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Final Fantasy X: The Final Atonement

Bohdan was grateful for both the food and the tea. He had to do his best not eat eat too quickly and tried to be as gentle as he could with his hosts' glassware. "That is a most kind offer indeed. I'd feel quite guilty accepting... unless you mean what I believe you do about 'getting out,' and are serious." he said. "I also appreciate your advice, I'll try to apply it to my fighting in the future. It's easy to see how you won, taking my style into consideration. I've had training too, you see, but not in nuance. When I was small, I was in awe of the ronso warriors who used a style they called berserking. Something has always appealed to me about a fighting style that teaches you to put everything you have into each blow, but evidently it's far more effective when you're behind a spear."

"As for my quest, as you've said, I've basically already given you the long and short of it. I want to better myself as much as I can, and to eventually use what I have for the betterment of others. Perhaps my first real opportunity to do this lies in Macalania. There isn't much else to say yet, because in truth I have more or less just started."

Final Fantasy X: The Final Atonement

Bohdan nodded. "I've heard about some of this. The near extermination of the ronso, of course, was hard to miss for obvious reasons. But what you're saying about the Macalania woods and the spirits who are supposed to live there still interests me. I believe I know where I'll be heading after this." In truth Bohdan wanted to get up and leave that instant, but he wouldn't dream of disrespecting his host. He wasn't even completely sure what had suddenly gotten him so impassioned about those woods. Sure, he'd planned to visit them, but they weren't somewhere he'd always dreamed of going. Perhaps he felt as though the world couldn't afford to lose the forests as it knew them, and only realized it now. He wasn't even sure what he'd do when he got there. 'Stop it' seemed like a clear choice, but he was already sure he couldn't. At any rate, they were something he wanted to see, especially if he might not always be able to.

"As for a change of subject..." Bohdan had to think on that. He had never been much of a talker, and while he liked his new host well enough and wanted to show him respect, neither of those things were enough to make him better at conversation, something he was beginning to realize he had no natural talent for. "Perhaps I could tell you a bit about what I did before I got here. It's not likely to be too interesting, especially not to someone who lives in a village which, as you said, is home to so many far better warriors. Adventurers, even. But I have been on the roads for two years. Mostly just the main ones, granted: as I said up until this point I've mainly been working to get the funds to travel to places I'd actually hoped to see, but I did fight fiends, for what that's worth. Perhaps you could ask me about that."

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@pyroman That sounds unbelievably cool, but I don't know if they could pull it off.

Final Fantasy X: The Final Atonement

"I completely agree with that sentiment." Bohdan said in response to the first thing Cassius had said. He followed Cassius' words as well as he could, a lot had been said in a short period of time. He listened eagerly, as this new knowledge satisfied him better than any meal Caissius or his friend could offer. "There is likely a great deal I should like to ask you," Bohdan began "but this is the first time I've ever heard such a thing about Macalania. What exactly do you mean?"

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@Akayaofthemoon Lol your family sounds absolutely great! That's about what it is for me, but replace all the food with like, whatever size and brand of drywall, which I pretty much have to carry all on my own. They always tell me to park in the area meant just for contractors so I don't have to carry it across a parking lot, because they definitely won't kick me out for that.

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Akaya went full me for a second there, just replace 'dinner' with 'pick up some obscure thing from Home Depot'

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@Akayaofthemoon Lol yeah, sometimes it's hard to find a good balance between something that won't give you buyer's remorse because it sucks and something that won't give you buyer's remorse because you need money to live on too. The struggle is real. If I can find something with an i5 processor though I'll probably throw a party or something.

@HaltingBlooper I haven't been in terribly many OOC threads in a while, but I think it's really cool that we can do that a little here. You guys are pretty cool, and getting to talk with people is a nice bonus to the main roleplay.

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@Loony Yeah, it is pretty lame. I'll get through it though, I've honestly known that I've needed to replace this thing for a while, I just hope I can hold off for another week or so. I wouldn't be too surprised if this thing stopped working in the next few days.

@Akayaofthemoon Thanks, I'm sure I'll be okay. I'm actually looking at new ones right now, I just need to fight the temptation to buy one that I know isn't in my budget.

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I think we might have decided it's somewhere in Maine?

Also, my computer is being a total piece of garbage right now. I literally have to grip the screen in a really awkward way a lot of the time just to get it to display things properly and not freeze or be a bunch of pixels. Just a heads up in case I disappear for a day or two. I obviously won't be gone for good since I need a pc, but I can't guarantee how fast I'll be able to replace it.

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@Loony Lol how did you know I could read minds?