Day 88:: Can you hear me, I know I'm just a whisper...

[bastionpc]

Who: Everyone!
Status: Open
When: Day 88
Where: The Bastion
What: NPC and PC mingling
Format: Action
Warnings: None

[The excitement of the day before moves in to the quiet of the day after in the Bastion. It's fairly calm after all that, and the two new arrivals have been mostly healed. Current residents will find the once-armored woman bandaged still but in surprisingly good spirits, and the male with the guitar skittish and likely to jump at the smallest thing.

This would be a good point to talk to them, other NPCs or even your fellow NPCs.]

Comments

[bastionpc]

[It's the perks of being an older woman, really.]

Box? What is that?

[It's nice to see him like that, but she doesn't know what he's talking about.]

[windgod]

[Oh yeah...Ippo kept forgetting that not everyone around here would know exactly what he was talking about...he was still getting used to that. Still, he was happy to explain]

Oh...sorry...I'll explain. Boxing is...a sport where two people...in the same weight class get...in a ring and fight hand to hand...until the end of a set number...of rounds...or until the other person is...knocked out. The oldest known form of boxing...that we know of comes from...Ancient Greece...and was known by the name...Pygmachia...which just roughly translates to...Fist Fighting. As well...the earliest record of...it being an Olympic sport...started in 668 BC.

[He's definitely smiling like a dope right now; raspy voice or not, if you give him a chance to rattle of his knowledge of boxing, its a good day for Ippo]

[bastionpc]

Oh, yes, that's right! I recall that sport now. I haven't ever seen it in person but I recall the carvings and the urns that were excavated from various ruins.

[she chuckles quietly, fingers to her lips]

I feel silly, asking questions like that. From what I understand though, varying time periods and worlds are common here.