markofthewise | Sokka the 74th

[THE FIRST DAY.]

[Two weeks. It's a long time to be on a mission, but Sokka has no regrets. The mess with Kin'cora had gotten to him and he found a kind of relief in working with other people from other enclosures. There was a lot of talk among him and the others. He spread the word. Maybe it wouldn't do Luceti much good, given he learned very little, but the more the others knew, the better. But boy was he glad to be back in Luceti. When he emerges from the tunnels at around 6PM, he's tired out from a hard day of work, but it's a good kind of tired. He makes going home his first priority. He'll miss dinner, inevitably, but with any luck there's leftovers. Catching up with the others takes a few hours before he ever breaks away to wander the village.

What's on the agenda? Hitting up the smithy to see where things are at. He never got to find out how much was lost after the Kin'corans left, so it's time to see if one of his ~~minions~~ smithy buddies took an inventory. And you know, he wants to check in on them too. That's cool. Also, he heads to Good Spirits because he was informed very sternly by one of his buddies on the mission that the only proper way to end a hard day's work is a good stiff drink. Sokka, the adult that he is, was inclined to agree. THAT IS HIS ENTIRE DAY.

But there is another.]

[DAWN OF THE NEXT DAY]

[Sokka wakes up and does his usual morning routine and goes to NOT the smithy, but the BATTLE DOME. That's right. Record scratch. After talking to the main console for awhile, he heads into one of the rooms and in something that takes some finagling at first, he starts... building a sub. A holographic sub. One that is small enough to fit into his hand, but can expand if he gives the command, so he can work on specific details. It's like working on a blueprint, but in 3D. His nights on his mission had been spent trying to recreate the submarine made by the Mechanist. He's been steadily improving on the design, specifically built to be powered by waterbending, but done in a way to streamline the process and make it faster. And sturdier. He's not sure it will be easy to build with Luceti's technology, but...

Well, Haruhi got him excited. And he spends the better half of the day on this. Because of the Dome time limit, he's constantly seen going in and out to restart the program or grab a snack. For those hoping to fight, this is probably annoying, since there's only six chambers that tend to get used a lot. At one point during the day, he loses the dome to some short and grumpy guy, so Sokka turns to the journal.]

Has anyone really tried the stuff in these vending machines before? I mean, I usually just get a soda or something, but this stuff is amazing. Like... look at these. [He lifts up an oreo to the camera.] It's two cookies, but with some kind of paste between them. But the paste tastes like sugar! And then there's these! [Sokka lifts up an red lump of candy.] Apple gels. They're great, although I don't think they taste like real apples. There's something unusually refreshing about them. I had about ten just now and it made my fingers all tingly. Actually, I'm kind of feeling tingly all over and-- [Sokka looks away and spots something else] Oh! And check this out! [He pulls out a WORM. A multicolored worm.] It's a CANDY worm. I was thinking I could use it for fishing, but it's actually kind of tasty. Oh, and then there's these fished shape crackers...

[He'll go on like this for awhile. People can listen or ignore him, but he'll be casually highlighting the awesome contents of the Battle Dome vending machines.

He'll be coming home later with the stomach ache from hell.]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Hey, I don't work for you. I'm a lot of people's information guy. Freelance know-it-all? That's me.

I guess not, everyone who is working for me gets benefits.

What kind of benefits are talking here?

I don't reveal them except to members, otherwise we'd have all kinds of people just in it for the benefits.

Uh huh. You know I'm not that gullible, right?

When they pay people to do surveys or participate in trials for new medicines, they always offer money and free things so you get all of the people who want rewards coming rather than the people who actually care about the results. It's the same thing, right? So you don't get to know until after you're in.

Uh huh. Well, I'll pass on the 'rewards'. Thanks.

I know, you don't want to be a member of the SSS. You're part of those weird group of people who just want to be friends-slash-consultants, right?

I also have my guild loyalty to consider.

Which guild? I thought you were a blacksmith.

Brave Vesperia? We may not be known for much, but we're making a come back. We're going to be big.

Oh! I know Brave Vesperia. You guys are actually building me the coffee house, then I talked to Yuri and I'm going to come up with some other fun things for both of our groups to keep on edge. Non-building things.

... he failed to mention that second part. Why does this sound like it's going to be more of a headache than the building?

Hey, my first plan got rejected already and suggested that I get help from a different group with it, so don't worry! Obviously your leader's not going to go along with everything that I suggest.

I hope not. Otherwise I'd have to go look for a new one.

I'm not that bad!

That remains to be seen.

You should be impressed at how well I'm behaving myself.

Wow, you must be terrifying when you're not behaving.

[ Yuri seems to consider this for a moment, tilting her head slightly. ]

Well, I wouldn't say so but Yusa once told me that my punishment games are known to change peoples' personalities when I'm through with them. That's not actually true though.

[ Probably. ]

What kind of punishments?

Whatever I feel like at the time I come up with one!

Because why waste time carefully weighing events to decide what is most fitting and fair?

If anyone really objected they wouldn't be playing. It's not like I have to put effort into getting people to play them, so I assume if there was really a problem someone would speak up. The people I work with in my world aren't doormats, they can speak up for each other and they have before. I haven't done anyone to anything here. It's not as fun if they'd actually get upset.

Edited 2012-10-07 02:03 (UTC)

Sometimes I can't tell if you're some kind of dictator or... just Haruhi with longer socks.

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