Test run for mayfield_rpg

[jintetsu]

[A. Afternoon | John Doe Park | Jintetsu by himself]

[The walk here might have agitated him, but after he'd been in the park a while Jintetsu had begun to calm down. The trees may have been perfectly uniform from a distance, but when you climbed them they were just trees, and something about sitting in the branches soothed his anxiety a bit. From here it was harder to see where he was, easier to keep to himself. And once he'd snapped off a dead branch and taken out the folding knife he'd found in his room, his hands had something to do, even if it was nothing more than aimless carving.

Wafer-thin wood shavings and the occasional leaf drifted downward as he whittled away at it, but he didn't think to hide them. If he was discovered, it couldn't be any worse than when he was out in town at large, now would it.]


[B. Afternoon of a different day | Jintetsu's house, congratuations you're his not!family!]

[Anyone coming into the kitchen after school may find an interesting sight. Jintetsu is seated at the kitchen table, trying to puzzle out his math homework, but a katana with an eyeball set in the hilt lies on the counter nearby, with the phone handset laid next to it. It's a win-win arrangement - Jintetsu doesn't get distracted, and Haganemaru (the sword) gets to talk to people besides him for a change. ... But it doesn't make the homework itself any easier, and Jintetsu's getting visibly frustrated.]


[C. Same afternoon as B | Phone | Haganemaru by himself]

[So yeah, moshi moshi, Haganemaru desu.]

All right. Hello? Is this thing turned on? I swear, I'm never gonna get the hang of all this technology. They're telling me I can just talk into this device and everybody in town can hear me. In that case, better watch what I say, huh? Ha ha. I'm not even sure I want to go announcing who I am with God-knows-who listening in.

[Eyes Jintetsu for a moment, who's still hard at work on a bunch of stuff he can't help with ........]

But it's not like I have anything better to do, I guess. I'm Haganemaru, nice to meet you. Don't worry, a friend filled me in on the basics about this crazy town, so I'm all out of stupid questions. But the one thing that's been bugging me lately - apart from everything else that's been bugging me, anyway - it's this thing about "other worlds." I hear everybody here comes from a different world, however the hell that works. Somebody want to fill me in on that? Tell me - I don't know, tell me about your "world." I'm curious.

Comments

[toyhopes]

[Well he's in a tree so she can't really tell.]

How can you not be interested in games or playing with everyone else? You can't really run around or explore or anything. It's so booooring!

[jintetsu]

[Sigh.] I'm not a kid. [Although everybody calls him one. Everybody.] When you're an adult, there's more important things you have to worry about.

[toyhopes]

Like what? You don't look like an adult. Most of the adults I know have a lot of wrinkles like this. [She squishes her face with her hands to demonstrate what it takes to be an adult.]

[jintetsu]

[......... okay that

that gets a snerk out of him. JUST A LITTLE ONE. YOU SAW NOTHING. Jintetsu relaxes slightly.]

You come here by yourself?

[toyhopes]

[Nope, sorry, she saw it. She grins at him.]

Yup! I don't know where my papa or his guards are but that's okay I like exploring new places. Are any of your friends here?

[jintetsu]

[OOPS RIGHT IN THE FEELS. This is before whatever regain gives him Haganemaru back, after all. He resumes carving the block of wood, a little more emphatically than before.]

...... No. I don't know where they are right now, either.

[toyhopes]

[She frowns now. He's going to break that wood if he's not careful.]

It's okay, we can keep each other company.

[She starts attempting to climb the tree to keep him company but given that where she's from there aren't any trees...it doesn't go well. She gets a few inches up only to slip back down.

[jintetsu]

[Jintetsu looks back down at her... then swings his legs off the branch and begins climbing down. After all, she's in the same situation as him, really.]

Don't hurt yourself. I'm coming.

[toyhopes]

[She rubs her knee, trying to pretend that she didn't already do what he just told her not to and trying to pretend it didn't hurt. Nope, not at all.]

I'm Vivi, by the way. What's your name?

[jintetsu]

[He drops the last six feet or so to the ground, landing nearby.]

Jintetsu.

[... and yeah he does notice that knee rubbing. aw geez did she really skin her knee in the five seconds he wasn't looking? KID.]

[toyhopes]

[If tripping and getting herself in trouble were gradable she'd get 'Exceeds Expectations' every time. However she's distracted by his impressive drop.]

How'd you fall so far without getting hurt?? That's so cool!

[jintetsu]

[Ffff well six feet looks like a lot to a kid probably, but he's a little over five feet tall, so...]

It's not that far for me. Don't go and try it until you're taller. [Because he's getting the feeling she is exactly the type to jump from too high and break her leg.]

[toyhopes]

[He certainly has her pegged. She definitely is exactly the type to jump from too high and break her leg. Unfortunately she's also the type to be sensitive about her height and pout about it.]

I'm not that short. Papa says I'll grow...eventually.

[jintetsu]

[Jintetsu looks... a little amused? Not that she reminds him of himself - he was pretty much the exact opposite, as a kid - but she reminds him a bit of some other stubborn girls he knows.]

You will, as long as you don't go and break your legs.