Festival fun times!

[the_tailor]

WHO: Lance and you!
WHERE: Temba "Rain Fare"
WHAT: Having fun and chilling out
WHEN: Now



[Winter and cold weather usually honestly, well, sucked for Lance. Growing up in Cuba, going to the Garrison in the middle of a desert, then a bunch of years in space... He wasn't used to the snow and the cold and the dark, so his mood had definitely suffered for it, no matter how novel snow tended to be. But despite spring still being a way's away, there was something bright happening now. A festival. Lance loved festivals and fairs and any sort of celebration, really, so something like this happening? Yeah, he was all over it.

The first thing he notices of course is the archery range. Though his marksmanship expertise lays in shooting, he's still been good at archery the times he's tried it, so he's eager to give this a shot. Literally. He's grinning as he ends up doing better than he thought, managing no small amount of bullseyes. Yeah, he definitely wants to practice some more with this stuff.

The treasure pit as well catches his eye. Who could say no to shinies? So he goes over, spending some time digging things up and collecting the prettiest rocks he can. Could be great for decoration, but even more than that, maybe he can utilize the prettiest one he finds to make a nice gift for Keith.

Once he's all tuckered out from running about from activity to activity, he'll hang out by the bonfire, sitting down and relaxing. Lance sips at one of the "potions" he'd made earlier, tossing bundles into the fire every so often to admire the sparkles and colors.

He knows that things are never peaceful for long, but right now, he'll enjoy it while it lasts.]




((ooc: I'm also happy to do any of the activities I didn't mention so go wild! Lance is going to do all the things, those are just some of the prompts for the post.))

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Bonfire

[ziedrich_bearer]

[Another kid. That's what Gladio sees when Lance sits down, and he has to wonder about what the choices of the Agrii were, bringing such kids around. For now, though, he nodded across the fire at the kid.]

What you mix yourself up?

[Gladio himself had bypassed the whole potion thing, instead getting himself a cup of red-fruit drink from the nearby ships. What could he say, the dude was lucky to be the pilot of the ship that actually had the equivalent of booze.]

[the_tailor]

[Well, not a kid kid anymore, after several years, but definitely on the younger side. And not as if he didn't get launched into a war at seventeen, but even so...

Lance looks up and smiles over at him.]

Honestly, I'm not exaaaactly sure what's in it. One of the things sorta tastes like rum? I think? So I figured eh, why not, let's have fun and throw together whatever goes with it!

[ziedrich_bearer]

[Yeah, sometimes that happened, fighting when you were too young to really deserve it. But that wasn't here or there. What was here was Gladio raising his glass in a toast.]

ALl for that. Sometimes all you need is the taste of it.

[the_tailor]

[He raises his glass as well before taking another sip.]

Yeah. I mean, it's not like I pound 'em back all the time, but it's nice to have a drink sometimes, y'know? Me and an old friend used to meet up regularly to chat over them, back at the last place we were at before here. Of course, it was an actual bar on a pretty nice spaceship, so a little more fancy than this... But I'm used to setting changes by now, I guess?

[It was definitely a cool "hey, I'm an adult, I can do this now!" feeling, honestly.]

[ziedrich_bearer]

[Place they were at before here? Gladio raised an eyebrow at that. He thought Iron Bull had mentioned something like that.]

You mean there are ships nicer than the ones we've got? Not that, you know, the one I'm on is all that nice. Sorta creepy paparazzi stuff. Worse than I ever saw back home.

[the_tailor]

Well, there was. Back before a bunch of us got yoinked over to this place. The last time I was kidnapped to a different dimension, we had this pretty cool big ship that was basically like...a hub? It had a lot of stuff there. Recreational and even like, stuff like hair salons. Well, one, anyway.

[His smile turns nostalgic and a little sad for a moment, but he shakes his head.]

It was definitely more comfy than this place, but yeah, you just roll with things after a while. Oof, though... What happened back home for you?

[He's always curious to learn about other people!]

[ziedrich_bearer]

[Hair salons? Gladio smirked and set aside his drink so he could tighten the hair tie that kept the better part of his messy man-bun in place.]

Salon, huh? That's not a side jibe at my hair, is it? Not that I could blame you. We haven't exactly had a lot of barber shops back home in, oh, about a decade.

[What happened back home? Gladio laughed.]

Not as much happened to me as to a charge of mine, but once had a rather messy break up show in tabloids.

[the_tailor]

Nah, the only person whose hair I make fun of is my fiancé's.

[He loves Keith's hair, but tradition is tradition.]

Oh man, that sucks. I used to be pretty well known back home but I never had to deal with any scandals or a ton in the way of paparazzi. I think that'd drive me nuts, even if I wanted to be a big damn famous hero. Everything work out okay for your friend in the end?

