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BLIND DATES GROUP 2

What: BLIND DATES!
Who: Anyone who was sent a note with an C# &D# table numbers.
Where: Off-campus restaurant. AND BEYOND!
When: November 19th
Warnings: Who knows depending who is here.

[The second group's restaurant is Asian Fusion Dinning. The rooms looks fancy but down to earth and the menu is very varied. Still expensive, however, but you've been given a 100$ budget for eating each!

The lighting is dim, with flickering, oil candles on every table. The place is decorated in stylish black and browns, with Japanese and Chinese wallscrolls and paintings. The overhead music is traditional yet somehow futuristic Asian music, to fit with the theme. Your servers are all dressed up for the occasion, and speak broken English.

Beside each candle, there's a card. Each card has a different letter-number combination.

Find your table!

OH YEAH AND FEEL FREE TO LEAVE THE RESTAURANT AND GO ANYWHERE ELSE!]

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Well. That was a subject that Vinnie had absolutely no knowledge about. One conversation subject he wasn't going to be able to contribute to, then.

"Oh. Well, that's kinda cool, I guess." Did you start dates off with a handshake? Vinnie offered one anyway. "I'm Vinnie. Venusaur that just 'rived a while ago. Hope you don't mind, uh..." going on a blind date with a Pokemon?

"Oh a Pokemon!" She shook back with a grin. "I've been trying to become a trainer myself!" Fear her, Vinnie. "I've been raising a Skarmory and Zapdos and I..." she trailed off. "Um...well we used to be partners but you probably saw him. He's not talking to me." But enough about bringing her own troubles to the table.

"It's so cool to see Pokemon human forms!"

Vinnie sort of glanced down at herself when she mentioned the human form, as though trying to figure out what was so cool about it - seemed odd for someone to take a interest in it, but he'd been pretty used to going about on two legs now. "Yeah? Red got us the humanifying TM a long while back. Beats not fittin' through doors.

"Dunno if you know anything 'bout Venusaurs, but I guess you gotta thing for flyin' types anyway."

"Yeah not much," she admitted, thinking about it. "I do know your type is listed as the first evolution line on most Pokedexes, but apart from that..." she shrugged. "I didn't really bother to read. And you guessed correctly, I like birds."

Maybe if you had a beak or something.

She looked around before talking some more. "Well, this is much better than the last time."

Edited 2010-11-19 09:20 (UTC)

~~They're the first because they're the best, baby.~~

"S'all right. Not really interesting unless you love flowers." Which he totally did, and you can tell by the fact that his shirt is covered in them. But it's okay, not everyone's Erika - people needed Flying type gym leaders too. If she had a Skarmory, she was already miles ahead of that one guy.

With the Pidgeys. Seriously?

"Would'a thought you'd like Fire or Steel if you're in demolitions," he observed. "Not that I know shit 'bout that stuff. Lost my chainsaw collection on the big rescue mission though."

Oh no he lost things trying to save her she was totally---wait wait WHAT.

"Chainsaws? A Grass type with chainsaws?!"

Okay. Now you really had her attention Vinnie. Maybe you'd be able to reel her in soon, as weapons of mass destruction were her favorite.

This sudden perk of interest made Vinnie blink for a second. But. He supposed it would be a weird thing to see, yeah.

"Yeah. I used t'steal them from foresters, but then I got the sweet idea to duct tape them onto things! Like this boat oar. Best part'a getting a human form was definitely swinging around a chainsaw-oar." He smiled fondly, nostalgic for that one magical moment when he discovered duct tape and its many uses.

But alas, all dreams end. Vinnie snapped back to reality. "'Course it got broken. And I think Char's gonna send my dorm up in flames if I get any new chainsaws. He's a bitch."

"Oh yeah you guys are rivals!" Lash said, nodding sagely. She had her own rivalry with Green. What was that saying again? An rival of my rival was a friend? Something like that.

