Not!Temba: better mind how you walk through

[kyley_b]

WHO: Kyle "ky-el" Broflovski and YOU!
WHERE: Not!Temba
WHAT: Exploring the Agricultural Building, University/Library and Alien Target 2: Electric Boogaloo.
WHEN: Latter half of July
WARNINGS: Bad language, general outlandish idiocy



Agricultural Building

In spite of every plan he ever had growing up in a redneck mountain town, Kyle has basically become a farmer. It's almost laughable, really. Still, he takes his job seriously and so he'll often be found systematically working his way through the Agricultural Building cataloguing plants, taking sample, and eventually harvesting things to take back to Temba.

He's easy to spot amongst all the green - a pop of red against the leaves and vines. Plus he'll wave at you if he sees you.

At some point he'll also be peering into the tubes that lead to the livestock nursery, clearly intending to investigate. Weaponless.


University/Library

Creeping through what's left of library requires some caution considering the state of the place. Kyle's inside, looking for books or some sort of readable data, and likely to be scared to death if you come up behind him. Hopefully he doesn't trip over something and conk himself on the head.

Inside the university he can be found prowling the halls, peeking into classrooms. "Dude," he mutters half to himself and half to anybody around. "This? This shit is how Japanese horror games start."


Alien Target 2

Fashion has never been his strong suit. Not that it should be a priority on an abandoned alien planet, but even if it were he'd be hopeless. As it is, he's wandering the aisles looking for clothes reminiscent of earth. There's what appears to be a changing room and for whatever reason he feels compelled to use it instead of just trying alien!sweaters on in the aisles. Alien!sweaters that are less alien than usual...

He also goes in search of gardening tools, which means he winds up in another aisle hefting rakes and shovels, occasionally swinging them like a baseball or imaginary sword. Because, you know. He's easily amused.

Comments

TARJET

[deal_me_in]

Cayde-6 isn't here for fashion, not when he considers his own Hunter gear suitable enough. He's still looking for fun and interesting things however, stuff to use at the bar or toys for the kiddies.

Of course the layout of the place is completely different from the other store back in Temba, so he's in the process of looking for the kitchen and home decor section when he spies the kid waving around garden tools like a weapon. "You show those weeds who's boss!"

[kyley_b]

Kyle shrieks, stumbles, and nearly falls into a pile of garden hoses.

"Oh! Shit! Hey, dude!" Recovering, he waves. "I was just... uh. Nevermind. Find anything good?"

[deal_me_in]

Whoops. The Exo winces a little at Kyle's response. Yeah, that could've gone better. He's vaulting over to see if the guy needs a hand, but at least Kyle's managed to avoid a more embarrassing fall.

"Oh no, it's fine. Gotta have some fun around here, right?" Cayde looks down at the small box of random odds and ends he's collected. "Weeeell... I dunno about good, really, but one can never have too many cups."

[kyley_b]

"Cayde, right?" Because really, there's residents of Temba Kyle's barely spoken to, if it all.

He peers at the box and nods. "I mean, you're not wrong. Oh, dude, we should see if there's like, travel mugs or thermoses." He realises he's still holding a rake and looks at it sheepishly.

"For the greenhouse," he explains. "'Cause we're kinda hoping to get some trees planted there, so I thought... You know. Not just for me to make an ass of myself with."

[deal_me_in]

The Hunter beams. "Got it in one."

Travel container do sound like they'd come in handy though. "Good idea. Sure won't hurt to look." He pauses, metal brow lifting at the rake.

"Oh- no, wasn't questioning it. Wasn't too bad a swing either- not that I'm a...rake person, mind. Or a sword guy either, handy as they are."

[kyley_b]

Kyle laughs a little. "Yeah, I'm not a sword guy. To be perfectly honest my experience with weapons is limited to firing a gun, and even then it's not something I'm remotely good at."

He gestures toward the end of the aisle. "If there's a camping section, that's probably where we'll find good thermoses. If not, probably by cookwear? Camping stuff might have even more crap we can use, though.

"This city is so different from Temba, huh?"

[deal_me_in]

Cayde snappoints at Kyle then. "Now that is more my thing," he chuckles, patting the hand cannon holstered at his hip. "You ever need some pointers you look me up. I needa teach Richie how to not shoot his own hand off anyway."

He looks down the way Kyle points, giving a nod. "Assuming we find anything that resembles either of those. Who knows if anyone went camping around here?" Another reminder of how little they actually knew about life on Temba.

"Oh yeah. It really is. Kinda familiar too though. I wonder..."

University

[on_repeat]

"Horror games?"

