Sword buddies? (Closed - Galatea)
Oh no, oh no!! This was really bad! No, the bad thing wasn’t the fact he still hadn’t found Hershel, because he was still focused on determinedly looking for him and not giving up until he was absolutely blooming sure his chum wasn’t here - the bad thing was, that in his constant searches through this odd city for his buddy, he hadn’t even noticed at first that his favorite fencing rapier had been replaced!
“Jeez, talk about a dodgy business. I can still practice my swordplay to protect my chum with this, yeah: but it’s nowhere near as cool as my real sword.” Lifting the rather pointy piece of wood up, he weighed it in his hands - it definitely wouldn’t cut anything or disarm opponents like a fencing sword might, but it held weight behind it.
It’d probably be heavy enough to bruise or knock somebody out if you SOMEHOW fluked a direct hit to the head, but it seemed pretty lacking in attack power and usefulness. Maybe a fellow sword-player might know how to spice it up and make it just a tiny bit more useful, though? Like, that fancy-looking lady with a larger wooden sword!
Her actual sword musta been pretty spiffing for the wooden version to look that cool!
Waving to the lady, there was a glint of evident excitement and respect on his face.
“Hehe - hey, miss fancy swordslady! Mind giving a guy who doesn’t like these wooden swords the scientists replaced our proper swords with a few pointers on how to improve these rubbish swords, if you can...?”
A hopeful tone in his voice, as he asked that. It would have looked a lot more mature if Randall wasn’t bouncing around on the spot while saying it, though...