The Heights of Londo [IC 4: Turnabout Trainers]

[Comissar]

Leah hesitated, a sheepish look on her face. "That's, uh, that's a very good point. Umm, maybe, uh, maybe we don't go there, then." She rubs behind her neck, giving a shrug, "Well, uh, maybe an inn..? If we can't find somewhere outdoors, we could go at a, uh, a quiet time and use a table..?"

[tgva8889]

Alyssa shrugs, waving Maggie over to look at the paints she got. "I think we'd want somewhere we could get a bit messy with paint, but anywhere with enough open space would work." She shows the Gothorita a few of the different colors. "I don't think we'd need that much.

[Hazuki]

"This is getting too hard." Nika frowns. "Let's just go to the inn I'm staying at."

Maggie takes a look over the paints and points at the purple one.

[tgva8889]

Alyssa smiles and giggles a bit to Maggie, nodding. "That's a good one." She makes sure to put it away carefully.

Looking up, she nods to Nika. "Yeah, that's a good idea. Sorry for, um, taking so long." She looks around a bit then heads in hopefully the right direction, turning around to wait for Leah and Nika to come with her.

[Hazuki]

Nika leads the girls to her inn room with such vigor that the girls are incapable of noticing any particularly interesting features about the location before they're inside! They soon find themselves in Nika and Sass' room, which is generally neat and tidy, more spacious than their own, and it even has a table for the group to sit on.

Spoiler: OOC

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Lazy post, but I am creatively drained today. T.T

[tgva8889]

Alyssa puts her things down on the table, looking around the room. "Wow, you guys do have a much bigger room. Ours is kinda small." She looks at Leah and smiles. "This should work I think, as long as Sass doesn't mind."

[Comissar]

Leah returns Alyssa's smile with one of her own, "I'm sure she'll be fine with it." Moving to take a seat beside Alyssa, she gives her a questioning look, "Want me to, uh, to look after the egg while you paint..?"

[Hazuki]

"Oh!" Nika suddenly exclaims, then darts over to Alyssa's side. "Do you think you could paint on my bindings? It would be fun to be able to take off my outer layers when I got hot and still wear something cool."

[tgva8889]

Alyssa nods to Leah, carefully slipping off her egg carrying bag and putting it on the table. She slides it towards Leah gingerly. "Be careful."

She shrugs at Nika's suggestion. "Sure. We have to figure out what you want to do, though." Her first task is to arrange all the paints and brushes. "Is there something we can use for water?"

[Hazuki]

"Yeah! Let me get it," Nika says, as she walks into the en-suite and lets out a little whistle. A few moments pass, followed by a rumbling sound, and then she comes back into the room with a Staryu clutched to her chest.

[Comissar]

Leah gently takes the egg off of Alyssa, settling it into a hug on her lap. She looks a little surprised as Nika retrieves a Staryu from another room. "Do, uh, do you keep your Staryu in the, uh, the en suite normally..?"

[Hazuki]

"No, it's the inn's!" Nika says, as she holds it out with both arms. "There's a little tunnel thing, and you can use it to make water for the bath and things!"

[tgva8889]

Alyssa, not really sure how best to approach Staryu, takes to patting it on the most upward-facing of its prongs. "Um, hi, Staryu. Can you please give us a little bit of water into a bowl?" She gestures towards one that has been setup on the table.

[Comissar]

Leah looks a little surprised at Nika's comment, "Like, uh, like a hose..? Or a tap..?" More to herself, she adds, "I mean, I guess, uh, I guess it's quicker to put in than full plumbing..?"

[Hazuki]

"What's plumbing?" Nika asks, as the Staryu squirts a spout of crystal clear water into the bowl.

[Comissar]

Leah blinks at Nika's question, first in surprise, then again as she thinks of how to explain the world of plumbing, "Umm, well, it's pipes that, uh, that get put into a building to move water around. So, uh, you'd have a water supply to, uh, to your sinks, or shower, or bath, or, uh, or toilet. And it can be hot or cold, too."

[Hazuki]

"Oh, like the waste chutes!" Nika nods as she starts shuffling back to the bathroom, Staryu in her arms. "But... In reverse, for baths."

