6* Arne leans sideways to see the van, than he looks at Buster still, seeming to consider it. He wasn't completely convinced by Buster words. "I am confused. Is this a pitty hiring, or there's something for you to gain at all on this whole thing?" Arne tilts his head. He can't help but grinning. "... are you 'whatever' -Ing me, like you don't care?" He chuckles, but it soon fades into seriousness."I prefer talking of things as they
06* Arne really are."
06* @buster looked at Arne and sighed. "Look man. I give you an option. Not forcing it down your throat nor I will beg you to help. Maybe you are not used to it?" He paused. "Pitty hiring?" He shrugs. "Maybe. I just heard you are capable of few things, we did bussiness with each other before."
06* Arne listens carefully now folding his arms. He nods a few times, but more like he's talking to himself. "Maybe you just want to help. I am good with that." Arne turns, as if to go into his own caravan, stopping briefly, to add. "If you did hear of what I am capable, you know best than trying any funny business."
06* Arne calls out into the caravan. "Go pack your bag, 5 minutes." before he goes in by the side door himself.
06* @buster tilts his head with a small smile. "From what i heard, we are not the side that do the funny bussiness." He said with meaning but then shrugged and turned his back to walk to his van. He shook his head then ripped off the trash bags that were sticked on the car's side, revealing the paint of it underneith. (
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01<@buster> "Finally.. the sound of the plastic was getting on my nerves." With that he moved back and opened the back doors and started moving some things in there.
06* Arne will step out with Aime in a few, he carries a green military bag on his shoulder and, Aime a purple suit case with wheels. The two Fenris simultaneously stop before the peculiar paint of the van. Aime opens a big smile and cracks up on honest laughter. Arne, he simply stop and enjoys the sound of that. It has been a while.
<Arne> "Come on, let's go". Arne says to Aime nodding towards the caravan, and starts that way in Busters direction. "Interesting paint."
<Arne> "Please let me drive that thing back into the Sept"
06* @buster popped his head to look at the laughing girl and smiles that honestly friendly grin of his before moving away from it again letting the doors open. "Absolutelly not. You know how afraid i was the duct tape would not hold back there?" He smirked and waved them over. "You can put your bags in the back, and im not sure if you want to sit on the front or back.. " He shrugged once again. "You.. leave your caravan here?"
<Arne> "Yeah." Arne answers casually, following the instructions and moving towards the back of the van. He settles his own bag first, than takes Aimes and adds to it. Arne will than step in and check up the back of the van before deciding of he's alright with leaving Aime to travel back there.
6* @buster looks at the caravan. "May get it up there at some point in anything." He then moved to the front of the car. The van in the back is packed with a lot of crates, that hold bunch of gurds. Some other sealed boxes, all set up on the side and secured so they don't fall on a sharp turn with ropes. On the left of the back cabin there is a long seat, kind of like a couch. There is even a tv screen on the right wall. The ceiling seems to be foldable. The back is connected with the front, so you can see the 2 seats, the driver and the passanger are fully accessable from the back. It looks like this van was a luxury one... few years back.
06* Arne looks around himself carefully, at some point leaning over and peering to see what's on the crates. Aime also leans her upper body in and stares all around the stuff of the van.
Session Time: Thu Jan 07 00:00:00 2021
01<@buster> *What Arne can see is at least 4 crates of the small gurds with carved glyphs, the same ones Buster give to Arne not long ago. A crate of wine bottles and one of the sealed crates is actually half open and inside Arne can take a glimpse of bunch of small capsules that could fit in a palm. (https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/monsuno/images/f/fe/1000080242_2.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20130313184529) the ones he can see are empty. *
06* Arne is satisfied after checking up, even tho he don't know what these capsules could be. He speaks with Aime indistinguishably, although just for distance, not for secrecy and jumps out of the van, going around it to meet Buster. "I will go on the front, she'll be on the back." He says once again checking up the vehicle. "... You said, up there?"
