2020-08-18: Introducing Sammi

Introducing Sammi
Arumi takes Sammi to the Nexus, where he gets to meet Xiu
IC Date	August 18, 2020
IC Time	9 AM
Players	Arumi, Sammi, Xiu
Location	The Nexus
Prp/Tp	N/A
Spheres	Traditions
Theme Song	Welcome to the Jungle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CNPR2qNzxk

Arumi gives Sammi a chance to rest after their plane lands. Well, she needs a chance to sleep herself, but the next day, she'll pick him up in her Tesla Model 3, red, and drive him out into the desert. She's a quite fast, aggressive driver.

Getting here, she pulls into the garage, and gets out.

Stepping out into the courtyard, leading him out, she gestures and spins. "Welcome to the Nexus. This is a highly protected space built by our allies in the other traditions. Since the real Council is missing for 20 years now, PRospect has created its own. I am our co-chair on that council representing us, along with Dr. Veronica Varona.

We have here a garden, a forge, a garage, a computer lab, a library, a med bay, a safe room for council meetings, and a very neat lounge."

Sammi walks with her slowly silent, his eyes behind a pair of cheap sunglasses. Dressed in that worn down expensive suit, his hands behind a pair of dark leather gloves. His eyes moving over it all, he is quiet now he is at work. As he watches, his hand is reaching into his inner breast pocket producing a phone slowly, as he flicks it open with a sigh. Brand new phone, his first and only big spend in this new city last night, as he slides it away again."I see." His voice is gruff, powerful that is all he says.

Arumi spins to face Sammi, and grins. "Doctor. I can't tell if you're not impressed, or you're simply jet lagged. Or is it both?" Tilting her head. "Dr. Robinson you know, I never asked. Is that your old identity, or your new one? Is that how I should introduce you?"

Xiu has arrived.

Sammi watches her for a moment."It's the name you get. I'm not a doctor." His voice is gruff, as his hand is resting on his belt, as he looks around for a moment with a chuckle, as his eyes moving behind those shades. Once it was a fine suit, Gucci purple deep and dark vibrant. But years have faded it now, the life is choked out of it over the years, as he brings out a pack of cloves from inside of his jacket. Placing once of the black cigrettes between his lips."Can I smoke in here?"

"Arumi is very eager to call people doctor." comes a voice from nearby - in particular, the direction of a set of doors leading to what can be presumed a library of sorts, given the short glance allowed as they are already closing behind the figure that just arrived in the courtyard. Said figure is the opposite of a person in a suit. The what can only be described as barbaric looking little asian amazon has a light smirk on her lips as she nods to Arumi, and then looks Sammi over for a long moment while her hands are busy screwing together a...pipe? A long, thin chinese-style pipe. Once it's assembled, she reaches for a small leather pouch hanging tied to her left wrist and she pulls out some green. A quite more green than tobacco should be. "You're a newcomer?"

Arumi nods up to Sammi, and grins. "I know your background is not... a conventional academic one. But you're one of us now, and as far as I'm concerned, that entitles you to the honorific. As far as I know... smoking outside is probably fine. I would not smoke inside. But out here I doubt people will mind. But yeah, welcome to Prospect. Lot nicer here. Not so stuffy and blah like London. Bit warmer, too."

Xiu's arrival gets what is surely the expected response. "Dr. Xiu Tong, good to see you. This is Dr. Sammi Robinson of the Society. Freshly arrived from London to stay with us in Prospect now."

Sammi turns slowly towards the new arrival as his eyes moving up and down with a look of pleasure, than shock as he exhales the smoke into the air."Hello, Sammi Robinson. At your service." His voice is a gruff, powerful as he studies her, a little too long before he tears his gaze from the naked form, looking over at Arumi."London is home, never again foul the name of my home with such words." His voice is still gruff, as he takes out a cheap bic flicking it three times, as he lights that clove the smell of the spices highlighing into the air, as he sighs softly."Mr. Robinson, if you need something. Never doctor."

