001 — Text — UN: SHINIGAMI

[mikoshi]

[ Text only from the guy who hates calls and/or being recorded. ]

Got it — that gold-red fern that only opens up during the day? Tobacco like.

Gives you a headache first time you smoke it, but afterwards? Smooth sailing.

Bring me samples of the leaves, drier the better. Found rolling papers.

Or don't. I'm not your mom.

[ Yet despite saying that, attached comes a picture of the aforementioned plant (Sun's Lace), two samples in view: one healthy, the other dried up. ] So you gonks don't poison yourselves toking up the wrong herb.

You're welcome ᝰ🚬

Comments

[coherer]

Man that sounds tasty, I just want to smell it
Then smoke it obviously but taking a nice deep inhale
Ahhh

( daydreams about a pretty lady or man flipping their pretty hair around... sighs... )

What's a static?

[justamobster]

Nieve's got a different climate, yeah? Right on the edge of the ocean. Salt in the sand, stuck to the rocks. Salt on fuckin' everything. Ain't gonna find nothin' like what grows there here...

S'too bad, local growers got good leaf. Licorice aftertaste. Smoked it 'fore decks of Slicks slipped down to a quarter for two and I couldn't go justifyin' the price.

[mikoshi]

This stuff's pretty close to it

The people who stay behind, unlike us nomads. Still part of our tribe
They know the land, lived in it before the corpos, before the white man showed up
Wouldn't survive without their help
They run fuel depots, gas stations, roadside inns, farms
They give us shelter, we bring them news. We buy or barter fuel, food, other goods
It's a delicate balance out here in the desert
Why scum like the Raffens gotta be put down like the dogs they are

[flavourtown]

Ah, understandable. You must have started with a fairly small sample size.

I'll start drying my own, then. If there is a chemical similar to nicotine in this plant, then there may be additional medicinal uses of note, so I'd like to conduct my own research.

What will you do once we leave the planet? Your supply will run out fairly quickly, right?

[shredder]

you've gotta work with what you've got
i feel that
gotta say tho it's still kinda badass you knew exactly what you were looking for
not many people know their plants where i'm from

[ Aside from, like. Fake flowers. ]

and ykw after sucking in all this clean air something peppery sounds like the perfect way to wind down
you gonna be posted up somewhere later? for special deliveries?

[coherer]

So they sound cool as hell, good to know
You're used to most of the stuff out here then
Except maybe the huge raptors

What are the Raffens?
White guys??

[mikoshi]

Foraging is one of the first things nomad kids get taught — teaches you a lot about the dangers of the desert, and we can squeeze into smaller spaces than adults

[ He doesn't think it's badass — just practical — but he'll take the compliment anyways. ]

Yeah, watch out for all the silica. Bad for your lungs
Tent and ship farthest north at the camp, bright orange canopy. I'm also wearing orange

[mikoshi]

Didn't have huge raptors but do have Raffens driving giant rigs at crazier speeds
So same shit in the end

Our outcasts
We're a chill people, but there are few things that will get you kicked out of the tribe
Rape, murder, slavery
Raffen are scum cause they prey on the weak and innocent for their own gain
They sell out their own people

There's this one band of Raffens, the Wraiths
They only travel — and attack — at night
Our caravan got raided near the Mexico border
4 AM
Had to put a bullet through one's forehead
Was sixteen

[coherer]

I am not detecting a lot of chillness from literally anything you've just texted me
js
You go 100% at all times dude

I'm really sorry that happened to you, sounds like you've had the worst life of all time
idk if that's an award you want but I'm glad you're here too if that's how things were going before you got here

Can I offer some well-meaning advice though?
Like I genuinely want you to know something that might help you out talking to people on the Theorem/alien species/etc
If you tone it down like 30% it might make you easier to talk to
Like if you bring it all down to a 7 maybe your story won't be something you feel like you need to wield in convo
It's important to you, I can feel that, but it's kinda unapproachable
Just my two cents, please ignore me if this is offside

Again, I don't mean to be a dick
If I come across as one then that's my bad to dw
But rn you are super hard to converse with
If that's by design then that's cool
I've just got a lot on my plate too and sometimes I just want to talk about tobacco
ik I signed on for this by asking you leading questions so that's my fault
Does any of this sound alright?

1/2

[mikoshi]

[ Vincent is beginning to get the distinct impression that 1) his world is particularly shitty, and people would rather not hear about it at all and 2) everyone here is fucking soft, that they pulled kids and non-combatants instead of the opposite, and they're not gonna last the winter much less a desert.

But in the name of coexistence... ]

2/2

[mikoshi]

Okay
Just superficial, shooting the shit with you
Got it

[coherer]

😯
Are you mad at me now?

( the quintessential 18-year-old question, but usually heard from a girlfriend )

[mikoshi]

No [ Isn't lying — clearly people here prefer a more detached approach. It's a wake up call if anything. ]

I'll keep things strictly professional from now on

[coherer]

We just met so like
Yeah that's probably what I'd expect for like at least the first 3 months of meeting someone?

Or at least yk
Not talking about SA, murder, headshotting guys as a teenager, bleeding from the nose bc of malignant tumours, etc....
Ease in

Anyway, I'll let you be
Pce

1/2

[mikoshi]

[ Questions he was asked. But clearly people here come from such idyllic places — or societies like Japan — where honesty is the greatest crime, because it fucks up the harmony.

How Vincent hates mentsu. Waste of fucking time. ]

2/2

[mikoshi]

Then stop asking me questions you don't want the answers to

さようなら

[mikoshi]

No, but bet you can find something. The land always provides

No offense but that sounds disgusting. Not a fan of licorice. More of a clove guy

[mikoshi]

Already grabbed some seeds, and getting some more. Grabbed a soil sample. Gonna try potting a whole plant. Get together with the science peeps to design a greenhouse that's hot and dry enough to grow these

[mikoshi]

I'll wear the dress you wear the tux while we do it, okay?

un: reliant

[blyat]

hell yeah
finally some good fucking info

thanks

[He's gonna go smoke this shit.]

[rebelsamurai]

Only if you let me pick out your dress and veil. If so, then deal.

But seriously, how are you holding up in this flying shithole?

[mikoshi]

Alright, long as you don't make me shave and/or wax. Ingrown hairs are a bitch

Some peeps are fucking annoying. Others are chill. Glad I found nicotine though. Can handle it now that Berserk OS ain't regulating my hormones for me

[mikoshi]

いいえ

[rebelsamurai]

Fuck no! If I wanted a hairless twink that looks like Nibbles, I would just order one from Twinktopia or some shit.

That bad, huh? Yeah, I’ve noticed that our less than gracious hosts have a sense of humor. Even most military recruitment centers have a better selection.

[mikoshi]

Supposedly also hurts like a bitch putting on tights when your legs are furry. But with my dick huge and my pain endless, I tread onward

Mean, kinda glad no one here got recruited by the likes of the NUSA or Militech — same shit, really — offering a healthcare plan to go blow up villages in Nicaragua. But would it have killed them to pick up a few more jarheads? Shit's so dire I'd take Kurt Hansen