Blackstone Foundry and Forge, Wednesday

[built_fjord_tough]

Fjord was going to go ahead and assume, based on the appearance of the altogether bewildering gift he'd been given for the holiday and the comparative lack of singing birds or weapons turning into random objects, that the holiday had come and gone, and he'd somehow managed to make it through without a single terrible sweater incident or hat being stuck on his head for an entire day.

He was considering that a win as he showed up to work at the forge, yeah. He'd survived what he was pretty sure was the dumbest holiday this island had to offer.

... He'd enjoyed Halloween. So sue him.

Anyway, there was always work to do around here, and so he was starting his day by casting around looking for anything that still needed tidying up after the snowman attacks. Seemed like as good a start as any.

[OOC: .... Riiiiiiiiight, it's Wednesday! Open!]

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[notallbluemonks]

"Dude, dude, did you get all mixed up with that snow shit over the weekend? That. Was. Awesome."

Some people came in and said good morning, Beau, not just came barreling in and asking questions right off.

[built_fjord_tough]

"There was definitely a little bit of 'snow shit' over my weekend," Fjord confirmed, looking up from his tidying with a little grin. "Learned a very important lesson about snow and saltwater."

And that lesson was that snow hated it. That had been pretty convenient.

[notallbluemonks]

"Ha, yeah," Beau said with a grin that was slightly less than half a grimace, "you probably had better luck than I did, then. I just punch shit so like it didn't really slow them down much, but it was fucking fun."

She rolled her eyes. "And now I'm bored again. If more weekends around here were like that, I'd be into it."

[built_fjord_tough]

"We're right back to making our own fun," Fjord agreed, shaking his head a little. "I suppose we could always try the mainland again. Even if the bars are a bit of a bust."

[notallbluemonks]

"Aw, man, I gotta get on that ID thing," Beau blurted out. Even if she still thought it was dumb. "But what the hell, there's like other stuff to do out there too, right?"

[built_fjord_tough]

"It's a whole new world," Fjord confirmed, smiling crookedly. "If there's nothing to do out there, I don't know what the point of this place is anyway."

[notallbluemonks]

"I mean, I'm still not totally convinced it's not some weird elaborate trap?" Beau shrugged. "Like that doesn't make a lot of sense, but what here does? Cool, I guess we can always just head out there, do some recon, come up with a list of options . . ."

Someone hadn't been introduced to Yelp yet.

[built_fjord_tough]

"At the very least, there has to be somewhere that people go for a good spar," Fjord added, scratching his chin thoughtfully. "Right?"

People liked a good fight anywhere!

[notallbluemonks]

It they didn't, Beau didn't have time for them.

Gods help everyone if she accidentally discovered MMA or something.

"Or shit, even . . ." She paused for several long, awkward seconds. "Do people, like, do things for fun that aren't drinking or fighting?"

Yeah, it sounded weird to her.

"'cause I could be down with that too."

[built_fjord_tough]

"Well, sure," Fjord replied. "That's why I took this job here, after all. Keep busy, and the work is surprisingly enjoyable."

He just liked working. Weirdo.

"I suppose there are clubs that we could look into. Sports, if that grabs your interest... Community... things."

He wasn't the best at this either, apparently.

[notallbluemonks]

"Because you're a fuckin' weird ass with like a work ethic," Beau teased him. Well, that was the intent, but it might have come out sounding more mocking. "You gonna be teaching again, too?"

Diffidently she added, "I might check out that thing at the community center. Not like it's like really a school class or anything." Because that was for nerds. Shh.

[built_fjord_tough]

"Teaching is the intent, yeah," Fjord replied. "Going to throw some students at a few different scenarios, see how they make their way through them." A pause. "Maybe I'll make them fight things, see how that goes."

D&D. They were playing D&D.

[notallbluemonks]

"See, now, that's the kind of class I would --" no, be cool, Beau, don't act like a nerd -- "almost think about taking, like if school was my thing," she said. "Probably pretty useful around here."

Also with the encouraging teamwork and creative thinking and all that.

"It's practical, you know? That's cool."

[built_fjord_tough]

"Well," Fjord replied, "'Practical' is my middle name."

...

Don't ask what his last name was.

"That said, the community center thing is usually at least a good distraction for a few hours," he offered. "You should take it in at least once, see if it's for you or not."

[notallbluemonks]

Well, it wasn't like Beau was going around volunteering her last name either.

"Sure. It has entertainment in the name so like, what the hell, right?" Beau shrugged like she wasn't actually intensely curious about what modern Earth entertainment was all about. "I'm up for new experiences."

[built_fjord_tough]

"I think Peter's made it his personal mission to get movies with a lot of action in them," Fjord offered, and then nodded toward the upstairs. "Amaya likes action, and Peter's one of those people who likes making people happy. I'm sure if you had any requests, he'd do his damnedest to meet them, yoo."

[notallbluemonks]

And see, this is how Beau was going to end up being That Person who sat around and nitpicked every fight scene in action movies.

"Cool, cool. I'll check that out then. Hell," she added with a mischievous smirk, "I might even crash the school to like watch you teach, maybe heckle you a little bit."

[built_fjord_tough]

"You know you're perfectly welcome to," Fjord replied with a smile. "Keep me on my toes. Maybe give the students some pointers with whatever it is they run into that week."

Mostly on how to punch it. Punching was important.

[notallbluemonks]

Punching was vitally important, thank you very much. But Beau was giving him a cautious, deeply skeptical stare.

“Fjord, man, does anybody really want me around kids where I can like corrupt them or something?”

To be fair, Beau, you’re not the one who’s going to give a small child a dagger.

Just one of the two who’s going to think it’s okay to let her have booze.

[built_fjord_tough]

Yeah, there was no way Beau could be any worse with kids than Fjord, here...

"They let me around them," he pointed out easily. "I don't think anybody's worried too greatly about corruption around here, honestly."

[notallbluemonks]

“. . . you know, that’s kind of not as reassuring as I thought it might be?”

And yet Beau kind of looked pleased. Almost. Shh, no, that was just a trick of the light.

[special_rabbit]

And there was, eventually god, work, why do you hate me so much??, coffee, offered up as usual by Amaya, though this particular Amaya looked as though she'd be more than happy to keep both mugs for herself today. "'Morning, Fjord," she said, fighting against a yawn and losing the battle, then shaking her head a little. "Sorry. 'Nother late night for me working on the Crumbler. Hope you don't mind, but that's where I was planning on putting most of my attention into today; those snowmen did a real number on her, let me tell you. In a way, if it weren't, y'know, the Crumbler, I'd almost be impressed!"

[built_fjord_tough]

"They did seem pretty hell-bent on taking out anything they could, didn't they?" Fjord gave her a sympathetic smile. "I don't mind you working on her. If there's anything I can do to assist, just let me know."

He was pretty easygoing today. Mechanical things weren't his forté at all, but that didn't mean he wasn't going to do his best to be useful, here.

[special_rabbit]

"I'm sure at some point, I'll get elbow deep inside her and only then realize I'd left my wrench right out of reach," Amaya noted with a snort, which was almost enough to chase away her yawn, but she was mistaken, and chased the second one with a swig of coffee. "Tool Fetching definitely falls under the umbrella of Important Apprentice Skills, I should think."

[built_fjord_tough]

"How else am I ever going to learn to fetch with the best of them?" Fjord quipped, amused. "You know, you look a little bit like you could you that extra dose of coffee this morning."