01<@buster> "Alright. There is seatbelts tucked into the folds of the seat back there." He smiled looking towards the Fenrirs. "Would you mind closing the door? Safety first!" He said while jumping up on the driver seat and buckling up himself. "Up in Cyber." He said turning the key and waking up the noisy old engine. "Normally, to get there you need to climb some way up the webs. So.. technicly.. it's up from this level."
06* Arne nods, and will move to the back of the van. Again he speaks with Aime, giving her instructions, for now she settles at the couch even tho she peers curiously in the direction of the first seat. Arne than closes the backdoor of the van tightly, checking it out if its secure. He joins Buster at the front part of the vehicle, buckling up and closing the door by his side as well. "I suspect this will be a turbulent ride." He
06* Arne asks Buster as he cracks some of the talents given earlier, and starts rubbing them at the injuries on his arms. "Anything I should know about cyber since we're at it?"
6* @buster shook his head a bit starting the van and moving forward on the road. "Nah, it shouldn't be. We are taking a shortcut." The vehicle is definitelly not made for a comfortable rides, and the road is not helping, but still nothing more then unusual. "Anything you should know.. hmm.." He considers for a bit not taking his eyes from the road. "Don't break anything? Don't worry, we are going to a relativelly safe dead zone. I wouldn't take a kid there if it wasn't. Just yeah, I was not kidding about the don't break anything part, spirits get easily defensive. Do not poke the spiders or their webs if you stuble on those, they are extremelly defensive. Don't anger the Watchers if it happens one to fly by those are agresivelly defensive.. But they usually dwelve near the town so no worries. Ah. And there is no Moon. So... do what you want with that information."
<Arne> "no moon?" Arne asks before he glances over his shoulder the direction of Aime to check her up. So he turns again forward. "Does that affect our rage?"
<Arne> *Aime suddenly comes between the two front seats, her golden mane falling over the... Leather, I assume? And she's asking Buster. "Can I watch the TV?"
06* @buster nodded and was about to say something but Aime grabbed his attention. "Em, sure? But I only have Netflix on that. The remote should be next the screen on the wall. Just press the red and white button." He glanced at her through the mirror before turning his eyes on the road again. "And yeah. Filling the batteries back up again is harder. The auspice days will be calmer." He looked at Arne for a moment, glancing over the healing wounds on his arms. "It may do good. Don't you think?"
06* @buster drived the van off the main road now taking a road that is even more secluded. Arne can see that they move to a hill with an abandon radio tower on top of it, surrounded by some forgotten trees.
6* Arne glances over at Aime and says nothing at the moment. She grins at the unexpected answer from Buster, and makes her way back fast to turn the big screen on. Arne lifts his healing forearms, palms open upwards, and watches the wounds fading under the remainents of the talen. He turns back to Buster, and nods meaningfully at what he said. "Amen."
<Arne> There's some silence from the elder Fenris, but behind them, something dynamic and colourful flashes from the screen. Probably some Japanese cartoon involving fighting. Arne peers over the seats once again, probably checking over whatever Aime is watching and she's still trying to get acquaintance with the TV... He relaxes on his seat than, enjoying the sights before they . "... So you were to be Fenrir?" He asks out of nowhere.
<Arne> Nothing but curiosity on his tone. "what happened?"
6* Buster_ seems like he is used to the flashy colors and loud music in the car. For a brief moment the TV was set up on a computer screen, with too many options, but as Aime pressed the indicated button the 'Netflix' options were all there... way too many actually. Like this one had the programs from all the countries at once. Buster kinda looked at Arne at his question. "Going all personal already huh?" He smiles a bit but shrugged a shoulder. "Yeah. Pure breed.. pure raised, proud strong son and all that jazz." He chuckles. "But then parents died, got accused as traitors.. kid landed in an orphanage. Rite failed under weird circumstances. Disgrace to your tribe and your house, to your cow..." He actually mimicked the voice of Mushu there almost perfectly. "He glanced at Arne with a smile once again. "I should write a book. Would make millions."
06* Arne shuts his eyes with annoyance as some over exited High-pitched cartoon voice shouts from the TV. He rubs his eyes under his fingers, than opens than to look at, and listen to Buster story sorely. "traitors?" is all that Arne has to ask about that, even tho he's likelly running the rest of the tale into his head, trying to make sense of the pieces he got.
