(09-21-2015, 07:56 AM)Kage Wrote: It's just seeing... "She would go to the store and see if there were apples in stock."
She's going to go to the store.
Apologies, I read the now-emphasized line but then saw your quote - which was of a combat-oriented nature - and assumed that was the sort of situation you meant.
If they're using it all the time, perhaps that's just the style they're going for (like speaking in past and present tense) or - as you surmised - something instilled in them from another manner of RP. Maybe they're from situations where you have to leave everything open to the agency of others, so that going to the store could and likely might get interrupted by something else. You could argue quite easily that just saying they are going to the store to buy apples in a present tense would work just as well, though...
I haven't really seen it much myself, so I can't do much more than make guesses.
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