2017-01-02: Greetings from Minnesota!

[Bob Schroeck]

Chapter 11: 2017-01-13 2:40 AM UTC to 2017-01-13 8:58 PM UTC

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Gloria Dinallo (gloria.dinallo@residence51)
2017-01-13 2:40 AM UTC

Ruiko Saten (ruiko.saten@blossom) said:
> Where have *you* been in your new home towns? Pics or it didn't happen!

Back when we first showed up in Refuge, I had to stay late at school while they finished my matriculation paperwork. (That is the right word, right?) Michael and KITT came and got me when they were done, and we detoured for burgers. I got out of the car and got a photo. 



Michael's getting known around Idaho Springs as "that guy with the perfect KITT replicar".  They both get a big kick from the compliments people give.

Glo
Telekinetic half-alien former juvenile delinquent, part-time superhero, and future model
I do not look like Courteney Cox.  Stop telling me I do.

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Rin Tohsaka (rin.tohsaka@appartements-mont-royal-sud)
2017-01-13 2:54 AM UTC

Ruiko Saten (ruiko.saten@blossom) said:
> Where have *you* been in your new home towns? Pics or it didn't happen!

Here's one of Sakura and me, not too long after we arrived in Refuge. That was the day that we discovered that we're sisters.  We'd decided to go talk about that with our building manager Cassiopée along to make sure we didn't end up at each other's throats. That's who took the photo. I know you've seen me during the Snowball War, but I believe this is the first photo of Sakura on this forum.



Rin Tohsaka
Specialist in Thaumaturgy and Containment Systems
Adjusting. Calibrating. Perfecting -- as always.

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Kagami Hiiragi (kagami.hiiragi@appartements-mont-royal-sud)
2017-01-13 3:01 AM UTC

Here's a pic I took of Miyuki while she was caught up in a book at a used bookstore on rue Milton, not far from our building.  It's called "The Word".  Really cool place, I hear they even rent books out to people making movies.



Kagami Hiiragi
Senior, F.A.C.E.
Lawyer-in-Training

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Ruby Rose (ruby.rose@dietmeierfarm)
2017-01-13 3:12 AM UTC

Back to the Snowball War for a minute because new picture!  Makoto sent Ami out to get some biscuit mix, so she came here for a box of Powdermilk mix.  (Because of course it was easier to portal to the farm than walk to a store around the corner from Blossom, right?  Sure.)  So, while Ami was here, Eleanor had her transform, then got a photo of her and Yang just before she gave them their award.



Ruby Rose
"Victory is in a simple soul."
Yeah, no, I don't know what it means either.

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Ui Hirasawa (ui.hirasawa@dga)
2017-01-13 3:23 AM UTC

Ruiko Saten (ruiko.saten@blossom) said:
> Where have *you* been in your new home towns? Pics or it didn't happen!

Our turn!  So, Mugi has a job as a waitress at The Frog and The Peach, a really nice restaurant in downtown New Brunswick.  It's supposed to be one of the best restaurants in New Jersey (and yes, they named it after the comedy routine, so her bosses are clearly very cool people).  One of her co-workers took a picture of her on her first day:



Mio took this one -- Hikaru, Fuu and Umi at Thomas Sweet's on Easton Avenue.  It took us a couple weeks, but we were eventually able to get Umi to dress down a bit.



This pic is from last month, but didn't end up in the "Christmas at Douglass Gardens" thread -- the State Theatre in New Brunswick had a live stage production of A Charlie Brown Christmas on the 16th, and a lot of us went to see it -- including Emily and Cyrus, who don't usually do things with us younger people.



Ui Hirasawa
Douglass Gardens Apartments
Somerset, New Jersey, USA

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Ami Mizuno (ami.mizuno@blossom)
2017-01-13 3:39 AM UTC

Ruby Rose (ruby.rose@dietmeierfarm) said:
> (Because of course it was easier to portal to the farm than walk to a store around the corner from Blossom, right? Sure.)

