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tushanshu_logs2015-08-10 10:12 pm
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Torn away from home soil
Characters: Pepper Potts, Raine Sage, Yami no Bakura, and you!
Date: Throughout August
Location: All over Keeliai' specifics in the starters
Situation: It's hot and dry, but Pepper is starting to get comfortable with being here.
Warnings/Rating: None yet. Will be edited and marked in starters if need be.
A. Jade Dojo | Backdated to August 3 | Closed to Bakura
Pepper has been spending a lot of time at the dojo, either training with Gene or just coming by to observe or talk to Bakura. It's nice to have someplace to go other than home. His disappearance the previous month had been weird, to say the least, but she'd refrained from saying anything. Hard as she tries, Pepper can't seem to resist asking what happened. She also has a different request to make of him, and perhaps if she asks about that first it'll distract her enough to keep her mouth shut.Not likely.
The way to the dojo is familiar to her now, and she heads there with a sort of relaxed determination on her face.
B. Sky Sector | August 8 | Closed to Raine
Raine has had the opportunity to fly as Pepper's passenger in the armor, but as cool as that is, piloting it is a lot better. Although she's a bit nervous about letting the half-elf use her suit, that's more a result of not knowing how to teach her properly than anything else. Pepper had spent months using the armory remote chair before stepping into a suit, so it wasn't that big of a leap. Fortunately, the armor's computer is pretty smart, so she's relatively sure everything will be okay. She's asked Raine to stay near home base just in case, so Pepper is waiting at home. Tony can be there in a heartbeat in the unlikely event of something happening.
C. Earth Sector | Late August | Closed to Raine
Pepper has been trying, she really, really has. She’s been here for almost four months now, and Tony and Gene are still dating. So she can’t just pretend it isn’t happening. She’s been working on the whole ‘being supportive’ thing like she knows she should, but when it comes right down to it, she’s still upset. It’s not so intensely awful now, sure, but man is it upsetting. And the reasons why it’s upsetting are confusing and painful all to themselves, and it’s dimming her usual cheeriness at times.
What she could really use right now is to talk to a friend, and normally that would be Rhodey, but he’s not here and that’s just more upsetting. The only other person she can think of that might understand, or at the very least be willing to listen without being clever and/or snarky in some way, is Raine.
D. Keeliai | Throughout August | Open to All
Pepper has more of a set schedule, sort of. She spends part of her time with Skulduggery a few days a week, and sometimes does Guild work. She’s spending more time in the Wood Sector, since she goes to the dojo a lot, too. It’s a nice area, calming, which she wouldn’t have expected since she’s not much of an outdoorsy kind of person. Of course, she’s also in the Sky Sector, often checking out the new shops that open seemingly once a week. She needs to maintain her shopping skills, after all. After her jaunt with Raine last month, she’s also taken to flying around the city at times, usually at night.
E. Central Sector | Before August 10 | Closed to Bakura
Of all the people Pepper ever thought she would get to go shopping with, Bakura was not one of them. And yet, here she was, going to meet the dojo owner to search for cards. It wasn't exactly a spree, and there would be no shoes or clothes involved, but it's still a shopping trip. She's excited regardless. Granted, this simple exercise is the first step on what might be a very dark road, at least for a while, given what Bakura said about a test. In the meantime, though, this ought to be fun.
OOC: If you want a starter hit me up at plurk.
Date: Throughout August
Location: All over Keeliai' specifics in the starters
Situation: It's hot and dry, but Pepper is starting to get comfortable with being here.
Warnings/Rating: None yet. Will be edited and marked in starters if need be.
A. Jade Dojo | Backdated to August 3 | Closed to Bakura
Pepper has been spending a lot of time at the dojo, either training with Gene or just coming by to observe or talk to Bakura. It's nice to have someplace to go other than home. His disappearance the previous month had been weird, to say the least, but she'd refrained from saying anything. Hard as she tries, Pepper can't seem to resist asking what happened. She also has a different request to make of him, and perhaps if she asks about that first it'll distract her enough to keep her mouth shut.
B. Sky Sector | August 8 | Closed to Raine
Raine has had the opportunity to fly as Pepper's passenger in the armor, but as cool as that is, piloting it is a lot better. Although she's a bit nervous about letting the half-elf use her suit, that's more a result of not knowing how to teach her properly than anything else. Pepper had spent months using the armory remote chair before stepping into a suit, so it wasn't that big of a leap. Fortunately, the armor's computer is pretty smart, so she's relatively sure everything will be okay. She's asked Raine to stay near home base just in case, so Pepper is waiting at home. Tony can be there in a heartbeat in the unlikely event of something happening.
