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[guitarpicks]

Sooooooo. Fair ladies, good sirs, ghoulies, ghosties, dead and undead alike. Fellow whatever we think we are? [ eddie get to the point here? ] How many of you play instruments and would want to jam?

I'm in a band back home and missing shred sessions. I just found my guitar back -- [ a pause and then he might sound like he's devastated and talking about a lost love. ] Not my sweetheart but my acoustic.

[ and if you're thinking he's not gonna give you whiplash and then sound eager, excited as fuck at the drop of a hat then you're wrong. ] Anyway, I'm really jonesing to play. Anyone in?

If you're into metal or rock even better but all musicians welcome. The place I'm staying at isn't big but there's abandoned buildings near by and the acoustics are killer. [ and because there's some manners under there? ] And if you're in, I'm Eddie.

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[guitarpicks]

.... I did speak properly?

[rumination]

You said words that mean nothing.

[guitarpicks]

[ oh. this guy is probably not from earth, then, and definitely not the after the 80s. ]

they make plenty of sense if you're from where i'm from.

but all it means is i have my guitar back and i'm looking for people to play music with me.

[rumination]

People talk like that where you're from?

[ he's glad he doesn't live there. that makes no sense! ]

You're the one with the guitar. From the bardic event.

[guitarpicks]

yep, man. anyone in the rock scene. [ he should stop but now he's doing it because it's obnoxious. ]

i am! eddie munson. eddie the banished, also said to be a preeeeeeeeeetty good guitarist. [ no one actually says that. ]

1/2

[rumination]

The rock scene? Your audience must be dull, then.

Eddie the banished? Banished from what?

2/2

[rumination]

[ and then because eddie did introduce himself, it is polite to return the favor. which is awkward, he's very unused to introducing himself. ]

Chu Wanning. [ he'll just ignore all of his titles ]

[guitarpicks]

[ wait that joke. holy fuck. he spends a good five minutes cackling at how lame that was. ] rock's a type of music, dude. but sometimes the audience can be still as stone.

banished from home. i guess i'm eddie the dead here too. i've got titles, my friend.

[rumination]

If the way you speak is any indication of the sound, this "rock" music is atrocious.

Self-given titles are not impressive. Try again when you get a title.

[guitarpicks]

don't go there. it's art.

i have one i didn't give myself. how about that?

[rumination]

You shall have to demonstrate, then.

What is that title?

[guitarpicks]

Eddie the Freak.

[rumination]

What a ridiculous title. Things people call you behind your back are not titles.


[ he'd be "little napa cabbage" and "big mantou" if he listened to people gossiping behind his back. ]

[guitarpicks]

they say it to my face too and i say it back at this point. it's sorta a badge of honor, actually.

[rumination]

People dare to say such things to your face?

[ no one would say anything like that to chu wanning; but then, most people also don't talk to him. ]

[guitarpicks]

have you ever gone to high school? [ eddie was on round three of his last year so he's got extra experience. ]

[rumination]

No.

[guitarpicks]

it's a battleground out there. people aren't nice to anyone who's different but fuck 'em.

[rumination]

High school is a battleground? I have been on those, although not designated as such. Places where battles occur, usually against demons.

[ that seems... odd but from what he's gathered, it's logical. ]

People are rarely nice even to those who are like them. Do their opinions matter, if that holds true?

[guitarpicks]

more or less, yeah.

wait.

DEMONS????? [ HOLD UP. ]

that's why i own the title. it can't hurt me then.

[rumination]

Yes? Is that surprising? I'm a cultivator.

[ people keep getting hung up on demons. are they that unusual? ]

Do you intend to own everything they say about you? Just ignore it, why bother even acknowledging it?