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WHAT in person
WHERE all over
WHEN 32nd day
NOTES it's a deage post

[it's a beautiful day!

by someone's standards!

which is to say, the entire town is darkly overcast and gloomy, and starting in the morning, there are scattered showers intermittently around the town. it's light enough that it isn't bothersome, barely noticeable, really, but you may find yourself feeling a bit different after you've past through one. like it's taken a few years off your life— quite literally.

or maybe it doesn't effect you at all! and you just want to go for a walk in the rain. you do you.]

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[still whispering] I don't know what that is.

That's fine. It's just a thing to be, like Vyzanian. Different biological stuff going on, that's all.

Am I offworld?

Yeah. But not for a long time.

That's ... weird.

Yeah. Just think of it like a really weird dream that happens to be taking place in reality.

I don't want to do that?

That's ok, that was actually a pretty stupid suggestion.

That just sounds like deciding, "Maybe I'm crazy." Maybe I am, but?

I have a slightly different perspective on it due to some extremely specific events in my life but I probably am crazy, so.

You'll pretty much be okay here as there aren't a whole bunch of psychopaths running around. Are you hungry or anything?

I'll be all right. I won't need to eat for a few days if it comes to it.

Pretty handy.

You want to walk with me to work? I can show you around a bit.

Okay.

[Gestures him to start walking.]

Honestly I'm not sure what the most relevant landmarks would be, but there ain't a lot around, [He gestures to the mall] That's the human materialism zoo where we exercise our innate urge to capitalism. [the park] That's some carefully cultivated nature that is used for sports and frolicking. [The apartments] Those are just apartments that's where everyone sleeps.

[wide-eyed, looking around]

And this is where I work. We sell coffee, which is a combination human stimulant and fashion accessory.

How is it... fashion? A patch?

Nah its just hip to overpay for something you can get for a dollar and only have one hand free to do things with.

[blankly] Oh. Why?

Shrug.

Complex social matrices of affluence and whatnot.

They do drink it, though?

Oh, yeah.

[As they are arriving into Heavenly Grounds:]

You want some?

Um... sure?

[a little nervous, as this is apparently some kind of social statement]

[Dave is more attuned than most to aliens being uncomfortable. He starts making him once, but glances his way.]

What's up? You think you might be allergic?

Oh, no. Just, am I, making a statement?