[VIDEO] The Bay

[gammavirginis]

[ There is an attractive woman with two candy-colored horns and long, black hair, and white phosphorescent skin on the screen. She's already donned her necklace, which has a very prominant purple and green stone, with a slight a slightly larger than normal yellow stone. She's sitting in her silver pod in the bay. ]

So+ I have read the pamphlet - very info+rmative, I must say - but this who+le thing is a bit much to+ swallo+w, so+ to+ speak.

Is there anyo+ne there that I can speak to+, to+ co+nvince myself this is no+t an elabo+rate plo+y designed by an ingenio+s prankster? There are a fair number o+f them where I co+me fro+m.

Perhaps so+meo+ne might also+ o+ffer so+me advice o+n which arch I sho+uld go+ thro+ugh.

Comments

[gammavirginis]

So+ very exciting. I wo+uld like the excitement to+ go+ do+wn to+ mo+re manageable levels no+w, ho+wever.

Is there yet mo+re crisis management that is required, o+r do+ yo+u think we can retreat to+ a calmer area and relax?

[ She couldn't remember the last time she worked this hard. ]

[spacedragonmonk]

Yeah...I think we could, yannow, take five. Let's see if there's a damn bar around.

[gammavirginis]

That wo+uld be nice. Altho+ugh the particular beverage that I am craving is unlikely to+ be sto+cked in a recreatio+nal establishment.

[ She looks around. ]

Which 'arch' are we in no+w, anyway?

[spacedragonmonk]

Me neither; can't really get drunk before most bars throw me out. Part'n'parcel of the whole 'Exalted dragony bit' thing, I'm supposin'.

We're in Attleton, big ole slice of suburbia. Yawnsville, really.

[gammavirginis]

No+t necessarily - it just means the fun tends to+ be a bit harder to find. O+bvio+usly yo+u've never been to+ a Tro+ll Bridge Party.

But since tho+se tend to+ be restricted to+ the girls o+n a given street, we sho+uld find a place with a mo+re vivid night life. Any ideas?

[spacedragonmonk]

Obviously not as I've never seen one before. Wonder how onna them'd compare ta Big Ork Bash...

Ah, nightlife? Prolly a coupla clubs closer to the Colosseum. Most of the night life I've noticed is in Genessia, which we can't go ta for obvious reasons and Nova, which is a bit of a ways through another arch.

[gammavirginis]

I think a hike may be in o+rder if we want to+ avo+id hanging out in what is quickly resembling a refugee camp.

[ There was a nearby park and it was full of the people they had just evacuated. ]

[spacedragonmonk]

I ain't opposed ta that. Let's give 'em the laugh afore they expect more, yeah?

[gammavirginis]

With luck they'll have a ho+me to+ return to+ o+nce the crisis has been averted. Which is mo+re than I can say fo+r myself.

[ Porrim let Adelinde take the lead. ]

So+ yo+u've been here fo+r so+me time?

[spacedragonmonk]

Eh, don't worry about it too hard. The envelope from the pod has enough jink to get ya into a kip for a few weeks. Worse come to worse, the alleyways here ain't too shabby. And no one tries to kick ya outta them too!

[She sounds so darn earnest, its hard to know if she's serious or not! Also do you like ambling aimlessly? Because that's Adeline's natural cantor]

Coupla months or so, yeah. Why?

[gammavirginis]

Just flo+undering abo+ut fo+r to+pics o+f co+nversatio+n, is all.

It's been so+me time since I've met a new perso+n. I'm a tad rusty at this no+w.

[spacedragonmonk]

Bit of a loner or just stuck with a buncha folk ya know inside 'n out?

[gammavirginis]

The latter, so+rt o+f. So+me o+f them I still do+n't kno+w very well. So+metimes even eo+ns o+f tedium isn't eno+ugh fo+r so+meo+ne to+ co+me o+ut o+f their shell.

[ Haha, shell. What a perfect phrase when talking about a group that included Meenah. ]

[spacedragonmonk]

Yeah, s'what I heard from somma the older Exalts; ya don't change easy, ya just get more stubbornly...like that.....y-you know what I meant.

[gammavirginis]

No+ that makes perfect sense. Yo+u can imagine the inherent difficulties o+f changing a so+ciety where the mo+st po+werful and wealthy are also+ the lo+ngest lived. O+ur ruler is fo+r all intents and purpo+ses immo+rtal.

[spacedragonmonk]

Well that's not good for anyone. I mean, the factols, the eldarin, hell, even the fucking dragons weren't stupid enough to have one emperor all day every day......ffffor the most part.

[gammavirginis]

Haha, that so+unds like a sto+ry... but ano+ther time, I think. It so+unds like we co+uld bo+th dro+ne o+n fo+r so+me time abo+ut the myriad ways o+ur respective ho+mes are needlessly co+mplicated and ridiculo+us.

Let's try so+mething mo+re mundane and easily digestible: what is yo+u're favo+rite fo+o+d?

[spacedragonmonk]

That's how it goes when you're Clueless talkin' ta some other Clueless, innit Porrim?

Favorite? Well I'd never turn down a good side of steak, specially if its cooked Baator-styled, seared and spiced juuuust right. Mmmn~!

Fuck I want some so bad right now.

[gammavirginis]

What's invo+lved with co+o+king so+mething Baato+r styled?

Was she saying that right?

[spacedragonmonk]

Lotta spices, lotta sizllin' and a whole lotta sinnin'.

[gammavirginis]

[ Porrim laughed. ]

Ho+w do+es o+ne add 'sin' to+ fo+o+d?

[spacedragonmonk]

[Adeline cracks an equally amused smile]

Very carefully. Don't want to get the fundies all up in arms over a delicious delicious steak, do ya?

[gammavirginis]

I have no+ idea what any o+f that meant, but I'm sure it was very clever.

[ One thing Attleton did seem to have, now that they were moving out of the suburbs, was Diners. They was one across the street, advertising a steak and eggs special. ]

We sho+uld be able to+ pro+cure steaks there, assuming their advertising is no+t shamelessly deceptive.