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Genis Sage ([personal profile] strokeofgenis) wrote in [community profile] tushanshu_logs2015-03-25 11:58 am

Sokka & Genis - early spring catch-all

Characters: Sokka or Genis... AND YOU!
Date: Late March, early April
Location: Turtle
Situation: Critical
Warnings/Rating: Much sarcasm. Such boomerang. Many foods. Wow.

[A. Genis Sage - Closed to Bakura - Dojo]

[Genis still had Bakura's note from the last kedan festival. In fact, he'd almost forgotten it after the festival as it had fallen out of his pocket at some point and hadn't quite found its way back to Genis' attention. But find it he eventually did, and that was reason enough to immediately dash off to the Wood Sector. He had a big brother mentor good friend to go see. After all, Bakura was going to be teaching him magic, and what better way than to go to someone who invited him?

[The address that Bakura had given him led him straight to a dojo, and so Genis, being the good kid, will actually knock on the front door of the building, waiting for someone to answer.]


Helloooooooo? Anybody home?

[B. Genis Sage - Open - Midnight Hotel or Keeliai]

[Genis had finally gotten a job. It had taken quite a while to finally get it, but he was finally on the up and up and not completely hating this world. (Because let's face it, Genis isn't going to completely turn a new leaf over for the kedan, even if things are getting better, when there are still kedan bullies on the street. Just a little too raw. And the fact that many kedan wouldn't even give him the chance didn't help either.) But Genis managed to prove himself pretty handily pretty quick. Of course, he's starting out low on the totem pole, nowhere near the most senior of the chefs, but he already has proven capable of being a being both the saucier and the poissonnier, so there's a good chance ordering something from the menu will come from Genis.

[Genis will be experimenting with foods in the kitchen in the Midnight Hotel as he's still getting accustomed to an entirely new range of spices that aren't from his world as well as a host of different meats and vegetables that resemble but aren't quite like the things from back home. So you might smell something tasty coming from the common kitchens... or you might actually be dining in the restaurant Genis is cooking for and want to give him thanks... or you might find him out at the marketplaces buying some fresh ingredients for a new master stroke of genius cooking.]


[C. Genis Sage - Open - Edge of Town]

[When Genis isn't being grumpy about the kedan or cooking, he will be off practising the magic. He hasn't actually gotten to use any magic in a small while, and so he doesn't want to get rusty. One might see him holding a wooden little figure in his hand which actually is a kendama, a Japanese ball-and-stick toy, as he casts his spells. He's not casting of the high-level ones (for the most part), and so as he concentrates, a small glow of light will appear beneath him, and the colours they emit depend upon whatever he's casting. As he's practising, someone watching him might hear some rather... disturbing lines coming from this 12 year old's mouth.]

Come get some! Air Blade!

I call upon thee in the land of the dead to unleash the fury of thunder. Indignation!

Engulf this pathetic soul! Ground dasher!

Drown! Aqua laser!

Pancake time! Stalagmite!

[Hopefully you're not anywhere in front of him as he's casting these or else you'll get caught up in... something: water, ice, wind, fire, thunder, or earth.]

[D. Sokka - Open - Keeliai or Stark Industries]

[Sokka's got a few things on his plate at the moment. Of course, he's helping out finish up the deconstruction of the Palace, and he'll be hanging around there with a clipboard, running in between teams of kedan and foreigners alike, and generally doing his part to plan out the last bits of the reconstruction effort. If he's not there for work, he'll be out helping on the railway lines. His work there is less middle management and more guard duty and occasional gopher. He'll be running supplies between teams as they're needed and making sure that shipments get through from place to place... and of course occasionally collecting the odd report. And then he's occasionally delivering those reports back to headquarters.

[You might just happen happen to catch him while he's on break though. Feel free to interrupt him or have him run into you (possibly literally).]


[E. Sokka - Open - Midnight Hotel or Keeliai]

[The puzzle is annoying the crap out of him. Two months in, and he still doesn't have any solid leads on what in the world they're even supposed to do. It's got to be simpler than he's making it, but at the same time, for the life of him he can't actually make heads or tails of it. He'll either be in the common room staring over his notes or out in Keeliai, perhaps following some random route through the city—especially the Central Sector, trying to track down anything that might resemble a landmark.]

So if the purple star is the Metal Sector, and that represents five... then what in the world am I supposed to do when I get there?

