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[ Hi, Lunatia. Have a somewhat bored looking woman here, sort of gong bonkers sitting in this new apartment or exploring at random. She isn't good with this whole preventing herself from going stir crazy thing, but has for once opted to reach out and take other people's recommendations instead of meddling her way through. ]

So far as settling in here, I need a few things. I was hoping someone might be able to offer me a good suggestion or two to look in to on a few items so that this isn't.. quite so jarring.

[ Spoilers : it'll be jarring no matter what going from a glassed-in, engineered Utopia to a nuclear wasteland to a place that's not too far off Romdeau barring, you know. Lack of social and genetic engineering. So hey, up and up.

Long, pale fingers are counted on as she goes through her items: ]

One, I need a place to shop for clothing. I can't keep wearing these things every day.

Two, I'm going to need a place to train or, maybe, a trainer. Getting back in to a fitness routine now that I'm not on the Rabbit every day will be an improvement, I think.

Three... [ She pauses, seems to waver on this one, and finally comes out with it as if it's begrudging : ] ...I guess I'm going to have to learn to cook at least somewhat. Without Iggy or Vincent I'm at a loss, here. So, if anyone can give me instructions past a 'pinch' of salt in water for noodles, I'd appreciate it.

If anyone has anything to offer on any of these I'd appreciate it.

[ A curt little nod, and the video ends. ]

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I might shop both just to see what they have... [ Let it not be said that Re-L doesn't like to shop - if she still had the kind of money she did in Romdeau she'd be on an absolute tear right about now. As it stands she just wants out of the clothes she's been wearing since she left Romdeau to go and find Vincent.

Even small steps are better than none, right? ]

For now let's not put any limits on it.. though I have found that sweet things aren't necessarily my wheelhouse.

Well, it's nice to have some variety, isn't it? [Ren tends to browse around both and just pick up whatever catches his eye, honestly. Though it probably helps that he's willing to wear a lot of things and combinations that other people won't have anything to do with.]

Sweet things aren't too hard to avoid in normal cooking...I guess I could teach you some of the more basic stuff, like meat with vegetables and omelettes and stuff. If you at least know how to cook things like eggs and meats, you can make a pretty big variety of things.

It wouldn't hurt, no. [ She's willing to admit that, at least. But at the same time... breaking out of habits is a little bit difficult to do, say nothing of comfort zones like what colored clothing she preferred to wear when it comes down to it. Give her a bit of time, and she'll figure it out a little. ]

It's better than absolutely nothing, at any rate. Or relying on different restaurants around here.

[ Not to say she won't go out there and do that... she has a lot of food to explore, after all. ]

Mmm, restaurants aren't bad, but it's usually a bit more expensive than making your own thing. [Which is more of a concern for people who are antsy about generating Chroma, but Ren's met enough people like that here that he feels like it bears remarking on.]

Besides, sometimes it's easier to just have leftovers or something in your fridge so you don't have to go outside to get food. Especially for some moon cycles. [He's a Cordis, so he's used to needing food at very short notice or risking just dropping from lack of energy. And he's also lazy, which means not going outside has its own advantages.]

Mostly I just feel it's a skill I should.. work on. [ Even if she doesn't enjoy it at all and, honestly, most cooking instructions aren't specific enough for a brain as scientific as Re-L Mayer's. Either way : if she's here she's going to have to work on this lest she be relegated to greasy take out meals that will inevitably be bad for her waistline that she's nearly religious over - ]

A fair point... Though I have yet to experience that to tell the truth.

So I'll have to take your advice.

That's probably true. And it's useful to know, if nothing else. [Cooking can come in handy at a lot of weird times, and they do keep getting thrown into odd survival situations here when travelling to other places. So he can't exactly advocate against learning how to cook in a world as unpredictable as this one.]

Well, it can be hard to tell what moon cycle you are before it actually happens. I'd say if you haven't changed by now you can probably say you're not Sanguis, but I've seen people post about not changing their first cycle or two, so that might not even be true.

I guess. [ There's a certain part of Re-L that seems indignant to have to learn how to cook, and yet here she is - having to learn how to cook. ]

Ah.. so it's all very unreliable.

Fantastic. [ It's... a very sarcastic enthusiasm though. ]

It varies a lot from person to person, so I guess "unreliable" is one way of putting it... [More like it's difficult to make a judgement because things can be so different between different people. He remembers one post recently with someone mentioning they hadn't changed for at least a few months.]

You don't sound very happy about it, though. [He says that pretty cheerily himself, though it's definitely not the first time he's heard someone be sarcastic about the joys of moon cycles.]

I don't appreciate things that aren't on some sort of schedule to be anticipated that could possibly put plans aside. [ Ah, the problems of coming from a cog-to-the-wheel type of society. Everything happened like clock work, and despite how much she'd complained about it, and said that Romdeau was boring...

It's preferable to waiting on something that may or may not ever happen. ]

[Ren actually blinks at that in apparent confusion before wrinkling his nose a bit.] Having everything expected is so boring, though. How can anyone live like that?

[He pouts a bit about that for a few moments longer before getting more to the point.] The moons themselves do come on a schedule, though. You just don't know what that schedule is going to be for you yet.

It's fairly easy once you do it. [ In other words : she lived that way for literally 19 years up until recently. Now things aren't predictable and sometimes it's really, honestly, annoying as all hell. ]

So I'll just have to record it, basically.

Easy enough.

That kind of just feels like it's proving my point... [Easy all the time is pretty boring, as far as Ren is concerned.

The point about recording makes him tilt his head.] No, I mean that once you know what moon you are, they each keep a set schedule...so you'll know which five days a month you have to be wary about. You can already mark the three moon cycle, since that affects everyone.

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