Not-a-stripe 02: A new challenger gets off her lazy butt! Life in the scallywags!

[lookouttiger]

[Morning - 1669 Nelson Street - Open to household]

[If you are looking for breakfast this morning, you may be a little bit disappointed. Since drones are the majority of the household and the 60's style of 'living' was very unfriendly to a free spirit like Taiga, the constant demands of the drone children and the creepily jovial drone 'husband' wore

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Action - Mayfield General Store

[walking_nuke]

[Balin's minding his own business at the General Store, dressed in his AFS physical training uniform now that the town gave it back. He doesn't seem to be actually buying anything in the store, though, but is scanning products and inspecting their ingredients, looking back every now and then at some writings in a journal he's carrying in his arms.]

[You'd think fighting against a galactic superpower for seven years would give you the instincts to dodge Taiga's supersonic shopping spree, but Balin is completely taken by surprise as he rounds the corner of an isle-]

[CRASH.]

Holy shi-!

["Look Out Tiger," indeed.]

[lookouttiger]

[This causes a GROCERY CART ACCIDENT, the worst possible kind! The cart topples over along with more than a few cans and foodstuffs. Taiga herself flies upwards a little before landing face-first on the floor.]

Oooow...

[That's what you get for running in a store, Taiga.]

[walking_nuke]

[The impact is hard enough that Balin also went stumbling backwards onto the floor. Damn did that hurt like a mother. After taking a second to process what just happened, he gets back up on his feet, and notices Taiga.]

You alright, miss?

[It takes him a moment while he tries to walk off the pain, but he offers his hand to help her up.]

[lookouttiger]

[Facial bruising ahoy! She turns her head to look at the man as he offers help.]

I'm fine, perfectly f-

[WAIT THAT ACCENT. She jumps up onto her feet and points accusingly at the man.] You! You're that soldier from the phone call I made a few weeks ago, aren't you?!

Phone

[iheartcabbage]

Well, if you're that desperate for something to do, our house could use some spring summer cleaning. [Could his tone be anymore sarcastic?]

[lookouttiger]

I'm not -that- desperate! [Yet.]

If you're offering that, I'm not sure I want to know what your home looks like right now. [She is now picturing this TOTALLY TRUSTWORTHY STRANGER living in a blast zone of some kind.]

[iheartcabbage]

Hey, it isn't that bad. I mean, sure. Maybe my place back home was pretty messy because I was a busy single guy. But the wife doesn't really like a messy place, you know? She says it ruins he reading atmosphere. Somehow.

[lookouttiger]

Well, if you have such a neat spouse, then why...

Wait, are you implying you want someone to clean your room and messes specifically?

Afternoon - Mayfield High

[heart_x_strings]

[Kotomi just finished her first day as a chemistry teacher, yay. She's got piles and piles of papers in her arms, and is scanning over a lab report when she walks by Taiga's room--

--and slooooowly peeks in.]

Re: Afternoon - Mayfield High

[lookouttiger]

[Taiga's writing would slow down a little bit as she felt someone nearby. She'd sloooowly turn her head to face the pair of eyes peeking inside.]

Can I help you?

[heart_x_strings]

Is there something wrong? [She noticed the quiet cursing.]

[1/2]

[lookouttiger]

[She then suddenly tosses all of the papers into the air and screams out.] THIS WHOLE TOWN IS WROOOOOOOOOONG!

General Store

[boostedfailure]

[Looking at the crazy lady charging with the cart and the seeming lack of a shopping agenda Mike jumps out of the way]

"Woah there! You're going to kill someone charging like that!"

[lookouttiger]

I apologize, good sir, but I can't hear you over how great my shopping is!

[And then she slips and falls on the floor, the cart speeding off to crash into a distant wall. Really, start keeping a tally of how often this happens.]

I stand corrected...ow.

[boostedfailure]

[He shakes his head and offers her a hand up]

"Well, you looked a little lost and I just was going to offer some help."

[lookouttiger]

[She takes the hand and gets up, giving the stranger a leer.]

I'm not lost, I'm enjoying myself. And that's very hard to do here.

phone/B

[techno_mancer]

Well... got any hobbies?

[lookouttiger]

I'll have you know I was very accomplished in kendo! At least until they disqualified me from competing anywhere.

[techno_mancer]

Hey, that sounds pretty good. Maybe ya can find someone to spar, or teach people. Why'd they disqualify ya?

[lookouttiger]

Well, I ended up being disqualified for what they called 'poor form'! Which I find absolutely ridiculous! And stupid!