tvk | 1rst Greeting - After the Dark Hour

[voice] [So guess who got beamed into Prospero during the Dark Hour?] This is all wrong. Time travel is one thing, but what the hell was that? Coffins and blood and monsters? It's exactly like a trashy VR sim. This isn't reality, it's a bad joke!

[Sigh.] Nevermind. It all amounts to my being stranded on yet another planet with no immediate means of escape. No use freaking out about it. So I've got a few questions for you:

1. Is this really Old Earth, circa 2011?
2. What's the deal with those monsters? Are they sentient?
3. Where can I find a decent coffee shop?
4. Also, where can I find a change of clothes?

[Action: For a change, the first thing one notices about Festina isn't the lurid purple birthmark. It's the impossibly tight black bodysuit. Thing is, this isn't her uniform. She picked it up from the Unity settlement on Muta when her space-suit got EMPed and she needed something she wouldn't sweat buckets in, and she never got back to her ship for a change of clothes before she got spirited here. She's literally got nothing else but the clothes she's wearing right now, but try telling that to the Prospero locals. She's tired, and irritated, and the wolf-whistles she is getting from certain boorish passersby are not helping her mood. Unfortunately, she's also lost, and will probably need help finding a place to stay. Dare you approach?]

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Maybe? Anything that doesn't look like it was painted on would be a start.

Painted on? Sounds either uncomfortable or extremely comfortable. Either way, there's a buncha shops all over, and most of 'em are pretty easy to spot; merchandise in the windows on display and all.

It's comfortable, but it kind of stands out. No one would look at me twice in a gym in the Technocracy, but 21rst century Earth standards of modesty are stricter, apparently.

Yes. I can actually, err, vaguely hear the whistling.

They're pretty proficient at it, actually.

[facetiously;] Yes, it's a lost art. These guys could teach the construction workers back home a thing or two.

I suppose at this time of night there won't be anything open.

[There are no reservations about smarming right back, no. Her tone's still friendly, though.] Glad you could view it with your own eyes -- err, hear it with your own ears, then.

Anyway, that's... probably correct, actually. Think you can bear with it for a few more hours?

Yeah, I'll probably want to sleep myself. Someone mentionned a hotel?

Is it true that it's the only one in town?

That... is a good question. I actually never really checked -- lack of needing to, and all.

It's probably the biggest, at the very least.

... You don't need to sleep?

Err, no! Though that would be pretty handy...

The Bayview lets people like you n'me in for free. I've never had to hunt down another hotel because of that.

You do need to sleep, or you don't?

[She laughs, even though she's the one at fault for making everything so drat confusing.]

I do.

[sigh] Well, I'm heading over to that hotel now. Maybe I'll see you around.

Sure. Keep an eye out for the redhead wit-- well, picture. Worth a thousand words, and so on.

[And a brief clip to video -- have a wave hello, Festina]

It's nice to meet you. I'm Festina Ramos, by the way.

Devola. Pleasure to make your acquaintance. Seeya around, I suppose.

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