00:07 [ action ]

[aliveandticking]

[ Aradia is out and about in the city, getting some things to make her apartment seem more homey. Things like Indiana Jones posters and replica dinosaur skulls. To each her own. Anyway, she's feeling pretty victorious whenever she finds something new wink wink nudge nudge. Or feel free to just spot her maneuvering her haul down the street and boggle at her choices! ]

Comments

[aliveandticking]

I collect artifacts! [ right now she's got her arms wrapped around what seems to be a half size model of a tyrannosaurus skull, practically hugging it ] I didn't know that humans had lizardbeasts on their planet too! I'm pretty into archaeology, you know.

[hashrap]

Why? Doesn't seem all that interesting.

[aliveandticking]

Maybe to you! I like digging things up and discovering hidden treasures. And troll Indiana Jones is the coolest!

[hashrap]

You have a troll Indiana Jones. Are you serious?

[aliveandticking]

I'm serious! I can't believe you have a human one! I mean, stuff like troll Nazis and the Lost Troll Ark are pretty culture-specific, right?

[hashrap]

No dude, we have human equivalents.

[aliveandticking]

Cultural differences aren't very different after all, huh! So are you an Indiana Jones fan? He's pretty awesome, isn't he? I have a hat just like his!

[hashrap]

I'm indifferent. Let me see the hat.

[aliveandticking]

[ she is going to MAKE him not be indifferent!!! She pulls the hat out of her sylladex and puts it on ] See? It's a bona-fide archaeologist hat!

[hashrap]

Pretty swanky. Or it would be, if swanky wasn't a ridiculous way of describing something.

You need a khaki safari suit to go with it.

[aliveandticking]

I know! I haven't gotten around to getting adventuring gear yet. Here, hold this-- [ she thrusts the dinosaur skull at him, equipping her whip and cracking it on the ground once ] But I'm getting close!

[hashrap]

[ OH OKAY??? holds... it.... ] What else do you need other than a badass suit? Wait, no, hideous hiking boots.

[aliveandticking]

I need a sidekick, too! Someone I can save heroically from the enemy!

[hashrap]

Is this your sideways way of asking me?

[aliveandticking]

It wasn't, but it can be! Dave Strider, will you get captured by troll Nazis so I can save you in real adventurer fashion?

[hashrap]

Sure, but only if I get a cool outfit.

[aliveandticking]

Yess! You can have the coolest of outfits. [ she punches the air, and then, since that counts as a victory, grabs his face in her hands and kisses him ]

[hashrap]

[ oh.

what.

STANDS THERE LIKE SOME KIND OF DEAD ANIMAL?? CAN'T EVEN MENTALLY METAPHOR?? ]

[aliveandticking]

[ WHERE ARE MY SLOPPY MAKEOUTS DAVE no she's just as startled oops?? she hastily pulls away ]

I don't know why I did that!

[hashrap]

[ HE'S ALWAYS BEEN THE INITIATOR IT'S NEVER HAPPENED THE OTHER WAY AROUND?? just kind of. stands there. ]























Curse?

[aliveandticking]

[ what do you mean dave i thought you had bitches throwing themselves at your swag ]

That is definitely what it looks like!

[hashrap]

[ that may or may not have been a lie ]

Unless you suddenly just found me totally irresistible.

[aliveandticking]

Um... [ she pauses, carefully considering any wild feelings that may have appeared, to find... none! He's fun and kind of cute, but nope, no sudden irresistability. Phew! ]

Nope, doesn't look like it! No offense.

[hashrap]

None taken. Pretty sure that isn't how a sidekick works, anyway.

[aliveandticking]

Well, actually, usually it is, in the Indiana Jones movies. But we can leave out the romantic tension and post-rescue makeouts! I don't think they're actually all that necessary.