CLOTHING ADVENTURES

[lightlessfuture]

Who: Anyone! Everyone!
What: Clothes were requested. Clothes are now granted.
When: morning of the 22nd initially
Where: meet me at the room that's literally filled to the brim with clothing in 15 minutes
Warnings: It's just clothes, what could possibly go wrong!
Notes: Everyone gets free clothes whether they participated in the actual request or not. CLOTHES FOR THE ENTIRE ISLAND.


There's a room in the Storyteller's temple; it was once empty, and now it's...not. It is, in fact, full of clothing of all sorts, to the point that it might be slightly difficult to find exactly what you're looking for.

Oh well. It's there now, no takebacks.

Comments

[counterblows]

They actually have fresh fruit here. It's just...weird to think about.

[He used to smuggle fruit from the mess into his locker, on the Invention. It had been a rarity, being able to afford fruit at all, and he'd taken full advantage of it. After years of once again getting used to basics, to M.R.E.s and intravenous rations and eating as a purely utilitarian function, something as simple as prepared meals felt like a luxury.]

[Maybe not to anyone else here.]

[uptightness]

So long as you actually take your helmet off to eat it.

[But, that is good. Even with the strangely names restuarant that Carolina has yet to visit, it's good that there are alternate sources. Still... She'll have to look at supplies and what can be easily stored. She'd rather be prepared than not.]

Nothing strange about it though, is there? It's not going to talk to me if I take a bite out of it?

[counterblows]

Talk to you.

[THAT'S....CONCERNING...AS A FIRST ASSUMPTION...]

I think the only concern is that some stuff is poisonous. But. Uh. Why do you think anything is going to talk to you?

[uptightness]

Uh. Hello. Talking dream rabbit? Talking spider?

[Poison she can deal with. Poison is normal.]

[counterblows]

I don't want to know if you've tried taking bites out of spiders. I don't think I ever want to know.

["Rabbit" is a little more reasonable, but...deity, supposedly? God, he doesn't want to think about this. He is making a command decision to stop thinking about it.]

[uptightness]

I haven't.

[Dryly. At least not to the best of her knowledge and belief. That isn't the point she had been trying to make though. Rather, that this place has all sorts of strange things in it, like talking animals, which is not normal. Why wouldn't there be something odd about the fruit?]

[counterblows]

I don't think you have to worry about that here. You get stuff like blue milk, but it tastes like normal milk if you ignore the color.

[Still better than most M.R.E.s, in his humble opinion.]

[uptightness]

[Blue milk... Cow milk? Naturally blue? Is it actually even milk?

You know, she doesn't want to know where it comes from. She really needs to look at Denny and see what is on the menu. Heck, just look around more in general. She's gotten some of the lay of the land, but no where near enough.]

Good to know, even if the thought of blue milk is a bit off putting.

[counterblows]

And the fact that it's milked from...these things with horns? The look like moose, but they're not moose, and they're also bright teal.

[They're actually literally teal deer, and thank god that Wash doesn't have the requisite knowledge of lingo to understand that reverence.]

[uptightness]

[There is so much about that whole sentence that just sounds so wrong...]

Elk? Deer? ... Caribou?

[If it's something else, she has no idea what. None of them are exactly standard milking animals. Or, is it some huge goat that he's talking about?]

[counterblows]

Yeah, but blue.

[This place has its own ecosystem, and that ecosystem is "technicolor wildlife that likes to defy physics." Apparently.]

[uptightness]

I'm sorry, I just- someone is milking them...

[For blue milk... She knows people hunt those kinds of creatures, but milk them? To her knowledge they have never really been domesticated like a cow or a goat.

Although it shifts across her face, that different way of looking at it, because maybe here, they are domesticated?]

I'm just- going to try not to think about that too hard.

[counterblows]

That's kind of how I deal with it. I got some coffee beans a little while ago, but the results aren't...perfect.

[He's so very not good at anything that pertains to the tending of crops or the growing of food or...any kind of grunt work at all. That's a little bit too basic. In theory he could probably learn, but...]

I have no idea how to grow coffee beans, it turns out.

[uptightness]

In other words, decline any coffee that you offer me...

[Not that she would be much better. Plant the bean to make it grow? How long? She knows that beans are roasted for coffee- or she thinks that they always are. She's never actually paid attention to the process of how they get from point a to point b, being her cup.]

[counterblows]

Hey, it's not like there's a surplus of coffee here.

[Caffeine dependency is a liability in the field, and yet? He misses it. He misses having that extra jolt to keep him awake, functional - sentient and vertical by 0700 hours is the ideal.]

[uptightness]

[She won't deny that she will miss a good strong cup of coffee in the morning. Sleep hasn't been easy for her for years, although she's more or less gotten used to the limited hours. The coffee just does give that little kick.]

Can you even call it coffee.

[counterblows]

It's caffeine, okay? It's worth it, even if it tastes like grainy water.

[That's...about the best he's managed thus far. Yep. He's not any good at this.]

[uptightness]

[Just keep digging that hole, Wash, because you are so not selling the idea of your sludge to Carolina.]

Doesn't the restaurant have anything?

[counterblows]

They have, uh...blackberry liquor. And water. With ice.

[It is, shall we say, a loose definition of the word "restaurant." Sometimes that spider lady tries to get you to take coconut cookies, because she clearly has too many of them and would really like to stop looking at them.]

[uptightness]

So very limited menu.

[Carolina supposes it could be worse. No menu. Hunting for your food. Starting fires... Back to the basics.

Yet it fits with this place. Limited menu. Limited clothes.

Beggars can't be choosers.]

Although I'm surprised about the ice.

[counterblows]

Someone makes it. I guess with... [HEAVY. SIGH. HE HATES TO BE THE ONE TO SAY IT. BUT.] ...uh, magic.

[He hates to be the one to have to say it, but there it is. He has Said It.]

[uptightness]

[Her mouth opens, pauses for a moment, before closing again.

There are... Many things that she could say to that answer, but no, she's not going to say any of it. She just adds it to the list of items about this place that she's not entirely certain she wants to delve too closely in to at the moment.

Like, their magic only makes ice? Or why ice? Why not something else...]

So wizards and witches?

[counterblows]

I guess.

[He doesn't WANT to go there, but...you know, that's just where they're at!!! This is how things are now!!]

We got pulled out of different points of time and now live on an island with a talking rabbit who calls themself a god. I think we're beyond drawing arbitrary lines at this point.

[uptightness]

[Those green eyes flicker over to him, narrowing for a moment in thought as she regards him, before giving a softer tip of her head.]

I'm just trying to understand things.

[Not exactly the easiest thing to do. Sure, her world got flipped after Freelancer, but it's not like suddenly there were magicians and talking animals, and who the heck knew what else. Arguably her time with the sim troopers has prepared her better... After all, if you're able to convince someone else that Game of Thrones actually happened...]

You do have to admit this is probably a bit like being inside of Caboose's head though.

[counterblows]

Oh god.

[He kneads at his temples with one hand, knuckling at the side of his skull, as if the pressure might alleviate the spike of protest that swarms up at that little observation.]

Don't...don't say that.