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]

Make them change? [ A shrug. ] I figure people have already tried all kinds of logic and methods by now. And I've been warned away from the more dangerous people in charge of the town, so I'm not sure what options are left. [ Punching seems like a one way ticket to Dronetown, Population: Touma. He isn't looking forward to that. ]

[enpatsushakugannouchite]

I meant how would you make a quaint suburban paradise, actually. I know what to do about the other part.

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

I didn't mean that like I was some kind of city council member or something. I just know that forcing us is a whole lot worse than asking our opinions. That much should be obvious to anyone.

[enpatsushakugannouchite]

Have you ever talked to the people that run this place? They're pretty strange.

[punch_illusions_get_harem]

I've tried to avoid it. Dealing with drones is weird enough, but I've heard a couple of things about the ones in charge that make my skin crawl.