Temper Tempo

[namisan]

Who: Nami and you!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Bloodsport/Iskaulit for you drinkers out there.
When: Now-ish

[Nami's been in a bad mood of late. Mostly it's to do with Sascha and trying to shove her own feelings down and trying to deal with it in a responsible way because some jackass luck of the draw happened to make her Captain. Hooray! The bite has healed enough it just looks ugly instead of actually hurting (it itches, thanks so much for that), so she still keeps a loose bandage over the top. No big deal. She'll get over it. There's not much choice.

She works off her grouchiness at the bar in bits and pieces. She was doing pretty well until a box turned up in her bedroom addressed to Captain Nami.]

One piece--

[No, that's not a pun I swear. The feed clicks on to Nami's furious face, tapping the screen with one section of blue metal piping that a handful of people might find familiar.]

Problems with shipping? Delays in processing? IT'S A MATCHED SET! Why would you even break this up!? If you've lost the other parts I'm going to--

[RANT USELESSLY AT EVERYONE APPARENTLY. She shuts her mouth with a snap, fingers wrapped around the climatact piece in a crushing grip, before she suddenly smiles sweetly.]

Thank you so much for finally processing my claim, Diamond. Or whoever. At this rate I'll only have to submit those forms another eight times!

Don't think I don't know you're doing this on purpose. [And finally she pulls back, tapping the piece in hand before pointing it in the vague direction of her closed door with a dark mutter.] I bet it doesn't even work r--

[FWOOM.

...that'd be the sudden howl of wind punching through the air much like this, only more powerful and far less gracefully, given Nami went flying in the other direction with a yelp. There's a long moment of silence, punctuated by the sound of several maps falling off the walls, and the broadcast picks up nothing but the visuals of a room that looks like a small tornado just went through it.

......
......]


...needs calibration.

[Ow.]

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[You can also catch her at the Iskaulit.  Not on shift tonight, kthx.  She's just nursing a drink in the corner and glaring holes through the table.]

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[spontaneouscombustion]

Wow, yikes! You okay, Nami?!

[Welp, now Pinkie knows Nami would be a pegasus in Equestria. But dang, that was a GUST.]

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[namisan]

Mrrf.

[How's that for an intelligent answer. But she peels herself off the floor after another moment, giving the comm a bleary but much calmer look.]

'm fine. I guess at least it works.

[spontaneouscombustion]

Okay, phew! What the hay IS that thing?

[namisan]

It's... weather science. [She lifts the piece up again, although gingerly now, eyeing it as if it might decide to take out the other half of her room.] Part of a weapon called the climatact. It's not meant to be here on its own.

I think I'll have to take it apart.

[spontaneouscombustion]

Wow, that sounds almost as bad as if my party cannon went on the fritz. Want some help fixing it?

[namisan]

No, it's okay. It won't take much work, and weather tech is kind of... weird. Thanks, though.

[spontaneouscombustion]

No problem!

Ooh, wait! SO does mean you're part of the weather team back in your world?! With machines like that?!That's AWESOME, I thought mine was the only world that had them!

[namisan]

Ah-- no! I learned from the old men in the sky, though. Weather scientists. This staff is one of a kind! I don't think they really approved of me weaponising it. [Ahehe. But she's interested now.]

You've got machines like this at home?

[spontaneouscombustion]

Well not MACHINES, but we do have the weather factory in Cloudsdale! AND a lot of the pegasi in each place are part of the weather team and make sure the weather stays on track! One of my best friends is on the weather team for Ponyville!

[namisan]

Oh, so you've got complete control of your weather? What about the areas surrounding yours?

[spontaneouscombustion]

[Who knows, there are other pony-led nations, but griffons and dragons don't welcome ponies to there lands, and who knows how zebras handle things.]

Yeah, total control. And our princesses raise the sun and the moon each day and night, too.

[namisan]

[...uh. Uh.]

Doesn't...that stuff occur naturally where you're from?

[You're having her on, aren't you. Either that, or the princesses just think they raise the sun...]

[spontaneouscombustion]

Nope, it doesn't! And before they came along all the unicorns had to move the sun and the moon together! I was REALLY weirded out when Finn told me they move THEMSELVES around in this world!

[namisan]

[Well, holy shit.]

Yeah, you're the only world I've heard of where that's a thing. [AND SHE THOUGHT THE GRAND LINE WAS WEIRD.]

What happens if you don't move them around?

[spontaneouscombustion]

Uhhhh they stay still?

[Tides coming to a halt, the earth falling off its axis, one side of the planet freezing solid while the other melts into nothing, that sort of thing probably. Luckily, nopony that we know of has tested that hypothesis.]

[namisan]

[There is a long pause here because Nami has no clue what to say to that without.... maybe being offensive. Like. Seriously? A bunch of ponies moving the heavens? Seriously? On pain of the end of the world, or do things not...change? Do the princesses just hold a ritual and think they're doing it? She's having trouble wrapping her mind around that, and the only reason she doesn't outright refute it is some universes are just plain weird.

Well, she is talking to a bright pink pony, so.]

What if one of your Princesses gets sick? Or hurt?

[spontaneouscombustion]

Hmmm I don't think they've ever gotten sick or hurt before, buuut Princess Luna was kinda banished to the moon for a thousand years, so Princess Celestia took care of both of them until she came back. [Long story.] And one time all the princesses had to give their magic to Twilight to keep them safe from this guy that was trying to steal all the magic in Equestria, so she moved them by herself until we stopped him and saved the world. Do those count?

[namisan]

Sounds like your world has a lot of risks to it. How many princesses do you have?

[spontaneouscombustion]

Four! Princess Celestia and Princess Luna rule Equestia, Princess Cadance runs the Crystal Empire and Twilight's brother is her husband, and then Twilight Sparkle has her castle in Ponyville and we use the map there to help solve friendship problems!

Hee, and maybe it'll be five if Princess Cadance's new baby is a filly~

[Spoilers, it will be. First pony PONY an alicorn born in a long time, possibly ever if canon would actually tell us how Celestia and Luna became alicorns.]

[namisan]

[........]

Solve friendship problems.

[spontaneouscombustion]

Yup, solve friendship problems!

[namisan]

What kind of problems? I mean-- is that just a diplomatic way of saying breaking up fights?

[Your world's gonna give her a headache.]

[spontaneouscombustion]

Sometimes! Or figuring out who's gonna be your plus one to the Grand Galloping Gala, or helping your friend not take her assertiveness training too far, or saving Twilight's brother's wedding from being invaded by changelings trying to take over Equestria!

[namisan]

[One of these things is not like the other.]

Sounds like pretty busy work. What kind of map is it?

[spontaneouscombustion]

[Normally you'd be right... buuuut this is Equestria.]

Oh it's a magical table map that comes with the magical castle we got out of a chest from the Tree of Harmony after giving the Elements of Harmony back!

[See?]