Xiu lightly smiles towards the man as she finishes stuffing the little head of the long pipe, and then retrieves a small box of matches of some sort from the same leather pouch. She lights one, and then takes the moment to carefully set the pipe's contents glowing with short and very light puffed drags before she takes a longer inhale and a slow exhale. Smells sweet. As she does she is quietly stepping closer towards the two, and on her exhale gestures towards ARumi with her pipe. "As she said, my name is Xiu ('sheoo') Tong. She is the only one what calls me a Doctor." There is a a pause and the girl lightly tilts her head, her exessively long mass of braids slightly swaying. "But also one of the few that knows, I guess." she remarks as she glances at Arumi with a smirk, and then looks back at Sammi. "Welcome to the Nexus. You are a long way from home.." she remarks on hearing the man's origin. "...what brought you here, if I may ask?"

Arumi giggles, glancing between the two she's trying to be nice and respectful of as each, to her, appears to be all modest about it. But she shrugs. "Well if you like the weather in London, I won't disupte that," answering Sammi. Then grinning to Xiu. "Yeah, smoking, figured it'd be okay outside. So many do it in these circles."

Sammi exhales the smoke as he looks over at Xiu Tong, with a chuckle. As he speaks quickly in chinese, watching her for a moment, as he looks over at Arumi and then over at Xiu.<It is a good day to meet you, your very lovely form is quiet distracting. If, my eyes wonder it's cause I'm old and enjoy what I see. If it offends tell me, and I will punish myself for your honor.> Musical in nature, spoken with perfect easy, as he looks over at Arumi with a little smile.

With that he spins to grin at Arumi."I see." His voice is back to gruff, as he throws the cigrette down crushing it with the heel of his right shoe, as he looks around."I enjoy my home, even if it has bad weather."

<Oh please.> Xiu answers in mandarin, waving her free hand dismissively. <Look as much as you want. I would not be walking around like this if I minded.> she keeps it simple, before her lips curl into a light smile again. <And thank you.> she adds and for just a moment turns this way and that, as if to show herself off a bit before her body posture relaxes again and she takes another drag, finally facing Arumi and lightly bowing. "Dr. Handa." Two can play this game! She straightens and glances between them. "I do have a feeling that Mr. Robinson is under your guidance, huh?"

Arumi looks between the two as they speak another language. She pulls out her phone, tapping at it real quick, and then smiling again. "Well yeah, your home is your home. And well, he's not really under my guidance. Dr. Robinson is a full member of hte society in his own right. I'm just helping him relocate. I assume he told you about why he's here."

Sammi grins at her watching the movement, as his hand is flicks that cig now, as his foot is crushed it with the right foot, as he lands it down solid.<But, that is only cause you seem to enjoy it.> The teasing of the words, as he looks over at Arumi."I'm barely, a memeber and I awaken two months ago, I will need guidence and help."

Xiu tilts her head to one side in a bit of an exaggerated chin-lifting motion and rise of her eyes along the way. "Trouble" she says, and one can hear the quotation mars there as she tells Arumi what he told her. Then a smirk moves her lips as she glances towards Sammi - which is follwed by a blink and the tapping of the mouthpiece of her thin pipe against her teeth. "My my. Only two months? You indeed have a lot to learn." Then there is a pause as Xiu seems to realize something and she eyes Arumi again. "...you're really going to call everybody of your folk 'Doctor'?"

"I'm MR. ROBINSON!" Sammi turns slowly towards Arumi with a sigh, as he lifts his hands up in annoyance, as he walks towards Xiu."I'm steal this one and get food, if you call me doctor once more, she seems lovely, and I like looking at her, and I'll take her to my hotel room and order out, for clothing is a sin for her body."

Arumi turns a bit toward Xiu and nods quickly, firmly. "It's common. I mean, so many of us ARE credentialed doctors. Those who aren't tend to have the chops for it, and just went a different life path. Some of us don't care for that and prefer to leave it to those who did the schooling, but that seems a little elitist to me, you know? So yeah. Dr. Whateley is Dr. Whateley, and Dr. Robinson is Dr. Robinson."

