Blackmoon Celebration

[travelagency]

Who: Misc
What: Blackmoon
When: M6 D14 (July 10th) - M6 D17 (July 13th)
Where: All around the resort and village
Notes & Warnings: Up to players to put in subjects

OOC: This is a log post for the celebration for general mingling during the celebration (log and network posts are also still very welcome). Just tag into a starter and ask questions if anything is unclear.

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[vengeance_driven]

[Niko has somehow convinced himself to dress nicely on the last day, because the resort is a relatively nice place and even if other people don't care it seems appropriate around important people. He has a near finished glass of vodka- he didn't even put enough in it to make him tipsy. It's more something to keep his hands occupied.]

[He sees Charon doing his job, as Charon always does his job, dryly meandering about.]

[He doesn't want to distract him too much, so he comes up to him.] So uh... When do you get off work? [Shit. It's always weird starting conversation with Charon. He likes getting him on the subject of guns when he can, strange things in the Wasteland that's not the Mohave, but getting that opening to talk in is always like trying to ask a girl that knows she's too good for you on a date.]

[andiwillfollow]

[Charon's not easily distracted, luckily. He can talk and still keep an eye on things at the same time. Then again, that may be because "talking" for Charon is mostly just replying to things in two words or less. He just didn't have much to say.

So when Niko approaches him, he gets once glance before he's back scanning the surrounding area along with a grumble. He doesn't really think about when he's going to get off work. There's no need.]

When I'm done here.

[Not a helpful answer at all, but really...he doesn't know when he'll be done. Even after the celebrations are over there's still patrolling to be done. Maybe when he gets hungry. But he'd honestly go right back to work after.]

[vengeance_driven]

[Niko blinks so hard it's almost accompanied by a sound effect, and he looks around at the people milling around. He's not surprised by the answer, but still.]

I uh... well when you are, I wanted to ask you something about your gun.

[andiwillfollow]

[Normally he'd say something like "very well" and let Niko be on his way until Charon was done working (whenever the hell that may be), but the mention of his gun makes him curious.

His eyes shoot in his direction briefly.]

What about my gun?

[vengeance_driven]

Well it looks like it's seen a couple of centuries. I haven't ever seen a gun like it before.

I uh... [Yes, give a member of patrol a gun, Niko. This will work out well for you ] future. ] I found one when I was in the caves, it seems like it's in better shape. I was going to keep it, but I have plenty and I thought you could try it out and see how it works for you.

[andiwillfollow]

[Charon isn't sure why he wants to give him a gun despite flat out stating his reasoning as "he has plenty". But he is used to living in a world where you could never have too many damn guns, and you only start getting rid of some when you're starting to get duplicates crowding your home -- or when you just can't carry any more.

But still, they're talking about guns and he's talking about one that's possibly in better condition than his own. Truth be told, he's been through a lot with his shotgun, and while he's not a sentimental person, sometimes he wonders if at one point he was, because he could never bring himself to get rid of his shotgun for reasons he's not really aware of.

That didn't mean he wasn't interested.]

What kind of gun is it?

[vengeance_driven]

[Niko's reasoning isn't all that good, admittedly. At this point, he's been torn apart and he's been holding on to the shreds of his humanity. He has let many of them, and now most of his principles, slip through his fingers for the sake of survival. Roman said it wasn't his fault that Kate died, but then he turned around and reminded him that it wouldn't have happened if Niko hadn't wanted to defend his pride. To not lay down and be kicked. Roman is right, his pride isn't that important. He should have just done as he was told.]

[For as funny as Charon was when he first met him (funny in the way that there's this giant man wandering around speaking bluntly with a perpetual frown), every time Niko sees him he looks more and more like a man that's had bits of his true personality flecked away. Like a physical representation of how Niko feels and half doesn't want to feel, and half just wants to give into and embrace.]

[That part of him that doesn't want to feel like that looks at Charon's gun, which is as old and beaten as him, and wants to give him something new. And if one day it's pointed at him? At least in Charon's hands he would be sure he deserves it.]

[But that requires too much self-awareness to put into words, and is too odd to say to a sturdy zombie person with a dead stare.]

It's a rife. Baretta. Handles pretty good. 40 caliber.

[He makes a somewhat helpless gesture with the hand that's not holding a drink.] If you're into that sort of thing. Sometimes you just want to use what works.