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    "Not much of a story to it. I had to do something to earn my keep around here. And using my skills at MERC seemed like the best option." Fayyaad takes a sip of the wine. "And I met one of their senior officers, Dena Xifhara. She recommended the place to me and helped me get my license." She also brought him there for other purposes, but he won't mention that for now.
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    It's simple, Eun. Even though your motives are selfish, you're still offering to help, and help always deserves thanks. Because thanks can make the brain release feel-good chemicals which can be enough of a selfish motive to get people without other motives to help.

    Felicity isn't that cynical, however, she's just thanking Eun for offering to help with a problem that isn't her speciality and which Felicity- who got herself in the position to need help in the first place- is struggling with. "No, Eun. You're a physicist, and you're offering help with a biochemical problem using exotic materials and substances that don't always behave as one might expect. Triffid oil at least is oil, even if it's pink." Some of the stuff she uses is stranger than an extract from a moving predatory plant.

    Volleyball

    "Uh, sure!" Mishnehel takes the ball and thwacks it back over the net, aiming it as close to the middle between Zefir and Vlad as she can.
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    "Not much of a story to it. I had to do something to earn my keep around here. And using my skills at MERC seemed like the best option." Fayyaad takes a sip of the wine. "And I met one of their senior officers, Dena Xifhara. She recommended the place to me and helped me get my license." She also brought him there for other purposes, but he won't mention that for now.
    [Bar]

    "Same, more or less." Rose shrugs. "I mean, in my case, it was Olvisin, but other than that, a pretty familiar story." She smiles. "All right, that was a little too easy, wasn't it? What about before MERC?" She gives him a playful poke in the ribs. "I'm guessing... travelling show?"

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    It's simple, Eun. Even though your motives are selfish, you're still offering to help, and help always deserves thanks. Because thanks can make the brain release feel-good chemicals which can be enough of a selfish motive to get people without other motives to help.

    Felicity isn't that cynical, however, she's just thanking Eun for offering to help with a problem that isn't her speciality and which Felicity- who got herself in the position to need help in the first place- is struggling with. "No, Eun. You're a physicist, and you're offering help with a biochemical problem using exotic materials and substances that don't always behave as one might expect. Triffid oil at least is oil, even if it's pink." Some of the stuff she uses is stranger than an extract from a moving predatory plant.
    [Darker Beach]

    "Well, not strictly." Eun corrects. "I do my share of chemistry. Biomechanical engineering. Software programming. Quantum physics, robotics... I even have a nuerology degree." She smirks a little. "I... got a little tired of explaining I wasn't 'that kind of doctor'." She elaborates. "...But even so, yeah, I get your point. Believe me when I say it's the first thing on my mind. The Nexus is weird. It started being weird well before I got here, and it isn't showing any signs of stopping anytime soon. I might as well learn to handle it at some point."
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    Mishnehel seems to be quiet good at this game, even thought she never played it befor. Hard to imagone she just plays this for the first time.
    Zefir is good enougth at prediction to forsee the trap. "Got it." he shouts immediatly at Vlad and goes to recive the ball. If Vlad reacts as expected, by not going for Mishnehel ball, Zefir will play a decent recive to Vlad. This time Vlad shouldn't get hit by the ball unless he spaces out .
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    [Bar]

    Fayyaad's hand brushes against Rose's wrist when she pokes him, seemingly by accident.

    "Not quite. I'm a noble, from the land of Moran-Ir, of the Zafar family. I had to flee my homeland for being... too outspoken about the empire that holds it in thrall. I was no longer safe and going somewhere far away was deemed the best option."
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    Volleyball

    "Uh, sure!" Mishnehel takes the ball and thwacks it back over the net, aiming it as close to the middle between Zefir and Vlad as she can.
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    Volleyball

    Mishnehel seems to be quiet good at this game, even thought she never played it befor. Hard to imagone she just plays this for the first time.
    Zefir is good enougth at prediction to forsee the trap. "Got it." he shouts immediatly at Vlad and goes to recive the ball. If Vlad reacts as expected, by not going for Mishnehel ball, Zefir will play a decent recive to Vlad. This time Vlad shouldn't get hit by the ball unless he spaces out .
    [Volleyball]

    Fortunately, Vlad does see it coming, and between the two of them, manage to set it up to spike it just past the net. If Mishnehel doesn't catch up to it, it'll be a point for sure.

