134. Sphere

[corrinesbell]

So after thinking about it for a while, I've decided we're gonna have a contest to name the Tea Shop! ...So, uh, anybody who has an idea can write it down, and when I've got all the ideas...you'll get to vote.

You've only got a week to come up with names to vote on. Get working!

[Sheena is just so tired of trying to be creative about it on her own, and the shop feels wrong without a name after all this time. Involving the village should solve lots of problems, right?

The shop closes early today, when its owner starts to feel strangely tired. She'll carry her journal out around midafternoon, locking the door behind her. At least she's been able to keep ice from forming on the stairs.

Near the bottom of the staircase, a wave of tired and dizzy wins out over balance. There's a lot of creative cursing - more than she'll inclined to - as she slides and rolls the last few steps...and the journal lands open in the mud and snow. So all that grumbling, and the noise of the fall? All nicely broadcasted.

Then she notices, hurrying to pick it up and clarify things.]

Uh, oops, dropped the book down the stairs. Sorry about that!

Comments

[corrinesbell]

That's a bar. Bars and taverns and stuff're...different.

["Brewding" did make her snort.]

[markofthewise]

Well don't let Buffy and the others hear that. They might take offense to you saying tea is better.

[corrinesbell]

You're the one saying it's better. I just said different.

[markofthewise]

Sophisticated then. If you want a name, do what Iroh did. He liked jasmine tea and he was known as the 'Dragon of the West'. So he named is tea shop 'Jasmine Dragon'. It sounds nice and it's simple. So... pick a flavor and pick a nickname for yourself!

[corrinesbell]

We used to have a "Jasmine Dragon" here didn't we? I thought about that, but that place wasn't mine.

...And I don't think I have any nicknames that I'd want hanging on a sign over the door.

["Violent Demonic Banshee" and "Miss Jubblies" and "Voluptuous Hunny" really don't...just. No.]

[markofthewise]

[Was there? It was before his time, then.]

What, they're not flattering? Maybe... a title. A rank. Or whatever it is you do. Ninja, right? You could go with... the Iced Ninja!

[corrinesbell]

[She has a nice handful of titles, and an unofficial as-yet-unacknowledged rank...eh. No, none of them feel right.]

"Iced"?

[markofthewise]

Iced tea. It's a thing people like. How about the Green Ninja?

[corrinesbell]

I know what iced tea is, Sokka.

...Just pick which one of those you might want people to actually...vote for.

[markofthewise]

I can't really just pick one. I'm going to have to think about a really good one.

[corrinesbell]

Great! You think about it. Take all the time you want to think about it.

[markofthewise]

I'm starting to suspect you're not taking this as seriously as I am. [Except... he's not. At all.]

[corrinesbell]

That'd be pretty hard to pull off.

[markofthewise]

Yeah, well don't think I didn't hear you and whatshername mocking me.