7 ~ However, it took me quite a bit longer to realize [written/action]

[menial]

To those that knew it, it looks like the crazy RPG hit-points-and-magic stuff has gone home. Sorry for those who were close to it. I don't think it left any notes or belongings for anyone, but I'm sure it'll be better off where it came from.

['What a cartoonish Shift this was. Not that I will ever forget my valorous deeds, but can we get back to ... Actually, forget it. Nothing serious. If more Shifts that are par for the Haruhi-course happen, it can only be a good thing.']

Seriously -- everyone all right out there? Sounds like a more than average number of people have been leaving fair Luceti lately. Though I guess variation is itself average, in said fair Luceti.

...Anyone know where the name "Luceti" comes from, anyway?

['...You know what, I'd better stop rambling right there.']

Comments

[cop_an_attitude]

All right! You're the one who asked.

[menial]

--Yeah, I guess so, huh? Sorry.

[cop_an_attitude]

Hm. That's okay. Did you get out of the fantasy adventure game nonsense all right?

[menial]

Well, other than apparently a leftover tendency to charge at windmills, yeah.

['Metaphorical ones this time, though.']

[cop_an_attitude]

Sense of adventure never hurt anyone, I guess.

[menial]

I don't know about that.

[cop_an_attitude]

Well, it got plenty of people killed depending on how they acted on it.

[menial]

A taste for adventure isn't much without acting on it, is it?

[cop_an_attitude]

You can act on a taste for adventure with reasonable precaution.

[menial]

When I think of the people I know with a taste for adventure, I can't say "reasonable precaution" is the first, or even the five thousandth, thing that comes to mind.

[cop_an_attitude]

...Yeah, fair enough. Same here.

[menial]

Have you been here a while?

[cop_an_attitude]

Two months.

[menial]

Then I guess you've met some more adventurous people here, too.

[cop_an_attitude]

That I have. I knew some back home, but...well, I wouldn't call them friends.

[menial]

What would you call them?

[cop_an_attitude]

[Sally ruminates on that for exactly one and a half seconds.]

Colossal wankers.

[menial]

--Well, that's certainly one way to go with it...

Should I ask why?

[cop_an_attitude]

Because they are. Trust me on this.

What about yours? Friends?

[menial]

How about "90% of the people I meet"?

[cop_an_attitude]

Ah. Lucky you, huh?

[menial]

Lucky me.