Tourist ROAD TRIP (mingle)

[takingkarabusiness]

Who: Touristas and visitors
Broadcast: as needed
Action: The Tourist!
When: The month of June

[ Get bit by the June Bug and mingle to your heart's content! ]

Comments

[universal_charm]

Come on, I grew up Earth - it wasn't that different from yours I expect.

[takingkarabusiness]

I'm just saying, you never can be too sure.

[universal_charm]

Heh, true, but don't worry. I think our Earths our similar enough I'll understand most gestures.

[takingkarabusiness]

Good. I'd hate for things to be lost in translation.

What year are you from again?

[universal_charm]

2260.

[takingkarabusiness]

So, 244 years ahead of me. It's interesting to think about.

[universal_charm]

A lot happens - at least in my world. Not all of it good, but we get to a pretty amazing spot by my era.

[takingkarabusiness]

That's always the goal. I have another friend here who's just from a few years in my future, but things are pretty bleak for his world.

[universal_charm]

It was... bad for a little bit. Really bad. But we got through it and our world is better, stronger than ever before. It's sad we had to go through what we did to achieve it, though.

[takingkarabusiness]

I think bad things are going to happen sometimes, but it's how we respond that is important. I'm glad your world was able to become stronger as a result.

[universal_charm]

I think it's helped that First Contact was made too, that we learned we really weren't alone in the universe, and now we're exposed to many more cultures and species. It makes the problems we had seem so petty and small by comparison.

[takingkarabusiness]

Oh? What was that like for you?

[universal_charm]

I wasn't there for First Contact. That was in 2063, so just under two hundred years ago for me.

[takingkarabusiness]

Well, I guess that's how we know for sure we're not from the same timeline.

[universal_charm]

You're only from the early 2000s, aren't you? Maybe it'll happen by then.

[takingkarabusiness]

Does First Contact refer to something specific besides general alien contact?

[universal_charm]

It's the first time Humans and Vulcans interacted, but Vulcans were the first aliens to contact us. So First Contact with capitals refers to that, and first contact in general means any time we encounter a new planet and alien species.

[takingkarabusiness]

I'm just saying, the first-time-contacting-earth ship has sailed.

[universal_charm]

Oh really?

_{[ He raised a brow. ]}

Good ship or bad ship?

_{[ Pauses. ]}

Or do you mean you and your cousin?

[takingkarabusiness]

Us, but we also accidentally brought a prison full of alien criminals, so...

[universal_charm]

_{[ Purse lips. Squint. ]}

Yeah, you're going to have to tell me the whole story.

[takingkarabusiness]

The Kryptonian maximum security prison was called Fort Rozz, and it stayed in the Phantom Zone, which is that pocket of space that isn't affected by time. My parents sent my pod maybe a little too close to the end... the explosion from Krypton knocked my pod off course and into the Phantom Zone. The same thing that allowed me to exit it brought Fort Rozz along with me, and it crashed in the California desert.

[universal_charm]

Oh, yeah, that could... sour things a bit, couldn't it?

[takingkarabusiness]

It complicates things. My cousin has a great reputation, and I'm working on building mine, but in general, aliens are met with fear.

[universal_charm]

Well, hardened criminals aren't the best first impression to give to a people, though to be fair not all aliens are particularly nice either.