Show us your best Tourist Halloween costumes

[takingkarabusiness]

Who: Touristas & visitors
Broadcast: N/A
Action: On the Tourist
When: The month of October!

[ Maybe October doesn't really happen in space, but since time is arbitrarily defined anyway, maybe it does. Throughout the month, members aboard the Tourist might notice subtle(ish) decorations going up. A paper garland of candied apples here, some adorable paper Jack-O-Lanterns there... The ship was destined to be a Pinterest board the moment Kara was brought on it. Sorry not sorry. ]

Comments

[wolfuncaged]

Ah, right. I remember the children in Exsilium were rather fond of it.

[Before...you know. The nuclear bomb and all that. That kind of put a dampener on things.]

The candied apples are rather delicious.

[takingkarabusiness]

Soooo good. Have you had chocolate candies?

[wolfuncaged]

[There's a tiny quirk of his lips. ]

I have. I also tried...I forgot what they were called. There was chocolate and marshmallow? Cooked together over a fire. They were very pleasant.

[takingkarabusiness]

S'MORES!

[ her answer is probably too enthusiastic ]

Earth has so many wonderful things.

[wolfuncaged]

[Maker, if her enthusiasm isn't adorable though. ]

Those are them, yes.

And it does. I admit, I have found quite a fondness for it since I was taken from Thedas.

[Perhaps, if the choice was ever given to him, he would take himself there, instead. Away from the world he knows, the world full of hate and magic and holes in the sky- somewhere...easier. ]

It is a good place, for someone to call home.

[takingkarabusiness]

It has its ups and downs but I'm thankful that I'm from there now. So many amazing people have come into my life... I feel the same way about here, though too. Do I want to stay here forever? No, definitely not. But I'd love to figure out how not to lose all the relationships I've formed while here. Everyone is too important.

[wolfuncaged]

[She can always surprise him, how genuinely earnest she is about things like this. It's rare to see, hell, it's pretty much non-existent in Thedas. But her determination and kindness aren't a deterrent, they're refreshing. It's a comfort to know that people like her can exist in some places. That's not all darkness and terror. ]

I agree. I would rather not lose any more memories than I have already. Besides, if someone can gather from our worlds-multiple times, it seems, then there must be some kind of way to travel between them more regularly.

[This is what she has done for him, really. Made him feel like he could hope. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

Well, I know for a fact from home that someone can travel between them, but so far it's just the one guy and I'm not sure he can necessarily control it.

[wolfuncaged]

Really?

[He sounds impressed.]

We had the technology in Exsilium, but the power would no doubt eventually fade. It was not a long-term solution.

[takingkarabusiness]

It's not really technology so much as he can go... really really really fast.

[wolfuncaged]

...Fast enough to travel through time?

[That sure is different. ]

That's...quite an interesting concept.

[takingkarabusiness]

Well, across worlds. But maybe through time too?

[wolfuncaged]

I would imagine if one could cross worlds, time travel would be easy enough, also.

...Not wise, but possible all the same.

[takingkarabusiness]

Maybe not, but I can understand the temptation

[wolfuncaged]

Oh yes, the temptation is great. One would think it wouldn't matter, to go into the past, into the future. Unfortunately, even simply going there has a habit of starting a rather destructive mess.

Worse still, when people actually get themselves involved in it, even with good intentions. Saving a seeming nobody can mean a future where hundreds can die- because that seemingly insignificant person ended up having a very significant effect on someone else.

[He's had a long time to get used t this concept. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

You've thought about this a lot.

[wolfuncaged]

The place that took me from my home, before here, used time travel. I have had the time to experience it, to understand the dangers surrounding it. We had to be...exceptionally careful on missions, lest we changed history for the worst, instead of the better. And even then, the results were not as clear cut as we would have liked.

[takingkarabusiness]

Wow... that sounds so complicated.

[wolfuncaged]

It was. We never knew what each mission would bring, how our efforts would shape the world around us once we returned to the future.

It got...very messy.

[takingkarabusiness]

And you knew things had changed?

[wolfuncaged]

We had a...home base of a sorts that we returned to- it was in a place called England. A broken future of it, but all the same. We would see our efforts there, the good and the bad. But we knew it all the same- I think because none of us were from that world- or even that particular version of Earth.

Perhaps it meant we could live outside of it, unlike the residents of that world.

[takingkarabusiness]

I know England. Well, not that England, obviously.

Why couldn't people live outside England?

[wolfuncaged]

Oh, I meant they couldn't travel like we did.

...Though honestly, it would not have been wise for them to travel outside. The world was ravaged by war. Exsilium was the counterpoint of the resistance. Everything around it was controlled by the United Earth. Most of it was desolate and dead.

[takingkarabusiness]

That sounds devastating. Is that what you were trying to help?

[wolfuncaged]

Hm. We had been brought in from our other worlds by the resistance as soldiers. A way to fight back, before the United Earth consumed everything.

We won, eventually. There were many devastating losses, but when we fixed the timeline, they ceased to be. The world was a much better place, by the end of it. One that still needed to be rebuilt, but not on the verge of death, either.