Actually, it was easier. In order to get to the closest grocery store here, I would have had to either work my way through heavy traffic or do a Sailor Teleport and draw a lot of media attention to myself, and that's just to get to the mall. Nobody in Lake Wobegon cares when I teleport from your place to Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery and back.

I do get a little attention, but it's not because I'm a senshi -- it's because I'm an out-of-towner doing my shopping in Lake Wobegon!  Mr. Star of The Herald Star took my picture to put in the paper, with the caption "Ottawa resident comes to Lake Wobegon for Powdermilk biscuit mix!"



Ami Mizuno
I like this video

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Ruby Rose (ruby.rose@dietmeierfarm)
2017-01-13 3:52 AM UTC

Ami Mizuno (ami.mizuno@blossom) said:
> Actually, it was easier.

Oh!  I'm sorry, I thought you were just making a silly excuse to come visit Yang!

Where do you keep your wallet in your uniform?

Ruby Rose
"Victory is in a simple soul."
Yeah, no, I don't know what it means either.

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Lindy Harlaown (lindy.harlaown@steeple)
2017-01-13 3:57 AM UTC

Here's one of my favorite photos -- I've been keeping a copy in a frame on my desk.  The first few weekends after we arrived in Refuge, Heather took us around the city and showed us the various famous sites, and gave us the necessary history lessons in brief to understand the significance of things like Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell.  We played tourist and took quite a few photos.  One thing she didn't have to explain, though, was what she tells us is a famous sculpture.  Naturally I had Nanoha, Fate and Chrono pose in front of it:



Lindy Harlaown
Admiral, TSAB

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Ami Mizuno (ami.mizuno@blossom)
2017-01-13 4:05 AM UTC

Ruby Rose (ruby.rose@dietmeierfarm) said:
> I thought you were just making a silly excuse to come visit Yang!

Do I really need an excuse to visit a friend? (Besides, *silly* excuses are Mina-chan's shtick, not mine.)

Ruby Rose (ruby.rose@dietmeierfarm) said:
> Where do you keep your wallet in your uniform?

The same place I keep the Mercury computer when I'm not using it -- elsewhere.

Ami Mizuno
I like this video

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Minako Aino (minako.aino@blossom)
2017-01-13 4:22 AM UTC

Ami Mizuno (ami.mizuno@blossom) said:
> *silly* excuses are Mina-chan's shtick

Silly is my middle name! Minako S. Aino, that's me.

And since when did you start sprinkling your English with Yiddish?  Feh!  I should kvetch, bubbeleh.  I mean, I'm the one in show business, I'm the one who ought to be the Yiddisher here.  Eh, but you're a mensch, Ami, and mishpoche, so I'll forgive you.



Mina!
The passion – c'est la vie

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Rei Hino (rei.hino@blossom)
2017-01-13 4:31 AM UTC

Minako Aino (minako.aino@blossom) said:
> I should kvetch, bubbeleh.  I mean, I'm the one in show business, I'm the one who ought to be the Yiddisher here.  Eh, but you're a mensch, Ami, and mishpoche, so I'll forgive you.

And I thought it was bad when she was using British slang. Somebody translate this, please! 

Rei Hino
Love and Passion can smoulder, or burn like a beacon

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Marinette Dupain-Cheng (marinette@orleans)
2017-01-13 7:11 AM UTC

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Hey, everyone on the English-speaking side! A quick hello from Orléans House, here in beautiful France! I'm not sure how we managed to miss the snowball fight, but we'll definitely be ready for the next one!

In the meantime, I wanted to share this picture of me, Adrien, and Jehanne that our manager, Nathalie, took back in September, when we'd just started introducing Jehanne to fencing. She had a bit of trouble at first -- an épée is a lot lighter than the kind of sword she's used to -- but she picked it up really quickly!  She picked up saber even faster!