01<Buster_> "Apperently they left the doors open for enemies to overrun. Was to young to know the details.. the other didn't talk about it." Buster shrugged. He was not bitter about that part of his past, and seem to not care to actually give up personal information to Arne. It was like he was talking about the latest sport game or an episode of a soup opera. The van was now climbing the hill and Buster slowed down and take out his phone. Hepulled a lose wire on the dashboard of the car, and connected the phone to it. If Arne is curious enough he will see a map with a tiny dot indicating a spot on the top of the hill.
Session Time: Fri Jan 08 00:00:00 2021
<Arne> "To me it sounds like you do not know enough about it, because when it happened, you were a child. Doors open? In which context? It sounds complex even if you know all there's to it." Arne does not speak in a judgemental tone. He's too tired for that shit right now. He's really just taking on the conversation as it comes."Did you even care to become a Fenris?"
01<Buster_> "In a context of they were the Warders that day and a Dancer pack raided the camp.. yeah, I don't know enough. But what was done was done. Learning more would not bring them back or make anything better for me now would it?" Buster seems to double check his phone before putting in on one of the small shelves behind the steering wheel. "And yeah. I did care." He smirked. "But that was quite a time ago."
<Arne> "I do not know if it would make it better, but don't you want the truth?" Arne eyes the phone briefly, before he lies back on his seat and gazes beyond the front glass. "I wouldn't take you for the type." He side eyes Buster and this question does makes him curious "So what did stop you?"
6* Buster_ shrugged looking straight up at the road. "Eh. I have more important things to focus on then chasing ghosts of the past that would not give any advantage. Same goes on proving myself to Elders that hate my guts." He says rather dryly like that is a point of view he will not change. "And what type you are taking me for anyway?" He glanced at Arne for a moment.
<Arne> "is that so...?" Arne now does have a bit skeptical tone to his voice. He folds his arms over his chest. "... If we are talking first impressions. I did call you a twinkie." He shrugs. "Bet you got lots of really, really important things to keep you away from the core shit you've been avoiding your whole goddamn life."
06* Buster_ chuckles. "I'm not Asian." He snorts but then looks at Arne with more meaning. "I have my family, I have my home, I have my life. Why do you think that something that happen 20 years ago is something so core of my life? It's simply not. Maybe it is you that can't get over your past. But because you can't.. that doesn't mean others are unable to just go on." He turns back on the road and picks up his phone once again. "Alright, we are in a zone. We gonna cross the gauntlet.. twice. It will be like few more G forces.. like a short rollercoaster, so girl?" He glanced at Aime thrugh the middle mirror. "Sit comfy for a moment ok?"
6* Arne scoffs. He says nothing else about that subject. He looks up at Buster once the warning is given and than leans back to see Aime again. "Tight up your seat belt! " Aime is still scrolling through Netflix, trying to figure out the controllers. She looks at the two men, just nodding. She seems like she considers her seat belt tight enough. Arne doesn't.
<Arne> "Tight up your seat goddamn belt!" he snarls out and he leans over the seat to see the stubborn child.
06* @badwolf cringed at Arne snarling, he look at him discouragingly, but didn't say anything. He glanced at Aime for a moment then rolled his eyes before lifting a secret compartment between the seats. It looked like those typical 'red buttons that blow the meteorite' in the movies. With lot of stickers around it with warnings, classified and arrows pointing towards it. He pressed a smaller one close to it and suddenly all the light in the back cabin turned off making it dark and the TV go off.
6 Arne clench his teeth and glares over his shoulder. He regrets the overreaction immediately, but what is done is done. Aime glares back towards her uncle, her face becomes red before the lights on the back dim down. She folds her arms fast, and curls into the couch. Arne turns back forward, sitting straight, and facing the front window. He inhales deeply and braces for the gauntlet.
Session Time: Sun Jan 10 00:00:00 2021
06* @buster had one more look at the mirror to make sure Aime at least is not in the middle of the cabin or something. He slowed down the car a little bit more before pressing the button and placing the hand on the top of the dashboard. It seemed that it took from him quite a bit of willpower to do whatever he was doing right now. Arne and Aime can feel a surge of gnosis all of sudden, something that Arne could feel defore in the most powerful Caern's he may have found himself.
