open | all I want is the moon upon a stick

[vaccination]

Date & Time: October 10th onwards.
Location: Around the base.
Characters: Ellie and you.
Summary: Ellie's hangin' around, totally over this moon business.
Warnings: Swearing.



a. the cafeteria
[Ellie sits at one of the tables in the cafeteria, a pyramid of upside-down cups stacked in front of her. It's certainly not the sturdiest of structures, but she's spent some time on it, and she's vaguely proud of her accomplishment. They only clattered to the floor once or twice.

Now that she's done, she leans back and slides down a few inches in her seat. Well. That killed twenty minutes.

She reaches out a hand to slowly nudge one of the cups at the bottom corner of her pyramid. That might be loud if she keeps going.]

b. the observatory
[Space is cool. It kind of makes her feel like she's falling when she looks out the window or through any screens, but she keeps coming back to the observatory to do just that. She's not sure if she likes that feeling or not. The wasteland where Exsilium once was is still visible, but Ellie doesn't seem to pay it much mind right now. She's lying on her back on the floor, sneakers propped up against a wall, comic book held over her face.

Every now and then she makes some sort of noise. This comic is so intense.]

Comments

[thorny]

If you would. I'd ask for the customary cream and sugar to go with it, but that would simply unnecessarily be rubbing our situation in.

[Rose begins to neatly stack any cups that landed near her, occasionally bending down to reach the few that rolled beneath her chair. no reason not to help, after all]

Perhaps the next time we decide to have a game-based battle of supremacy we ought to choose something a little less reliant on chance, such as chess.

[vaccination]

Ha ha.

[She's not too annoyed, at least. Fair is fair. At the mention of chess, she sighs.]

Oh, man. I've always wanted to learn how to play that game.

Be right back.

[With the cups gathered in her arms, she goes to put them back and head over to the coffee machine.]

[thorny]

[Rose waits patiently for her return, watching the other people in the cafeteria come and go. when Ellie is within earshot she speaks again]

While I don't usually have the opportunity to practice as much as I'd like, it's still quite an enjoyable game. But then I suppose it wouldn't be such an enduring classic if it weren't.

[while it's no lie that Rose enjoys chess, she couldn't honestly say that she'd picked it up purely from an honest interest in the game. it was much easier to get people to take you seriously when you played chess rather than Pictionary]

[vaccination]

[She sets down a hot cup of coffee, having gotten one for herself, too.]

Think there are any sets up here?

[thorny]

[Rose slides the cup towards her, blowing lightly on the steaming contents as she waits for it to cool down a bit]

If there aren't I wouldn't imagine it would be too difficult to acquire one on a jaunt down to earth. Game boards aren't exactly heavily guarded items.

[vaccination]

I think the people here could use some board games to pass the time.

[thorny]

I have a sneaking suspicion that we're edging in on the maddening level of cabin fever that can only be remedied by constructing tiny scale models of famous landmarks.

[vaccination]

Cups aren't too good for that.

[thorny]

Not unless you're looking to recreate the cluster of pyramids near Giza, that is.

[vaccination]

Geezer? What?

[Ellie has no idea what she just said.]

[thorny]

Giza. It's a city in Egypt which has the infinite honor of housing the great pyramids which are the only remaining wonder from the ancient world. I've been told they're quite the marvel to behold in person.

[Rose is going to be really generous and assume she's from a universe that doesn't have an Earth-like equivalent. hopefully.]

[vaccination]

Oh. I think I've seen pictures of those. Lots of sand, right?

[Nope, such things exist in Ellie's world. She just doesn't have the best of educations.]

[thorny]

[thiskillstheman.jpg]

Sand and ancient curses. It's not surprising considering that both items are main exports of Egypt.

[vaccination]

Curses... like mummies and stuff, right?

[thorny]

Just so. Unfortunately the pitfalls only seemed to affect wayward excavators rather than the ancient looters they were presumably meant to punish.

[vaccination]

Huh? What do you mean?

[thorny]

The casualty rate for the more hands on breed of Egyptologist is alarmingly high for such a staid profession.