PARTY TIME!

[deloreandriver]

Characters: Marty and EVERYONE ELSE. Start your own threads, mingle, make CR!
Setting: Floor 38, the big lounge floor just under the dorms, BEST STORM VIEW
Format: Your choice
Summary: STORM WATCHING PARTY! So the power is out and there's tons of thunderstorms. But don't let that get you down, WATCH THE THUNDERSTORMS! Also pancakes and coffee.
Warnings: STORM WATCHING ! Lots of thunder

Marty had enough of the darkness in the tower and the creeping monsters, so when he looked at the mass of pancakes the automatic pancake maker had made, he loaded them up along with the coffee maker, coffee, the syrup, and toted them all the way up to Floor 38.

There was no way he was going to let those massive stacks of pancakes go to waste, and this was the closest floor to the dorms that actually had some place to hang out, so he set the pancakes up as a sort of continental breakfast, and sat watching the storm.

What he hadn't expected was the people to start trickling in.

Comments

[ocariness]

... The Bio ones are quite mobile if you cut them down. They are capable of walking on their stems.

[ Hahaha Monsters, man. ]

But they're surprisingly more dangerous than you would think. They're quite tall.

I have Kuja at 5'10", not counting the feathers

[fallen_stage]

That would be dangerous, especially if one wasn't expecting it.

[Monsters, totally. And yet Kuja can calmly sip at his coffee while discussing walking people-eating plants.]

How tall are they? Taller than you or I?

Link is.... substantially shorter and I don't even have a decent height for her?

[ocariness]

[ ... Let Link consider this. ]

About to... here, though some grow far taller. It really varies.

[ Link holds a hand up to their chest, to demonstrate 'here'. Link is around 5 foot nothing, so... ]

Eh, we can handwave it!

[fallen_stage]

[Huh. Smaller than some monsters, bigger than others. Nothing too troublesome, if it's the stationary ones.]

So frightening, but not too dangerous if one keeps one's head. I could be speaking from experience, however, since I am accustomed to monsters.

except NOW I have a height pfff 5'3''...

[ocariness]

[ Oh!!! ]

So you have monsters in your home, as well, Kuja?

Same as me .D.

[fallen_stage]

Yes, quite a number of them. Some are more dangerous than others, of course, and in greater concentrations elsewhere. You see, monsters are born from the Mist that permeates the main continent on my planet, and where the Mist gathers thickly, more monsters spawn.

[Well and also there's monsters in his literal home but Link doesn't need to know that, or how unnatural the Mist truly is.]

Cool!

[ocariness]

[ Hm. Head tilt. ]

I see... most people I have met are not used to such things. It is... unfortunately commonplace in Hyrule for dangerous encounters to occur, however.

[fallen_stage]

[Kuja just shrugs.]

Well, people adapt when they need to, don't they? I do envy people without monsters sometimes, but I don't think I'd be as strong as I am now without them.

[But not because Kuja ever had to worry about fighting them. No need to worry Link with the details, was there?]

[ocariness]

... This is true. Though, all the more reason to teach them how to protect themselves or protect them if we can.

[ Chivalry and a compassionate heart--Link is oftentimes a Knight, just without the shining armor. Or, you know, the man thing. Perhaps it's just how they were raised, but being taught to care for everything and everyone has made Link a very compassionate and empathetic person. ]

[fallen_stage]

[Being a woman would only reinforce the Knight image in Kuja's mind, so used to the powerful Alexandrian forces as he is. Although unlike the footsoldiers, Link didn't follow the traditional taunt of unarmored legs.]

Very true. Those who are weak either need help to become strong or should be under protection. I'm glad there are so many strong people here, those who can train others less fortunate.

[Kuja didn't really think that: the strong always devoured the weak, unless the weak used their numbers for a group advantage. Link however, with their "knight" personality, didn't need to know that.]

[ocariness]

Indeed. I just wish I was more better-suited to weapon making; then I could provide them with proper weapons as well as tell them how to use them. Unfortunately, I have never been good at large metal-working...

[ A problem, really. How can you teach people if you don't have equipment? Wooden swords for training are fine, but in practical application here... not good for protecting yourself. ]

[fallen_stage]

Unfortunately that's outside of my experience as well. I suppose I could learn from books if I was desperate, or figure out the synthesizer on the lab floor.

[Even wood is better than nothing, but keen metal is best. If only Kuja paid more attention to synthesizing before, or he wouldn't have to learn it by tickering alone.]

[ocariness]

[ Link looks thoughtful. ]

Surely someone here may be able to teach us. If we can make weapons for ourselves and others, it would make maintaining defense in this monster-infested tower that much easier.

[fallen_stage]

Could you not teach yourself?

[Since Link could wield a sword, they would be a valuable member on that count.]

Even if the weapons were poor, surely skill could make more of a difference.

[ocariness]

[ They frown a bit. Hmm... ]

I could try, I suppose? It is not as though I don't have materials resistant to fire. It's merely that I've no idea how blades are actually... made. The ones I have were borrowed or...

[ Pulled from a Pedestal of Destiny, really. ]

[fallen_stage]

I'm sure there are some books on smithing somewhere around here. Even if there aren't, I think you should focus on teaching people swordfighting technique in the meantime.

[Really, Link had a valuable skill, and they shouldn't get distracted by a lack of materials.]