ooc: THe sign says coming soon, they're onle accessible by mods at the moment while T's working to get them ready for public release :D
Stivik turns to Dek. "What on Oddworld is a grubb? I never heard of one and I've been round a lot. I talked to a lot of the C... to a lot of high-ranking, you know, guys, glukkons, vykkers, and I've never heard of one." He turns to Runt: "And if I were you I'd show a bit more respect for the sligs around here. I'm Stivik. What were you doing lurking in the corner." Silently Stivik was wondering if Arnie agreed to take on this thing, and if so, what was he hinking of doing with it. It looked pretty useless. |
Floyd: "His number?! That's a good question. I've never seen a phone which needs a number to call the Boss of the factory or whatever. Hmm. I hope the place has a phone number book of some sort... His number... number... Boogie? You've been in touch with loads of gluks- err ehm, glukkons, right? Have you got a solution or whatever for erm... this problem?"
Boogie: "Huh? I didn't listen. Glukkon phone number?" Floyd: "We need Arnies number to phone him for some stuff. But we don't know it. Maybe factories have some easy recognizeable numbers for their... erm... bosses?" Boogie: "Hmm, well... hmm... erm... I use a radio to call glukkons. I don't need numbers. But I've lost my radio somewhere. I remember having it a while back." Floyd: "Great... now what?" Boogie: "Find someone who has a radio...? " *Floyd rolls his eyes and starts looking around.* Floyd: "That guy over there. Who is he?" Boogie: "I just asked that a minute ago." Floyd: "He looks expensive. He might have a radio." OOC: Well Munch's Master, it's up to you. Ask Stivik for a radio or have Arthur... does he even still has Boogies radio? |
Sev emerged into a different part of the old Rupture Farms covered in both paramite and his own blood. He checked his ammo on his gun. He barely had enough left. He looked ahead and saw two figures. One looked like a female mudokon and the other looked like a male. Sev crawled over.
Sev:"What the hell are you guys doing down here? There's a huge paramite infestation on this lower level! I had to kill a hundred of the little buggers to get over here!" Sev then noticed that they weren't carrying any weapons of some sort. Sev:"Odd knows how you got down this far with no weapons....What I wanna know is what you're doing down here instead of working!" |
ooc: *spalps forehead* D'oh! I musta thought that coming soon meant you can view it but can't post. O hwell, I'm just dumb like that at times. :o And yewah, Arthur still has Boogie's radio, I was going to use it for the thing I said about earlier that I didn't post, so yeah, he has it.
IC "What do you mean 'he looks expensive'? He's no better than me, he's the same as the rest of us (ooc: There's some of the Slig jealousy coming through in Arthur). And a radio, oh yeah," *He reaches into a little compartment in his pants, pulling out a crumpled up newspaper cutting about the dates of a band's tour, an old scrabcake wrapper, and finally, the radio* " Here, I think this is yours Boogie, I kinda forgot to give it you back." He hands Boogie the radio, figuring he knows how to work it best. ~~~~~~ Dek turned to Stivik "I read some information on grubbs back at the labs. Apparently they are little, blueish green creatures that live in Western Mudos. That's all I know, the rest of it had a coffee stain on it *thinking* Thank you very much Melvin */thinking* so I presume he has been sent here to do the old mudokon tasks, such as pulling leavers, operating conveyor belts, the slave tasks." He looks at runt "Stivik is right you know, you should show respect to creatures of higher intelligence." ooc: grubb_runt I'm not saying Runt is thick, it's just that Dek thinks grubbs aren't as intelligent as Industrialists, being a native species from a long way off and all. I'm sure your guy will show him. |
Boogie: "My radio! Where was it?... Arnie huh?"
*Boogie looks at the radio* Boogie: "This one... or that one? Oh, ofcourse, there we go." *Boogie presses a button a couple of times* Boogie: "As soon as he answers, you can ask for what you need." *Boogie gives the radio to Floyd* Floyd: "Do I need to put my ear on this?" Boogie: "Not if you don't wanna get deaf." Floyd: "Oh. Okay." OOC: I'll draw that radio sometime... |
#7 Slig walked with with Arnie and Otto towards the Cafeteria.
