Guri's Time Off

[marvelous_murderbot]

Who: Guri and OPEN
Where: Several
When: Course of the Month
What: Various prompts for Guri!
Warnings: None!


Open - Library Car

She found reading passed the time. She had to remember to read at human speeds, though. It was tempting to speed ahead and get to the ending sometimes. Especially with mystery novels.

She'd seated herself in a chair, and was currently working her way through one currently. She had a cup of tea next to her, since that also made the process seem more human. It ensured that she remained unbothered by the perceptive and curious. Occasionally, she sipped at it, leaving it as a background subroutine.

There hadn't been any tea in it for several hours.

She, sighed, closing the book in front of her. She looked a little bit disappointed.

The butler still hadn't done it. Why did people always say that? It hadn't been the butler once yet.

Open - Sparring/Workout?

Another key space for her was any athletic one. She preferred gymnastics, first and foremost. She'd found a good outfit for it on the previous stop. She liked it. And she took on gymnastics equipment with a precision and speed - and grace. It wasn't just doing the maneuvers, no - when performing a vault, she'd land it, but shake her head if it was lacking in grace.

She also did quite a bit of working the old bag. Her speed showed there, too, as she made elaborate series of punches and kicks against the worn material. It wasn't anywhere near as good as a real opponent.

Closed - Dinner for Alice

She had also made a promise before, one she intended to keep. Soldat's training was, bit by bit, paying off. Her earliest examples had been truly...awful. She could follow the instructions, but there were always errors and mistakes. Her timing was simply off. Which was absurd, but there it was. After many, many errors, however - progress had been made.

She'd carefully set aside a space for the moment, too, since it was important to her. Because...well, she'd never made a meal before. And it was Alice, who had proven to be important to her. And who had been granted a rough time on the previous planet - which she hoped to redress, just a little bit.

And so, she got to work. Dinner settings were placed to within a millimeter tolerance - though she allowed for some variance, since she'd noticed that absolute precision tended to make people uncomfortable, sometimes, though they didn't know why.

She'd left a note for Alice to make herself comfortable as she finished with the meals - finally appearing with an old standard - a plate of roast beef, mashed potatoes, and green beans soaked in butter.

Basic, but hopefully serviceable.

Choose Your Own Adventure - OPEN!

[Want another reason to run into Guri? Let's do it!]

Comments

dinner

[irrationally]

The whole idea of this is still so.. so very odd.

Odd in a different way than Wonderland was. Odd was the standard there - things never being quite as they were in the world she left behind for it. People walking on ceilings rather than the floor, creatures that couldn't exist, everything being backwards. It's a kind of odd Alice has come to understand over time.

But there's nothing about this kind of odd she can understand. The oddness of people showing her kindness, for reasons Alice can't quite grasp. Guri wanting to make dinner for her, even though it's not like the other has to. People going out of their way for her.

It might be while Alice looks slightly awkward when Guri appears. She's sitting, apparently having made herself as comfortable as can be, and glancing over at Guri when she shows up with the food.

"Ah, I.." Her voice trails off, as if she isn't sure of what to say, but then she continues. "I see you've made something I know fairly well." Thankfully.

Re: dinner

[marvelous_murderbot]

She nods.

"Luckily much of what I have been taught is compatible with an Earth, England culinary background," she replied. She placed the plate in front of Alice, sliding her own into place before sitting opposite.

"Oh," she said, as if remembering, "would you like wine or something of that nature? I only put out water."

[irrationally]

"No, water is fine."

Please, as if Alice is used to anything fancy like wine. Besides-- "I don't drink."

Because even an orphan like her would have been able to get her hands on something stronger than water or tea back home if she really tried, but growing up around various drunken loud people loitering the streets really made her never see any appeal in it.

She casts another gaze down at the plate before she looks over at Guri.

"You didn't put too much effort into learning how to make this, right?" P-Please, Guri, how can she ever accept the idea you struggled to learn how to make this? Putting in that much effort for their promised dinner?

[marvelous_murderbot]

She nods, with a smile.

“I will remember.” Alcohol is not, for obvious reasons, much of a concern for her.

She gestured at the potatoes. “They put up a bit of a fight, I do admit. I utilized too much salt and had an incorrect definition for ‘mashing,’ but I believe that and the use of proper garlic has corrected the issue.”

The meat hadn’t. That was merely time plus heat. If stoves could do that right, so could she. But to her eyes, Alice seems...reticent. Her own expression is curious.

“If you’re concerned the food may induce food poisoning...”

[irrationally]

Despite the fact that Alice hasn't had a single bite of the food yet, it seems that she's choking already. Perhaps she's choking on pure air alone at those words.

"N-No, it's nothing of the sort!"

Please. Alice almost looks a bit flustered by the very notion that she gave Guri the wrong idea here. She doesn't want the other to think Alice doesn't trust her, right after Guri did all this effort for her!

