Don't Diss the Ninja Tricks

[gangstageek.livejournal.com]

There is an empty spot at a table. Completely and utterly empty. Everyone knows no one is sitting there and there's no obvious sign someone IS going to sit there.

That is until someone is suddenly THERE with no prior sign of being anywhere near there. In fact, not many may recognize him. He wasn't around for any of the pod popped meetings, and he certainly wasn't the same ninja who was a doctor. For one, this one had a hat and no lab coat. Also a bit shorter too.

Dark Smoke Puncher figured since people DID know he was here now, he might as well try to get to know the crew. If it really was a secret ninja battle royale, than at least he could get to know his opponents instead of getting jumped because it was harder to hide from ninjas.

People may notice that his glop that was called food was decreasing in volume, yet he never moved his mask. It was clear he was eating too as he stated, "dawg, this stuff is rank!" Really, he'd prefer his mom's 'famous stewed beats.'

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[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

"Oh my god, a ninja!" Wyn says excitedly, sliding into a nearby chair and grinning. She'd always wondered what the mask actually did for stealth; it basically announces the fact that the person wearing it is a ninja. Maybe it just looks cool.

"... hi!" she continues belatedly, realizing that maybe her outburst wasn't quite the best way to announce her presence.

[gangstageek.livejournal.com]

There was a whole reason for the ninja mask. It wasn't stealth, it was secrecy. It was the McNinja tradition to have a mask put on at birth. Because then no one knew what you look like. And at the time you might be betrayed by everyone, even your family?

You simply take off the mask.

And no one will ever find you.

The reaction was not something Dark Smoke Puncher was unfamiliar with. There were always one kid or another who made the remark. Usually geeky kids, but considering how few people there were, making a rep of being rude might not be the best. "Yo dawg," Dark Smoke Puncher greeted. "Yeah, I'm a ninja, word." Some more of the gloop vanished without any obvious cause.

At least she was cute. Maybe he should try to impress her?

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

Wyn is one of the geeky kids! (Well, one of the geeky university students, at least.) "I thought so. The mask is kind of a giveaway." she says with a nod. "Got a name, ninja kid?"

You've already impressed Wyn, Dark Smoke Puncher. You're a ninja.

[gangstageek.livejournal.com]

Hopefully the being impressed outweighs the annoying gangsta talk. "A ninja's gotta advertise to get some business, yo. Plus it's, ya know, tradition. The name's Dark Smoke Puncher, word," Dark Smoke Puncher replied.

Damn it, he was really liking not having to talk like that. That was the one advantage on being a low profile.

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

... maybe it does. It depends on how long this conversation lasts. "Business like what? I don't think people really want assassinations on the ship. ... well, Stacy doesn't want assassinations, which kind of puts a stop to it right there."

"I'm Wyn. Nice to meet you, Dark Smoke Puncher." Wyn says cheerfully. To her credit, she only hesitates a bit before saying his name (really, was that his name? Who names their child Dark Smoke Puncher?).

[gangstageek.livejournal.com]

"You be tripping if you think that's all a ninja can do. Check it, ninjas can do recon, other forms of spying, or other missions that involve the select set of skills a ninja has to be quick, fast, and silent, yo," Dark Smoke Puncher explained. Though he'd have to look into this no assassination thing.

"Pleasure's all mine, Wyn. Word," he added. He wanted to be polite to Wyn. But he still had to do the damn gangsta talk. He hates the day he decided he had too.

And no, Dark Smoke Puncher wasn't his real name. His real name was Sean, but don't diss the ninja name. He actually kind of liked it and it was a right of passage and all.

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

Wyn shrugs. "Fair enough. I don't meet a whole lot of ninjas, or any ninjas for that matter, so I'm just going by what the TV's taught me." Well, she's pretty sure Ryan's a ninja, but it's not as if he's ever confirmed her belief.

She won't mind if he stops talking like a gangsta. Really. Not a bit.

[gangstageek.livejournal.com]

Too bad he's convinced himself he's gotta continue it. If he stops and starts back at home again, his brother will realize something is up and that's a whole other barrel of fish.

"TV gives a mixed bag, yo. Half truths and the like, but a ninja's gotta keep some secrets, dawg," Dark Smoke Puncher said.

