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 Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 2:15 am
Liamh let his thoughts wander for a moment while they foraged, running over the various things he'd heard from them since he'd met them - all of less than an hour ago, all together. It wasn't even the things he'd heard, it was... something in how they acted. That creepy Duvert guy had had that vibe about him as well. Something definitely seemed out of place... Liamh stared down his nose for a moment, then picked up on a word he recognized.
"Mmmmmm." he said appreciatively. "Wii."
"That whole separate handed thing is totally either gonna rock, or suck monkey. Gotta hand it to them, though, they know how to turn the industry upside down." He glanced around, snagging a couple bags of things - pretzels and some bbq potato chips - and rummaging around for anything more substantial. Nachos sounded really good right now, nachos and peanut butter and guacamole.
"Wait, no internet? Aw man!" Liamh had rewound the last few words from Marshall in his head after a moment, and snapped out of his peanut-guacamole daydream with a horrified look. "I'm gonna go insane, i swear! I'm already behind on my forums and my blogs and my mail and my webcomics! Not that m'favorite has updated for like, a month, but whatever..." He scowled, crinkling the bag of chips.
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 1:13 pm
Marshall snickered, "My money is on that its gonna kick mayjor a**." Marshall said as he got a bag of M&Ms before the Popcorn begun popping. Marshall's ears perked up when he heard the word 'webcomic'.
"Heh heh. I was always partial to the Megatokyos and Joe and Monkeys...Even if Fred was a total d**k at Katsucon." Marshall snickered as he opened the small brown bag, popping some of the multi-colored candies into his mouth, "So, what was your favorite?"
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:43 pm
As the glass plate carousel spun lazily and the first sudden POP! noises of kernelly deaths were heard, Liamh leaned against the wall and munched a stick of jerky he'd rummaged up. "That son of a motherless goat! - You went to Katsucon?" Liamh grinned. "Er, i read the usual, you know - Penny-Arcade and PVP, GU, Ctrl-Alt-Del, VGcats, Questionable Content... couple of other awesome ones, Wapsi and Scary-Go-Round and that one with the cute penguin." He took another mouthful of dried meats and chewed thoughtfully. " 'ats th' one tha 'asnt upda'ed in li' a monf.."
He reached over and grabbed a couple other bags of candy and looked around for something to put their haul in.
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:51 pm
Marshall did a chocolatey spit-take when Liahm mentioned 'the one with the cute penguin'. He couldn't mean...HIS comic, could he? People were still reading? Perhaps he had just thrown it into the back of his mind, but now that he thought about it, his web-comic WAS still there. Stagnent. Forever saying "I'll be back soon- M.G." in that silly font.
His stomach sank. AND he had chocoate-spit to clean up now.
...s**t.
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:01 pm
Liamh glanced over his shoulder with the jerky hanging from his teeth like a cigar. "Uh, you okay?" He found a paper sack to stuff the chips and pretzels in and hoisted it. "Ah, sounds like the popcorn's getting close to done. Better get back before Gaius loses his appetite from the tentacle demon."
He paused, thinking about that, holding the jerky stick next to his mouth and wiggling it in a rather Groucho-Marx-esque fashon. "Well, maybe that would be a good idea after all, more for us..."
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:10 pm
Marshall sighed, trying to regain his composure. He wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, before smiling at Liahm. It still hurt, thinking about his comic. In fact, he really WANTED to be upset about it. But...If Liahm was taking every thing so well, he could to, right?
"Heh heh...Dude, don't say Tentacles like that...Makes it sound like we're watching a Hentai." Marshall joked, taking the now-finished popcorn out of the microwave. "And we still need sodas."
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:18 pm
"Hentai, hentai, everything's hentai with you," Liamh ribbed him, sighing dramatically. "Ah! Sodas. Right. I'll grab 'em. Err...." he set down the bag and turned this way and that. "Uh, where do they keep 'em, and whaddya want?" He crossed his arms with his fingers pointing both ways like the scarecrow in search of a brain.
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:26 pm
Marshall pointed over at the large, industrial-looking metal refidgerator. "That behemoth...Oh, and if you see any cake in there? Don't touch it." Marshall added quickly. He still need to give it to Gaius, or some thing. Even refigerated he knew it'd go bad soon.
