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Who: Jay Nagai and Open
What: Jay going about his day and getting his first supplies for breeding snakes for food
Where: Mafaton, Tinker's Lot, Flyside, the El Train
When: All day Veerdi
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Warnings: None yet.

Over time, Jay had fallen into a bit of a rhythm. He would wake up in the morning and go to work, spending the day at whatever train stations they sent him to based on the nature of what needed to be done that day, then after work he would either go directly to Tinker’s Lot for a few hours, or he’d go to Mafaton and pick up some rats if he was running low. On this particular day, he was running low.

When he went to the pet store, as he often did, he lingered by the snakes. Getting a snake would certainly allay any suspicions that may form that he was, quite simply, eating the feeder rats that he bought, but snakes were very expensive. He certainly wouldn’t want to get one and just eat it right away. Maybe if he got a male and a female of the same species, though, he could breed them for a steady supply of a higher quality food, or at the very least use the offspring to flavor the rats that he ate to make them taste a bit better.

He resolved to do this, but not at once. It would be difficult to transport all the supplies needed, after all, in addition to a snake and the feeder rats he’d need, so instead he settled on getting the largest tank he could find for the future snakes, as well as getting as many supplies as he could fit inside the tank for ease of transportation, as well as some rats for himself.

It was a bit difficult carrying all that back to his apartment, but he was definitely glad he did so before actually getting some snakes. He’d get more supplies over time, and then after that might have to save a few weeks before getting the actual snakes, but he figured that should increase the quality of his meals.

Later, after getting everything home and settled, Jay headed back out to Tinker’s Lot, spending the day improving and modifying the Pigeon Trap he was designing, which was now a thing of gears and metal that travelled on four legs and was powered by crystals.

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"I see it and I'll alert the media," she drawls before meeping in surprise as the device she'd been tinkering with turns on. If Jay wants to extrapolate from what she's currently holding, it appears that Alter is the market for fans of various shapes and sizes today.

"Thanks." Then, seeing the device turn on, he perked up. "What is that?" He began moving closer to see.

"The severed head of John the Baptist." Alter holds up the case for a sturdy sort of fan that would do well inside a very large computer tower or a server.

"Huh?" Jay looked up. "Funny, doesn't look much like a severed head."

"Smart men get me so wet. Can you, like, explain science to me, too?" What is with the youth of today?

"Huh?"

Now he was just confused. Maybe it was from...well, being a giant snake who simply turned himself into a human, but there was some level of this conversation that was clearly going on, yet was completely imperceptible to him.

"I don't get it."

Alter just stares in honest bafflement. She's sure he's not making fun of her, but is it really possible that he doesn't understand her?

"The fuck is your deal, Cap'n Assburgers?"

And Jay returns the bafflement in spades.

"What deal? I'm confused, there is no deal."

Thus far, both mansplaining and making fun of her have been ruled out, leaving only moderate to severe brain damage as a likely explanation for his behaviour.

"How are you confused? You tell me in small little words and I'll clear it right up." Alter puts aside the fan she'd been holding before hopping down the heap of equipment only to get just a bit too close for comfort to Jay. She's not violently aggressive, but she's making it clear that she isn't pleased with his presence.

Jay jumped back with a little surprised hiss when she landed right in front of him, before going into more normal, human-like expressions of his discomfort.

"Uh...well, I get that the John the Baptist thing was probably a joke, and I'm guessing maybe it had meaning based on who John the Baptist was? But I wasn't raised Christian, so I don't really get the connection there. Unless you were making a reference to it being like a severed head in general, in that it currently isn't functional as anything, but when it was attached to a computer and functioning as a fan it was quite useful?"

Raising the new possibility of...the whole thing had just gone over Jay's head, and he'd ended up wandering lost while the point sailed right by.

Rolling her eyes and making a sound of disgust Alter turns her back on Jay and heads back up to her equipment. There is a time and a place to argue with idiots and she has work to do.

Blinking in confusion, he decides to go back to his searching. He honestly has no clue what just happened there, but thinks it best to keep looking since he's fairly certain he won't be getting alerted now if she does find what she's looking for, since the one thing he did get was that he offended her. Somehow. Even though he wasn't quite sure what he did.