[OPEN] ===> Kalfour: Return

[bizango]

Return from where? Well you have been watching the sky for some time now, though why you would do such a thing for so long has somehow managed to slip your mind. That’s alright though. You have been enjoying yourself at least! The fires starting up at the very edge of the horizon are quite pretty against the evening sky.

However, they’ve started creeping closer now, as have the meteors and it’s finally starting to make you nervous. You have to make sure your moirail survives, and from what everyone’s been saying, that won’t happen until she’s playing the game. Which means you have to start soon too. You take another long look at the sky, and then slip down from the roof and in through your respiteblock window. It takes you a minute to find your husktop in the dark and as it turns on, you descend the stairs and settle on the step just outside your door. Hopefully everyone has started the game alright so far! You haven't been doing a very good job keeping track. Whoops!

restlessMediumhas signed on.

restlessMedium [RM] has started pestering meticulousPedicure [MP].

mp~
are yOu ready tO play the game yet~~

Comments

[deadpanlife]

oh yes
|ike cornf|owers and de|phinium and b|ue pear| and b|uebells
most of the time the pigment |ooks kind of more |ike purp|e

[bizango]

You have no idea what any of that means...

wOw~~
hOw lOng have yOu been grOwing them~

[deadpanlife]

since i was two sweeps
i've been doing it for a |ong time now, i guess

[bizango]

hOw Old are yOu nOw~~
seven~
ahaha~
Or maybe eight~~

It occurs to you that you have no idea how old everyone else if. What if you and Preta and Merzet are the only ones your age... How... horrifying...!

[deadpanlife]

urm
seven

It also occurs to you you have no idea how old most everyone else is. You sincerely hope there is no one older than you. It might give them more reasons to cull your ass, later.

[bizango]

Well that's a relief!

Oh gOOd~
ahaha~
sO am i~~
maybe everyOne else is tOO~

[deadpanlife]

i hope so
though i guess it wou|dn't be weird if some of them were o|der or younger

[bizango]

ahaha~
yes i think~
prObably this wOuld nOt be a gOOd game fOr anyOne yOunger then us tO play~maybe~

[deadpanlife]

probab|y
doesn't mean someone younger won't end up p|aying

[bizango]

yes~
hOpefully ai didn't invite anyOne that yOung~
Or~i guess~that anyOne that yOung didn't get pulled in sOmehOw~~

[deadpanlife]

actua||y
do any of us rea||y know how o|d anyone e|se is?
for some reason it doesn't seem |ike it wou|d have occurred to most of us to ask

[bizango]

preta and mp are bOth seven~alsO~
that's all i knOw thOugh~

[deadpanlife]

Samsra is seven too
urm
i guess i know someone who might be younger but it's hard to say with her

[bizango]

whO is it~
why dO yOu think she's yOunger~~

[deadpanlife]

urm
barefootGibbous
she kind of acts |ike it
don't it's hard to say whether she's rea||y that young or it's just her

[bizango]

Oh~yes~
i've talked tO her~~
she seemed niCe~
even thOugh she said she was talking tO aliens~

[deadpanlife]

oh
you mean the ones who don't know a |ot of basic stuff
i've ta|ked to some of them too
they're okay, most|y
just
weird

[bizango]

...

there's mOre then One~

[deadpanlife]

apparent|y yes?
i've spoken to about three different peop|e who don't even know things |ike what a |usus or a recuperacoon is
a|iens is probab|y the easiest exp|anation but
it's a|so ridicu|ous

[bizango]

i spOke tO One whO~
was maybe using wOrds that didn't make sense~
i thOught they were just~
trOlling thOugh~
in the internet sense~i mean~

[deadpanlife]

i hope so
even though three is a|ready pushing it
maybe it's just coincidence

[bizango]

yes~that dOes seem~
like a lOt fOr it tO maybe just be a jOke~

[deadpanlife]

there
can't rea||y be a|iens out there
right
or i mean
a|iens that can somehow contact us on the network
that's just si||y
right

[bizango]

maybe anOther planet in the empire~
gOt ahOld Of the prOgram~~

You... didn't really think that was possible though. It seems sort of sloppy of Her Imperious Condescension, though you are OF COURSE not actually blasphemous enough to think that particular thought.

[deadpanlife]

that wou|d be awfu||y
brave?
of them
if that was true anyway

...The idea still seems so surreal that you have a hard time wrapping your mind around it.