"Hmm...I'll take an Orange Soda. And get Gaius a Coke." Marshall said, feeling like he was giving orders now, "And make it snappy!" he added with a chuckle.
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:41 pm
"Aye aye, Cap'n!" he threw a salute and wandered toward the giant steel fortress. "Thar be a bilge-scuttlin' scallywaggers off the starboard... plank...." He went over to rummage in the refridgerator, producing a couple of cokes, oranges sodas, and a pair of rootbeers for himself.
"Cold cold cold," he muttered, juggling them in his arms as he quick-stepped back over and arranged them in the bottom of the sack. "Okay! How's the popcorn? We all set?"
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:52 pm
"Yeah! Lets go! By now Gaius is sitting there with a dumbfounded expression on his face trying to figure out what the foot is going on." Marshall snickered, shaking the popcorn bag a little to evenly coat the kernels with the synthetic butter stuff.
"So, know what you're gonna do for Halloween yet?" Marshall asked, proping open the door for Liahm and his magical bag of junk-food. "Every costume idea I've had is kinda thrown out the window with this giant shnoz..." Marshall chuckled, tapping his nose with a free finger.
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:19 pm
Liamh breathed in the tropical night air, mosquitos temporarily forgotten. He hefted the bag to a more comfortable position and took long legged strides back in the direction of what he hoped was the recreation center. "Heh. Well if nothing else, we've got junk food and i've figured out where the Cafeteria is."
He glanced over at Marshall, squinting. "Schnoz? Oh that thing? I dunno, isn't it some kind of..... beak.... thing? Could use it for a, like, chocobo costume?" he chuckled. "Or Sam Eagle? Have anything else?"
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:26 pm
"Heh heh...Muppets, eh?" Marshall chuckled, never actually considering the posibility that it might be a beak. To him, it was still just his nose. It was large and black, but he still breathed through it. Then again, his large feet did look rather bird-like.
Marshall opened the door with his shoulder, greeted with the sights and sounds of one of Miyazaki's masterworks and a comfy couch to lie down on. "So, what'd we miss?" Marshall asked Gaius, plopping the popcorn in his lap from behind before taking his seat on the couch again.
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:30 pm
The guy was leaning forward in his seat, eyes locked on the flashing images playing across the screen, a stunned expression on his face. He didn't even acknowledge when the two entered until Marshall spoke up, which got a twitch out of the guy.
"What in the world kind of cartoon is this?!" Gaius asked with something between reverence and accusation. "It's bloodier than any action movie I've seen! The kid took off a guy's arm with an ARROW! And that pig thing? What was up with that?! How can they show this kind of stuff to kids? It'd be sure to give them nightmares for months!"
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:48 pm
Liamh set down the sack of treats and started unpacking, giving Gaius a weird look. "Man. You've never seen anime?" He turned to Marshall. "He's never seen anime? He doesn't know. Aw man." He turned to Gaius again. "Gaius.... there's something we gotta tell you...."
He handed the orange sodas to Marshall, and then held out the coke to Gaius. "Gaius, anime isn't for kids. Well," he glanced at the tv screen. "Some of it is, some of it isn't. It's an art form in Japan, it's meant for all ages. And some of it is really not for kids. Lotta blood and violence and sex and more violence and ninjas.... "
He sat himself down on the couch. "Of course, a LOT of anime, even the lighthearted funny ones, all have messages like," he raised his hands in a 'big drama' gesture, "Don't kill the planet, or Human Nature is Like This, or Death and Life is like This, or other philosophical things. It's kinda cool." He grinned, glancing at the screen again. "Mononoke is about the struggle between mankind and the natural world - the animals and the environment and our place with them, and what we do to them to save ourselves, and how both sides are right in their own way. It's..." he paused. "It's about balance between man and nature."
"With a lot of blood." he cracked open his root beer with a quirky half-smile.
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Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:56 pm
"Ehhhh Liahhhhmm! You're making it way too difficult! Basically...Its an Animated Action Flick." Marshall said in a knowing voice as he opened one of the Orange Soda cans. He was use to explaining anime for his brother-in-law. They never got along, but hell, at least they tried...Kinda.
"Its basically an hour and a half public service announcement on not polluting...Or sumthin'. I just think its cool." he continued, sipping on the orange soda as he reached over and took a handful of pop-corn.
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