Nightcrawling

[thefuzzyguy]

Who: Kurt and open to all (particularly all who are inclined to climb on things for little to no reason, or at least look up)
Where: District 1, exploring in a distinctly non-linear way
When: 11th of June, evening onward
Summary: Kurt's not actually all that good at playing normal human, image inducer or not. Wandering and socializing in an extra dimension. Come poke him.
Warnings: Nada

Kurt first intended to just go for an exploratory walk, but he's long since abandoned that verb. He's not ready to turn off his image inducer, but there are some people stranger than he is here, and the odd architecture and raised walkways and tall buildings are too tempting. It's not like anyone's going to see him climbing into random trees and roofs and tell people at school, after all. So while he is on the ground occasionally, he's not inclined to give it any more attention than walls and the convenient eaves and brackets of the buildings. The freedom of movement is daring and leaves him almost cheerful. There might be some advantages to not being home.

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[thefuzzyguy]

He's gotten used to this problem being way more pronounced here than at home. Fortunately, his old technique hasn't failed him yet. Kurt's not generally good at deception, but he's let the strap of his backpack slip down and made a show of struggling to get the bag back into place so many times that the avoidance mechanism looks natural, if possibly a bit rude. "I'm Kurt," he says as he fixes the straps back in place.

[pushingthreeseven]

Yeah, it does look a little rude, but Pippin isn't the sort to call him on it. He just finally lets his hand fall again, looking a bit confused. "Well. Nice to meet you, Kurt. Where are you from? Somewhere with lots of tall things to climb, I suppose, right?"

[thefuzzyguy]

Nowhere with elves, so it won't by any means measure up. He returns to his base level of friendliness with the threat removed. "Well, I lived in the woods when I was a kid, so... trees? My parents live in an old farmhouse up in the mountains in Bavaria. I go to school in a city, though." Well, something like a city. More than enough for a country boy like him. "How about you?"

[pushingthreeseven]

"The Shire, off on the edge of Hobbiton in the Took family residence," Pippin explains readily. "Oh, and that's part of the countries to the west of the lands of Men, in Middle Earth. I wouldn't be surprised if you hadn't heard of it. No one in the last place I fell into had, either."

[thefuzzyguy]

"Nein. Sounds nice, though." The Lands of Men? Very cool. He's always been a big fantasy geek and only reluctantly ever gave up the hope that he'd one day be called on to save some princesses and vanquish beasts. Middle Earth is definitely an odd name, but he's getting used to that.

[pushingthreeseven]

"I rather like it. A bit dull sometimes, of course, but then you find places like this." Pippin cranes his neck to look up and around at all the buildings again. "Really, a lot like Gondor. Except less mountain-y, I suppose. But I'm glad I got to see it. Now we just have to make the city better again, so we can go back, right?"

However that works. Pippin still isn't entirely sure, but he's going with it, since he's used to not entirely understanding the goings-on.

[thefuzzyguy]

"If that's true. That doesn't sound super shady to you? I'm a little annoyed about being kidnapped, anyway." He hasn't been sure how to deal with the people who are cheerful and cooperative. Though he suspects that'd be much less the case if it weren't for his fur problem.

[pushingthreeseven]

"It is a bit rude of them. But maybe they were desperate, and didn't have the opportunity to ask us," Pippin muses, generally trying to see the best in a given situation, if it isn't readily and obviously frightening. "They have been rather apologetic about it all, anyway. Though maybe if you asked the right person, they'd send you home even before the city has been fixed? If it really bothers you that much."

[thefuzzyguy]

Well, there's a twinge of guilt. Helping people really should be his main goal, and they haven't done anything bad or contrary to the information in the introductory packet yet. It's actually rather pleasanter than high school here. "I don't think that'd help. I just kind of wish they'd explain more, if there's not a way out..."

[pushingthreeseven]

"Maybe you should go talk to Devin!" Pippin suggests brightly. "He was very helpful when I first showed up, he explained cash cards and apartments and everything. And he says we can bother him whenever, if we have trouble." Nevermind that Devin's job is technological problems. Pippin doesn't really know the difference, so he just assumes that guy is good for everything.

[thefuzzyguy]

Usually he's the cheerful, optimistic one. Yeesh. "Those parts aren't so weird." In some ways, it's not so unlike home, but that really just makes it creepier, somehow. "But ja, maybe I will." It might be easier to just agree to everything under the current circumstances, and it makes him question his own paranoia, seeing someone so comfortable with the situation.