"Righty-O then...enough embarassing memories. Let's focus on some good ones, and maybe even some funny ones" Tam quickly interjects before Aananda gets up and leaves the table. :).
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The afternoon rolls along into evening, with Aananda, Ryo and Tamrin pulling out bizarre and funny stories from their pasts to liven up their meal at the Juggling Dwarf.As the eating and drinking finally start to wind down, Tam finishes up his story with "......and that's when I tried to buy the horse a prostitute!" Laughter ensues.
.........I don't get it. What's a prostitute?
"Righty-O then...enough embarassing memories. Let's focus on some good ones, and maybe even some funny ones" Tam quickly interjects before Aananda gets up and leaves the table. :).
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The afternoon rolls along into evening, with Aananda, Ryo and Tamrin pulling out bizarre and funny stories from their pasts to liven up their meal at the Juggling Dwarf.As the eating and drinking finally start to wind down, Tam finishes up his story with "......and that's when I tried to buy the horse a prostitute!" Laughter ensues.
.........I don't get it. What's a prostitute?
"Oh. Um...I forgot that word might not be in circulation around here. They might be called harlots, strumpets or trollops here. Or maybe streetwalkers, 'tantric engineers', hetaera...do any of those sound familiar?" Tam asks, trying very hard to not start blushing again.
"Righty-O then...enough embarassing memories. Let's focus on some good ones, and maybe even some funny ones" Tam quickly interjects before Aananda gets up and leaves the table. :).
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The afternoon rolls along into evening, with Aananda, Ryo and Tamrin pulling out bizarre and funny stories from their pasts to liven up their meal at the Juggling Dwarf.As the eating and drinking finally start to wind down, Tam finishes up his story with "......and that's when I tried to buy the horse a prostitute!" Laughter ensues.
.........I don't get it. What's a prostitute?
"Oh. Um...I forgot that word might not be in circulation around here. They might be called harlots, strumpets or trollops here. Or maybe streetwalkers, 'tantric engineers', hetaera...do any of those sound familiar?" Tam asks, trying very hard to not start blushing again.
She looks at him blankly. "Ummmmm.....no?"
Tam tries to find any other description that would work, then gives up. After a heavy sigh, he just says "A person who receives money for....errr...performing....ummmm....sexual-type acts..."
Tam tries to find any other description that would work, then gives up. After a heavy sigh, he just says "A person who receives money for....errr...performing....ummmm....sexual-type acts..."
Her eyes go wide and she blushes furiously. "Oh. Ummmm....I didn't know people did that..."
She looks uncomfortable and suddenly jumps up from the table. "You know I uh, think I'll just head over to the ummmm....just....I'll be back in a little bit..." she stammered.
Tam tries to find any other description that would work, then gives up. After a heavy sigh, he just says "A person who receives money for....errr...performing....ummmm....sexual-type acts..."
Her eyes go wide and she blushes furiously. "Oh. Ummmm....I didn't know people did that..."
She looks uncomfortable and suddenly jumps up from the table. "You know I uh, think I'll just head over to the ummmm....just....I'll be back in a little bit..." she stammered.
"No, you don't have to.....it was a bad joke anyway. Forget I said it - it wasn't supposed to embarrass anybody......crap!"
Aananda darts out of the inn, ducking around the back before stopping. She leaned against the wall. Stupid, stupid, stupid. She had made a total idiot of herself. She was like an ignorant child about so many things, and for some reason it really bothered her that Tam might see her as a child. If she'd just kept her mouth shut. Or not gone running off. She put her hands over her face. She was such an idiot.
Knowing he had no hope of keeping up with her without magic, Tam quickly excuses himself from the table and goes after Aananda. Not seeing her when he comes outside, he calls out after her then heads to the shop quickly to see if she's there.
She jumped when she heard Tam calling her name. She hesitated, not sure if she wanted to be found. Her shoulders slumped. Might as well get this over with.
"I'm over here," she called weakly.
Tam slowly pokes his head around the corner.
"....I'm sorry I did that. Again. If you need some time to yourself, I totally understand - I've probably done enough damage for one day anyway. I wasn't even thinking about how much explaining that joke might require."
"For what it's worth, you don't have to run off when something like that happens - though I should've avoided something that 'racy' in the first place..."
"Oooo! Look, Barak! A tiger and ladies! Which one would you choose? I'd choose the tiger because tigers are big and eat people and like chocolate and birds and I like birds and chocolate and eating people too!"
Jimpy the dino-riding halfling surges forward on his racing dinosaur and begins waving wildly at the new group. "Oh! Hello! Can I pet your tiger? Does it eat people? Does it like wearing bandanas and sugary cereals and promoting a corporate agenda in the name of childhood memories? Are you wild people? Do you wear pants? I used to not wear pants but then I got thrown in jail where they like you a little too much if you don't wear pants, so now I wear pants and burn people who get excited like that at the sight of me without pants!"