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    Fayyaad's hand brushes against Rose's wrist when she pokes him, seemingly by accident.

    "Not quite. I'm a noble, from the land of Moran-Ir, of the Zafar family. I had to flee my homeland for being... too outspoken about the empire that holds it in thrall. I was no longer safe and going somewhere far away was deemed the best option."
    [Bar]

    "So... political refugee, then." Rose concludes. "That sucks. Why is it these hostile foreign powers can never just take over quietly? They've always got to come in and trash the place." She sighs. "Speaking from experience, of course. My world had a problem with invaders, too. I was part of an agency resisting their attempts at subterfuge. Honeypot division." She giggles and gestures to her barely-existent swimsuit. "Old habits die hard, you know?"
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    [Bar]

    Fayyaad studies the swimsuit, obviously simply to properly understand what she's referring to. No other reason.

    "Indeed? I fear I have no claim to subtlety or professionalism in my activities. I was simply publicly outspoken, leveraging my position to shield myself from the consequences. But eventually the protection ran dry. But you said your entire world was threatened by invaders?"
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    [Bar]

    Fayyaad studies the swimsuit, obviously simply to properly understand what she's referring to. No other reason.

    "Indeed? I fear I have no claim to subtlety or professionalism in my activities. I was simply publicly outspoken, leveraging my position to shield myself from the consequences. But eventually the protection ran dry. But you said your entire world was threatened by invaders?"
    [Bar]

    How risqué. One gets the impression Rose might somehow be less exposed if she had simply shown up in her birthday suit.

    "Pretty much, yeah." Rose plinks a straw into her drink and takes an extended sip. "We had a chance to fight them off, though. Sort of. I won't bore you with the specifics of the politics in play, but both sides realized open fighting would be disastrous and tried to undermine each other's positions instead." She shrugs. "Pretty typical of political conflict of our era, really. No sense in using a weapon as a weapon, so pretty much everything else takes its place; technology, rumors, pretty girls, you get the idea."
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    [Burger Theft]

    "I'm Tristan. She's Jade,"
    the young man says, escorting his girlfriend back over to the booth and paying for the replacement burger. "And she isn't usually... pink. What on earth did you get into, anyway? You weren't pink this afternoon."

    That's definitely a mystery.

    The last time Jade had gotten a color change it was because of a run in with some kind of chaos spirit.

    And this time it was...?

    Drunken... pinkness?

    Goodness, who knows?

    "And I guess two more burgers. One for myself and one for Jade,"
    he adds to the gal at the counter. He knows that there is a pretty good chance that Jade might try to steal his food but at least then it won't be a stranger's.


    [Fires]

    And Khannie?

    She scoops a HUGE bite out of her sundae with her spoon and shoves it in her mouth while maintaining eye contact with Arthfael the whole time.

    To assert dominance.
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    Burger Theft
    "I dunno. I jush got pink all of a shudden. Jush felt all bubbly and shneezy inshide and then poof! Pink!" She gestures emphatically. "You think itsh cute, right?"
    The normal human barmaid slides plates with the burgers over to them. "I served her a pina colada earlier, but she was, uh, normal fox color then. Uh, that was her only drink too, uh, that I gave her. Does she normally have a, uh, problem with holding her liquor?"
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    "...You're a much smarter cookie than I'd realised." Felicity should stay close to Eun. If nothing else, she could learn a lot. "I've... I've been here long enough I don't see it as weird any more. Dangerous, for sure, sometimes. But not really weird. I'm... not sure if that's a good thing or not." Felicity arrived in the Nexus as a child, and doesn't really remember too much of what her Earth was like. No superpowers, for sure, which is one reason why she wanted some.

