[ Okay so. Astrologian was great. Makoto had been spot-on with that pick. But Puppetmaster? Gave her a tiny minion. A tiny robotic minion that didn't complain like Neo did whenever she passed him another tome that looked like it might be useful. Not that it was easy to tell.
How could you find anything like this? It was so much slower, looking for keywords was almot impossible, not to mention there was so many more people. Doing research manually sucked. And should she run into any familiar faces? Well, after an awkward pause... ]
Hey. [beat] I-I'm looking for books on legends n' stuff.
[ They'd told her Arito was the place to go for this sort of thing. So. Here she was. She'd said she was in this for the long haul and she meant it. She just hoped the long haul didn't mean being buried in books. ]
Arito - B(lah blah blah)
[ She's barely exited the library, with several notes in hand, when she gets jumped by a very spirited Lalafell with a chip on his shoulder. How he'd spent a good deal of change trying to make his yard nice and impressive only to be upstaged by his neighbor. Or some such nonsense. A part of her wants to scurry back into the library, but she needs to find the others. ]
Ugh, seriously? [Okay you know what, fine. She can get into the spirit too.] You know what bothers me? I just spent all day looking for stuff I could have found in five minutes online. I don't even know if any of it's gonna be useful at all! There's no tech here so I gotta do everything the old fashioned way which takes so much longer than it needs to!
I want to go home and I want to see my dad and I want to eat his curry and I want to make sure everything isn't falling to pieces but I can't, because I'm stuck here and nobody knows how to get us home. I don't like crowds and I don't like surprises and everyone's jumping in my face yelling about stuff I don't care about because somebody thought it would be a good idea for a holiday!
[ The Lalafell seems a bit. Dumbfounded. Eventually he mutters "that's... a pretty good one, actually." and then he ambles off. Futaba shoots a very flustered glare around the nearby area, daring anybody to follow up. ]
En Route (night on the airship, anytime after the visit to Cloud City)
[ Futaba has and probably always will be a creature of the night. Astrologian is only amplifying that, because she's discovered a bit more about how its passive skill works.
It helps that the observation deck of the airship, while they're flying from city to city, is quieter at night too. But in either case she's up there, and she's got some paper... and appears to be sketching the land below them, frequently looking up to check the stars, stepping back a moment and lifting her hand to line things up and get a rough gauge of the distance (she looks a bit like Yusuke, and the thought both amuses her and makes her homesick).
There's a lot she still doesn't know about this world. But she can point you in the direction of every city they've been to so far, with absolute certainty. And that is really cool. Not enough to make up for Necronomicon's absence, but now in this moment, feeling on top of the world with almost nobody to see her looking ridiculous, it's not so bad. ]
Futaba Sakura | OTA
[ Okay so. Astrologian was great. Makoto had been spot-on with that pick. But Puppetmaster? Gave her a tiny minion. A tiny robotic minion that didn't complain like Neo did whenever she passed him another tome that looked like it might be useful. Not that it was easy to tell.
How could you find anything like this? It was so much slower, looking for keywords was almot impossible, not to mention there was so many more people. Doing research manually sucked. And should she run into any familiar faces? Well, after an awkward pause... ]
Hey. [beat] I-I'm looking for books on legends n' stuff.
[ They'd told her Arito was the place to go for this sort of thing. So. Here she was. She'd said she was in this for the long haul and she meant it. She just hoped the long haul didn't mean being buried in books. ]
Arito - B(lah blah blah)
[ She's barely exited the library, with several notes in hand, when she gets jumped by a very spirited Lalafell with a chip on his shoulder. How he'd spent a good deal of change trying to make his yard nice and impressive only to be upstaged by his neighbor. Or some such nonsense. A part of her wants to scurry back into the library, but she needs to find the others. ]
Ugh, seriously? [Okay you know what, fine. She can get into the spirit too.] You know what bothers me? I just spent all day looking for stuff I could have found in five minutes online. I don't even know if any of it's gonna be useful at all! There's no tech here so I gotta do everything the old fashioned way which takes so much longer than it needs to!
I want to go home and I want to see my dad and I want to eat his curry and I want to make sure everything isn't falling to pieces but I can't, because I'm stuck here and nobody knows how to get us home. I don't like crowds and I don't like surprises and everyone's jumping in my face yelling about stuff I don't care about because somebody thought it would be a good idea for a holiday!
[ The Lalafell seems a bit. Dumbfounded. Eventually he mutters "that's... a pretty good one, actually." and then he ambles off. Futaba shoots a very flustered glare around the nearby area, daring anybody to follow up. ]
En Route (night on the airship, anytime after the visit to Cloud City)
[ Futaba has and probably always will be a creature of the night. Astrologian is only amplifying that, because she's discovered a bit more about how its passive skill works.
It helps that the observation deck of the airship, while they're flying from city to city, is quieter at night too. But in either case she's up there, and she's got some paper... and appears to be sketching the land below them, frequently looking up to check the stars, stepping back a moment and lifting her hand to line things up and get a rough gauge of the distance (she looks a bit like Yusuke, and the thought both amuses her and makes her homesick).
There's a lot she still doesn't know about this world. But she can point you in the direction of every city they've been to so far, with absolute certainty. And that is really cool. Not enough to make up for Necronomicon's absence, but now in this moment, feeling on top of the world with almost nobody to see her looking ridiculous, it's not so bad. ]