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We're gonna shop till we drop! [Open]

Who: Open log that is open for all
Where: Planetside
Summary: Shopping extravaganza
Warnings: SHOPPING

Agrestic might have had might farmer's market and produce that would rival the best farms,but for a wunderkind, this wasn't anything she might have really liked. Food? Pah! She was content with the slop and whatever she could pull off in the sensoriums. After taking a stop at the weapons, she was busy looking at all the boutiques and large items and see what she could barter off and find. There were ingredients to collect and rare crystals to find so she could build more things that could be helpful to the war and dangerous to their enemies.

Maybe she could make something like the Black Obelisks again...only this time with less energy draining of the area. She had a feeling Stacy wouldn't be too happy about something taking away from her own energy.

Maybe even a hot tub...look, she had super important priorities, okay. Priorities that included hot tubs.

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"The only way is someone with enough mana power, and so far no one fits the bill," Zetta sighed. "About the only good thing I can see is that I don't need to worry about you getting upset about a lack of action while I try ti figure this out."

"Right," she replied, sighing on her own and quite comically almost repeating him. "Yeah, that's gonna be a lot of action. Still not sure which side I should be 'rooting' for," she added. "Since the whole breakup idea is out. I'd need a good excuse to either join you or the rebellion. Maybe something will happen to help that along."

"I'm your excuse for joining me," Zetta said with a 'well duh' sort of air. "And your excuse for joining the other side could be that you don't want to do what I do because you don't want people thinking you're just following along with me."

That...almost made too much sense. She looked at him for a second, before bursting out laughing.

"Tee hee! You're right! And here I was trying to think of something overly complicated when simplicity can work--you know it only works for those situations mind you I'd rather build something complicated!" It was rather hilarious how she went from laughing to an utterly serious voice midway. Just so he didn't get the wrong ideas.

"I have no idea what side I'm gonna be in, but you're right...whatever happens, it's gonna be a blast!" For all she knew. Oh Lash. If you only knew.

Zetta joined her in a laugh, grinning. "THAT's more like it. It WILL be a blast. And if we end up on opposite sides, we can have massive real fights and actually make out in the middle of them."

"That sounds like a great id---" Pause. "We'd have to do that in the sensoriums and they'll probably get shut down at some point during this, right?"

Nooooooo....no she didn't want this to happen.

"Maybe I can...do something about that..."

"The real fights we can have anywhere, it wouldn't be a first. The making out..."

Zetta paused to consider. It WAS a bit awkward as a book... it had to be even more so for her. For a brief moment, Zetta felt actual guilt for making this thoroughly awesome and wonderful girl hook up with a freaking book. Well... not like he had forced her somehow, but damn. She deserved a hot guy who WASN'T literary three-quarters of the time.

"Yeah, sticking to the sensoriums is probably a good idea. What are you thinking?"

"Find an alternate way to do this," she explained. "Or maybe at least have emergency powerups or a sensorium hidden away in the city in one of Stacy's blind eyes. Or maybe...maybe if we can't turn you back permanently, we could try seeing if there's a shapeshifting spell that could do the trick?"

Honestly, this was not just for her own personal enjoyment, she had a good idea of what it could be like walking around and having no real hands.

"Even if it's just for a few hours at a time or something...it could probably help out with council work too."

"Oh man, if we could get a sensorium in my fortress, that would solve a lot of problems." Of which the whole making-out thing was one, though he didn't spell that out explicitly. "Don't shapeshifting spells have to work on something... you know, biologically alive, though? I mean, I'm an animated book. It's not quite the same."

The irony of asking Lash, who came from a completely nonmagic world, how magic worked was completely lost on Zetta.

"I have no idea." As stated in the sentence of irony, Lash did not truly understand how magic worked, but if she applied some SCIENCE to it...it still made no damn sense anyway. Welp. "But I'm sure it's been done before! Like no powerful wizard wouldn't want to take an object and turn it alive just to play tricks on others." Yeah, it was easy to see how Lash's mind worked.

"Dunno if I could make something exactly like a sensorium, but maybe something close enough. Might take a long while to do tho. The rebellion might be over and done by then." And they might all be dead and over with by then too.

"I thought they just animated them. I mean, that's technically not coming to life." This is a weird conversation, Lash.

"Hey, I think you should try it. If nothing else it'd be a fun thing to do while we're not doing other stuff. ...For you, anyway, but I can live with you doing things that aren't me or me-related. Difficult though that may be," he said with a smug grin.

"Yeah I guess. I wouldn't really know. You'd think someone out in the cosmos made a spell for it, right?" Really, really weird conversation. She rubbed her finger on her chin thinking about what he had said next before speaking again.

"Tee hee! I guess I should just do some stuff for myself alone then!" You wanted teasing, she was ready to deliver. "Maybe I could do something that works a bit like REM sleep. Not like the sensoriums at all, but the hardest part would be making it work for you, pretty much. Oh oh! That means it can be a science experiment!"

