(open) You're so quiet

[silentmagician]

Who: Yugi + O P E N (+ closed prompts as they come into existence...)
What: Catch-all, some general exploration for now
Where: Various locations
When: Around the first weeks of March-ish
Content Warnings: N/A for now, but will update if anything pops up



[Open top-level prompts below unless otherwise specified! Feel free to PM or catch me on keihatsu for a specific prompt]!

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[indigloaming]

Indigo is used to the surprise -- Novakid are pretty rare, after all, even in her world. She shakes her head at his question.

"Naw. They're just not somethin' ya wanna tangle with if ya don't hafta." She gives the boy -- about her height -- a surveying glance; he doesn't look much like a fighter. Still, appearances can be deceiving, so she won't make any judgements just yet. "Especially if yer unarmed."

She's not too worried about the stubbies; they're slow enough to just run from, and are small enough that they're not usually life-threatening even if you can't get away. In large enough numbers, perhaps... but still, it's the big, fluffy robots she's concerned with. She was able to fight one a while back, in order to take its fur for herself, but when she's sick like this... well, now she's going to do her best to avoid battle too.

[silentmagician]

"I'll keep that in mind, I'd rather avoid a fight," he responds. Yugi holds his hands up in a placating manner to show that he has no weapons, and unknowingly responds to one of Indigo's thoughts. "In fact, I'm pretty useless in them, to be honest."

Just as she presumed, the newly awakened duo of stubbies don't seem to be much of a worry - if not because they aren't very threatening, then because they don't seem particularly interested in the two residents at the moment. They just shuffle along the shoreline, unprovoked as of yet.

"I'm Yugi, by the way. It's nice to meet you. If you're not here to find them then... are you looking for something else?"

[indigloaming]

Just as she presumed, then -- another civilian to protect. Ah, well, she doesn't really mind -- that's what she trained for.

"I'm Indigo." As for his other question, she waves a hand at the mountains of trash around them. "You can find good stuff here sometimes. Or raw materials for makin' somethin' else." If he's not a fighter, is he at least familiar with crafting?

[silentmagician]

Yugi is very familiar with crafting! At least, as much as it extends to video games mechanics. Or, maybe fusing monsters in a card game would be similar enough? Point is, Indigo doesn't have to explain the concept to him, outside of of perhaps explaining what in fact she is trying to craft.

"I've been here for a while looking for things that seem interesting, but if you need a second pair of eyes I can keep a look out," he offers, looking rather excited about the prospect. "Raw materials like iron? I've seen scrap metal around..."

[indigloaming]

Indigo shrugs and waves a hand as if to say 'whatever'.

"Nothin' I'm lookin' for in particular at the moment, but keepin' an eye out for somethin' interestin' is always good. Wheels are always useful, an' furniture an' such washes up here sometimes."

She trudges a little closer toward the water, nudging a fresh cardboard box with her boot. From the picture on the box, this was supposed to be a dresser when it was fully assembled, but for now it would just be a bunch of plywood and screws in a box.

[silentmagician]

Oh, raw materials like that. Yugi nods in understanding, glancing at the box; he could keep an eye out for those. Looking for things was all well and good, but making something from those items was a whole different story. Couldn't necessarily translate that gaming aspect into having the ability to combine things in real life.

"The better stuff seems to be closer to the water," or, at least the stuff that wasn't mangled beyond repair, "Though I was kind of staying away from it when I saw an electric kettle start shaking by itself..." And now he's clearly eyeing that too. A perfectly good electric kettle along the shore not too far away from them.

[indigloaming]

Thankfully Indigo's got plenty of training when it comes to assembling things, and for things she doesn't have experience with, well, her Novakid intelligence has her figuring it out pretty fast.

"Movin' by itself? Ya sure it wasn't jus' the sand settlin' after the tide or somethin'?" Indigo turns her head to the side to cough out a little more colored smoke, before approaching the kettle in question to pick it up.

[silentmagician]

"I think so..." Hm. But now that there is someone else here to investigate, Yugi wonders if he just imagined it or made something out of nothing. He looks a bit uncertain, standing off to the side.

More importantly: "Hey, are you okay?" Yugi can't profess to have knowledge about Novakid. Maybe coloured smoke was normal for her? But he can't help but be concerned.

The kettle, for its part, does absolutely nothing. Until it does - rolling over the other refuse in a straight line before stopping and righting itself upwards. Weird flex. Either the world is demonstrating some amazing physics, or there's a spirit inhabiting this appliance.

[indigloaming]

"I got sick a lil' while ago. I'm gettin' better though." ...She thinks so, anyway.

She startles as the kettle starts rolling away when she bends down to pick it up. She's not quite quick enough to catch it, but soon recovers enough to chase after it, pouncing on it to keep it from fleeing again.

"Now you hold still!" Thankfully with the kettle actually in hand, she now has a major advantage in terms of size and strength; if she can just keep hold of it, it won't be going anywhere. She turns her face to address Yugi again: "I ain't never seen anythin' like this before." Random junk with a mind of its own? Yeah, that's a new one for her.