Catch-All

[ayes]

Who: You Watanabe (ayes) & all comers!
What: Missions and miscellaneous stuff
When: Tail end of September
Where: Olympia, Nadril, Flona Cove, up in spaaaaaaaace
Warning(s): Shouldn't be any!

[A: Tundra Hunting (Nadril Quest)]

[You is determined to be helpful. She is going to help people. She's going to! And while she knows she's not much for fighting or anything like that, she definitely can explore and catalog flora and fauna. That's definitely in her wheelhouse!

Why did it have to be up here where it's cold, though?

You has her sketchbook, she has a nice warm parka, so she's all set, but...] Geez, it's really hard to hold a pencil with gloves on.

[B: Pep Rally (Olympia Quest)]

[One thing You is absolutely certain she can do, though, is put on a performance. Even if it wasn't for her newfound magic powers, there's nothing like a good old-fashioned song to boost your mood, right?

She'll leave the fighting and the jousting to other people. Instead, she's going to get on stage and start singing a tune fitting the end of summer. Catch her afterwards? Join in the performance?]

[C: Farewell, Summertime]

[The ocean soothes her. It always has. It's no surprise that after everything, all the uncertainty and stress of the dragon's rise and its aftermath, You would go to the beach near Flona Cove to bid farewell to her beloved summer weather.

So you'll find her sitting on the warm beach sand, looking out on the waves, lost in thought--

--and suddenly standing up, pulling her clothes off, and dashing into the waves. At least she's wearing a swimsuit underneath, so it looks like she planned for this?

Boy the water is a lot colder than it looks. Don't mind her sudden shriek as she jumps in.]

[D: The Final Frontier]

[It rarely occurs to You that she can just... go up to the station whenever she wants. She spends so much time down on the planet, after all. And besides, up here has always kind of unsettled her? It's so clinical and futuristic, not homey and personable like down in Olympia, for all the island's faults.

Still, she can't help but take some time in the mess hall and observatory, looking down at the planet orbiting beneath her. It's really a magnificent sight.]

It really looks so small from up here... like, everything that everyone's trying to fight over or to accomplish-- it's really over just a tiny bit of land, isn't it? There's so much.

[She remarks, to nobody in particular. To you, really-- you're next to her.]

Comments

[smithandwesson]

[The funniest thing about this is that getting overly philosophical is one of Sanzo's favorite hobbies. But right now he's too busy trying to forget he's currently looking down at the planet he lives on.]

... A small island?

You mean El Nysa?

[At least that bit had managed to catch his attention though.]

[ayes]

Yeah, where else would I be talking about?

Olympia and Wyver and everything in between-- they've been fighting for so long, but it's not like it's... "hey, let's rule the world." It's just one little island.

[smithandwesson]

An island huh? I mean, I suppose from up here it seems as much. But in all regard, it's more the size of a continent.

[Which made things all the more worrying when it came to how small the view from up here had made it seem. Were all their own worlds much the same before they were destroyed? So small in comparison?]

And to think, because of the mess up of a small handful of people on this continent the entire planet was nearly decimated.

[He had a fairly bleak outlook on things.]

[ayes]

A continent? I thought continents were bigger than that. Like... Africa is a continent. El Nysa is kinda more like Japan? Pretty sure you can't take a train from one side of a continent to the other in a few hours. [You, this is not the time to quibble over the definition.]

[smithandwesson]

It depends on the context, doesn't it? I mean, it's a land mass that holds various countries despite its size. So it would count as a continent.

[That's more about definition than size Sanzo. But he's determined to be right.

He's just stubborn like that really.]

... I wonder what it's like on any of the other land masses on that planet.

[Were there even any other land masses? Most of the rest of the planet seemed to be covered in a cloudy fog at the moment.]

[ayes]

Aren't there multiple countries on, uh... the island of England? [Britain, honey, you're thinking of Britain.] There's gotta be other islands with more than one country out there. I just can't think of any off the top of my head!

[Still, there are more important questions.] I've always wanted to get on a boat and see if we can explore the rest of the world, but apparently nobody can ever leave.

[smithandwesson]

You mean a kingdom?

That's usually a group of countries ruled by a single sovereign. Although many of the countries on El Nysa are monarchies none of them are run by the same family.

[But that's beside the point and right now they're just getting into the semantics of it all.]

More than that... What do you mean we can't leave?

[He hadn't heard of this little tidbit yet. How interesting.]

[ayes]

[She doesn't want to get into a quibbling over the definitions, largely because she herself isn't sure if she's right or not.]

Oh, you didn't know? You know the mist that surrounds the island a little ways out into the ocean? Apparently you can't sail through it. You just get turned around and wind up back here.

[smithandwesson]

... Have you tried?

[Not that he wouldn't believe some messed up thing like that would be absolutely plausible with this world. But... Why?]

I mean, it is strange that most of the world isn't visible even from the station. I wonder if anything's even out there.

[ayes]

No, not personally. I don't have a ship, you know?

I've always been curious about it, though. Wondered what would happen if we did.

[smithandwesson]

Hmph.

[Well then...]

If you ever get your hands on a boat, wouldn't mind buying a ticket myself.

[Truthfully, just figuring this out was enough to pique his curiosity. There was a whole world out there after all. And an entire universe past that.

Ah.

Right.

There was that intimidating feeling. The sensation of how they themselves were oh so very small within the grand scheme of the universe.]

I wonder if it's natural. The barrier which separates the island from the rest of the world.

[ayes]

[You pauses for a bit.] Probably not.

I mean, who knows for sure? But I don't know of anything that could like... make permanent fog you can't get through.

That doesn't sound at all natural to me.

[smithandwesson]

I mean you never know, what with how so many things on this world work. But there are so many beings as well that are capable of so much power that I wouldn't doubt one of them may just end up being responsible for it either.

Most we can do is move on with it all and hope that maybe sometime during our lives that great mystery may just get answered.

But it's pointless getting hung up on the matter if there's nothing we can do about it... I think.