Grinning, she winks up at the protesting Sammi. "There are machines inside if you wnat a snack. And yeah,I can help you all you want, Dr. Robinson. Help you set up a lab, or a headquarters, or whatever you guys in the Ministry call it. Introduce you around. Whatever you need, I'm happy to help. Even take you into space if you want."

Xiu can't help but softly cackle as Sammi protests and reveals his grand plans for her, *and* Arumi just right then keeps on doing the whole Doctor thing. At the end of the cackle she uses the fact that the jaws are parted and she slips the mouth piece of the pipe between, taking another slow drag that causes the embers in the little head to flare up and sweet smell to rise again as she exhales while she looks at Sammi. With a lazy motion of her pipe she gestures blindly behind herself over her shoulder. "There are snacks, and a small kitchen. I also have some jerky rations for my wanderings, though you'd have to like boar in order to enjoy them."

Sammi looks right at Xiu with a wicked smile, as his hand is comes out of his pocket slowly."I enjoy boar, I have hunted them a few times. I enjoy a good hunt, I'm not a doctor for I'm a man of action, a man that lurks in the shadows, a man that finds thing out, better called a spy. Untill, this happened, I worked for MI-6 for my whole life, I'm not a doctor." His eyes turn slowly towards Arumi, as he speaks softly."I never went to uni, I never wanted to go to uni, and I won't be educated in the ways of the man. I have a way of doing things, that works for me yes. I have knowledge of science yes, but it is not my focus in life."

Arumi is intensely focused on what Sammi says, the longest explanation she's yet heard of what he DOES. She nods slowly, taking a deep breath. "I see. Well, this seems like a great time for you to... I don't know... flesh out your working theories? Whatever you want. I'm more than happy to help you, you know, take your informal stuff and formalize it if you like. But there's nothing wrong with a tinkerer. I guarantee you some of the bushy bearded old guys back at the RES in SoHo started out with no theory, no education, and just tinkered their way into Etherspace. Empirical work is the foundation of science, and you're doing that, Robinson. That's what matters."

She then smiles to Xiu again. "Anything important I should say about the Nexus, that I'm not thinking of? You've been in Prospect, and on the council, longer than I have."

Xiu is *also* intensely focused on Sammi as he reveals part of his origin - but this time it is not accompanied by that light smile. More a dash of suprise mixed with a bit of...sobering up and a certain renewed focus as she quietly takes another drag and slowly, slowly exhales, those deep brown slanted eyes of hers fixed on the man. "You are very...very lucky." she murmurs, but does not exactly elaborate as to the how or why. Instead she turns her pipe upside down and taps the ashes down onto the ground before she refills it with new green on top of the remains of a few embers, enough to not have to re-light the whole thing. It's then that a light grin finally returns to her lips and she yes Arumi. "This.." she says and gestures towards Sammi after re-tieing the small leather pouch.. "Sounds to me like the fun kind of Etherite." she quips and grins as she watches Arumi for a moment. "He sound more like an, uh...field..Etherite thna a lab Etherite to me." Another soft chuckle follows before she eyes Sammi. "Hunted it myself, yesterday, actually. Tried and seasoned by yours truely." The question that follows by Arumi has her blink, and she looks over towards the other. "Uh." Yeah, she has to think about that one for a moment. "Not really anything important, aside of maaaybe...." She falls silent and mouths 'mice'

Sammi nods slowly as his hand is reaches into his jacket to produce something it is a little long road, as he flicks it out slowly as he looks around for a moment. As he aims it towards something flattering out side, waiting for it to flap flap flap, it is a vulutre as he aims towards it with a wicked little moan of pleasure."Watch this, how I hunt." With a flick of his wrist, a beam of light is comes out smacking into a bird quickly, droping it down that beam is hitting it square in the chest, as that beam hits a second bird, as they fall down into the sand with a little sigh of pleasure."Only two that time, I normally do four and I need to pratice more." With that he slides that odd metal rod, with a trigger on it folding it up as if it is a pointer from school, as he removes his jacket now as he hangs it over the back of a chair. He is built like a house, muscles pushing against a white work shirt, his scar covered upper arms, bullet holes, and a few marks of fire, as he sighs softly."Too hot in here."

