Tourist Mingle!

[got_it_memorized]

[Well, Tourists, your captain is feeling a little foolish after napping for an entire month. There are a couple of you he's hardly even met yet, so let's have us a mingle and get to know one another. The way-stations don't have a lot of interesting stuff, really, but sometimes putting three not terribly interesting things together makes something awesome. Like s'mores. That's right, everyone, you're all getting a text telling you to drop by the kitchen, where Axel will be tending a little fire. Don't worry, it's magic, so we're not gonna get smoked out. Chocolate, marshmallows, and graham crackers will be provided, but we don't have any sticks, sorry. Guess you'll have to roast your marshmallows on a fork.

[Come chat, come eat, come glower at merrymaking if you're Fenris.]

Comments

[innercactus]

[ s'mores ]

[ Perhaps unsurprisingly, Asteffiel is very wary about Captain Apple's little fire. Or maybe it doesn't make sense, because he's living plant material and thus not particularly flammable.

... at least, the open fire seems to bother him a little until he gets to playing with a marshmallow. ]

.. why does it start being sticky...? [ Why yes, he was just squishing it for a bit, and now has a marshmallow all over his hand. ]

[ Anytime ]

[ Asteffiel has been spending a lot of time on the sandy moon. It is mostly okay - he's not a plant who is used to dry weather, so when he's not out, or in the medbay, he's either in the kitchen, drinking a lot of water, or making use of cool water in the shower, still fully clothed in his usual leaves.

There's also something a bit odd going on with his face - a little bit of clear spines are sticking from his chin now. He doesn't seem bothered, so .. he probably grew the cactus spines, not got stuck by them. ]

[mylegacy]

[S'mores aren't an Italian food, so Caesar basically has no idea what he's doing. Which is why there's melted marshmallow all over his fingers, too, and he's frowning at it super irritably.]

I think at the exact time is most convenient for us to make a mess out of it.

[innercactus]

.... maybe it's supposed to be food you get all over your hands?

[ ... Asteffiel is realizing this will be a very human food. His fingers aren't exactly solid on the surface, and so.. he might have marshmallow smelling hands for a while. ]

... so you go and take a nice scrub after eating?

[mylegacy]

[That's such a ridiculous suggestion that he has to laugh at it despite himself.]

Maybe. I don't know. It's an American food, so it's not really my area of expertise.

[innercactus]

[ Asteffiel spends a long moment studying him. ]

... American is one of the "I'm human but I have a different name because I live in a different place" things, isn't it?

[ He.. is pretty obviously not from the human-only world, right? ]

[mylegacy]

[Okay, another laugh. This is a world record, probably.]

That's exactly what it is. I'm Italian; America is across the ocean.

[innercactus]

Ooohhh... Our humans are almost all on one place, still. Or they used to be in one place but they had to go to other places....

You have to cross a sea to get to Orr, but the only humans in Orr are the walking around but dead types. [ Orrian refers to a lot of things that are dead and walking around like they shouldn't be. ]

[mylegacy]

Hm. Like zombies?

[Naturally this is the part that interests him. What is up with the undead everywhere?]

Orr is where you're from?

[innercactus]

You kill them and they're already rotting, they kill anyone who isn't a sylvari, and the person gets back up and helps them? [ ... Aggressive zombies- ]

Oh, no. I am from the Grove, which is in the maguuma jungle. Orr is across a little bit of sea from where I live. [ Which doesn't stop the undead at all, for .. obvious they're already dead they can't drown, they just kinda walk up on our beaches reasons. ]

[mylegacy]

[He makes a face.]

Sort of like zombies.

So do you like it? The Grove. [A beat.] That's sort of a stupid question, but I feel like we're supposed to be bonding or something.

[innercactus]

I like it. But I probably like it because that is where Mother is, and because I only lived in a bad place, other than when I was living in the Grove.

[ ... Hmm, what's a better way to say that. ]

I like it because my friends are there.

[mylegacy]

Oh . . .

[He actually looks kind of shy at that. Which is pretty ridiculous, considering he's normally either a] stoic or b] irritated, but there it is.]

That's why I like it here.

[innercactus]

Ooohh. That's a good reason to like it here.

[ Having friends. Asteffiel plays with his hair for a moment... completely forgetting he had marshmallow on his fingers... ]

I like it because it's new. I- oh. ... Oops... [ He remembered he has goo on his hands and.. now the oblong leaves of his hair. welp. ]