Breakfast at Milliways

[auxin]

So tonight, when he went to the bar, Auxin got a napkin.

He reads it, and frowns slightly.

"I can, but it's not breakfast."

Another napkin appears.

'It's breakfast somewhere.'

"Oh, I guess it is." Auxin smiles, and steps behind the bar, putting an apron on.


Breakfast at Milliways

Bacon, sausage and egg
Soft boiled egg with soldiers
Toast with butter and jam

Anything with caffiene

What'll it be?


[ooc: Snagging happy hour to recreate a moment of nostalgia.]

Comments

[auxin]

"Most fields round Ankh-Morpork are full of cabbages." Auxin jokes, with a laugh.

"What do you want to do then?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Me? I don't know. Engineering, I guess? I haven't really thought about it. Whatever I do, it's always going to have to take a back seat to the whole saving-the-world thing, right?"

[auxin]

"I would think engineering would be useful for saving the world." Auxin says. "You could build useful gadgets."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Not really the kind of world I live in," Yamato says, shrugging. "The others have their pet passions - well, mostly, at least - and they'll probably get careers in those."

[auxin]

"Will you need to use vehicles?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"We live in a country with pretty good public transportation, it's, er, fairly pedestrian friendly? So probably not."

[auxin]

"Why do engineering if it won't be useful then? It sounds useful."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Look, there is a very limited number of things I'm good at, I have to play to my strengths somehow."

[auxin]

"Oh, well in that case go for it." Auxin grins. "Does it pay well at least?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"It depends what you do with your engineering-y stuff. The stuff I'm mostly interested in is aerospace engineering, and that's - pretty well-paying, I guess?"

[auxin]

"Aerospace?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Planes and helicopters. Flying vehicles."

[auxin]

"Oh, yeah, we don't have any of those." Auxin says. "But I've seen pictures since I was here."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Yeah, well, they're pretty cool. And they interest me. And Gabumon turns into one, sort of, so that's also useful."

[auxin]

"Turns into a picture or an aeroplane?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Turns into a - well, not exactly a plane, more like a jet-wolf."

[auxin]

"A jet-wolf? A jet is an aeroplane?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"It's a type of aeroplane? Like, a jet fighter is a very fast, agile plane that's meant to take on other planes in -- ..."

Yamato blinks.

Then slowly: "In dogfights, oh my god, my Digimon partner is a pun."

[auxin]

"Have you got a picture?" Auxin asks. "It's hard to imagine."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"-- Actually, come to think of it, I might."

After all, Karkat gave him that handy-dandy computing device. He activates the wristwatch-esque device on his wrist, bringing up a screen projected above it, and quickly opens the Digimon Analyser program.

He goes through the directory until he finds the Digimon in question.

[auxin]

Auxin looks at it in awe.

"Your world is so cool." he says "You don't see much more than a pigeon back home most of the time, unless it's come from another dimension and is trying to kill everyone."

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"-- To be fair, Gabumon's from a different dimension to me. My world is a pretty regular Earth."

[auxin]

"Yeah, but you have aeroplanes and jets and electric watches?"

[angry_friendship_wolf]

"Yeah, but those are just normal where I'm from. They probably will be in your world eventually, too."

[auxin]

"Maybe." Auxin cleans a glass. Behind a bar, it seems like the right thing to do. "But lot of people on my road just live hand to mouth. They come in at the end of the day to get the cut price food that won't stave off the mould until tomorrow. Even if aeroplanes do get invented, I bet it'll be a long time before they're affordable enough for ordinary folk. So I still think it's pretty cool."