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[mech_and_mutt]

Okay, does anyone here know how to make 'ramen?!' Some kinda noodle soup that's supposed to be really, really good?

Apparently y'gotta get a buncha ingredients like fish and seaweed and now we've finally got a real ocean to get 'em from, but I dunno where to go from there! Do I just throw 'em all in a big pot or what?

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[mech_and_mutt]

You don't know what a mecha is and you're callin' me stupid?! What the heck do you think the harpoon gets mounted on?

[In fairness, his experience 'fishing' was something a bit bigger in scale...]

[lalliho]

[Hrk.]

I'm not stupid. I know you just need a stick with a line and hook on it. You just hold it. It's not hard.

[mech_and_mutt]

A stick. A stick and a line. Held in your hands.

[He'd gone from being offended to being baffled.]

Y'know you're just askin' to have that break the moment that beastie starts pulling back down below the clouds, right?

[lalliho]

[clouds...]

You're not fishing right.

[This fact is important to establish first.]

You fish fish out of water. If you hook a beast big enough to break your rod, you kill it. ...Or die. If you're bad at things, or not careful.

[or something.]

[mech_and_mutt]

[It takes a little while before the response arrives this time, but those gears do eventually start turning the right direction.]

Right. Gotta remember these places are a bit different from what I'm used to. Never done this kinda thing by hand before. Or in water.

[Dangit, just when he was starting to get over missing his mecha.]

And I'm guessin' I'll be stuck fishin' up the smaller stuff this time, too.

[lalliho]

Not fishing in water...

[That's a background mumble, something not necessarily part of the conversation even though it's related. What a ridiculous thing to do? How could it even be called fishing?]

It isn't hard. I can do it. And show you how, I guess. We can get enough for your weird food even if they're small.

[mech_and_mutt]

It's kind of a long story, but y'know how that island with the witches on it is just floatin' in the middle of nothing? Somethin' like that. Most of my fishin' was done in the clouds, not the water.

Might take ya up on that offer, too, but probably gotta find the rod and net first. Shouldn't be too hard to find with a real ocean by this new place, right?

[lalliho]

Mm.

[...]

They're fish people...

[Is this going to be illegal?]

[mech_and_mutt]

[...Huh.]

...They are, but they're different from the ones swimmin' in the water, aren't they? So they wouldn't be mad, right?

They ain't hearin' this, are they?

[lalliho]

Mrrmn...

[he doesn't know anything about ocean laws... fish people didn't exist in his world, outside of extremely unfortunate situations involving a deadly plague and the mutations it brings about.]

I don't think it works for them. No weird...thing. [Signet, the mental image helpfully supplies.] Right...?

[being real, he hasn't gotten too close.]

[mech_and_mutt]

[Well, at least he's not publically incriminating himself here.]

Augh, just when I thought I'd have a shot at this. When're we gonna find another ocean if this turns out to be some kinda weird crime?

A real ocean, not that little puddle at the edge of our usual island.

[lalliho]

[mental equivalent of a shrug. search him, dude, he's just as new, here.

also it's worth noting that the palai are technically lizards and are terrified of the fish people... lalli's fantasy racist and just lumps them all together.]

Does it matter that much...?

[mech_and_mutt]

[You're talking to a dog who hasn't seen much of either, as if he'd be the one to nitpick.]

Of course it does!! If I can't make this stuff I'm never gonna be able to stop wondering how it tastes!

[lalliho]

Okay. But not making it right now doesn't mean you'll never make it. Just do it later.

[mech_and_mutt]

Later?! What if we don't get another world with ocean like this one? I can't exactly fish into sky off of our usual island!

And even if I could, APPARENTLY THAT'S DOIN' IT WRONG.