Don't feel stupid. It's a large city, and now you have to account for up and down, too. I don't know what your world was like before this place, but that was new to me when I first arrived.
Can you describe where you are? Any landmarks? Barring that, there's a virtual map you can bring up with your implant.
Prompto Silver. It wouldn't have been a bad name. But it could be worse; you could've typo'd "Porm" instead.
I'll be there soon.
[-eyes taking in the information presented to him, he zooms into Prompto's pinned location, and keeps it sequestered to the corner of his vision.
Time for an outing, then. Getting up, he continues the conversation as he leaves the apartment.]
The city I come from is big, too, but not exactly like this. Sometimes it feels like a monster ready to swallow everyone up; like a living, breathing organism.
[he's just gonna sit himself down by a dirty step. don't mind him.]
you're very poetic markus?? i get what you mean though big cities have that kinda quality to themselves it's especially daunting knowing there are bits of the city you've never seen before i've walked a ton today but i'm pretty sure i've only seen like 2% of what it is
You're a ways out from where I am. [Not terribly far, considering that they all have blossomed outwardly from the safe house in terms of location; but if he's going by foot it'll be a bit.]
I've been exploring since my arrival, and I know for a fact I haven't seen even close to what the whole city can offer.
Did you find anything of interest today, though, before you got lost? Places to eat, at least?
[he's so tired he won't mind appearing like a homeless individual for a bit (he is homeless, though)]
there's quite a lot of restaurants??? really posh ones and then really cheap ones a lot of rationing going on right? i tried finding an electronics store maybe tomorrow
There's water rationing currently in effect, yes, thanks to the heat. The future hasn't done the environment of Earth any favors, and it was already in a questionable state in 2038.
I can show you a few locations of interest. Electronics, clothes. If you're not too tired, otherwise it can wait until some other time. Looking for something specific, or just want to browse?
You can swing by the apartment sometime if you want to sleep in a real bed. Noctis has been doing the same. I know that the cots in the safe house can't be described as... comfortable.
noct's picky about his sleep... dunno don't wanna be a bother
[it used to be easier to tag along with noctis and simply place himself into the whatever area he was in and assert himself like "i am also here!" but with how things are, with strangers to their own cause, to what he hasn't told noctis...]
[prompto doesn't know if he's projecting needing distance onto noctis or if it's actually there. they're not on a roadtrip here, though.]
[maybe best to go onto a different train of thought...]
📸📸📸📸 i love photography! i used to want to be a professional photographer kinda upsetting to know my camera's lost forever ? but... yeah
[He remembers the conversation he had with Noctis, after Prompto had just newly arrived. The uncertainty of what had happened; the exchange of hurt between two friends. None of his business, especially not when he promised Noctis he'd keep it between the two of them. He refrains from texting anything more than that.]
What did you like to photograph? The wildlife, or the city life?
[he'll take a moment to consider the offer, then. he doesn't want too sound super earnest or anything.]
everything! i had tons of pictures with animals that i'd see in the city those are lost now but... i started taking up taking pictures of people and landscape heh.. i became very good at taking pix while fighting also
yeah i'm pretty quick ngl it took some practice and some times it really bites me in the ass but most of the pix are #WorthIt
daemons arrrrrrreee according to th...e insomnian.....dictionary... "vicious nocturnal creatures of various forms that strike fear into the hearts of even the most seasoned hunters"
[he learned that much from school, god bless.]
something about a plague a long long long time ago making animals become like that ig noct might know a bit better about it
[Markus isn’t sure exactly which part is the most disturbing about that explanation — the description of daemons itself, or the fact that Prompto seems to know so little about a disease that sounds rather… terrifying, really.]
Strike fear into the hearts of seasoned hunters. Is that true? What do they look like?
it depends! some are literally imps with little cone-hats but then there are bigger and buffer imps that may have done energy drink shots there's like super creepy disgusting huge snakes with semi-human heads these floaty tentacles that are crazy scary you don't wanna get caught by them floating fire balls with funny faces haha and how can i forget the iron giants with their huge swords and metal bodies
now you're thinking: it'd be great if prompto had his camera right?!
lol i could try and draw them maybe but even then you'd be like plz no
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anyway...could you plz?? also don't tell noct
he'll laugh for days
i already messed up the name thing
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Don't feel stupid. It's a large city, and now you have to account for up and down, too. I don't know what your world was like before this place, but that was new to me when I first arrived.
Can you describe where you are? Any landmarks? Barring that, there's a virtual map you can bring up with your implant.
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[he appreciates markus being--nice about it. and so prompto immediately brings up his map location and shares it with markus.]
got it open a while back but i just wanted to check if you'd be ok with helping me
passenger station for the intercity in any case
insomnia was big like this actually
not so much the underground or the crazy neon lights but... kinda got lost in the nostalgia
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I'll be there soon.
