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

[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.

[takingkarabusiness]

That's just people in general, don't you think? Human or not human... people are complicated.

[universal_charm]

Very true. I'm just... it's sad to think an Earth has been soured on aliens because of meeting a bad crop first. Yourself and your cousin excluded, of course.

[takingkarabusiness]

Of course, though we've had our days.

[universal_charm]

Well, it's not like you're perfect. No offense, that's just to much pressure for anyone to have to live up to.

[takingkarabusiness]

It really is, let me tell you.

But it goes well for the most part.

[universal_charm]

Yeah, well, don't beat yourself up to much when it doesn't, okay?

[takingkarabusiness]

Like recognizes like, huh?

[universal_charm]

Yeah, it tends to do that.

_{[ He knocks her shoulder gently. ]}

[takingkarabusiness]

I'm okay with being set against higher standards. It's probably how it should be, anyway. I am pretty powerful.

[universal_charm]

I get that. But there's higher standards, and then there's impossible standards.

[takingkarabusiness]

True, though I'm not sure you know what my standards are.

[universal_charm]

_{[ He huffed. ]}

True, I don't. But I was thinking more about the public's standards.

[takingkarabusiness]

It takes a lot to gain the public trust.

[universal_charm]

_{[ Urgh, he can see this might go down a wrong track. The feeling isn't coming through - that he doesn't want her to crush herself beneath their expectations, as impossible as they might be. ]}

I don't doubt that.

_{[ And he'll do the wise thing and leave it at that. ]}

[takingkarabusiness]

...Anyway, it doesn't really hold here, and it's kind of... nice to be around people who have been through something similar. It's not really common at home.