Discovered: The Oasis

[Daruma Doll~]

Since leaving Dragon Territory, Chihiro had been taking more and more time exploring the new declared land of Midgard. Who was this Strike man, how did he have so much power? Where did he get it? The idea was intoxicating, and Chihiro was curious.



Today she found herself taking a nice hike through a...wasteland? What was this place? She'd seen some people going in and out, goods coming in or going out. Was was out here? Curiosity killed the cat, so they say.

[Abram Dabra]

As she approached the gas station known as the Wasteland Oasis she would see two short figures standing outside. The larger of the two, who was still a very short man in a full combat outfit with a big helmet was yelling at the other one, with very animated hand motions.

"You did what!? Why would you move my shit!? I had all my crap where I wanted it! Everything was perfectly in it's place, now I can't find anything!"

He fumed as he yelled at the young child stomping his feet. His cheeks puffing out, hidden under his helmet.

"You didn't even ask first! How am I supposed to find my crap now!?"

Though to be fair before this the Punk was a huge mess. All of his crap was spread out everywhere with no real reason or rhyme to where things were.

[Player 1]

"You wanted your tools under rotting food? Why were you even keeping that peel anyways!? You didn't even have a compost set up! I saw you use that hammer yesterday! THAT BANANA IS LIKE TWO WEEKS OLD. Did you put it on top of there after that? What the heckles!"

Player 1 stomped on back, puffing its cheeks right back out at him. The little person was steaming for once.

"Besides, red items need to go in the east, otherwise you won't be attracting more good things to them! Yellow in the west, red in the east, green in the south! That's how it works!" Duh, everyone knew that! Red for items, yellow for money, and green for luck!

Stomp stomp stomp! "You had your stuff all over the place anyways! How were you supposed to find anything like that! None of us could!"

[Daruma Doll~]

Chihiro could hear the altercation from a mile away. There was really no point in sneaking up. For one thing, it was a gas station in the middle of nowhere. Sound bounced off of every piece of rubble, it was impossible, but it was more work than necessary.

"...?"

The towering Asian woman walked up to the two midgets were were having a full blown screaming fight. Normally, if she heard that kind of disturbance, she'd steer clear, but today was all about curiosity and discovery. She approached them, halting at a distance of about ten feet, looking between the two of them and their surrounding..."organization."

[Abram Dabra]

"Hey! It's how I know if someone moved my stuff. Which someone obviously did!"

His garage was all spotless now... He didn't know where everything was! Tools in the toolbox, clothes in hampers, dishes in shelves. It was absolute chaos!

"And I don't know why you buy into that whole 'Fun Tsunami' thing, it's rubbish as far as I can tell." He said doing finger quotes. Totally oblivious to the Asian woman at the moment.

[Player 1]

Player 1 did not understand what he was saying there."Yeah, I did! And I am a fun tsunami! But Feng Shui is important! There's universal qi flows and important stuff and you gotta tap into that stuff or it'll pass you by! And it's always better to tap into that! I like having more money and stuff!"

It huffed. Huffed so hard. Too hard to notice ladies or anything.

[Daruma Doll~]

A couple steps closer. Then a couple more. Step...step...step...

Chihiro was standing within touching distance of each of them, looking back and forth curiously. They didn't even notice her, and if she didn't know better, she'd think she was something of a ghost. Chihiro had been nearly ghost-like before in her assassin training, this was just plain ignorance.

Leaning toward the male, she reached out her hand and...

Tap tap tap.

She poked his helmet with her finger. Wonder if they'd notice that.

[Abram Dabra]

"And there goes the Qi stuff again! What does that even m-!"

He jumped and spun around as the asian woman who had been totally stealthy to be avoided by the obviously super alert punk tapped on his helmet. His head snapped down as his fists clenched, his gaze rising up to see who was sneaking up on them.

"What the hell is wrong with you!? Don't you know it's r-!"

His eyes widened as they fixed on her chest.

"Whoa! Look at those snuggle pups!"

[Player 1]

"She has dogs?!" Oh man, Player 1 has to look over at this.

[Daruma Doll~]

Chihiro blinked. English was her first language, and still it took her a moment to realize what it was the short man was talking about. Snuggle pups? Was that some sort of Fisher Price toy? But then she noticed the height of where his head was and where his invisible eyes were basically looking...

*smack*

She would flap palm smack him upside his helmet head. Not hard in the slightest, but enough to say 'Hey watch it, buddy.' in so little words.

"No, no dogs. Too much work."

She answered the little...boy...girl...? Were they all that androgynous at that age? She didn't dwell too much on it.

"For the record, feng shui is a serious matter. you should listen to the duckling."

[Abram Dabra]

He stumbled backwards as his head snapped back from the blow. As weak as it was The Punk was not a strong man. He relied on his toys and smarts to get him through the day! After a few steps back The Punk fell on his ass.

"Jesus not so hard Sugar Tits."

He leaned to his left rubbing his as as his other hand went to adjust the helmet. She knocked it to the side a bit.

[Player 1]

Player 1 jumped in shock when the Punk got hit "Whoa!" and looked like it might jump into action to help, but as this new lady agreed with it they nodded their head. Yes, yes. This new lady knew the importance, that was all that Player 1 needed to know.

It gave an approving thumbs up, before wandering off back into the workshop.

[Daruma Doll~]

Once again, Chihiro blinked, unable to believe her eyes. She'd only hit him with as much force as it took to raise her arm in the first place, and yet it managed to knock him back onto his ass!

Was he a freaking feather?

"Call me Sugartits again and I'll cut your tongue off."

There was absolutely no hint of malice in her voice, but calm and neutral as if she was discussing the weather or the properties of a flower.

[Abram Dabra]

"Sure thing sweater lumps."

He said as he got up and brushed himself off. Not at all phased by her threats. His tongue was hardly the worst thing that a girl had threatened to cut off. She was going to have to do a lot better than that! Ha!

[Daruma Doll~]

"Я думаю, что я бы предпочел сахара сиськи..."

She muttered to herself, shaking her head. She could just walk away...or kill them...but something about this dumpy little gas station was intriguing to her. She tiled her head to the side, looking about the place.

"You here alone?"

She asked, obviously meaning both the duckling and the robot. Did they have any care givers? Overlords? Babysitters?

"What are you doing out here?"