Vaguely recalling the reference, Echo's voice filters through the helmet's vocalizer as he turns the corner after Kyle, walking past and keeping his blaster up despite not seeing any movement.

Re: University

[kyley_b]

"Yeah, like video games. It's uhm, like a low rent simulation?" He's not entirely sure how to explain video games, actually.


"Anyway. There's always an abandoned school and then the ghost of some girl with long black hair who'll fuck you up."

[on_repeat]

"What do you mean by 'low rent'? Aren't they immersive?" he asks, turning to look over his shoulder.

What's not seen is the thoughtful frown for this particular scenario. "Well, that's awful."

[kyley_b]

"Well, you play them on a screen with controllers, you don't wear a VR headset or anything."

Kyle nods. "Right? Being stuck forever at school... actually if I were a ghost that's probably how I'd wind up. Anyway. I'm hoping we can find any sort of book or files or data or whatever to confirm who lived in this city."

[on_repeat]

"So it's kind of like flash training." Also, that's a morbid thought to have, but Echo considers. "You sure you wouldn't end up anywhere else?"

All of that aside, Kyle has the right idea. "That'd be useful," he agrees. "Are we splitting up to cover more ground or just trying either side of the room before moving on?"

[kyley_b]

"I guess? But it's for fun." Kyle shrugs. "Probably not. I didn't really get out much back home."

He shakes his head. "No way, we're using the buddy system, especially if there's ghosts. So... I'll take left side of the room, you take right?"

University

[ms_unknown]

Hey, Kyle, want to know what a certain spy does while laying low in safe houses? She watches movies.

When she hears the guy say something about Japanese Horror Movies, she can't help herself. The urge to troll is too strong. She sneaks up behind him and whispers, "Seven days"

[kyley_b]

If Natasha wanted a reaction, she gets it: Kyle screams, loud and high. He whirls around, fully expecting to see a little girl ghost with long black hair.

[ms_unknown]

Instead, he gets a petite woman with shoulder length red hair who can't help but laugh.

She grins, waving a hand at him, "I'm sorry, that was just too easy."

[kyley_b]

Kyle exhales, hand over heart.

"No, no, it's cool. Totally understandable, actually." He pushes his mop of hair back. "Uh, hi."

[ms_unknown]

"It's nice to find someone who can take a joke."

She smirks, nodding. "Hi. For the record, you're not wrong."

[kyley_b]

"I try," he says, relaxing a little.

"About the little girl ghosts? Yeah. Uhm, yoooou wanna check it out with me? I'm not dangerous."

Agriculture bros?

[ezra_of_lothal]

Ezra hasn't been coming to the Not!Temba every day, since there's gardens and glownies and babies that all need minding back in Temba.

Today, he catches up to Kyle, a bag to collect samples in hand, huffing with exasperated affection, "Buddy system, Kyle."

Agriculture bros!!

[kyley_b]

"Right, right, sorry." Funny how he becomes dismissive of the idea the second he is the one to ignore it.

"So, there's a BUNCH of fruit trees," he says, gesturing expansively. "Tommy took some of the fruit back to Temba, but there's still more we can check out." He goes faintly pink. "One of them is like... I think it gets you high. Anyway." Cough. "There's also these tubes? I think they go to where they kept the animals. Not that there's any left."

He grins at Ezra. "I'm glad you came in today, it's gonna be totally less boring."

[ezra_of_lothal]

Ezra ducks his head, grinning. "Uh. Thanks. Not try to try to make you change you mind about that already but what, um, what kind of high? Which fruit?" he asks, looking around, eyes.

"'Cause, like, making someone have to babysit someone with mind powers and really high sounds like it could be a not great time."

[kyley_b]

"Oh, they're these things that look like olives, but they taste like bubble gum. When we tried them it was kind of like... mild euphoria. Like you feel really good and a little giggly, and you want to be close to people." His blush isn't going anywhere.

"I think you'd be okay, though. Like I don't think it would make you trip out or anything. It reminded me of one of earth's party drugs."

[ezra_of_lothal]

"Oh. Yeah. That'd probably be ok. I guess it's possible I might, hmmm. Project? Without really meaning to, but as long as it's a warm fuzzy feedback loop and I'm not doing it around anyone who'd be freaking out by that, that should be pretty safe."

He contemplates that a moment longer, but then he shrugs. "Anything else cool?"

[kyley_b]

"Yeah. And maybe not do it near anybody you've got the hots for unless you want them to find out."

He nods. "Lots of other fruits, too," he says. "Like, good edible stuff. Tommy's taken back most of it already, and we're gonna see if there's like, saplings we can transport maybe."