9 ~ Deep inside my heart I still wanted those aliens [written/action]

[menial]

[written]

So, more New Feathers coming. Guess I'll first point out Maebara's helpful five-hour lecture on the SOS Brigade, for the new people. Welcome to Luceti, get ready for weird, et cetera.

But really, isn't it weirder how it works for us "Old, Slightly Decaying Feathers" than the new ones? After all, we keep seeing the same thing over and over. The shine's totally gone. All the New Feathers get to wake up confused with something new and surprising, and ask all the same questions about what this place is, and they, obviously, never get tired of it.

Whereas those of us who've been here a while just treat it as ordinary life, and are quite tired of explaining, and, hell, wrote a book on the topic. Even the mix is usually kind of the same, right? A few cute girls, a few brooding guys, random stuff in between. Usually one talking animal.

And I haven't even been here a quarter as long as some of us.

Anyway. It's a fair question if there's a "point" to this. I guess the question is, what would you say to a New Feather, as an Old Feather, as far as what to appreciate about the whole entry experience?

[action]

[After finishing that rather off-target ramble, Kyon will go for an off-target ramble of the physical variety, wandering around the general store for the afternoon and then sitting in the library... falling asleep.]

Comments

[godbent]

What's with that? I've got like five different people working on it, so they'll finish it and then we can go out and explore the underwater ruins as a Brigade, obviously!

[menial]

['Still doesn't explain the need.']

Who are the five people working on it?

[godbent]

Leon, some guy named Howard Stark - which I know is outsourcing, but he boasted, so I asked him - Hiccup, and one or two other people I asked for insights from.

[menial]

Great. Glad to know we have a full company working on this vital project.

[godbent]

Naturally! I wasn't going to leave something that important to chance.

[menial]

Oy. Okay, okay, submarine adventure accounted for. Anything else on the agenda?

[godbent]

Probably at least one bug hunt... oh, and definitely a small beach party, just for the SOS-Brigade.

[menial]

... Well, that actually doesn't sound bad.

['A cutie like Grune-san is in the Brigade, after all! I just need to convince her to come...'

Yes, um, faraway look on his face.]

[godbent]

[...Wat's that stupid look. She throws a pen at his face]

[menial]

[Pen what--

'Dammit!']

Oy, Haruhi! This a new form of drawing on faces?

[godbent]

You looked dumb, I had to make sure your face didn't freeze that way! You ought to thank me!

[menial]

Faces don't actually freeze, you know!

[godbent]

You never know if it might if you have a stupid enough one on!

[menial]

Do you have some kind of scale to measure face stupidity?

[godbent]

If I developed one, that one you have would be a seven, at least!

[menial]

I'll take that, if it's out of a hundred.

[godbent]

It's out of 11, just like the hospital pain scale, but with one more added for every single face Taniguchi makes.

[menial]

... Can't argue with that one.

Seven, huh? I'll take that too.

[godbent]

Exactly, but any higher than a six, you run a risk of your face freezing!

[menial]

But if it's just a seven, the risk's got to be pretty small.

[godbent]

Well it's not a risk I'm willing to take for my underling, obviously.

[menial]

['...Huh.']

Well, I guess "thanks," then.

[godbent]

You're welcome! Feel free to show your thanks in any way you deem passable!

[menial]

How about returning the favor?

[godbent]

What do you mean? [she was about to go back to reading, but...]