Arumi grins and claps at Sammi's tech demo. "Impressive. And you built that yourself. Yeah it was good not to demonstrate that on the plane. I love it."

She covers her mouth at Xiu's comment... and then looks up to Sammi again. "Um. Yeah. The caretakers of the NExus are.. mice. Actual mice, but... intelligent. Intelligent enough to look up to the Traditions members here as, well, like superheroes or something." Some would say like the gods of Olympus. "We can go inside if you're both done smoking."

Sammi takes 1 level of damage.

Xiu herself watches the odd demonstration in curiosity, eyeing that metal..rod..thing before she peers to see where the man aims. As the strange thin beam shoots out, she is less suprised by *that* than the man actually hitting *two* birds at once...and she watches them fall down onto the sand. There is silence for a moment before she glances towards Sammi. "I am not impressed by that style of hunting." she says flat out, as she turns her pipe and taps the ashes to fall onto the hot ground of the courtyard. "And even less so if you just leave them to rot on the sands now. Snuffing out life for no reason is..." she lifts her chin a bit. "...not advisable." There is a certain edge to the voice there.

"Why do you think I removed my jacket, I'm going to get them, I'm going to head out bring them back, but no I hunt with knife and bow normally." Sammi watches her now as he speaks softly, with a little sigh for a moment, with a little chuckle."I will not, be living it for the creatures, I'm sorry if I used something, to dishonor.> With that Sammi is removing his shoes, rolling down his socks as he is now barefoot, as the large black man, starts to head out to get the prey, as he looks back at Xiu."Don't judge me such, she has been asking to see one of my tools, and I saw a time for it. If you wish me to hunt proper, all you have to do is take me. I know not where to hunt in this new place." With that he is out in the sand bare foot, in his wife beater moving quickly over the sands.

Arumi nods to Xiu. "Good point. We might be um. I hear we might be getting a refuge for some birds here pretty soon, as a thank you to an alien that helped us with our alien fire kittne infestation. Which, to be honest, was completely my fault. So I apologized to the mice by making them some new spears, and shields polished and engraved with the symbols of the nine traditions."

Xiu's expression relaxes and softens as the man makes his intention clear - and she nods to him with a lgiht smile. "I never had vulture, so I admit.." she glances over towards the birds.. "...I am curious now. I brought my knife so if you need them gutted, I can do so outside the courtyard walls." she says, seemingly willing to partake in preparations. SHe then falls silent as she watches him venture out onto the dried up dusty soil of the california desert, and her eyes find Arumi again. Alien. Aliens. She mentally translates that from potential Etherite-speech and arches an eyebrow. "You are going to pay chiminage?"

Sammi comes back in short with the fat birds, as he looks overe at Xiu."I have my knife, and I will clean and cook, and then we will supe." His british accent soft, as he looks over at the woman for a moment with a little chuckle."There is no honor in dying alone for no purpose." His eyes moving away from her now, as he is wipes his feet slowly using his soaks, before he sits down as he slides his knife out slowly."I'm sorry if I offend you pretty girl." His eyes on hers for a moment, as he smiles at her as he looks over at Arumi."Now than, do you wish some fresh hunted bird, I will be slow roasting it."

Arumi has her phone out, and she types the word chiminage into it. "A toll? I guess that's a... very obscure and neat word to call it. Not me though. Branton Kholer. He made the deal while I was spending all day at the SCIF. Now the only fire kitten left is in my glass furnace in my lab." She giggles. "And apparently the alien he worked with has a fondness for black birds. WHich makes absolutely no sense to me but one doesn't expect aliens to make sense to human brains." Which, you have to admit, isn't an inaccurate way of thinking about spirits, even if the language and worldview differ."

