USERNAME: #B91600 SUBJECT: A Map of Chroma

[heartsteals]

To my fellow refugees:

At long last I have completed a Map of the town and would like to share it with you all. I am far from a cartographer, having only made maps of interiors before this; nonetheless, I hope that it will be of some use.

I must also offer my thanks to Monsieur Bruce and his associates for producing a great many copies of this map. If you would like to have one for yourself, please stop by my home in Ruga - it's the house with red roses blooming in front. Otherwise, I have posted one in the Town Hall building in Ruga for all to view.

That's all that I have to say for today. Be well!

Yours truly,
Lupin

[ just as he says, there's a hand-drawn map of Chroma tacked up in the town hall! If your characters want their own copy, feel free to start an action thread coming to Lupin's house here, too; he'll be sitting in the kitchen with a stack of them to hand out. ]

Comments

[pursestrings]

[Okuyasu listens to all this and then pauses to look over his shoulder like this detective roommate is about to come out and bust him for something, not unlike being nervous while driving past cop cars despite doing nothing illegal. Cops... in this town... terrifying.]

Yeah, I guess...? Maybe it's 'cause I've never been to Paris. I don't think I'd like the food.

[This is the most important thing. Now then, hold on-] Wait, airships? Like a plane? Sick.

[heartsteals]

[ akechi is a nerd and would come down to tell them a bad joke at worst ]

No, no, an airship! Like... a hot air balloon? A zeppelin? Do you have those?

[ a beat. ]

It was cool, though.

[ just saying, okuyasu is right ]

[pursestrings]

Oh. Sure, I know what those are.

[He's picturing Lupin stealing, like, an advertisement blimp... it's fine.]

Did you crash it?

[heartsteals]

What do you take me for? I brought it back to the house. The next day, we used it to win an illegal airship race.

[ the guys he stole it from were there and they were really mad, but IT ALL WORKED OUT. Lupin is sharing this tidbit purely because he thinks this is also Cool. ]

[pursestrings]

An illegal airship race.

[Hm..... sounds weird, but okay.]

Those things are pretty slow.

[heartsteals]

[ these are like, steampunk airships with propellers and shit on them, but since those are the only kind Lupin knows, he doesn't even think to explain that... ]

Not when they're built for racing, they're not. My friend souped ours up before the race, besides. We were going so fast that we had to crash-land it.

[ also because they got shot at a lot and overclocked the engines to win BUT ]

In any case, now you know how I make my living. A lot of people have heard of me, but I'd still rather not have you go telling everyone in town I'm a thief if you can help it. People might get the wrong impression.

[pursestrings]

[don't say souped up, you're so old, god lupin!!!]

You were just making faces at me like it was too bad I didn't know who you were, but you don't want me telling anybody? What's the point of being great pals if I gotta keep secrets about cool criminal shit?

[UUUGGGH]

[heartsteals]

Unfortunately, not everyone thinks it's cool. [ his tone says "they're wrong, but." ] And I don't want people thinking I'm going to steal their things here.

[pursestrings]

For real? Nobody even has good shit around here. They gotta be crazy to think that.

[There's nothing worth stealing!!]

[heartsteals]

[ excuse you, he could steal some chickens, and some gold-embossed original poetry ]

Maybe, but I'm sure there are still some folks who would think it. I'd rather not assume everyone's ready to get cozy with the thief in their midst. [ a beat. ] Part of it is just that I'm used to keeping my identity under wraps, anyway.

[pursestrings]

[go away loop]

Yeah yeah, I'm special, I get it. I won't tell anybody about your life of crime. You're pretty alright, too.

[heartsteals]

Woah, woah, who said anything about special? Maybe I just think you're boneheaded enough to trust me anyway.

[ the comment is very clearly a joke; he grins. ]

Consider it an honor.

[pursestrings]

[Okuyasu looks at Lupin for... a long moment.]

You're such a nerd.

[heartsteals]

[ he laughs at that. sticks and stones!! ]

So are you.

[pursestrings]

No way! [TAKE IT BACK!!] What'd I do?

[heartsteals]

Hmm. Where should I start? The goose drawing, the nicknames, the poetry...

[ but it's okay, they're charming nerd features. ]

[pursestrings]

Those things are cool. Everybody thought those were cool!

["Ochako thought those were cool" - local teen, whipped]

[heartsteals]

Miss Ochako doesn't count as "everybody."

[ HE SEES THROUGH YOU OKUYASU... and thinks it's cute ]

[pursestrings]

[hey......don't read him like that!!]

Maybe, but her vote counts twice anyway.