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Sokka the 61st - [Action/Voice]

[When Sokka opens the journal, he does it with a very specific purpose and yeah, maybe it's New Feather season and the aftermath of some dumb experiment, but he has some news that he's been sitting on for awhile. News that only two or three people outside of the Avatar house are even aware of. So today, around lunch period at school, Sokka heads around the building, facing the playground, to make an announcement he'd been putting off for a bit. Not because he didn't want to make it, but it was hard to do it with people being all ragey with the Malnosso. Maybe a few days of New Feathers will have cooled them off?]

Hey everyone. So... this is actually a few weeks late, but uh, that experiment kind of got in the way and New Feathers showing up and... anyway. Forget all that.

If you guys happen to see Suki around town, say hi to her for me. After all, she's the future Missus Thunderaxe. [He allows that to sink in a bit.] Because, you know, we're engaged now. Just saying. Nice pretty necklace and everything. One of my best works, if I do say so myself.

[Yeah, yeah. He's feeling good about that, okay. Like, solid. Whatever that means. Anyway, he decided that tonight he is making dinner. That means he's going to the grocery and stocking up on steaks. He wants to make steak burgers, because he's heard about them (somewhere) and they sounded awesome. From Luceti he had decided he liked steak and he liked hamburgers, so a combination? Gotta be a winner. Nevermind that he's just getting regular old steaks and plans to just put those on a hamburger bun. He'll realize the bones are gonna be a problem later on.

He'll make his customary appearance at the smithy to help New Feathers with weapons. He'll also be around school during the appropriate times for that. In the evening, after his dinner fiasco, he'll be down by the river, on the southern end of town, making some modifications to see if he can't make it sea worthy. Like adding a sail. He's pretty unsatisfied with the results though. Looks like he may need to just make a new boat from scratch. Which necessitates another voice post in the evening. But only after excluding a certain pirate. No offense, Jack, but he wants his own boat.]

[Filtered from Jack Sparrow]

So... ship building. Anyone want to help make one? A big one. Not huge, just... sea worthy with a nice strong sail. And good for bringing in lots of fish, too. Any help would be good. Just materials would go a long way.

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Fenimore, ex-nay of the ate-day.

[SUKI COULD HEAR THIS. Also, it's such a wonderful idea to use pig latin when he only knows it because of Buffy.]

...What?

[Seriously, she has no idea what you just said.

Don't talk about the date! Suki, remember?

[Whoops. She had kind of forgotten. That could have gone badly.

...But she's not going to admit that.] You don't have to get so worried. For all she knows, I could have been talking about advice for one of her dates.

... I'm not sure that makes it any better, you know.

[Cuz of...] Anyway, that was Pig Latin I was speaking.

Why would -- ? [Then the second part sinks in.]

Pig Lat-in?

.... yeah, I have no idea where the pig part comes in either.

It's really not going to help if I don't understand it.

Oh, it's easy. You just take the first letter of any word, then put it on the end, with the sound 'ay'. So your name becomes enimore-Fay. And I'm okka-Say. People on Earth use it all the time for secret communications.

[For a moment, she just moves her lips as she mouths both the examples and silently tries out a couple of words until she figures it out.]

That sounds...illy-say.

[Sokka has got it down to a science now. So he just grins and launches into it.]

Well, most Earth stuff is really just eird-way like that.

[She repeats "eird-way" a couple of times to herself, though it's enough under her breath that it could look like she's just mouthing it. ...Right, of course.]

I haven't heard enough about "Earth stuff" to know. [Or, at least, she doesn't keep close enough track of who's from which planet. Though her CR is relatively Earth-light.] You aren't going to keep using it, though, are you?

... probably not. Only Buffy uses it and she's kind of... you know, weird? So it might just be her.

[Still, it's speaking in code! How cool is that?]

...She certainly has a different way of speaking. [A small sigh before returning to a point that she had previously dropped.]

I don't see why it'd be a problem if you were using the advice on a date with Suki. You'd be showing initiative.

Hey, for all you know, maybe I already did.

[FREQUENTLY. But she hasn't stalked his Suki dates ~~hopefully~~ so she'll never know.]

That's not what I meant. ...Well, it doesn't matter.

[Suki is too ninja for Fenimore to pull that off even if she did try, so thankfully no. ~~Which is especially good nowadays.~~]

[... eheh, anyway, talking to Fenimore about his love life? Probably not one of the most tactical moves he could make. So...]

Anyway... so, when I get a big boat built, you'll come out sailing with us, right? I know you're not big on the, you know, on top of the water thing, but being out on the open sea with the wind in your face is pretty awesome.

[This conversation may have steered through familiar waters, but there's probably some minefields around, to mix metaphors in a blender.]

...Sure? I've never gone sailing before. Not properly, I mean. [She was belowdecks on one, but she couldn't appreciate it any, and the Legacy was technically a ship, but it looked like an island and wasn't powered by wind.] It might be fun to try.

See? It could be a lot of fun. It'll be great. We can even go swimming off the side of the boat, if we wanted.

[Well, he probably wouldn't, but he figured it would be an incentive for her.]

You can do that?

[By which she means get on and off a boat without needing a dock. She can't really think of a reason you couldn't if there was something to bring you back to the deck, but it hadn't occured to her. ...Wow, so you could probably dive right off into the deepest part of the sea. This seems like a very appealing thought to her.]

Yeah, sure. You throw a rope ladder of the side or something and you've got somewhere nice to swim. You just have to weight anchor first.

[That said, it's not ideal for long voyages, because you don't get to come back and clean off all the salty water if you're out there a long time. But for a quick romp out on the ocean, it's not so bad. Not that he'd really know... after all, you don't swim in South Pole waters.]

[Weigh anchor? What are these strange terms? Though if you call her a landlubber she will punch you. The opporunity isn't really there, anyway, as she pretends she totally knows what that means.]

Then I'll keep that in mind. I mean...if conditions are right. [Except rather than weather it's more the state of the people onboard at the time and if it includes people outside the Avatar group who already got shown the blue hair thing by Stella.] Thanks for the invitation.

Well, the boat's gonna be big, big enough for all my friends, so why not?

[Just gonna act dismissive about that. Though it does mean that there might be more than just Katara and Suki, though. And Toph wouldn't even come, anyway.]

I suppose you can't really make a business out of giving rides when there's no money, huh?

[Which is to say she understands it's pretty much the only thing he could do with such a boat, but she felt like giving the thanks anyway. She will have to decide how important the opportunity to swim is for her when it comes to more people being on, though.]

Edited 2011-05-30 01:26 (UTC)

If there was money here, I'd be rich by now.

[He was after all, moderately wealthy during that experiment.]

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