Like Lindy and her picture, this is one I've kept a copy of for myself. Nathalie's taken plenty more of everyone here -- the Gauls, Tintin and his friends, Monsieur Poirot -- but I'll have to ask her for copies before I can post them. So stay tuned!

Marinette Dupain-Cheng
Créatrice de mode * Ancienne Ladybug de Paris, aujourd'hui Ladybug d'Orléans
"Même sans le masque, on peut tous être un peu miraculeux."

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Kazari Uiharu (kazari.uiharu@blossom)
2017-01-13 12:25 PM UTC

Rei Hino (rei.hino@blossom) said:
> And I though it was bad when she was using British slang.

Did you know she can do half-and-half?  It's some private language British criminals used to use.  *Why* she knows it, I have no idea.  Count yourself lucky that you haven't heard her prattle on in it.  Or Cockney rhyming slang, which even Rob-oji -- Mr. Donaldson -- can't follow.  Minako is the most British Japanese girl I've ever met.

Kazari Uiharu
GCS d s-:- a---- C++ UL++++ P++ L+++ E- W+++ N+ o-- K- w O-- M V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP+ t 5 X R tv+ b+ DI- D- G+ e-- h !r !x

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Eunice Johnson (eunice.johnson@banzai-institute)
2017-01-13 2:05 PM UTC

Far be it from the Institute to ignore your challenge, Ms. Saten.  Allow me to share a couple images of our own.

First, Buckaroo and the members of Team Banzai who made the transition to Refuge, photographed on the steps of the Rawhide Memorial Lecture Hall, here on the Institute grounds.  (I will note that Rawhide was immensely touched that we named an entire building in his formerly-posthumous honor.)



Next, Buckaroo relaxing while waiting for results after a very long day in one of the Institute's medical labs working on a project with Doctor Washuu-chan Hakubi.  No, he does not look like Peter Weller did in the 1980s, although there are some small points of resemblance.  Regardless of the universe in which the film was made (and it was made, from what we can learn, in almost every universe that is represented among the displacees), the actor playing Buckaroo *never* was a dead ringer for him.



Mrs. E. Johnson
Archivist and General Manager
The Banzai Institute for Biomedical Engineering and Strategic Information
Somerset, New Jersey

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Alicia Florence (alicia.florence@venice)
2017-01-13 5:12 PM UTC

For those of you who haven't visited Venice and Aria House, here's one of the photos we had a professional take to use for our advertising -- Akira with a customer:



(Well, to be absolutely honest, he was a paid model who spent about two hours playing several different customers, wearing different shirts and even a wig at one point!)

Alicia Florence
General Manager, Aria Company

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Nabiki Tendo (nabiki.tendo@antigonish)
2017-01-13 7:57 PM UTC

Alicia Florence (alicia.florence@venice) said:
> here's one of the photos we had a professional take to use for our advertising

Well, since we’re showing off our ad shots...

Back in early October, Cologne talked me into spending a perfectly good sunny Saturday afternoon playing photographer.  I took a ton of pictures, and this is the one that she, Shampoo, and Ukyo decided to use for the online promos and in the Xaverian Weekly, the student paper for the college across Highway 4 from us. 



After that, I poked my head into the kitchen and grabbed a few candid shots of Ukyo while she was cooking. This one's the best of the bunch. Cologne was in there too, but... let's just say she effectively incentivized me to *not* take her picture. 



I snapped this shot last September after waiting half an hour for Ranma and Akane to come out of the Antigonish Market Square mall.  Of *course* they weren't enjoying their time alone together without Shampoo or Ukyo (or our fathers) around -- just ask them.  <rolls eyes>



On the subject of shopping, here's a shot from just before Christmas of Kasumi doing the weekly at Sobey's supermarket, also across Highway 4 from us.  (Why was I there to take her picture?  We don't have a car, the market is in walking distance, and Kasumi always needs someone to help carry the bags.  And this time I got called on.)



