testrun_box | Like I need another last_free

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*The big, barbarian looking guy's been watching some of the other heroes drinking and having fun. He's never really joined in a lot of stuff himself, and doesn't talk a lot. So you're sort of surprised to hear him say something now.*

Must be nice, having something to go back to. Kinda miss it sometimes.

2.

*Is he... tending a garden? The guy that looks like he eats raw pigs for breakfast, and here he is delicately tending to a small flower garden on his apartment deck.*

...What? Never seen a guy watering his plants before?

3.

*As time's gone on, you've managed to massage a bit of warmth back into that numb heart of his. He's become fond of you -- as a friend, or maybe as someone to protect. Which might be why he's currently standing there, blocking a sneak attack by a yaoguai that had your name on it.*

You wanna fight?! Fight fair and properly, you bastard!

*He pushes the blade away and, with an agile slash, takes the monster down.*

Gotta watch your back there. Never know what's gonna sneak up on you.

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[When Nier speaks, Asem realizes that he's been staring.]

Oh, no! That's not it. I just didn't expect a man like you to have that kind of hobby. Not that it's bad.

Would you feel better if I spent all my free time wrestling bears or something?

Didn't I just say that it's not a bad thing?

I guess so. You live subsistence long enough, you learn to garden. Just what you gotta do.

It gives you the best vegetables, too. My great-grandfather and two of his friends tend some crops.

I do gotta admit they taste a little better if you're not buying them from someone else. Sometimes, anyway. Some folks are just better at it.

I don't think there's anything that isn't true of.

[Kinzo's a noncombatant. Probably he's only even around as, like, an alchemy consultant, or something, probably. Also he doesn't exactly hang around with the heroes and make merriment, himself. But he does get drunk in the same hall, generally sitting in the quiet sections like Nier. Overhearing that seems to amuse him.]

Such a foolish regret. Why lament that you have nothing when you could have hope? Be a man and seek to regain what you have lost.

Hey man, easy for you to say. The only thing that guarantees I've even got a world to go back to after all this crap is the fact they can apparently drop me right back where they found me. We're on our last two generations of people back home.

Oho? So you truly have lost everything...

[Even he can manage a brief moment of silence for that.]

But it makes no difference. Even if it is reclaiming an entire world, you need hope and ambition if you're going to accomplish it. Your despair makes you useless. No, the more desperate your situation is, the better! Bet everything on the power of your desire, and you can see a true miracle. Wahahahaha!

*He kinda wants to hit this guy.*

God, what are you, something out of a damn storybook? Not everything has a happy ending you know.

[Perhaps normal.]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Happy? Of course not! I'm talking about your own abilities, you buffoon, not some paradise!

Whenever two men want the same thing, one will be crushed underfoot. The victor is the one who maintained hope long enough to do whatever was necessary! I'm talking about the power of desire! The power of miracles! That is magic!! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

...

You been sniffing one too many chemicals there pal?

Idiot! How clearly must I explain before it sinks into your soft head? I am telling you the secret to accomplish anything! The power of miracles with which even death can be overcome! If you're content to lament your defeat before you have even ceased to draw breath, you're unworthy to make your wishes come true in the first place!

[He's kind of making a scene now, as impossible as that should be in a mead hall here.]

Steel your will, you fool! Find a way! Any single action you can take to make something out of the nothing you possess! That is the path you must follow with your entire being! Become obsessed! Make every feeling in your heart, every action you take, the lamb that you must sacrifice to be granted a miracle!!! Your losses may be greater than I can fathom, but because of something like that you think you can only pity yourself? Imbecile! Dullard! Spineless twit! Your desperation could become the most powerful weapon in the world if you would only wield it!

SHUT the HELL UP!

*He slams a fist into the wall with enough force to leave a dent.*

I DID hold onto hope! I believed for the potential for a miracle, for something to make everything better! And what the hell did I get out of it? Dead friends, the end of any goddamn hope for humans to survive, and on top of it I saved my daughter just in time to watch her DIE! THAT'S the power of your goddamn hope, you goddamn geezer!

AAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then your enemy is death itself! The same as mine! Perhaps when I have revived my beloved Beatrice, I will take pity on you and tell you the details of the ritual! As if it would work for one who has given up and stopped thinking! How many times must I say that magic needs a strong desire to work? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

I think all that "desire's" gotten to your freaking head! You're out of your damn mind!

[Indeed, Deimonea's been watching intently, but for a different reason.]

Oh, this's the first time I've gotten to watch Dreamer gardening this closely.

*This is... awkward.*

Uh... there some sort of a difference with something else?

Keep doing it. What do you do if it bites you or turns into something else? Oh, do plants in the waking do that?

Uh, I think there're plants that eat bugs. Not really the sort I bother with though. I think you're gonna be kinda bored with this, actually.

[She's back to watching intently.] Why're you doing that? [In reference to what particular gardening activity Nier might be doing at the moment.]

You don't prune the dead crap off, the new stuff doesn't have as much room to grow. Simple as that.

*Snip.*

Like I need another last_free_city character.

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