#7 Slig: "So, what are we going to... Wait..." Otto: "What is it?" #7 Slig: "It's my radio. Somebody is trying to access someone. Maybe we can help him." He drew a radio from his pants, then pressed a button on it and held it to his tentacles. #7 Slig: "#7 Slig here, do you copy? Over." ------------------------------------ Rick arrived to the Cafeteria. Rick: "Hm... This place is empty. I might find something to do here." He went behind the serving counter and looked around. Rick: "The counter is empty too. Time for refill." He turned around and went through a door to the storage. He grabbed a small crate, then went back to the counter and put the crate on it. Rick: "Now, the bottles are used to be here..." He picked bottles of water from the crate and put them on the counter. Rick: "A dozen should be enough. Now, for something more filling." He took the crate back to the storage and returned with another one. ------------------------------------ RG-49 arrived to the broken grinders and looked around. RG-49: "A crowd of varied organics and broken machinery. Not the things a mech-creature prefers..." He walked to the grinders and started examining them. |
*loud screech came from the radio*
Floyd: "Erm.. Copy? #7 slig? I need to ask Arnie a question, but maybe you can ask him. I know that you know that the grinder area is messed up, and erm, Arthur can phone FeeCo to order some stuff to fix them. He only needs Arnies authorization. So ehm, yea, could you ask that to Arnie?" |
Arthur looked at Floyd, well, the radio, eagerly, hoping he'd get the go-ahead. He rolled his eyes at the same time and turned to boogie
"What is with this #7 guy? A number fer a name, sayin' 'over', and 'copy' an stuff on a radio like he's in the military, why's he so by the book?" ~~~~~ Dek turned at the new arrival, intrgue by him. He scuttled a little nearer to Rg-49 and faced him "Ah, an old model robotic slig. I remember seeing these back i the construction bays at the lab, for crtically wounded Sligs. Remarkable one is still working. Different to the one that was attacking Arthur earlier. I bet this one knows what to do here." Dek said to himself, or anyone who happened to be listening. He spoke to RG "Ah yes, you, robotic? Do you know how to fix all this, as this mess has been here for a while." |
ooc: I love that vykker!
Stivik: "Oh. SO when did they start using them over here?" Then to Runt: "you got a job to do round here beside skulking about? Cause if I were you i would go and do it before you get in trouble." He notices RG by the door. "Hey, Robo-cop, come to help?" |
ooc: whoooo, someone likes Dek!
Dek: I feel so happy and loved. Me: Quiet you, get back in the RPG! Dek: Oops. I'll be good. *scurries back to RPG.* Heh, controlling these guys can be hard at times. Oh yeah, and this is more or less it for me tonight. i may be on tomorrow evening, depends on what I'm doing tomorrow. |
ooc: fine by me lol runt is a little slow anyways
*quikly trying to think of a excuse he began to shake" "um...i...was looking for ..er this !" *he said picking up a random peice of scrap metal runt sighed and mutterd "nice going" under his breath before looking back up to them* "oh why am i here ? im a cleaner i .......er.......clean" *he said dusting himself off whilst staring at stivik thinking to himself "strange colour" "you guys have water ?....man i need some ! *he smilled again streatching out the fins along his arms* |
Stivik: "If you want water you can find some in the bathroom. And there's a sink in the R and R room though you won't wanna go all the way over there. What do you want with that piece of scrap?"
Stivik thinking: Strange creature, not to bright really. Strange colour and all. Stivik; "Get back to work grubb, we got a lot of work to do here." |
OOC: Uhm, MM, RG-49 is not like a Slig, he's almost taller than a Glukkon. Just an ordinary robot. I didn't point that out in his profile, though. Doesn't really matter, anyway.
