(8:54:51 AM) ***Q-33_North knocks on the door to Hana's room,  She's closest right now, after all.
(8:55:40 AM) Ikiryo: "Huh? Oh, come in." She hears from inside.
(8:58:13 AM) Ikiryo: Hana is currently...sitting on the floor. Or close enough, she's made a small rock garden in the middle of the room and is sitting cross legged in the middle of it.
(8:58:22 AM) ***Q-33_North steps inside, and fidgets, nervously.  "Hey.  How's things?"
(8:58:33 AM) Ikiryo: Hana is still the excess-caused tall, curvy woman with rich chocolate skin. Her usual cracks in her skin have become red tattoos that are rather visible concidering she's wearing short shorts. Still, she managed to borrow a t-shirt from someone so it's more respectable than before.
(8:58:51 AM) Ikiryo: She has rather a lot of gold jewelery on, ear piercings and a lip piercing and a gold choker. She smiles at Q-33. "Not too bad...just doing some meditation."
(9:01:19 AM) Q-33_North: "Cool.  Cool.  So uh.  Question, then.  If I were, say, to be thinking about changing my name, is that. . . is that a good idea?"
(9:02:50 AM) Ikiryo: She raises an eyebrow. "It's a bit hard to say without hearing why...or to what." She stretches, standing up from her meditation.
(9:04:53 AM) Q-33_North: ". . . Blueshift.  Blueshift North.  And. . . Look. Q-33 is fine, it's served me a long time, but.  It's not. . . it's not a name.  It's a model number.  And. . . I don't want the thing that wants me as a body to have any more ownership of me than it already does."
(9:05:57 AM) Ikiryo: "...Blueshift...North..." Her lips quirk upward in a smile.
(9:06:39 AM) Q-33_North: "It's too much isn't it." She sighs.
(9:07:08 AM) Ikiryo: "It sounds very...you."
(9:09:01 AM) Q-33_North: "Is that good or bad?"
(9:15:17 AM) Ikiryo: "Not good not bad. Just...you." Her smile widens, a bit impish.
(9:15:43 AM) Q-33_North: "What does that mean?" She sounds worried.
(9:20:04 AM) Ikiryo: "You know how Sierra gives really functional names to everything that are kinda dull?"
(9:20:51 AM) Q-33_North: ". . . Yeah?"
(9:21:37 AM) Ikiryo: "You are not that." She smirks. "I think it's cool if you like it."
(9:23:21 AM) Q-33_North: "So you're saying I'm a dork."
(9:25:29 AM) Ikiryo: "What did you spend last weekend doing?"
(9:26:38 AM) Q-33_North: "I was fixing drivers for the weapons systems on the Lily's ship?"
(9:27:48 AM) Ikiryo: "And the card game I walked in on you and her playing while you did it?"
(9:28:33 AM) Q-33_North: "Compiling takes a long time." She says defensively. "Anyway you had your deck on you too."
(9:31:22 AM) Ikiryo: "Yes but I didn't make laser noises with my mouth when I zapped your creatures." She puts an arm around Q-33
(9:32:58 AM) Q-33_North: "Only the laser based ones!" She protests.
(9:34:40 AM) Ikiryo: "And the lightning based ones you borrowed from Adelinda's deck?"
(9:37:24 AM) Q-33_North: "I mean that just makes sense."
(9:38:25 AM) Ikiryo: She smirks and ruffles Q-33's hair. "You are a dork. That's part of why you are my friend."
(9:39:48 AM) Earthflame [[email protected]] entered the room.
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(9:40:09 AM) Q-33_North: "I kinda can't help it."
(9:41:28 AM) Ikiryo: "I wasn't really complaining. I mean, you put up with my temper issues."
(9:43:35 AM) Q-33_North: "I mean, why wouldn't I?"
(9:45:26 AM) Ikiryo: "Well, why would I not like you being a dork?"
(9:47:12 AM) Q-33_North: ". . . I don't know."
(9:47:33 AM) Ikiryo: "So, should I call you Blueshift now then?"
(9:48:20 AM) Q-33_North: "I need to get the paperwork filed with the Pirates first, and. . . I'd need to talk to South."
(9:48:51 AM) Ikiryo: "Yeah...concidering you share the first name."
