Welcome to where time stands still

[the_freak]

Who:Eddie Munson, OTA
What: Playing music and games
Where: Temba, Outdoors and in the Diner
When: Early to Mid June
Warnings: TBD



Go Play Outside

The weather was nicer and drier and Eddie didn't have a creepy tail anymore, so rather than being hunched over a table in the diner he's outside in the fresh air. Sort of. It's smoke-y air. And he's in the shade. And not really doing anything super physical. But it still counts, all right?

Sitting cross legged with his acoustic on his lap, Eddie's cigarette was burned down dangerously close to his lip, forgotten as he jotted down his revisions in his note book. He cursed, taking a final draw and stubbing the thing out, dropping the notebook so he could try the new lyrics out.

Go Play Inside

D&D meanwhile wasn't easy to play outside. Papers would blow away, the ground was too uneven for dice rolls. He'd tried it. It never worked.

Players were also at an all time low, and without them it was just Eddie telling a long and complicated story to no one. So he opted to try and up interest in a way he was intimately familiar with- making an ass of himself.

He climbed up on top of his table (a little more wobblily than the ones in the cafeteria, shit), and gestured wildly at the few heroes just trying to eat in peace.

"Who among you has what it takes to be an adventurer!? The guts? The passion??...Seriously, anyone? I'm actually asking here?"

Comments

[the_freak]

"Only 'cause my IOUs never caught on as a currency," Eddie counters right back, laughing. "I mean I do spend most of my time here, it's only right you should commemorate it."

[doubled_speed]

"Yeah, I can understand that. We could use the paper for something else," Tommy points out with a smile. "But seriously, I'll make you a plaque and everything."

HE could ask Tony how to do that. Guy knew metal after all.

"You spend almost as much time here as I do, and that's pretty impressive. So, how goes recruiting?"

[the_freak]

"Heh, and what- then I can walk on it all I want?"

Eddie shrugs and gestures at the empty table. "About as good as it usually goes," he allows.

[doubled_speed]

"Then you can walk on it all you want. But you still have to clean it yourself," Tommy points out. Because he's not going to put the extra effort in to clean Eddie's table.

Still, he almost feels bad for Eddie here. With a sigh he considers the empty space.

"What are you offering people as the positive outcome of this? Like, we've got a hard life in a weird way. How do you make your game something worth investing time into?"

[the_freak]

Well that...seems obvious, doesn't it? But maybe that's the problem.

"...a good time? An escape. A chance to be a hero in a way that doesn't involve any real world risk unless you're afraid of public speaking?"

[doubled_speed]

Tommy has to laugh. Yeah, being a hero isn't always the greatest thing in the real world.

"Some people get into heroics for the fame actually. Drive me crazy. Just trying to see what you're offering that would be better than what my nerd brother would."

[the_freak]

Having only done it the once Eddie would say it sucks a lot of ass. But...he'd probably do it over again. Maybe change some shit so he lived. Or at least died faster...?

"Well, no nerd brother for one, so that should be a point right there."

[doubled_speed]

Dude, it's really hard to be a hero that lasts when you don't have powers. Don't feel bad about that.

"Yeah, but I can imagine how he'd complain that I failed him."

[the_freak]

"Failed him by...playing a game?" Eddie tried to follow along, but he wasn't sure exactly where Tommy was going with that.

[doubled_speed]

"By not playing with him," Tommy corrects with a smile.

[the_freak]

"You can always invite him too."

[doubled_speed]

Tommy snorts and shakes his head.

"Then I'd have to admit to him to playing his nerd game. I have a cool guy high ground I need to hold to."

[the_freak]

"I've never seen him here, you sure he plays?" Eddie asks, and then wrinkles his nose.

"You can be cool and a nerd. It takes a very skilled hand."

[doubled_speed]

"I mean, maybe he doesn't anymore since things got complicated," Tommy says with a shrug. He still didn't want Billy to think it was him in particular that made Tommy not want to play the nerd game.

"In the end it's just that there's not enough going on in those games for my brain to keep focused on it. A few minutes for you can sometimes be like hours for me, days even. If I'm not busy it's sorta brutal. And I'm really damn cool without being a nerd."

He's a book nerd. Like, in the worst hidden ways. He's probably read Lord of the Rings twelve times in a single year before. He just hides it pretty well.

[the_freak]

Eddie wouldn't know, he and Billy don't hang out for some reason.

"I wouldn't call them low energy. But they aren't for everyone. It takes a lot of skill to keep up with everything, I get it. You're busy being the cool diner guy."

[doubled_speed]

Really? That's probably because of the punch. Tommy really had feelings about that and he knew better than to voice them. It wasn't his place. It would never be his place.

"More like the coolish farmer guy. I let people lead on the diner whenever I can. More people means more food needs to be worked on."

[the_freak]

He really doesn't know the kid apart from seeing him work at the hospital.

"Right, right, the coolish farmer guy. Even more demanding. Definitely no time for games," Eddie echoed with a smirk. "It's fine. I get it."

[doubled_speed]

He's a good kid, even if he's a brat sometimes. And Tommy loves his brother. His mess of a brother.

"Oh no, I have time for games. Something to keep my mind occupied. I'm just wondering what you're going to offer a guy as a bonus to make it worth getting disappointed frowns from his brother."

[the_freak]

"My usual temptations won't do shit for you," Eddie says with a laugh, "So I'm not sure what I can offer. What do you need?" Maybe that's the better angle to approach things from.

[doubled_speed]

Yeah, they really wouldn't, would they? But Tommy's still grinning.

"I need tutelage in metal music."

To impress his boyfriend.

[the_freak]

Well that is not so much a bonus for Tommy as it is for Eddie, but he's not going to give that away, just arching a brow coyly. It was a look that said he knew exactly why said tutelage was needed.

"I could swing that."

[doubled_speed]

Hey, it's a bonus for Tommy. It will help him learn to better support his boyfriend. And he cares about Billy, so much. Though Eddie's 'knowing' look gets him rolling his eyes as if to say 'you're assuming things.'

"Pretty sure we're not talking swing here, Rockstar."

[the_freak]

"Well, now you've signed yourself up for at least two sessions with that bad pun there. You wanna keep going?" Eddie teases, playing at the stern adult.

[doubled_speed]

Two sessions? Man, that seems so low. He grins.

"I've never been someone to back down from a challenge."

Especially since stern adult isn't going to work with Tommy being older.

[the_freak]

Stern DM then.

"Four. We're doubling."