[ How's My Driving? ]

Playing a fairly iconic character comes with its perils. What more can one say?

So I would be grateful for any feedback, suggestions, comments, critiques, issues, and so on that you might want me to know. Keep me in line!

→ Please feel free to leave any messages, feedback, suggestions, comments, critiques, issues, or problems regarding this guy's characterization. I will certainly take them into consideration.

→ But I also hope you'll let me explain some of the situation or reasons behind things. I'd like to work things out so that I understand things as clearly as possible and so that your concerns can be addressed.

→ Anonymous is on, IP logging is off, comments are screened.

→ If you'd like, also please feel free to use this post for plotting, organizing events, or to contact me. I'm also available through LJPM and email.

Thank you very much for your feedback and help.

Whatever's going on up there--

It doesn't sound too pretty.

[ooc: Yes, re: the stuff on the mountain. And, wow, I sincerely apologize for my fail with this guy of late. RL hurts me. This is a pathetic post.]

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Sure seems like there's something in the air today.

Here I thought it was springtime that got everyone like this.

But it seems like the City isn't too particular about seasons.

[ooc: Ha ha, he says, look at all of you acting goofy. But don't worry: he'll get his in a minute, when he sees brobeforehos ♥ He's in town again, with the horse, getting some necessary supplies and such.]

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Thought you'd be gone by now. Guess not.

Seeing as the lady of the house is back, I think I'll take my leave.

So long.

[ooc: Cryptic, I know. Here's what it means: Cowboy thought the 4th Wall visitors would be gone by now, but they aren't. However, Uhura seems to be back and perhaps for keeps. She charged him with looking out for the Welcome Center and then disappeared for a bit. He kept on watching the place. But, since she seems to be back, he'll just...take a ride out beyond the City limits for a while. To avoid the crowds, really. However!!! You are welcome to encounter him in the streets, outside the City, on the edges of town, or on the Network. He'll have his horse with him or even be riding it. So he's easy to spot. So come and 4th Wall him! Please?]

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You know what they say about crime.

[ooc: ~ doesn't pay? Don't do the ~ if you can't do the time? What do they say, Cowboy? Well, he's being a jerk about it since he wasn't in prison, which is funny because he's going to rescue someone from jail by dynamiting out his cell bars just as soon as he gets back to his world (not that he knows it). Pffft, anti-heroes. In the meantime, he's just riding around the City a little. Feel free to see him in person or on the Network!]

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[A flicker, a shudder, a shaking view of what seem to be...stars? Stars in a blue sky, a great nebula of stars...? No, it's a view of the City, from a rise just outside of town. The stars are the lights of the City itself. It's beautiful, in its way, from here, glowing and bright and glittering, with light in dark places like magic lanterns and strange flames burning in many colors. And now the noise of crowds of people--shouting and calling out and cheering and crying and singing--rises up through the night air. A view of the City at night, filled to overflowing with people and creatures, both newly arrived and long-time residents. Quite a sight. Quite a sight.

Ah, but the view changes--the device broadcasting this scene is turned, and the lights streak like meteors across the blue night.

The view is darker on this side. The blue deepens on towards black. And one red star (light?) burns faintly in the darkness. It brightens and glows suddenly. Someone exhales. Ah. That explains it: the burning end of a cigarillo. And now, a voice in the dark:]

Guess there's no helping it.

[Perhaps that voice is familiar.

If one looks carefully, that burning red star moves a little--the man who has it bitten well between his teeth is smiling. Just a little. Just a little. He looks away from the device and back out towards the City again. And, with the left hand that holds it, he snaps the Network device shut again, abandoning the feed to the dark, pouring more darkness over the darkness of the video already, and ending the recording in a--]
[//video post ends]

[ooc: And the Man With No Name, who had hitherto been hiding out as best he could out on the edge of the Wilderness, now finds himself obliged to come back nearer into town. Probably someone's demanding a delivery of monster meat or something. Who knows. In any event...he is open for 4th Walling! Go for it! I welcome you!]

