly making any progress with it. ]

My healin' doesn't work on me. [ is wolfwood just going to give that answer and nothing else as a follow-up? oh you betcha he is. ] The little man seems to be the only other person here able to heal without needin' to combine their abilities with anyone else, but with how our battles go, the guy deserves a break.

[ let's not forget that joker is also comparatively "new" and really did just get thrown into the deep end. wolfwood just shrugs as he steps closer to the water but definitely not testing just how far the waves are going to go up the sand. ]

I'm used to gettin' roughed up so this is nothin'.
divinevoid: (🟨 SNEER)

[personal profile] divinevoid 2025-02-11 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Aw, you're concerned about myself? I suppose I should be grateful.

[ They say in a sing-song tone that sounds like somehow a threat, because they're low-key kind of irritated that Wolfwood has known this fact apparently and didn't see fit to communicate it to anyone else here despite the fact they've got a healer now. And people who could feasibly boost said healer's capabilities.

Okay, maybe not low-key, but it isn't like they're pissed off. Just disappointed. Yeah.

...Well, maybe they're a little mad. ]


Oh please. He doesn't need to be treated like an infant who barely knows how to walk, especially if someone like yourself can get healed instead of walking around like...this.

Even if you're used to getting roughed up, I shouldn't have to remind you that you don't have your regenerative capabilities here. We're dealing with a hyper competent enemy and need to be at our full strength.
Edited 2025-02-11 21:22 (UTC)
is2g: (pic#17535336)

[personal profile] is2g 2025-02-14 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
It's less bout treatin' him like an infant and more—ah forget it.

[ now it's wolfwood's turn to tsk as he rolls his eyes at them. it's not that he can't see how they're upset about his whole situation or acknowledge that he's being purposefully obtuse about how he doesn't want to bother joker for healing—because he can and does. the reason is just not something he wants to get into.

they're supposed to be enjoying the beach!!! let him enjoy the beach!!! of which, he'll watch his feet sink deeper into the sand as the waves come and go.
]

Y'mean people who are in the frontlines need to be at their full strength. [ his voice sounding distant in part of whatever is going on in his head and because of the wonder of experiencing the beach for the first time. ] Aside for that week where I seemed to be the robots' favorite chew toy, I've been pretty decent at makin' sure that I stay out of trouble.

[ smashcut to me this weekend making the shittiest rolls known to man. ]
divinevoid: (🟨 SERIOUS)

[personal profile] divinevoid 2025-02-15 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ ...Void Archives arches a brow when the man cuts himself off like that and then has the audacity to tsk? At them? Absolutely unbelievable.

Even if Wolfwood wants to turn into the world's biggest walnut on the issue, it isn't something that can be glossed over. Though, they suspect he knows that as well, but they wouldn't be surprised apparently something about himself is getting in the way.

But, they are also not having it. They fashion their logic like a finely tuned strike, knowing they will be up against a mountain of stubborness. ]


Don't give me that. As a healer who helps others, you too are one who places yourself on the frontlines with the rest of us. You can't pretend those attacks directed at everyone suddenly immediately bypass yourself as well to be so far out of range you're nowhere near the frontlines. That is simply ridiculous.

You may have managed fine the last time, but there is no guarantee that will remain the case the next or the time after that. You may believe that it's fine to walk around like you are now, but how about you consider this as well, hm?:

That not being at full strength can not only endanger your life, but it can do the very same to others as well. Do you want both to come true? Is it truly so hard to consider having someone assist you properly, or are you really obsessed with acting like it's 'fine' to walk around with a broken limb and think that suddenly it's unreasonable for someone else to say it isn't? Well? Which is it, Father Wolfwood?
tworo: ([query])

out of the water

[personal profile] tworo 2025-02-12 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Something...? No, not especially.

[Turo is quite simply not built for the beach. What's he gonna do, swim?]

But the tidal pools are interesting! [...] Are you enjoying yourself?
divinevoid: (🟨 GRIN)

[personal profile] divinevoid 2025-02-12 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
It does sound like you're at least enjoying some part of the environment! Perhaps that counts, hm?

[ They certainly would count it. There's nothing wrong with taking in the sights of it, as far as they're concerned. But at the question, they'll nod. ]

...As for myself, I can say for certain that I am! The beach is full of opportunity to enjoy oneself whether amongst the waves or somewhere else~

What is there not to like about swimming? What is there not to enjoy about the beautiful skies, the little drinks, and messing around with others? After all, we do very much deserve to enjoy all of such splendors and life's joys, no?
tworo: ([the future])

[personal profile] tworo 2025-02-12 05:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Turo considers this, scanning the horizon. The skies are beautiful. So is the water...]

I think it would be nice to swim. But I'm much too dense to float.

[walkin along the ocean floor like an undead pirate.....]
divinevoid: (🟨 BRIGHT)

[personal profile] divinevoid 2025-02-12 05:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh, well then. They certainly aren't exactly expecting to hear that. ]

...Are you now?

That does sound like quite the pity. I'm also afraid I don't quite know all that much about you as of yet. But, I assume that must have been always the case, in your position?

[ Normal people aren't so dense that they would sink to the bottom like that... ]
tworo: ([calculate])

[personal profile] tworo 2025-02-12 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. Though I have my creator's memories, and obviously he could swim.

[So that's...interesting?]
divinevoid: (🟨 ❓)

[personal profile] divinevoid 2025-02-12 10:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Your creator's memories...?

