[OPEN]

[xanthous]

Who| The Psiioniic, the other trolls, and YOU! It might lean heavily towards trolls, but anyone is welcome to join them!
What| Watching the final week of the Games.
Where| The Training Center common area.
When| Final week!
Warnings/Notes| Trolls everywhere. And also mentions of violence, death, and etc in passing.

It's probably not unusual for people to group together and watch the violence unfolding. The Psiioniic certainly doesn't see why it would be strange, and he looks remarkably unimpressed as a recap plays some especially gory scenes. He seems to be prepared for a crowd, with plates of food nicked from the District 2 suites scattered around him. He even prepared a sign for his little shindig:


Of course, most people won't be able to read the sign, and do you even know how long it took him to find a marker even close to the proper shade of yellow? Too long, that's what. But now he's prepared for the final cullwatch, and ready to spend time with members of his species. And people who might be curious as to what the hell he's scrawled on the sign.

(You would think something like "fiinal cullwatch" is pretty self-explanatory, but you could never be sure with aliens.)

Comments

[thebestoffense]

Volanz peers a little warily at Cuthbert, but doesn't try to avoid him.

"Um, that's okay, I guess?" he says. "I mean, I'm alright without it. Death isn't too bad, it's just kind of different when one of them is yours and there's a lot at once."

Really, he shouldn't flinch at it. For the most part the blood and violence doesn't trouble him too much, but it still has him a little more twitchy than most trolls would be.

He considers this yet another failure on his part.

The young troll pauses for a moment, then observes, "You talked to Karkat and the Signless."

He may not know Cuthbert personally, but he saw footage while trying to figure out exactly what he was dealing with in the fellow non-aliens department.

[tis_allgood]

"No one must be forced to watch their own demise."

Cuthbert at least doesn't see any weakness there. He definitely doesn't want to watch his own death yet again, although it has probably made it onto a highlight reel by now.

"Their paths crossed mine and for a time we walked together. Are they friends of yours?"

[thebestoffense]

"Not exactly," Volanz admits. "Well. Not at all, really? I didn't know them before. It would be kind of awesome if maybe I can get along with them, because there aren't exactly a lot of us trolls here and I know for actual fact that one of them is really dangerous."

He thinks darkly of the indigo blood he met in the training center, who he's been since trying to avoid.

[tis_allgood]

"Then you should buck up and talk to them. Karkat may be be full of sharp words, but you'll find they are little more than hot air once they escape his mouth. And his elder seems to be a great deal more approachable."

As far as Cuthbert is concerned they're all full of at least some hot air. Maybe they're being held up by it, like some kind of ectobiological hot air buoyancy thing.

[thebestoffense]

"I don't know though? I think he kind of thinks I am kind of a loser," Volanz admits. To be fair, he thinks that about himself too so it's a logical conclusion.

"I'm Volanz, by the way?" he adds. "And I guess even if I'm a loser that's pretty okay, there are worse things to be than that."

[tis_allgood]

"Cuthbert Allgood." He gives a little bow, although he means it somewhat teasingly, he knows Volanz wouldn't recognize that. "Well met, Volanz."

'Loser' is also a phrase Bert isn't all that familiar with.

"We are all here losers, are we not? Dead in the game and alive outside it. I can certainly think of worse loses."