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Who: Shrieky, Jae and Wolfgang (in separate threads)
What: DAY TRIPS GALORE!
When: Last Misdi for Wolfgang, Givdi for Jae
Where: The Beach and Howl Barrow respectively
Warnings: Potential for the risque revelation of nipples in the beach thread.

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[gramarye]

"Yeees -- a few times. Since they -- since I broke my bike, it's been easier to get around that way." Baedal is an awfully big city, and Wolfgang keeps finding himself having to travel from one end of it to the other in a day. It's hugely annoying, but what else can he do? He still hasn't fixed that goddamn bike. At this point, it would probably be less trouble to just buy a new one, but he is now stubbornly attached to the thing, since it's his only connection to his home world.

He glances behind them, out the window at the passing Skyrail car as it disappears behind a building. "I guess having two trains makes up for not having any buses. Or cars."

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As the Skyrail car vanishes from sight, Shrieky redirects his attention towards Wolfgang again. He's not entirely certain what any of the things which the other man's just listed are, but he can hazard a vague guess, "Those are vehicles? Or methods of transport where you're from? I had noticed that people here don't seem to ride horses, nor have I seen a single carriage or cart drawn through the streets."

He looks out the window again, but nope, the Skytrain is definitely gone. "I'm sorry that your, uh, your bike was damaged. What happened to it?"

[gramarye]

"Yes -- in Syriac Well they have hansom cabs, I think... carriages drawn by horses. Others, too, but you don't see them very often, no. I think it is too hard to stable horses or whatever else in the city." 'Whatever else,' because most of the vehicles he's seen so far have been pulled by miscellaneous alien-looking, four-legged animal things. "I saw one once, it was some kind of... of robot or machine or whatever you call that sort of thing when it's powered by magic, but it really freaked me out. It looked like it was made of metal hands."

And it was the size and shape of an ostrich.

"Oh -- I fell, and it got all... messed up." He makes a vague gesture to accompany that, sounding a bit flustered, which he hopes Shrieky will interpret as him being embarrassed that it was his fault -- he's actually floundering a bit at being put on the spot like that, usually he keeps his lies much closer to the truth. They're much easier to keep track of that way. "They're not hard to come by here, I'm just incompetent." Well, that part is true.

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"Metal hands? Like a creature made out of gauntlets?" Shrieky shifts around back into a sitting position beside Wolfgang, "Yes, I can see how that would be quite disturbing. The devil does make work for idle hands, allegedly."

Shrieky looks mildly concerned at the blustering. He doesn't have any reason in particular to doubt what Wolfgang's telling him, but he can see that the other man is mildly distressed by the question, "I'm sorry to hear that, you weren't injured at all, were you?"

[gramarye]

"Yes, and they were shaped like --" He holds up his hands in the same position -- it looks vaguely like some kind of animal head with a beak and two 'ears'. Imagining it twice the size makes it scarier. "So, this... uncanny valley effect. I'd really like to know what it was made of as long as I don't have to get near it."

He shakes his head, then brushes his hair back out of his face. "Oh, no, I'm fine, thank you."

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Shrieky brings his hand up to cradle his jaw contemplatively. That does look a little strange, but it's hard for him to imagine it not just being this person's distinctively un-frightening hands. "Was there someone... I don't know, controlling it in some way? Or was it just roaming the streets?"

Shrieky acknowledges Wolfgang's wellness with a little quirk of his mouth, but doesn't press further, it's probably not good to try and push people into talking about recent accidents, even if you are curious.