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[Video Post]
[Flicker, flicker, snap! Although what can one see, really? It seems to be downright pandemonium at the moment: movement and thundering hooves and brown...cowhides? Yes, and lowing. That low rumbling sound, that's cattle lowing--tired, irritated cattle. Pushy cattle. Cattle not to keen on being made to go where they are going, and yet the herd demands it. The sounds seem to echo as though in a canyon. Or in a city street.

And there are also shouts and whistles from time to time. Whistles, followed by hoofbeats.

Cows! Lots of them! A herd of them!

And when there are cows, who does one call?

Cowboys, of course.

Fortunately, things are starting to clear, even if the view seems to be from the shoulder of a horse. That shouldn't be too surprising by now, videos like this at an angle like that. There's certainly one person we all know who ends up posting video like this to the Network all the damn time.

A couple of whistles come from just above the device (there he is now), the view turns, the horse steps sharply--and some would-be strays are pushed back in.

A pause and a view of nothing but cattle...walking around in a narrow road somewhere in the City (a small mercy it's not the square, but it's no fun to try and herd these critters in narrow alleyways).

A pause. The cows mill around. None wanders too far. A tally is made. An accounting.

Quietly, almost under his breath:]

Twenty-two.

[....................wait a minute...]

Twenty-two...

[An uncertain tone to that statement: twenty-two doesn't seem quite right. There is a pause. The horse is turned. The camera of the Network device alights on a calf, standing some distance removed from the herd, pitifully bleating. There's no laugh but the sound of a smile from the man on the horse.

He and the horse step around the calf and push it back into the herd.

A new answer:]

Twenty-three.

[Another pause, another smile.]

Twenty-two and a half.

[Get on there, cows. Maybe we ought to say "git along little dogies." Or something like that. In any event, he pushes the cows up the street. A lesson for you cows: don't try to annoy the cowboy. He'll only herd you. The cows move on through the streets, lowing and grumbling as cows do. The horse steps along behind them. A hand comes into view--of course it would, since there's a rope looped up nearby and the man on the horse (you know who he is by now) seems to need it.

But, in so doing, he snaps the lid shut on his Network device again. The sounds of the cattle echo for another moment more, but then even that too falls into the darkness in the empty space of the Network and the feeds ends in a--]
[//video post ends]

[ooc: These are the irritating but less violent cows that he's working on herding here. Feel free to join in and help, if you'd like. Otherwise, he'll just chase this little herd up to the barn and let them hang out there...where they will annoy him by cuddling up against him or trying to eat his duster or something, probably. And this is all funny because Rawhide. (Someone call him "Rowdy" today. Oh please.) If you'd like something of a visual (and a view of some really amazing chaps), look at the opening scenes of Hang 'Em High. You're welcome.]

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And me right in the middle? Too noisy.

So long.

[ooc: The cowboy does not like the crowding going on here. I mean, it's bad enough as it is ordinarily. This just makes it worse. He put up with it yesterday, but enough is enough. So he'll be heading out of town for a while. But feel free to grab him via Network or run into him as he rambles towards the wilderness.]

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[ooc: Kind of large but safe-for-work animated gif under the cut. So the cowboy came into the City proper because, apparently, he has amazing timing and needed to come into the City proper today. So if you want to encounter him and his horse today, you may certainly do so~ Just...try not to kiss the horse. What was his victory? Maybe there wasn't a victory at all and he just wanted a kiss. Or maybe it was the girl who was victorious and, well, I envy her celebration.]

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[ooc: Cut for a large but SFW picture of snow. For the fans, yes, the coat is basically the twin of the last canon badass longcoat seen before the acquisition of the poncho. I like the badass longcoat. Shush. Shortly, he and the horse will probably be flopping through the snow like some might-have-been Jeremiah Johnson scene (Wikipedia that trivia >>;;). How come this curse always falls around the time the heat index is 100+ degrees? How does this timing work? Network and action threads welcome. He'll be walking around today. Throw a snowball at him, I dare you!]

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