to: everyone

[righteously]

testing 1 2 3
can you hear me now?
good

I'm looking for somebody who knows how to handle a sword
preferably somebody better than the mooks in the training yard
for teaching purposes, just to be clear, not mercenary work
I'll pay if I gotta, money or favors

alternatively, anyone who knows how to get a friggin gun
doesn't seem like they're just handing those out at the barracks
six-shooter, lever-action, doesn't matter, I'll take whatever I can get my hands on

Comments

[baltimores]

if you find any guns, pass it on. been here fuck knows how many months now and haven't found so much as a bullet. it's like a barren wasteland out there

[righteously]

I've seen one or two floating around. Looked like an off-brand Winchester Model 1890 and some kind of revolver. Just haven't figured out where the hell they're selling 'em from.

[baltimores]

[ Give him a minute to process that information. ]

that old, huh

shit. guess it's better than nothing. where are you?

[righteously]

Yeah, well, beggars can't be choosers
Until I manage to go full Inigo Montoya I'll take grandpa's shotgun

Cadens
You?

[baltimores]

sure. gotta wonder how effective it is, but would still rather be the guy with a gun than the guy without

solvunn. tertiary settlement. middle of nowhere, basically. probably explains why I'm hooped in that department

[righteously]

Shoots bullets, that's effective enough for me.

Sounds lame. You're missing out on all the medieval hookers and blow. Least you're not in Thorne, I hear those guys are dicks. That's what the propaganda says, anyway.

[baltimores]

until the thing gets jammed. or doesn't hold enough bullets. then you're fucked

thorne are dicks. I don't give a fuck what these guys are saying about each other, I just know they brought me here and immediately threw me in jail. that's a pretty dick move

[righteously]

Those problems aren't exactly exclusive to older models. Either way, that's where the sword thing comes in.

Yeah, think I heard somebody else mention that happened to them, too. How'd you wind up in Solvunn?

[baltimores]

nope, but I've never had a problem I couldn't fix with anything Martian-made. not gonna find that quality here. sword seems like a good enough stopgap, though. I got Hunter teaching me. think he's where you're at

[ By which he means Geralt, but Amos isn't exactly the kind of guy who spells that sort of thing out to people, so just Hunter it is. ]

some guys showed up out of nowhere, busted us all out. opened up a couple of portals for us to go through. said solvunn was neutral and reclusive, so that's where I went

[righteously]

Hold up
Martian as in
Like
Mars?
Martian Martian Martian?

[baltimores]

yup

[righteously]

Your name wouldn't happen to be Marvin would it?

[baltimores]

nope. name's Amos

[righteously]

Guess they don't have Looney Tunes on Mars. Can't win 'em all.

No wonder you're all up in arms over the
arms

What the hell year was it for you?

[baltimores]

not like I'm from there. just know they make good shit. feels like they're overcompensating for something, really

2356 or 2357. something like that

[righteously]

Lack of breathable atmosphere maybe?

Let me ask you something
We got flying cars yet?

[baltimores]

no balls, I figure

there are shuttles, if that's what you mean. or, you know, spaceships. probably more practical than a flying car at this point

[righteously]

You know what, probably for the best. Nothing like a 60 story plummet after a fender-bender.

It was 2012 for me last time I was on earth.

[baltimores]

where I'm from, some asshole probably would've tried to kamikaze into a building, anyway

2012? I'd say that's ancient, but, you know. [ The whole where they are now thing. ] least you know what a gun is. there's another guy around Cadens from thenabouts, too. goes by Sam

[righteously]

Pretty sure that's just a 'humanity sucks' thing, trust me, they'd do that when I'm from too.

I met Sam. He's a good guy. Helped me figure out this whole horizon situation.

[baltimores]

yeah, that sounds about right. Baltimore would've been real ripe for that kind of shit though. where're you from?

he is. nice thing about that place is I can make myself a decent gun there. too bad none of it's real, but makes for a decent reprieve

[righteously]

All over. Grew up on the road. If I had to pick, gun to my head, I'd probably go with Kansas.

No kidding. It's the music for me, man. It's the only thing keeping me sane. If I had to listen to nothing but friggin pan flute 24/7 I'd lose my entire damn mind.

[baltimores]

huh. never been. when I left Baltimore, that was kinda it for me and Earth

never thought about music. I've got a buddy who'd pump his stuff through the speakers sometimes. lots of soulful country. never really minded it. dunno how I'd feel about constant pan flutes though. when you put it that way, kinda hoping I don't find out

[righteously]

Dude, you don't know what you're missing. Not to crap on your pal's country, but Led Zeppelin's a total eargasm

Anyway, circling on back to the point
Think you could give me the deets on how to find that Hunter cat you were talking about?

[baltimores]

hey, I'm open to just about whatever. you play it, maybe I'll stop by sometime

not sure where in cadens he lives. Sam'll probably know. long white hair, yellow eyes. kinda hard to miss. think he got kinda fucked up recently, so I dunno how good he is with a sword at the moment, but we've just been meeting up in the horizon anyway