7th Broken Illusion

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

[ Action : Neutron Diner : Late afternoon ]
[ Guess who's now on staff in the kitchen at the diner downtown?

If your answer was: "That boy who could probably start a grease fire by looking at the cooker the wrong way", you're halfway there!

It's not that Touma can't cook, or doesn't like to. He's had to do it while he lived on his own back home, and he does a fair bit of it around the house (when his "mother" lets him). No, he's pretty content (and by content I mean listless) as he works at filling orders and setting them up for others to take to the tables.

But things just happen around him. It's kind of like that clause in insurance policies that mention "act of God" or "force of nature". Except these kinds of acts of misfortune are not the sort he can do anything about, even if he does have his abilities back. ]

[ Right now the kitchen has been temporarily evacuated as the Mayfield Fire Department handles a bit of a mess in there and he is standing outside away from the drone crew, work uniform and apron on and looking just a bit scorched.

Looking at the building with despair, he sighs quietly to himself and hunches his shoulders. ] This is just my luck...

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[ Phone : Drone Filter : Evening ]
Anyone ever switch jobs? I literally woke up with one, and I'm not cut out for it at all.


((OOC: Open to action at the diner or 840 Hastings if you want to talk to Touma. If your character is part of the fire department, feel free to involve them more directly in the first scene!))

Comments

[normality]

Well, that's still the same case, isn't it? Even if you think you're not fit for it, that could still change..

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

I—

[ A sigh. ]

Nevermind. It doesn't sound like they're going to let me switch no matter what I do.

[normality]

[ ... ]

What sort of job did they assign you?

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

I'm working in the kitchen at the Neutron Diner now.

[normality]

Cooking, huh.. Yeah, I guess that kind of job might be a little difficult at the start as long as you don't have much cooking experience. I know I wouldn't do very well there, at least.

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

That's what I'm saying. Not to mention I've never used that kind of equipment before. It's like they're asking for accidents to happen.

[normality]

Well, there should at least be other people around there to help you, right?

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

But they're not watching me every second. [ A sigh. ] Ah well. No one was hurt, and it didn't get me fired, so I suppose I should be thankful for that.

[normality]

[ with the way he's talking about it, Mikiya can only wonder.. ]

How bad exactly was this incident we're speaking of? Or is that too much to ask?

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

Well... no one was hurt, but I don't think that fryer's going to be usable for a while. [ Or rather "tomorrow", since this is Mayfield after all. ]

[normality]

At least that's the important part. [ that no one was hurt, that is, not about the fryer. ]

If you know what you did wrong though, I'm sure you can prevent it next time.

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

Exactly.

I'll just let someone else mess with the controls next time, since I'm stuck with this whether I like it or not. [ Protesting with the manager did no good at all. ]

[normality]

Yeah, it's pretty easy to mess up with the jobs here since we're suddenly assigned them.. I know I felt really nervous in the pharmacy at first since I might give people the wrong drugs, but thankfully it turned out alright in the end.

So maybe you'll get used to your job all the same too.

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

Huh. They really will give us whatever job they feel like, instead of something we'd be good at. Ugh.

[normality]

Maybe there are some people who are more matched to their jobs though, I don't know.. It's different than the work I did back home too, so that can't be it either.

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

And maybe it's just random. I don't pretend to understand how the people in charge of this place think.

[normality]

Most of the things they seem to do are random, either way, like placing us all together in houses and fake families like this..

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

Exactly. I mean, what do they expect out of us when they treat us like this? I'm not saying I'd go along with it if they'd asked, but forcing us into these roles is just too weird.

[normality]

Yeah, it's pretty weird.. It's like they want us to live some sort of normal life here, but then they go ahead and cause really weird things to happen that don't suit a regular life at all.

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

Right! It's crap, is what it is. They need to just stop screwing with us, already.

[normality]

I don't think there's much we can do about it, though. People have been trying for years already, haven't they?

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

Maybe they have, and maybe not. That doesn't mean we can give up.