Back at the Ranch

Miho has been working pretty hard on various bits of smithing or just hauling things about. She's minda of done at the moment and is sprawled out face first on to a table at the moment. Her tail ram rod striahgt up in the air to boot. It looks like it's been one of those days.

Yeowang comes into the NWA HQ building about her normal business. She's assumed a lot of clerical duties not so much because she likes clerical work, but because it gives us important information. So she does it, often late into the night. Which is why she's here, and noting Miho facedown on the table with her tail up straight. "Good evening," she says dryly, to let Miho know she's not alone.

Miho raises one hand and her tail moves a bit. "Good evening, I think I want to fuse to the table a bit longer. Yeowang right how are you doing." She'll peel off the table and sit normally now. "IT's been a day honestly. Seems like it's been one for you if you are up this late."

Yeowang quirks a brow to Miho as she peels off the table and claims that it has been a day. Carefully, she says, "I find most days are days. But my days do not seems to exhaust me the way yours seems to have exhausted you. I am busy, though, with a lot to do. But they are things that need to be done, so I do them. I do not often see you facedown on the table, so I think perhaps your day has been more trying than normal?"

Miho says "Well fair I tend to work my body most days but today has been a bit ... nuts." Maybe it was more mental exhaustin given how everyone's bodies are after all. "Yeah been hauling crates most of the day. I have ideas and I want to get back to smithing. Also a few folks who were dense." She sighs again. "Still not saying you don't work hard."

Yeowang works quite hard most days, very few people will say otherwise, and none of them have seen her train. But she works hard mentally too, most days, and is used to hard work, both mental and physical. But she admits, "Sometimes 'hard' is just doing a thing you're not used to doing." Which would explain why hauling crates is harder than swinging a hammer. "Dense people can also be trying," she agrees. "My high school forbid casually clubbing people who badly needed, so I understand that as a force of frustration."

Miho laughs. "I got into some fights when I got back to Japan. They didn't know what to make of me." She smirks a bit "Not that Japan really matters anymore right? Lets just say I didn't do my growing up in Asia let alone Japan. It's over at least for now so that's that right? So what have you been working on?"

Yeowang smirks about not growing up in Japan. "I'm Korean," she admits. "I was in Tokyo University, for college, though," which is pretigious throughout Asia, and explains why she's on the Yamato server and not the PL server. But she nods about Japan not mattering any more. "That's my theory also," she agrees. "I assume we have been spun off as a side process apart from the public game, and are no longer connected to our bodies," she explains further. "This is why I have not expended any effort in getting out."

"My body -is- out, and I, the avatar called Yeowang, am just an imperfect copy of my human mind. That's why we lose memories when we die, why the game seemed to grow sharper for this new iteration, and why my father hasn't bought whatever servers we logged onto and had that company flogged to a man and then fired for cause." Because her father /could/ have done that. As to what she's been working on, she says, "I've been working on our supply situation, and tracking our various processes. Process control is what let us build our manufacturing to pull ahead of America."

Miho nods to Yeowang for a moment. "Ah, was in the Americna Midwest due to my father's work. Everyone were giants there I tell you. So if we think we're copies huh? Damn your family's that well off? We're just a pack of blacksmiths and if that's the case I'd haved to out do the other Miho huh?" She smirks a bit.

"So handling Logistics? Good we need people topp handle that and honestly America's killing itself by outsourcing."

Yeowang nods about the American midwest. "There are still many things that are done better in America. But her working class wrenched white collar wages out of the manufacturers, and the manufacturers passed the cost to consumers, and finally the consumers stopped paying. /We/ pay working class people a working class wage," which is pretty rough, really, "but in doing so, we can make things much less expensively than American can. When our quality finally reached a par with the US, which took longer for some products than for others, our lower prices, even accouting for overseas shipping, priced the American industries out of business. That's how we broke American steel. That's a simple product, and the simpler a product, the easier it is to manufacture with good quality."

Miho smirks "I see my family's ethos is a big differnt but we're into making things that can be inherited if taken care of." Is there some pride there? Yes there is, still she seem to respect what Yeowang's saying. "Whant to go see if we can get something to eat? I'll cover it!"

Yeowang smiles to Miho, and says, "You made bespoke items, that's an entirely separate business model from what we did. I imagine they're not much alike. We made our profits off volume, you made your money by exacting detail and finely tailored personalization." She buys her clothes that way. Or did before the game. Now personal fit is just a matter of menu-equipping it rather than dressing normally.

She considers food, and says, "I suppose I could eat, but you don't need to cover me." Her business interests cover her costs easily, and that's apart from doing her own hunting. "The one thing I miss is having a culinary team on call. Well, and one of my close friends in school was a blue ribbon chef in her own right. Her mother was on TV, she had her own cooking show. My friend's mother did, I mean. But my friend was quite a good chef. Every bit as good as anyone in game."

Miho says "Aye you make a good point there. I admit I'm someone who never chose to go past highschool. Then again took an apprentiship with my grand father while I was caring for him and Grandmother." 5R
She nots and then she says "Well the best chef I know of Is Hifumi for what it's worth. So shall we go get something to eat?"

Yeowang agrees, "Hifumi's a good chef." And she will walk with Miho over to Hifumi's restaurant, saying as we walk, "But don't feel that lack of college is in any way lowering you. Every job has unique requirements. For business managemnt, college was important. But they don't teach blacksmithing in college, so your apprenticeship was the right career path for you. If someone told you that you needed college, that's because they wanted you to be something else. Or just blindly assumed that college was an automatic path to a good paycheck."

Miho says "I never did assume it was a good ticket to money prices had been going up anway. Also ending up an office lady was a thing of horror to me. It was either this or I'd rather have become a house wife." She shudders about the idea of being an office drone. "I had to harass Grandpa to teach me...too it was pretty funny really."

Yeowang admits, "My path in life was more or less written for me, and me without any say in it. But it was a good path, so I can't complain. Of course, when I was nine, it took a sharp turn. I was heir presumptive to the company when I was born, so I was brought up literally as a boy. Short hair, boy's school uniform, martial arts, everything. So that 'girly things' wouldn't be a distraction. Then when I was nine, my little brother was born, and I went from heir presumptive to ... well, nothing really. My main involvement with the company after that never really expanded, and I turned it all over to my brother when he was old enough. Socially, my parents didn't care what I did as long as I didn't bring disrepute to the company."