"I.. I merely.. don't want you to have overextended yourself for my sake, that is all. You already helped me so much during the mission."

Library

[sos_pilot]

"Hey, Guri!"

Della cheerfully called for her friend, trying to look over her shoulder to see what was being read. "Not a good book? What was it?"

Re: Library

[marvelous_murderbot]

She smiled at Della, offering her the book.

"A murder mystery. The butler did not, in fact, do it. I am beginning to wonder why anybody thinks they ever do."

[sos_pilot]

"Oh, that's the oldest trope in the book... literally." A half-shrug. "It's what they all used to do way back when murder mysteries were first a thing at all."

[marvelous_murderbot]

"Indeed," she replies, "which is why I'm so perturbed that, so far, it hasn't happened in any of the books I have read."

[sos_pilot]

"Do you want to read about a homicidal butler?"

Library

[outofyourshadow]

To be honest, Lena wasn't one for reading. She didn't really mind it, but it wasn't a pastime that she really sought out to do. But today, somehow, she found her way to the library, running a finger along the spines of the pretty sparse collection of books on the shelves.

And she couldn't help grinning to herself a bit. Violet would be so disappointed. She'd be done with all these books in a week.

But really, she had no idea what to look for herself. As she came to the end of the row of shelves and was about to start again, she glanced over as Guri finished her own book. "I take it you wouldn't recommend that one?" she asked.

Re: Library

[marvelous_murderbot]

"It is not terrible, she replies, "though the author makes all too liberal use of similes."

She regards Lena for a moment.

"Oh, you must know my friend Della."

[outofyourshadow]

She can't help a curious smile at that. "Uh...well yeah, I do actually happen to know Della," she says with a shrug. "But probably don't assume that all Duck people are going to know each other."

[marvelous_murderbot]

She nods.

“A true statement, however - in this confined space, it seemed logical you would have met, leaving aside that this train seems to draw in people who know each other already, in some capacity.”

She pauses.

“Della has spoken much about your world and people, it is very interesting.”

She comes from a big galaxy, with a correspondingly broad definition of ‘people’. Though her manner and speech ought to be making plain she isn’t a standard human.

[outofyourshadow]

"Well, technically we didn't meet until I got on the train. I'm friends with her kids, but the two of us never spoke to each other before all this."

Lena does pick up on her mannerisms, but doesn't comment on it just yet.

"I guess it would seem so. For us, that's just what we're used to." She grins a little. "She tell you about all the magic and stuff?"

workout

[blitzcheer]

"Heyyy, Guri. You're a standout in that outfit!"

Has anyone remarked on that outfit yet? Someone has to remark on that outfit. Tidus is a fan of coming to the gym to practice some acrobatics, stretching his limbs. It was more fun than any of the sword training he had to. So he's come to do his daily workout, in a less fancy gym attire.

Already giving his arms a stretch, one held out while the other supports it.

"You buy that?"

Re: workout

[marvelous_murderbot]

"Found it in the remains of a shop," she replied. "It will suit, for now, so thank you."

"I'm not in your way, am I?"

[blitzcheer]

"Nah, not at all! I wanted to have a go with some of these too. You ever used this kind of gym gear before? It's pretty fun for swinging and jumping around."

A lot of fun, even with just his experience with the equipment solely on mucking around.

[marvelous_murderbot]

She nods. “It is familiar enough. The human form seems to function in pretty much the same way from universe to universe.”

[blitzcheer]

Well, in that case! "Show me some moves you know! I know a few, but I mostly just use the beams to practice flips with, jumps and running off. Just whatever seems like a fun challenge. I've never really seriously trained with the stuff."

In truth, everything he does with the gym gear is just for fun than really knowing anything. What was gymnastics when you had blitzball to train for!

"Plus, I wanna see how high you can jump!"

Sparing

[soldier_blade]

ooc: any reason for her to be in the games carriage?

Re: Sparing

[marvelous_murderbot]

OOC: We can make it work :)

Games

[soldier_blade]

There was something to be said when Sonya found herself entering the games carriage. The few times she did was when she was deliberately trying to distract someone from the shit that passed for day-to-day crazy on the train-never just on her own.

Certainly not to try any of the video games. Hell, the last time she played a game on her own was years ago, when she was so pregnant with Cassie that just getting up and walking around was exercise.

Yet, here she was, browsing the games. With any luck, she might find a maths or word game so that she doesn't feel like she's completely wasting her time.

Re: Games

[marvelous_murderbot]

She had never played games at all. Her life has never allowed the opportunity. She mainly moved from corner to corner, watching other people play them.

It was a very human activity to witness, however, and so she is very keen to observe.

Re: Games

[soldier_blade]

That someone was watching her was easy enough to figure; she hadn't lived this long enough not to recognize what that felt like. Granted, the train only had so many areas for privacy, and the game car wasn't one of them, but that was hardly a feeling she wasn't aware of.

She turned, recognizing the woman (no..a droid) from her past time on the network. "Interested in playing?"