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[problemdaimyo]

What's your favorite activity to do when you're shut up inside a room all day? Do you have favorite hobbies or training practices you like to indulge in? Ways to pass the time on a rainy day?

Share your favorites! You don't have to share your name here, your secrets will be safe!

Comments

[morningpeacock]

Favorite Activity when indoors? Train! There are all sorts of training exercises appropriate to indoors! I particularly like strength training with lifting weights, or using a punching-bag or chin-up bar, since cardio can be rather noisy/needs more space than I have! But if you would like to do cardio and live in an apartment, there are always stairs!!

[problemdaimyo]

Ah, but to use stairs requires an apartment with more than one level in it! What if you have none of those things on hand? After all, sometimes those things simply aren't available in a place you've been stuck.

[sound_council]

Hmm. My favorite activity would be catching up on my reading. But usually I must spend downtime catching up on reports.

[problemdaimyo]

[Ah, one with a similar affliction!]

One mustn't spend all of their time on reports, all the same.

[sound_council]

True. But it is hard to pull oneself away, especially for something so unimportant as a few hours of relaxation.

[trapweaver]

(°ロ°)☝

Am I shut up inside my room because I want to be shut up inside my room or am I shut up inside my room because someone decided to shut me up inside my room? This is important!!!!

[problemdaimyo]

[Oh! A hand drawing!]

I believe the second is the more appropriate description. Am I to gather one of your hobbies would be to draw?

[trapweaver]

[ The best hand drawing. He puts so much time into his hand drawings and guess who is about to up his writing size. Just guess. ]

I like to draw, yes! Ｏ(≧▽≦)Ｏ

I think I'm a better knitter, but I'm really good at escaping!

If I want to, I mean. No prison can hold me! (¬‿¬)

[problemdaimyo]

[He can tell lots of effort was put into it! It's an unusual thing to see in a missive.]

Well...sometimes there can be a prison not of one's choosing that one must remain inside regardless. Escape can't always be an appropriate manner of entertainment.

[trapweaver]

Have you tried making them think you've escaped?

It can clear a place out real quick so you have more rooms to go into! |･ω･｀)

[problemdaimyo]

[This one is very determined to escape. Not that he could be blamed...but running away from his own guards, especially after that incident earlier in the month, wasn't an option.]

Ah, undoubtedly. Unfortunately, such a thing might only cause more trouble once they return. Perhaps I should ask...if the confinement were by your own choice, how would you spend your time then?

[trapweaver]

Knitting! Thinking! Planning! Plotting! Training!

Drawing, too. You can never draw enough.

And noodles! Eating lots and lots noodles! ᕕ[ ᓀ ڡ ᓂ ]ㄏ

What about you?

[problemdaimyo]

[Noodles, he says...did this unknown artist recognize him, perhaps?]
Plotting and indoor training? Do you combine the two?

Well, I do think and plan quite a bit. I agree, however, eating noodles is a good way to pass the time as well.

[trapweaver]

Yeah, I do! I kind of have to. If I broke anything, Okaasan'd kill me! ｡ﾟ(TヮT)ﾟ｡

Noodles are the best!!!! Do you like noodles?

It sounds like you do! 。(⌒∇⌒。)

[problemdaimyo]

[Could it be he was writing to someone young, if they had a mother to worry about?]

Ah, so when you say you train, you really mean that you plan to train?

Noodles are very much so the best. I could not agree more!

[trapweaver]

I do both! There's no point in wasting time sitting around if I've got enough room that I can do things.

What's your favorite type of noodle? (*⌒∇⌒*)

[problemdaimyo]

But carefully, I assume? Given the danger involved in breaking things.

Ah, must I choose only one?

[trapweaver]

Taking care in your training is part of it! It also depends on what you're training in, though!

You're allowed more than one! A true noodle lover knows the struggle! (ﾉ≧ڡ≦)

[problemdaimyo]

Ah, very true. And which things would you recommend to focus on to prevent damage?

Well then, I believe it's fair to consider myself a true noodle lover.

[trapweaver]

Pottery is a big one! Any china and heirlooms should always be moved safely away. Candles!!! Always candles and fixtures!!!!

What're your favorite noodles, though? Unless you have favorites for different occasions!

I know I do! (*´・ｖ・)

[problemdaimyo]

Those are methods to prepare an area, not methods of training. Am I wrong?

I have a wide variety of favorites for different occasions, overall however, my favorites are often ramen, udon, and yakisoba.

[trapweaver]

Training indoors requires preparation of the area! You wouldn't do stretches in a room full of boxes with pointy corners, right? You'd move them first!!! You have to do the same thing if you're training inside in an area not designed for it!

Aaaah, all of those are so great! Ramen's a regular for me and I use soba to treat my depression.

So good! I'm hungry just thinking about all these great noodles! (ﾉ≧ڡ≦)

[problemdaimyo]

But after you move the boxes and stretch, then there's a world of possible training regimens?

Soba is a very effective treatment for depression.

Don't allow me to keep you from food, then.

[trapweaver]

Yeah! There's a lot you can do! You can do anything you can outside, you just gotta be careful!

It's the best. I haven't found anything more effective than soba!!!!!

It's okay! I can eat and write! (•̀o•́)ง

[teachingpeace]

That truly depends on your abilities, as my own make such an occurence very unlimiting.

[problemdaimyo]

That is true. But then, in this format, perhaps the things that apply best would be things anyone could do.

[teachingpeace]

The universal to that is typically reading, isn't it?

[problemdaimyo]

Ah. that is true. But what can be done when everything you have to read has been read?

[teachingpeace]

Have you considered creating something of your own?

[problemdaimyo]

Writing my own story, do you mean? Or anything?

[teachingpeace]

Not just a story, more than simply that. Or perhaps not that at all. Do you like to write?

[problemdaimyo]

In a fictional sense? From time to time I enjoy it, yes. I cannot say I have a wide pool of experience to create new worlds with, however.

[teachingpeace]

Don't you? I can't believe that anyone who has read so much as to have nothing left is without options.

[problemdaimyo]

Ah, might you be suggesting that I take inspiration from the books I've read to write one that is similar? I must confess, my inspiration has often been in a more physical direction.

[teachingpeace]

Not at all!

My own artform is more... sculpture and dollmaking, I must admit.

It's simply a matter of taking inspiration from what is around you.

[thegreatninja]

[She isn't going to sign her name or anything like that.]

Throwing blades is fun but when would you be shut in a room all day?

And why are you asking?