Atlas Gym, Monday (3/9)

[notallbluemonks]

Beau was just a little bit out of it today, and the Daylight Savings changeover could take the blame for that. Maybe the time zone difference, too; she'd spent the break week out in the Colorado wine country with Karolina, because going on food-and-wine adventures in different places was just their thing.

She hadn't quite been expecting the place to remind her a bit of Kamordah, though -- not a whole lot and not in a traumatizing way, but just enough for her to notice, and that had her just a little bit pensive on top of it all, too.

Still. It had been a nice trip, and Beau was actually helping the gym patrons out with minimal lapses into being an asshole. Lucky them.

[OOC: Who even knows what my week is going to look like, but assume epic SP. Oh wait, I called out sick today. Which doesn't guarantee I won't be asleep half the day, granted. Post is open, though!

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[thatwaslucky]

Rey got back from her own trip this morning, and even if she was slightly more banged up than she was before she left, that wasn't going to stop her from getting her training in.

"Morning."

[notallbluemonks]

"Rey," Beau drawled, and did a totally unnecessary vault over a weight bench to come over. "'sup?"

[thatwaslucky]

"Nothing, and I'm glad," Rey answered. "How are you? It's been a while."

[notallbluemonks]

Beau considered that, blinked, then shook her head. "It kinda has, huh? I mean, I'm good, though. Nice vacation, all that shit, and back to the grind, y'know."

The pause before she went on was very brief.

"You?"

Hey, look, you could develop social skills later on in life!

[thatwaslucky]

"Not a great trip, but that's okay," Rey replied, shrugging. "The grind sounds fantastic right now.

The grind was on dry land.

"Where did you go?"

[notallbluemonks]

"Colorado? Out in the mountains to the west? Part of the ongoing food and wine tour, I guess," Beau said with a mild self-deprecating snort because yeah, apparently they really were those assholes now. "It was pretty dope, actually. But in limited doses. Too many tourists reminding me of people from my hometown that I couldn't stand, so I was kinda over that by the end."

[thatwaslucky]

"At least it makes you appreciate Fandom more?" Rey guessed.

[notallbluemonks]

"You know what, yeah," Beau said with a gruff little laugh. "Really does. Because Fandom is definitely not Kamordah, thank fucking gods."

That came out sounding heartfelt, but also ... very vehement, but that was probably to be expected when someone hated their hometown so much they started dissociating at the thought of having to go back there.

She glanced around the gym, smiling faintly. "Good to be home, to be honest."

[thatwaslucky]

"And we're glad to have you back," Rey smiled. "And when you're bored you can continue the food and wine tour."

The food part at least sounded good.

[notallbluemonks]

"Well, yeah, I mean, that's definitely happening," Beau said, as if there was no question of that whatsoever. "But like, at some later point, 'cause trips are kinda expensive and I have to be able to pay my half of that shit, so ..."

She gestured around the gym.

"Not gonna lie, there are definitely some upsides to not having to pick up random contracts to, like, go kill shit in the sewers just to get paid."

Even though she kinda liked getting paid to go kill shit in the sewers.

Because, you know. Sewers.

[[Iiiiiiiii fell asleep all afternoon, sorry!]]

[thatwaslucky]

"Besides the fact that these sewers are probably full of gremlins?"

Miss it less for that.

[notallbluemonks]

Beau made a wordless but distinctly displeased sound.

"Yeah, no. Giant teleporting spiders are fine, but gremlins, fuck no."

[thatwaslucky]

"Wait. I'd take the gremlins," Rey said. "Immediately."

She was friends with one!

[notallbluemonks]

Beau snorted a laugh. "No, you know what, that's totally fair. I was just thinking, like, in terms of who would I rather fight? There's plenty of motivation to make sure you stay on the gremlins' good side, right? Phase spiders are just assholes."

[thatwaslucky]

"Phase spiders," Rey repeated.

[notallbluemonks]

"Assholes," Beau said again, like that needed to be emphasized. "With the teleporting and the webbing entire people to the walls. And the giant trash rats."

She paused.

"I mean, we got paid pretty well for that one, but still."

Probably not giving Rey any more of a favorable impression of your world there, Beau.

[thatwaslucky]

"Oh, those sound normal."

She'd just come from a world with garbage monsters.

[notallbluemonks]

"Yeah, that's -- not that surprising, actually," Beau admitted. "Still gross, though, am I right?"

She'd had to punch those rats. It was a sanitation nightmare.