Making it as we go

[GamingLord]

Jacob paused, then couldn't help but smirk a little and chuckle a bit himself. Considering all the times he's been maimed, injured, de-limbed, and all sorts of horrible things...

"Right, well.. It gets tricky for me when I lose my arms sometimes, but I can still manage without them if I really have to. I'm just more efficient with them is all."  

[GamingLord]

"Well, I'm not absolutely starving or anything, but I could eat I think. I just started getting a tad hungry."  

[GamingLord]

“Heh, my apologies then. Food is probably a good idea then.”

Glancing around at the different foods being served, he decided that as much as he liked the chesni meat, he would avoid it for now. It was a rather unhealthy meal, and he'd rather have something different anyway. Finding something that caught his eye, he got a couple of meat buns, filled with some sort of savory meat covered in sauce. He wouldn't think he would need to eat both of them, but just in case he got both because he didn't want to be draining any vampire connected to him due to even a slight bit of hunger on his part. He also got a bottle of something Ma noticed was called “Nutri-Juice”, that came in a variety of colors, presumably different flavors... Jacob's was tinted yellowish-orange, advertising some sort of foreign fruit he hadn't heard of (He may have heard of the Nutri-Juice, but that particular fruit neither was familiar with. It was on a whim that Jacob chose it.)

Taking a sip from his drink, Jacob paused a moment and considered the flavor.

“Somewhat like sweet tea, but with a citrus hint mixed with... I want to say a slightly sour kithos berry taste. It's odd. Not bad, just different.”

Interestingly enough, a public vehicle passed them by with an advertisement for “Nutri-Juice” plastered on it's side with a holographic type display. “Drink Nutri-Juice!,” Jacob and Ma was able to read, where Ma was more than likely able to read the rest rather quickly, “A nutritional, healthy, revitalizing fluid balanced with healing agents and the materials needed to rebuild! Guaranteed to quench thirst, refresh the body, and revitalize the mind!” In smaller print, as a disclaimer, Ma also was able to make out. “Please note that Nutri-Juice does not claim to be able to rejuvenate the spirit, as the soul is not our field of expertise!”

Blinking at the oddly timed ad-vehicle, Jacob took a bite of his food and noticed out of the corner of his eye the “blood vendors” section, in particular the one where healthy people were offering themselves to be fed off of while hooked up to rejuvenation machines. Chewing and swallowing his bite, he commented on it.

“Hmm, looks like they improved the machinery of those auto-healing infusers lately...”  

[GamingLord]

"It's different than the blood bags I'll say. It does provide it from the source I suppose it's not necessarily a bad thing, considering the machines keep the people alert and healed for the most part, unless they overdo it for most of the day. As far as I know, they also check the blooder for any sorts of illness of course, and I believe for certain magics if they would affect certain blood drinking species. I think it's a good thing overall, probably not without it's flaws somewhere, but...."

Jacob eyed one leech person finishing up their meal, the individual quietly stifling a small burp and thanking the blooder as donor was called apparently, leaving payment and tip behind. For the most part it looked professional, though sometimes depending on certain species, idle chit chat was made, or the rare occasional minor flirt happened (the chit chat mostly happening with species that had more than one mouth or used something else of theirs to drink blood with.)

"What's your thought on it?"  

[GamingLord]

"Yes, there is a lack of privacy and such I agree. And no, I wouldn't drink from something that was sipped on from numerous strangers without cleansing... though the machines do sanitize the feeding sites I hear, but that's besides the point."

Jacob quietly took another bite of his food and swallowed it before continuing, idly realizing he was gradually feeling less hungry as he ate. He hadn't been too hungry to begin with, but it was good he noted that he got food when he did. If Ma hadn't made the suggestion, he probably would have wanted to get something to eat soon enough himself.

"I suppose the way they create those blood bags makes it somehow cheaper to manufacture."  

