Let's Have a Party!

[runs_on_batteries]

Who: Everyone!
What: Throwing a party
Where: Gym carriage
When: Early Evening- early morning, Apple 28

It was three days after the incident with the train and right at two weeks since they'd been allowed to get off this train and roam a new world. Sure somewhere in there, they'd had a brief reprieve involving a new platform and mess of newcomers, but that had hardly counted as a break from the train. So, the point was, they needed a chance to blow off some steam. What better way than organize a party and roll out the last of his ale to share?

He'd recruited Sarai and Maglor to play their harps and/ or sing for music; Ignis, Ash and Evie to make hors d'oeuvres, Dread and Peter to bring in some chairs; and rigged a lamp and some cloth to make a disco ball-like display in the room (which he made Peter to promise not to touch).

Now he just had to get the guests on the dance floor... to harp music? He misses 'regular' music. Sigh.

Comments

[afterburner]

"Yeaaah, noooo." Renee replied. She shook her head a little. "At least the conductor's cab can't be, assuming there's a dude actually in there--which I doubt."

She shrugged, then. "I left finger marks on one of the grip bars in one of the passenger cars, though. But who knows? This train could be weird enough to heal itself." Stranger things have happened to her, after all.

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"That would really be strange. The last thing I saw that could do that actually relied on external cores to manage it." Edge scratched at the back of his head, wondering just what he'd gotten himself into by being on this train. For something like the eightieth time.

[afterburner]

"External...cores?" It was Renee's turn to be confused, now, since she'd never even heard of anything like that. Then again she'd never seen some of the weirder Sentinels, just the ones that were more like Robotech mechs, these days.

"You deal with stuff like that often?"

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"Often enough! The Kingdom of Eblan practically lives in the shadow of the Tower of Bab-il, where such strange metal monstrosities reside!" Ordinarily, he'd brag that the ninjas of Eblan were an easy match for any foe... but those got an exception.

[afterburner]

"That does...not sound fun. Weird. There are stories of a Tower of Babel where I'm from, but it's mostly known as the place where language was broken, so there were groups of people who couldn't understand each other any more."

She doesn't claim to be religious at all, but clearly, someone in Renee's family was. Or they were once, which probably means it was her missing mother.

"Not that it's a contest or anything, but it sounds like your world's almost more dangerous than mine."

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"Oh, it's a lot tamer these days now that yours truly and friends --" He put a hand on his chest and lowered his head a little, utterly without modesty -- "put paid to the source of evil itself!"

[afterburner]

"You're a hero, right?" Renee had the strangest look on her face, brows furrowing just a bit. "Isn't that like...your job?"

Because if she'd been allowed back home, she totally would've gone off and thrown down with bad guys. That's what heroes and superheroes and mutant heroes did, and she wasn't entirely certain she'd define herself as an actual hero at this point, but she didn't really want to hurt anybody, if given the choice.

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"Ha ha, well, I try to be modest, but yes, I most certainly am." Suuure he does. "But it isn't only my job, it's my duty as King of Eblan! I'll protect my people even if that fight takes me to the moon!"

[afterburner]

"That sounds like a load of junk, you don't seem very modest to me." Renee snorted at that. "Though to give you some credit, you do sound like you'd defend your people at least. And that fight took you beyond the moon, you know. I sure don't think your moon is anywhere near here--and neither is mine, for that matter."

Well, she had said she was bad at socialization...

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"This one doesn't count, I haven't fought anything yet!" Right now this was more of an annoying diversion, even if it promised to be more eventually.

[afterburner]

"Oh, you will. Not that I can't wait for that myself. It'll feel good to cut loose. Especially if I can." Renee hadn't had a chance to go on the last mission, and she'd had to be pretty careful when it came to the train and its issues when it basically broke down.

"Eh, might be cool to catch a glimpse of Ninja at Work." She'd never had a chance to see one back home, after all.

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"Well, I'd certainly be delighted to give you a show any time you might so desire!" This is more like it, the conversation getting back to where it should be.

[afterburner]

"Maybe on a mission? That'd work. And probably do some good." For other people, right? She wasn't sure how impressed she was, Renee wasn't. Not one bit, but she'll let him go. Edge seems mostly harmless, after all.

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"Oh, more than just that, though I'd be delighted to work at your side. But what better way to fill the idle hours aboard the train than with good company?" Edge was feeling pretty good about this! He was on a roll, giving some of his best work considering the circumstances.

[afterburner]

"I...guess? I never would've thought that I was good company." Mostly because of the trolling. Renee knows she's a pain in Tony's ass, but she kind of prefers it that way. She's made other folks deal with that, too.

"Mostly I do chores and then hang out in the gym...when it's not full of party materials. Gotta keep in shape, after all." Not that Renee's in bad shape, but she figures there's always room for improvement.

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"You certainly do THAT quite well," Edge said approvingly. Definitely nothing to complain about from his perspective. "We'll have to train together as well! I can't let myself slack either."

[afterburner]

"Yeah, I can use that, that's for sure. I hadn't graduated from the Institute yet, so I wasn't a proper hero." Not that Renee didn't have an idea that there were ninjas where she was from, but she'd never heard of Eblan in her life, so Edge, as weird as he was, was probably okay to talk to about being a mutant. Especially since he didn't think she was particularly monstrous.

Weird, but a good kind of weird.

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"Oh, you were still in training?" That's what he'd parsed out of her statement, even if the actual words had all been put together in ways that didn't make much sense. A school for heroism? How did that work?

[afterburner]

"Yeah, getting control of my powers was what I was learning there." So, infer that they were probably students like her with weird powers. It wasn't like she hadn't called herself a mutant in his earshot!

"And some combat training and so on. Mostly hand to hand." Renee shrugged at that.

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"Now you're really talking my language! After all, one of the founding principles of ninjutsu is the martial arts. Maybe you'd let me see what you can do sometime?"

Nope, he hasn't given up yet.

[afterburner]

"I guess, but it's not like it's anything special? Pretty damn basic." Well, Renee was giving him many funny looks, but it's not like she was telling him to go away, at least.

"I don't know if I should be learning ninjitsu though. Isn't that being sneaky too? I'm not really good at that..." Mostly because she was tall for a girl and also kind of clumsy. Just a little.

[onehandsomeslickninja]

Edge waved off her wories. "Oh, no worries there. The actual art of ninjutsu requires both a gift and extensive training to master. But the principles of it, like combat and stealth and so forth, can be taught readily enough."

[afterburner]

Ugh, really? "Here's hoping I don't have a gift, then. I've got entirely too many gifts in my life already." Mutant powers were more like a curse, really.

"I could use the combat help, though, so yeah, I'll take it. Sure. Thanks." Renee could sound more enthused, probably, but she was a little more worried about the idea of another 'gift' she might need to deal with.

[onehandsomeslickninja]

"Oh, don't worry about that! Ninjutsu has more in common with black magic than it does anything else. It would've popped up for you long before this!" Heck, did she even know what black magic was? Seemed a lot of people here didn't!

[afterburner]

"I don't think your definition of black magic and mine add up..." Renee said. Edge just didn't seem the type to cut the heads off of chickens and worship the devil, not that she even felt like she needed to say so. "What's yours about? I don't actually do black magic, so I...don't think you really need to know."

She paused, and shrugged. "Though if you're really curious, I'll tell you." Just so he knew that people from Earth were weird.