06* @buster started speeding the car up again, but the car was not moving, like something invisible stopped it but soom a pressure that would pop the Fenrir's ears then a feeling like suddenly a waterfall was falling on the van and all around them. Both Arne and Aime could literally feel the gauntled slipping over their bodies as a white iridesend light glimpsed then become a gray blue color of the sky again.
06* @buster would exhale finally and the can started moving normally like nothing happen. As sudden the sencation was, that fast it went away. Now if the Fenrir's look out of the window they will not see the green hill, or trees. They found themselves in a desert. A dusty, empty desert. There is no plants, or buildings. The forgotten radio tower from before is the only one still standing, but instead of cement and metal, it is made now with clean silver iron and silky white iridesent webs wrapped all around the collumns and stretching all the way to the sky until it's not longer visible. The dirty road they were in is now build of huge metal plaques. The gray blue sky above them also was weird.. like constantly moving, buzzing.
6* Arne inhales as he feels as if his blood pressure dropped, and they pierce the gauntlet. He refrains from looking back towards Aime till the iron like world greets them. He's heard that Drake could do this, drive a car into umbra, but he's never experienced it before. Arne leans over to peer through the windows at that strange, almost conceptual world. So he looks back, only to face the 10 year old that suddenly appears between
06* Arne their seat trying to see beyond the two men, that new world too.
<Arne> "insane. ." he mutters under his breath.
06* Buster groans a bit but snaps out of it quickle as Aime moved forward. He quickly closed the compartment with the button so the girl doesn't press it accidentally. As Arne mutters he glances at him. "Hmm? You guys good?" The car kepts going now from time to time bumping slightly up where the metal plagues that formed the road were connecting. Except the glowy iridescent tower that now was staying behind them, there was nothng too exciting. Just mounts of reddish sand. No plants anywhere. The sky was shimmering but it was monotonus instead of the direction they seemed to head for. in the distance they could barelly distinguish giant towers climbing to the sky, and bright colorful lights and spotlights filling the area above them. "We have like... 20 minutes drive? But i can stop if there is need.."
6* @arne moves a bit aside as Aime climbs over to see outside. "Yeah." Arne answers to Buster while dodging an elbow. After the tower stays behind, the infant looks around, and simply asks on a disappointed tone as she comes to stand between the two seats again. "There's nothing here."
<@arne> (ok she's not a infant, kid. The kid)
<@arne> "No, we are good." Arne says to Buster about stopping. They've been driving for days. What was another 20 minutes?
06* Buster nods at Arne and preceedes to press few buttons behind the wheel. The whindshield lights up now indicating information in all corners, like in video games. The van itself seems to be in way better shape now, less noisy, more... confortable even? Somehow. "Sorry." He says to Aime with a apologetic tone, even if he doesn't really mean it. "There is nothing here, because where we were previusly there was nothing. But it is still more then there is above an ocean." He says amused. "Don't worry, you will see some nice things. Never judge from the first sight."
<Arne> *Aime looks up at Buster curiously, even tho the panel information had her sole attention so far. She blinks and asks "But not more than under the ocean. That is much more stuff."
06* Arne just listens to the conversation as he watches the cyber world unfolding before them. He crooks a small grin.
01<@buster> "That would be correct if you compare this world to the world we were before. Yes." Buster chuckles slightly at that. "You know Umbra is a reflection of the world right? Well, this one only reflects places with technology, So.. Except few blimps, the oceans don't exist here."
<@arne> "'Yes, I know that.'' Aime answers on a smart ass sort of way. But that leaves her to think, on all the implications surrounding what she just hearded. ''... So here, is all... Weaver?''
01<BadWolf> "Aaaa yup." Buster nodded. "In all it's glory and it's ugliness." He straighed up in his seat now literally touching the windshield to configure the information given in the user interface glowing with neon lights. After few adjustments the Fenrirs can see that a chat window poped up in the bottom middle of it.