3. Okay, the glowing shit in his hand still hadn't gotten much easier to handle, because it was still creepy as hell. Being sucked into a backwards-ass fantasy land? Also creepy as hell. Falling out of some sky rift time/space portal where monsters come out of? Creepy. as. hell.
But if these people see his hand and want to give him a ton of booze and praise him like a god, well, Church is pretty okay with that. Less so with the monster-portal not far out from the tower, but, look, he doesn't necessarily see it as his job to do anything about it. Sure, he's not going to just stay with these people; they're clearly crazy and going to get eaten. But he doesn't see any harm in getting rained with food and praise and wine and attention.
Damn it feels good to be important.
5. Anytime Church tries to explain something about where he comes from, he has to backtrack many, many steps just to explain the basics.
Like space. Other planets. The idea of aliens. They all think he's the crazy one. 'Fade-touched' or 'addle-minded' or even 'strange spirit', which at least doesn't mean crazy, just like...a ghost from another dimension? If he had his weapons and his armor he could at least prove some of the stuff he says, but noooo, crazy demon-portal had to shit him out without those things. Awesome. At least the old base teleporters only made your armor turn black. It also hurt like hell but they didn't take him to someplace straight out of one of Simmons' roleplaying games.
Right now, he's making a show, unintentionally, emphatically motioning with his hands and arms, to a group of curious onlookers. Trying to explain guns. "It was gunpowder first but then we went to more advanced routes. Faster ways of loading and reloading and firing to get more bullets out faster. More bullet per bullets. And sometimes we fire lasers. Uhhhh, kind of like light that's magnified by a billion so it can hurt people? No, not like magic. It isn't magic. Oh my god if one more person suggests shooting magic out of a gun, I'm gonna shoot them out a fucking cannon. I will invent cannons and shoot you out of one. Do you guys have cannons? Do you even have gunpowder? How am I supposed to shoot anything?!"
It's probably better he doesn't take up any of the offered bows and arrows, given his historically bad shot, but nobody needs to know that.
Leonard Church | Red vs Blue | Rifter
But if these people see his hand and want to give him a ton of booze and praise him like a god, well, Church is pretty okay with that. Less so with the monster-portal not far out from the tower, but, look, he doesn't necessarily see it as his job to do anything about it. Sure, he's not going to just stay with these people; they're clearly crazy and going to get eaten. But he doesn't see any harm in getting rained with food and praise and wine and attention.
Damn it feels good to be important.
5. Anytime Church tries to explain something about where he comes from, he has to backtrack many, many steps just to explain the basics.
Like space. Other planets. The idea of aliens. They all think he's the crazy one. 'Fade-touched' or 'addle-minded' or even 'strange spirit', which at least doesn't mean crazy, just like...a ghost from another dimension? If he had his weapons and his armor he could at least prove some of the stuff he says, but noooo, crazy demon-portal had to shit him out without those things. Awesome. At least the old base teleporters only made your armor turn black. It also hurt like hell but they didn't take him to someplace straight out of one of Simmons' roleplaying games.
Right now, he's making a show, unintentionally, emphatically motioning with his hands and arms, to a group of curious onlookers. Trying to explain guns. "It was gunpowder first but then we went to more advanced routes. Faster ways of loading and reloading and firing to get more bullets out faster. More bullet per bullets. And sometimes we fire lasers. Uhhhh, kind of like light that's magnified by a billion so it can hurt people? No, not like magic. It isn't magic. Oh my god if one more person suggests shooting magic out of a gun, I'm gonna shoot them out a fucking cannon. I will invent cannons and shoot you out of one. Do you guys have cannons? Do you even have gunpowder? How am I supposed to shoot anything?!"
It's probably better he doesn't take up any of the offered bows and arrows, given his historically bad shot, but nobody needs to know that.