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two men have a nice walk

Who: Hickey & Jesus
When: Feb. 7th
Where: Dogtown
Summary: Hickey & Jesus's boring adventure
Warnings: probably literally nothing, a first for the game

The birds are chirping, the sky is blue, the atmosphere is pleasant. Welcome to Dogtown! This little patch of it is peaceful and idyllic, with a small path winding towards the east.

And Hickey is regarding it with pure suspicion.

"Y'know, not even a month ago someone was posting on the network about how they came across a bridge made of spiders or something of the sort," he frowns. "This looks...nice?"

Weird.

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"A spider bridge seems like a pretty big warning sign. Maybe this is more...insidious," he says, watching the treeline but everything is still.

It feels good to be out here, though. Whether they find anything or not, he thinks he's needed this, the open air. "How often do you come out here exploring?"

Hickey shrugs slightly as he looks over at the treeline as well. It's calm! It's nice! Nothing's happening! He's miffed.

"I haven't gone this far in a while," he shrugs. "Dogtown's weird, but it's gotten even weirder recently. It's kind of hard to explain."

He glances at Hickey, noting the disappointment and grinning a little. It makes him more curious about the man, he just can't figure out how to ask what he wants to know. Yet.

So he stays on topic. "Weirder as in more violent?" Which is his first concern, always. "Or as in more busy?"

"A little bit of both?" he shrugs. "Definitely more violent. But you've got to be a bit more busy in order to have the violence to begin with."

"Here's to adding to it being busy around here. We're the only things alive for at least a mile," he says, and okay, the peace is starting to wear on him, too.

"What's that?" A boulder, seeming a little out of place, but he might just be desperate for something to happen.

Hickey, who is also desperate for something to happen, looks over at the boulder as well. It looks like a rock. A boring, not much to write home about, rock. But by God is he hoping for something to shoot. He goes over to the rock to look it over.

"Looks like a rock." No shit, buddy. "But it can't just be a rock, right? Big rock, a little bit out of place, there's got to be something here." He puts his hand on the side of the rock, which...feels like a rock.

It's obvious Hickey is a little irritated about the matter.

"We are in nature, rocks just...live here," he says, dubious even as the words come out. He wants there to be something more, too. As he circles around he finds...something.

"'Hollow inside'. Hickey, look."

Hollow inside. Hickey looks at the rock, frowns slightly, then heads further into the woods for a moment. He's obviously looking for something as he lets out a sharp little "hah!" before returning with a decently sized stick.

"Hollow inside, huh? Let's test that." And without any hesitation, without any pause to think 'hey, maybe there's something BAD inside the rock', Hickey smacks the stick directly into the side of the rock, pinata smashing style.

Nothing happens. But the thudding sound that happens when stick connects with rock isn't the sound of a stick hitting something solid.

"Wait, that-" is probably a terrible idea, but nothing happens.

Jesus is thinking that any bridge made of spiders probably has an equally bad counterpart here. He's seen people hollowed out and he doesn't want to join them.

But when nothing happens he ventures closer, reaches out and touches the rock. And it is just a rock.

"We can't break it open with just this," he decides. And it's still probably a bad idea but he is curious. "I don't suppose anyone sells dynamite?"

Is that a terrible idea? Yes. Is Hickey going to do it anyway? Yes. As Jesus reaches out to touch the rock, Hickey goes to try and find a bigger rock to smash open this rock. He only stops, turning back to look at Jesus when he mentions that his strategy of 'bigger rock' won't work.

As for the question, Hickey frowns. "I'm certain someone does, I just don't know who. That's a network question. But if we can't find any, I'm sure I can find a gun."

"Guns won't blast this open. We need explosives." And he's still not sure it's a good idea but he's curious, too.

"I'll ask around, all right? I'll put up a notice when we get back that we need a demolitionist.'

Hickey's looking back at the bolder with a frown. He walks up and taps it with his knife, as if that will somehow break it open.

Unsurprisingly, it doesn't.

"That's probably for the best. And hell, if there's something nasty inside the rock? Explosives might take it out as well.

"Yeah... I'm a little afraid of what's in there. It's probably not spiders but it might be something we don't want." Which doesn't mean he won't still find a way to crack it open.

"Can you find your way back here pretty easy? I'll make a map but you should check it, make sure I don't miss anything."

Hickey can't help but laugh at Jesus's question. It's not a mean laugh, just a sort of 'man, this guy really doesn't know me' kind of laugh.

"If there's one thing I'm good at, it's tracking. Let me hang around here for a few more minutes and I'll know this place well enough to find it again."

He grins. He likes the sound of the laugh; no one back home has that kind of confidence even though everyone knows how to handle the woods.

"Fair enough. So you had to do a lot of tracking back home?"

"Nah," he says, with a shake of his head. "But here? Those Entities? I impressed one enough that it gave me a few perks."

He's heard by now of people who've lost their powers, and who are reluctant to deal with the Entities to get them back. Hickey is the first who's admitted to working with one.

"Which one? What'd they give you?"

"The Hunt," he grins, savagely. And there's definitely something a little Hunt-like in his expression: that's a predator's grin. "I'm better at finding my prey. Sight, hearing, scent...if I know my target, I can find it no matter what."

He nods, mulling that over, studying Hickey. "How did you know which Entity to go with?"

"I didn't choose it," he shrugs. "It reached out and I answered."

He nods. "It didn't scare you? Something as vast as they are, wanting something out of you?"

Hickey shakes his head. "I mean sure, it's scary at first. Looking up and realizing the enormity of things and just how small you are in comparison. But after a moment, I realized something. Something as vast as they are wants something out of me. Thousands of people in the world and they picked me."

He lets out a small little chuckle, shaking his head before admitting, "It's an intoxicating feeling."

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