video - desert

[undespairing]

[The person in this picture looks inordinately cheerful considering he's standing in the middle of a desert. His clothes are a little ragged - partly due to a run-in with some of the local desert creatures - and he's got a few scratches here and there, but otherwise he seems fine.

He waves a thin metal pipe in a vague sort of salute.]

Hey, is there anything good to eat in this desert? Aside from the monsters, that is. I don't know about any of you, but those things look a little scary to eat, haha...

Comments

[errandry]

... pretty sure scorpions don't have real meat.

[undespairing]

Oh. Really?

[errandry]

I dunno—

[ ... ]

I dunno. Aren't they insects?

[undespairing]

They're arthropods, so I'd say they're more like particularly dangerous land lobsters.

[errandry]

[ —that startles a laugh out of him, though the sound's strangled. ]

Arthropods—so, what, are all of 'em like lobsters?

[undespairing]

Yup! Look, they've even got the legs and the claws and everything!

[He's glancing down at a passing scorpion--maybe he should back away now, huh.]

1/3

[errandry]

Fuck—I dunno, I still wouldn't wanna eat—

[errandry]

[ waiiiiit. ]

[errandry]

Elmer, what the shit. MOVE BACK.

[undespairing]

Huh? --Haha, you think it's mad?

[Stepping back...!]

[errandry]

It's a damn scorpion, they could be mad all the time.

[undespairing]

You never know! Maybe they're just mad because we're here.

[errandry]

What, like territorial scorpion pride or something? They can get over it, this was our turf first!

[undespairing]

That's true! They'll just have to get over it.

[errandry]

Exactly! They weren't even alive a couple days ago!

[undespairing]

Just magically appeared out of nowhere!

[errandry]

... oi. Where're you, anyway?

[undespairing]

I'm near [insert ruined area here!!]. Why d'you ask?

[errandry]

I dunno, the scorpions maybe? What're you even doing over there...

[undespairing]

Dunno, I guess I just wandered over here at some point.

[errandry]

... there's no way you're that hungry already.

[undespairing]

Ahahaha nah, it was chance! Chance!

[errandry]

So chance an escape while you're at it.

[undespairing]

Heh- ay ay, cap'n!

[And now to run in a completely random direction.]

[errandry]

[ ... just. watches him go along for a bit. ]

Hey.