So if you've never been to the Cafe, it used to be a motel, but if you ask me, whoever built it had no idea what they were doing.  Less than a dozen rooms, but a good-sized restaurant, a swimming pool and what we were told was the kind of little gymnasium/fitness center you'd normally find in a mid- to high-tier hotel catering to business travelers.  I have no idea who their intended clientèle was, but they sure as hell weren't going to be staying at a little motel in a residential area of a small college town, so it's no surprise it went out of business who knows how long before Funtom bought it.  Anyway.  The gym was basically stripped bare when we got here, and the usual suspects decided that it was perfect for a dojo.  That's where the next photo was taken -- the Tendo-Saotome Dojo 2: Electric Boogaloo.  For those of you who don't know our manga or anime, this is Ranma and Akane sparring while Genma "supervises". (Heavy air quotes there.)



(Oh, and for those of you keeping score at home, Akane's *still* ranting about Refuge being full of perverts.  Little sis has both a major complex *and* some serious endurance... and a few fewer friends at school, including her "out" classmates Katie and Tammy, because of what she said at lunch today. This Friday the 13th was definitely bad luck for her.)

Nabiki Tendo
Entrepreneur
If you want it, I can get it.

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Ranma Saotome (ranma.saotome@antigonish)
2017-01-13 8:11 PM UTC

Nabiki Tendo (nabiki.tendo@antigonish) said:
> Cologne was in there too, but... let’s just say she effectively incentivized me to *not* take her picture.

You mean the old ghoul threatened to smack you one if you didn't get out of the way.

Nabiki Tendo (nabiki.tendo@antigonish) said:
> including her "out" classmates Katie and Tammy

I don't think Akane even noticed them get up and walk off with their lunches.

I chased'em down during gym and tried to tell them sorry for what Akane's been saying, but they don't wanna hear it from me.  The big thing upsettin' them is they've never run into someone... how'd they put it?  "So hateful and small-minded" is what Tammy said.  They know our show, and they know about the curse and how she reacts to it, and they wanted to know why I put up with her.

Ranma Saotome
Heir to the Saotome School of Anything Goes Martial Arts

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Nabiki Tendo (nabiki.tendo@antigonish)
2017-01-13 8:23 PM UTC

Ranma Saotome (ranma.saotome@antigonish) said:
> You mean the old ghoul threatened to smack you one if you didn't get out of the way.

She certainly didn't offer me a lollipop and a shiny new 10-yen coin.

I would have taken the ten yen, to be absolutely honest.

Ranma Saotome (ranma.saotome@antigonish) said:
> and they wanted to know why I put up with her.

I'll give you this answer for free, Saotome, but only because I know you already know it (and so should they, if they've seen the anime): Family honour, on both sides.

Nabiki Tendo
Entrepreneur
If you want it, I can get it.

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Chisame Nakano (chisame@bikerbabes)
2017-01-13 8:52 PM UTC

You know, I don't remember seeing any photos of any of the residences yet in this thread.  Well, other than the Dietmeier farm, of course.  (And I'm not counting the Banzai Institute, which from what I understand is more like a college crossed with a military base. )  So let me be... well, obviously not the first, but the second with this photo I took of Hane and Lime just before they ran out to do some shopping.  In case it's not obvious, that's our house -- according to Tom, our local liaison, the managers are calling it "Kickstand Cottage" now instead of "Residence 23" or just "Okeechobee".



That little blur in the upper left is my finger, for anyone who, like with Tenchi, wanted to see me in a photo.

Chisame Nakano
Okeechobee High School Class of 2019
I'd say something cool here, but... no.

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Ruby Rose (ruby.rose@dietmeierfarm)
2017-01-13 8:58 PM UTC

Chisame Nakano (chisame@bikerbabes) said:
> That little blur in the upper left is my finger

I think Chisame wins the prize for smallest part of someone appearing in a photo in this thread!

Ruby Rose
"Victory is in a simple soul."
Yeah, no, I don't know what it means either.

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