[open] Catch-All for the Remainder of August

[tempredmental]

who: Keith & YOU
what: Various things... training, exploring town, Perimeter Guard stuff, whatever! Open to backdated amnesia stuff if desired, just let me know.
when: Can go all the way back to the beginning of August if desired, but definitely carries through until September 1st.
where: Around town!
warnings: None right now, but will edit and add if needed.

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Perimeter Guard - Open

[tempredmental]

Keith was getting used to his new 'job' with the Perimeter Guard. He'd taken on one position that was with Shiro (search & rescue), but also a second unit separate from him (surveyors). So, now he had to try and get to know his new 'teammates'. Getting used to one team had been hard enough back home. Now he had to do it again? Ugh. Why did he sign up for this again?

Perimeter Guard - Open

[thegreatninja]

Yuffie liked working for the Perimeter Guard. It gave her time to train and to explore beyond the wall that protected the city from the forest around it. She found it interesting how similar it was to Gaia while also being a stark contrast to the planet that she calls home. There were similar creatures and tasks but it all felt different.

She was still deciding if she liked this difference.

Yuffie was dressed in her usual ninja gear with a silver arm guard trailing down the length of her left arm. Her usual smile on her face as she slipped up next to Keith. "Hiya!" She was also in Search & Rescue as well as the Surveyors. She had a talent when it came to going to places that she didn't belong.

[tempredmental]

"Oh... uh, hi." Keith scrunched his eyebrows a little, and nodded in response. "I guess we're going out on this patrol together, huh?" He was in his Paladin armor, and was only carrying one visible weapon... a large dagger that was in a sheath clipped to the back of his belt. "You're my partner, then?" She seemed pretty upbeat, so he'd just go along with that, especially considering what had happened between them at the Masq.

[thegreatninja]

"Looks like it." Yuffie held grudges but she was cool with Keith. He hadn't actually thrown her and she had still managed to take his mask off first. She will count that as a win. The way her mind worked sometimes didn't make a lot of sense.

She stretched her arms over head, elongating her spine. "Just don't throw me. You now, unless I ask. We got the North section right or some such nonsense in that direction?" She looked up at him with her usual bright purple gaze. This was the kind of thing she loved doing. "You think you can move quickly in all that stuff?"

It looked like she might out run him.

[tempredmental]

Keith creased his eyebrows dubiously.

"I... yeah. Sorry about that." He looked down. In a much calmer mindset now than at the party, he was able to figure out that he had definitely overreacted. He was still a little bothered that he had reacted that way at all. He should have been able to control it better. "I don't really know what came over me. I just... reacted."

He nodded. "Yeah... North. And I'll be fine." Altean armor was surprisingly light weight and easy to move in. He would be okay. "I'm used to wearing this now." He was pretty fast in it, too. Just try him.

[thegreatninja]

Yuffie put her arms behind her head as she turned to look at him.

"Mmhmm?" She hummed softly, looking up at Keith as if she didn't know what he was talking about. "So you don't normally throw girls? probably a good move if you ever wany a girl friend. She winked. "It's in the past. Let's focus on the mission."

Nope, she didn't believe that he could keep up with her. Granted, she was an amazing awesome ninja and she had magic to help her.

[tempredmental]

Keith's eyebrow quirked up. He hadn't even considered girlfriends, to be quite honest. But, no... he didn't normally just throw people like that. He sighed as they started walking. If he knew she had a magic boost to her speed, then he might feel differently about keeping up, but he was pretty fast on his feet for someone without special powers or magic spells to help him along, so he was confident enough in his running, even with the armor on. It wasn't like it was heavy or anything, and he wore it often enough that it was practically normal now.

However, he wasn't much of a talker, and was perfectly find to keep walking in silence towards their sector. She'd probably have to keep up the conversation if she wanted to chat.

[thegreatninja]

"Okay, silence is boring." She declared shortly after they had lapsed into silence. Yuffie never liked the quite. That was always when her mind wandered to bad places.

"Is your favorite color red? Why do you wear so much armor? If you got a pet what pet would it be?"

[tempredmental]

Silence was perfectly fine by him, but... okay, then.