[F. Sokka - Closed to Milyn - Milyn's Apothecary]

[It's amazing how just a few seeds can germinate into a full-fledged idea. And it's amazing how far those apple seeds can fall from the tree. An idle conversation with Gene and Tony a while back mixed with conversations from Enjolras and Akito formed a plan. It was time to break out of his small circle of friends and start finding out more about these strange kedan that they lived amongst. And to do that, he needed to go see Milyn.

[He had heard her name cropping up more and more over the past few weeks, though the reasons were still unbeknownst to Sokka. Still, she seemed to be the one kedan that was more on their side than anyone else, and Sokka knew she knew the kedan leaders perhaps more than any of them, so it made sense to go and find out more of what he was dealing with before going directly to them. Besides, he didn't even know what he was going to talk to them about. He barely even knew Milyn, but at least he had an idea of who she was and where to start from. And so, in true fashion, Sokka is planning on just improvising as he gets there. All of his plans never seemed to work out as written anyway, right?

[He approaches the apothecary and heads on in, looking for the Cherrywood Healer.]


Hello?

[G. Sokka - Closed to Toph - Keeliai]

[Sokka is actually kind of out of practice when it comes to swinging Space Sword around.  Truth be told, there hasn't been much need for all that much fighting around the Shell in the past months, and that had made him just a little bit restless.  He definitely wanted to get out and get swinging and make sure he was keeping his sword skills up to snuff.  The one problem is that he didn't have a training partner.  Granted, not that he needed a training partner per se, but it was more enjoyable if there was someone else there doing kata with him, even if it was a completely different kata than him.

[Which is why he had fetched Toph.  First, she would be eager as anything else to go with him to go punch some rocks around... and perhaps even punch some rocks towards Sokka, though Sokka would ask them to not be massive boulders, please thank you very much.  Second, well, he enjoyed Toph's company, and now that she was here, he was going to take advantage of it.

[And also, it gave him a good excuse for him to figure out what exactly Toph knows of this place.  She'd been here before apparently, but not... recently by the sound of it.]


Okay, so... tell me what you know of the Creep Lord, [he says whilst they're walking to their training house.]

[H. Sokka - Closed to Gene - Midnight Hotel]

[And if he didn't have enough appointments already on his docket, he's certainly come up with one more.  After all, if Sokka was remembering rightly, it was Gene that had actually gone to Zanru and Yunxu and Heojin to find out about their opinions as to the demolition of the Palace of the Landed Sky, and that would prove interesting.  Sokka still didn't exactly have a solid direction as to where to proceed with his long-term plans of being involved with the three gangs, but he knows for certain that figuring out these three reclusive characters was going to be a good first step.  It's at least better than showing up completely unprepared, not knowing what in the world he was going to go talk to them about.

[And besides, he really ought to get to know Gene better anyway.  Oddly enough, at their last encounter, he seemed less surprised by Sokka's world than Tony.  In fact, he seemed less surprised than Sokka was to about half of those events!

[So Sokka heads upstairs to pay Gene a visit.  He doesn't exactly know when he's going to be there as he doesn't have a solid timetable for him yet, but he'll periodically go knocking on Gene's door or look for him in the common room to have that nice little chat.]


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theideaguy: (freaking out)

You bet. I've got girls in my dreams.

[personal profile] theideaguy 2015-04-15 01:52 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sokka groans at that. Seriously, Gene, you're going to start to make Sokka practically paranoid if you keep this up.]

Oh well if that's the case... then it could be practically anyone! Someone we don't even know! Someone whom we don't even suspect! Because they're practically invisible to us! Like a ghost!

[He really hopes it's not a literal ghost.

[Ahem.]


Finding this guy is going to be like trying to find a needle buried under five feet of snow somewhere around the South Pole!
wrathfulkhan: (Evil studmuffin // chatvert)

*snap* Jazz hand.

[personal profile] wrathfulkhan 2015-04-16 01:38 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, you probably picked the worst possible person to talk to about conspiracies, Sokka, Gene's all set to take them and run with them. Perks of being paranoid.]

Not necessarily. Moles always tip their hand, some way or another.

If that is the case, and if I'm not barking up the wrong tree. [He looks pensive. Bah. This sucks.]
theideaguy: (vengeful)

Azuba zuba zuzubaba that's what it sounds like you're saying right nooooow.

[personal profile] theideaguy 2015-04-16 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
Well that's the first piece of good news you've given me all day.

[Yeah, thanks, Gene.]

So on one hand, we're waiting until something else happens so that we can hope we find more information. On the other hand, we have to start scouring the entire kedan population... plus a foreigner or ten... to see if we can find anything at all about someone who hates us.