---------------------- #7 Slig: "Boss, it's Floyd speaking. He wants your permission on ordering new parts for the broken grinders. Arnie: "Yeah, that's a good idea. Hold the radio for me, #7 Slig." #7 Slig pressed the button on his radio again and held it up in front of Arnie's face. Arnie: "Floyd, I give you permission on buying the required parts. Do your best with those grinders." ---------------------- RG-49 turned away from the grinders to Dek, examining him instead. RG-49: "Vykkers Scientist organic." He turned back to the grinders. RG-49: "Even if I'm related by some means to the non-intelligent mech-creature we are looking at now, I can't reproduce or give any of my parts away for its restoration. As the Mudokon organic Floyd said, we need new parts. Until those arrive, I can hardly do anything. Though, I can look around and see if I can save anything from the remains." ---------------------- Rick placed the crate of raw Scrab Legs on the counter. He filled a tray of them, then took a fistful of spice from a container nearby, and strewn it on the Scrab Legs. Then he grabbed the tray and put it in a large oven and closed its door. He pressed a few buttons on the oven, drew a chair and sat down on it. Rick: "That's done. I fancy some water after that." Rick opened a bottle of water and drank, while he watched the Scrab Legs frying in the oven. |
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.:::IC:::. Anni got a shock as she heard someone else than Math talk to her. Then she sighed reliefed, when she saw it was just Sev, but the she got a worried look when saw he was covered in blood. "Uh hi. Um... Me an uh... Math are just down here um... cleaning." Anni lied nervously, and swepped some dust off the wall, which only resulted in a few coughs from her, "See?" She smiled falsly, trying to hide the real reason she was down there. "Uh, by the way, if you see a Paramite and a Slog walk together, don't shoot them. I heard that the paramite was very valuable, you could get few good moolah for her- uh I mean it. I don't know he-IT! Yea it." she said, to try and save Somi from a potentional death. "Math! Help me..." she whispered to Math. ----- Dean and kix saw Rick making the food and dumping the crates on the table, he had abviously not noticed them. "He must be tired..." Dean whispered amused. Kix giggled in a low tone and then turned to Rick. "Uh hi there, need help? We've just been cleaning the kitchen. If you want, you can use the oven in there, it's far better than this miniature version." Kix said. "Yea, i could give you a few food-tips for your scrab-legs." Dean said, and sat besides Rick on another chair. Kix sprung on the table to sit on it there. ---- Razer walked along the walls, still really angry and muttered things like "Kill anni" "gonna beat her" "regret it for the rest of her life", but bumped straight into Javi (OOC: Thought i might bring him back to the story <_<). "Kill who?" He asked suspiciously. Razer looked at Javi. He wasn't used to see a mudokon so muscular, and felt rather threatened by him, which he hated. "None of your bussiness, now move outta my way. Gotta straighten someone out." Razer said, and didn't try to hold in the hatred in his voice. "Straighten who?" Javi asked, and moved infront of him. This made Razer really angry, and barely resited the urge of ripping off his ponytail, and shooting him afterwards. "Look, i might not be allowed to harm while you're at work, but you're not allowed to to stop me from my own work, so move out of the way before i hurt you or something." Razer said angrily, and amended him with the gun. "You seem rather stoned, something wron-" Javi said, but then got pushed aside by Razer, who grunted angrily, and moved on. |
ooc: Heheh, Razer's on a warpath, run Anni!
Stivik was beggining to get an idea about how to get RG on his side. It was an older robot so it should be easy to fool. Stivik: "Hey Robo-cop. Bit of a death-trap round here, you better watch after yourself. Repture Farms probably in't as safe as you remember it. A lot of it is falling apart, it's pretty dangerous in places. Wouldn't like to be wondering around, Odd knows what kind of a mess you could get into... Have you had a good look around her yet?" |
*grubb watched in ore of his seroudings before heading off to find water else were as he dropped the scrap he had been holding and walked away later he finally made it into the kitchen an walked over to the sink realising he was to small to reach he let out a iratated growl an stood up on a chair to ad height as he quikly drank an filled the bucket for cleaning at the same time as soon as he was done he jumped down and turned to the door*
"time to work !" |
Boogie (to Arthur): "I-um, well, He says Seven is the last number of his serial, that explains his name, and maybe he worked at some factory which was strict with rules and stuff. *carefully repostitions his hat* But, that's his story. You should ask him sometime."