Seeing Sammi return with the dead birds, she takes a step back, and her face scrunches a moment. Eww. "Um.. . sure?" she says, once he says he'll COOK it.

Xiu slowly disassembles her pipe into three pieces again while arching her eyebrows at hearing more about that 'fire kitten' and the other spirit. She then smirks over towards Arumi. "No sense to a lab-scientist brain." she teases the doctor, before she clasps all three pieces in the hand where the pouch is tied to the wrist and gestures to both of them for a moment as Sammi returns. "I will get my knife as well. It will go faster if I help." she offers, as she pushes the doors to the library open. "And no offense taken, Mr. Robinson. You are turning out to be a good kind of hunter.." she says...and then smirks. "With boring hunting methods." With that said, she slips into the library for a moment but does not venture far - just around the corner of the doorway really where she crouches and leans out of sight. The sound of leather and metal clasps follows. A backpack of sorts? "I can't help but imagine a bird being roasted above a 'Fire kitten' now..." she murmurs, loud enough to be heard.

Sammi nods slowly with a luaghing softly, as he looks over at Xiu."Of course, cooked by fire kitten." His eyes moving towards Arumi with a little soft smile."Food, comes from animals, it is natural. Do you wish me to go in there, to do it away from you?"

Arumi snickers at Xiu's quip, but shrugs and shakes her head. "Unfortunately I left Onibi at the lab, along with my plasma generator. So I can't actually help you cook at all. But no, Doc... Robinson... it's fine. I'm just not.. used to that sort of thing. Like I'm used to wearing clothes and stuff. Don't mind me."

"Just warning you here, Dr. Hanada.." Xiu says as she rises, pipe-and-pouch-less but holding a rather sharp looking dagger in her right hand as she lets the library doors close behind her again. "It is never pretty to see where the meat actually comes from, to most civilized eyes.." Is she smirking? She is smirking. The dagger itself isn't anything ornaze. No fancy engravings, no witchypoo ornaments or anything like it. A simple, utilitarian blade. Long, sharp, slight belly to the quite sharp and polished-looking edge. Solid leather-wrapped handle. "We can at least do it turned away from her." she offers to Sammi. "Normally I do such things just outside the courtyard walls-" implying that she has done something like this before here "- and it is a good spot to leave remains to get picked by desert wildlife. But that wouldn't be the most social spot right now." She pauses..and lifts the dagger in a wiggly motion. "Actually, let me get a couple buckets.." she remarks and turns again. This time, she heads across the yard to a different set of doors. Workshop.

Sammi stands up bring the birds slowly over to a spot out of the way, setting them down on the ground as he kneels down blocking the sight for Arumi."Now you will not see, as we work them, and then we will cook them." His voice is calling over his shoulder, that large black man resting on the heels of his bare feet, as he looks over at Xiu."I prefer a bow and arrow, or a rifle. When can we go out hunting, I will do it in the nude as well, togther we will bag a big animal, cook up a feast."

Arumi nods to Xiu, and grins. "Yes Doctor. I was.. not planning to watch. Biological dissections aren't something I was ever interested in anywya, and this is a bit more primal than that even." She has her phone out, turned away, tapping at it. "My favorite places to eat are Ukiyo Sushi Bar, which is really good and traditional Japanese, and Twisted Toppings, which is owned by someone who belongs here, Steele Smith. Steele is himself the council member for the Dreamspeakers, as Dr. Tong is the member for the Verbena."

"Oh, now you spoiled it and I have to act all regal and counciler-y!" Xiu calls out as she is walking back with a couple metal buckets. Ironically her words sound quite less regal and counciler-y than some earlier ones. She ventures over to the spot that Sammi has chosen, and sets down the selection buckets, to hold..well, anything but the meat, probably. "Twisted Toppings is good, and it has been way too long since I had Sushi.." she agrees, before she glances sideways at Sammi and hummms. "Also, careful. I might take you up on that offer."