"Tape is...okay," she said with a careful selection of words. At least a careful selection of words when Lash was concerned, "but it's not super glue or carefully soldiered metallic pieces." Amidst a few gasps from the waiters, she took out a raygun and twirled it around with her fingers, the futuristic weapon looking all black and red and shiny.

"I'm not gonna shoot anyone," she told then, rolling her eyes. "See that? I made it myself. I'm a wunderkind genius."

Edited 2010-11-19 10:48 (UTC)

Vinnie wasn't a genius (much less a wunderkind one) when it came to crafting his obscene portmanteau weapons, and he was man enough to admit it. "I know I'm pretty shit at machines, 'cept for what button to push to turn'em on. (I mean, who knew chainsaws were flammable?) And that biomechanical engineering class sounds outta my league."

But then Lash took out the raygun. And Vinnie was totally impressed. See his eyes widen. That was one sleek-looking piece of weaponry, badass enough to look like it came out of one of a video game!

You were cool, Lash. You were totally cool now. "BUT HOLY SHIT THAT IS FUCKING AMAZING."

"Well of course, I made it!" she said, beaming with praise. Praise was her kyptonite, you see, and caused Lash to do very weird things. Like actually thinking of fireing at something so he could see how it works. But that would be very rude. Instead, she put it away and talked about the other inventions she had made.

"I've been building weapons since I was a kid!" She pointed towards the door with her thumb. "Heck I've got a neotank parked outside of this place."

If this was a sitcom, the camera would now be panning to the people leaving in the car next to it, fearing for their very lives as if the tank would suddenly come alive as they drove away very quickly.

"You made a tank." If it weren't for the fact that only a few days ago Max was trying to beat him into a pulpy mass with a cannon, that would be the coolest thing in the world.

Vinnie had to let this all sink in. He flopped back into his chair in dazed awe at this crazy girl whose hair was clearly concealing a giant skull that she kept all her abnormally awesome brains in.

"Wow. I got set up on a blind date with a fucking goddamn genius." How did that happen. "I have no idea what wunderkind means, but you're definitely the biggest fuckin' genius I've ever met."

Wow, pure priase, right out of his mouth and directly into her ears. Not completely unwarranted, perhaps, but much more than Lash had heard in a while. This date wasn't so bad! Unlike Orange Kid, he wasn't saying something and then trying to get into her pants the next! She was very pleased with this!

You could almost see those flowers coming out around her face as she grinned even wider. It made her want to be uncharacteristically nice. Besides, he had come to save her and didn't know who she was. She could dig that. Kinda reminded her of Jake.

"Tell you what. Since you lost those chainsaws, how about if I build you something to replace them?" Carefully, she pondered this. "You can either tell me what you want or design me something. I'm really good with plans! Also I'll make sure it doesn't work on gasoline either, even if the explosive flames would be really awesome."

Edited 2010-11-19 11:34 (UTC)

No Lash, explosive flames and Grass types really did not work well together, that should've been Pokemon Trainer 101.

This act of generosity surprised Vinnie too. At least, he definitely wasn't expecting anything like it going into the date (or the rescue mission, even), and it showed. "Seriously? You can do that? What am I talking about, of course you can do that. You would do that?"

Well, he wasn't going to stare a gift horse in the mouth for too long. But it wasn't as though he'd put much time or thought into what his replacement weapon would be like. "I mean, I dunno. Something badass and a boat oar. You're probably way better at designing shit than I am."

oh god vinnie no

Yes well even dudes who had weaknesses could recognize how badass flames were okay. Also none of the grass types were birds so she didn't really...care about the type about it much.

"Yeah I got a bunch of spare robot parts from during the rescue mission, I figured I might as well do stuff with them!" She leaned her arms behind her back. "Badass, I can do. The question is, what exactly do you want to do with it? Apart from the fact it is a boat oar."

Edited 2010-11-19 11:58 (UTC)

(Hey some of them were part flying come on. Have a heart.)