He considered her questions. What... those were three different topics!

"I uh... Well, okay," he managed. "I guess so? I never really thought about it before. The armor is basically my uniform for Voltron. And, I have no idea. Pets are weird."

[thegreatninja]

Yuffie didn't trust the random twists and turns that existed inside her own head. Silence reminded her of the home that she was separated from and the pain of her last parting. It always seemed to be like that… No matter what Yuffie did, it was the wrong thing according to her father and if something went wrong, it was her fault.

Why bother being honest if people always thought you were lying?

Yuffie puffed a soft breath of air before focusing on Keith. "Pets are weird and usually a lot of work." She agreed with a shrug. "That's your armor? That's kinda intense don't you think? Not that I'm complaining. I'll let you go in first and back you up. I got speed and spells. I can also heal." It was important for him to know for their working relationship.

[tempredmental]

"I guess... it works. We got up against some pretty intense enemies, and it also doubles as a spacesuit." He listened to her rattle off her skills. Another magic user, huh? That was okay. He was getting used to it. "Alright. What kinds of spells?"

[thegreatninja]

"Basic healing. Maxed levels so I can help heal broken bones. Poison... not so much." She rolled her shoulders in a shrug. "Then I have ice and time magic." Yuffie turned her arm as they walked looking at the glowing orbs that was set in the metal armor piece. "I have a summon but it haven't gotten it to work." So she didn't know what it was.

[tempredmental]

"You have something that you can't get to work?"

Keith didn't know what a 'summon' was, but it sounded like it called something, and he was kind of a little worried about it not working. If it suddenly worked, but not the way she thought it should, that could be bad, right?

[verflair]

X’rhun is a member of both Search & Rescue and Orientation, inducting new recruits and giving them a crash course in the Perimeter Guard and their duties. In the very, very brief time he’s been with the Guard, he’s yet to meet a new recruit that was not in some way qualified for the job.

He assumes the same is true of the young man set to accompany him on a routine patrol outside of the perimeter fence— a pretty standard jaunt through the forest to ensure no wayward adventurer got in over their heads. The idea, apparently, is to pair some of the newer members together to allow them to get to know each other.

X’rhun waits at the designated gate, looking not at all prepared for a walk through the woods in his bright red duelist garb, his rapier hanging from one hip, the crystal focus he uses for casting spells hanging from the other. For now, his impressively plumed hat sits atop his head, concealing his feline ears underneath. Even so, it should be obvious he isn’t human, given his facial markings and slit-pupiled eyes. And the furry tail, swaying easily while he waits.

Thankfully he doesn’t have to wait overlong before he spots his partner for this outing.

“Ah, you must be… Keith, was it?”

[tempredmental]

Sending the two guys in red off together, eh? Keith was in his Paladin armor, though the main weapon was currently stowed. On the back of his belt was a sheath, inside of which was a large dagger, the handle wrapped with an off-white cloth.

If X'rhun was expecting a surprised reaction to his general appearance, he wasn't going to get it. Keith's heard about real mermaids, seen talking rocks, and met a race of tree people that could manipulate both nature and metal with their minds. He had a lot of competition for weirdest being ever met.

He nodded.

"Yeah... that's me." He did take a once over glance of the clothes, though. "How do you say your name?" He'd only seen it written down, and... well... He didn't want to butcher it on the first try. Might as well clarify it first.

[verflair]

Thus far, X’rhun has seen a fairly even mix of people who have no idea what he is and people who could not care less that he shares some notable traits with cats. When he doesn’t get a reaction about his appearance, he just assumes Keith is in the latter camp and leaves it like that.

“X’rhun,” he offers. With the x like xylophone, rhun like run. The twenty-six miqo’te tribes of X’rhun’s home decided to each claim a letter of the Eorzean alphabet and affix their names with it. Some of them got off easier than others. “A pleasure to meet you.”

[tempredmental]

"X'rhun," Keith repeated, making sure he had it right. "Same."

He glanced at the gate.

"I think we're headed for the southeastern quadrant today," he said. "Have you been out there before?"