"Yep, some of the people here like to eat people. And there are big lizards and underground cities and cannibals, though no halflings have tried to eat me yet so I guess they're not really cannibals since you have to be the same species and I'm not and I haven't eaten any halflings so I'm not a cannibal but I guess if I ate a human I wouldn't be a cannibal either so maybe it's not so bad to eat humans and dwarfs and elves and monkeys, though not monkeys because they're cool and they can climb trees and swing from branches and throw poo and I wish I could throw poo but I can only throw fire and burn things and they don't like it when you burn things here which is too bad since they make a lovely sight when they burn, things that is, not poo or monkeys."
Tam slowly pokes his head around the corner.
"....I'm sorry I did that. Again. If you need some time to yourself, I totally understand - I've probably done enough damage for one day anyway. I wasn't even thinking about how much explaining that joke might require."
"For what it's worth, you don't have to run off when something like that happens - though I should've avoided something that 'racy' in the first place..."
Tam slowly pokes his head around the corner.
"....I'm sorry I did that. Again. If you need some time to yourself, I totally understand - I've probably done enough damage for one day anyway. I wasn't even thinking about how much explaining that joke might require."
"For what it's worth, you don't have to run off when something like that happens - though I should've avoided something that 'racy' in the first place..."
"I...I'm sorry. I was just....embarrassed," she said, blushing and looking anywhere but at Tam. "I didn't really know how to deal with that. I...I just felt really stupid and ignorant," she blurted out, "which I guess I am, at least the ignorant part. We weren't taught about a lot of things at the temple. The monks were not exactly forthcoming about that sort of thing especially. I believe the exact words were, 'procreation tends to foster attachment, therefore we strongly discourage such actions, and will speak no more of such things in this temple.' There's a lot of things I should know, but don't, and it's....frustrating to say the least."
"I...I'm sorry. I was just....embarrassed," she said, blushing and looking anywhere but at Tam. "I didn't really know how to deal with that. I...I just felt really stupid and ignorant," she blurted out, "which I guess I am, at least the ignorant part. We weren't taught about a lot of things at the temple. The monks were not exactly forthcoming about that sort of thing especially. I believe the exact words were, 'procreation tends to foster attachment, therefore we strongly discourage such actions, and will speak no more of such things in this temple.' There's a lot of things I should know, but don't, and it's....frustrating to say the least."Tam slowly pokes his head around the corner.
"....I'm sorry I did that. Again. If you need some time to yourself, I totally understand - I've probably done enough damage for one day anyway. I wasn't even thinking about how much explaining that joke might require."
"For what it's worth, you don't have to run off when something like that happens - though I should've avoided something that 'racy' in the first place..."
"I...I'm sorry. I was just....embarrassed," she said, blushing and looking anywhere but at Tam. "I didn't really know how to deal with that. I...I just felt really stupid and ignorant," she blurted out, "which I guess I am, at least the ignorant part. We weren't taught about a lot of things at the temple. The monks were not exactly forthcoming about that sort of thing especially. I believe the exact words were, 'procreation tends to foster attachment, therefore we strongly discourage such actions, and will speak no more of such things in this temple.' There's a lot of things I should know, but don't, and it's....frustrating to say the least."
"I guess that makes sense, yeah," Tam replies quietly. "On the other hand, you're not part of that temple anymore, which means there's nothing stopping you from learning what you need to know to get about comfortably outside of that place. Maybe today is a good day to start," he says as the look of an idea crosses his face.
"I guess that makes sense, yeah," Tam replies quietly. "On the other hand, you're not part of that temple anymore, which means there's nothing stopping you from learning what you need to know to get about comfortably outside of that place. Maybe today is a good day to start," he says as the look of an idea crosses his face.
She slowly looks up. "What exactly did you have in mind?"
She slowly looks up. "What exactly did you have in mind?"
"I guess that makes sense, yeah," Tam replies quietly. "On the other hand, you're not part of that temple anymore, which means there's nothing stopping you from learning what you need to know to get about comfortably outside of that place. Maybe today is a good day to start," he says as the look of an idea crosses his face.
Suddenly realizing how bad a half-thought out sentence can sound (like the one he just blurted out), Tam's face gets flushed.
"This is just my day for innapropriate one liners, isn't it?" as he shakes his head and comes around the corner.
"I was going to suggest that there's a pretty good public library in this city. It would allow you read about and broaden your...cultural education, without the awkwardness of learning it face to face. At least until you have the basics under your belt first. I've got a few volumes' worth of stuff from about a dozen different worlds that might help to, if you want..."