*Floyd listens to the radio* Floyd: "Really Boss? That's great. It'll work out. They'll be all fixed and shiney. Well, thanks again and see you Boss." *Floyd hands radio over to Boogie* Boogie: "Hello? Oh. Oops." *Boogie presses a button, lowers the radio antenna and puts it into one of his jacket pockets* Floyd: "Arthur, we have permission. Now how about them?" *Points at Dek and Stivik* |
OOC:
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Anyway, onto business: IC: Frod offered his hand. Frod:"Pleased to meet ya, Jim! You have any ideas who runs this little factory?" ____________________ Stivik; "WHoa, Groll! What happened? You got your tools? Cause here's a bunch of people over here all waiting for a trained machanic to arrive." Groll:"I just tripped over... some.... thing there in the shadow! Yeah, I've got my tools, if they're not broken from all the rough handling." He notices Runt: "What on Odd is that?" Groll:"Don't ask me, never seen anything like it." Anyway *he turns to Groll* I haven't seen you yet, who are you>? I'm Dek, by the way." Dek extends his claw to shake. Groll (ignoring Dek's extended claw):"I am Groll." Sefon:"Well, if we're going to do something, might as well make a start. What's in the box, Groll?" Groll scowled (slig fashion) at Sefon, but proceeded to turn the crate the right way up and started opening it anyway. |
Jim is definately starting to wonder whether slapping this guy might do some good.
Jim: "...Not really, isn't that the boss's job?" Silently he was looking for some way of maybe escaping this conversation. This wasn't what he'd had in mind when he'd arrived. |
RG-49 looked at Stivik.
RG-49: "Next to my guarding protocols, repairing machinery is also amongst my duties. A sceene like this could endanger the Boss' safety, both physicaly and mentally. And, as I mentioned many times earlier, I have to prevent damage done to the Boss by any means. When the parts arrive, I will do my best to repair the grinders. If you are still worried, you shouldn't be, as metal can't do serious damage on a non-organic, metal framework I have been gifted with." RG-49 looked around the Grinder Area, reminiscently. RG-49: "And Rupture Farms never have been safe enough. But with occasional maintenance, it stays intact and production will not fall." -------------------------- Rick noticed Kix and Dean. Rick: "Hey, I didn't notice you earlier, I went straight to the storage. Anyways, the Scrab Legs are OK now, they are frying inside." He looked in the oven, then back at Dean. Rick: "You say you have some tips for Scrab Legs?" -------------------------- Arnie and co. walked on a catwalk above the Grinding Area. Arnie looked down at the broken grinders. Arnie: "This place is really messed up." Otto: "I see a few undamaged grinders there, though." Arnie: "Yeah, but there's no use of them until this place is cleaned up." #7 Slig: "RG seems to be introducing himself to the others." #7 Slig looked down at the crowd over the railing. #7 Slig: "Hey, everything OK down there?" |
Stivik hid a grin hearing RG's words, he was playing right into his hands. This could work out perfectly. Especially when Arnie appeared on the catwalk above.
Stivik: "Are you sure you want your boss in here Robo-cop? It's not safe, it might be better if he wasn't wondering round here, surely you agree? There are a lot of places in this factory where it would be a lot safer if Arnnie didn't go. Think about it!" |
"Oh well, if you have a jopicy, sour fruit, you can squeeze the joice on the scrab-leg, and mix some water with it. Then you drop the "water" on the plate if it's a deep one. It's gets a very good and a bit sour flavour. It also softens the meat." Dean said, and took a deep sniff "But i must admit that they look and smell delicious as they are."
Kix laughed, "Why do you always get so hyped over food?" "You need to put love in the food, that's my special ingredient." Dean answered and blinked one of hid eyes, "you know i love making food. and... And decorating it with salad if there is..." "Yea.. uh.." Kix said and smiled, but wasn't interested in half of what he was talking about. ------ Javi came in the Cafeteria, as he knew that Dean would probably be there, and he was right. Then he spotted Kix, who looked away when she saw him. "Hello, what's smelling so good?" He asked, "And have you seen Anni? She might be out there, getting herself in some kind of trouble again." "Uh, Rick, is making some scrablegs. But i havcen't seen Anni." Dean said and shrugged. ----- Razer in the meat-grinder area, and noticed the mess that was around. "Hmm, i thought this place looked cleaner last time i was there." Razer said to himself, and spotted Stivik, then shouted up, "Hey, Stivik! Have you seen Anni? I just wanna have some lovely words with her." He smirked at the thought. He hit his left hand with his right fist. |
*runt headed on over to the meat grinding area to try an clean up some of the mess keeping to himself as he tryed to distance himself from the others in the area he quikly bent down and started cleaning rapidly cleaning much faster than ealyer on as he managed to clean a quater of the mess that had acumulated with a 15 to 20 minutes before stading up coverd in sweat and dirt an smiled with a smugg look on his face* "that wasnt so hard" *he said before falling on his back with exsaustion*
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Floyd (to Boogie): "Well, everywhere we go, we meet a crowd of people."
