Intro Log: Eight Legs No Heart

[hadrielmods]

Who: New arrivals and everyone else!
What: The intro log for June.
Where: The colosseum and all around the city.
When: June 10th-15th
Warnings: Spiders. Soooo many spiders. New people. Probably swearing.

For once, the new arrivals to Hadriel will not be waking up on the cold hard ground of the colosseum. Oh, sure, you'll still awaken in the arena - but this time the Door has been kind enough to ensure that you wake up comfortably arranged in a very nice chair. Or maybe not so comfortably. Some of those look pretty awkward - hopefully you didn't wake up with a crick in your neck! And hey, feel free to try to drag some of these super cool chairs to your new homes. They're probably not cursed or anything.

As you make your way out of the arena, be careful getting to close to the walls - well, except that's the only way out, so good luck! Chilling up on there waiting to get the drop on you are Skulltulas. These funky-looking spiders have squishy underbellies, but their upper exoskeletons are hard and very difficult to break through. They really just want to nibble you a few times, and maybe suck out all of your blood. No big deal, right? Have fun!

Have you conquered your arachnophobia and managed to escape? Great! Feel free to go explore the rest of the city! Find a house, find a new monster, or simply scavenge for supplies. Good luck, and enjoy your stay in Hadriel!

► This log covers June 10th-15th.
► Feel free to make your own logs as well!
► All characters arrive with phones that have network communication.
► Please put your character's name and open/closed in the subject line of your starters!

Comments

[perceives_sunlight]

"It looks better than Gojyo's old hou--OW!" And the vegetablish bounced right off the gold diadem and to the floor, spinning around. Goku's head whipped over to Gojyo, glaring him down. "HEY! WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!?!

"Hakkaaaaaaaiiiii!!!"

[stepford_smiler]

This was going to be how it was for now. It went from one person whining his name to two.

Well.

Time to change the subject forever.

"Come here, Goku. I need help with the stew" No he didn't, but anything to get him off of the word 'love nest' as long as humanly possible.

Hakkai started unloading their hefty grocery bags, having nearly four times as much food as he would have normally picked up because they would need every last bit of it.

"Please fill this pot up with water. And you have to use the knob on the left. The one on the right doesn't work properly" he instructed. "Only fill it halfway"

[inappropriatelaughter]

Yeah, good. Anyway.

No wait he wasn't done. There were two rooms! There had been two rooms at the house! By that metric the stupid temple was the world's biggest who the fuck even said love nest? He and Sanzo were going to have words (no they weren't). Gojyo propped a skinny cigarette-stand-in bean-thing between his teeth and put away groceries, somewhat conspicuously nowhere near Hakkai, for about two seconds before popping open one of his dubious beers.

[perceives_sunlight]

Goku went over to the sink, looking to the faucets. He listened to Hakkai, turning on only the left knob, allowing water to run through. The brunet stuck the pot into the water, holding it up with both hands. It was quiet, at first. Then he started humming, tilting his head to the side as he waited for the water to fill up.

Once it was halfway, Goku pulled it out of the sink.

"Done!" He brought it over to Hakkai. He looked at Gojyo.

"...Are you gonna sit around and watch?" That tone wasn't condescending at all.

[stepford_smiler]

"Thank you, Goku" Hakkai smiled to him and put the pot onto the stove and turned it up to boil. There wasn't much else he was going to have Goku do because it all had to do with sharp objects and really--who had taught him 'love nest'? That's learned behavior is what that is.

Hakkai went onto cutting and peeling vegetable things and focusing on that because that was the most important thing right now.

As a previously sleeping Hakuryuu started smelling vegetables being rendered, he flew from Hakkai's room and into the kitchen where everyone was hanging out. He saw the smaller version of Goku and flew over to him quickly.

[inappropriatelaughter]

"I was just putting stuff away!" He gestured with his beer at the cabinets in protest.

No, it was no good. He was getting shown up by a baby. An asshole baby. Love nest. Gojyo slid into a chair and laid his forehead on the table with a gentle thump. "What can I do, Hakkai?"

[perceives_sunlight]

Hakkai was cooking, and Goku was watching, waiting for orders... but he had a feeling Hakkai wasn't going to call on him to do anything. He looked over to Gojyo who was faceplanted against the table. Before he could say anything to him, however, Hakuryuu flew over to him. The monkey-child's eyes went wide at the strange creature flying towards him.

"WHAT IS THAT?!" And he practically snatched the white dragon out of the air, holding it up with both hands in awe. "Hakkai, it's a dragon! Gojyo, look! I caught a dragon!"

[stepford_smiler]

"You're fine like that" Hakkai said to Gojyo before Goku's voice rang around the kitchen. Hakkai paused in cutting vegetables (making a small mountain of blue carrot like things) to look over at Goku holding Hakuryuu up.

"Be gentle with him. His name is Hakuryuu. That's who I wanted to introduce to you" he said, going back to adding to the pile of veggies. He dumped what he had on his cutting board to the pot of hot water before starting on some more vegetables to cut. He hadn't had to cook like this in a while, it seemed.

Hakuryuu made happy noises as he was reunited with Goku, though he was also confused as to why Goku was tiny like this and seemed to not know him. But he wiggled in his hands and craned his long neck to lick his face.

