Many Things to Do

[knifewithnoname]

Who: Little One and open (with some closed prompts)
Where: Various- please see prompts
When: Month of Jelly, Day Eighteen and Nineteen
What: In which Little One and Koumyou hang out and clean weapons much to Devero's horror, A-Qing comes to Little One to ask for her asistance in training her Vulpix, two young girls teach a small pokemon violence and then Little One does some chores.
Warnings: Guns (specifically a small child handling guns), talk of violence, maybe actual violence.

For Koumyou Sanzo and Devero. Sleeper 3, Cabin C

Since her roommate had moved out two weeks ago she had seen him less, which was a pity because she liked the priest a lot. But he had promised that she could visit him any time, so she would take him up on it. It has been a busy time, the mission had been stupid and weird and then there had been another platform.

But she makes her way to his cabin, guns in tow. They needed cleaned and whereas there were other people who could teach her this was a good excuse to visit. She knocked politely and when Koumyou answered he would find her there, barefoot, red hood pulled up over her hair, rifle over her shoulder and an anticipatory grin on her face.

For A-Qing. Luggage

She has a few different luggage forts, some have to be abandoned as they are found and it's never smart to stay in the same place for long. But this one is one of her oldest and most well hidden. Only a couple of people know about it, people she doesn't mind visiting.

She is currently lying on her stomach on a pilfered beanbag with a blanket thrown over her, using the torch of her SCA to read. She's In this House You May Scream for the fifth time. It's by far her favourite book in the library, the others are boring in comparison.

A noise makes her freeze and her light goes out as she goes still, listening...

Open: Training Gym Both Little One and A-Qing will reply here

Anyone wandering into the training gym will be met by an interesting sight. In one quarter the training dummies and other equipment have been moved out the way to be replaced by two teddy bears- train mascots wearing red and blue hoodies, three balls and an... interestingly drawn picture of a smirking man with red eyes.

A short distance away stands a small Vulpix, flanked by two girls.

"Do we be being ready? You do be needing to be killing them all this time, properly." One of the girls was telling the pokemon, hands on hip.

Open: Kitchen

Avocados were stupid. Stupid to cut into, stupid to eat, stupid with their stupid stones in the middle. "Urgh." She stabbed a knife directly into one of them and sighed dramatically. "Do anybody even be liking these anymore?"

She yanked the knife out, a lot more in control than she perhaps looks as she glares at the offending fruit. "Last month did be being better, we should have been keeping the honey."

Despite her words she was actually working, a huge pile of avacado skins were piled next to her and a mixing bowl was over half full of avacado flesh ready for smashing, another bowl was filled with discarded stones.

Perhaps they should be finding out who could use a slingshot, the avocados could at least be useful in yielding weapons.

Comments

LUGGAGE

[spikelet]

She doesn't have to bother pretending to stumble when getting to this, the most secure of Buttercup's hideouts. Especially when the cases have built up to the point that there's barely any light. The first time her elbow knocks against a handle and she swears, the light she was heading towards blinks out.

A-Qing pauses. Waits for any kind of response.

Nothing. Good.

"Buttercup! Are you in here?"

[knifewithnoname]

Silence. Silence. Had she misheard? Was the threat further away?

But then a voice. A voice and a name she knew. "Qing?"

She moved, crawling to the concealed entrance of her fort. "Be coming over here."

[spikelet]

She grunted, but nevertheless reoriented herself and continued her scramble.

"Are you busy?" She asked, before she was even in sight of the younger girl. "Never mind, none of us are, ever. I need your help."

[knifewithnoname]

"Yes. I do be being very busy." She said in her best put out voice, though she still crawled further out to meet A-Qing.

"What do you be needing?"

Kitchen

[dyingpro]

Since taking on the colors of Red Team, Zag had been de facto assisting the Red Team with their chores - namely, cooking. He'd been banned quite quickly from doing anything to actually cook meals, after several members had witnessed him eating an avocado whole, peel and all.

... which he may or may not be doing at that precise moment as he helped the Little One by occasionally dumping out her garbage into the appropriate places. (Or at least what other members of the Red Team had told him were the appropriate places.)

Zagreus set down his partially eaten avocado to collect the bowl of stones, grinning as he picked one out of the bowl and tossed it into the air, catching it on its descending journey before placing it back with its circular brethren. "Oh sure, honey's delicious, but I'm pretty sure you need more variety than that. At least, that's what the shades always told me. Meats and vegetables and fruits, things like that?" He tosses the pits into the compost, sweeping the peels into the same bowl and tossing them out also, returning to his partially eaten avocado. After a moment of contemplating it, he asks his kitchen companion, "Is this a vegetable, then? Supposedly most vegetables are green."

Re: Kitchen

[knifewithnoname]

"You can be eating all of those with honey." Meat, vegetables, fruits. Everything was better with honey. She watches his antics with the avacado stones and the peels with a small amused grin.

"I would be guessing so. But I do no be thinking you should be eating the peel. It will probably be poisoning you."

She doesn't sound too concerned, she doesn't know if that's even true honestly. But surely it doesn't taste good.

[dyingpro]

"Huh. Never thought about it that way. How would you use it on vegetables? I haven't had many of those." And given the way his skin looks pallid, it seems like he's never gotten any sun, either.

"Oh, it's poison? Doesn't feel like I'm poisoned, but maybe I'll just try to stop eating it. Wouldn't want to give Thanatos any extra work." Of course he begins peeling the avocado skin away and makes a bit of a mess on his hands, but he simply licks it off his fingers as he tosses the remains of his peel away.

"Is there anything else I can do to help? Mash those, or... I don't know... peel a few myself? I don't know how many you were planning to use. We seem to have quite a few of them lying around."

