How many wonders can one bubble hold?

[sorcery_fledgling]

Who: Rinoa and YOU! And you, and you and you and you.
Where: All over the damn place. She's exploring.
When: Anytime, from morning until evening.
Style: Either!
Status: Open~

[With so many questions and very few answers, Rinoa has decided to take things into her own hands and give the bubble and the island a good lookover. Packing a satchel and donned with good "exploration" clothes, Rinoa will be all over the place today. She'll be poking her head into corners and strange holes and inspecting whatever attracts her curiosity.

More than likely the eager but slightly naive girl will be found in some strange position or another while investigating, and if approached, she may just have a question in store. Or at the very least, an awkward explanation as to what she's doing.]

Comments

[daffyduck]

[When Rinoa pokes her head into this corner she'll see the tail of a little black duck sticking up and rummaging through a pile of stones.]

[sorcery_fledgling]

[O hai thar duck.

She should be weirded out, but this place is slowly making it sink into her head that there are very strange concepts in the multi-verse.]

Need any help?

[daffyduck]

[He looks around, his expression oddly calculating for a mere duck. Then he speaks.]

I was hoping there was sthomething... interesthting around here.

[sorcery_fledgling]

Interesting? Anything in particular?

[daffyduck]

Gold. Gemstones. Pearls! We're under the sea, right. There should be pearls.

[sorcery_fledgling]

Mmm, true... but you'd probably find more of those in the sandbed. [She points to the ocean area outside the bubble.]

[daffyduck]

Hmmm... [He looks that way then back at her, looking her over.]

What's your name?

[sorcery_fledgling]

Hm? I'm Rinoa. You?

[daffyduck]

Daffy Duck.

[He preens a little as if expecting to be recognised.]

[bufudine]

[Perhaps after all that exploring, a little break at the beach would be a good idea. It's good weather up there, after all.

Just don't wander too close to the shore, there's a dude emerging from the water and shaking his head like a wet dog, spraying the immediate area with water.]

[sorcery_fledgling]

[Very true! She does make her way to the island, and with little to really see, she does opt to check out the ocean and maybe get some sun.

Luckily Rinoa's got plenty of experience with dogs, so she knows the warning signs. She's faaaaaar away when he does so, and she has the benefit of watching from a distance and laughing.]

Like to swim, Serph?

[bufudine]

[...Oh. Hi Rinoa. Serph's going to push his hair out of his eyes and fix it before answering. It doesn't take him long, though. He nods in response to Rinoa's question.]

I feel like I have an affinity with the water.

[The pleasant feeling he has while he's in the water... it's hard to describe. Maybe it's like what Cielo feels, when he's flying?]

[sorcery_fledgling]

Some people seem to be born with the ability to swim well. Like a fish in a human body.

[She's always liked the beach and the ocean, although swimming's not her thing, being something of a graceless klutz.]

I like the water, but I can't swim for crap.

[bufudine]

[Is that so? ...Well, his demon is water aligned. Though Heat could still swim, despite being fire aligned.

He tilts his head.]

Do you not know how to swim?

[sorcery_fledgling]

Not very well. I'm not too coordinated on land so it's even worse in the water.

[bufudine]

[Ah. Practice could help with that... His gaze goes back out to the ocean again, before he returns it to Rinoa.]

Has your time in Vatheon been good?

[sorcery_fledgling]

It's not too bad so far. Having friends from home has been a huge help. Otherwise, I'm not sure how I'd handle it.

[bountyofthesun]

[And through this particular hole in a fence, peeking into an otherwise closed-off and abandoned yard, a man can be seen trying to ride a bicycle.

This may not seem like much out of the ordinary, but it really rather is for Hideyoshi, who being from 16th century Japan had never seen a bicycle before in his life. The woman who sold it to him had given him a general sense of how to ride it, then sent him off to practice, and now there he is, practicing. Despite being quite nimble and not at all ungraceful under ordinary circumstances, he's hilariously terrible at it.

Aaaand off he goes again. The bike practically flips over and lands on top of him. Ouch. This is not a lot of fun.]

[sorcery_fledgling]

[Rinoa winces when she sees Hideyoshi faceplant, with the bicycle then faceplanting on him.

It takes a minute for her to find something to step on, and then she's peering over the top of the fence.]

Hey, you okay?

[bountyofthesun]

Just fine, thanks!

[It'd probably be a more convincing answer if he wasn't squeaking it from under the bike, waving an arm weakly to show just how fine he is. Ow.

He pulls himself out and sits up, glancing back, a bit winded. Why, it's a pretty girl! Maybe her feeling sorry for him wouldn't be so bad.]

Just some bumps and bruises...

[sorcery_fledgling]

[She shakes her head slightly as she watches him pull himself out of the nice wreck he'd gotten into. Man, she's seen some bad crashes - she's lived with two guys for awhile now who are known for the trouble they get into - but even she's never seen someone wipe out on a bike that bad before, not even little kids.]

That's lucky that's all you got from that. Never rode a bike before?

[bountyofthesun]

[Ooh, she's looking sympathetic. That's a good start. He offers her a brave grin, patting the dirt off his face and out of his hair, then tries to hop up to his feet, wobbles, and ends up standing but looking just a bit dazed at that fact.

He nudges the fallen bike with one toe.] Can't say I have. And I thought it would be simple! No moods, no will of its own... throws you off worse than any horse, it does.

[sorcery_fledgling]

Well, you kind of have to learn how to balance on it first...

[His comment about horses confuses her. What the heck is a horse?]

Horse?

[bountyofthesun]

[Hideyoshi blinks only for a moment. Ordinarily he'd be baffled at someone asking what a horse is, but it seems perfectly logical that what's obvious to him would be confusing to someone else, considering that the opposite has been happening all the time since his arrival.]

A horse is this... big animal, about yay big? [He holds his hand up as high as he can reach, although since he's short, that comes out a rather small horse.] Four legs, hoofs, long neck... sometimes they're good for riding. Sometimes they just stink.

[sorcery_fledgling]

[Oh hey, Odin rode something like that, although his "horse" had six legs... That would explain a few things, though.]

Oh so they're riding animals, like chocobos.