video; un: steak

[battlebound]

( Ahem, this video starts with the knitted brows and a hand carefully pressing the record button before Steak steps back into frame, in all his bare ab-bed glory.

He clears his throat and tries to ignore the tingle of unease at having to record himself. )

Good day. My name is Steak and I would like to offer my services to any humans here on Ellipsa. If you need something building, or moving, or have trouble with local monsters, I can take care of all of those things for you.

( Man, this feels stupid but it does seem a more convenient way of offering his services than wandering the city day in and day out. )

Oh, and if anyone is looking to test their fighting skills, I welcome your challenge!

( No thoughts only fight. )

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audio; un: maomao

[poisontest]

[ Ignoring 99% of that, she's focusing on the 1% that matters, responding flatly: ]

Your name is Steak.

audio;

[battlebound]

( Does he seem like the type to joke about that? )

What else would it be?

[poisontest]

[ She's not going to assume things about a stranger... ]

I don't know, I don't name people. But it's just weird to hear someone named after food.

[ Hypocritical as she is, basically being named "cat cat". ]

[battlebound]

( Sigh... )

That's because I'm a food soul.

( He's not so much named after food as he is... the human summoned representation of it? )

[poisontest]

... A food soul.

[ Spoken so dryly, as she clearly does not understand it. ]

[battlebound]

( Thankfully, this is not the first time Steak has encountered someone who seems unaware of what he is. )

I am a being summoned by humans from the soul residing in the food named Steak.

( Because all food has souls. )

Video; UN: MonkieMan

[noodleboi]

There are non-humans here too who could use some help sometimes. And I'm always down to spar.

Did you pick your name or did someone else name you Steak? Because that is such a cool name.

[battlebound]

( ... Fair point. )

I didn't consider that. ( He's used to it just being humans, really. ) I'll help non-humans as well.

( And what is weird about— oh wait, cool? He'll take that. Although the answer... uh. )

The humans did, I guess. ( A hum, and a shrug. ) They created the dish of Steak and then summoned my spirit.

[noodleboi]

Cool! [That was easy to solve.]

Oh. So like you were summoned? With a Steak? I mean, a good bowl of noodles will summon me but my name is MK.

Nice to meet you.

[battlebound]

( He tips his head from one side to the other, expression crinkling in a "eh, more or less" sort of way. )

You too, uh... ( Just checking. ) Monkie.

( Yeah, that's got to be his name, right? )

[noodleboi]

Oh wow. You're good. Yeah. I'm the Monkie Kid. [He isn't making the connection his username gives it away.]

But I go by MK. It's not what my Dadsy named me but it's easier to say.

[battlebound]

( Nice, Steak hit the bullseye on something social. Truly, this will never happen again. )

I'll remember that.

( And a pause, while Steak considers what to say next; )

How do you prefer to spar?

( Hand to hand? Swords? Magic? )

[noodleboi]

Depends on my sparring partner. I can go with using powers or not. I'm pretty strong. I usually use my staff and fight hand to hand.

You?

[battlebound]

( Well, he has no problem showing off his two swords, drawing them with a grin. )

My fighting style typically includes the powers I've been gifted as a food soul, but I will gladly fight without them too!

( Practice, perfect, etc. )

[noodleboi]

Then why don't we do both? One with weapons and powers, one without? So we can just see what the other can do. Sound good?

not me opening this in a tab and then just forgetting it exists??? brain??? pls?

[battlebound]

Sounds good to me!

( Maybe it can get him to use his Ellipsa magic... )

I know how this feels! You're all good.

[noodleboi]

Alright! See you at the coliseum then! It's the best place to spar.

video, un: sasha

[potatogirl]

[ She has no idea how to use the video function correctly yet so it's just showing the ceiling. ]

Your name is Steak?!

[ her voice is entirely too excitable but that had caught her attention. ]

What kind of fighting?

[battlebound]

Is it that unusual?!

( Steak, be nice. You're going to have to answer this question a lot in future. But at least the talk of fighting gets him nicely distracted? )

I use my swords, but I look to test my skills against all kinds of fighters. ( And he can probably be talked into some hand-to-hand combat. It never hurts to practice that! )

[potatogirl]

Yes! I mean, I’ve never met anyone named steak… It makes me hungry.

[ Fighting is interesting, almost as interesting as food for Sasha. ]

Oh cool. I haven’t fought against many humans…

[battlebound]

( Ayyy, y'all gotta get WITH Tierran logic. )

I'm not a human. I'm a food soul.

( Yep. Yeeeeep. )

[potatogirl]

Whats that? It doesn’t make steak sound any less tasty…

[battlebound]

( Long, suffering exhale. )

Does no one here come from a world like Tierra?!

( Now that that complaint is done with; )

We are beings summoned by humans from the souls in their food.

( Obviously, this is all very normal. )

[potatogirl]

I’ve never heard of Tierra. But, I don’t understand how food has a soul….?

[ She could buy it for animals maybe but a pancake or something? Or a steak? ]

Also! It still would be interesting to spar.

[battlebound]

( All Steak can give you is a shrug. That's just the way the world works. It runs on imagination (no, really). )

I never asked.

( He was just happy to be alive and fighting. )

Great! When would you like to?

[potatogirl]

I'm free tomorrow!