1st Build

[rexthebuilder]

Who: Rex Salazar (rexthebuilder) & YOU
What: Rex asks people opinions on snowball fights, doesn't know how shopping works to save his life, and then manages to temporarily get crud in his eyes by trying to be cool while no one's even looking.
When: Early December
Where: In Town
Warning(s): Mildest of eye squicks in the third option (spoilered away)

1. Survey Says.... [OTA]
Rex is carrying around a notebook and pencil given to him from his brother, looking around the crowd in the town square for someone that looks like they might have a good opinion. César gave him an important assignment. It'll be a long time before Rex figures out César gave it to him as an icebreaker to meet and socialize with other people patient enough to give a teenager their time.

Eventually, he gathers up his courage and walks up to a random person with an enthusiastic smile. "Heyyy, what sort of forts and stuff would make the most epic snow battle ever?"


2. Shopping Montage! [OTA]
Rex has his hands in his new winter coat his brother bought him to feel the 100 Brass he's carrying again and again, a wide grin on his face as he walks around window shopping outside. César suggested he go and get himself somethings with the half of his first paycheck that isn't going to food. And as he goes around and starts walking back and forth, realizes he has no idea what to spend it on, and his enthusiasm wanes somewhat with absolute bewilderment and confusion.

"... what sort stuff can I even buy here that isn't boring?"


3. It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a... teenager? [OTA, CW: Immediately healing eye abrasion]

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Rex figured that flying with his Sky Slider without goggles would be fine because the cold killed all the bugs. Today, he learns learns chimney ash can be just as bad when he decides to fly through it in order to be cool and it immediately backfires.

"Augh, no, my eyes!" Rex covers his eyes with a hand as he hovers down onto the street and returns his legs back to normal, waving with his free hand. "Uhm?! Anyone there! Need help for a minute!"

Comments

[rexthebuilder]

Rex's mind immediately blanks. "I- Uh- Those sorts of things take time. I'd need like a whole brainstorming sess to get those sorts of things right."

[worstorganplayer]

Snakes laughs. "Well, let me know if you come up with anything. Guess it's a moot point while we're stuck here, though."

Meaning there's probably no point having such a brainstorming session.

[rexthebuilder]

"If I can remember! Brain's kinda full because I've been crazy busy just learning the ropes of this place. And like, planning out my future room. Do you know how hard it is to make your room cool without posters??" Rex, no, he probably doesn't.

[worstorganplayer]

"Posters? Like for theatre shows?" The only other kind he can think of are Wanted posters, and he's pretty sure that's not what's meant.

[rexthebuilder]

"Yeah, but they make posters for everything now. I've seen some of those old posters in pictures, and they're pretty cool lookin'. A lot of posters are just prints of photographs or stuff done on computers. More colors, faster printing, easy to change fonts, we go ham with it."

[worstorganplayer]

Snakes nods slowly, trying to keep up with all the tech talk.

"Color printing must be incredible."

[rexthebuilder]

"Heck yeah it is." Rex thinks for a moment. "Heyyy, when we've got my bro's portal gun thingy, you want a poster of something?"

[worstorganplayer]

"Sure. Dunno what to get a poster of, though.... Maybe a big, modern city?"

So he can see what they look like and dream of going there.

[rexthebuilder]

More thinking; Rex brightens. "New York City? Or Hong Kong. But you probably don't know that one."

[worstorganplayer]

"New York'd be great," he says. "I heard of Hong Kong, at least.... That's a big place now?"

[rexthebuilder]

"Huh!" Rex only lived in Hong Kong, forgot about it, and never learned the history that he would still remember if he had learned about it. "Yeah, lots of skyscrapers that are like 50 floors tall. New York, too, but Hong Kong is dense. Most of D.C.'s old buildings are still around, though."

[worstorganplayer]

“Sounds amazing,” Snakes says in surprise. “Yeah, I’d like to see that too.

“Huh. That’s interesting those old buildings are still around and not torn down for somethin’ new.”

Brain died but I have returned!!!!!

[rexthebuilder]

"Nah, man, they're all 'historic' now and everything. America's so new they don't have old old buildings like in Europe. They're also way more interesting to look at than the new one. Modern architecture is so bland. You should see Providence's HQ. It's so boring that I almost care about architecture now."

Yay!

[worstorganplayer]

"Huh. So everything's better in the future except the buildings?" Snakes deduces.