(9:52:25 AM) Q-33_North: "Yeah. Anyway thanks, I've got a few other people I need to tell."
(9:54:12 AM) Ikiryo: "Yeah, if you want. I was planning on meditating more...I don't want to lose control during the fight we've got coming."
(9:55:09 AM) Q-33_North: "Sure.  And uh.  Thanks.  For being my friend, I mean."
(9:57:38 AM) Ikiryo: "...likewise." Her smile is shaky for a second but she nods.
(9:59:15 AM) Q-33_North: ". . . You going to be okay?" She pauses, in the door.  "If you need to talk. . ."
(10:00:45 AM) Ikiryo: "Just history stuff." She shakes her head. "...if you'd spoken to me a few years ago, I'd be the one grateful to have anyone willing to call me a friend."
(10:02:22 AM) Q-33_North: "Yeah well. . . I think we're both in better places than we were a few years ago, given that I was in suspended animation.  I think."
(10:02:56 AM) Ikiryo: "And I was...well, I was a mess." She frowns. "...kinda glad you don't know me from then."
(10:03:48 AM) Q-33_North: "Can't be that bad."
(10:05:46 AM) Earthflame left the room (quit: NickServ (GHOST command used by Mist)).
(10:06:05 AM) Ikiryo: "...I dunno, I was technically part of a terrorist cult."
(10:06:24 AM) Earthflame [[email protected]] entered the room.
(10:07:14 AM) ***Q-33_North cocks her head to the side.  ". . . You were?"
(10:08:00 AM) Ikiryo: "...yeah." She sighs. "I'm not exactly proud of it."
(10:08:55 AM) Q-33_North: "Hey, we all do things we're not proud of.  Do. . . you want to talk about it?"
(10:10:29 AM) Ikiryo: "...have you heard of the Sul-Sigmarites? They are a religious cult."
(10:10:46 AM) Q-33_North: "I have not." She sits back down next to her friend.
(10:18:51 AM) Ikiryo: "Well, they have a pretty basic idea. Sigmar was a human when he was alive, so they think he's the god of humans and that human cultures should obey him."
(10:19:25 AM) Q-33_North: ". . . What about nonhuman cultures?"
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(10:23:05 AM) Ikiryo: "They don't care about them...unless they are chaos worshippers. Then they are enemies of sigmar."
(10:23:31 AM) Q-33_North: ". . . Ah."
(10:24:01 AM) Earthflame [[email protected]] entered the room.
(10:25:14 AM) Ikiryo: "My parents were Sul-Menites. They hate two things: Chaos Worshippers...and Magic."
(10:26:09 AM) FeldiPhone [[email protected]] entered the room.
(10:26:59 AM) ***Q-33_North leans over and hugs her friend, hesitantly.  "Well, I think you've come a ways since then."
(10:28:46 AM) Ikiryo: "...that's not the group I was talking about." She hugs back though. "So, when my powers awakened and I started setting stuff on fire...well, the exiled me from my clan. Honestly better than being Wracked."
(10:29:39 AM) Q-33_North: "Sorry. I have trouble with religion. . . Wracked?"
(10:34:28 AM) Ikiryo: "It's...well, it's a symbolic punishment. When Sigmar led the uprising against the ogre ocupation they captured him and strung him up. He was left like that for days without food or water...the punishment version includes fogs of incense and chains blessed to cure those wrapped in them of any calluses...or ability to get used to the pain over time."
(10:34:48 AM) Ikiryo: She frowns. "It's a punishment for those who need to repent of darkness, like being born a sorcerer."
(10:35:42 AM) ***Q-33_North looks very upset, and hugs her friend, unsure of what to say.
(10:38:22 AM) Ikiryo: "...well, I was picked up by a group when I was half dead. The Circle Ouroboros. They worship a minor god called the Devourer, the child of Luna and Khorne and hate menites." She hugs back
(10:39:35 AM) Q-33_North: ". . . Yeah.  That would do it."
(10:41:36 AM) Ikiryo: "They took me in and taught me to use my powers...and then I ran away." She sighs. "...they tried to show me thier weapons of war and I freaked out. I'm glad I did, I'm not sure what it would say if I was alright with what I saw."
(10:43:36 AM) Q-33_North: ". . . I don't know.  And. I don't know who I used to be, before I lost my memory, but.  I get the feeling I won't like them."
