For destruction, ice is also great [Noelle November Catch-All]

[holidaygirl1225]

Who: Noelle & A.B.A, Umemiya, Bigby, Parvati
What: Quests, recovering from her crashout
Where: Heavy Downmoor, the Coast, and the Spire's low-tier housing
When: Throughout November
Warnings: Pokemon battling (violence/injury), flooding, themes of unreality and death/murder, others TBA

Comments

[edgewater]

Nope.

[ parvati at least fully expects a reaction of shock and awe at this point. ]

What exactly is it meant to celebrate? [ free stuff is worth celebrating on its own in halcyon, since things scarcely come without cost in the capitalist torment nexus. is that it? ] Like, are you celebrating the fact that you're getting gifts, or?

[holidaygirl1225]

[No holidays at all?!?!?!?

Noelle freezes like she's a computer that just crashed. Then she blinks, getting her bearings.]

Wow, umm. I'm sorry, I had no idea! [Where does she even start?] So, we can start at the basics. Holidays are like... The word comes from 'holy days'. They're days where something notable happened, maybe something religious, and you usually celebrate in some way. Maybe you take the day off work, or have a big feast, or give gifts to each other, or something like that. It depends based on the occasion.

[She pauses to give Parvati a moment to process this.]

[edgewater]

[ with all the love in the world to noelle, this explanation is a few random mathematical terms away from sounding like one of max's long tangents. parvati nods along anyway. ]

Yeah, getting time off work wasn't really. A thing. Back home. [ well. it was going to be before she woke up here, and nyoka got weekends! parvati wanted to spend her weekends with junlei... and now she's just homesick again. ]

[holidaygirl1225]

... No time off at all? What about weekends? [The horror is beginning to sink in.]

[edgewater]

Didn't get 'em till I quit my job and ran off with my Captain, but even then. The adventuring lifestyle is still restless. And my friend Nyoka kind of had to tell me what those were...

[ she glances away awkwardly. ]

You're not the first person to find that weird. I still haven't worked out what to do with all my free time here.

[holidaygirl1225]

It's not weird! [She lies, badly.] I mean, um... okay, maybe it's weird, but it's not your fault. Sounds like you didn't have any, like, work-life balance! [That's probably a term Parvati has never heard.] I'm glad you got out of there and got to be an... adventurer? Is that right? It sounds really cool!

[edgewater]

Well, technically the term is "freelancer", but that's just what we call anyone who doesn't work for one specific corporation. I was under Spacer's Choice, working as the chief engineer of a cannery, but before I woke up here was the engineer on our ship. She's a real... [ calling the unreliable a piece of crap feels mean to her. that's her hard work as much as it is anyone else's, too! ] ...fixer-upper.

[ the thought of what "work-life balance" could possibly mean is running through the back of her mind in the meantime. ]

[holidaygirl1225]

[Noelle nods, barely hiding her interest. That sounds so cool... like an epic space soap opera! Some people come from the coolest worlds.]

... well, if you've never celebrated Christmas before, I want to make this one special! I mean, if you want to try celebrating, faha... I promise it would be fun!

[edgewater]

Can't say no if you're asking so nicely, can I? [ parvati gives her a reassuring smile ^w^ ]

Hopefully this should all be done soon-ish, anyway. I think. [ she's looking back at the construction site again. ]

[holidaygirl1225]

Okay!! I'm really looking forward to it! [She smiles back. It will be nice to have something to focus on besides the incident.]

I'll get out of your way, I guess. I've got Christmas preparations to get to...! [Noelle, sweetie, it's November.]

[edgewater]

[ it's okay it's not like parvati knows that! ]

All right. It was lovely to meet you, Noelle.