Log 1

[mayfield_mods]

Who: Everyone (General Log)
What: Make yourself at home.
Where: A new town
When: The first day

Comments

[justdumbluck]

[The enthusiasm makes Firo laugh. He nods and holds Czes's elbow in case he needs help balancing.]

Let's go! Hopefully nobody got to it yet.

[cursedtolive]

[He turns red when Firo laughs.]

D-don't make fun of me...

[justdumbluck]

[That only encourages him. He tries to smile innocently, but it turns out to be more of a smirk.]

What? I didn't say anything.

[cursedtolive]

You laughed. [He puffs out his cheeks!!]

[justdumbluck]

So I laugh and you immediately assume I'm laughin' at you?

[Which is actually very reasonable since Czes is the only person nearby.]

[cursedtolive]

What else would you be laughing at?

[justdumbluck]

Fine, you got me. I couldn't help it, I've never seen you get all excited over somethin' like that.

[cursedtolive]

So you're going to laugh at me? Really?

[The most. Offended. Face.]

[justdumbluck]

[He bites his lip to keep from laughing at that face.]

...Yeah. C'mon, it was funny.

[cursedtolive]

I was actually excited! Now I'm never going to get excited about anything in front of you.

[HUFF.]

[justdumbluck]

What? Oh, come on!

[Then what will he laugh at?

He holds out his hand to Czes, pouting.]

I'm sorry, I'll stop. Let's go check out the house, okay?

[cursedtolive]

[He glares at him for a few seconds before he huffs, then grumbles.]

... Okay. [He will take that hand.]

[justdumbluck]

Good.

[When they get to the house, he smiles at Czes.]

You wanna open the door?

[cursedtolive]

Sure, I'll do it. [He steps forward to turn the knob. He thinks they might want to find a lock for it sometime but for now he smiles as he pushes the door open!]

[justdumbluck]

[Firo follows Czes into the house and immediately starts looking around for the fireplace. It was Czes's priority, after all.]

Huh. What do you think?

[Like all the other houses, it needs some touching up, but Firo's not too concerned.]

[cursedtolive]

[Czes finds the fireplace before anything else and stares at it, satisfied.]

I like it. [He grins.] Do you like it?

[justdumbluck]

Well...

[His first impulse is to compare it to "home," and he does. Of course it comes up short, but he swallows his complaints. This is as good as it'll get, and if Czes likes it, then he will too.]

It's nice. I like it.

[He smiles.]

Was there anything else you wanted besides a fireplace?

[cursedtolive]

Not really. I just thought that sort of thing would be nice, but I'm not really that picky. [If there is somewhere permanent to stay, it would be better than nothing for him.]

What about you?

[justdumbluck]

It's got the fireplace, and it doesn't look like it'll fall down around us, so I'd say it's good.

[Still, there must be a catch somewhere.]

Let's look around the other rooms. Just to... Just to see.

[He doesn't want to outright say it, but he wants to make sure there aren't any murderers or monsters hiding.]

[cursedtolive]

... Okay. [He'll go back to Firo and stand next to him, slightly behind him as if to say "you go first." Because clearly the older person must go first, right? Firo can react faster than him anyway!

(But really it's because once they make sure there really is nothing he's going to wait until Firo's got his back turned to him before yelling. Best plan.)]

[justdumbluck]

[Firo tries to give Czes a comforting smile and pats his shoulder. He has a hand near his knife as he enters the next room and looks around.]

Doesn't look like there's anything here...

[cursedtolive]

You sure? I hope there's nothin' hiding in the closet when we go to open it...

[He peers around Firo into the room, then spins around to look into the one next to it.]

[justdumbluck]

If it makes you feel better, I'll open it first.

[Satisfied that this room looks fine, he moves into the other one.]

I'm surprised there aren't any traps or anything yet.

[cursedtolive]

Maybe they're just waiting for us to lower our guards... [He follows, but pauses for a second and then slips away to hide in the first room when Firo isn't paying attention.]

[justdumbluck]

Yeah, that does sound like somethin' they'd do.

[He's so busy checking the room that he doesn't notice Czes leaving until he turns around a few minutes later.]

This one looks fine-

[Oh no. Could this be the trap they were just talking about?]

Czes? Were'd you go?