(10:48:24 AM) Ikiryo: "Blood sacrafice...killing people to use thier lives to fuel golems. A dozen people killed to animate a creature of stone and plant the size of one of those land air mechs the lillies have."
(10:50:29 AM) ***Q-33_North hugs her tighter. "Well.  For what it's worth, I'm glad you weren't okay with it and you made it through that."
(10:51:44 AM) Ikiryo: "They said they were guardians of nature...but the devourer is focused on only a single part of it. Hunting, Killing and Consuming."
(10:54:11 AM) Q-33_North: "But. . . there's a lot more to nature than that."
(10:57:12 AM) Ikiryo: "How do you know, the closest you get to nature is declaring pizza is a vegetable?" She smiles, hugging Q-33.
(10:58:44 AM) Q-33_North: "I've had vegitarian food in the past." She huffs.  "My diet is only 60% junk food."
(11:03:44 AM) Ikiryo: "Vegetarian Pizza is vegetarian, yes. I remember what Yellow ordered last time." She nods. "...thanks for listening to me and not thinking less of me for it."
(11:05:55 AM) Q-33_North: ". . . I can't really judge you when I might have done worse, can I?"
(11:07:09 AM) Ikiryo: "Eh, your body might have done worse. I'm pretty sure Q-33 is too much of a dork to have done it."
(11:11:24 AM) Q-33_North: "I don't know how different the two are, yet."
(11:13:58 AM) Ikiryo: "Different enough I won't hate you for whatever you did." She tightens the hug.
(11:16:10 AM) ***Q-33_North returns the gesture.  "Thanks."
(11:19:07 AM) Ikiryo: "Anyway, you should likely go talk to someone else about the name thing rather than talking about pointless things with me."
(11:21:00 AM) Q-33_North: "Syre.   Good luck.  She gets up and actually leaves the room this time., and heads for wherever Adelinda is.
(11:23:52 AM) Ikiryo: Adelinda is in her workshop, putting some final touches on the latest iteration of that pistol of hers.
(11:24:51 AM) ***Q-33_North knocks on the door before entering.
(11:29:19 AM) Ikiryo: "Unless it's Sierra, come in."
(11:29:47 AM) Q-33_North: "Why can't she come in?"
(11:33:09 AM) Ikiryo: "Because I've got a big magnet next to the door and unlike you, she's ferrus enough for that to affect her."
(11:33:51 AM) Q-33_North: "That's fair.  How's it going?"
(11:36:27 AM) Ikiryo: "Not bad, just tinkering...mostly because I've not got uch else to do."
(11:37:33 AM) Q-33_North: "Yeah, well, you're probably going to have something to do in a minute.  Specifically laugh.  At me.  Because I'm changing my first name to Blueshift."
(11:41:32 AM) Ikiryo: "...you are...what?" She turns, looking at Q-33.
(11:41:57 AM) ***Q-33_North rubs one arm, sheepishly.  "You heard me."
(11:43:59 AM) Ikiryo: She looks Q-33 up and down...and starts giggling.
(11:44:21 AM) ***Q-33_North waits.  She expected this.
(11:45:18 AM) Ikiryo: The giggling continues for a good few minutes.
(11:45:29 AM) ***Q-33_North leans against the wall until she's done.
(11:47:23 AM) Ikiryo: It...takes a while, eventually she can speak though. "So...does that mean you are moving towards me? If you walk towards the door would you become Redshift North?"
(11:48:24 AM) Q-33_North: "Names aren't positional dork."
(11:49:59 AM) Ikiryo: "Redshift and Blueshift are~" She grins.
(11:51:56 AM) Q-33_North: "I mean yes but. . . Do you not like it?"
(11:53:27 AM) Ikiryo: "It's SUPER dorky. I love it~"
(11:53:58 AM) Q-33_North: "Really?"
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(11:55:58 AM) Ikiryo: "Would I lie?"
(11:56:45 AM) Q-33_North: "I dunno I expected you to tease me more."
(11:59:22 AM) Ikiryo: "I can if you want! Like: Did you pick blueshift entirely because you were already blue?"
(11:59:44 AM) Q-33_North: "I can change colors!"
