Week 8.

[azumods]

WEEK 8 Snowpoint City remains as cold and unforgiving as ever, through no fault of its residents. The city itself doesn't seem to see much change in the passing days; there's something you'll all become rather aware of on Sunday as the day goes on, and after so long with no incidents along those lines it's likely an unpleasant thing to deal with. There's also the fact that the changes to the world seem to be slowing; though the one alteration that's immediately obvious is a major one, it seems that things may be beginning to stagnate again. Will there be a slip back into apathy again, if this continues? Or will the changes you've affected already continue to hold? Only time will tell, really. That doesn't mean that nothing has changed, however - thankfully enough, the slugs seem to be settling. Or...well, more accurately, once in a while they stop huffing at each other long enough to drive up piles of snow with their heads and stare at them like they're trying to work out what they're attempting to create, but at least it's a collaborative effort. Are they attempting diplomacy? It's difficult to tell; after all, they are just slugs. But at least there seems to be a little less open hostility. Improvement...? Perhaps. The local ghost Pokémon also seem to have taken an interest in you lately, though precisely...how is a little mixed. They don't seem overly mischievous or malicious - they seem about as odd as the rest of the wild Pokémon in the region - but they do seem more inherently trusting of you and your traveling group. They've taken to following you from time to time, and taking a general vague interest in what you're doing. So that's...new. CURRENT LOCATION: SNOWPOINT CITY POKEMON AVAILABLE: WITHIN CITIES SUNDAY | MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY [OOC: Welcome to week eight of Azume; feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend.]

Comments

[eudaimonikos]

[......Michael bursts into laughter as well.]

Oh, Bucky, well done! You had me trying to figure out when "phantom limb" was coined! [Is that a phrase that was introduced during that seventy years you were out of commission, he literally has no idea]

[semistableman]

I don't know when it was coined, but it was a term when I was growing up, heard it about the guys who came back from the first World War every now and then.

[He motions to his left shoulder.]

You know what they don't tell you about phantom limbs is that they hurt? It doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, it feels like my arm is on fire. The one I don't have anymore, I mean.

[eudaimonikos]

I did know that they hurt...

[Don't ask how.]

Anything they can do for it?

[semistableman]

I don't think so, no.

Technically, I have a left arm, a metal one. The engineers can hook it up to me, and while I can't feel things with it, exactly, it does a pretty good job of simulating temperature and pressure.

But honestly? I hate using it. I never wear it for civilian work, it's why I only have the one.

[He sighs.]

Even if I did have it here, I can't install it on my own.

[eudaimonikos]

[Well, as cool as having a robot arm sounds, Michael can imagine reasons why Bucky wouldn't like it.]

You get along fine without it. Humans usually freak out about losing limbs.

[semistableman]

Honestly? I don't remember what my reaction to not having a left arm was. I think I was too out of it to really be amazed I was still alive.

[Also he'd been tortured by HYDRA, so. He had other things to worry about.]