snowblindrpg | [network] @featherydouche; postmortem; day 181 [open]

its fine dude dont worry about it
im the one who asked if she was part of it
and it makes sense
you meet someone who ends up meaning that much to you and saying goodbye has to be hard
ive heard other people talk about it too
the idea of going home with someone else
too early to know for certain if it can happen but thats why we gotta keep searching this place

she wants to go back with al, so you probably heard her talk about it. she's like, pretty fixated on it
i don't mind following, al's world might be nice
if i go home they'll just shoot me into space and i'll probably get blown to pieces
so might as well try to find a way where i get to live and also get laid

nope
she never mentioned it and i had no idea
it came up with different people for other reasons
cant say i expected space from you though
you seem like
i dunno
a regular guy
not someone all tied up in space shenanigans
let alone the deadly kind
which still sucks that youve gotta worry about that at all

i am a regular guy
i mean, i'm a star athlete, i guess that's cool, but i don't have any powers or anything, i'm just a standard dude that wins football games
i just was at the wrong place at the wrong time and then boom, i'm fighting aliens and being told i'm going to space

fuck that noise

zach are you telling me you were a jock
then again i should have guessed
house said youve got a letterman jacket
that is like code for sports bros
make way for the big man
running field goals every day out on the sports pitch
or he did until aliens happened
heres a tip zach
aliens ruin everything

[Sorry, Zach, but humor is a comfortable retreat when things are shitty.]

i cant say my life was as regular tv sitcom family normal as that
but it used to be a lot different
just some human kid on earth doing earth things up until this game happened and then everything was meteors
and then we got stuck in some sims slash rpg hybrid beat up monsters to build your house real good quest
except more complicated than that because it is always more complicated
plus i was my games time player
and when time doesnt go the way its supposed to
well
nothing good happens

huh, yeah? that's not a secret, dude, I'm QB1, I won state last year, all very friday night lights you see

[Yep, Zach did not realize some people don't know that about him.]

preach, man, aliens ruin everything. i was fine before they showed up

[Well. Sort of.]

your story sounds more complicated than mine though. there's nothing complicated about my story, honestly. i'm just a jock with a lazer

goddamn
got our own sports hero and i never even knew
steph should have told me
one of these days im gonna find a sports ball and bring it to you just so you can sign that rock

and yeah mine is basically always more complicated
i could start explaining and just when you think youve got it BAM turns out thats the simple version of one singular mechanic
and the long version takes a five hour dissertation to get through before you can even move onto the other weird mechanics that rely on the first one
and each one of those requires a long ass convo to really go through completely too
so just take the simple version
im a time traveling half bird who had to save his friends so they could make a new universe in the future
but that doesnt mean being a jock who lasers aliens cant suck for you too
so i sympathize
we both got the part where we could have died fighting otherworldly stuff that wanted to kill us

yeah man i'm big in milford and steph doesn't really give a shit about it maybe that's why she didn't tell you
she likes that i kinda saved the world though
the shed at the school has sports equipment, steph and i wanted to organize a game of flag or something but we'd get eaten

shit wait a half bird how does that work
do i want to know? i mean i want to know but i'm also not super good at understanding shit
that's why back home i've got a team and woody, he's got a super helmet that makes him clever
and british
at first it was stupid but by the end i just listened to whatever he told me because turns out he really got super smart with this shit on his head
honestly the only reason we didn't all die is adam and now he's dead and they want to send us to space and we're so fucking doomed
anyway can you fly

[Talking about anything but what's plaguing them at the moment is much better than try and make decisions about what he's going to do. Thanks DS, he needed the distraction.]

ive been to the shed
got a jersey
left some high art on the inside
look for geromy next time you visit
hes your new best friend

[The other part is easier to answer just by showing him, though. He swaps over to video, and wow, it's an orange bird guy. He's got his coat on, and he has his backpack worn over his chest since his wings make the normal way pretty much impossible. There's a paw print bandana tied on his head, and of course the standard shades. He's outside traveling at the moment.]

Like this. There's these things called sprites in the game I played, and they take the aspects of what you prototype them with. There was a dead crow in mine, then I jumped in, and now I'm like this.

[He spreads his wings and caws for him.]

Can't fly anymore, though, 'cause the Admin's a stingy pain in the ass. Flap my wings all I want and I just look like I'm hopping around, for all a floating dude with a tail can hop.

[And panning the camera down, he shows the long tail that forms his lower body in place of legs and feet. He's got a curtain wrapped around it for warmth, tied at the far end with a sleeping mask and a flower crown, and a police utility belt at his waist. He'd probably look less ridiculous if he could just wear pants.]

[Zach would switch to video in answer, but he's not going to - because of the eyes thing. He's refusing to show anyone he doesn't have to, even though he's already told Davesprite about them. It freaks him out too much.]

cool, can't wait to meet geromy

wow, man. that...looks kinda cool. you look cool. i dig the shades, too. i found some too, they're badass. at least you can't get frostbite or anything like that, right? i only had converses when i landed here, wasn't pretty. found moonboots though, stylish as fuck

[Davesprite swaps back to text.]

never have i missed feet as much as i do knowing you got a pair of moonboots
dont think that just because im floating doesnt mean i cant get cold though
if i hadnt found this curtain my tail would have frozen off by now probably
remember how i was asking for a giant sock that first day
this is what that was about

everyone's jelly of my moonboots
holy shit i forgot about the sock thing
that was funny because just before junkrat had been asking for one too, but his was for his dong
that's why everyone assumed yours was for that too

wait

do you even have a dong? i'm not judging i'm genuinely curious

zach unless you answer questions about your dick to anyone who asks just shut the fuck up about my junk
thats between me and future girlfriends

i mean i do
even steph's started talking about my junk so you know even if i had shame i'd be fucked at this point

but look you don't have to tell me that's fine

cool story
still not gonna talk about it
dont ask me again

[Such a response tells Zach one thing: Davesprite definitely has some kind of complex and/or hang-up, here.]

no need to get mad, bro, sorry

question, though - if you could go back to being a normal boy, would you? or d'you like being a bird?

[Zach he does not have a complex about his mystery junk.]

[But the line of questioning is one that's relevant to his life. He's got hang-ups about who he is, alright, and plenty of 'em.]

i dont have a problem with being a bird
there was some complicated stuff that led to it but im the one who chose this
ive only got a problem when people treat me weird

eh, i don't care what you are if that helps
you're a cool dude

thanks
thats the one good thing about this place
most people here dont give a shit

i'd rather hang out with a bird man than with the guy that wanted to shiv me just because i sat in the same room as him

yeah fuck that
worst im gonna do is be aggressively orange
maybe caw some
it was enough to make one dude flip out but he was an asshole who didnt want to acknowledge reality anyway
say if we ever run into each other lets hang out

you going to the tunnels like everybody else? steph and i are leaving to pick up Kes

to be honest i'm thinking i shouldn't be hanging out with them
the eyes thing, you know

well
after the eyes are normal then
because mine are still glowing
but yeah im headed that way

i'm gonna run away and hide
until they go back to normal
and then we can play football

good luck man
im trying to be careful too
i cant know until it happens what keeping the glowy ones is going to mean
you guys got the bad side last night but we barely even know why this happened at all
so im going to watch myself until this is over
but after that its a two man trip to the end zone
im gonna be the mvp zach
most valuable poultry
so spike the field goals because im coming in for the touchdown

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