Wellspring Arms & Meditation Center, Friday

[the_merriest]

It was Rikku's first shift on Friday, hooray for Cable letting her switch! Hooray for all the new goodies she picked up in the Omega Ruins! Hooray for armor, which she hadn't worked on in ages!

Hmmm, armor. She wondered if her boss ever thought of expanding out into the armor line, to go along with all those weapons. She'd have to ask him.

In the meantime, the Wellspring Arms and Meditation Center was open.

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Talk to Rikku

[the_merriest]

Who is upgrading armor. As you do.

Re: Talk to Rikku

[raspberryturk]

An armory in town was the place to go to get a good look at trans-dimensional weaponry crap or whatever, Reno had decided.

So, after a grumpy slog through the snow after his class about being cool (which he was still convinced was going to be a piece of cake), he stepped inside and--

"You work here?" The question wasn't quite as incredulous as it would have been a few days ago, before she kicked his ass gave him a pretty good workout in the woods.

Re: Talk to Rikku

[the_merriest]

"You betcha," Rikku said, bouncing on her toes. She lifted the armband she was working on. "Upgrades. Nifty stuff like that. Uh. And I hang out and point people to the Meditation Room and all that? But I suck at Zen."

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[raspberryturk]

"I usually find my zen hangin' out at the bottom of a bottle of somethin' stiff," Reno agreed with a shrug. "What sorta upgrades you talkin' about? Since I already know you don't got materia floatin' around here, yo."

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[the_merriest]

"I don't drink when I'm all weird any more," she said with a serious nod. "Doesn't help and just makes things worse and Deadpool yelled at me last time when I passed out at Caritas. Uh. You use those materios to upgrade armor? I just use items or whatever. You know. Poison Fangs for Poisonproof? Ice Gems for Ice Eater? Things like that?"

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[raspberryturk]

Reno gave a shrug of his shoulders and rolled up his sleeve to show Rikku the cuff on his left wrist- the one that his Mag-Rod would have been chained to if it hadn't been confiscated. Stupid weapons ban anyhow.

"Yeah. There are slots, yo. Materia fits in there, and matures as you use it." He'd just take that lightning materia out for a moment to show her, here. All shiny and small and about the size of a marble. Good stuff, lightning materia. He was fond of it, anyhow. "Doesn't do anything until it's equipped to a slot. But it's convenient to be able to switch it with other shit when you need to adapt to somethin' without lugging around a crapload of different armor."

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[withoutverona]

Romeo had walked briskly through the snow-filled town, and his cheeks were pink from exertion. "Faith, it is cold like nothing I have known," he exclaimed as he came in, shaking off the snow.

He observed Rikku's work with interest. "G'day, Rikku. Is that real?" It was only slightly a stalling technique.

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[the_merriest]

"Hiya! Ooooh, I know, it's awful, isn't it?" Rikku shivered. "I grew up in the desert. Snow is just wrong." Not that she'd bothered changing from her usual outfit - she'd just thrown a coat over it when she had to go outside.

She held out the armband for him to see. "Yeah, I'm adding Confuseproof to it. I usually work on weapons but I haven't done armor in ages, you know?"

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[withoutverona]

"I grew up on the beach. Snow is to ski in -- briefly, breifly -- not walk through," Romeo said, with a look of distaste. He offered Rikku a travel mug. "Hot apple cider. I was not sure if you would take hot chocolate or tea."

He ran a finger over the armband. "What does 'confuseproof' do? I know weapons well enough, but armor only as a costume."

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[the_merriest]

"I've never skied," she admitted, taking the mug with a flush. "Oh! Thank you! I, uh, it would've been fun, I think, on Gagazet, but we kinda didn't have time, you know?"

She took a sip of the cider. "Ooooh, this is good. I don't think I've had this before. And, uh, fiends? There are some that can zap you into thinking that your friends are your enemies, and you'll attack them and not it, and it gets kinda dangerous when you've all got huge weapons and you're swinging them at each other." She shuddered. "So, uh, confuseproof keeps that from happening. Important, but way hard to get. Uh. If that made sense and all?" Because wow, she was rambly today.

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[withoutverona]

Romeo had never heard of Gagazet, but that was true of most places people mentioned of late.

The tool she described caught his ear. "What if one who was once your enemy had become your friend? If you were to meet them, could this prove you were sincere in your desire for peace before weapons are swung?" Because THAT would have been handy.

[OOC: LJ ate my comment.]

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[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"Hey Rikku," Mel said as she entered the building. "How's it going?"

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[the_merriest]

"Mel!" Rikku bounced and waved. "Hey! How was break? How are you? Check it out, I got Shadow Gems, can you believe it? Now I just need something to blow up!"

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[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"Break was... interesting," Mel said pulling out what appeared to be some futuristic batteries from her pack. "And I have no idea what shadow gems are. Was that something you picked up over break?"

Re: Talk to Rikku

[the_merriest]

"Interesting?" Rikku lifted an eyebrow. "Doesn't sound so good. I'd offer to beat someone up for you, but you're kinda better at the whole pummeling deal than me to start, so ... need an alibi?"

She produced a small, smokey-colored stone from her leg-pouch. "Shadow Gems. Big boom. Bigger if you mix 'em with some other stuff I grabbed. There were really old fiends in there with amazing stuff." She nodded to the possibly-batteries. "So what're those?"

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[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"Battery packs for my blaster," she replied as she eyed the gems. "Was hoping you guys could either recharge them or get me new ones. Emptied the last one on a visiting vampire over break."

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[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

An armory? Jack in need of weaponry? Sounded like a good match.

Blargh, snow.

Re: Talk to Rikku

[the_merriest]

"Hiya!" Rikku waved. "Welcome to the Wellspring Arms and Meditation Center. Plus shooting range, except that's not in the title, and it totally should be."

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[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"Wait, there's a shooting range? Can I try it out?" Jack said, perking up at 'shooting range' like a perking thing. And waving back.

Re: Talk to Rikku

[the_merriest]

"Sorry, the range has a strict Authorization Required deal going. You've gotta talk to Cable to be added to the list. Which reminds me, I totally gotta do that. 'Cause I have a gun now. Do you have a gun?" She was bouncing on her toes. She had a Glock, it was deserved bouncing.

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[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

"No? All I have is a knife," he said, pulling out a smaller than the movie version boot knife.

"Can I get a gun? And a bigger knife?" It would be awesome if they managed to make a knife that shoots bullets or a gun that shoots knives.

The Meditation Room

[the_merriest]

Ohmmmmmm.

The Shooting Range

[the_merriest]

Only if you have permission. (Hint: you probably don't.)

OOC

[the_merriest]

Snow day!

Re: OOC

[raspberryturk]

Hooray, snow!