Goodbye Dollet and Thanks for All the Fish! (backdated to Sept 28)

[om_nom_namur]

Characters: EVERYONE!!! And any "local" NPCs you want to make up
Location: A warehouse down by the wharf
Rating: G+? idk people will do as they will do
Open/Closed/Finished: Open
Summary: It's an excuse to pump dance music really really loudly, tbh.

The party was put together ridiculously fast, but everyone who decided to help went all out, and the place is pretty damn awesome. There are refreshments, strobe lights, a loudass music setup, and lots of space to dance. Come on in and have a blast! Garden will be sailing off in the morning, and then it's back to school. Time to get in that last hurrah!

Comments

[gunbladegrrl]

"Computer science, of course," she said, not realizing he was being playful because, well, she DID have one for it. "It's just a matter of ripping the music and setting up a playlist. Easy stuff!"

[om_nom_namur]

Namur laughs from deep in his chest and scrubs his hand over the back of her head. "Yer a hell of a girl, Maria. Think I'll take y' up on that."

[gunbladegrrl]

"Sure, I'm a hell of a girl except at parties." She matched his laugh with her own chuckle and an easy smile. "I'll have it ready for you soon, then. And in the meantime, you get out and enjoy yourself."

[om_nom_namur]

"Nah, even here," he said. "Y' coulda stayed givin' everybody the stinkeye over by the food. 'Stead, yer over here smilin' an' tellin' me t' get my ass out on the floor. Maybe it ain't yer scene, but yer takin' part in it anyway."

[gunbladegrrl]

"Just call me a good sport about it all," she said with a grin. "Besides, you're so obviously having fun I couldn't stand to ruin it."

[om_nom_namur]

"A'ight, thanks for bein' a good sport 'bout it all" he smirked. "Next time, I'mma take y' somewhere fun y' want t' go. Deal?" Namur held out his hand in front of her.

[gunbladegrrl]

"Are you kidding? I had a ton of fun on your exam, you know. This," she said, patting the CD player, "ought to be MY payback to you!"

[om_nom_namur]

Left hanging, high and dry. Damn.

"Naw, come on," Namur said. "Ain't got t' pay me back for shit that's got t' be done."

[gunbladegrrl]

If Namur wanted a girl who was at all sensitive to flirtations, boy was he barking up the wrong tree...

"I still enjoyed it, though! I love missions in general!"

[om_nom_namur]

So he was beginning to see.

Or she was playing hard to get. Human women tended to play that particular game with fishmen more often than not. Namur's learned to be a sport about it.

"Kind a figured that," he rolled his eyes. "What's yer rank?"

[gunbladegrrl]

"Low," she admitted grimly. "I haven't had the chance to DO all that many high-profile missions. Everything with Sol Invictus and the Mage and the political relations with Esthar and everybody hasn't been great for business."

[om_nom_namur]

Namur sat back on the table next to the boombox.

"Can y' go on higher ranked missions if y' got someone with y' that qualifies?" He might know a few people...

[gunbladegrrl]

"Probably depends on the mission," she said with a dispirited shrug. "I'd be lying if I said I wasn't considering getting my Instructor's license for the rank jump... though that's only part of it."

[om_nom_namur]

"Be good if y' taught magic, or 'bout the GFs or history," Namur offered. "Taught me a hell of a lot, anyway. What's the other part?"

[gunbladegrrl]

"Namur, are you kidding? The other part is gunblades! You know I'm the only SeeD who currently uses them, despite the fact that Commander Leonhart is the one who vanquished Ultimecia and saved the world with them?" She almost pounded one of the machines for emphasis, but fortunately stopped herself before she could. "It's a shame and a tragedy, that's what it is!"

[om_nom_namur]

Namur threw back his head and laughed, resting his elbow on the top of the boombox.

"Sweetheart, y' give plenty a them lessons for free," he chortled. He rather liked it though. "Don't think there's many swordfolk 'round here, 'cept Thatch an' Fionna. I know Thatch ain't goin' t' be big on the idea- he's already monster 'nuff with his sabers an' he's doin' this whole... old an' dyin' thing." Namur's face and tone clearly indicated what a load of shit he thought that was. "But if y' can stand Fionna for more'n five minutes, she'd prob'ly go for it."

[gunbladegrrl]

"Exactly. That's the point. More people need to know how incredible these weapons are, especially offworlders. You know these weapons don't actually appear to exist on any other world?" Namur, you poor fool, look what you started. "I've asked, I've done surveys of the Garden offworld population and nothing. The closest I ever came was a weapon called a gunblade that isn't one of our gunblades at all."

[om_nom_namur]

"Kind a cool though, in a way," Namur said. "Mean, that y' got somethin' totally unique t' yer world. Let y' show yer pride an' all. Maybe that's why its a hard sell for the offworlders. Want t' keep t' the shit that's from their worlds, y' know? Least 'til they get settled in an' start thinkin' a this place as theirs too. Might take awhile, but I'll bet y'll find some smolts that'll warm up t' 'em. Meantime, talk t' the natives. If yer already teachin' them an' the offworlders see how cool y'all are it might get 'em interested faster."

[gunbladegrrl]

"Either way, the first step is actually making sure someone IS teaching them, and not just as a footnote in WTR." Hard to imagine she was just 'considering' going for her license, the way she talked about it.

[om_nom_namur]

"Sounds like y' got the right idea, so why ain't y' teachin' already?" Hard to imagine indeed. "Hell, they're lettin' me teach shit. What's the deal?"

[gunbladegrrl]

"Guess I just... hadn't decided for sure I wanted to." Bemused, even Maria had to acknowledge with a wry smile that she sure seemed like she had.

[om_nom_namur]

Namur chuckled. "Bein' fair, ain't a hell of a lot a teenagers that's got any idea what they want t' do," he said. "Y' got time t' try shit out, see if it fits 'fore y' go gettin' yerself tied down t' one thing or another. Maybe teachin' gunblades is what y' want t' do long term but y' want t' try other shit out first jus' for fun. Hell if I know, right? Sheheheh!"

[gunbladegrrl]

"Yeah, that's a better way of saying what I was thinking than I had," she admitted with a little self-depreciative laugh. "You're pretty insightful under all that shark muscle, anyone ever told you that?"

[om_nom_namur]

"Uhh, not really," Namur ran a hand over the back of his head. "Jus' r'member feelin' like a dumbass most a the time when I was a smolt. Deep shit was goin' on all 'round me an' I was stuck in the middle half the time an' didn't even realize 'til it was gettin' in my gills, y' know? Thought it was jus' me for a long time, but I realized later it's jus' somethin' y' go through. Some hit it earlier'n others, some get stuck in it longer, but eventually y' figure yerself out."

[gunbladegrrl]

Maria nodded. "Yeah. I was lucky, I got that early, and I got my chance to do it. I don't know what I would've done if I hadn't made it here... but then again, I never really considered another possibility. Failure wasn't an option."