An Important Question [post Time Ripples]

[kickpushbaby]

 [ Are you tired of random kids popping up with not clear explanation?  Too bad here's another one: small, red headed, freckly and currently about 10 feet up in the air.  Because flight ring. ]

Hey, these rings are super cool, but where can I get a skateboard?  Those still exist in the future, right?  Do you guys have hover boards?  Or like rocket powered skateboards?  That would be way, way cooler.

[ Pause for slight altitude adjustment while the nameless kid drifts aimlessly through a doorway.]

This place is really huge, though.  How do you guys even get anywhere when you're in a hurry?  They said I'm supposed to have superpowers, but I've tried teleporting and shit and nothing's different.  How do you tell if you have powers?

[ These aimless questions could probably carry on for a while, but luckily for everyone, she gets distracted by something in the hall she's drifting down and ends the transmition without much further ado. ]

[ooc: deeply belated header change, cuz i don't know how things like dates work. ]

Comments

[voice]

[kickpushbaby]

Ah man, you weirdo! That was gross!

[ Jesse sounds like she's trying not to laugh tho. ]

I was thinking what it'd be like, like when a big fat bug smashes on glass only in your face. Gross.

[voice]

[hallaifyouherd]

Well don't let it stop you from trying. Flying is actually fun, once you've gotten the hang of it.

[voice]

[kickpushbaby]

It is pretty awesome. I just miss my wheels. And I got a wicked sweet room now! There's rails and half pipes and everything! I gotta get a board for that!

[voice]

[hallaifyouherd]

I know you can't see it. But I'm nodding and pretending I understand what any of that means.

[voice]

[kickpushbaby]

What, they don't got skateparks in the future?!

[voice]

[hallaifyouherd]

Perhaps. I'm not sure what one is, but I'm not exactly from around here, either.

[voice]

[kickpushbaby]

Where are you even from?

Uh, okay so... A skate park is a place with ramps and rails and stuff and you can skate there without cops bugging you.

Re: [voice]

[hallaifyouherd]

Thedas.

[ Not that she expects her to know where that is, but. Well. She asked. ]

I see. Do these cops bother you often?

[voice]

[kickpushbaby]

Is that near Angel City?

[ So that's a hard no. ]

I dunno, it depends? The mayor sent some like elite squad or whatever after me once and the ones around Wilksborough are shitty, but they're just normal shitty. I avoid 'em.

[voice]

[hallaifyouherd]

It's an entire continent. I'm fairly certain if it was, you'd have heard of it.

[ And no one seems to have. Ah well. She wasn't really expecting it at this point. ]

So...they're like city guardsmen.

[voice]

[kickpushbaby]

If city guardsmen are fat jerks who think they're tough shit, yeah totally.

[Pause. ]

So hey, are you an alien?

[voice > video ]

[hallaifyouherd]

An elf, actually.

[ And here she appears, tattooed and point-eared, smiling somewhat wryly into the screen. ]

Hello there.

[voice > video ]

[kickpushbaby]

[ You get a scruffy redhead in return who is suitably impressed. ]

Whoa, you got the ears and everything. What's that stuff on your face?

[video]

[hallaifyouherd]

I do in fact.

[ Ah, precious baby humans. At the mention of her markings, her eyebrows lift. ]

Ah. These are...we call them vallaslin, or blood writing. They're a bit like your human tattoos.

[video]

[kickpushbaby]

Uh... Blood writing? Like your blood or other people's?

[ Really torn between that sounding wicked and that sounding freaky. ]

[video]

[hallaifyouherd]

Think more...'of the blood'. Or 'of the people', if you like.

It's something the Dalish do to distinguish themselves from elves who live amongst humans.

[video]

[kickpushbaby]

Don't elves all live in the forest? What's so different about you guys?

[video]

[hallaifyouherd]

Not all. Some live in slums within the human cities, when they're allowed to.

[video]

[kickpushbaby]

Why the fuck would they wanna live there? Slums are shitty.

[video]

[hallaifyouherd]

They are. And no one lives there because they want to.

But it's safer for them to live together, out of the way of the humans. And the cities usually only grant elves the worst portions to live in.

[video]

[kickpushbaby]

That's shitty. Thedas sounds fucking shitty.

[ Said with as much feeling as a 13 totally 14 year old can muster. ]

[video]

[hallaifyouherd]

It is. But we're doing what we can to make it better.

[video]

[kickpushbaby]

There's people where I'm from who do stuff like that. Make shitty places better. They're not elves though.

Where is Thedas? Is it close?

[video]

[hallaifyouherd]

I don't think so. I don't think anywhere we know of is close to where this place is.

I honestly had no idea there were so many worlds out there. Though I suppose I shouldn't be surprised.

[video]

[kickpushbaby]

Oh. [ She is a little unsure of how to feel about being so far away from Wilksborough... Actually pretty okay, since Wilksborough is a shithole, but still. ]

Yeah, there's Mars and all of those. Guess it makes sense there's aliens.