[verflair]

“Only the barest outskirts of the area.” His patrols haven’t led him there yet, and while he’s been systematically exploring on his own, he still hasn’t made it into the quadrant proper.

He follows Kieth’s gaze to the gate, turning to face it more fully. He gives a little wave to the camera posted there— hopefully that should be enough to get the thing open and get them on their way.

“Yourself?”

[tempredmental]

"I was in there with someone else who knew the area the other day," Keith said. "It wasn't bad. I also managed to get a map." There was something to be said about having nifty high tech armored spacesuits. Keith tapped a spot on the red wrist gauntlet of his suit, and a blue holoscreen appeared above it with said map. "It should come in handy." Especially because he was able to pinpoint his own location on said map with a small red dot.

X'rhun's look was definitely enough, as the gate operator recognized they were ready to go. The gate opened, giving them access to the outside. With a nod up at the operator, Keith started out. Once through, the gate closed behind them, leaving them to their patrol.

[verflair]

X’rhun’s eyes widen as the map springs into being from the device on Keith’s arm. He’s not used to technology of this type, let alone having it be something that’s widely available. Most of his life was spent on the wrong end of magitek powered weapons, and while he admits that technology in and of itself isn’t inherently evil, seeing it as a tool for the everyman still takes some getting used to.

“That’s rather convenient.”

He angles his head a little as he inspects the map, surmising that the red dot must indicate their current location. Shortly thereafter, the gate slides open, and the time for gawking at holographic maps is over as they step out into the forest.

“Well, since we’ve been partnered up on this little excursion, why don’t you tell me about yourself a bit? Where do you hail from?”

[tempredmental]

"I thought so. There's a lot of convenient things about these suits." Keith was definitely a-okay with the functions in the suit. He couldn't get it to do as much as Pidge could, but that was okay. He didn't always need to. But she was able to use the different functions in hers for all sorts of things. It was actually pretty neat.

"I come from a place called Nevada on the planet Earth," he said. "Though, I haven't been there in a while. I was in a group of people that found an ancient spaceship, and we got pulled through a wormhole almost to the other side of the universe. Now, we travel space and are attempting to take down an evil empire that's been conquering and destroying worlds."

"Spaceship" was probably a little easier to relate to than "massively gigantic robotic psychic space lion that combines with four other massively gigantic robotic psychic space lions to make an even more massively gigantic fighting robot".

[verflair]

That is… rather a lot to take in on a first meeting, and in spite of Keith’s best efforts to keep things understandable, some of that flies right over X’rhun’s finely feathered hat. If the fact that X’rhun is dressed like one of the three musketeers wasn’t enough of a hint, his clear confusion should make it apparent that there’s no space travel where he’s from.

“What is a… ‘space ship’?” He ventures at last. He can hazard a guess based on the name, but he would rather not jump to conclusions. “Is that like an airship?”

[tempredmental]

"I guess?" Keith shrugged. "That would depend on what you consider an airship to be." He thought for a moment. "You have... boats? Think of that, completely sealed closed, and it can fly up among the stars. Like past the mooon." Of course, they were currently on a moon, but it didn't feel like a moon, so that was kind of moot. But, he was hoping that made some sense.

[verflair]

“An airship is very much like a seafaring vessel, only it flies thanks to a special kind of fuel called ceruleum.” Which sounds somewhat like Keith’s description, though it’s clear that Eorzea has a long way to go before they’re flying men out beyond the moon. “But they can only go so high. Nothing quite like what you’re suggesting.”

It’s a fascinating thought, though, to be able to travel between stars in a ship, negating the need for powerful and questionable magic like that used by the Ascians, who slip through space as they please.

“Anyroad, you’ll have to forgive an ignorant old man. We’ve not even half the technology I’ve seen here where I come from.”

[tempredmental]

"That's okay," Keith said. "It's actually relatively new for where I'm from, too." He looked around as they made their way along. "The stuff here is pretty on par for what I've seen, but we've also been to some planets where things aren't quite as advanced." The differences could sometimes be a bit jarring, but it was something Keith was slowly getting used to. They had gone from one planet that thought they were gods because of their technology, to another that was even more advanced than they were. So, it was definitely all relative.