Niko Bellic | Network 001

[vengeance_driven]

[Public | Audio]

[Niko hates having to ask for stuff. He still feels bad for imposing on Roman so much for so long, but he needs money to get what he wants, and he can't do his job (either job) if he can't go into the woods or the caves.]

So uh...

This hasn't been an issue until now, but I didn't bring any armor with me. I wasn't really expecting so many explosions [or to get wrapped up with gun-runners] and I'm really need to get back to work. If anyone has good suggestions, please give them. I could use something, maybe have it imported in.

[There at least doesn't seem to be a shortage in people that would be knowledgeable in different armors, but probably all of them types he hasn't heard of.]

Comments

[vengeance_driven]

Yes, well... Children have ways of wandering into dangerous places. Parents worry, so that is how they usually handle it.

Sure. I know that "elves" would be something else in my language. It is "šumska vila" or "vilenjak".

[tawarwaith]

This is true! more than once there have been tales of a child becoming lost in our wood and needing to be guided home again. It has not happened since I came to be a captain back home, most likely because the forest has grown more and more dangerous since I was a child.

[She tilts her head listening to his native language and finding it to be rather fascinating. Languages outside of what was familiar to her was always something she had an interest in.]

Among my kind, we simply refer to ourselves as the Eldar. A simple, elegant word.

[vengeance_driven]

Not a bad name for yourself. I'm a Serb.

Maybe not so elegant of a word, but it still has a lot of history behind it. Good and bad.

[tawarwaith]

Serb? It is short and to the point. It suits you I think. But just to clarify you are also of the race of man yes? A human?

[She hopes this is not rude to ask. It's just now that she has seen humans from all over and people who look like humans but aren't it feels like proper question to ask. ]

[vengeance_driven]

That I am.

In Eastern Europe there is a larger race called the Slavs. And there are smaller groups within this large group, one is Serb.

People that aren't from there usually can't tell the difference between the smaller groups, but we know. Maybe a little like you and Lindir.

[tawarwaith]

There are some telltale markings between us, yes. I am beginning to understand what you mean between Serb and Salvs. I will admit to me you would all look the same... just as I imagine Lindir and I must appear the same. Our differences however are cultural as well as historical-- to our people at least.

[vengeance_driven]

Yeah, see? You get it. It is the same way with us and other Slavs. Poles, Bosniaks, Croats. [He's not going to mention Russians even though they qualify- he still has a bone to pick with them after everything he's gone through.]

[tawarwaith]

Is it something that other... humans [she almost said mortals] Do not understand? I myself could understand if it was another race, but not to know the differences among your own people.. well not you as you are speaking of it... but your race as a whole.

[vengeance_driven]

Humans don't understand each other in general, especially big groups of them. I'm not very good at describing why, though. Just in one place it is okay to have prearranged marriages and they last a long time. In another it is not and divorce is common. Both can produce unhappy couples, though.

That's just an idea of what I mean. There's a lot things we do that are different, but also not exactly good, not exactly bad, and they make people hate each other and generalize.

[tawarwaith]

[She has a hard time believing that humans are so diverse. It sounds more like he was describing differing races rather than a singular people. After a little bit of reflection, she decided to voice her thoughts.]

Eldar are the same in many ways, it is true, but for a time there was a fracturing of my people as they spread out through the world of Arda. We spoke different languages, had different hobbies and lived in varying locations. But by the time I was born, the Eldar were once again more or less united under the banner of the same language, though our core ideas and beliefs seem to have remained the same from our earliest days on.

Hearing that the humans of your world is so completely diverse almost seems impossible for me to imagine it, try as I might. I do no think you would lie to me however, so I will have to believe you.

[vengeance_driven]

Hey, you must admit, I am different from most humans you meet. If I am typical then I am very sorry.

It is a very big planet. I'm not that good at this language because I only learned it as a teenager and didn't have reason to use it much. But I think my own language is beautiful, and was sad because my country used it.

[tawarwaith]

it is true, you are quite different. You must remember, until coming here, my interactions with humans has been limited to those of Esgaroth. They were rudimentary at best in their way of life. I doubt any of them even know a second language as you do. I'm guessing that any humans here are not of the typical variety anyway.

[vengeance_driven]

Maybe none of us are really typical, elf or human.

[tawarwaith]

[She smiles a little.]

That may well be the case. I think it is a good thing then.