merriment 16 ; video (before platform stop)

[blitzcheer]

Yo, anyone see the large item order we can pick now?

...

What's the biggest thing anyone can think of. Hey, gimme some ideas!

[ LET'S SEE WHAT THEY CAN GET?? PUT IN YOUR SUGGESTIONS, VOTE FOR WHAT YOU AGREE WITH.

Edit: Tidus will have on the video in view a whiteboard (since he's in the standard coach), with a list of choices.

- BOUNCY HOUSE/CASTLE
- POTTERY WHEEL?
- ARCADE MACHINE - Lethal Enforcers, NBA Jam
- YOU CAN'T VOTE FOR MY MOM
- BOMBCHOO BOWLING ALLEY

Enjoy his mess of a handwriting.

Edit 2: Also, very importantly: ] Hey! Everyone! Tell the train to let us buy carriages!

Comments

[blitzcheer]

...

Soap car.

[ So he repeats. Staring into the screen, brow furrowed.

Soap...car... ]

[jan_ken_hacking]

Yes.

It is a smaller car, so you could drive it through the hallways I think.

Soap car.

[S...Soap...Car?!?!]

[blitzcheer]

[ So not soap carriage... ]

...What happens when it gets wet? ... is it magic?

[ Magic soap...car?! ]

i knew what the game's soapbox car was based off but it took so long to find this thing lmfao...

[jan_ken_hacking]

[A carriage of soap...]

Mn?

...No, it's very simple. Just gravity, or your feet, or

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Mn?

...No, it's very simple. Just gravity, or your feet, or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlasmaCar"twisting the steering wheel back and forth</a>. Driving it in water doesn't change this, but I don't recommend it.

[<small>It would be very uncomfortable. (Maybe...BECAUSE SOAP? <strike>no,</strike>)</small>]

Mostly, we just used them to race in the hallways. [<small>And create traffic jams...</small>]

searching is a hassle

[blitzcheer]

Ohhhh. [ Ohhhhh. He nods his head. ]

You know, it was pretty fun thinking you were talking about an actual soap car. [ Carriage. ] Tiny cars do sound fun. Maybe for the gym?

[ Though, if they're going to do that... ] You ever tried skateboarding?

OH NO I didn't realize my code broke up there I'm so sorry....

[jan_ken_hacking]

Hn?

...Oh, as in 'soap'? [Well!! ...That's definitely an image.] I think we could get those too, but as small items.

[.................skateboarding.... Kiyoiri thinks of Conan and frowns.] Soapcars in the gym would probably be better than the halls, you're right.

...I haven't tried that though. I have tried skiiing, and skating, but not skateboarding.

[You won't catch her alive, GLASSESBOY]

it's ok! it happens B)

[blitzcheer]

Not many halls 'round here as where you're from, I bet. [ Because there are zero halls. ] You wanna have a go on one? Think I've got one of those or some rollerskates left over!

I'll leave them in the sports gym, stick them in the cupboard. They're pretty fun! Wanna watch out though - you're gonna fall.

[ But they look like a kid, so!! Let the kid have fun. ]

[jan_ken_hacking]

It's true. There's a lot more hall in Chaldea. The train just has 'one hall', from end to end.

[That's one way to put it. It's like if a hall was constantly broken by doors, is her thinking.

Frankly the idea of what counts as a hall however is banished at the idea of getting to use roller skates. It's minimal- emotional expression is not this kid's strong point apparently- but she does seem happy!] There are roller skates?

...They would fit..?

[flatteries]

...

[ At least Inigo is quiet, rather than complaining again right away. He's really trying over here. Looking at the now closer whiteboard. Squinting. Hard. ]

It says.. bunny.. ounce.. ladle.

[ Nailed it. ]

I can't make anything else of it!

[blitzcheer]

[ Tidus gives another swinging look between the two, before, with a scoff- ]

Not my fault you can't read! [ Hah!! ] Anyone else can read it!

[ No one else has complained! See! Inigo's the problem!! ]

[flatteries]

You guys were talking about me behind my back! That's where the OUTDOOR VOICE COMES FROM!

[ But okay, okay, he'll give it a rest before he ruins the ears of every single person on the train.. Sorry to the people who were resting, but to be fair, these two egged him on!! Just by being themselves!! ]

.. but why did you guys think I wanted to fight a fire?

[ ???

Why else would they want a firetruck for him? ]

[jingyeets]

( suddenly thinking about calligraphy, and hahaha, twitch. )

If it's really pulling whatever ideas I'd be saying whatever I half remember from where we just were. Like, I don't know. Dance poles? Would those even count as large? Oh, aerial silks! That was at the same place... I don't know, thinking of wanting things feels weird when it's like, okay, what do we do with the thing? Not like we have limitless space around here.

( ... but still, chicken coop. Okay. )

Oooh, I've only seen them in people's courtyards, going after the bugs and whatever else. I think I saw one eat a lizard?

( Maybe that's another reason not to have chickens at Gusu, they'd go around terrorising the rest of the life and pecking at toes. )

Least they're terrible fliers, can't get too far and you can snatch them and tuck them under and arm and hah! Chick-caught!

[blitzcheer]

Hey man, if you can't think of much, that's fine. I can't either - s'why I'm asking. Don't know how we'd set up a dance pole - [ would Inigo even like those? ] - but uh, actually, I probably won't know how to set up anything that's been brought up.

[ Even the chicken coop. Okay, no, he could probably figure it out. Still! He actually means to ask about aerial silks (because ????), but listening to the guy go on about chickens... ]

...now I don't know who'd eat who first if we got a bunch of chickens.

