Waking the Dead 2.0 || May 18, 2063 || The Mandatory Hot Springs Episode

[kawaakari]

[The skies are clear, the air is cool, and overall? Conditions are perfect for spending the entire afternoon and maybe even the entire night at the hot springs within Seigi. It's open to Zangyaku operatives and their families, along with any of their guests.

Oh, they're also communal. Surely no one minds? It's just skin, after all.

You're allowed to smoke, drink and eat while you're chilling out in the pools. You can also play cards, have a round (or several) of ping pong, flop around... anything goes, as long as you don't kill anybody!]



OOC Notes:
+ Make your own threads, plot out your own shenanigans and whatever else. Just remember: War Hounds and the rest were probably invited there after lunch, and are more than welcome to spend the rest of the day there. Y'all might want to specify the time. :3
+ NPCs are available on call beyond the threads I set up in here (if I end up setting some up, anyway)! Lemme know if you have questions.

Comments

Huzzah!

[atlas_shrugged]

[ Brigade laughs out loud and cheers ] BOTH! [ He starts pouring sake into the mouth of one twin and beer into the other. He's not quite sure yet who is who or how to differentiate them.

Doesn't really matter right now. The only thing that matters is -- ] CHUG! CHUG! CHUG! [ He laughs inside. He's sure his Blademates will be surprised that he's not always so straight-laced. ]

[thebrandybunch]

[FRIEND!

...And man these boys can drink.]

MORE, MORE, MORE.

[atlas_shrugged]

[ Brigade empties the bottles and places them on the edge of the pool. He tosses beers to and sake each to the Brands ] On me. DRINK! [ Grabs a bottle of beer and sake for himself as well and joins the two in the chug-a-lug ]

[thebrandybunch]

[Have looks of Solemn Approval.

They like you now.]

C'mon, join us. The water's great!

[That is from the both of them.]

[atlas_shrugged]

[ Brigade feels a familiar camaraderie with the Brands. Something he hasn't felt in a long while. It's so out-of-character, but he feels young again. He takes off his yukata, wearing a pair of board shorts underneath, and decides to cannonball in after picking up two bottles of beer in each hand. As he raises half his body out of the water again, he tosses a bottle to each of them. ] You're both right; it is. [ And as simple as that, he just starts drinking some more ]

[thebrandybunch]

[Laughing even more, of course, when Brigade just... jumps in. Kasumi's probably not going to like that, but WHATEVER~~~]

You're Brigade, right?

[That would be Breton, as Saxon is occupied with opening more bottles for all three of them. Brig's probably going to be done with that one soon anyway.]

[atlas_shrugged]

[ Brigade smiles and holds his hand out for a shake. ] Yeah, that's me. Nice to meet you two. You're Breton or Saxon? [ Brigade focuses on Breton's facial expressions, the quality of his features, the hunch in his shoulder, looking for something he can always look for in the future to differentiate one twin from the other ]

[thebrandybunch]

Breton.

[...Yeah it's pretty much impossible to tell them apart. It's in the attitude. Physically, they look exactly alike, and further aggravate matters by wearing the same clothes almost all the time, and always cutting their hair the same way.

You'll have to keep hanging out with them to figure them out.]

We don't mind, though, if you switch us around. Happens often enough.

[atlas_shrugged]

[ Brigade gives a grimace at that ] That wouldn't be right. Not one bit. [ He takes a swig of his alcohol ] If the higher ups and your close friends can tell you guys from one another, that just means I'm going to have to take the time to get to know you both better. [ Brigade smiles and holds his beer up for a toast. Oh, it's empty already. His bad ]

[thebrandybunch]

Eh, it's you're call. Sometimes it's a tactical advantage, leaving people in the dark.

[And that would be Saxon, as he's handing a new bottle over to Brig.]

[atlas_shrugged]

[ Brigade nods in thanks and takes a swig of the beer. He's yet again, while speaking normally, trying to study the differences between the twins ]

Keeping the enemy in the dark: yes.

But I find not getting to know your brothers-in-arms leads to tactical disadvantage since you don't really know what they can do, or how they'll do it. [ Brigade feels like a cigarette but he's drenched and in the middle of the pool. Now if only there were waterproof cigarettes. He opts to take another swig instead. ] It ruins flow and synergy which I'm sure you two know perfectly about.

That [ Brig pauses slightly ] and I think it's just wrong not to know the people you fight alongside with. Could be easier since you don't have any emotional connection. They're just another couple of dead soldiers. [ That's a terrible way to look at things really. ] But you don't fight harder either, since you're only looking out for your own skin. Fighting for some purpose other than one's selfishness is always better fuel, I believe.

...Sorry, Brig.

[thebrandybunch]

[Huh.

Huh.

Both twins are kind of all "o_o" at Brig now. And tilting their heads.]

You're a pretty serious guy.

Re: ...Sorry, Brig.

[atlas_shrugged]

[ Brig laughs. He now knows why that feeling of comfortable familiarity was exuding from these two. ] Sorry. Habit and training.

[ He wades over to the big sake bottles lined up on the edge of the pool and tosses them one each and takes one for his own. The smile of abandon in fun comes back to his face. Sometimes, after a sortie back in the 1940s, they all just went home and drank. Just because. ] You're right. Fuck that, DRINKEY-DRINKEY! [ He feels it appropriate after hearing them shout FIGHTEY-FIGHTEY a lot in the Shatterdome before. He starts to chug his bottle straight. ]

[thebrandybunch]

[YAY FINALLY SOMEONE WHO DOES SHIT TO WORDS LIKE THEY TO.]

DRINKEY-DRINKEY!

[Kasumi is so going to kill them later.]

[atlas_shrugged]

[ Brigade proceeds to marathon drink all the alcohol with the Brands, alternating water wrestling matches in-between. He hasn't felt like a kid in so long. ]