    Volley

    Mishnehel wasn't expecting the ball to be passed; she somehow hadn't realised she could do that. So the fact it's passed to Vlad means her eyes leave it and the ball can go over the net before she's ready for it. Vlad and Zefir just scored a point.
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    "I don't know if I should envy you, exactly, but our oppressors do use weapons. Big ones." Fayyaad's tail swishes back and forth as he talks. "If I'd stayed I'd have ended up on the wrong side of them. I hope to return someday. For now, my stay in the Nexus has been enjoyable."

    [Burger Theft]

    Olvisin frowns, narrowing her eyes.

    "I guess I haven't seen anyone else do that, so it can't be anything in the drinks."
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    Volleyball

    Well that was something. Let's see what will be next. Zefir will take the ball to serve. He struggels a bit but then manages to play a decent ball. Those wirh more experience might notice that his struggle was more a holding back. Thought in the game he did appear to give his best. He seems to be trainwd in something that can be usefull for the serving.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rebonack View Post
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    And Khannie?

    She scoops a HUGE bite out of her sundae with her spoon and shoves it in her mouth while maintaining eye contact with Arthfael the whole time.

    To assert dominance.
    [Bonfire]

    Dominance asserted!

    Arthfael meekly takes a nibble of his own sundae, also maintaining eye contact with Khannie. Though this was less of an "I'm in charge around here" sort of gesture and more "oh god if I look away she'll get the drop on me" kind of look.

    At least the ice cream was good.

    ...Like, really good.

    Arthfael takes another scoop.

    And another.

    And another.

    And an-oh god what was happening to his brain?!

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    "...You're a much smarter cookie than I'd realised." Felicity should stay close to Eun. If nothing else, she could learn a lot. "I've... I've been here long enough I don't see it as weird any more. Dangerous, for sure, sometimes. But not really weird. I'm... not sure if that's a good thing or not." Felicity arrived in the Nexus as a child, and doesn't really remember too much of what her Earth was like. No superpowers, for sure, which is one reason why she wanted some.
    [Darker Beach]

    Eun goes from red to redder. "It's not that much, really..." She protests quietly, before the subject shifts to the general weirdness of the Nexus. "I can't say I know, either." She says finally. "Right now, I'm just trying to maintain a healthy respect for the fact that I have almost no understanding of how things work around here. Magic and technology so advanced it may as well be magic are both major game changers. You hardly see anything as simple as a chemical reaction anymore."

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    Volley

    Mishnehel wasn't expecting the ball to be passed; she somehow hadn't realised she could do that. So the fact it's passed to Vlad means her eyes leave it and the ball can go over the net before she's ready for it. Vlad and Zefir just scored a point.
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    Volleyball

    Well that was something. Let's see what will be next. Zefir will take the ball to serve. He struggels a bit but then manages to play a decent ball. Those wirh more experience might notice that his struggle was more a holding back. Thought in the game he did appear to give his best. He seems to be trainwd in something that can be usefull for the serving.
    [Volleyball]

    Extrapolating from the game so far, the remainder seems likely to be a fairly even match. Vlad and Miranda both provide solid bases for their teams, which makes it a question of who would give out first; Mishnehel or Zefir.

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    "I don't know if I should envy you, exactly, but our oppressors do use weapons. Big ones." Fayyaad's tail swishes back and forth as he talks. "If I'd stayed I'd have ended up on the wrong side of them. I hope to return someday. For now, my stay in the Nexus has been enjoyable."
    [Bar]

    "Same. You meet all sorts of interesting people out here." Rose gives him a flirtatious smile and clinks her glass against his. "Case in point. A noble-in-exile is something that really only exists in young adult novels where I'm from. I wouldn't have the chance to meet someone like you back home." She decides to take a risk and walks around behind him, her hand at her side, oh-so-innocently brushing up against his tail. "It's been something of a learning experience." She teases, giving him a playful smirk. She might be being a little forward, but the talk of "big weapons" seems to have conjured up certain images in her mind.
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    "There are some, actually. Just... not always in situations you'd expect." Fire is a chemical reaction, and it's one spread around by giant flying lizards. And Felicity can cover herself in it at a moment's notice with a match. "Hopefully it was science that was used to make your lab a spatial anomaly. If they used magic, things might be trickier to handle." If it is magical, then fixing it with science might not work.

