Salvage

[aquatic_light]

There's an utter mess scattered over Washed Up Beach today, and a few people who seem to be trying to clean it up. Since the weather in the Nexus is always warm enough to go swimming (except when it isn't) there's also one family already who arrived with a picnic basket and found the beach just isn't suitable for that today. Care to have a look?

(This continues just after this scene. Feel free to talk to anyone there if you want, or just walk up and start poking around. I just ask that no one successfully walk off with any critical parts as there are plans to put that back together. XD )

Comments

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee nods] Yeah. [of course, things get more complicated when you remember that things that are fictional in one place can be real in another. . .but let's not get into that just yet] Anything else you wanna add to the castle?

[lastest_ringbearer]

It looksss fine to me.

[dee_lorean81]

Cool! [Dee claps her hands to clear the sand off them] Hopefully the tide won't come lapping at it too soon.

[lastest_ringbearer]

The cassstle'sss not made to lassst, no.

[dee_lorean81]

Nope -- but there's nothing stopping somebody from making another one. Things get destroyed, things get built -- just keeps going round and round. [she swirls her hand around for emphasis]

[lastest_ringbearer]

Nothing lasssts in Arda Marred. *He sounds rueful.*

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee blinks] Er -- where now? [she was pretty sure they were still in the Nexus]

[lastest_ringbearer]

*He blinks too.* Don't have a better name for everywhere, not yet.

[dee_lorean81]

Oh -- sorry, they don't use that name where I'm from. So "Arda Marred" is just -- anywhere and everywhere people might be?

[lastest_ringbearer]

Arda is my world. *He seems to have figured out that the his bit is important now, though he's not sure why.*

[dee_lorean81]

Ahhh. Yeah, my world's called Earth -- well, in general. There's a lot of countries and states and cities and whatnot all over it. The city I'm from is called Chicago.

[lastest_ringbearer]

*A sharp-toothed smile.* Seems a dull name for a world. Couldn't they think of more than a dessscription?

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee shrugs] I didn't name it. And to be fair, that's what it's called in English. Maybe it's something different in another language -- there's plenty of those on the planet.

[lastest_ringbearer]

Smeagol isss not knowing . . . Englisssh? Thisss be Wessstron.

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee crinkles her brow] Westron? Mmmm -- either the Nexus is translating, or Westron and English sound pretty much alike. 'Cause I know I'm speaking English.

[lastest_ringbearer]

It can do that? Sss. Powerful place, thisss.

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee nods] Oh yeah. It's a meeting place of all worlds, so it would have to be. Wait until the first time you run into a LOL.

[lastest_ringbearer]

I hope it likes usss, then.

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee gives him an encouraging grin] Oh, I don't think it ever really hurts people. Just does odd things to them occasionally. And sometimes they're nice -- Marty, my cousin, got a drink once that let him climb up walls like a spider!

[lastest_ringbearer]

*Smeagol, who can climb down cliffs head-first, does not appear especially impressed.*

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee notes his expression] Well, humans can't usually do it. And Victor, my brother, got wings from an Easter egg once.

[lastest_ringbearer]

Eassster?

[dee_lorean81]

[. . .right, Middle Earth native] It's a holiday we have where I'm from. People hide brightly-colored eggs and then take their kids out to find them.

[lastest_ringbearer]

I don't remember holidayses anymore.

[dee_lorean81]

[Okay, that's one of the most depressing things she's heard today -- and it's been kind of a day of depressing things, what with that exploded AI all over the beach earlier.] Well -- it's coming up in my world. Maybe I can get some eggs and show you how it works.