C. Earth Sector | Late August | Closed to Raine
Pepper has been trying, she really, really has. She’s been here for almost four months now, and Tony and Gene are still dating. So she can’t just pretend it isn’t happening. She’s been working on the whole ‘being supportive’ thing like she knows she should, but when it comes right down to it, she’s still upset. It’s not so intensely awful now, sure, but man is it upsetting. And the reasons why it’s upsetting are confusing and painful all to themselves, and it’s dimming her usual cheeriness at times.
What she could really use right now is to talk to a friend, and normally that would be Rhodey, but he’s not here and that’s just more upsetting. The only other person she can think of that might understand, or at the very least be willing to listen without being clever and/or snarky in some way, is Raine.
D. Keeliai | Throughout August | Open to All
Pepper has more of a set schedule, sort of. She spends part of her time with Skulduggery a few days a week, and sometimes does Guild work. She’s spending more time in the Wood Sector, since she goes to the dojo a lot, too. It’s a nice area, calming, which she wouldn’t have expected since she’s not much of an outdoorsy kind of person. Of course, she’s also in the Sky Sector, often checking out the new shops that open seemingly once a week. She needs to maintain her shopping skills, after all. After her jaunt with Raine last month, she’s also taken to flying around the city at times, usually at night.
E. Central Sector | Before August 10 | Closed to Bakura
Of all the people Pepper ever thought she would get to go shopping with, Bakura was not one of them. And yet, here she was, going to meet the dojo owner to search for cards. It wasn't exactly a spree, and there would be no shoes or clothes involved, but it's still a shopping trip. She's excited regardless. Granted, this simple exercise is the first step on what might be a very dark road, at least for a while, given what Bakura said about a test. In the meantime, though, this ought to be fun.
OOC: If you want a starter hit me up at plurk.
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Pepper tries to remember what she can from history class, frowning slightly as she struggles to recall some of the finer points.
"Well, it get's a lot worse before it gets better," she admits, "And then a guy named Napoleon Bonaparte steps in right before 1800. He ends up as emperor, and France basically takes over a bunch of Europe. That doesn't actually end all that well for Napoleon, but things basically turn out all right." She's glossing over a lot, but why give him all the bad news, like Napoleon's idiotic march to Russia? "But he did kind of export the revolution all over the world. Nationalism became a big thing. The system of nobility in France stayed dead, and the country ended up being a constitutional republic. A lot of people died, but it totally changed the course of European history."
It seems a rather pale sacrifice, when she looks at it from his perspective. It's one thing to read it in a textbook, and a very different thing to be living it.
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"Worse before it gets better." He repeats, laughing rather dryly. "That sounds...about right from what I've seen and heard so far." He's not surprised anyway, but there's the idea it gets better that helps. At the mention of the name, he's raising a brow, both of them.
"I know the man." He'd struck Arno, at the time, as a decent fighter, and capable enough as an army officer. That said, "We met while he was going through the king's private papers." he might as well tack that on, and, as he does, he can't say he's surprised to hear the rest of it.
"He offered me a place in the army, but from what I'm hearing I am particularly lucky I know I would be terrible at it. An Emperor. A bunch of Europe...That's...it's insane. Completely mad." And it makes him wonder just what Bonaparte was after while Arno was burning correspondence. Something greater? More important?
"You think you know a person..."
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"Yeah. Not being the army was definitely a positive life choice," she agrees. "I hope the history lesson wasn't too awful."
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"True, the man COULD have been taller. There was something odd about him, but not enough that he could have commanded the attention easily..."
Then again, he'd wondered that about the now late King, who was honestly something of a joke, and having a pretty wife (who frankly, seemed caught up in a mess she couldn't fully prevent or really understand), wasn't enough to do it for...
Oh.
OH...
It's a testament to the fact that he'd been trained to hide reactions that Arno's eyes aren't completely wide now, as he remembers that day in the Palace, where Napoleon had been looking for something that he hadn't quite mentioned. That said, he's now got a theory, and it's too bad it's nothing he's probably going to remember if he gets out of here.
He guesses that he could bring it to the attention of Shay, particularly because neither of them is getting to Paris any time soon, and Shay will be too old by then, in Arno's timeline anyway, or maybe too dead, to do a thing about it, one way or the other, but...
Well, it's something to think about, anyway.
"I'd have been drummed out for insubordination in the first five minutes." He has to laugh at the thought, unfunny though it probably is. "And not at all. I'm glad to know a bit more. It helps to have the context, see what's going to lead up to it. Of course, being able to prevent the mess would be better, but if wishes were horses...More than good enough for now."