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.]

Comments

[spontaneouscombustion]

[Haha, it's okay, she knows what you meant.]

Yup, that's it! Ponies get one whenever we figure out what our special talent is! And mine's throwing parties!

[namisan]

Well, you are pretty talented at that, I gotta admit. That sounds like one hell of a handy map, too. Do you know who made it?

[spontaneouscombustion]

Uhhhh not really? I mean it kinda came with the castle, and castle came with the chest that the tree gave us, and I don't think ANYBODY knows who planted the tree.

[It's magic.]

[namisan]

Pity. I'm a cartographer, so... [Naturally interested. But it's pretty clear that the land of ponies is weird as hell and doesn't work by any measure of science she knows.]

It'd be fun to be a pegasus, though. A cute one.

[spontaneouscombustion]

[Hey, it makes more sense than One Piece's world.]

Oooooh yeah, I bet you'd be a GREAT pegasus! Hmmm I wonder if you'd still be human in my world or not. I mean I'm still a pony here!

[namisan]

[Hey, our sun and moon rise and set by themselves!!]

That depends on how I get there, right? I mean until then, it's fun to imagine being able to fly.

[spontaneouscombustion]

[Hey, the average height and chest size of our new characters doesn't increase exponentially.]

AND you'd be able to walk on clouds and move them too! I bet you'd be GREAT helping out the weather teams!

[And then Nami becomes the queen of the Weather Factory. ... Until she realizes it's an egalitarian society and she has to pay Princess Celestia taxes.]

[namisan]

[Word of god is that Nami's just a growing woman!

...pay no attention to the fact that Robin was apparently also still in late growing stages at age 28.]

You know, I've already walked on clouds! It was a lot of fun. And if I had the rest of my weapon I could create more.

[spontaneouscombustion]

[Oda, stop putting steroids and horse vitamins in the ladies' drinks.]

Wait, you have?! COOL, does that mean humans in your world have pegasus magic too?

[namisan]

Well, probably not the same thing, but maybe there's a few things in common. Actually, there's a kind of cloud you can walk on in our world, but you have to go very, very high up. There are islands in the sky made of cloud! And I learned to replicate the effect when I studied, so.

I don't know. What other things can pegasus do?

[spontaneouscombustion]

Well, they can fly, obviously, and they're the only ponies that can walk on clouds AND they can move clouds around and kick them! And since Cloudsdale's in the sky, they're kinda the only ones that can make weather at the weather factory!

[namisan]

That sounds like your world and mine has a little in common, then. [Disturbingly...]

Weatheria is up in the sky-- that's where I studied.

[spontaneouscombustion]

Oh that's cool, what's Weatheria like?

1/2

[namisan]

Hmm, well. It's a manmade island-- or at least it's an island co-opted by scientists. They move it from place to place to help out communities stricken with drought or the like. It's full of fields and windmills and various weather experiments. The view is amazing!

[namisan]

It's run by a bunch of creaky old guys with no sense of style. They traumatise easily.

[spontaneouscombustion]

Well that's not a nice way to talk about somebody, Nami...

[namisan]

[Taking me too seriously, pony.]

It's said with affection! And often to their face.

[She does miss those weird old guys sometimes.]

[spontaneouscombustion]

Aw, okay, good.

[Respect for the elderly is important to ponies.]

[namisan]

[You probably wouldn't appreciate her calling King Neptune grandpa, then...]

Manners are important to you, huh?

[spontaneouscombustion]

Being nice to people at least, especially older people!

[The rest of it... heheh, well, she is a hyper little pony.]

You should meet my friend Rarity, though, she's REALLY into manners and high society stuff! She's a fashion designer too!

[namisan]

A fashion designer...! Really? You'll have to introduce us if she ever comes here.

[spontaneouscombustion]

Oh for sure! And I can introduce you to Qing now, he's a human but he designs stuff too! He's on the Caprine with me!

[namisan]

Hohh? It's my lucky day. [It does occur to her to wonder what kind of fashion Rarity designs for ponies who...don't appear to wear much... but whatever. There's all kinds of ways to be fashionable in the world, after all.] Do you know if he takes commissions?

[spontaneouscombustion]

[Oh, if only Pinkie had some pictures of Rarity's dresses, she'd probably SWOON.]

Yeah, he does! He made this REALLY pretty robe-dress called a kimono for Makie on the Windrose!

[namisan]

[Oh, Makie. She'd almost forgotten Makie was here. For some reason.]

Kimonos are a lot of work. I'll definitely have to look him up, then. Local space fashion isn't quite my thing, half the time.