[ziedrich_bearer]

[Fiance, huh? Gladio felt bad for the guy. Being engaged to someone and being so far away from them had to suck.]

I mean, he's avoided the lime light for a while, but I don't think that will stick around.

[After all, back home his own Noctis would be king, and the media always cared about royals.]

Advantage here is that I don't have to deal with cameras.

[Damn but that comment made him miss Prompto.]

[the_tailor]

[Well, thankfully, his fiancé is here! Though Gladio wouldn't know from the little Lance has said so far, of course, though Lance tends to inevitably gush about Keith anyway... So probably sooner than later.]

True, that. You might've gone crazy in the place a lot of us were before here--the one I mentioned--cause we were basically on a reality show being broadcast to god knows who.

[ziedrich_bearer]

[See, Keith was someone Gladio had met, and he was someone that already met the Shield's approval.]

Maybe I would have. I don't much like being watched like that. But I guess they could do worse. I'm worth watching.

[Dude knows he's hot.]

[the_tailor]

I guess you're not too bad.

[He laughs, grinning at him.]

I kinda miss that place, being on camera aside, but it's a relief now to not have to think about being watched all the time.

[ziedrich_bearer]

[Really? Gladio tilted his head at that. Did he really think they weren't being watched?]

I tend to assume I'm being watched here. Seems safer.

Archery

[doubled_speed]

[There was a problem with archery honestly, and the problem came up when there was a speedster around who liked the occasional joke. In this case the problem manifested in the sspace of time between the arrow being loosed and when it should hit the target. Sure, Lance had gotten his bulleyes on earlier, but at one point, they suddenly stopped hitting the center.

Instead they were barely hitting the target at all. Weird, right?

And after a few shots like that, Tommy finally spoke from behind Lance.]

You getting tired or something? Those shots are going really wide.

[And of course he had the stupidest smile on his face.]

[the_tailor]

[Wait.

What.

Lance frowns at the first shot that goes wide. He could have sworn he fired in just the same fashion as before. And then another, and then another...]

What in the quiznak?

[Okay, it isn't as if that potion he drank was strong or anything. When he hears the voice, though, he squeaks and jumps, surprised before turning around.]

Hey, I was doing perfectly fine before now... Before...

[He looks at that smile.]

Oh, you son of a--

[It doesn't sound angry, more of a friendly exasperation.]

[doubled_speed]

[Before. Yep. Tommy grinned at Lance while the man gets it. Yeah, he's amazing, and you know it.]

Son of a truly amazing woman? Because man, I don't know if you'll EVER hit anything with a bow and arrow again if you insult my mom.

[the_tailor]

Hmph. I'm sure your mom's an absolutely lovely person, shame it didn't pass down to you.

[It's an obvious tease, and he gives Tommy a nudge and a laugh.]

So, what're you up to other than trolling me?

[doubled_speed]

Wow, asshole. Almost feel like you deserve to miss your shots. Oh look, you did.

[He grins at that Lance because yeah, he gets that it's a tease.]

You know, keeping people fed and alive and all that shit.

[the_tailor]

Wooooooooow. And here I thought we were friends.

[Tommy's pretty awesome, honestly, in Lance's eyes.]

I mean, mood, that's a given. But are you at least taking a break here? There's a bunch of cool stuff at this festival.

[doubled_speed]

Oh, are we? Damn, must have lost that memo.

[End joy the smirk.]

Easier to take a break when there's food options here after all. Even if this is super creepy. The 'people' here? Not real. Fucking weird ass holograms.

[the_tailor]

Pffft, I'll write it on a post it note and stick it on your head.

[And he sticks his tongue out.]

Yeahhhh... I mean, it's not like I haven't seen a lot of holograms before, but I definitely get them being kinda creepy. Trying to focus less on them and more on us.

[doubled_speed]

Awww, brave of you to think you can stick anything to my head.

[Creepy because they are just there. Still. Staring.]

I prefer my fake people to act more like people. Or, you know, act.

[the_tailor]

Well, I'm definitely gonna take that as a challenge. Just you wait.

[Even if he fails a million times, Lance is nothing but persistent.]

Probably not worth it to try to give them acting lessons, huh?

[doubled_speed]

You can absolutely take the challenge. I'd ask what you want if you win, but you won't so it's moot.

[He snorted at the idea of lessons.]

Because giving wallpaper acting lessons ever works.

[the_tailor]

So how would you like the crow you're gonna get served eventually? Medium, medium-rare, well done?

[Chuckle.]

Well, no, but I've seen weirder things.