[GamingLord]

Though he tried to be somewhat discrete about it, Jacob did give a bit of a off to the side look and attempted not to clear his throat. He remembered that incident though, it was the poltergeist he had "chased" off before he met Moor'teis and that horrible business with the illusionist demon. Interesting that he remembered Moor'teis first. That particular spirit, though powerful, was at least harmless to it's "victims", just a touch on the mischievous side. The one before that though was particularly nasty, and he was lucky he was able to bind most of it's power and that throwing eggs was one of the worse things in the way of collateral damage it had managed before things got bad. It did however tried to mess with Jacob's emotions a fair amount, and giving him past sensations that he had no fondness to recollect.

Jacob collected himself rather quickly, and realizing that if this current Eztli had any reaper in him like it seemed possibly that he might have detected his emotional state through empathy, (He had became slightly flustered, and just for a very split second surprised and irrationally annoyed at the memory more than anything of that ghost.) He then returned the greeting to Eztli.

"Funny coincidence. Nice to meet you as well, Eztli." Jacob quietly reflected on how uncommon, but not necessarily excessively rare that name was in Limbo. Another example would be Galantros, though a tad bit more common than Eztli.

"Well... I'd imagine having a spirit smash some eggs in your face would "spoil" your mood rather quickly.."

"Jacob? Jacob Merak? Grstk sh'fv..(the rest is almost considered a strange sort of high and low pitch variances of gibberish that would be difficult to put into text. It was an uncommon enough language also that it took the translation devices a moment to decipher them. What's translated is what other translation devices would see, as Ma's are of a cheaper, 1 langauge variety.)...to see again since last saw, Never thought mr. necromancer!"

Jacob blinked and looked behind him. A strange, black shrouded demon floated there, somewhat reptilian with a multitude of horns, and spidery-like jointed legs on it's lower half twitching. She (apparently, as the voice though strange, was female), and held in thick muscular arms a miniature version of herself, a small child that was resting.

"Uhm.. Excuse me a second, sorry." Jacob responded in kind for a brief second in that similar language with his own ton of voice, which was kind of amusing and disturbing at the same time, until finally the devices figured out the language. A reaper's mind would've figured it out much quicker. "sh'vigrxxyn so catpaw hammer, question mark? My, De'shivak, you have a little one now. It certainly has been a while."

"Yes, my little Sithos. He's two. I'm sorry Jacob, I mostly wanted to see if that really was you since your face has changed a fair amount. I can't chat long. Do you still live where you did previously?"

Jacob nodded at this. "Yes, you should come visit again, though some days I'm not always there... the others are though, and they probably miss you."

"Of course. I'll catch up with you all later, besides you seem occupied at the moment. I just wanted to say hello. Sorry for the intrusion! Take care Jacob... you seem more well, keep at it."

Jacob waved his fare ware to De'shivak, then turned his attention back to the others and gave an apologetic shrug. If Eztli couldn't figure out that he was that same Jacob Merak before... well, then he wouldn't know what to tell him.  

[GamingLord]

“No offense taken, Eztli. You can just call me Jacob. I know they were grateful, I made sure I didn't take out my mood on them... it's just that the spirit infesting their home was a particularly nasty one. Poltergeists can be either very minor things, or very disturbed, cruel creatures.”

As they left, Ma caught Jacob only partially off guard with his question.

“Well... That's a good question. I'd say...Hmm.” He thought a moment, wanting to try to be sincere and honest in what he said. “I suppose family friend sort of fits? I wanted to take this time in getting better acquainted with you. There's parts of me that still attempt to recluse myself, and I've really been making efforts to do away with a lot of that. I'd rather not come off as stand-offish or aloof anymore like I used to long in the past.” Jacob thought family friend sort of fit, but wasn't sure a closer idea of friendship or relationship would be fitting just yet because he didn't know what Ma thought exactly himself. For a moment, Ma could probably detect a slight hint of nervousness in Jacob. That want to be accepted that almost all people have it would seem.