Day 241 [OPEN] - Wakeup call

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Who: Ibuki Mioda and whoever!
Open: Open forever
When: Day 241, very early in the morning
Where: Around the Monument.
What: Ibuki Mioda arrives at the Bastion... loudly.
Format: Log, but willing to switch to other formats!
Warnings: Scary ghost! 2 spooky!

It was just only becoming daylight at the Bastion when a new arrival would show: A young lady with wild hair. There was nothing particularly extraodinary about her, unless one was to notice the "horns" on her head; but that was only her hair styled to resemble such a feature.

She looked a bit confused and travel-worn; but a one hour walk was really nothing to her. Ibuki was far from exhausted.

And now that she arrived at what appeared to be civilization, where should she go? The apparent center of the village seemed like a good start.

"Yoohoooooooooooooooooooooooooooo?!" she shouted once she reached the Monument, apparently having no regard for people who may still be sleeping, "Hellooooooooooooooooooooo?! Is anybody here?!"

If nobody came out to answer, she'd have to start invading buildings...

[Edit: Now that she's been given the lowdown on the situation, ... you can still feel free to come across her being loud. Ibuki wants to meet new people!]

[Edit of nostalgic regret: This was before I had Ibuki use -chan and made up weird nicknames instead...]

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[Ibuki just laughs in response]

Come on, Ippo, let's get some tea!

[And sudden subject change...]

[Though, Ibuki didn't even know if they had tea here...]

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T-tea? Oh...I'm sure there's some in the kitchen somewhere...

[Just...let him lead the way here, maybe if he's in front he could hide all that embarrassment he's got going on right now. Maybe. Probably not.]

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[And Ibuki will follow after; wait she'll hoist up the guitar's amp to bring along with because she's not just going to leave that stuff lying around no!]

Hm... I just realized, I don't know much about what you do, Ippopo!

Except that you're a really nice person, a good chef, and accepted a position as my kouhai.

[windgod]

[Please your making him blush worse, if he could put his hoodie back up without it looking weird he would. Instead he'd just stare at the ground as he walked and hope that she couldn't see the red in his cheeks if he wasn't looking at her.]

I...don't really do much other than exercise and help gather shards and cores here, but before coming to the Bastion I was a professional boxer.

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[The first thought of him being a boxer was just how well would he get along with Akane. Gosh, why was it always Akane, anyway? It's not like she didn't know anybody else from the island...]

I knew a gymnast that liked to fight a lot. She probably would've wanted to fight you!

[Well, it still hurt a little to think about the friends that she lost... but she wasn't going to let it drag her down anymore!]

Hm... maybe I could come up with a song about boxing...

[windgod]

Sounds like my sempai Takamura-san...

[This gymnast person and Takamura would have gotten along swimmingly he was sure.]

That would be pretty fun I think!

[He could almost imagine the high energy and fast movement of the music already if it was going to be about boxing.]

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Hm... Ibuki's been getting so many ideas for songs, she's not quite sure which one to start with!

Oh! The shards you were using. Where can Ibuki get those?

[She doesn't want to have to sponge off people forever...]

[windgod]

That...

[He paused mid-sentence. Carefully thought about his words and then spoke. This was something more dangerous that just tossing info around, when the Skyway was concerned, caution needed to be right behind it.]

You get shards out on the Skyway, where you were before you got here. You can find them lying around, but it's not at all safe out there; if you go out, promise you'll come find me or someone else, you shouldn't ever be out there alone.

[Says the person who was out there for three weeks by himself, but that was neither here or there.]

Sound fair?

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[Okay, Ibuki will match your serious for a bit. She'd seen her share of death, and she didn't want to see herself (or anybody else, really) added to that number]

Yeah. Ibuki's not much of a fighter, so if you say it's bad out there, I'll make sure I'm with somebody who can handle it.

[windgod]

Good. I'll go out with you anytime you ask, how's that sound?

[His shoulders and stance seemed to relax almost immediately, as if his body itself had let out a sigh of relief. He wasn't about to lose any more friends to that damned place.]

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That's a round-about way of asking somebody out.

[Ippo, why are you making yourself such an easy target that Ibuki can't resist?]

[windgod]

Hrk...sorry...sorry...

[He's just going to hang his head and keep moving towards the kitchen. Have you figured out that he has trouble talking to women yet? How many times can he mess up with his words? A lot is the answer. A very lot.]

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[And Ibuki will just laugh again as she follows Ippo. Maybe she should ease up on him a bit...]

[Maybe...]

[... maybe not?]

[windgod]

[The trip to the kitchen was short at that point, and by the time he'd gotten to shuffling around the shelves, he'd all but gotten over his embarrassment.

at least on the outside.]

Hmm...I could have sworn I saw a tea box around here somewhere...

[He muttered as he continued to root around. Ibuki was free to help, or poke more fun if she wanted.]

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Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm........!

[Ibuki will look at the shelves too, as long as she could do so without getting in Ippo's way.]

[Granted, unless it was clearly labelled as tea or tea leaves or something like that, she probably won't be much help]

[windgod]

[He got up onto a counter, shuffling around the back shelves until...aha! A wooden box with the word "Tea" scrawled across it! He pulled it out with a triumphant noise...only to notice a second later that the wall was starting to look an awful lot like the ceiling.

We're going down cap'n, godspeed.]

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[And as Ippo falls... he'll find himself being princess carried by Ibuki instead of meeting the ground violently]

And then, expected gender roles were reversed!

[windgod]

[The soft landing and strong arms holding him didn't seem to perturb Ippo one bit; if anything, he seemed more embarrassed about the actual fall than being caught.]

Thank you Ibuki-sempai, that could have been bad...but I found the tea!

[He said with a laugh, holding up the box with a smile. Your free to put him down at any time though. Just sayin.]

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[Okay okay she'll let you down.]

Good job, Ippo!

... Ibuki somehow gets the feeling you fall a lot.

[windgod]

Actually, not so much so long as I have my feet on the ground.

[He said sheepishly as he was set down, setting the box on the table now that he could.]

Boxers weren't designed to be in the air for any great amount of time after all.

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You could invent a new sport: Free-fall boxing!

[Wait no, in the sort of world they're in now-]

That was a terrible idea, Ibuki won't speak of it ever again!

[windgod]

[He wasn't even sure how that would work in the grand scheme of things...but a change of subject was good. After all, he needed to get this tea started; so he was just going to fill up a pot of water to get that going on the stove.]

It's all in good fun, don't worry about it. Do you do any sports yourself? Or is it just strictly music for you?

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Ibuki wouldn't call it a sport, but she does run a lot to keep in shape!

I've done some sports now and then whenever I feel like it. Ibuki doesn't really stick with one very long, though!

[She's a very whimsical person when it comes to a lot of things outside of music.]

[windgod]

Oh, well I make sure to do a run every morning, your more than welcome to join!

[It would definitely make it a less lonely experience, that was for sure.]

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Alright! It's a date!

If Ibuki can get a bass guitarist, she'll bring them along for it, too!