"I just need some sorta weapon that'll work when I'm human. Most my plant moves just ain't as strong when I am, and I got things to protect. Guerrilla don't work as well when you're a dinosaur the size've a car.

Plus, y'know. To shut Char's asshole face up." That was also very important.

"Oh right!" she said, suddenly remembering where she had last saw him. "You got to fight Max, didn't you?" Yeah Lash remembered that battle alright. Remembered it well.

NNNNGHDFKGG the spar that no one was ever going to let him forget.

Vinnie grimaced. He was about to be very sore if the paddle-ball thing was mentioned again. "Yeah..."

"Yeah don't be too surprised if you lost," she replied with a grin. "Max is pretty much...well...Max. He's also an Orange Star Commanding Officer like I am. As you probably guessed he deals with hard hitting. But put him around 20 feet from something? It doesn't work. He can't shoot a gun without the bullet just...falling to the ground.

Anyway I don't think I saw him loose a duel yet so..eh. When Flak was here maybe he could have stood a chance."

"I wasn't really expectin' to walk away with a win anyhow. But, I figured I could piss'im off at least." Vinnie looked somewhat proud of himself for this little achievement. "Seems like vomitin' on a guy and draining his health does that pretty well."

"Yeah I saw that," she nodded, remembering the purplish goo that came out of his mouth (eww and here there we gonna eat things). "I think I heard Max thinking it was almost like Hawke's Black Storm? Teehee! That's pretty dumb, but that's our Max and something he'd say. Figures Max would go apeshit after that. They don't like each other very well and all."

Edited 2010-11-19 12:25 (UTC)

"Guess that explains it. Still don't know what a Black storm is, but," Vinnie shrugged, "Giga Drain's just plant energy. I'm either Grass or Poison, nothin' Dark-type about it."

And speaking of poison and his regurgitate-at-will digestive system and other things that shouldn't be used as dinner conversation... Vinnie wasn't hungry! He hardly ever was. But odds were, he figured, that Lash could use some grub.

Glancing at the circulation of waiters in the room, he suggested, "Maybe we should order somethin'. Seems like a waste if we don't."

"Giga Drain..." Again, Lash had paid little attention to attacks that her own Pokemon couldn't use or possibly learn. The idea that Black Storm was dark type did make her giggle. Hawke would make a fine Xatu. Maybe. If he had evolved that one time.

But food! Her eyes darted on all these fancy-smansy things up on the menu, zeroing in on the sushi and sashimi platters. She knew how to make those! She could compare the taste! And Miso soup! She remembered Espio making that a long time ago.

"I can't understand half of this stuff but the sushi and the Miso soup seem nice," she told him. "Have you ever had them?"

Edited 2010-11-20 12:28 (UTC)

"Sometime Koz makes Magikarp sashimi and stuff. Not a big fan of fish though." Pause, as he scanned the menu. Lot of seafood there. "Or meat. Or eggs, and milk."

Vinnie frowned slightly - seems like only one of the entrees didn't have meat, and even then I wondered if he could even finish eating it. If he wanted something to chew on, it was either that or seaweed.

"Guess I'm left with this Asian Vegetables thing and Miso."

"You're in luck, I also don't like milk," she replied. "And Asian cuisine doesn't seem to have much of it." She put down her menu. "You know that they vegetarian maki rolls right?"

She had tried them once. They tasted terrible.

"You could always ask the servers to give you something different too! A lot of places will be happy to make a special dish for you if you threaten them en--I mean show them the money, teeheehee!"

"Naw, I'm good. Probably couldn't finish a whole dish anyway. Not a big eater." Vinnie shrugged and put down the menu. Asian vegetables it was - as vague as the name sounded.

"Most days I get by with just havin' a large smoothie and a couple'a bugs. As long as I get enough sun in the morning." Out of conversational courtesy, he added, "So what're you getting?"

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