Boogie: "No kidding." Scruben: "So... how long are we going to stay here?" Floyd: "I don't know. I and Arthur need to order some stuff, and Dek needs to go to his lab." Boogie: "Maybe it's better if you two would rescue him out of there." Floyd: "Yeah, trouble's in the air." Boogie: "That's just the engine of that flying slig."*Points at Razer* *Floyd looks up* Floyd: "Great, more company. Well Arthur, we'd better get Dek, then we can get going again." *Floyd walks towards Dek* |
Math looked from Anni to Sev.
Math: Uh... what she means is... don't shoot anymore paramites or slogs at all. This area is... sealed off... like for ages and... uhm. He tapped Anni. Math whisper: Im all out of lies... we better find Somi and Freak before he does... |
Sev stole a strange glance at Math. He then turned back to Anni.
Sev:"If it's sealed off, why are you down here? I can understand a security slig, but two workers? Something isn't right. Why are you really here and what's with your obsession with slogs and paramites? I can't stand those creepy little bastards." Sev raised his gun. It barely had any ammo, but it would be more than enough for the two mudokons. He doubted there were just paramites down here, and he wanted to get out of there as soon as he could. Sev:"I'm not leaving until I know what you're both doing here. No more lies." |
"W-w-we aren't lieying." she said, and felt uneased with the gun pointed at her, "honestly."
tha last part of the sentence sounded rather forced. "Paramites aren't for shooting arounf here. Just some loud sounds can make this place fall apart..." she said with a big nervous grin. She began biting her nail(a sign of nervousity). |
Math: Nick send us here... you know Nick right? He's head of mechanics around here... eh... he wanted us to... um... *sees a wrench on the ground* find wrench he lost here, see?
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Sev:"Er....Okay......Well, I may talk to Nick about sending people unarmed to a restricted area..."
Sev's Thoughts:*This is B.S. I'll get some new pants and I'll come back. Until then, I think I should get some medical treatment.* Sev:"Okay muds, go ahead and take that wrench back. I won't be back." Sev then crawled off towards the exit, knowing that there was more than meets the eye in this part of Rupture Farms, and he'd be back. Soon. OOC:I will introduce my next character next post. And I don't remember who said it, but he'll come by falling out of a blimp. |
Math sighed of relief when the slig crawled away then dragged Anni along.
Math: Come on, lets go. |
"Uh, wait. We need to find Somi, and tell her to watch out for him. He might be back." Anni said, and ran deeper into old part of rupture farms.
"Soooooomiiiiiii!!" she called, "urgh..." ----- Somewhere in the old part of Rupture farms, Somi was walking with Freak by her side. Freak was whimpering impatiently. "No! I wanna See where that hiss came from. It really sounded like a paramite. It did." Somi said, looking around and let out a loud hiss. Freak barked sarcastically. "No! I am NOT hearing voices, there is a paramite around here. Or more than one." she said, and heard a loud hiss from a place near them. They both froze. Freak sneaked behind her, and whimpered in a scared tone. "Uh... S-s-see? It was a paramite." Somi said a bit scared. Freak barked almost whispering to Somi, and moed closer to her. "Uh friendly? I d-don't know. It sounded a bit like an angry hiss." Somi said, "Maybe we shouldn't be here." With those words, they both ran away, which onloy attracted more attention from the other paramite. They looked behind and saw a paramite, at least twice as tall as Somi. "HEEEEEEEELP!" Somi yelled, while freak whimpered scaredly. ---- "You hear that? sounds like someone's yelling for help." Anni said, and heard a quiet bark. "Freak." she automatically said, "I think we found them." She ran towards the voices. |
OOC: T-nex, you might want to update your signature. The W@RF link leads to the 2nd part. :)