[ ...If his words about being inhuman hadn't been clocked in as apparent before, they sure are now - though, it does grant a little more potential context, as far as they are concerned. ]

Why did your creator grant you his memories, exactly?
tworo: ([profile])

[personal profile] tworo 2025-02-13 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
He had grown intensely paranoid by that time...he did not trust anyone else with his work, but he still required another set of hands. This is as near to having two of himself as he could manage.
divinevoid: (🟨 REPORT)

[personal profile] divinevoid 2025-02-13 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
I see. I don't suppose with that attitude you two got along all that well...?

Those who create with such skill and intelligence can be not only that of what you describe, but hardly pleasant company. Of course, that is not the same of all such individuals.

[ Though they say this with distant thoughts upon their own creator. ]
tworo: ([drive])

[personal profile] tworo 2025-02-13 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
...no, not especially. If he had made me him in a meaningful sense, I would have fought him for control of the project. So, he could not - but then, that meant that I too was not entirely trustworthy.

[It's sort of an impossible conundrum. Turo never saw him as a person, nothing more than an unthinking machine, but he had still been afraid of betrayal.]
divinevoid: (🟨 OBSCURE)

[personal profile] divinevoid 2025-02-13 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Funny how that works, doesn't it? They are not surprised that there was a lack of trust, given that their own showed such things herself. ]

The duality of such a man so devoted to his work, hm? Though, I can't claim to not know the direction of mistrust from such individuals myself, so at the least I can very well imagine.

...I do wonder. If there was something you could have said to him before all of this, what would you have chosen, if you could think of words at all?
tworo: ([firm])

[personal profile] tworo 2025-02-13 04:56 pm (UTC)(link)
...I never said anything to him. Nothing important. There would have been consequences.

[Would it have been better if he tried harder to talk him down? Turo...really doesn't think so. Better people than him had tried in the past.]

But, before this... [It's a hypothetical, isn't it? Not dangerous. The robot's jaw sets slightly.] His distrust almost got his son killed. If he were still alive, I would want him to know that much.
divinevoid: (🟨 HEH)

[personal profile] divinevoid 2025-02-13 08:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Considering the attitude you've described of him to me thus far, I hardly find that surprising.

[ The man seemed like hardly an upstanding guy; paranoid as well as intelligent (and what they assume to be controlling) folks rarely are. ]

Quite incredible that he managed to do something that nearly caused great, irreversible damage. Whatever the case, it sounds like an adequate exchange of words, especially if he was being quite the fool where that was concerned~

Any other foolish acts you wish to speak on about your creator that he's committed, or shall you wish to continue to enjoy the beach properly?
tworo: (pic#17558475)

[personal profile] tworo 2025-02-14 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Ah - yes. [A little rueful.] I'm sorry, this isn't really appropriate conversation. We're trying to have fun here.
divinevoid: (🟨 LISTEN)

[personal profile] divinevoid 2025-02-14 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
Ah, well...in this regard, I'm gracious enough to say it wasn't your fault. My boundless curiosity had myself asking such questions already knowing what kind of topic I was walking into!

Consider it merely a true inquiry to see if your inclinations were leaning away from such matters or more. Nothing more, nothing less.

[ There, they give the man a little amused look, though as they say, they are truly hardly troubled by it themselves. ]

Though, I am inhuman myself, so even besides the fact you are relatively new to our group, perhaps you can say that mere commonality has done well in elevating my curiosity.
tworo: ([gasp])

[personal profile] tworo 2025-02-14 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
Oh - is that so?

[They pass very well, though Turo isn't...sure if they would consider that a compliment. He would, but that's just one data point.]

What are you?
divinevoid: (🟨 PLEASED)

[personal profile] divinevoid 2025-02-14 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ It is very hard to tell that they're inhuman! ]

In the most simplest of terms, a highly advanced artificial intelligence.

[ But, of course, Void Archives sees no reason to stop there. Rather... ]

In the most elaborate of terms, I am indeed that, but one whose purpose is to function as a information archive of humanity's civilization of over 50,000 years or so. At least that is the foremost intended function, though I also serve as a countermeasure towards any sort of threat that would threaten the existence of humanity as a collective. Which, of course, can include alien threats and the like. Either way, do please imagine if you were communicating with a walking and talking archive - one of which is also constantly updating to add new information that it hasn't had before.

Due to my intended function, I would be able to pass on such knowledge if someone were to interface with myself, and allow them to immediately benefit...under normal circumstances, anyway.
tworo: ([gasp])

[personal profile] tworo 2025-02-15 01:00 am (UTC)(link)
...that is an incredible amount of data!

[It's sort of horrifying to consider! Turo knows his systems couldn't handle it, no more than they can handle him without the benefit of Tera energy.]

Why did they make you...humanoid?
divinevoid: (🟨 VOID ARCHIVES)

[personal profile] divinevoid 2025-02-15 01:37 am (UTC)(link)
Hmm...I suppose that is a natural response. I wouldn't have presumed how much data you are able to hold - based upon being from a different world and all - but, it is still quite up there even for those who are able to come even close to comprehending the nature of it.

...As you imagine, not just anyone can interface with someone like myself. There might be even the danger of them being overwhelmed by such knowledge.

[ Oh, certainly horrifying. Receiving such knowledge can even cause someone to cease to exist depending on the circumstances. That, is a solid fact.

But, of course, they are made for such things. Whether or not the execution of it all is...good, is debatable, however. ]


Here is where I have to tell you, my fellow ally:

This body you see here is merely a vessel. I was not created with a humanoid body - rather, I decided to go ahead and "borrow" one, for the simple fact that remaining in my original state makes it quite difficult to communicate with others en masse. As well as speak to people, generally, and carry out various goals.

I suppose it was not the same for you, and you were designed from the start to be humanoid, hm?

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