[inappropriatelaughter]

"Don't eat it." Gojyo pushed himself off the table and slouched, stretching his legs out to reach the opposite chair, mildly pacified. This was what the Goku of a few years was supposed to be like: kinda cute, not actively annoying, and not accusing him of laziness, or whatever.

or whatever

[perceives_sunlight]

"Hi, Hakuryuu!" Goku chirped happily. He looked at Gojyo, proclaiming with a pouty tone 'I'm not gonna!', before going back and gently tossing Hakuryuu up in the air a few time,s over and over. He laughed happily when he was licked on the face. "Wow, you're so small! We should play together!"

Yes, the promise of food, an animal companion, and being reunited with his friends... this was a good way to push aside his worries. Thoughts of Hadriel-concerns and even Sanzo were now in the back of his mind. They wouldn't break free until a little later, but that was then. This was now.

[stepford_smiler]

Hakkai was glad that Goku's mind was in a good place. If he let him play and eat and not worry about Hadriel for tonight, he and Gojyo could discuss arrangements and concerns about their younger young companion.

Hakkai dumped a heap of more vegetables in the stew, added some seasonings, then began to let it all cook together.

He sat down next to Gojyo and smiled at him before watching Goku and his dragon play.

"I hope you voted for Sorrow" He said lightly.

[inappropriatelaughter]

"Hell no," Gojyo replied, also watching Goku. He tapped the end of the bean on the table rhythmically. "I threw in with a nice god instead of a sad god with trees. Sorry." And he sort of was, now that they had a bottomless pit living with them. "Seems like trees are gonna win, though. Hope they come with stuff already on 'em." There was no bitterness in it.

[perceives_sunlight]

Goku didn't hear what they were talking about. He went on playing with Hakuryuu, who was making trilling noises as Goku gleefully tossed him about or chased him eagerly around the living room. He didn't have anything on him--just a shirt, some slightly baggy pants... and no god damn shoes, like a little ragamuffin. As he rushed about the room, his long hair trailed behind him.

But then he took interest in the doors around the apartment, and he opened one up, peeking inside.

"Is this your guy's room?" Goku asked as he looked inside one of the bedrooms. It must have been! Hakkai wouldn't let them sleep in a dirty room.

[stepford_smiler]

Hakkai fell silent with a smile on his face that could only mean inner turmoil in his overly complicated analytical mind. How nice it must be to think of 'love' as a nice god when he knows that love can be just as cruel as sorrow...

Sorrow was such a practical choice, but subconsciously he must have picked him for--

"What?" Hakkai's attention was snapped back by Goku's antics. His face shifted into a sort of frown. "We most definitely have separate rooms. Sharing would be a terrible idea"

[inappropriatelaughter]

Gojyo just stared, for a second. His face was very slowly turning red (he could feel it, but he was working on an ignore-it-and-it'll-go-away stratagem). The bean he'd been tapping on the table wouldn't go far if he flung it.

"Who the hell do you think lives in the other one?" he demanded, jabbing his thumb at his own room.

It was small consolation, but it occurred to him that Sanzo must have put up with some incredible questions. All day, every day.

[perceives_sunlight]

When Gojyo mentioned the other room, Goku looked across the hall at it, Hakuryuu coming to rest on his shoulder. He looked to the dragon (as if he would have the answer), before back to the bedroom. Then, he looked over to the two men sitting at the kitchen table.

"I dunno. But you only had one bed in your house before, right?" At the very least, he had only seen one bed. "An' since you both live together, I thought you slept together, too!

"It makes sense to me..."

[stepford_smiler]

[stepford_smiler]

This is what his life has come to.

[inappropriatelaughter]

"It makes sense only to you. You're the only one who'd think that," he said loudly, and aside, to Hakkai: "You saw him there a lot more than I did. How'd Sanzo deal with this?"

1/2

[perceives_sunlight]

"I bet anyone else would think that too, since you both are so close!" He exclaimed. Goku didn't exactly understand the implications of what he was saying... however, his thoughts swung in another direction. So, if Hakkai and Gojyo weren't sleeping together... and then there were only two rooms... but now there were three people...

"Hey... wait..." Wait a moment. Wait a moment...

"If you two don't share beds... does that mean..."

2/2

[perceives_sunlight]

"...I... hafta sleep by myself?"

[stepford_smiler]

Hakkai shook his head. He was about to answer Gojyo when Goku started shouting more. Hakkai could appreciate the simplicity and innocence of Goku's mind. From a head that's filled with thoughts of food and friendship, he could completely understand how Goku's come to this conclusion. He just has to become used to this all over again.

But at the question, Hakkai had to think. This was a new and, quite frankly, scary place.

"You can sleep with Gojyo if you don't want to sleep alone. Do you normally sleep beside Sanzo?"

[inappropriatelaughter]

That'd explain most of his thought process, at least, but wait what the hell. Gojyo shoots Hakkai a look (half-annoyed, half-resigned to his fate already). Thanks, bro.

[perceives_sunlight]

"Yeah!" In the bed with him, or in the same room, it was based on how much Goku had annoyed him that day, probably. That's what the brunet figured, anyway. He looked to Gojyo, heading over with Hakuryuu. "Okay! Gojyo, is your bed big? I want the left side, okay?

"Is food done yet?"

[stepford_smiler]

He knew Gojyo would see it his way. Thank you very much.

Hakkai stood up from the table. "It should be just about finished"

Hakkai made his way back to the stove and tested the stew. Everything was nice and soft and ready for serving. He ladled the stew into three bowls then balanced them carefully in his arms and set them onto the table. There was plenty for seconds for he and Gojyo and fifths for Goku.

"All right, let's eat"