Splat, I suppose you want RG to cooperate a little with Stivik... --------------------- RG-49 looked back at Stivik. RG-49: "There's thruth in what you said. I will consult with the Boss later about his safety. But now, I'll go and see if I can mend something without parts." RG-49 looked around and saw the pipes cut in half near the wall. He went to them." RG-49: "Let's see what I can do with these..." He placed the pipes in their original position. Then one of his compartments in his torso opened and he took out a torch. He started welding the pipes. --------------------- Rick: "Hm, I might try that recipe one day, Dean." He looked in the oven. Rick: "They seem to be ready." He took some protective gloves, turned off the oven and opened it, then took out the large tray of Scrab Legs, and placed it on the counter. Rick: "Help yourselves, then." He took off the gloves, then took a Scrab Leg and another bottle of water, and started eating. --------------------- EDIT: OOC: I meant RG looked back at Stivik, not at himself. :laugh: |
Arthur turned to Floyd:
"Yeah, they seem to be getting on OK, but, there's another of those cyborg freaks. Better get him before he gets attacked by it, them robots are all mental." *He follows Floyd over to Dek* "Oi, Dek! We're getting the parts for the grinders are yer coming to your lab?" Dek turned around at Arthur's words, having just listened to Groll introduce himself. " Oh, Yes, I'm coming now!" *Dek turns to Rg-49 and Stivik briefly* "I wonder why Arnie's here? It is probably a bit risky for the owner to come down here but, he's only up there, so he's fine for now. And RG, we'll have the parts soon, so you can fix it properly then." *Dek hurries over to Arthur and Floyd, his rotund stomach jiggling grotesquely as he approached.* "So, where do we go now?" Arthur answered "The station, there's a Fone there, and we can order te stuff. But you're meant to be off ter your lab. Anyway Floyd, yer coming?" *Arthur starts to walk back to the factory doors, while Dek hurries on ahead and goes to read the map so he knows where his lab is.* |
*runt pulled himself up moments later an shook his head* "break time !" *he sqeaked heading for the kitchen picking up the smell of food from a distance as he slowly enterd the kitchen trying to introduce himself*
"er......h..h.h.h..hi ?" *he shiverd wildly watching for there reply witch he thought would ether be laughter or pushing him over just causs he was small* |
Oh, I hate seperations...
OOC:I'm drawing Boogie. But I used a wrong view so I'll revamp it later.
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---IC--- Floyd: "Yea-yea, I'm here. I'll be following you to the station to check incoming machinery and ofcourse the machines which are there. If I remember properly, it was up that hallway... and... the second door right... or something. But we'll see a sign or something. I think. And you stay with Dek, right?" Boogie: "Yeah, just in case. I'll See ya 'round." Scruben: "See ya dude. Oh, wait... I can't... but maybe later. So... See ya." Floyd: "Yeah, see you sometime guys. Dek, have fun in yer lab." *Floyd walks up to the station* |
New Character
Name: Storm
Speachies: Slig (Albino) personality: Good Natured Slig That isunt afrade to stick up for other mudokons Becuse he also knos wot its like to be bullyed becuse sligs used to bully him also. Age: 8 |
OOC: Good to have a new member on the RP! Hope you enjoy it!
IC: Dek turned at Floyd's words "Have fun? Well I would, but I don't have any patients at the moment. *He turns to Boogie and Scruben* Although I could always check how you 2 are doing? Anyway, how do I get to my labs, I can't find it on the map." Arthur waved the others off "See ya fer now guys." He turns to Floyd "So, not to far eh, might as well get going now, so we can get the parts quicker." He sets off down the corridor, while Dek still studies the map. OOC: Again, seeing as it's just walking to the station, you can control Arthur for now unless you want Floyd to have a conversation with him. |
OOC: Okidoki.:)
---IC--- Floyd: "Sure." *Floyd walks up the hallway until he sees a sign which says: "FeeCo Train Station"* Floyd: "This must be it." *Floyd enters the door* --- Boogie: "Hmm, Floyd said that... it was down that hallway, and then we'd see a row of labs." |
"Yeah, this is it." Arthur answered as he followed Floyd through the door.
"Oh," He paused upon seeing Jim and Frod. "Uh, who are you and why are ya here? Ya don't mind if I use the Fone do you?" ~~~~~~~~~ Dek turned to Boogie "Ah, thank you. I'll be off then, are you coming or, would you rather stay here?" |
Floyd: "Who're who?... *looks up* Oh! 'xcuse me.
Um, Hello er... I'm Floyd and this is Arthur. Hmm... so... yea, who're you?" ~~~~~~~~ Boogie: "I think we're coming with you, just in case." OOC: I could have written a little bit more, I know, but I'm a bit scared now... I just read the game script of Silent Hill 3. :eek: |