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

[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.