[-eyes taking in the information presented to him, he zooms into Prompto's pinned location, and keeps it sequestered to the corner of his vision.
Time for an outing, then. Getting up, he continues the conversation as he leaves the apartment.]
The city I come from is big, too, but not exactly like this. Sometimes it feels like a monster ready to swallow everyone up; like a living, breathing organism.
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[he's just gonna sit himself down by a dirty step. don't mind him.]
you're very poetic markus?? i get what you mean though
big cities have that kinda quality to themselves
it's especially daunting knowing there are bits of the city you've never seen before
i've walked a ton today but i'm pretty sure i've only seen like 2% of what it is
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He's just not going to reply to that part.]
You're a ways out from where I am. [Not terribly far, considering that they all have blossomed outwardly from the safe house in terms of location; but if he's going by foot it'll be a bit.]
I've been exploring since my arrival, and I know for a fact I haven't seen even close to what the whole city can offer.
Did you find anything of interest today, though, before you got lost? Places to eat, at least?
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[he's so tired he won't mind appearing like a homeless individual for a bit (he is homeless, though)]
there's quite a lot of restaurants??? really posh ones and then really cheap ones
a lot of rationing going on right?
i tried finding an electronics store
maybe tomorrow
went in to see what clothes are like here
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There's water rationing currently in effect, yes, thanks to the heat. The future hasn't done the environment of Earth any favors, and it was already in a questionable state in 2038.
I can show you a few locations of interest. Electronics, clothes. If you're not too tired, otherwise it can wait until some other time. Looking for something specific, or just want to browse?
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real mind blowing info
don't wanna sound lazy but i've been walking all day
just gotta snooze it out at the safehouse and some other time will sound great 👍
wanna check out what cameras are like in this day and age
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You can swing by the apartment sometime if you want to sleep in a real bed. Noctis has been doing the same. I know that the cots in the safe house can't be described as... comfortable.
Are you interested in photography?
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don't wanna be a bother
[it used to be easier to tag along with noctis and simply place himself into the whatever area he was in and assert himself like "i am also here!" but with how things are, with strangers to their own cause, to what he hasn't told noctis...]
[prompto doesn't know if he's projecting needing distance onto noctis or if it's actually there. they're not on a roadtrip here, though.]
[maybe best to go onto a different train of thought...]
📸📸📸📸 i love photography! i used to want to be a professional photographer
kinda upsetting to know my camera's lost forever ? but... yeah
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[He remembers the conversation he had with Noctis, after Prompto had just newly arrived. The uncertainty of what had happened; the exchange of hurt between two friends. None of his business, especially not when he promised Noctis he'd keep it between the two of them. He refrains from texting anything more than that.]
What did you like to photograph? The wildlife, or the city life?
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everything! i had tons of pictures with animals that i'd see in the city
those are lost now but... i started taking up taking pictures of people and landscape
heh.. i became very good at taking pix while fighting also
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While on your hunts you mean?
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?? there's a war going on uhhhh
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You take pictures while in the middle of fighting enemy forces?
Shouldn’t your priority be staying alive?
[A beat.]
That the city — Insomnia, I assume — had been overtaken by another army.
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making memories and all that
[stop judging him through chat]
yeah! that much is true
so we had to fight soldiers off and daemons
kinda unrelated to the war but those are more of a night-curse thing
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You must be... able to take photographs very quickly.
Daemons. Can you explain to me further what those are?
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but most of the pix are #WorthIt
daemons arrrrrrreee according to th...e insomnian.....dictionary... "vicious nocturnal creatures of various forms that strike fear into the hearts of even the most seasoned hunters"
[he learned that much from school, god bless.]
something about a plague a long long long time ago making animals become like that ig
noct might know a bit better about it
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Strike fear into the hearts of seasoned hunters. Is that true? What do they look like?
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there's like super creepy disgusting huge snakes with semi-human heads
these floaty tentacles that are crazy scary you don't wanna get caught by them
floating fire balls with funny faces haha
and how can i forget the iron giants with their huge swords and metal bodies
now you're thinking: it'd be great if prompto had his camera
right?!
lol i could try and draw them maybe but even then you'd be like plz no
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[there's a pause here while the right word is plucked from his vocabulary]
variable. That a disease can change something into forms that are so different from each other.
[It is, again, nigh terrifying of a thought in its unpredictability.]
It would be great if you had your camera, actually. But I wouldn't mind seeing your attempts at drawing them. Why, not an artist at heart?
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it's always just Been A Thing if that makes sense
[markus is trying to shed light on something that prompto never wondered too much about. odd, how perspectives work.]
i never was that good at drawing! or writing lol it feels like it's sooo much effort
photography's kind of an artist thing tho right!
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