    Volleyball

    Mishnehel's young and fit, with good coordination and stamina. She might fall down first, though, as she's not used to the game or quite this much jumping.
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    Volleyball

    Zefir is a quiet well trained man with a lot of stamina. He should last very long since he had to do simular stuff on a daily basis. His skills in the game are beginners and he will get better over time. Wich means he will win as Mishnehel falls first. It should be obviouse that he gave his best and didn't try to loose on purpose nor was he so good that it was easy.

    "Puh. That was something. Good thing it's already dark. In the middle of the day I wouldn't have lasted that long." he says and gives a fistbumb to his partner befor he goes over to Mishnehel. "You okay?"
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    When Rose's hand brushes against Fayyaad's tail, it briefly wraps itself around her fingers, before letting go.

    "I'm very glad to have provided some excitement and wonder. I seem to be good at it, according to some people I know."
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    "There are some, actually. Just... not always in situations you'd expect." Fire is a chemical reaction, and it's one spread around by giant flying lizards. And Felicity can cover herself in it at a moment's notice with a match. "Hopefully it was science that was used to make your lab a spatial anomaly. If they used magic, things might be trickier to handle." If it is magical, then fixing it with science might not work.
    [Darker Beach]

    "Well, of course there are some." Eun concedes. "Just not nearly as much as there apparently is alchemy, or magic, or whatever other reality-breaking craziness may or may not be going on at any given time." She sighs, looking down at her watch. "...It's getting a little late." Eun sighs. "I'm going to call it a night. Should we meet at your lab tomorrow?"

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    Mishnehel's young and fit, with good coordination and stamina. She might fall down first, though, as she's not used to the game or quite this much jumping.
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    Volleyball

    Zefir is a quiet well trained man with a lot of stamina. He should last very long since he had to do simular stuff on a daily basis. His skills in the game are beginners and he will get better over time. Wich means he will win as Mishnehel falls first. It should be obviouse that he gave his best and didn't try to loose on purpose nor was he so good that it was easy.

    "Puh. That was something. Good thing it's already dark. In the middle of the day I wouldn't have lasted that long." he says and gives a fistbumb to his partner befor he goes over to Mishnehel. "You okay?"
    [Volleyball]

    Miranda and Vlad both go to their respective partners and congratulate them for a game well played; apparently, neither of them are so invested in winning that they have much of a specific reaction to it; they're just glad to have played.

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    When Rose's hand brushes against Fayyaad's tail, it briefly wraps itself around her fingers, before letting go.

    "I'm very glad to have provided some excitement and wonder. I seem to be good at it, according to some people I know."
    [Bar]


    Rose smirks. "You don't say?" She giggles, leaning back against the bar.

    Then, as she sits there and thinks a moment, her face lights up. "So... question for you, Fay... you wouldn't happen to know any dances that use a partner, by any chance?" She gives him a coy little smile. "It's been ages since I've performed for a crowd. Well, I guess that's only half true. It's been ages since I've performed primarily for a crowd, without some other objective in the back of my head. It's nice to go up and just dance. As you're aware, I'm sure."
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    Here's to us.
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    and they're aaall dead.


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    [Bar]

    Fayyaad's smile goes a little wider. This is getting better and better.

    "I certainly do know some dances for a pair. Sadly, I've had few opportunities to use them. But it sounds like that might change this evening."
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    [Bar]

    Fayyaad's smile goes a little wider. This is getting better and better.

    "I certainly do know some dances for a pair. Sadly, I've had few opportunities to use them. But it sounds like that might change this evening."
    [Bar]

    "Lucky for you, I'm a quick study." Rose beams, offering her hand. "Show me what you have in mind."

