002; Some sightseeing and such

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Who: Aaron + You!
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: Iskaulit/Planetside (Bloodsport common room for that broadcast if you wanna)
When: Throughout December (until they leave)

Audio; Broadcast Fleetwide

[Aaron is making his transmission from the common room on the Bloodsport, so if you're around, feel free to stumble upon him.]

Good morning, everyone. At...least I think it's morning. Anyway, I've been all over this ship, a few others, and the Iskaulit and I've found a photography studio, more than one restaurant, a library, two bars, several different times of relaxation and reflection spaces just to name a few, but no place that seems set up to get any firearms practice in. I think it might be important, seeing as a lot of our ship provide crew members with sidearms. Does...anyone know how we go about getting something like that established? Do we just...pick a space and take it?


Iskaulit - Library | OTA

[In his quest to find a place to train with the weapon provided him on the Bloodsport, Aaron finds himself thumbing through the library. If being stuck in outer space has taught him anything, it's that they aren't really pressed for time. Dorian's comments on the selection of the library have him intrigued at any rate, so he takes his times perusing the shelves.

Dorian was right, he thought as he did so. There was a lot of Earth literature here. Some of it was crap (was that really a copy of the 5 Love Languages?) but he stopped at a collection of classic literature and pulled a weathered book from the shelf. Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray brought a lot of memories back, and thoughts of someone he was starting to fear he'd never see again. He couldn't just take it, of course, though he wanted to. Libraries did require their books to be returned eventually, after all.]

...where do they get these books...?

[If he had that answer, maybe he could find his own copy.]


Planetside - In Town | shopping | ota

[It's difficult to visit this winter planet and not realize it's some sort of holiday season. With all the feasts, parades, and gifts, Aaron is first reminded of the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons back on Earth, before the world ended, and that's just fine with him. What he was most interested in, of course, were the shops. Since the world ended, the only way to have new things was to scavenge them. The idea of using what credits he'd been provided to buy things was novel at the very least. His first priority was picking up a new pack, and with it strapped to his back, he's simply wandering the shopping district, looking at windows and waiting for a shop to catch his eye.

And then it does. The camera shop across the way is his destination as he makes his way across the icy road.]

I wonder what kinds of cameras aliens use, even.

[It's murmured out loud, yes, but he's not going to mind if someone wants to join him.]


Planetside - In Town | sightseeing | ota

[Equipped with a new camera and enough digital storage to film the rest of the planet, Aaron, newly excited to explore and document all the unique sights of this place, goes around town, snapping pictures of unique storefronts, trees with particularly intriguing ice formations, and just generally...looking like a tourist. He keeps eyeing that castle in the distance, too. If anyone stops long enough to look over to him, he smiles amicably.]

You want to check out the castle?

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[ Carl's been here and there on the planet, making sure he hasn't missed anything important in town before they left. He finds Aaron being a tourist and decides that it kind of fits his personality. He considers the question and offers a shrug of a shoulder. ]

Sure, let's go.

sightseeing

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[Aaron grins at that, lowering the camera.]

Great, because this is the best camera I've ever seen, and I've never actually visited a castle.

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I haven't either. Guess it's a first for both of us.

[ Carl falls into stride on Aaron's right. ]

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[He nods as he continues towards the castle.]

So, we visit planets every month, right?

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More or less, yeah. It's not on an exact schedule, but that's pretty accurate.

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That's...pretty cool, actually.

[And yes, Carl, he sounds just as lame as one might think he would saying that.]

Have you been to a lot of planets?

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Yeah. I've been here a few years, so too many to keep track of.

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[He raises an eyebrow.]

No? You don't keep a journal or anything?

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Not really, no. Maybe I should start.

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Maybe. They're nice to flip through sometimes.

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Do you keep one?

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I haven't started one up here yet, no.

[Translation: yes. Yes I did.]

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But you have one at home?

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Sort of? [He smiles.] Be...fore the end, I kept a journal, yeah, but Eric and I traveled a lot more, back then. After...we started finding things when we were out on runs. We never had the benefit of knowing where they came from, so...I started a collection, and when we'd get back, I'd document the story of how each of them was found....it sounds kind of lame, I know.

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[ It's at this moment he realizes that he really didn't know Aaron all that much. He barely interacted with Eric back in Alexandria. It's easy to forget that they had lives before everything went to hell and after. They did have Alexandria before their group. ] Huh. That's pretty neat, actually.

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[Aaron laughs, shaking his head as they continue on their way to the castle.]

Look. I get I'm a lame grownup and I have really lame hobbies. You don't have to butter me up.

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I think Beth used to keep a journal. I never really thought my life was worth writing down. I'm kind of boring?

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You're one of the few surviving people of a worldwide epidemic, you survived out there for nearly a year...

[You're not boring, Carl.]

Okay. Tell me one thing about you I don't know. There's probably a lot.

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Uh.....I got shot? [ Look, comparing himself to other people in the world, he feels boring. ]

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[He laughs, shaking his head.]

I said something I don't know about you. I was there.

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I was twelve. We were in the woods and this deer came out. I moved closer to it, and it didn't move, just kind of stared at me. It was really cool.. The bullet went through the deer before it hit me.

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[His eyes widen slightly.]

Whoa...you're lucky to be alive. Buckshot and hunting rifles aren't to be taken lightly.

[It's his weapon of choice on runs, actually]

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That's how we met Maggie and her family. He told me the hunter came over, he didn't see me, but there was a farm nearby. My dad picked me up and ran the entire way there. Her dad Hershel was a veterinarian. [ He lifts part of his shirt to show the wound on his abdomen. ] He managed to get all the pieces out and patched me up. I almost died, but I didn't. That's when my dad gave me his hat.

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[Aaron smiles at that, his expression one of awe.]

That's...pretty amazing, actually. [And he looked over to Carl, reaching out to briefly give his shoulder a shrug.] So, I guess you've got a habit of surviving things you shouldn't huh? That's what, twice now? At least?

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Heh. At least, yeah. [ That number's doubled by now, but he doesn't need to know that. ]