He pulls a worried face, trying to figure out how to help her without seeming either condescending or a lech. It looks like he's being both at the moment though... :)
Suddenly realizing how bad a half-thought out sentence can sound (like the one he just blurted out), Tam's face gets flushed.
"This is just my day for innapropriate one liners, isn't it?" as he shakes his head and comes around the corner.
"I was going to suggest that there's a pretty good public library in this city. It would allow you read about and broaden your...cultural education, without the awkwardness of learning it face to face. At least until you have the basics under your belt first. I've got a few volumes' worth of stuff from about a dozen different worlds that might help to, if you want..."
He pulls a worried face, trying to figure out how to help her without seeming either condescending or a lech. It looks like he's being both at the moment though... :)
"Well, that does seem like a good way to avoid any more of these embarrassing social blunders. Well, at least the really obvious ones."
"Well, that does seem like a good way to avoid any more of these embarrassing social blunders. Well, at least the really obvious ones."
"Well, most of this stuff you have to learn first-hand, but in your case getting the basics from this stuff won't hurt," as he hands her one of his datapads.
as he hands her one of his datapads.
as he hands her one of his datapads.
as he hands her one of his datapads.
Aananda started reading the datapad. At one point she was clearly trying to make sense of a diagram. She tilted her head to the side and then turned the datapad first one way and then the other. "That looks like it hurts" she muttered incredulously.
as he hands her one of his datapads.
Aananda started reading the datapad. At one point she was clearly trying to make sense of a diagram. She tilted her head to the side and then turned the datapad first one way and then the other. "That looks like it [i]hurts" she muttered incredulously.
"Uh...what did you look up first?" Tam asks with a slightly worried look on his face. :)
"Uh...what did you look up first?" Tam asks with a slightly worried look on his face. :)Aananda started reading the datapad. At one point she was clearly trying to make sense of a diagram. She tilted her head to the side and then turned the datapad first one way and then the other. "That looks like it [i]hurts" she muttered incredulously.
She turns the datapad toward him, blushing furiously the whole time. It looks to be a pretty basic diagram of two humans.
She turns the datapad toward him, blushing furiously the whole time. It looks to be a pretty basic diagram of two humans.
She turns the datapad toward him, blushing furiously the whole time. It looks to be a pretty basic diagram of two humans.
"Uh...what did you look up first?" Tam asks with a slightly worried look on his face. :)Aananda started reading the datapad. At one point she was clearly trying to make sense of a diagram. She tilted her head to the side and then turned the datapad first one way and then the other. "That looks like it [i]hurts" she muttered incredulously.
She turns the datapad toward him, blushing furiously the whole time. It looks to be a pretty basic diagram of two humans, three dogs, a goat, a team of horses driven by a clown midget, something that looks like device from a dungeon, 3 casks of some kind of liquid, two dead pigeons, and a jar of bees.
"Uh...what did you look up first?" Tam asks with a slightly worried look on his face. :)Aananda started reading the datapad. At one point she was clearly trying to make sense of a diagram. She tilted her head to the side and then turned the datapad first one way and then the other. "That looks like it [i]hurts" she muttered incredulously.
She turns the datapad toward him, blushing furiously the whole time. It looks to be a pretty basic diagram of two humans, three dogs, a goat, a team of horses driven by a clown midget, something that looks like device from a dungeon, 3 casks of some kind of liquid, two dead pigeons, and a jar of bees.
"Uh...what did you look up first?" Tam asks with a slightly worried look on his face. :)Aananda started reading the datapad. At one point she was clearly trying to make sense of a diagram. She tilted her head to the side and then turned the datapad first one way and then the other. "That looks like it [i]hurts" she muttered incredulously.
She turns the datapad toward him, blushing furiously the whole time. It looks to be a pretty basic diagram of two humans, three dogs, a goat, a team of horses driven by a clown midget, something that looks like device from a dungeon, 3 casks of some kind of liquid, two dead pigeons, and a jar of bees.
Actress - 'What is this thing called, love?'
Director - Cut! No. It's 'What is this thing called love?'
sound it out, paying attention to the comma
classic
She turns the datapad toward him, blushing furiously the whole time. It looks to be a pretty basic diagram of two humans.
The color drains from Tam's face for a moment, then returns and matches Aananda's as he looks back into his Haversack.
"....I really need to remember what encylopedia software is on which datapad...."
"Um, if you're going to start out on this....subject..." as he turns an even brighter shade of red, "it might make more sense to start with individual genders after this, uh, part. You know...learn to walk before you ride....RUN! Run! Argh!!!" as he quickly switches the document back to an earlier chapter and hands it back to her.