    She's not lying; over the course of her career, Rose has developed an impressive amount of stamina and flexibility, and she does seem to have some experience as a dancer (ballet mostly, apparently). Whatever Fayyaad tries to teach her, she'll pick up exactly as quickly as promised, provided she can resist the temptation to add her own little flairs. That, and that her swimsuit doesn't get pulled loose from all the stretching and pivoting.
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    [Bar ==> Bonfires]

    Fayyaad leads Rose back to the bonfires, where he'll start showing her a paired dance. It consists of symmetrical circular movements, where the dancers spin in parallel to each other, before closing in again, taking each other's hand and dancing together for a time. It does put them in fairly close proximity to each other briefly, as Rose will no doubt notice. Fayyaad is a surprisingly good instructor, given his lack of teaching experience.
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    [Bar ==> Bonfires]

    Fayyaad leads Rose back to the bonfires, where he'll start showing her a paired dance. It consists of symmetrical circular movements, where the dancers spin in parallel to each other, before closing in again, taking each other's hand and dancing together for a time. It does put them in fairly close proximity to each other briefly, as Rose will no doubt notice. Fayyaad is a surprisingly good instructor, given his lack of teaching experience.
    [Bonfires]

    It probably helps that Rose is eager to learn; a good performance here would attract all the right sorts of attention, she thinks. Particularly so from Fayyaad. So she goes through the dance with all the requisite vigor and then some, such that she's visibly sweating and slightly winded by the end; trying hard, but nowhere near her limit.

    When they're finished, she decides there's been enough flirtation and goes to make her move. "Well, that was fun!" She giggles, before leaning in and whispering, "Now, if we were to go back to my place, I could teach you a thing or two..."

    Invitations don't come much more transparent than that.
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    "OK, Eun. Sure, I'll see you there. Uh, can you get back to the base OK? You were with that guy earlier, and I don't know how you got here. I'm borrowing a shuttle, though." She parked it up the beach, one of the little flying vessels used to get Vigil members to and from the base.

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    Mishnehel grins as well, and congratulates Zefir on his win. She'll be up for fistbumps or hugs as celebration, whichever Miranda prefers. "Yeah, that was fun. How'd I do?"
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    "Really?" The invitation isn't lost on Fayyaad even for a moment. Nor is he hesitant about taking it. "I consider myself knowledgeable about more things than just dancing. But a man never stops learning, I've heard. Could be I can see something new..."
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    "OK, Eun. Sure, I'll see you there. Uh, can you get back to the base OK? You were with that guy earlier, and I don't know how you got here. I'm borrowing a shuttle, though." She parked it up the beach, one of the little flying vessels used to get Vigil members to and from the base.
    [Darker Beach]

    "I should be fine. We have a shuttle of our... own..." Eun trails off as she watches said shuttle lift off the beach and fly off over the horizon.

    She blinks in surprise and promptly amends her response. "If you have room for me, I'd appreciate a ride back."

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    Mishnehel grins as well, and congratulates Zefir on his win. She'll be up for fistbumps or hugs as celebration, whichever Miranda prefers. "Yeah, that was fun. How'd I do?"
    [Volleyball]

    "You did a wonderful job, especially considering you're a beginner." Miranda gladly accepts the hugs and gives Mishnehel a little pat on the back for good measure. "I'd say you're a natural, even. This might be your first time with volleyball, but you've played something like this before, haven't you?"

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    [Bonfires]

    "Really?" The invitation isn't lost on Fayyaad even for a moment. Nor is he hesitant about taking it. "I consider myself knowledgeable about more things than just dancing. But a man never stops learning, I've heard. Could be I can see something new..."
    [Bonfires => ARC Shuttle]

    Rose smirks and leads Fayyaad back to the shuttle she and her old coworkers arrived in, quickly keying in the appropriate passcode to let them in. "Make yourself at home. It's a bit of a flight home. I'll just go... slip into something more comfortable."

    True enough, when they get inside, she does indeed slip right around the corner, and Fayyaad will be able to hear the telltale hum of her Hotbox going to work.

