Day 244 :: This is not a proper wasteland, damnit! [OPEN]

[schroedingersgun]

Who: Maya Schroedinger and anyone
Open: Open
When: Day 244
Where: Around the monument
What: Maya Schroedinger tries to steal inspect the monument.
Format: Will match yours.
Warnings: N/A


It hadn't been Maya's day, that was for sure. Waking up in what looked like a dried-up wasteland was, well, normal for her. Not waking up with her team at her side, however, was not.

Nor was discovering that the world had been torn apart, that there were only patches left! And the only remotely stable place might as well be on another continent, with the constant shifting of this sorry excuse of 'ground'!

Traversing this all had been a much needed distraction, though. It had forced her to move ever forward, to put her worries about Alfred, Todd, even Shady, not to mention Virginia and some others on the back of her mind.

And it had left her angry, really angry. Her only wish: To have a very stern talk with whoever was responsible for this, all of it. And then shoot them in the face!


After quite an odyssey, she had finally arrived at what was apparently called the Bastion. It didn't even look like anything from her world, and the crazy rambling of the only person she had met so far (the poor NPC mentioned in the FAQ) hadn't helped at all. At least he had given her an amulet with a pretty gem embedded into it, that alleviated her mood somewhat. What she had spotted shortly afterwards, though... that was different and immediately distracted her from everything else, including the toll the travel had taken on her.

The monument. Or, rather, the fact that a part of it resembled a large, pretty gem. Pretty much a mystical mega-sized gem, practically asking for her to take embrace it!

And thus, she started circling the monument. Could it be transported? What about the people that no doubt lived in this blasted place? Maybe a distraction would be needed...

[Your character can spot her walking around the monument, poking it, trying to climb it, trying to take a sample, in other words being totally suspicious and/or nuts.

Alternatively, she might spot your character, in which case she'd shout a "Hey, you! Yes, you! Get over here!" and point at them - Maya is anything but shy when it comes to requesting information on gems and gem-like objects!

And she'll likely continue to do all of this even after the first person tries to tell her off. She can be pretty persistent!]

Comments

Re: 2/2

[schroedingersgun]

W-what-

Are you trying to make me the bad guy here?! I'll just make it mine... Where it is, right now. So it can stay here, for now?

[It was one thing to smack down some self-righteous loon talking about justice, but another to do the same with someone who, well, seemed quite scared and helpless. That wasn't something the 'Disaster Girl of the Wasteland' would've done!]

[scary_music]

Ibuki didn't mean to assume you're bad!

Ibuki doesn't mind if you claim it, as long as it stays where it is. But does Ibuki still get to use it?

[schroedingersgun]

O-of course. You were going to feed it with those shards, right? Then that just means you're making it grow, so that's alright with me!

[Maya brushed back her hair. It was nice to get some proper recognition for one!]

[scary_music]

When I have enough shards to get something, yes!

In the meantime, Ibuki thinks she's hungry! Are you hungry? Ibuki thinks we should go get some food!

[schroedingersgun]

I haven't eaten much in a while... Not that I couldn't go on for longer!

What do people eat around here?

[She hadn't even thought of that yet...]

[scary_music]

Follow me, then, Mayay! To the kitchen!

[She'll start leading the way to the kitchen]

We eat a lot of things!

Chicken, beef, eggs, donuts, mammoth, tomatoes, corn, bread, mammoth, donuts...

Real mammoth!

[schroedingersgun]

[Again that odd way of pronouncing her name. This Ibuki girl was an unusual one - or maybe the people of this place were like that? Who knew. At least Ibuki didn't drone on about justice or useless stuff like that. Made her automatically more tolerable than certain other people she REALLY didn't want to think about right now. Food was a welcome distraction as well.]

I wonder if any of that is fit for my tastes...

...and what is a Mammoth, of all things? Some sort of local delicacy or what?

[scary_music]

They're like an ancestor to elephants! But hairier! They actually taste good! ... without the hair on, that is!

[Actually now that she thinks about it-]

Do you have elephants where you come from? If you don't, Ibuki's not sure how to explain them properly... but Ibuki can show you to them after we eat!

[schroedingersgun]

What, elephants? Never heard of em, can't be too impressive if it's just some sort of beast.

Though if one were to attack, I'd deal with it swiftly.

[scary_music]

Ibuki would place her bet on you in a fight against a mammoth!

But you're right! Paar-ojiisan the dragon is a lot more impressive! But he's not for eating!

[schroedingersgun]

The beast that can defeat me, Maya Schroedinger, has yet to be born!

[She paused as Ibuki mentioned the 'dragon'. Maybe this world wasn't so different after all...]

...Dragon? Are we talking the beasts from the myths here? Huge horns, hoards, the like?

[Maya was reminded of her encounters with a dragon, the one Virginia's entourage had used back then...]

[scary_music]

Actually, I don't know if Pat has a hoard or not! If he does, Ibuki hasn't seen it! But yes, that kind of dragon!

[schroedingersgun]

...Don't tell me there's a group of annoying justice-freaks riding the thing.

[There couldn't be... right?]

[scary_music]

Paar-ojiisan gives dragon rides when people ask, but Ibuki doesn't know anything about justice-freaks!

Did Mayay have a run in with a sheriff riding on a dragon or something?

[schroedingersgun]

Pretty much. Just less sheriff and more rambunctious lassie turned wannabe superhero! She didn't know when to quit and always got herself into messes!

[scary_music]

Hmm, I see, I see...

Ibuki senses a deep rivalry between you and the rambunctious lassie!

[schroedingersgun]

Rivalry? If anything, that girl was like a Schroedinger-groupie, trying to be a constant thorn in my side!

Not that she managed to, of course.

[scary_music]

[Ibuki doesn't believe you, but she won't press the matter... and besides, said "groupie" probably wasn't alive anymore, and she didn't want to make Maya depressed]

Mayay must have scared her off with her impressive skills!

But anyway, we're here! [in the kitchen] What would Mayay like Ibuki to prepare? Ibuki's not the best cook, but I think I'm at least decent!

[schroedingersgun]

You can count on that!

...


[The kitchen was... ...well, a kitchen. Maya wasn't sure what she should have expected. Well...]

How about something with Mammoth? Can't be worse than vulture stew with beans.

[She still wasn't sure on why Ibuki was saying her name so oddly. Ibuki had an odd way of talking, maybe it was that...?]

[scary_music]

Mammoth, then! Ibuki is fairly sure it's a lot better than vulture, but then Ibuki's never had vulture in her life!

[She'll get some mammoth meat and start preparing it]

Just mammoth?

[schroedingersgun]

[It felt fairly natural for Maya to have somebody cook for her, so she relaxed a little. And tried not to think too hard about it.]

Something filling would be good too. Maybe some carrots or potatoes or whatnot.

[scary_music]

Carrots and...

[after a bit of searching, she holds up a pair of potatoes as if she made a great discovery]

Yes! Potatoes!

Would Mayay like her potato baked, mashed, or other?

... Ibuki strongly suggests other!

[schroedingersgun]

Then other. ...What IS other?

[What did you do with potatoes, really? Well, probably more than just the usual 'throw them into a pot and cook for a while' thing?]

[scary_music]

It's a surprise!

[okay it won't be much of a surprise for long. She'll cut them into slices and then... proceed to cut them into specific shapes? but before Maya can see just what those shapes are, she tosses them into a pan. Pan fried potato slices!]

[... also, she's steaming the carrots and ovening the mammoth steaks]

[This'll all somehow come out at the same time don't worry about timing]

[schroedingersgun]

You really know what you're doing with the pan, I gotta say. You're some sort of cook where you're from?