Kitchen

[worthallthis]

"The trick is to use them for accents, so nobody gets sick of them," Soldat says with half a smile, retrieving the first bowl and replacing it with an empty one. "I am sad I missed the honey, though. That sounds a lot less. Mm. Contentious."

[knifewithnoname]

"I will be buying some for next month." She told them, "Proper honey from Gauig, that do be being the best honey in all the worlds."

Said with complete confidence.

[worthallthis]

"Nice. I didn't get any food this time. Maybe I should start. If I'm going to try to keep trading for cooking chores," Soldat suggests, only about half-seriously. They've spent so much time working with ingredients that they couldn't actually control, that it never really occurred to them to just straight-up order specific types of food.

Might open up some interesting possibilities for recipe experimentation.

"What other uh. Monthly ingredients have there been?"

Training Gym

[constantvrunning]

Three days in, and V is only just convincing M-Bot that he doesn't have to shadow his person every minute, that it's safe to, say, stay in their assigned cabin for a few hours.

The scene in this carriage, however, made V wonder if that had been strictly necessary.

`I don't suppose you all would be opposed to an audience? I do not mind staying out of the way.`

So long as they don't become a target... well, deliberately, anyway. V can imagine animals from Tamaris being that spiteful, but if this strange new creature is just in training, perhaps anything landing where it shouldn't would be more forgivable.

[spikelet]

"Do what you want." A-Qing's decision on the matter is a resounding shrug, so intent is she on instilling in this monster the need to excel. Her value as a Voidtrecker is riding on it being a valuable battle companion, after all.

"XiXue, kill the red bear!"

The fox chirps, inhales, and breathes out a gust of ice crystals. The red-clothed bear... gets covered in frost? So does the other bear, the three balls, and the paper. One of the balls freezes over.

She squints. "How was that?"

[knifewithnoname]

She nods at the new person, waving that it is fine for them to stay. It's A-Qing's monster and A-Qing's training session after all.

Her attention is all on the small fox.

"That do be being pretty powerful. Though if those balls did be being other voidtreckers they would have been going all scrunch nosed mad at you."

training gym

[irrationally]

... You truly see everything on the train.

Maybe Alice would have felt differently about this if she had spotted two random kids doing this sort of thing. Just randomly talking about this odd fox-thing having to kill things. But no, she recognizes these two instantly, and it sure feels much less weird that they of all people are the two involved in this.

So Alice doesn't seem to react much at all to it as she slowly walks past the door and properly into the training gym, her hands on her hips.

"Are you two.." .. three? ".. having fun?"

[knifewithnoname]

She turned around and grinned when she saw who it was. Alice was not a stupid person and she wouldn't disapprove of their monster training. Not at all.

"Hello Alice, Qing do be having a monster pokemon now so we do be training it to be killing other monsters."

It was probably a good job they had a few weeks before the next mission.

[spikelet]

"Jou-ge said they love to fight," A-Qing agreed, in the middle of crouching down to place a hand firmly on the monster's head. It might be a battle companion, but it was a very, very soft one. "Maybe it doesn't want to fight toys, but the other monsters here are all too strong."

Sleeper 3, Cabin C

[its_dad_sanzo]

"Oh!" Koumyou did indeed answer the door, and a happy smile appears on his face at who he finds there. "Hello, Buttercup! Here for a visit?"

And in fact, he gets out the way and gestures into the cramped confines of the room as he asks.

[knifewithnoname]

"Hello Sanzo." She gave a half bow, as respectful as she could be whilst juggling guns before stepping inside.

"I hope you do no be minding, I do be needing to be cleaning these and I do no be knowing how. I can be asking the man with a number for a name instead though if you do be being busy."

Sanzo had been her first choice, because he was likely to glower at her for not doing it sooner after the mission. But she can cope with some glares.

[its_dad_sanzo]

"I'm not busy at all," Koumyou is as cheerful as ever, of course, and goes to sit on one of the bottom bunks that's been turned into bench-mode. "What have you got? I haven't done this in a few years, but I'm sure we can figure it out."

Kitchen

[hashtagparkerluck]

Peter comes into the kitchen while she's complaining about avocados and can help but feel a little amused at her words, the entire millennial population back home would probably be all kinds of offended at her words.

"What's up, Buttercup?" Peter asks, watching as she continues-what is she making, guacamole? He's just there to grab a snack, really. Cook up some noodles and make spicy mac and cheese that he can take with him to the game room.

Re: Kitchen

[knifewithnoname]

"Hello Peter." She grinned at him and pulled a face.

"These do be being up. I did be chopping up so many to be getting all of this green goop.

He was lucky he wasn't on kitchen duty in green goop month.

[hashtagparkerluck]

"I gotta say, you're pretty handy with a knife." He admits, impressed by all the avocado she's sliced up. "So are you making like.. guac or something? Avocado on toast? That one's really popular where I'm from-I'm personally not a fan." he rambles as he gather up the materials to make his mac and cheese.

"So how's your day been? Besides taking out a personal vendetta against the avocado?"

training gym

[foxyou]

What are two children doing training a fox in a gym....wonders the child(?) who also happens to be a fox.

Curiosity leads him to dispel his original plan of martial arts practice though; instead he approaches the girls, hands held behind his back, and peers down at their little pet fighter.

"Are you planning to make it a guard dog?"

Re: training gym

[knifewithnoname]

"A fighting monster." She turned with a small grin and a curious wrinkle of her nose when she saw that it was a boy... with fox ears.

"It will be killing Qing's enemies, and protecting her."

[spikelet]

"Just like a magical beast," A-Qing adds, sneaking a look at him. Ah, his ears--! Well, he doesn't look offended, so maybe it's fine. She doesn't fully drop her guard, though. "Does brother know how to tame beasts?"