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[lakebrat]

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[[ooc: WARNING that threads with willowandoak may contain unmarked NSFW. Tread lightly. Blame Sunflowren.]]

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[willowandoak]

He makes a noncommittal noise. "I was just thinking... remember Hamuko? When I told her half of us were murderers after she'd been here for months, and she got real upset? I was trying to dodge another situation like that."

...Which he wouldn't have cared about as much if he didn't like Sam. So Goro is right. But never mind that.

[lakebrat]

Yeah. But there's no point digging beneath the surface of that. Instead, he hands over the coffee, taking his own cup in turn, and moving back a few steps in the conversation.

"Us..." he tries, before giving up. "I have no idea how to read that. Or what language it is, annoyingly. It's not English."

[willowandoak]

"It isn't?" He looks at the name again. "How do you know?"

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[lakebrat]

Goro stares down at it for a second himself. He has no idea how he knows, not really. "It doesn't look like English," he says, confidently. "That y and s, for instance. Plus the -en at the end—in English that would be a verb, not a name."

He touches his chin. "I wonder if it's one of the old British languages. Irish, or something."

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[willowandoak]

"What about Madden NFL, though?" he asks, naming a sports video game that's fairly obscure in Japan. He pauses for a second to frown. "I guess that doesn't have to be a name. I just always figured it was."

[lakebrat]

Goro hmms over his coffee. He knows what NFL is, even if he doesn't know that game. "Madden... that's a place, right? Or is it a player?"

[willowandoak]

"I dunno. I only played it a little but I don't remember a guy named Madden."

So is it a name, actually? Or is it something else?

...They're getting distracted. "We could maybe google the god, though?"

[lakebrat]

Pulled back on track, he snaps his fingers and reaches for his phone. "You're right. Assuming we get anything...."

But a quick search reveals a screen of pleasing information. Goro can't repress a smirk. "Look at that, Welsh. I knew it was ancient British."

There's even a convenient button for pronunciation. Goro gives it a tap and listens closely, and then contorts his face in the most disgusted way.

[willowandoak]

Tragically, because he would love to laugh at that face, Ren misses it entirely, too busy studying the screen as if he'll find answers there. "Sam didn't say it like that."

[lakebrat]

"Maybe the Internet is wrong. It would hardly be the first time, especially here."

He gives the button another tap, listening closely, then makes another effort to approximate it, with an overemphasised English-style th sound. "Us. Usbathden. Usbathadden. Crap, I hope he doesn't appear if you say his name three times."

[willowandoak]

"Imagine if he did show up here." He frowns. "How would we shrink him down? Or whatever Sam's team did? He made it sound like they went all over the country, but can't even leave the city."

[lakebrat]

He glances up from the phone; that's a revolting thought. "Don't borrow trouble. Nobody else's gods have shown up."

Except then he frowns. "Yet. Other than Sagiri, I mean."

[willowandoak]

His mouth is open to protest when Goro tacks on his mention of Sagiri. He sits back, only somewhat mollified. "See? If he's here, anyone could show up."

Then again, Igor has Sagiri under control...

Then again, Igor failed to keep out Fatalis.