I guess it's better than just the last bit by itself.
wrathfulkhan: (Got any better ideas? // chatvert)

[hoarsely] I'm working on a gravity belt.

[personal profile] wrathfulkhan 2015-04-16 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
[Can Gene help that he's so often the bearer of bad news? Sometimes it's conspiracy theories, sometimes it's alien invasions, sometimes it's both...]

It's not a great position, but it is better than nothing, [he concedes. But it's not much better than nothing. That and a juulan'll buy you a latte at Keeliai's flagship Starbucks location.]
theideaguy: (calling to others)

In the basement, I hid some tube socks.

[personal profile] theideaguy 2015-04-16 12:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose it's something.

But I suppose it's also something more than we had a few months ago.

[He sighs. Hey, it could be worse, but Sokka's used to effecting big change quickly. Such was the way it worked in his world, but then again... he and the Avatar were actually something there; here... not so much.]

I guess that's most of what I came to ask. [Awkward pause.] Everything okay with you?
wrathfulkhan: (If I look back I am lost // chatvert)

Who hides dumb tube socks?!

[personal profile] wrathfulkhan 2015-04-19 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
[Gene shrugs.] Things are all right enough. Aside from the Dust, and the stress coming from the demolition and trying to make sure I can keep things in line. It's like trying to herd cats, I swear.
theideaguy: (thinking)

Old Viking dudes.

[personal profile] theideaguy 2015-04-20 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh.

[Pause.]

Never tried herding cats before. Then again, I bet Aang and Toph could probably do it pretty easily with their earthbending. You should've seen the zoo Aang created on a whim after chasing about forty different animals out of Ba Sing Se in a stampede.

[OOC: God this is the best IC reply I think I've ever written.]
wrathfulkhan: (Unimpressed // khalkhbataar)

Ooh girl, you taste REAL good.

[personal profile] wrathfulkhan 2015-04-23 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
[And that...renders Gene momentarily speechless.]

He created a zoo. On a whim.

['KAY.]

What's Ba Sing Se? I feel like there's a story here.
theideaguy: (shrugging)

Today, I had a cheesesteak. Then I got a Walkman.

[personal profile] theideaguy 2015-04-23 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Sokka really does have the best stories.]

Well, he was kind of sad about the animals having to live in cages?

[As if that explains everything...]

And oh, Ba Sing Se's the capital of the Earth Kingdom. You know, the place where the story about the king and his bear and his evil underling that I told you about took place.
wrathfulkhan: (Gonna need a bigger boat // chatvert)

Like, a fancy Walkman?

[personal profile] wrathfulkhan 2015-04-25 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[Gene shrugs, and remembers Akito. He's sad when anything has to live in cages. No, strike that, replace 'sad' with 'mind-meltingly angry'.] I respect that.

[He nods slowly.] You might have to draw me a map.
theideaguy: (clever)

Who threw these poops on me?

[personal profile] theideaguy 2015-04-26 01:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[Remind Sokka never to tell this story to Akito.]

Well, I could draw you a map, but it's not that important where it is. [Because why else would Gene want a map?] I guess we were really just bored in the capital because we were getting the run around from that underling guy, and so we were pretty much just trying to find things to do to pass the time. I mean, that's when I discovered I was pretty good at poetry.

[Don't ask. You're totally going to ask, aren't you? Anyway, what were they talking about? Oh yeah.]

But yeah, things are kinda crazy right now, aren't they?
wrathfulkhan: (Do you mind // khalkhbataar)

Don't look at me!

[personal profile] wrathfulkhan 2015-04-28 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
You talk about your world so much, I'd just be interested to see how it looks, [he says with a shrug.]

Yeah. They are. I'll be happy when they've calmed down a bit. ...though I don't anticipate that happening for quite some time.
theideaguy: (creative)

I like to get freaky. Get what I mean?

[personal profile] theideaguy 2015-04-28 01:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, well in that case, I guess I could draw one up. I can probably recall the whole thing from memory.

[And then there's a thought.]

Though really, do things ever calm down on the turtle? I don't think they've calmed down one bit since I got here.
wrathfulkhan: (Suspicion // khalkhbataar)

My hot dog stand's got no ketchup.

[personal profile] wrathfulkhan 2015-04-29 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Gene has to pause and think about that for a moment. Then:]

No, not really. Just different flavors of chaos.
theideaguy: (lazy)

Now I'm going to touch you.

[personal profile] theideaguy 2015-04-29 11:25 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, he figured as much.]

Yeeeeaah.

Well, anyway, I've taken up enough of your time. Thanks for the tea. And the chat.