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Who: Jill Valentine
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Heron + Iskaulit
When: July 18th onward


Hey, two questions.

Are there cameras in the bathrooms? And does anyone know a good place to start growing plants? If you have somewhere, I will gladly exchange piano lessons, fighting (and weaponry) assessment and suggestions, or some sort of favor (within reason). I'm afraid I don't really have much in way of cash right now.

Last but not least (not a question), if anyone would care to buddy up for a little good ol' fashioned exploring, then I'm your gal.

Comments

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i like the idea of parks at least. i have seen areas of the capital that resemble the ones i have seen in worlds like this one but they're more areas to sit and rest than places to go enjoy oneself

incredibly

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Yeah, it's hard to really enjoy it if it's sort of a through-street in a way of speaking or if it's overly populated (or just a fountain and a tree or three). We've got nationally-protected parks where I'm from and it's typically more about nature. There are paths often so it's more difficult to get lost but it's not the same kind of busy.

[noprophecies]

why are the parks protected? are they in danger?

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It's more to make sure that they aren't in danger and aren't destroyed for their resources.

[noprophecies]

i am not sure i understand. is that not what a forest is for? resources? aside from being home to what lives there

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That's the point. Think of it in a selfish way; some people will over-use it and leave it bare. While you expect that people will act responsibly and fairly, that isn't always the case. Especially if there's money to be had.

[noprophecies]

im still not sure i fully understand but usually selfishness and money go hand in hand

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Well, consider what you can use trees for. Tons of things, but exactly what they may be used for are irrelevant. No laws means free reign, so some guy who owns say, a logging company could just come in and tear down every tree, create a factory on the land if he throws enough money down, make roads and streets and push animals out from there to boot. You put down protective laws and they can't do that. Some exist to limit it, but most National Parks don't allow for anything like that at all. Some allow hunting over-populated animals or let you rent land for things like bee-keeping or activities like canoeing or camping.

Hope that cleared it up a little better. I'm definitely better at being direct or showing things when explaining it, but this is a bit different.

[noprophecies]

what in the world. it cleared some things up but

i should probably mention i come from a medieval world, so the idea of all of this is a little strange to me regardless

[torsion]

That might've helped, but might've also made me have an even harder time explaining things.

Sorry.

[noprophecies]

dont be. i understand some modern things. this is not the first world i have been to

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Honestly, the way you talk, I assumed you probably knew more technologically advanced things than I did.

[noprophecies]

i can assure you that is not the case

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Yeah, kinda got that now. ;)

[noprophecies]

what is that

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You mean ;) right?

Sorry it's a text thing! I know people do better, more involved ones but it's like a winking face, but sideways!

[ Just had to draw attention to how lame she is, huh. ]

[noprophecies]

[you can bet she's sitting there tilting her head, trying to see it]

what is the point of them

[torsion]

Guess it's so texts don't seem as harsh. Sometimes it's hard to figure out the tone things are said in.

I can be a little straightforward which can be confused for aggressive. So I spice it up sometimes!

[ What a nerd. ]

[noprophecies]

i suppose that makes sense, tone is a bit hard to read like this

they seem so strange though. and i do not think you are agressive

[torsion]

People are different. So, naturally, people are likely to project feelings onto words even if it's silly.

I don't really use many, but they can get pretty complicated!

[noprophecies]

it doesnt sound silly, is that not what an author tries to do through their work?

complicated how?

[torsion]

Don't give me that much credit!

More characters, sometimes from different languages. Friend's kid does it a lot and I'm often astounded by the effort she manages to put into it.

[noprophecies]

my apologies?

i thought most of the modern languages all used the same alphabet, is that not true?

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Joking, it's fine. :)

See? That's how it works.

Most do, yes. Then there's Cyrillic and most Asian countries and Middle Eastern ones have their own. Some are a little similar but different enough.

[noprophecies]

ah, it makes more sense now

i only know of a few different ones, like japanese and arabic. is that how they are spelled?