(12:04:39 PM) Ikiryo: "Then why blueshift?~"
(12:05:23 PM) Q-33_North: ". . . Because I'm moving towards a future I chose rather than one that was chosen for me." She says, looking away.
(12:05:49 PM) Ikiryo: "...oh my god that is adorably dorky!" She suddenly hugs Q-33
(12:06:33 PM) ***Q-33_North hugs her back.  ". . . Thanks?"
(12:10:35 PM) Ikiryo: "I'm sorry, that was just so...wow. So sappy and dramatic it was amazing."
(12:11:07 PM) Q-33_North: "Well like.  There's not exactly a guideline on picking new names." She huffs.  "I checked."
(12:14:23 PM) Ikiryo: Adelinda pinches her cheek. "You went and you looked up a guide on how to names?"
(12:15:26 PM) Q-33_North: "None of them were good!"
(12:17:04 PM) Ikiryo: "...wait, you seriously did?"
(12:18:39 PM) Q-33_North: "The only ones I could find were for babies and I'm not one so it didn't work."
(12:19:26 PM) Ikiryo: "And because they were normal person names? Unlike the name that sounds like it came out of a holonovel?"
(12:20:12 PM) Q-33_North: "I mean so does my life story."
(12:21:43 PM) Ikiryo: "Yeah but...wow, Blueshift. That's like Viviance Vance, Virtuakinetic levels."
(12:24:27 PM) Q-33_North: "I don't want to hear it from you.  You made me play the Jax Voidslayer CCG with you."
(12:25:02 PM) Ikiryo: "Hey, that was fun!"
(12:27:03 PM) Q-33_North: "I mean yes but the naming scheme? Come on."
(12:27:27 PM) Ikiryo: "And now you get to join it~"
(12:30:42 PM) Q-33_North: "I think you're just jealous."
(12:31:48 PM) Ikiryo: "Why would I be jealous?"
(12:33:01 PM) Q-33_North: "Because I get to pick my own name."
(12:34:41 PM) Ikiryo: "I could do that if I wanted!"
(12:34:51 PM) Q-33_North: "Uh huh, sure."
(12:35:17 PM) Ikiryo: She whaps Q-33 on the back of the head. "Keep thinking that, blueshift~"
(12:35:51 PM) Q-33_North: "You're just jealous of my good cool new name." She sticks out her tongue.
(12:40:28 PM) Ikiryo: She grins...and a spark of electricity jumps to Q-33's tongue.
(12:41:21 PM) Q-33_North: "ACK!"
(12:42:08 PM) Ikiryo: She giggles.
(12:44:07 PM) ***Q-33_North throws a snowball at her friend.
(12:45:38 PM) Ikiryo: "Oof!" It hits her right in the face.
(12:46:50 PM) ***Q-33_North giggles this time.
(12:47:22 PM) Ikiryo: "Oh, you are in for it now~"
(12:47:50 PM) Ikiryo: [From: S3dluhn - Alright, now rip her shirt]
(12:49:23 PM) Q-33_North: "Try me.~" [I'm not flirting with her though?]
(12:51:15 PM) Ikiryo: [From: S3dluhn - You sure?] "Alright then~" She tackles the other girl, poking her with crackling fingers and giving her tiny shocks.
(12:52:56 PM) Q-33_North: [Last time I checked our relationship was entirely non-sexual.] "Ack!"
(12:55:47 PM) Ikiryo: [You are currently rolling on the ground with a big breasted girl while she zaps you. I know people who pay good money for that.]
(12:56:00 PM) Ikiryo: "Suffer!~" She giggles
(12:58:03 PM) Q-33_North: [I'm not Annandra.] "Oh no electricity, one of my many weaknesses!"
(12:59:37 PM) Ikiryo: "Yep! Soon I will zap your brain too!" [Well no. She wouldn't resist this, that's no fun~]
(1:00:31 PM) ***Q-33_North makes it start to snow over Adelinda.  [Anyway look we're not flirting.]
(1:01:33 PM) Ikiryo: Adelinda shivers. "Ah, cheater!" [Rrriiiggghhhttt~]
(1:02:36 PM) Q-33_North: [We're not! This is completely chaste.] She sticks her tongue out.
(1:03:44 PM) Ikiryo: The other girl does the same. "The name is great, dork~"