[tgva8889]

Alyssa waves a small wave as Staryu is taken away, still arranging everything they'll need for the painting. Her mind is elsewhere, and she seems completely unaware of the conversation occurring as she says, "So, um, what should we do first? Shirts? Pants? Some of the maybe nicer things? D'you wanna, like, dye them first and then paint designs on them or, um, just on white?"

[Hazuki]

"Um, I don't know," Nika pulls up a seat when she returns. "Maybe you can sketch some things and then we can see what works best?"

[Comissar]

Leah nods at Nika's suggestion, a smile on her face, "That, uh, that makes sense. Better to, uh, to make sure you're happy with the design first." She shuffles her chair a little closer to Alyssa's and, egg still hugged to her chest, leans against her gently. "Umm... Just, uh, just let me know if, uh, if y-you need me to move."

[tgva8889]

Alyssa nods, taking out her sketchbook and flipping until she finds a clean page. She quickly draws the outline of the front of one of the shirts, then the back. "Okay, um, what kind of foreign design do you wanna try first?" She looks at Nika then turns to Leah, blushing a bit as she realizes how close Leah is. Looking at her, she smiles. "Okay, um, I will. You're, um, good now." She smiles, leaning a bit into her and moving the pad so Leah can see more easily.

[Hazuki]

"I like the ones with a lot of colors, and things happening in them," Nika says. "Kind of like... Boom, you know? All over them."

[tgva8889]

Alyssa nods and starts sketching, trying to put good combinations of explosive shapes together on the shirts with some shading to show they are different colors. Since she's using pencil it's all black and white, but there's still clear differences in tone where the colors change. Not looking up, she says, "Leah, what sorts of designs would be right for Kanto style?"

[Comissar]

Leah is quiet for a few moments as she thinks, "Well, there's kinda all sorts of popular designs. Umm, when I left though, it was popular to have floral designs that looked like they'd, uh, they'd been taken straight from an old painting. Or, umm, or waves in the same kinda style. Umm, but spotty patterns were, uh, were also common."

[Hazuki]

"Old paintings?" Nika asks, as she takes a seat on the opposite side of the table and plants her chin on her upturned palms. "What kind of paintings do you have?"

[Comissar]

Leah shifts a little, looking over to Nika, "Umm, so the paintings I mean were done with ink on, uh, on rice paper..? It's not really a common style anymore, but it's got a really distinctive look to it. The, uh, the paintings I've got at home are more modern. And, uh," She gives a faintly apologetic smile, "And to be honest we have more photos than paintings."

[Hazuki]

"Oh, I know about photos." Nika puffs up her chest. "Sass told me about them. Is it true you can take a picture of anything you want?"

[Comissar]

Leah breaks into a grin, nodding as she shifts to sit more upright for a moment. "Yeah, umm, give me a sec." Maneuvering the egg so that she could hold it one handed, she dug into her pocket to find her pokégear. Turning it on and activating the camera, she passed it over to Nika. "Give it a try if you want. Just, uh, just point it at something so that it shows on the screen, then tap the little button at the bottom, in the middle." She leans into Alyssa again, "It's pretty straight forward. Umm, you can check photos taken earlier too by pressing the little button on the bottom left."

[Hazuki]

"Got it!" Nika says, as she takes the Pokegear. "Um, I think I do." She furrows her brow as she points the camera straight ahead. "Now... No?" She furrows her brow, fidgets a bit, then it makes the picture-taking sound. "Done it! You two look super cute!" She says, as she shows them the picture of the pair of girls cuddled up on the other side of the table.

[tgva8889]

Alyssa, who has mostly occupied herself with drawing some of the designs kind of like how Leah described, looks up at Sass's picture and blushes. "Oh, um, th-thanks." She looks over at Leah and smiles. Looking back at her sketch, she says, "What do you think?" One of the new shirts has a bunch of native Londo flowers arranged in a pattern along a bright background, and another has some stylized waves. Next to the others they look much more specifically Kanto; the first shirt is a bit more geometric, starburst-type shapes that don't evoke anything in particular.