the miles are way too long

[saviorexe]

WHO: Markus, Ardyn, V & various
WHERE: All around.
WHEN: The first half of IC November.
WHAT: This is basically a catch-all log for my characters.
NOTES OR WARNINGS: None, will add if any crop up.

[Closed starters below! If you want a thread, just hit me up at aurajen and we can figure something out!]

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V & DICK;

[verselet]

Meet me here. I'd like to speak with you, if you have the time.

[A location is sent, a dropped virtual pin in the middle of a spider-web map of the city. A bustling entertainment center, often filled to the brim with shoppers and late-night excursionists looking for some fun. Not V's usual scene, but curiosity is a fresh motivator that will only go stale once he’s had his fill of all there is to be seen.

Admittedly, that might take a while.

Still, if Dick chooses to meet him, the hour is late in the evening, but the VR arcade is strangely alive with customers, cast in the glow dark booths and LED plates that indicate where to stand to begin any number of games. V's choice is a very large virtual claw machine, its facade visible when one draws near enough, peering "in" to spy the prizes stacked up in its belly.]

[preceded]

on my way.

[Even if he's not quite sure why the meeting was requested, he's prompt with his answer. It could range from anything serious, he knows- like a further appearance or memory of the people who'd taken him to the Haunted House, now that the ordeal is over and his mind has had time to settle- from the mundane. Needing a further foot hold in this world and looking to find it in one familiar, if only because they were in this together, and met early.

The location is a bit of a surprise too- even if he's familiar with it. He's dragged Damian there more than once, in an effort to inspire a bit of fun in his younger brother. It's a solid one though- it's usually heavily populated, meaning most conversations aren't going to be overheard, and that if anyone wanted to get to V- they'd have a hard time doing it without drawing any attention. This isn't like the fighting ring or seedier bars down town- people aren't likely to look the other way.

He doesn't live close- so it does take him a few fair minutes on the public transportation side to get there, and then a few more to locate V within the building- but once he does, he's a bit surprised. The claw machine is so reminiscent of something found in his own time, and hardly all that interesting in comparison to some of the newer tech. He wouldn't have pegged it in particular, to catch V's attention]

Have you tried it yet?

[verselet]

[He gives Dick a sidelong glance as he nears, stepping aside to give him room to view the virtual claw machine. It casts a neon light across both of their forms, adding to the bright and dizzying ambiance of the arcade.]

I haven't. But-

[He points to one in particular, nestled within the mound of virtual plushies. His hand slips through the "machine", as it's made of nothing more than light, indicating one shaped like a black cat, or a panther.]

-how's your hand-eye coordination? I'll put in a credit or two if you don't mind winning it for me.

[He turns his head to look at his companion, eyes alight with perceptible amusement.]

Apparently if you win it virtually, the physical object will be your prize to be picked up at the front counter.

[And he can speak about the real reason he asked Dick to meet him in the process.]