BBS: St. James Arms (open action!)

[ersatzknight]

Attn.: All

Upgrades, items, new equipment, repairs and maintainence available to all Garden cadets, staff and SeeD at discounted prices.

Gunblade Specialization with over 20 years experience, if we don't have it we'll find it at no additional cost.

Custom work available, contact via Private Message or in person for orders.

Permanent location within Balamb Garden to be determined, temporary location in Quad.

-S.A.
St. James Arms

Comments

[ascendit]

[Nate hasn't seen the BBS post - not too many computers on the Latin American streets in the early to mid 90's, so he hasn't tried to figure out his laptop yet - he's just wandering the school, familiarizing himself, munching on candy hearts, and keeping an eye out for anything interesting.

[Like... that.

[He comes in closer for a look, far more interested in the weapon than the man.] Is that a pistol sword?

[ersatzknight]

Gunblade, yeah.

[He's just raising an eyebrow at you kid, because who doesn't know what a-- right. Offworlder.]

[ascendit]

[Nate nods, pulling out a journal and pencil and starting to sketch it.] I did think the blade was too wide.

[He glances up at Seifer, realizing something:] Must be heavy.

[ersatzknight]

It also doesn't fire bullets.

[He shifted, frowning for a moment as the kid started drawing.]

Not anymore, but I've been using one for longer than you've been alive.

[...Hyne he sounded old.]

There are more than a few different models though, and this one's not exactly standard by any means.

[It wasn't Hyperion, he didn't generally wield her unless he needed to. He'd put the best of twenty years of work in to it and while it didn't exactly glow there was a definite shimmer in there at times.]

You a new cadet?

[hispeedchase]

[After reading the post, Chase heads to the quad to see if he can get his pistol's repaired or upgraded... he hasn't decided yet.]

I'm going to take a shot in the dark and say you're SA?

[ascendit]

[He raises an eyebrow at the gunblade not firing bullets, but quickly gets distracted by the new information about them. The remark about being a new cadet, on the other hand, earns a derisive snort as he keeps drawing.] Something like that. [Nate plans to stick around just long enough to get a handle on the world and maybe learn a bit about magic.] Why, you a teacher?

[ersatzknight]

[That gets a laugh.]

Nah, I can still do and teaching never had much of an appeal.

[ersatzknight]

One and only, what can i do for you?

[This guy's got a semispiffy gunblade on him and everything Chase, he's the most legit.]

[espio]

[Espio hasn't seen the post, and doesn't even use any weapons anyway. He just happens to hang out in the Quad fairly often when he spots someone vaguely-sorta-semi-familiar, with weapons.

Hmmmm?]

Do I know you?

[gunbladegrrl]

[The shriek that goes up from Maria's dorm room is audible down the hall.]

St. James Arms?! HERE?! PERMANENT LOCATION?! This is a dream come true!]

[With a clatter, a crash, and a thud, Maria bursts out the door with her gunblade case in hand, barreling through the halls towards the quad. Around the lobby walk, down the stairs into the quad proper, and --]

[She sees who it is, and promptly drops both her gunblade case and her jaw.]

[ersatzknight]

[HYNE'S PANTS. Did anyone ever think to tell you that you kind of resemble a tonberry Espio, because they should have.]

I have one of those faces.

[espio]

[Nope, nobody's mentioned that at all!]

I think I kicked your ass once.

[...he actually did.]

[ersatzknight]

[Least. Impressive. Entrance. Ever. Minus twenty points from Gryffindor Balamb.

Seifer is just going to give her a very judging look with raised eyebrows and unimpressedness as he walks over.

He's going to pick up that gunblade case and if you faint you will totally lose more points... and probably get him in trouble.]

[ersatzknight]

If you're a tonbery then yeah, probably.

[espio]

No, not a tonberry.

[It's been a while since he's been compared to a monster - he can't keep the irration out of his voice at having it come up again.]

Just a chameleon. The difference is that I'm way less inclined to knife you, but ask me if I'm a monster again and I might change my mind.

You look really familiar, but I can't nail you down.

[Looks over Seifer's... things.]

What are you doing?

[ersatzknight]

Like I said; one of those faces.

[Well sorry if he's been away from polite society for the better part of two decades.

The urge to say 'none of your buisines' is definetly there.]

I run Saint James Arms, we've decided to hold a contract with Balamb Garden. In house service.

[espio]

[Huh...]

Weapons? ...well, that's not something I'll be dealing with, but if I know anyone who wants an upgrade or whatever I'll point them this way. You setting up somewhere else in Garden, though? The Quad seems a bit of a strange place.

[No, he definitely hasn't seen the BBS post. And he's still examining Seifer's face closely, because it's really bugging him now.]

You kind of look like Seifer. Except old.

[...forty-something is not old, Espio.]

PM

[crablette]

Hello,

I know you said you specialised in gunblades, but I was wondering if you were able to upgrade gauntlets too. I think they're considered armour here, but I use them as weapons.

Sophie Lhant

[ersatzknight]

Once I figure a room out, yeah. This is just temporary.

[The old comment gets a bit of a scowl. He's not old, he's weathered.]

It's more than a 'kind of' kid.

[YEP.]

[espio]

What, seriously?

[Stares. Yeah, he's starting to see it properly now.]

I... I've met you more than once but... never any older than me before.

["Guess that's time compression" seems way too obvious to state. And... no, "I bet I can still kick your ass" is not the ideal way to continue this line of conversation either.]

PM

[ersatzknight]

Ms. Lhant,

They count as weapons if you use them in hand to hand combat. I may be able to, depending on what you're looking to accomplish with the upgrade.

-S.A.

[ersatzknight]

It happens, apparently.

[He just shrugs.]

I don't remember much of anything that happened during Compression back then, so... sorry. I was also probably an ass to you.

[espio]

Yeah, you were pretty much an ass to everyone.

[Espio was kind of cool with it though, in that sort of "hey, I can fight with this guy" way. He shrugs.]

Don't worry about it. People generally don't remember - you know our former Commander Leonhart, right? He's shown his face loads of times, and every time he forgot everything about the last time.

[ersatzknight]

I was pretty much an ass to the whole planet at that age, Kid.

[This is the evolved, more mature Seifer. Fear him and his ability to be responsible.]

Leonhart's probably off somewhere skipping through a field of daisies singing kumbaya or something for all I know these days.

[He's only slightly hurt that the guy hadn't tried to track him down at all, but he'd been avoiding things as well.]

...so I decided to show up and stick around as a replacement.

PM

[crablette]

I don't really know. At home, we dualized weapons, and depending on what we dualized them with they'd get whole new qualities and effects. For example, some shards could restore your health as you fought with them, and others could improve your reaction time. Does it work like that here?