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Week 1.
WEEK 1. As Cynthia had promised, the sun does indeed rise the next morning. Whether you slept or not (and sleeping inside the Pokémon Center you were in before seems totally fine by the attendant), it seems Cynthia kept her word; she left sometime shortly before sunrise, and you haven't been bothered by Team Galactic and those that work for it in the interim. It isn't advisable to return to the headquarters building, however. At least not for the time being. However, a new day does dawn, and with it comes the knowledge that you're in an unfamiliar city, completely on your own. There are several things to be done before you can leave: gathering supplies and provisions, finding maps, obtaining new clothes... Of course, your new "companions" are still with you, and they don't seem willing to leave your side; they'll follow you dutifully, but they still seem...wrong, horribly so, and it doesn't seem to be wearing off. Maybe if you work with them a little...? Try to talk to them, train them, teach them to do things... Who knows? It might do them some good. POKEMON AVAILABLE: WITHIN CITIES MONDAY | TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY | FRIDAY [OOC: Welcome to week one of Azume; feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend. Don't forget that a write-up is due this weekend! Feel free to investigate the city as you see fit this week; we ask only that you try to stagger investigations and be mindful of what's already been checked. If you wish to investigate, notify the mods in your comment subject for your top-level and we'll get on it as soon as possible!] |
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[ She blinks at this, and she turns to see... the machine. She had seen images of drinks on here before, but she assumed they were advertisements. But now she looks again, she sees a slot for coins. She hadn't a rupee to her name still, but she had gotten some spare coinage. Even if Cynthia was handling all of their expenses, she goes into her jacket's pockets and she...
Hesitantly puts in three of them. So 300 according to this. And then clicks the lemonade...!
... Upon which a canned lemonade comes out. She gasps with no small bit of excitement and animatedly takes it in hand. She puts in some more coins, pressing the fresh water this time (what's a soda) and she is even more pleased at that! And with both in hand she heads over towards Rin with both ]
I got them!
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...pfft. She looks so delighted, Rin has to hide a laugh behind her hand. That was way too cute. Fortunately, just as Zelda approaches she manages to stifle her quiet giggles.]
Thanks! You're a life saver.
[Glancing at her Mienfoo, Rin wiggles her fingers, beckoning him to scoot closer to her and make room for Zelda, if she wants to sit. He... stares back, not budging an inch. Rin huffs, tilting her head and beckoning more slowly, with significance. He seems to understand that time, crawling into her lap with a bland expression. Sure, whatever.
...Rin pats him on the head once, then fishes her fingers into the pocket of her bubble vest.]
A water costs 200, right? So I would owe you... Aha! [She pulls the coins from her pocket, and counts five out.] There you are. That should cover it.
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I never realized that was a mean which could store drinks cold like this! If this water's actually fresh then... that's truly amazing.
[ A lot of the machines in the city are? But she takes the coins without incident, giving a slight bow to Rin as well in thanks. She just did her part and Rin opened her eyes to something amazing?! She's so glad. ]
Honestly, a lot of the technology in this city is...
[ She makes to open her water can once she's put away the coins. ... Wait did Rin pay for her too? ]
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Technology, though. Rin has tried not to think about it—just what is up with that weird incubator at the Pokémon Center? The assistant said it was for healing? Nuh-uh, sister. But that means Rin has little to add there, so she comments on their drinks instead.]
Well, I doubt it's fresh; it rarely is if it comes in a bottle. But if it's mineral water, that's the next best thing. Some brands can be really good.
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[ Unless they had fresh water in the vending machine? Though this is a weird bottle. this can... she fiddles with it, trying to work out the opening until she finds the tab and-
Oh, that's cool! ]
Mineral water? Is it infused with rocks?
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Good mineral water comes from a natural spring, and undergoes minimal to no treatment. The only accepted adjustments are ones that ensure it's safe to drink, basically. Instead, the minerals found in the water are naturally infused: salt and sulfur compounds you'd expect from an underground water source.
It's popular in some countries, though, to just put water in a bottle, carbonate it, and call it mineral water. Even if it's not, it sells better that way.
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What is the carbonating process?
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Mm... I've never done it myself, but you'd have to add gasses, right? So there's probably a complex set-up to accomplish that, on a wide scale.
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[ That said, she opens the water finally! And siip ]
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No, it's nothing like that. [There's a light behind Rin's eyes, though, as if she finds the very idea exciting.] I would make that sort of thing, but actual elixirs aren't common knowledge to the public.
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[ Siiiip - oh. It tastes a little metallic, but like spring water! That's neat! ]
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[Siiiiip. Ah, she likes this lemonade a lot, tbh.]
Honestly, I'm more surprised you make it sound like it is common place where you're from. Or am I mistaken, and that's a privilege of the royal family?
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[ Politics... and sustainability? Oh, perhaps the animals made into them are rare? ]
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[She sounds in awe, actually, attention fixed rigidly on Zelda even as she takes a long drink. When she lowers the bottle from her mouth, her eyes are sparkling bright once again.]
Hey, I want to guess something! Tell me if I'm hot or cold. Your world... It's probably abundant with spiritual energy, right? Magic?
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What a question. She frowns a little, her brows knitting together as she considers it. A pat of her wonders, if it is so abundant, how she did not access her power for so long. But ... ]
I don't have a good comparison to other worlds, of course, but ... there are abundant ancient spirits and magic is not precisely uncommon, though those who harness it for spells for not as common.
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Seriously? [Her mouth forms an "o".] That surprises me, given the high potential. It doesn't sound like there's a drain on resources, for a world so rich with magic that anyone—
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Oh. [...] Mm, no. I think I get it now.
[Thumb to her lower lip, Rin stares at her feet. Absently, she strokes her Mienfoo's head, fingertips rubbing lightly into the fur behind his ear.]
It's more than just anyone having the potential to learn it; it really is commonplace. The energy goes to quality of living, and routine tasks... Yes, it makes sense only a few would specialize in casting higher level spells that way.
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Most of my immediate friends and companions had developed a particularly potent technique of their own, and we have found evidence of there being other runes that contain the ability to harness them as spells. There are magicians and fortune tellers as well, of course... and there are magic weapons that contain powers of the elements? But I would not say that anyone can be a mage or a wizard. Though anyone will effort can find one of those items and make use of them.
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[Even as she chats about that, Zelda's description is turning over heavily in her mind. Rin's bright smile fades into a smaller one, as if she's being treated to something sweet and whimsical.]
...It's amazing to think there's a world like that, that grew so differently from my own. There's just enough points where I can see what might have been a common starting point, but the result is completely different. I'd love to see it for myself.
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Honestly, I am fascinated to imagine a world of mages. [ So she says, but, ] You didn't mention magical talent at the introductions the other day?
[ Though Zelda didn't either, so... ]
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[Eyes large and bright, Rin has to grace to look sheepish as she laughs.]
I suppose I didn't, did I?
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Mm, it wasn't really relevant at the time, but calling that my only reason for leaving it out would be a mistake. You see, Magecraft isn't something to speak of casually in my world.
[She brushes back a long lock of her hair.] There's no point in keeping up the secrecy here considering our situation, but that's the law that governs us normally. I didn't want to break it without conferring with my peers first.
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... You have your peers here, Rin?
[ No one had really seemed to recognize each other in that first room, had they...? ]
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