New Eden - City of Tomorrow!

Who: Patrick and Syn, then Darcy
Where: Patrick and Darcy’s pod

One good thing about having a girlfriend - and admittedly there were a lot of good things with this particular lady - was having someone to turn to when he needed help with something he had no experience doing. Like decorating a Christmas tree. Normally it wasn’t a thing with which Patrick would have bothered, but it didn’t seem fair to Darcy to let the holiday go by without any decorations. So he’d asked Syn to help him select ornaments, lights and all that good stuff for the medium-sized tree he’d brought back to the pod. There was honestly no telling what he would have ended up with if he hadn’t had company picking it all out.

The pod felt more festive already with lights strung on the tree. “It’s been years since I had a Christmas tree,” he remarked as he sat on the floor near it putting ornament hangers on the ornaments.

( normal, then not normal )

Who: Patrick and Eily
Where: a coffee shop

It felt as if it had been ages since he and Eily had talked. His cousin had been at his and Darcy’s pod during the robot attacks, but her attention had been on his sister. That was a good thing, since Darcy had been flipping out and Patrick had needed to be taking care of the robot situation. Despite the fact that there were fewer of them here than back home, he didn’t want to lose the family closeness they shared; he’d spent too many years away from everyone while he’d been in jail. So while he’d been at the Healthy Living Center, talking to someone about working at the gym, he’d messaged Eily to see if she was free to meet him for coffee.

The coffee shop looked like a retro version of Starbucks to him, to no one’s surprise, and he settled in to wait for his cousin.

( catch up time )

Who: Patrick and Darcy
Where: their pod

( are you going to leave again? )

Who: Patrick and Syn
Where: Syn's pod [takes place before the date event]

( where d'you want me )

Five minutes of my life I'll never get back.

( __ )

( Darcy )


( Aisling )


( Eily )


( Syn )

Who: Patrick and Darcy, then open to everyone on Swan
Where: outside the O'Reillys' pod

( unamused )

Who: Patrick and Syn
Where: Swan, then hitting the bars (a while back!)

( personal questions )

How's the paint job holding up?

Who: Patrick and Darcy
Where: their pod

( a spiked ball of poison )

To Aisling:

I may have gotten blind drunk the other night then met a guy....

To Patrick:

So, how's things going with you and Darcy under one roof? Everything okay?

Who: Patrick and Syn
Setting: Syn’s pod

( light-hearted )

Will you check on your sister when you get a chance? I let her know Darcy's with me (and I don't know where that came from because yesterday she still didn't want to talk to me) and she's upset. Didn't want me to come by.

Now that I feel less like my head has been replaced with a live grenade, I went and bought a bunch of paint and soap to add to it, and some rollers and extenders.

Want to privatize one of our places? See how it works before starting to bust out power tools?

To DARCY:

WHERE ARE YOU?!? !1

To The rest of the O'Reilly Clan:

WHERE IS DARCY HER STUFF IS GONE GOD DID SHE RUN AWAY HELP HELP I NEED TO FIND HER!

Who: Darcy and Patrick
Setting: Patrick's pod

( I've got an idea )

Who: Synnove and Patrick
Where: a prison visiting room (flashback)


( a better conversation than expected )

Who: OPEN TO EVERYONE
Setting: Exodus



Sure, the thing was a bit weird, but Ryker didn't care in the slightest. Exodus was fully stocked, the lights dimmed just right, and his DJ stand was set up perfectly. He kind of like the feel of the charm bracelet on his wrist, pleased with the subway token and DJ equipment charms he'd been given. He almost didn't want to give them away.

One song rolled into another, the deep bass came out of the speakers and subs in a way that he could feel in his bones, even if he was only listening in the headphones he was wearing. Required attendance or not, he was determined to make sure at least people had a soundtrack for a good time.

So if someone, say anyone, doesn't attend this required party, does that mean we will suddenly find ourselves being taken to a meat grinder? Because that's what I'm getting out of it.

I never signed up for Tinder, so why the fuck would I want to hand some stranger a fucking charm I don't give a shit about. Did I get stuck on a swinger's island? Orgy every Sunday?

who: Patrick, Aisling & Eily
setting: patrick's place, during the blackout

( Patrick doesn't dance, but Aisling does )