[ all the animal pets around

or the chickens ]

[jingyeets]

Eh, we'd figure things out eventually. Most constructing things should be straightforward, right?

( Jingyi takes a moment to consider. Consider. Consiiiider.... )

... There is a fox. Several foxes. I wonder if you could ward against foxes, even if one of them could break wards because he's a cheating fox spirit.

[blitzcheer]

Wards? [ Uhh, hmm. Tidus is thinking about it. ] Do you know how to make animal traps? I don't - but I guess there's a few hunters. [ Ah- ] Senku might know?

[ He mutters that more than anything, a thought to himself. But, speaking normally again: ]

You're gonna have to stick a chicken coop in the garden car at any rate. ...and see how many people know how to raise chickens in the first place.

[jingyeets]

No, I don't exactly, though I have an idea of it. Jiang Cheng and Wei Wuxian would know, their clan's known for hunting, and I think Wen Sizhui would know too? Between them and Senku, it might be enough, but you'd have to have like, people-intelligence-grade wards to fend off that one guy.

( Shen Qingqiu, who he might not. Know the name of. )

Sure, sure, the garden car would be easy to spread feed in... would mean ordering seed, can we order bugs? ... How are people pollinating the plants right now in the greenhouse anyway.

( he's not actually asking, he's just realising he's not thought about it. )

There's gotta be someone who knows this stuff properly, I can just handle the cooking, start to end.

[blitzcheer]

Oh. That kind of fox? [ That kind of fox. Jingyi keeps using guy, but he's still talking about a fox, right. (What's the difference after a point.)

And that might not be a real question, but Tidus still thinks he might have a helpful answer, in that: ] We have a spring goddess?

[ Helpful answer that means 'I have no clue but I know she can grow plants, that counts right, she polli-whatevers the plants'.

Does Jingyi know what a goddess is anyway, Tidus barely does. ]

Well if you let me know what people think... we don't have to make ideas anyway. I mean. If we got a coop. [ ...does he want to buy a chicken coop? Not really, but. ] Or even the forge. I know Q'uila's using magic to make fire, or, was - but if there's actually space or something for that, I'd help. I was tryna help get stuff people could craft with. Magic stones.

[ Sooooo.

Might as well, right?? ]

[adropofsunlight]

It's amazing with what you can do with clay. You can make pots, you can make any shape you want to really.

As for size. I rememeber it would go up to my waist when I sat down and could fit that lower half underneath so I could reach the peddle. So it's pretty big in the style I use to have and I don't know if one can get them smaller.

[jingyeets]

Fox yao.

( He says, as if this explains everything. Which... it doesn't. Unless one already knew contextually what it was, or had a concept of fox spirits as seducers and clever tricksters, which some might indeed have. )

... Huh? Geez, getting some people's gods pulled here... gotta feel weird for them.

( He gets the concept, but less the aspects; he doesn't have inherent beliefs in any gods himself, so it's interesting, but at a remove. It doesn't occur to him this is the Persephone that Senku has mentioned to him before. )

Ah, sure? Not like I'm trying to really convince people this or that way. If it's stuff others think is worthwhile, I'll help. Except for the bouncy house. Pretty sure whatever that is, I'd break.

( Straight up. Also, he definitely would. )

Huh, magic stones? Are those anything like spiritual stones, or... what do they do? Spiritual stones can be refined, and there's... a whole bunch of technique involved with pill crafting or item creating and cauldrons and fire manipulation, I can help with some of that. Air feeds fire, right? It's why I might be useful for it, I don't know how many people here have element affiliations or not.

[consider8]

A stadium.

[...well he did ask for the biggest thing she can think of.]

[flatteries]

They're just too nice to tell you!

[ Clearly. Who else would dare harass Tidus the way Inigo does, huh? That's a right that's only reserved for best friends! ]

Here-- Just wait! I'll come over, and rewrite it all for you!

[blitzcheer]

[ Tidus will absolutely pretend to understand what 'fox yao' is. Does it sound like 'fox ya'? Then fox ya bro, same.

But he hums otherwise, listening to Jingyi - and it's the last he can explain, of course, though how well is another thing. ]

Sure, maybe? Uh, definitely talk to Q'uila. [ Already starting off good! ] But in Spira, where I'm from, I know they use stones and...magic? My pal Rikku, she didn't use magic, but she knew how to use items and make stuff. Make our gear stronger, things like that.

[ Oh, and doesn't he have? Tidus looks off-screen for a second, and raising his right arm - where a band is wrapped around his wrist - a crystal-blue gem materialises in a golden colouring, before that fades. ]

So this is an ice gem! If I shake it around enough, I can make it go haywire and make a big ice storm. [ DOESN'T THAT SOUND SAFE. ] But I know people craft it to items! Uh, [ he turns the stone around to look at it, wiggling his hand a little (it's cold, okay) ] --least, I'm sure they do?

I don't know anything about crafting. [ Admittedly. Truthfully. And also, he's going to make the gem disappear now. ] Soo... if anyone can do anything with them on the train - they can mess around with them!

[ sounds safe ]

[blitzcheer]

[ Pffft. ]

Alright. What kind of stadium.

[ Miss cheeky. ]

[consider8]

[Except she's being serious and hasn't realized that he means to purchase.]

A Splatfest Stadium!

[blitzcheer]

Wha- who do you think you are? Roland?

[ LIKE THAT ONE TIME HE CAPITALISED MY ORDER-

is he really coming, since Tidus won't stop him. Can he stop him?? unfortunately not. ]