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, it's like that with magic too." Wyn agrees dryly. "Except in our case the TV trends more towards making things up as they go along rather than half-truths." No, sorcerors do not wear those stupid pointy hats, nor do they wear the stage-magician tuxedoes. None of them solve crimes-- well, actually, it might be nice if they did, but they don't.

[gangstageek.livejournal.com]

"Magic is usually a lot weirder in reality," Dark Smoke Puncher said. Knife eye attack. Weirdest damn spell ever. "Dawg," he quickly added. He hated when he forgot.

"You a magic user, yo?"

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

This look? This is the look of someone who's starting to pick up on the slightly... erratic placement of gangsta phrases. It doesn't bother her enough to mention it yet, but she's not completely unobservant.

"Nah, not me." Wyn shakes her head quickly. "Mad scientist." ... she really shouldn't say things like that quite so cheerfully.

[gangstageek.livejournal.com]

"Really? That's sick, dawg," Dark Smoke Puncher said. Ninjas were hired a lot by mad scientists.

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

"... is sick good or bad? I forget." Wyn asks, tilting her head in confusion.

[gangstageek.livejournal.com]

"It's awesome, yo," Dark Smoke Puncher said. At least he was pretty sure. People usually said something was sick after a really cool trick.

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

"Oh, okay. Not the usual reaction, but really, I'm fine with that." Wyn says brightly. The usual reaction involved small amounts of shunning and large amounts of suspicious looks. It's not like she keeps doomsday devices in her pockets, people.

[gangstageek.livejournal.com]

"Mad scientists give awesome pay, dawg," Dark Smoke Puncher said with a shrug.

[potentialmonkey.livejournal.com]

"Shyeah. Preachin' to the choir hear bro. Which is why I've been eating in the sensoriums. May be the same snot-like-substance Stacy's feedin' us in here, but at least it tastes like food."

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

"Well, not me, because at the moment I'm kind of a broke university student." Wyn says with a shrug. "Also, I've never hired a ninja before." Except for that time she hired Ryan to carry things from Pierce Hall to her car, but no one can prove that Ryan's a ninja.

[gangstageek.livejournal.com]

Dark Smoke Puncher thought about this a moment. "Give it time. Check it, usually they're old or really young when they hire ninjas. Kid super geniuses usually got loaded parents, yo." Not that he wouldn't mind to get hired by a cute, young lady mad scientist. Just university age, they didn't usually have the money.

[gangstageek.livejournal.com]

"You can do that? Yo, wish I knew that sooner instead of trying to eat this trash," Dark Smoke Puncher said, giving the food the evil eye.

[crazychanger.livejournal.com]

"You do not look anythink like zat ninja bot," Blitzwing commented, sliding into a seat.
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"But you look vezzy interestink! Ahahahahahahaha!" Random giggles maniacally. Again.

[gangstageek.livejournal.com]

Dude.

It was a robot.

IT WAS A FRICKIN' ROBOT!

WHO WAS SOME SORT OF AI!

How cool was that?!

Dark Smoke Puncher held in his glee, however, as he looked at Blitzwing. "Yo, dawg, I ain't no ninja robot. I'm the real deal, ninja blood and everything, word."

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

"They're also kind of obnoxious." Wyn is not really good with kids, though she tries, and kids that think they're smarter than her don't exactly help.

"... do I want to know what the kid super-geniuses hire you for?"

[ooc: sorry this is so late and erratic, I'm kind of unable to get to a computer for most of the day now...]

[gangstageek.livejournal.com]

"Got a point, dawg. I usually want to mess them up before the job is through," Dark Smoke Puncher said with an annoyed sighed. Usually he could never learn anything cool from them either.

"The same thing the geezers do. Bodyguard, stealing, spying, all that stuff, yo."

[crazychanger.livejournal.com]

"Interestink. I did not know organics could be...vhat vas it again-" He briefly conversed with himself before coughing. "-ah, right. Ninjas."
Random energetically takes the reins again.
"Ahahahahaha joo haff a funny vay of speakink!" the triplechanger giggles. The fact that he has a strong German accent has either completely escaped him or he's just blatantly ignoring it. Possibly both simultaneously.