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[unbridles]

Who: John Laurens
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Iskaulit, specifically Space Bar
When: Right the heck now.



[John can be found, as usual, in the place where alcohol is served. He's all about that. Today he's also all about something else -- specifically, drawing. He picked up a notebook planetside, and he's idly doodling things from home. Some pages are torn out and sitting beside him -- a Southern plantation house, a picture of a young dark-haired man in a Continental army uniform, flowers, turtles, all sorts of things. He looks a little wistful as he picks up the nearby drink and takes a sip.]

Yo. So maybe it's cause I'm feelin' a little homesick, an' I figured some of y'all might be too. If anyone's around, come an' tell me about your homes! Or do it here, too, I ain't all that picky. What you miss, who you miss, all that. I feel like I should get t' know more people.

[There's a beat.] Oh yeah, an' since I didn't really introduce myself when I first got here--name's John Laurens, lately of South Carolina. Pleased to meet all of ya.

Comments

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[cloakand_danger]

Right now, I think what I miss more than anything is wide-open skies. Outdoors on an asteroid just isn't the same; I hope the next place we stop has its own atmosphere.

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[unbridles]

....Yeah. I miss trees. My pops' house was just outside'a Charleston, there were tons of trees.

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[cloakand_danger]

That must have been nice. There weren't many trees in the part of the city where I grew up - it wasn't until I joined the army that I was able to get out and see more of the world. ...I remember the first time we camped out in the forest, I don't think I'd ever seen so many different kinds of life in one place.

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[unbridles]

You were in the army too? I mean, I didn't see a whole lot 'til I went to study in England, but I used to walk in the woods all the time back home.

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[cloakand_danger]

I was, a very long time ago; it was pretty much the only way I could make good money without knowing how to read. Before that, I'd never been out of the city at all - only skulked around the nicer parts now and then.

It was a good city even then, though - cold, it was always windy, but the view from the terraces and cliffs it was built on was unmatched, and some of the houses were built right into the cliffsides. It was the capital of the old Balacruf kingdom, before it was conquered by Sylvarant...not that I expect that means much to anyone here but myself.

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[unbridles]

Nah, it doesn't, but it sounds interestin' enough. South Carolina's pretty nice too. Our house was kinda outside a port town so there was a lot to see. [Some of it not very nice, but he's leaving that part out for now.] An' then my father sent me to Geneva an' England, and the world got a whole lot bigger. London's --well, I guess it ain't anything like you'd see around here, 'specially 'cause this is a long time past when I was around an' a different world besides, but -- it seemed huge to me at the time.

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[cloakand_danger]

A long time past? [He knows, theoretically, that people can be brought here from different times, but since he doesn't have any worldmates personally it's been kind of academic for him so far.] How do you know?

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[unbridles]

...Well for one thing, it definitely ain't 1782 anymore. We didn't have anything like this at all back where I'm from.

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[cloakand_danger]

[He nods his understanding.] I see. ...Most places on my world don't have magitech on this level, either, at least not currently. I guess I hadn't thought of it as being a mark of future or past: Aselia was much closer to this level thousands of years ago than it is today.

[unbridles]

....Yeah, see, even thousands of years ago where I'm from didn't have anything like this. I mean, we're improving, I guess, but I missed a lot of that apparently.

[cloakand_danger]

Well, if you have questions, I'd be happy to offer what I know. I've spent a good deal of my life in and around space back home, with magitech...not quite on par with what we have here, but a good deal more advanced than some places. And if I can teach people who were used to lighting their homes with candles how to use a computer back on Aselia, I can probably help you catch up, too.