    "So... I'm going to admit, I wasn't entirely honest with you." Rose calls back. "I'm still down for the usual behind-closed-doors routine if you want. But I also want to put forward another option... we can say we did and get to know each other a little better instead." She comes back around the corner, swimsuit abandoned in favor of a well-pressed green jumpsuit, which she has folded over her arms and is holding in front of her chest. "You know, like, actually get to know each other. Something a little more personal than..." She smirks and bobs her head side to side. "You know. And maybe we could still do that afterwards if there's time. In my experience, it's a lot more enjoyable like that anyway. Up to you."
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    [Volleyball]

    Zefir heads over to them assuming Vlad follows as well.

    "Yeah, I also had the feeling you know what to do. So Either you had done something befor OR you pick up really fast." he says and then turns to the other two.
    "And you two are professionals? Sounded like you are in a team and you seem to be good at the game."
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    [Hamburgler]

    "Sure, definitely," Tristan replies as he scoots Jade's sandwich toward her. Granted, he's quite a bit less concerned about the cuteness versus the fact that she appears to have gotten magiced up somehow. She isn't normally pink or this... drunk. Drinking one pina colada definitely shouldn't have done this to her. "Let's get some food in you, hopefully that'll settle you down a bit."

    Maybe.

    Hopefully.

    "So Olivsin was it? Having a nice time at the party aside from the absurd chase scenes?"

    Come on Tristan.

    Absurd chase scenes are the best part of these parties.

    You're just sore about being here instead of investigating a giant crab.
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    The burger quickly disappears into Jade's gullet. Surreptitiously, she reaches for Tristan's burger so it can suffer the same fate. As she does it, she's already drunkenly ordering another burger from the barmaid. "That wash a really good pina colada earlier. Are you shure you didn do anything shpeshal?" she slurs. "Uh, no, I just used the normal recipe." "Are you shure? It tashted different." The barmaid looks a little irritated that her skills are being called into question. But she is new at this. Maybe she did make a mistake.
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    "Yeah, I've got some room. I borrowed it from Vigil, one of their sky-ferries. I learnt how to fly things like it in Skyside, though that one was... a bit more mundane, I think. Controls map over OK, mostly." Felicity stands up and picks up her fire-blanket, putting it back into her bag and pulling out a brass fob. She'll walk over to where she parked, just up the beach hidden in the dunes.

    The shuttle doesn't look very technological at all, really. It has a sleek wooden hull with brass detailing and little wings, sharply angled sails overhead. A harpoon gun is mounted on the front. It's all wood and polished brass, rather than plastic and aluminium. Felicity goes to a hatch in the deck and unlocks it, pulling out a thick fleece and some trousers, which she'll pull on. "Do you want this?" Felicity offers a spare fleece. "It can get a bit cold, otherwise. I gotta stay on deck to steer, since it's done by sails, but there's a small passenger area, if you want to sit down out of the wind. No windows, though."

    Volleyball

    "Sort of, yeah. Streetball, played in Skyside. Often the ball is filled with some lighter-than-air gas, if you can get it from the docks or whatever. The aim of that is to hit the ball from one side of the street to the other, usually played in busy areas and across traffic to make it trickier. And also so the players can practice their pickpocketing. I didn't grow up in a very wealthy area, though at least it was Skyside itself and not Groundtown. Nobody wants to live in Groundtown." It's odd that so many people stay there, in fact. Given that it's poor and where most of those individuals that work in Skyside that can't afford rent in the flying city live.
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    [Hamburgler]

    "I don't really know. This is the first beach party I've been to," Olvisin admits. "I grew up by the sea but there were more sheer cliffs than beaches." She looks between Selekhael and Jade. "I haven't seen anyone else run around and steal people's burgers, so if it was the drink, it was just the one."

    [Bonfires => ARC Shuttle]

    Fayyaad hasn't changed out of his dancing outfit yet, but presumably he's had an opportunity to pick up his bag.

    "I'm not really the one to... rush into getting down to business. I'm fine with taking things more slowly, but I do need to change first."
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