32nd Blood | The road to become GDA! Great Driver Arcueid!!

[tsukihime]

[All around the streets of Mayfield | Most of today]

[Why hello there, Mayfield. Have you suddenly found yourself hit by that slime from that one delightfully hilarious classic movie? Are you feeling a little bit irritable today? Picking fights, snapping at your loved ones, and generally just being dicks to one another?

Well, don't worry! Arcueid's here!.......to make it worse. You may be stomping around town looking for a fight, or just generally irritable, or maybe even not affected at all. But, if you are anywhere near paved streets, you may bear witness to an odd sight.

Thanks to one certain Golden superhero, who honestly knew NOT what he did, Arcueid has been introduced to her new favorite "sport." This "sport," happens to be CART RACING! That's right, Arcueid has stolen a shopping cart from the store, finding areas with a high incline, and practicing her racing prowess on the streets.

So, as you travel through town, you may suddenly be passed by a fast-moving blur of blond, white and silver. She may almost hit you, she may fly by just laughing loudly, or she might even HIT YOU. Hey, these things aren't easy to control from inside. Hopefully anyone she mows over ends up being people who can take a hit from a shopping cart loaded with a vampire at what must be a good 20 to 30 miles per hour. Feel free to react however you please, or even pick a fight!]

[John Doe Park | Evening]

[There's a mangled, discarded cart laying in the grass near a blonde woman in white also laying on her back in the grass. Her limbs are stretched out, and she appears to just be staring at the sky. That's really it. It's hard to tell whether she's alive or dead from a distance.]

Comments

[tsukihime]

[He won't have to go far. This one Arcueid actually saw, and in an attempt to not hit the boy she had pulled up on the front of her cart for some reason. WHY she thought this would work is anyone's guess, but she just ended up pulling the cart into a wicked wheelie, toppling it backwards and spilling her out onto the concrete.

After a bit of sliding, Arcueid gracefully bounds to her feet, brushing herself off a bit.]

Are you okay...um...oops, I don't remember your name.

[normality]

[ That was a near circus-worthy trick right there, so he stops running and instead just walks over until he's near the girl, at least glad that nothing seems to be wrong. ]

It's Mikiya. Mikiya Kokutou. [ ... ] And yes, I'm fine. What were you doing, though..?

[tsukihime]

Cart racing practice!

[Arcueid declares this triumphantly, as if she's some Olympic athlete in the midst of training for her important competition.]

[normality]

[ Cart racing practice-- of course. Totally makes sense. Nothing weird here. ]

You might at least want to do that somewhere there's less people around, right? You might hit someone like this.

[tsukihime]

Hey I'm doing it in the road...people shouldn't be walking around there anyway.

[normality]

People cross roads, right? But it's at least more safe than doing it on the sidewalks, yes.

[tsukihime]

Well, aren't you supposed to look both ways first, or something?

[normality]

... I'm not so sure if looking both ways would help when you're coming down the road at that speed, you know.

[tsukihime]

Well, if you're paying attention you should be able to hear that coming, right? That thing makes a lot of noise when it's going really fast.

Humans can at least hear that well.

[To Arcueid, pedestrians do NOT have the right-of-way, apparently.]

[normality]

[ good sense of priorities, Arcueid. ]

That's exactly how I managed to dodge it. But you're saying you haven't run into any other people with that thing yet?

[tsukihime]

Noooope.

Almost hit a couple...but they got out of the way just like you did.

So, it's no big deal, right?

[normality]

... Just make sure you warn people in advance next time, okay? Maybe get a car horn on that thing, or something..

[ Since yeah, he can imagine it going wrong if it keeps up like this. 8| ]

[tsukihime]

How do I put a car horn on it? That would be pretty neat.

[normality]

I'm not too good with technical things, but.. it should be possible, right? Or you could just get one of those horns little kids sometimes put on their bikes, those would work too.

... Or you could just shout really loudly, but that might give people the wrong idea.

[tsukihime]

Well...I usually shout when I do it because it's really fun.

[normality]

But I mean.. shouting something like 'watch out!' maybe.

[tsukihime]

No, sounding like a police siren would be cooler.

[And thus, Arcueid does her best imitation of a siren. It's not very good.]

Okay...no...that's really stupid, isn't it?

[normality]

[ Okay, okay, he can't help but chuckle at that veery slightly. ]

Maybe with some practice.

[tsukihime]

No, I mean even doing it is stupid. I'm never doing that again.

...unless it's an emergency.

Anyway, I'm going to get back to my practice! Stay out of the street, okay?