let's get some shoes

[guerrilla]

Who: Robin Hood & Hakuno Kishinami
Where: Various shops in Shehui
When: 2/18ish, between receiving Brie and Genette's shopping lists and leaving Shehui
Open/Closed: Closed.

[Robin's list looks a lot longer than the items that Brie and Genette suggested everyone pick up. Naturally, everything they talked about is there, but...]

All right, see if you can find some rope. Get as much as they'll let you get away with. Chains will work in a pinch, but rope's easier to manage, and if I pull it too tight it's less of a big deal.

[He's talking about building traps, but he's probably not helping the vaguely concerned-looking bystander who happened to be in the same aisle by turning to Hakuno and asking:]

You ever been tied up before?

Comments

[sealeted]

Besides rope work?

[What... did they do back in Ye Olden Times...?]

..............like, whittling, or bird-calls?

[guerrilla]

Do you really think I spend my free time whistling at trees like an idiot?! Even if I did, it's not like my stupid bird's gonna whistle back!

[On account of it being gone, and all.]

That's it, we're buying a pack of playing cards. I learned a lot of games at Chaldea and I'm gonna destroy you in all of them.

[What he isn't mentioning is that he actually usually loses.]

[sealeted]

You're a bird now though. If I learned, you could whistle back for me.

[She rubs her chin.]

Speaking of gambling, you like your drink, right? Should we try and get some of that for the road, if we can?

[guerrilla]

That's not really bird calling, is it? That's just signaling to each other.

[And it's a good idea, actually.]

...We'll see what we have left after we get everything we need, but worry about yourself and the kids first, okay?

[sealeted]

...are there squirrel calls?

[Inquiring minds!]

Will do.

[He knows better. He's going to find a pack of cigarettes tucked in his hood later, just you wait.]

[guerrilla]

I don't think so. All I ever saw them do was put too much food in their mouths and forget where they buried their acorns. Dumbasses.

[No offense, Hakuno.]

But you should be the squirrel expert, not me.

[sealeted]

You think I'm anything like a normal squirrel?

[guerrilla]

[The fact of the matter is that Hakuno is rather squirrel-like in various ways. But he just called the entire species dumbasses, so "yes" seems like a bad answer to give here.]

...Well, squirrels are cute.

[Nailed it?????????????]

[sealeted]

...wait, are you saying I’m cute, or...?

[His verbal gymnastics are hard to follow sometimes.]

[guerrilla]

[Just the way he likes them.]

Well, you're a squirrel.

[That's not really an answer either.]

[sealeted]

...huh.

[It's closer to one than he usually gives.]

Well, when they're not being jerks, birds are pretty cute too.

[guerrilla]

Not the word I'd use, but I'll take the compliment.

[He's not cute...he's handsome.]

We should do food next, I think...it's gonna be where most of our money goes. Before you ask, the amount of salt is right.

[It's a frankly absurd amount of salt, but that's how preserving meat was done.]

[sealeted]

[He's tiny and blue.

...as a bird.]

For preservation, right? Will we be able to carry it, or are we doing the preserving before we leave?

[guerrilla]

I'd like to get it done before we need to leave, but...anything we don't get to we can smoke.

[Maybe there will be something better back at the hub, but thinking on the huts they left behind before coming to Shehui...he doubts it.]

You're okay with dried meat, right? We can save some fresh stuff to make stew, but it would have to be right away.

[sealeted]

I once had to eat an entire feast prepared by Lancer. It damaged my avatar and soul.

[She gives a faint shudder at the memory.]

I can handle dried meat just fine. The girls, though...

[guerrilla]

...Honestly, even if they don't like it, the only other option is to just eat bread all the time unless we find big refrigerators in the huts.

[sealeted]

...I mean.

[She coughs.]

That's all I used to eat. On the Near Side, anyways.

[guerrilla]

You didn't have a real body in the Moon Cell, let alone a growing one.

[What if they get scurvy from just eating bread?? Can Palai get scurvy?]

[sealeted]

....do you think the two of us would cut down on how fast we go through food if we stay in our smaller forms?

[Ah, but—]

I don't like not being able to pick up the kids and bolt if the need arises, though.

[guerrilla]

Once we're back at home base, I won't need to eat.

[Don't get him wrong. He likes eating, and it does provide him with small amounts of mana, but he's a Servant.]

So don't worry about it.

[sealeted]

...I wonder, what makes me so different from a Servant? Do I... actually need to eat?

[She's a simulacrum made by the Moon Cell; nigh indistinguishable from the real thing, but she has to wonder...]

[guerrilla]

Uh, let's maybe not test whatever stupid idea just popped into your head. If you die, I die, remember?

[Please don't orphan two children on a whim.]

[sealeted]

I'm not going to!

[She puffs her cheeks out, sullen.]

But, it would be good to know before anything happened. I took... a lot of punishment, back in the Moon Cell. If I can't do that outside of it, then that's important to know. Obviously I don't want to be put in any situation like that again.