archishellago | Test Drive Meme #002

KHU IODUAN; TEST DRIVE MEME #002

I. THE OPARA CORE - May I Borrow That?

The engineers of the Opara Core facility are always on the lookout for new technology they can adapt into the ever-growing web that provides communications across the archipelago and beyond. Their staff are assembled represent a wide swath of the native races in Konryu whose skills are mechanically-inclined, and of Dreamfolk who've arrived and want to pitch in. Part of their standard operating procedure is to take an interest in tech coming in with the newly arrived Dreamfolk. An excitable female Muin, her bright shock of electrically pink hair and matching, jewel-like eyes alight with a madcap glee, is wheedling for whatever gadget you have on your person. "Please?" she asks for the third time, blinking at you hopefully. "I'll put it back exactly how it was when I'm done. I promise..."

II. DREAMING BRIDGE - Grab Your Apron!

The Aifaran government fully supports the Dreaming Bridge with both coin and supplies to take care of newcomer Dreamfolk, but the actually day-to-day operations are left to the site staff themselves. While they have a full complement of volunteers to manage the various aspects -- from cleaning and setting up rooms for new Dreamfolk, to helping new arrivals get used to the city by answering questions and organizing guided tours. "Hey you," an Arybar calls out, motioning with a soup ladle. He's about seven feet tall, with tiger-like striping on his skin. "Come back into the kitchen and help out, would you? We're short-staffed today, and since you're getting three meals a day for free, you can share the load."

III. HEY MAN ARE YOU LOST - Herding Big Dumb Cats

Odd jobs are always available for people who want to make some extra rhinn, and today's option for making some quick cash is to help some farmers clear a stubborn herd of curamija who are grazing on the new sprouts. While taller than most people, about the size of a draft horse, and possessing a massive rack of antlers, they look quite majestic... but they're prone to standing and staring dumbly at those who try to shoo them back off the cultivated land. Several of them have bunched up into a befuddled group, looking perplexed when none of them seem to know what direction to move in. Try to scare them? Coax them with treats? Declare them a lost cause?

IV. KNOWLEDGE IS PRECIOUS - Accosted By Monks

The Tariken monks are out in full force today, their orange and green robes making them easy to spot in a crowd, and there's a high chance you might be approached by one. Their sect values knowledge above everything else, so recording information from Dreamfolk, who are transient to Konryu, is something they see as imperative. Some of the questions are standard ("what's the name of your world? is it anything like Konryu? do have have any special position there?") but sometimes they move into stranger territory, like what's your favourite bath soap scent and how many times you wear your socks before washing them -- all of which are asked with the most studious attentiveness, just in case your answer holds the secret to the multiverse.

V. FETCH A PRETTY PRICE - To Skim Or Not To Skim

The salvage mission -- this time to a small island that looked initially like farmland, but was revealed to be entirely mechanical, has been a marked success! As the transports are being organized to return to the archipelago and the safety of the protective magical barrier, you've been left in charge of a sizable cache of recovered parts that are bound for the Opara Core technicians back in Aifaran. However, you're fairly certain that most, if not all of what's in this crate would fetch a high price at the Kel'ghau black market. Some of them are definitely pocket sized, and with the volume there, no one would notice a few pieces missing... right?

VI. WILDCARD - Because You're Not The Boss Of Me

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Sure.

[Inga hands the knife over and moves to trade places.]

What's wrong, don't like meat?

[She does find the antennas and tail a little odd, but she's seen a lot of oddness before and after she arrived here, so she's taken it in stride.]

[Lobco is relieved and grateful that she's not given any grief for her request. She carefully takes the knife and moves aside before continuing with the vegetable her coworker had been slicing.]

Not at all. Particularly not that of my own kind. [She had come close to winding up on someone's plate more than once. It's hard not to be reminded of that.]

Thank you, by the way. I really appreciate it. I'm Lobco and I only just arrived so I'm still a little out of sorts.

Oh... Your own kind... [...She's seen weird, but not that weird.] Can you explain what you mean?

[In case that means what it sounds like, she glances at Lobco's antennae and tail again, and turns her body a little to hide what she's going to be doing.] I'm Inga. Helping is part of my job description, so don't worry about it. It is a little disconcerting, isn't it...

[Inga. Lobco is going to make sure to remember the name and the face--she doesn't know many so far.]

I'm a shrimp [A bit of a mixture of crustaceans, to be exact, but those details are probably unnecessary.]

I can take on this form [She places the hand not holding a knife to her chest] ...but I am a shrimp.

Are you...human? [She'd never actually met one before, so Lobco could only assume.]

[...Probably a good call to bodyblock the, er...dead ones in her hands, then. But that just raises all sorts of questions...]

I am human, yes. What's the story behind your two forms? There is a story, right?

[Well then! By her world's standards she was surrounded by an endangered species. It was kind of exciting to meet one!]

I'm a witch's familiar! As were some other people in my ancestry, most likely. Animals back home can be gifted with the ability to change their forms if they make a contract with a witch, and they can pass that ability down to their children.

[Ah, now things are starting to tread more familiar territory for Inga.]

Sounds exciting. I've never met a witch's familiar before. What would you do for her?

[Please excuse her, Lobco, Inga's actual job back home was an investigator of crimes committed by, well, monsters, of a sort. By now, questioning along that vein is a habit that she can't quite shake.]

I've never met a human before!

[Lobco's not bothered at all. Quite the contrary, she takes pride in her work.]

I'm one of five familiars for my witch--her name is Lady Chlomaki. She's quite strong and well known where I come from so her services are often request. I do a lot of the housework for her, and some of the cooking. I keep track of all her inventory, ingredients and do account. Whenever she needs me to, I do translating or accompany her on her travels to bodyguard her.

[Though she wasn't the strongest of the familiars...and quite frankly Lobco was certain that anyone that she could take on was someone that Chlomaki wouldn't need help defending herself against.]

Oh, a benevolent witch. That’s good, I think.

[No, it is good. A malevolent person couldn't raise a good person like Lobco.]

You haven’t met a human before? What happened to humans in your world?

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