The National Mall- Thursday

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For the second week in a row, a Thursday with nothing to do had led Sabine and Lana out of town, though today they'd extended the invitation to a few other people.

You know. To go check out museums, like the nerds they were. And to hide in the air conditioning, because it was gross outside.

So it was off to DC for the day handwavily around class times, with shirts available to wear that read "FANDOM COSTUME SOCIETY" to help the non-humans blend in. Would it work? Who knows!


[NFB for distance, and for those who know who they are, though if you happen to be in DC, feel free to stop in!]

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Let's go to the Mall!

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Find a museum and throw a subthread up to let people know where you are for pinging.

And I want to get Robin Sparkles stuck in people's heads.

National Gallery of Art

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Of course Sabine was here, quietly wandering the museum and spending probably way too long considering everything. She'd done research on what was here and what she specifically wanted to see, but she was going to check out everything she possibly could.

The Calder exhibit might be one of her favorite things so far, though, since just walking in sort of looked like she was walking into one giant piece (minus all the other people), and then she could study everything separately, too.

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[mylandmyrules]

Nell wandered through the museum open-mouthed at all the art. She'd never seen anything like this in her whole (very sheltered) life!

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"Enjoying yourself?" Sabine asked, watching her and trying not to be too amused.

National Air & Space Museum

[chirpchirpchirp]

Would Vette be lying if she said she wanted to see what Earth had to offer here in hopes of maybe, maybe proving someone wrong about this planet's space travel capabilities and hopefully finding her way home again? Absolutely!

So, here she was, decked out in one of those costume society shirts (and steadfastly ignoring anybody looking her way and murmuring) and staring with some degree of consternation up at an aircraft that looked like it could barely sustain flight for more than a full minute.

... She wasn't wrong. The Wright Brothers' first flight had been shy of a minute by a single second.

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[unusual_sith]

Lana was also here, curious about the particulars of how far they were.

And yes, wearing a costume society shirt with leggings and boots. If anybody tried staring at her, she was staring right back. They didn't seem to meet her eyes for long.

"The manned probe looks like a stiff wind would destroy it."

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[chirpchirpchirp]

"I'm not opposed to finding out if it would it you're not," Vette chirped.

Because Vette was terrible. And just overall frustrated with this entire dumb planet.

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[hashtag_chocobro]

Learning about spaceships on this planet was still a bit of a trip for Prompto, and he found the Air & Space Museum was able to hold his attention for a little while longer than some of the other museums, if only because he was so interested and fascinated by the designs, all the differences and similarities to some of the stuff found on his home planet, and how most of this stuff was way sleeker than the pictures of the Niflheim airships he'd seen.

And, of course, spotting a familiar face among the visitors wasn't too bad, either. Plus, Prompto was getting his own glances and murmurs, though it had nothing to do with his appearance.

"Hey, Vette!" he waved, and up with the camera. "Picture?"

She was very photogenic, so sue him. Plus it was just his go-to crutch to make talking to people more easy.

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[chirpchirpchirp]

"Picture!" Vette was immediately twirling around to face Prompto, striking a pose. Because heck, it made the guy happy, and it was something to focus on that wasn't being stuck here, being stared at. "Wookiee!"

At this point, people were going to start thinking that 'Wookiee' was some kind of weird Twi'lek codespeak or something.

U.S. Botanic Gardens

[always_someone]

Norman wasn't actually a hundred percent certain how his wanderings had taken him to the gardens, but he had to admit it was kind of nice. Especially once he found his way into the butterfly garden. It was kind of soothing in there, and, given the fact that he could see dead people pretty much on the regular, Norman could definitely appreciate a little bit of soothing life now and again.

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Sabine really appreciated how easy it was to pop in from place to place, so she could even stop in at things she might not have normally.

"This is pretty nice," she decided, getting out her phone because she was going to need some pictures of this.

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[always_someone]

"It really is," Norman replied, smiling a little at a little yellow butterfly as it fluttered on by. "I was thinking of hitting up the natural history museum, but I could pretty easily spend a good chunk of my day here, you know?"

It didn't hurt that Norman was pretty chill when things weren't exploding in his face or anything, granted.

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[mylandmyrules]

Nell might need to be dragged bodily from the gardens. This was amazing! There were so many plants, so much life! After managing to talk one of the gardeners into giving her seeds for a few of the plants she just had to try and grow, she found a quiet out of the way place and sat down, placing her hands on the soil to connect with the earth.

It soothed her and made her feel at home and - oh glory! - she could feel Soulwood through it here!

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[always_someone]

Norman was still quite happily ambling along through the gardens when he noticed his newest little sibling sitting in a quieter corner than most of the rest of it. He smiled a little, and then made his way over, taking a seat nearby.

"Hey, Nell," he said, nodding a little. "Settling in okay?"

National Gallery of Art

[white_oleander]

After she'd commandeered Prompto to help her out by taking pictures of her Captain America puppet posing all patriotically in front of all the usual landmarks (he had been more than willing, and agreeing to a few....a dozen selfies seemed a small price to pay for Captain America gold), it should surprise no one that Astrid (clad in the new 'club' shirt and ready to explain should anyone ask) then planned to spend the rest of the day wandering around the National Gallery, another museum of scratch off her list, and it was really just a shame that she could just stay here and not have to eventually go back.

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"I feel like I'm going to have to make a return trip to really see everything," Sabine noted, totally unsurprised that she'd run into Astrid here.

National Museum of Natural History

[in_sidon_we_trust]

After Astrid had kindly made the suggestion that it would be in incredibly poor taste to take a dip into the Reflecting Pool, Sidon found himself drifting over to the National Museum of Natural History, easily entranced by all the strange and wonderful things this planet had to offer.

Even if it was a little strange that he seemed to be getting quite a fair share of the tourists' attentions that might otherwise be reserved for the exhibits.

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[unusual_sith]

After checking around, Lana thought this museum seemed interesting. History and the nature of the planet? Yes, please.

She wouldn't even spend an inordinate amount of time on the gemstones, though she did try sensing them all through the Force to analyze what sort of structures they had.

She nodded to Sidon when she saw him.

Re: National Museum of Natural History

[mylandmyrules]

Nell might have stood staring for a long time at the dinosaurs. There was so much she had never seen of even imagined!

LITERALLY EVERYWHERE.

[hashtag_chocobro]

Camera? Check! Plenty of film and memory cards? Check! Sweet new t-shirt for a fake club that didn't exist? CHECK!

Prompto was ready and rearing to go, and if anyone thought that he was going to be able to stay in one place more very long when there was so much to see and so much to take pictures of, well, then, clearly, you did not know Prompto very well yet!

African American History and Culture

[intotheout]

The Mall's newest museum was finally not requiring tickets for entry, and Tip was all over it.

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[mylandmyrules]

"I never knew any of this," Nell said. "Or well, hardly any more than the bare bones."

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[seriesofbaddecisions]

It was the outsider architecture that drew Sabine in, wanting to see what the inside looked like at first. And now she was doing a lot of wandering, reading all the information available. She had a very basic working knowledge of certain parts of the history here, so this was a good chance to get a better understanding.

National Air & Space Museum

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Sabine had been here for class before, but she knew what to expect.

But someday when she got home, if she ever had anyone worth telling about this whole experience, she was taking pictures of what they considered "flight" as proof.

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