Lash had always loved having test subjects. Poor Flak would know much about that.

"If you're going to experiment on my minions, just let me know at some point so I can take them off duty and stuff," Zetta said.

...In other words, he had just promised her unlimited minion experimenting.

"But even not just for me. The sensoriums are actually pretty powerful. If we can duplicate them or even just get a little bit of their power behind us, we get a major advantage."

Oh god Zetta why did you even say that, that was sealing the poor fate for so many poor minions and probably Prinnies. This was the best shopping date ever. She'd give him more hugs, but uh...you know she'd wait the next time they were in the sensoriums.

"Yeah that's what I'm thinking. Secret training where they can't watch us does have it's positive effects. But this would have to be a pretty long job, honestly. The best Ive done is...you know what I'm just going to do it anyway! I'm not he Wunderkind for nothing!"

Yes, enthusiasm. She was good at it.

"Meanwhile...I wanna get you something too! Let's go do that!"

Lash had no idea what to get him.

Zetta started to protest, but in a rare flash of insight, realized that Lash was perfectly aware she didn't HAVE to get him something, but she just wanted to. Not obligation, just the desire to give him a gift the way he'd given her one. It had made her so happy, after all.

"Man... I really am your first boyfriend, aren't I?" he said thoughtfully.

She laughed at the comment and gave him a somewhat evil grin.

"D'you really think a lot of the guys could have been able to withstand me?" She didn't mean it as herself being a pain, oh no no. She meant it more in the no one would willing risk going out with her and be able to live about it if she got angry at them. "Tee hee hee! I be they'd be running the other way once they looked at my the wrong way!"

But now, what did you get an Overlord?

"Hmph! I'd think even in the sexless hell you've described Black Hole as, SOMEone would have noticed you're really a pretty awesome babe." Zetta, of course, truly didn't understand army life at all -- a regimented, disciplined organization was far removed from the Netherworlds' usual manner of business.

And, well... Lash really was pretty awesome. He hadn't noticed that in their first meetings, not the same way he recognized it now. Zetta even realized he might never have noticed it if not for the whole de-aging thing. If they hadn't gone on that date, and if it hadn't gone so much differently -- and so much better -- than expected.

Zetta had fallen quiet as he thought about all of this.

While nice words, Lash still was pretty defensive on her old home team.

"Hey hey! It was pretty cool anyway! They let me play with a lot of fun things!" Like lives amongst other things, woops. She stopped talking when she noticed the book wasn't moving or twitching anymore. Uh? Great, she had this fear that it was another one of those times when he had stopped moving for a few, and that got her worried. Without thinking about it, she shook the book a little just to make sure.

"Hey Zetta? You okay?!"

"I'm not saying it wasn't cool, I'm just saying it amazes me no one noticed!" he said. "And I'm fine. I was just thinking..."

He looked away, dropping his voice. In some ways, admitting that she was awesome, directly, still didn't come easy. She had power over him. That was something he found it difficult to voice directly.

"You are awesome," Zetta said quietly.

Oh good! Thinking didn't involve him being frozen and...OH. Oh.

Oh!

Oh.

She still wasn't quite sure how to react to those, but at least the shyness was fading away a lot more. "You're really awesome too," she said back, almost as gently.

One of the minions tried to tilt him again like when she had started crying but Lash pushed him away. No don't ruin the moment dammit!

Caught in a reverse tug-of-war between his minion and his girlfriend, the book sputtered and flailed his covers till the minion dropped him.

One burst of angry flopping later, the Overlord, now back in his minion's hands, attempted to pretend that had never happened. "Hey Lash, you think we'll ever get any better at the... you know, mushy stuff?"

She thought about it for a second before answering.

"Nah....but it's not like either of us care, right?" She suddenly stopped walking next to a shop. Capes N'Stuff. "Oooh! Capes!" Zetta had a cape in his normal form! Maybe they could find something there that could look good!

...maybe a tiny little cape for his book form, okay no that was a terrible idea.

"I thought you were more of a long-coat sort of girl," Zetta said. The idea of her putting a cape on a book was so inconceivable to him that he... hadn't conceived of it.

"Hey, have you ever tried wearing your coat just fastened at your neck, and your arms not in the sleeves?"

"Yeah once," she replied back, scratching her neck, thinking about it. "It got stuck in a tree during a battle and nearly choked me." Her life with a cape-coat had been short and limited. "It just wasn't the type of thing for me."

As they got in, capes of all colors, shapes and sizes were displayed. Expensive, cheaply made, technocolored, kitten patters...

"Maybe something in black and red..."

Zetta couldn't help it -- he burst into a fit of snickers at the image. Of course, it was likely a lot funnier in his mind than it had been in reality.

"What exactly are you looking for? Because you'd actually look pretty hot in something shimmery and elegant."

Edited 2012-05-04 01:52 (UTC)

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