❦ 6th Record

[iattractmushi]

Great, these things really do eat anything. Guard your pockets, everyone... I just lost half my coins.

[Pause]

How long has everyone been living here?

Comments

[feathered-earth.livejournal.com]

It didn't make them sick, did it?

And I've been here for a little over a year.

[iattractmushi]

I think it did... the ones I took out of my coin pouch [pause] don't look very good.

[Longer pause] Thanks.

[feathered-earth.livejournal.com]

Oh... I wonder what's in the coins that makes them so bad for things.

Howcome you're asking?

[iattractmushi]

Oh, do other creatures get sick if they eat the coins, too?

I'm curious.

[feathered-earth.livejournal.com]

People do, yeah. I don't know who would think it was a good idea, though.

[iattractmushi]

...I guess if someone was really hungry? Though they could have used the money to buy some food.

Or maybe they wanted to see what would happen. Still kind of a stupid idea.

[speeding]

Next September'll be two years.

[iattractmushi]

[Pause. Two years? Gods.] Thanks.

Who's this?

[speeding]

No problem.

Name's Dash, you? When'd you get here? I've been kinda... not paying attention to journals. Stay here long enouhg, you'll get the same. Maybe. Or just nutty. Nutty's a favorite pasttime of long-timers.

[iattractmushi]

Cloud. I've been here about a month and a half, joined the Adventurers a few weeks ago.

Nutty, huh? Sounds real fun.

[speeding]

Nice to meet you Cloud. We're coworkers then, maybe we'll get teamed up some time.

Well, bonkers is pretty much what this place is gunning for, right?

[iattractmushi]

I look forward to it.

It's pretty insane itself, I'll give you that.

[speeding]

Same, dude.

Never gets better, just heads up.

[iattractmushi]

At least I'm forewarned, now.

[bloody-pens.livejournal.com]

I've been here for... 5 months already. Wow. Feels like I've been in this place forever.

[iattractmushi]

Thanks. [Pause] Forever's a long time.

I don't think I ever did catch your name; mine's Cloud.

[bloody-pens.livejournal.com]

Derrick.

Forever certainly is a long time, especially when your brother insists on bringing Tribbles home.

[iattractmushi]

[Pause for laughter]

They are kind of cute, when they're not trying to eat everything I own, but I'm not sure they'd make very good pets.

[bloody-pens.livejournal.com]

I agree, but I can't seem to convince Genius of that.

[iattractmushi]

Maybe he'll change his mind about them after they finish eating all your food.

[unevoked.livejournal.com]

Since Mid-November. [Hobo don't feel like counting.]

Thing ate your coins? Fuck.

[iattractmushi]

[And it's mid-April now, so...] About five months?

Yeah. They're damned annoying little critters.

[unevoked.livejournal.com]

Sounds 'bout right, yeah.

...I dunno, just keep 'em away from your stuff and they ain't that bad. [Their noises are cute. :< ]

[iattractmushi]

[Some hobos are good at math, Castor.]

The ones I've got seem to be very good at getting into my coat pockets undetected and then chewing on everything I keep in them. [He will never admit that he kind of likes the noise.]

[unevoked.livejournal.com]

[Other hobos are just lazy.]

I just kinda let them chill there-- granted they're starting to take over the floor've the room now.

[iattractmushi]

They're starting to take over everything, from what I can see. [Where the hell is he going to sleep tonight? The park is covered with them...

Maybe he really will chuck a bunch off the edge of an island.]

[unevoked.livejournal.com]

S'long as they don't try and smother me in my sleep, I can deal with 'em. [You hobo, just sleep on the Tribbles.]

[iattractmushi]

At the rate they seem to be multiplying? I wouldn't be at all surprised if they did it unintentionally. [But they're little wiggly things! It wouldn't be a very comfortable bed.]

[unevoked.livejournal.com]

I dunno if it's more cropping up every half day or like you said, multiplying. [Whateva man. Castor will like them until they eat his cooking stuff. Then it is rage time.]

[iattractmushi]

Could always be a little of both. [Will his rage be loud enough to be heard all over Edensphere? Because that would be hilarious.]

[unevoked.livejournal.com]

Got a point. I figure they'll disappear sooner or later anyway, though. [Maybe. There will definitely be some Tribble-punting over in Wellspring.]

[iattractmushi]

Hopefully that will happen before they eat all the food in the Sphere. [Tribble-punting should be a sport, man.]

[unevoked.livejournal.com]

...You don't think they can open things, do you? [They can make it one. Like Chicken-Kicking, except even more cathartic.]

[iattractmushi]

They're vibrating balls of fur, it's not like they have hands.

Of course I don't understand how they're eating stuff either, since they don't seem to have anything I'd call a mouth. [Yay for spontaneously inventing sports!]

[unevoked.livejournal.com]

...Good. Just went to the bazaar the other day, last thing I need's one going through my stuff.

[That's how hobos can bond. Kicking them.]

[ziongaiv.livejournal.com]

Our floor is covered with them. I hate these things.

[iattractmushi]

The entire Sphere is covered in them, or it will be soon. How'd they get in the Spa, anyway?